On May 20, the 24th year of Wanli, the suburbs of Beijing.

"The Huang Junmen, the Imperial Village of the Three Palaces, is in the Wanping territory in front of you, and you will arrive not far away."

The weather is getting hotter. At this time, on an official road outside the capital, a group of people are slowly moving. Over the years, the capital has been drought all year round. The reaction is that the road is hard and there are many dusts on the road, especially when the team of hundreds of people is following behind, the dust is covered with overwhelming dust.

"Thank you, Eunuch Chen, for your leadership, Lai Fu is very grateful." Huang Lai Fu said.

At this time, the eunuch of Fengyu of the Imperial Horse Prison was Chen Feng, who was also known in history. He was born into a rogue in the market and was one of the most arrogant mining tax envoys in the Wanli period. He was known together with Gao Huai and Chen Zeng. In the near future, he would go to Jingzhou to collect store tax under the order of Emperor Wanli, causing countless big and small things. Although Huang Laifu was not afraid of such people, he was not as good as having more things, and it was better to have less things. Huang Laifu was still kind to Chen Feng.

"It's easy to say, it's easy to say. Even if our family goes through fire and water, we have to do it for the old man. Besides, Huang Junmen is in a state of power and wealth, so our family also wants to share the wealth of Huang Junmen, right?"

Chen Feng said that at this time he was riding on a horse, and he felt uncomfortable all over his body. He was used to sitting on a bridge, but because Huang Laifu and others were riding horses, he and some of the eunuchs who served him had to find some horses to ride, which made these spoiled internal officials suffer.

In the capital, after Emperor Wanli told Huang Laifu to sort out the imperial village, the Imperial Horse Superintendent, who was in charge of the imperial village affairs, immediately found Huang Laifu. Originally, Huang Laifu wanted to compete with them for power in the future, and he looked a little indifferent and alert to Huang Laifu. However, Huang Laifu explained his original intention and they felt relieved. Huang Laifu's meaning was not to deprive them of the power to run the imperial village, but to cooperate with them. With the benefits of the imperial village, Huang Laifu will not forget them. The Imperial Horse Superintendent has heard of Huang Laifu's ability for a long time, and he also wondered why Wuzhaibao, Ningwuguan and other places have developed so well. He also wanted to see Huang Laifu's ability. Now everyone hit it off. The Great Eunuch of the Imperial Horse Superintendent immediately sent Chen Feng, the eunuch of the Imperial Horse Superintendent to assist Huang Laifu.

At this time, the direction everyone was heading was several imperial villages in Wanping County, Shuntian Prefecture. Regarding the location of the imperial villages, the imperial villages were originally located in Fengrun County, Shuntian Prefecture, and were named Renshou Palace Village. It had a total of 914 hectares of land, 980 hectares of water and 1,322 hectares of reed land. During the Xuande period, Qingning Palace Village and Weiyang Palace Village were successively established, starting from Fengrun County in the northeast of Zhili, northwest, and going southwest through Baodi, Wuqing, Jinghai, and Hejian and other prefectures. The above three imperial villages, Renshou, Qingning and Weiyang, have been expanded for a long time, and there were 63 places in the early years of Wanli, most of which were located in the four prefectures of Shuntian, Baoding, Hejian and Zhending in the north, with a total of more than 30,000 hectares of land.

Most of the locations of these dozens of imperial villages are traditional agricultural areas in Hebei, and there are many places to be distributed. Of course, Huang Laifu could not manage it all at once. He decided to set up a special area of ​​imperial villages with the point and demonstrate the demonstration site. After the results were made, he gradually expanded to all imperial villages. The initial choice of Huang Laifu was Wanping County. The reason why Huang Laifu was interested in this place was because the place published a book called "Wanshu Miscellaneous Notes", which impressed Huang Laifu.

It was almost noon, and a group of people arrived outside the north gate of Wanping County. Wanping was located in the west, and there were the Sanggan River, which originated from Mayi County, Shanxi Province and flowed thousands of miles to Wanping. There were Lugou Bridge, Shahe, Gaoliang River, Qinghe and other rivers. There were also Lugou, Wangpingkou, Shigangkou, Qijiazhuang and other inspection departments.

