Dominate the Country

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Also by the Yinma River, a group of government officials in public uniforms were surrounded by a few leaders riding mules and horses, walking proudly on the dirt road by the river. These people talked, laughed, and acted unscrupulously. People walking on the road would turn around and run back when they were far away, or they would end up on a side road. No one wants to take a selfie with a bunch of government officials who are going to the countryside!

No one knows where they got such majesty, courage and arrogance. It seems that going to Tumenji is an easy task. It seems that as soon as they show up and the government signs are used, they can easily capture Chen Ming, Chen Cong and other prominent figures in the Chen family.

Zhou Tianyi listened to the endless flattery in his ears, and the last of his unbearability and shame had been thrown away in his heart. Chen Hui has a good friendship with him, but can friendship replace money and land? White money, good farmland. If I follow the county magistrate to run the Chen family without conscience, the Zhou family's wealth will be increased by half!

The magistrate of the county has already rewarded him with one hundred taels of silver. The Chen family has been running around here and there for the past few days to make connections. Many of the owners who have received the money want to share a share of Zhou Baotou, and the Chen family also wants to pay him a share. I gave you a generous gift. Even before the main course was served, Zhou Tianyi had already collected another one hundred and fifty taels of silver. No matter how great the embarrassment and shame is, it can't be compared to money in Zhou Tianyi's eyes.

This trip to Tumenji was another fat trip. Although the house was not directly ransacked, when Chen Ming, Chen Cong and others were arrested, they took some money away from them. Would the Chen family still dare to fart? Not to mention that I can get one or two hundred taels of silver today. It was because the county magistrate sent so many people that the entire strong squad was packed in, which made Zhou Tianyi very painful.

What is Zhuangban for? According to the rules of the imperial court, Zhuangban was responsible for dispatching thieves and was a state and county guard. Their clothes were marked with the words "Minzhuang". To protect warehouses, assist in arresting thieves, and be responsible for the safety and social security of state and county magistrates and yamen.

In fact, the latter is their positive difference.

Look at a city gate, look at a county government gate, look at a warehouse, patrol the streets, etc. These people already have enough money and water, but they still have to compete with their slave laborers and fast men [collectively called fast men] for food?

Of course, Zhou Tianyi also knew that the county magistrate was afraid that something bad might happen during this trip. He is afraid that the Chen family will fight against the government!

Zhou Tianyi felt that his worries were unfounded. If Chen Hui had not been caught, the Chen family would still be a hungry wolf. Now Chen Hui, the backbone of the Chen family has been thrown into prison. No matter how much he worries, there are only a few, small ones left.

To be honest, compared to the Chen family's fight against the government, he was more worried about Chen Ming running away with his family property.

Zhou Tianyi, who was extremely confident in the official skin he was wearing, would never have thought that Chen Ming would "fall off the grass". This is the blind spot in the thinking of the entire yamen in Lushan County. Even Chang Rui, who insisted on bringing in thirty strong squads, at most thought that the Chen family would resist the government, which was completely different from falling into disrepute.

From the county seat to Tumenji, which is dozens of miles away, Zhou Tianyi was riding a mule, but he was still so tired that his back ached. Those white servants and government servants who walked on two legs were so tired that their legs were shaking, but they finally arrived at Tumenji before the sun went down.

Looking at Tumenji illuminated by the last ray of the sun not far away, these people seemed to have gained strength in an instant.

The Tumenji in front of me is no longer a Tumenji, but a pile of shining silver.

As for Tumenji at this moment, the troops brought by Chen Ming from the mountains, plus Ding Zhuang who stayed behind in Tumenji, and the soldiers organized by the Chen family's children, not counting the engineering students led by Liu Wen, there are already Two hundred people.

Moreover, whether it is the mine protection team that came out of the mountain or the strong team that stayed behind at Tumenji, all of them were wearing breastplates or light rattan leather armor, or the gathered disciples of the Chen family, each holding a They were either shotguns or long spears. How could they be compared to a group of officers armed with knives and wooden clubs? Not to mention that the Chen family has more than a dozen horses!

"Young Master, that old dog Zhou Tianyi is here!"

"Let them in, they'll be stewed in a spoonful, don't let any of them escape!" Chen Ming was counting the grains with his second uncle. Yes, grain.

The Chen family has thousands of miners and their families in the mountains. Including the women in Tiezhai, there are about 300 people, plus the people from Qingfeng Village, Hutou Village and Niutou Village, there are 2,000 people.

How many people from Tumenji can follow the Chen family up the mountain? There is also a stall in Xiaonangou. In addition to the three farms outside, as well as the group inside the city - the young relatives of the Chen family and the Ma family who were imprisoned, etc., all counted together, 3,500 people are not too many. With a little relaxation, the scale can be increased to 4,000 people!

With so many people and livestock in the mountains, how much food do they eat in a day? Although Chen Ming has developed silage, it is difficult to say whether he can successfully develop silage in one fell swoop as he is just talking on paper. After all, Chen Ming had only seen this technology on the Internet and in books, and had never practiced it himself.

He knew that "Wang Zhennong Shu" from the Yuan Dynasty of China and "Youfeng Guangyi" from the Qing Dynasty were written by Yang Wei from Shaanxi. This agricultural expert was still alive at this time. The fermentation methods of silage such as Shoukai and Majijue are all recorded above, but these have not attracted the attention of the world at all.

In Europe, it is said that there are records of silage in ancient Egypt and Rome, but silage has not been really used in practice for many years, and at this time it was still limited to Sweden, Germany and the countries along the Baltic Sea.

Silage as a storage method for grass was first recognized by people and was truly experimentally studied in the mid-19th century.

If this technology is successful, the burden on livestock in winter will be greatly reduced.

Chen Ming had certain expectations for this, so he set the daily grain consumption in the mountains at 100 shi. Chen Cong, Chen Quan, Qi Gong and others all agreed with this number. Then the next question came, there is not so much grain in the mountains. ‘

The Chen family’s grain storage in the mountains is only 8,000 shi at most, and 100 shi of grain a day is not enough for three months. From now on, until the spring of next year, if the Chen family does not want to have no food to eat, they need to prepare more according to the half-year reserve. There is still a full 10,000 shi in between!

Tumenji and Xiaonangou both have a certain amount of grain, but the grain in these two places, including coarse grains, has been collected, and can only fill half of the gap of 10,000 shi of grain. There are still 5,000 shi left, and this gap must be solved before the Chen family completely retreats to the mountains.

Chen Ming's plan was to attack Lushan County. After breaking into the county government and rescuing Chen Hui and others, he was not going to retreat immediately. He was still keeping his eyes on the official treasury in Lushan. In addition, during the days when the Chen family was in trouble, Chen Ming was also going to visit the families who had taken advantage of their misfortunes. Of course, more important were the big families in the county and the grain stores they operated!