The sound of whistles and thick smoke, steamships shuttled across the Yellow River, and the south bank was filled with merchants and travelers. People from south and north crossed the Yellow River through the Yellow River and went to their respective destinations. The Yellow River City, a mile south of the Yellow River, became the destination for travelers passing by.

Since the Yuan and Wei dynasties, there has been a saying that "Four Towns in Henan" is located on the south bank of the Yellow River. From west to east, it is Luoyang, Hulao, Huatai, and Wutang. It is called the key points of the Yellow River defense line and is a place that must be fought for by military strategists.

Now that the north and the south are unified, the world is peaceful. The once important cleansing at the easternmost end of the Yellow River defense line is now one of the important commercial ports.

Cargo from the middle and upper reaches of the Yellow River is unloaded in the cleaned dust and transported to the north and south, or it can be downstream to reach the mouth of the Yellow River, loaded in the port area, and transported to Nanyang or Liaodong.

There are also sea ships from Liaodong or overseas. Taking advantage of the summer and autumn, the river water surges, and arrives from the sea to the cleaner, unloading a large number of Liaodong specialties and overseas treasures.

As a combination of dust and dust, dust and city, it has developed rapidly over the past decade. The permanent population and the scale of cities have been rapidly expanding, which has made Yu Wenshi, who came to dust and cloth for the second time, sighed with the "changing with each passing day".

Yu Wenshi, who set out from Chang'an to Jeju to visit relatives, arrived at the Tangtang on a boat in Luoyang. The servants who came to greet him had already prepared a carriage and took Yu Wenshi and the Tangtang on a journey not far away.

But before entering the city, I passed around the city and walked south along the official road.

Yu Wen and his brother Yu Wen and his brother Yu Wen and the governor of Jeju, when they learned that their younger brother had come, they made arrangements at the manor outside the provincial government clean town to welcome the younger brother.

The carriage was driving on the flat official road and walking several miles away. Yu Wenshi looked at the view outside the window and couldn't help but be amazed: "There are so many cotton planted outside the cleaned city?"

"Sanlangjun, that's exactly what it is." replied the old servant who accompanied Yu Wen and the same car. "Now cotton and cotton cloth are selling hot, and all over the country have converted marijuana fields into cotton fields. After all, linen can't afford the price, and cotton cloth is very popular."

"Stop for a moment, I want to take a look."

The old servant looked at the pocket watch, confirmed that there was plenty of time, and pulled the bell, and the carriage stopped slowly.

Yu Wenshi got off the car, stood by the roadside, and looked into the distance.

In the sky, geese fly southeast, on the official road, businessmen come and go in a hurry. In the fences on both sides of the road are endless cotton fields. The green fields are covered with snow-white green, and cotton bouquets bloom, like white snow.

At this time, the day is at midnight, and the people picking cotton are working silently. Both men and women wear straw hats, gloves, sleeves, and cloth bags on their hands, and bent over and busy in the cotton field.

There are many children in the crowd picking cotton. Adults need to bend over to pick cotton, but children don’t need it. Whether boys or girls, they also wear straw hats, gloves, and cloth bags, and put the picked cotton into the bag.

When the old servant saw Sanlangjun looking at Miantian with fun, he explained from the side at the right time.

Autumn is the busy farming season, and everyone is busy, but now there is more cotton to harvest, so there is a seasonal shortage of labor in various parts of Jeju. Every household who is still able to move will be dispatched during the day, either harvesting crops or picking cotton.

Even children are no exception. Because picking a pound of cotton is only two cents, no matter how old or young, many landless civilian families take their children to the cotton plantation to pick cotton.

A family of three or four can pick nearly 150 kilograms of cotton a day, which is the income of 300 cents. The employer also needs to take food and accommodation. He was busy for a month. Although his waist was exhausted, it was equivalent to making a net profit of nine cents of money.

Jiuguan coins are a great income for ordinary families. Nowadays, the price of grain and cloth is low. This money is enough to ensure a good New Year.

But for planters, the picking cost of two cents per pound of cotton is heartbreaking and painful to gather. The average cotton yield per mu of cotton fields is 500 pounds, and the cost of spending on picking cotton is 1,000 pounds.

If there are 300 mu of cotton fields, it will be a 300-ton picking cost, which is not counted as the cost of feeding and accommodation for the cotton picker.

"If you only have 300 acres, you have to spend 300 guan? So much?" Yu Wenshi said with some distress.

Of course he felt distressed, because a large part of the cotton planted in the public fields would be the income of his elder brother, but he would ask his elder brother for additional expenses to hire a short-term worker to pick cotton.

The governor of the state, the prefect, the county magistrate and the corresponding main officials will have a certain amount of public land in the local area, and the output will be part of the salary of the officials.

Now that grain prices are falling and the supply of foreign grain is sufficient, many public fields in Qingxu have been replaced by cotton to allow officials to gain benefits.

There are official slaves in the public hall on weekdays, but a large number of people are urgently needed when picking cotton. However, the government will not allocate additional official slaves for this, so the officials can only find ways to hire people themselves.

The cost of hiring workers to pick cotton for a mu of cotton is at least 1,000 yuan, which makes Yu Wenji, who has always been unscrupulous, feel very distressed, but this money cannot be spent.