The magistrate Shen Bang led the county magistrate Liu Fengxiang, the chief clerk Liu Xie, the dictionary Fang Leshun, and a group of local villagers and some minor officials who were greeting each other outside the door. Some yamen runners were maintaining order.

"The magistrate of Wanping County in the Xiaguan was Shen Bang, and he worked with his colleagues and his hometown elders to visit Huang Junmen and the inner officer Eunuch Chen. Thank you all the hard work for all of you."

After Huang Laifu and others got off the horse, they went up to the table and bowed.

Huang Laifu said: "There is no need to be polite to the magistrate Chen. I like the "Miscellaneous Notes of Wanshu" you wrote very much."

Huang Laifu raised his hand and smiled, while carefully looking at Chen Bang, he saw that the county magistrate Chen was nearly 40 years old, wearing a gauze hat, a round-necked uniform, soap boots, and three-collar long beard, which was quite elegant.

Huang Laifu has long been famous for his reputation as a man from Linxiang, Huguang. He was a juren. When he was the magistrate of Wanping County, he wrote the book "Miscellaneous Notes of Wanshu" in the 22nd year of Wanli. It has been circulated to later generations. It records the social, political, economic, historical geography, customs and folk customs, and remains of the Ming Dynasty. In ancient times when Beijing was scarce, it was actually the county annals of Wanping and one of the earliest historical books in Beijing. The book is full of scattered, recording the various expenses of the yamen, temples, fortunes, palace bans, cemeteries, and examinations that the people of Wanping at that time, from the royal family to the royal family feeding tens of thousands of taels of silver to the 720 kilograms of cat meat in the Internal Affairs Office, and it can be said to be a literary and folk history history. Huang Laifu has also read this book, and now he is excited to see the author of the book.

Chen Bang finished writing "Wanshu Miscellaneous Notes" a few years ago, but he has always been self-admiring and has not many propaganda. Unexpectedly, Huang Laifu, who was thousands of miles away, had read it. Chen Bang was not surprised. Chen Bang was always curious about Huang Laifu. He couldn't think of a martial artist who managed military farming so well. Since last year, he was surprised by the Wuzhaibao Newspaper run by Huang Laifu. When he saw Huang Laifu, his first impression was that he was young. He heard him speak out the "Wanshu Miscellaneous Notes" he wrote. While he was proud, he also felt a sense of confidant.

He said with a smile on his face: "The Huang Junmen praised it, but the officials were ashamed of being accused of being accused of being accused of being. The Huang Junmen was intimidating, and they also had farms and operated newspapers. The officials admired him."

Huang Laifu smiled slightly and said, "Mr. Shen, don't you introduce your colleagues beside you for me?"

Chen Bang was slightly stunned. Some of the officials beside him were also happy. Unexpectedly, the generals of one side, famous figures in the Ming Dynasty, were so kind to those little people. At that time, Chen Bang introduced Huang Laifu to his colleagues, including the county magistrate Liu Fengxiang, from Jingyang, Shaanxi, who was a capital official, and served in the 17th year of Wanli. Liu Xie, from Shanyin County, Zhejiang, who was a official, and served in the 20th year of Wanli. The clerk, Fang Leshun, from Jixi, Zhili, from the 19th year of Wanli. These people, together with Chen Bang, formed the official airs of a county.

After Chen Bang introduced, they all came forward to pay homage to Huang Laifu one by one.

Chen Feng was a little impatient when he watched, and said, "Huang Junmen, let's go to the city to rest. Our family is exhausted."

Chen Bang smiled and said, "The weather is hot, no wonder Eunuch Chen is tired. I have asked someone to prepare a banquet and wait for you to take a shower and rest."

Huang Laifu said: "Okay, Eunuch Chen is no more thick than us in the border towns and has weak bones, so let's go to the city."

