The Legend of the Farm Girl

Yunfang attracted these people to the provincial capital and naturally prepared jobs for them. She now wanted to rapidly expand her caravan, which required a lot of people.

She now has 5,000 sheep, which provide countless amounts of wool every day, so she needs more female workers.

In addition, she had asked the caravan to bring back countless cabbages, to pickle them during the winter, and then promote the sauerkraut mutton hotpot.

Moreover, as the city of Liangzhou developed better and better, thoughtful common people had already started small businesses and some even formed their own small caravans. Their requirements for personnel were not as high as Yun Fang's, and of course their treatment was not as good as Yun's caravan.

However, the Yun caravan allowed these small caravans to follow them, and they could also make money.

So at the time of autumn harvest this year, although the wheat output was no different from last year, after paying the grain tax, there was only enough left for food and clothing. However, the caravans that traveled farther and farther brought back grain from the rice-rich area of ​​Jiangnan. Most of the people in Liangzhou had extra money and bought a lot of grain, which was enough to feed themselves.

All the money earned by the Yunfang caravan, except for the wages paid to the caravan members, went to Yunfang. Yunfang knew that everything she had now was backed by Liangzhou City, so she had to build Liangzhou better and better.

So she took out half of the money and gave it to Li Muwen, asking him to build the Liangzhou Prefecture City. She would use the rest of the money to build a large ship that could go out to sea. She had already learned the theoretical knowledge very well in the system, and the next step was to have enough money to build the ship.

This boat cannot be built in Liangzhou, so she has to go back to Yiqing County to build it. There is a big river in Yiqing County that leads directly to the sea, allowing the ship to depart from here and reach the estuary.

She had not mentioned these to Li Muwen. Nowadays, there were people going out to sea to trade, but no one had ever reached the place she wanted to go. No one even knew that there was a vast continent there that grew food that could save many people.

So she had no way to explain to Li Muwen how she knew that. Yun Fang planned to accumulate funds first and then tell Li Muwen when she had enough to build a boat.

At Yunfang's current rate of earning money, it would take another five years to build a ship that could sail far.

So Yunfang wanted Li Muwen to build Liangzhou as soon as possible so that she could raise more sheep, build factories, and make money faster.

After Li Muwen received the money from Yun Fang, his first step was to build the academy he had always dreamed of. This academy did not have too many requirements, and any child between the ages of eight and twelve could enroll.

The teacher hired was someone that Lin Zirui and Zhao Hui had brought from Yongzhou City. Seeing that Liangzhou was getting better and better under the governance of Li Muwen and Yun Fang, they had already brought their families over. In addition, they also recommended their friends to be clerks, thus completing the staffing of officials in Liangzhou City.

After hearing that children of common people in Liangzhou City could go to the academy for free, more and more people from the three counties flocked to Liangzhou City. Yunfang and Li Muwen had already made preparations. Yunfang asked the caravan to buy a large amount of food, and Li Muwen used the remaining money to build houses for them to settle down and rented them to these people at low prices.

Although it was not a good house and was built very quickly, Yunfang made suggestions when the house was built. Facing Li Muwen's surprised eyes, Yunfang added a lot of her own ideas to the original design, making the whole plan particularly practical and well-insulated and well-lit.

The low prices of houses and food made more and more people move to the city. Even if the three county families and the county magistrate wanted to stop them, they couldn't do it. The tenants only sold their land to them, not their bodies. They couldn't control their personal freedom.

If this continues, by the time of next spring plowing, even if there are countless pieces of land, there will be no one to farm them. They are really getting anxious.

After the autumn harvest this year, the county magistrates of the three counties, together with the patriarchs of the three families, pulled ten carts of wheat from each county and came to the provincial capital to pay taxes for the first time.

After they met Li Muwen, they were very polite. The magistrate of Yuzhong County said to Li Muwen: "Sir Li, you are the parent official of the entire Liangzhou. You can't just focus on the development of the capital! You can't just ignore our other five counties!"

Li Muwen looked at him with a smile but no words. The county magistrate was frightened by his look and stopped talking awkwardly.

Li Muwen then said in a clear voice: "Since you all came together, I don't have to look for you one by one. You all know the situation in your three counties without me telling you. To put it bluntly, you keep sucking the blood of the people to support yourselves, monopolizing education and land. However, I can forgive these bygones and show you a way out. Over the years, you have used various methods to buy the people's land and made enough money. You must return these lands to the people, and re-register the people who have received your protection and do not have to pay taxes.

In addition, it is necessary to establish academies so that the children of the people can also go to school. I also know that there are many educated people in your family.

Then my wife can send people to teach you how to grow grass and raise sheep, build textile workshops, and even set up caravans to sell these goods. You can see the development of Liangzhou City, and the money you make in the future will definitely not be less than those shady money. "

It can be said that what Li Muwen said did not give these people any face at all, but they had to endure it. A higher-ranking official can crush a person to death, and the three family heads did not have any official positions, so they dared not speak.

Since they couldn't talk, they began to consider Li Muwen's suggestion. Thinking about the changes they had seen in the city of Liangzhou along the way and the people's support for Li Muwen, they realized that Li Muwen was no longer just a prefect, and they couldn't contact the army to help Li Muwen solve the problem.

After much thought, they could only accept their fate and agreed to Li Muwen's suggestion, promising to return the land to the people before the spring plowing, re-register the people's household registration, and establish a college.

Li Muwen also promised them that as long as they did these things, he would immediately send people from Yun's Trading Company to bring them alfalfa seeds, teach them how to raise sheep, and guide them to establish a wool textile workshop.

Both parties are satisfied with this result.

By this time, except for the two counties where the army was stationed, Li Muwen had already controlled all the land in Liangzhou.

The next step is Yunfang's time to shine.

By the time winter came, Yunfang's sauerkraut was ready. She opened the first sauerkraut and mutton hotpot restaurant in Liangzhou Prefecture. Delicious food has been the common pursuit of people throughout the ages, and soon this novel delicacy became popular throughout Liangzhou.

This winter, the delicious taste of Liangzhou's sauerkraut mutton hotpot has spread throughout the streets and alleys, and countless people outside Liangzhou want to try it.

Except for the breeding sheep and lambs, all the sheep under Yunfang's command were slaughtered, and countless money flowed back into Yunfang's pocket.