Now is the season for picking cotton, and short-term workers are recruiting cotton everywhere. The treatment is not good and no one can be hired.

Yu Wenshi in Chang'an knew that Longyou cotton and cotton cloth were popular in Guanzhong, and that Huainan and Jiangnan had a large area of ​​cotton planting, but he didn't expect that even Jeju had planted so much cotton.

While feeling moved, he couldn't stay on the side of the road for too long and got in the car and continued on.

Soon, the carriage came to a manor. After getting off the car, Yu Wenhe, led by his old servant, moved to a yard and met his brother Yu Wenhe.

Yu Wenji, wearing casual clothes, was thin and had a bit haggard face, but he was still energetic. The two brothers met. After some greetings, Yu Wenji saw that his brother had a bad face and said with some concern:

"Brother, I need to overwork and take care of my health."

"It's okay, I'm very good for you!" Yu Wenji smiled. He was not angry when he spoke, but his face was morbid and a morbid blush appeared, which made Yu Wenji more and more worried when he saw him.

The two brothers sat down in the pavilion next to the yard and talked about family affairs.

Yu Wen and his wife and children were also cleaned, but they disappeared at this time, which made Yu Wenshi a little puzzled, but he couldn't ask why his sister-in-law and nephew were not here.

Yu Wenshu and his brother talked about the situation in Chang'an's family. The brothers' father Yu Wenshu had just joined the army to attack Tuyuhun at the beginning of the year. Now he is an official in Beijing. Although he is old, he is strong and has a good complexion.

As a result, the eldest son Yu Wenhua and his sick look were very sick. It seemed that his father was very likely to leave.

Yu Wenshi was very worried about this, but he didn't talk much. The brother must be sick, but he hired a famous doctor to see him. But he couldn't explain clearly what kind of disease he was suffering from.

"Today I welcome you to me, I specially prepared a delicacy." Yu Wenji finished speaking, clapping his hands. After a while, several servants came over, carrying the already-fired stove, kitchen utensils, tableware and other items.

The servant placed a kettle on the stove and burned it. The soup in the kettle should have been burned in advance. Soon, heat came out of the kettle's spout, emitting a faint fragrance.

When Yu Wenshi saw a person walking in with his head, tied it to a wooden stake and tied his limbs, he couldn't help but feel strange.

"This dish prepared for my brother is called 'live watering donkey'..."

Yu Wenji began to introduce to his younger brother how the "live donkey" was made. Yu Wenji's face changed as he listened.

To water the donkey live means to tie a donkey. If the diner wants to eat the meat on the donkey's body, the chef will peel off the skin on the donkey's body to reveal the meat inside.

Then use boiling soup to continuously water the meat until the meat is cooked, and then cut the meat off for diners to eat. Because it is peeling the donkey skin alive and burning the meat directly, this donkey meat tastes very delicious.

Diners were eating donkey meat while listening to the donkey screaming, which was truly full of color, fragrance, taste and sound.

When he heard the coldness of Yu Wen and his back were heard. Looking at the fixed live donkey beside him, he finally knew why his sister-in-law and nephew wanted to avoid it.

"Brother, this way of eating is too..."

"What's so?" Yu Wenhuaji stared at his younger brother. Seeing his younger brother's fear, he felt a little disappointed: "This dish is eaten by a lot of people, why don't you dare to eat it!"

"No, no, this, this is too..."

"I'll eat it immediately!"

Seeing his younger brother pointing at the donkey randomly, Yu Wenhua and signaling the chef to take action, the reception banquet began with the screams of the poor donkey.

Yu Wenhuanhe looked at her trembling younger brother, and she couldn't help but think of her second brother Yu Wen Zhiji who had been dead for many years.

If Yuwen Zhiji were there, he would definitely not be like this...

well...

Time passed, and almost thirty years passed in a blink of an eye. Yu Wenhua had long given up on the idea of ​​avenging his younger brother because it would be good if he could save his life.

Now it is the 14th year of Mingde. That man has been the emperor for fourteen years and has not attacked him. I think he is disdainful to attack him.

Yu Wenhua has no time to be grateful because he doesn’t have much time left.

He has been taking the magic medicine given by the "Master". While he has achieved extreme pleasure again and again, his body gradually collapsed. Now he is about to run out of oil, afraid that he will not have a few years of life.

It is obvious that the master’s magic medicine has side effects, but Yu Wenhua doesn’t regret it because the magic medicine can make him fly to the nine heavens. I’m afraid that ordinary people will not be able to enjoy the joy in their entire lives.

He has been working for his master for more than ten years, and the rewards he gave him were also good. The wealth he accumulated was enough for his wife and children to live a good life.

However, his father Yuwen Shu is still healthy, but Yu Wenhua and himself have to take the lead. His son is still young and the position of prince is highly likely to be inherited by his younger brother Yuwen Shiji.

Although it was a bit regretful, there was nothing I could do about it. Yu Wenhua knows that his son is still young and he will have to rely on his uncle to protect him in the future to avoid being bullied by outsiders or even being taken advantage of by his mother's family.

Therefore, Yu Wenhua and his brother hope that they can be more decent and not be as soft as a ball of cotton all day long.

Now, the freshly hot donkey meat was brought up, and Yu Wengji was so angry that he saw his younger brother's sweating, "What are you afraid of?"

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Chapter completed!