At that time, under the leadership of Shen Bang, the group went to the county town. At the foot of the emperor, Wanping County is near the capital. The living standards of the people are naturally much higher than those in Shanxi and other places. The stone slabs and green tiles along the way are relatively brightly dressed, and there are not many refugees in the area. Wanping people call the road to travel as a street, or the market is a street. There are thirteen archways and 312 alleys in the city.

According to the county magistrate Shen Bang, there are more than 16,000 households in Wanping County, with a population of more than 80,000, including 6,415 households, 2,346 military households, and 7,959 servant households. Huang Laifu and others entered the city, which naturally attracted countless onlookers. Adults called each other and children cried, and it was lively. The customs of Wanping were a bit strange. At this time, the children in the place called their fathers, and they called their mothers as mothers, which was easy to say. However, it would be a bit strange if parents called their sons as brothers and daughters as sisters.

At this time, Wanping's Daughter Festival was not long after, and many little girls who were watching the fun with their parents on the street were still decorated in a new look and were extremely beautiful. In the midst of the lively scene, Huang Laifu and others came to Wanping's county office. The local county office was on the west side of the city, with the Jie Ai Hall in the middle, the curtain hall in the east, the warehouse in the west, and the six houses on both sides. Behind the hall were the magistrate, the county magistrate's party, the dictionary party, the chief clerk's party, and some official warehouses were nearby.

When he entered the county office, the magistrate Chen Bang invited Huang Laifu and others to take a shower and change clothes, and then had a banquet. Of course, the official positions of Huang Laifu and others were to be used. Zhuo Shang included pork, mutton, beef, big goose, fresh fish, sugar cakes, bean wine, and various fruits, and the total amount was more than two taels of silver.

Huang Laifu didn't mind whether the hospitality was rich, but Chen Feng felt a little negligent. He was so ok with only two taels of banquet to entertain him. His face became a little gloomy and asked Wanping what specialties were there. The atmosphere was very unpleasant, and Huang Laifu quickly smoothed out the situation. Chen Bang and others felt that although Huang Laifu was a military general, he was very good at being a human being.

Chen Bang asked Huang Laifu what official duties were in Wanping. Huang Laifu talked about the local imperial village. According to Huang Laifu, there were three imperial villages in Wanping, Ciqing Palace, Cining Palace, and Ganqingguan, with a total of more than 26,700 mu of land and more than 760 taels of silver were collected every year. In Huang Laifu's view, such income was really drizzling. In any case, Wanping was located in the North China Plain, with fertile land, and there were also rivers such as Sanggan River, Shahe, Gaoliang River, Qing River, etc., which were convenient for irrigation. The income was just a little bit, which was really unreasonable. If Huang Laifu was allowed to operate it, it would be very simple to earn one or two thousand taels of silver from the net profit every year.

Chen Bang is a traditional civil servant. When he was in charge of the country, he usually knew that he was just to persuade farmers and sericulture, water conservancy, etc. If no one compared him, he felt that his Wanping was well managed, and his tax and grain output were ranked among the counties of the Ming Dynasty. However, after looking at Huang Laifu's achievements, he realized that he was too far away. Although he was a civil servant, he also had the superiority of literati to military men, but in front of Huang Laifu, he found that he did not have such an advantage, just like a primary school student, he had to obediently listen to the teachings.

So he felt strange about how Huang Laifu would manage the imperial village in the area. There are many legends about Wuzhai Fort, but after all, it is far away from northwest Shanxi, and Chenbang has never seen it with his own eyes. Huang Laifu just briefly talked about the management methods of Wuzhai Fort, how to promote water conservancy, good varieties of pesticides, large farms, circular livestock farms, various economic crops, etc., to ensure that if you operate it yourself, you will not get less than 10,000 taels of net profit every year, and all parties who cooperate will have generous returns.

Although it is a simple explanation, Huang Laifu's words still make everyone feel a sense of grandeur and heroic spirit, which makes everyone feel moved. This is why the Royal Horse Supervisor actively cooperates with Huang Laifu. Not only will there be a huge reward, but Huang Laifu's contribution will be half of them. Why don't they do such good things? Huang Laifu's method is to actively make the big cake bigger, so that other departments will naturally actively cooperate with you because of the benefits.
Chapter completed!