There is Room For the Poor Daughter

During the Chinese New Year, Daozi fell in love with going out to play. Every day when he opened his eyes, he would drag Xiao Yeyang out of the house.

Xiao Yeyang was fine, but he was happy to accompany his son. He would take the rice out of the house every day, either shopping or going to the restaurant to hear about books.

As the highest official in Xiliang, Xiao Yeyang was paid attention wherever he went.

From the first day of the new year to the Lantern Festival, Xiao Yeyang almost met all the officials in Liangdu with his son in his arms.

"I'm going to go to the yamen tomorrow, let me feed my son."

Rice sat in his exclusive children's chair and was fed spoon by spoon by rice flowers.

The little guy is very active. Since he can walk and run, he is extremely uncooperative when he eats. He either runs to play with this, or runs to get that.

Daohua ordered a children's chair for him, and when it was time to eat, he would hold people on the chair and make it, otherwise he would slowly change his habit of running around.

Daohua handed the rice bowl in her hand to Henry Zhang, and then began to eat her own.

Daozi ate two bites of Xiao Yeyang's meal, then grabbed the spoon and wanted to eat it by himself.

It is a pity that the spoon is not accurate, either the food cannot be scooped, or the food cannot be fed into his mouth.

Xiao Yeyang watched anxiously from the side, and was about to grab the spoon in his son's hand to feed himself, but was stopped by Daohua.

Daohua handed Xiao Yeyang a spoon again: "You feed it, let your son imitate it himself."

Next, in Xiao Yeyang's feeding, the rice imitated frequently, and finally finally managed to put the spoon in his mouth.

After eating, Daohua led his son to digest food in the house, and Xiao Yeyang sat on the reclining chair and watched the news from all over the place.

"Now that there is no threat in Xiliao for the time being, Xiliang has to develop quickly."

"In the past, the people here suffered from war all the year round, and social development was severely hindered. Now that there are no foreign invasions, all the problems that existed in the past should be solved."

"Since I have taken over Xiliang, I have to restore people's livelihood."

Daohua: "What do you want to do?"

Xiao Yeyang thought for a while: "The most fundamental thing in managing a land well is to keep the local people fed and clothed. The promotion of high-yield grains is now being carried out in an orderly manner, but economic development cannot rely on this alone."

"The official roads in Xiliang are too poorly repaired. I want to renovate several major official roads in Xiliang. There is a lot of cement in the stone factory, so I use cement to build the roads."

"There are also post stations. Not only are there too few post stations, but they are also in disrepair for a long time. The distance between them is too far, which is not conducive to the rest of the merchants in the past."

After listening to Xiao Yeyang's words, Daohua smiled and said, "You have to have a good idea. There is a saying that if you want to get rich, build roads first. I support you."

"Xiliang has a large area. Only when the road is good can it attract people from other places. With more people flowing, the economy will naturally follow."

"However, doing infrastructure construction requires a lot of manpower, material and financial resources. Is there more turnover here?"

Xiao Yeyang said with a smile: "The Wei family has left a lot of money, which can last for a period of time. Every year, each guard station can also collect a batch of tax silver. I am going to let the border troops stationed in the road repair it. practiced."

Seeing that Xiao Yeyang had already made up her mind, Daohua didn't ask any more questions, but seeing that he started rubbing her forehead again, she couldn't help but ask, "You haven't arranged everything, what are you worried about?"

Xiao Yeyang sighed: "I'm worried about the frontier soldiers stationed there, most of them don't have wives, many of them are old and young, watching them guard the border, but they don't even have a descendant who burns incense, I feel in my heart. It's annoying."

Daohua was silent, she couldn't solve this problem.

Xiao Yeyang suddenly said: "The imperial court has to raid the homes of some powerful officials every year, and these officials have a lot of maids in captivity. I will simply give the royal uncle a guide and let him send all the maids from the prisoner's family to the frontier soldiers. Be a wife."

The more Xiao Yeyang said, the more he felt that this idea was a good idea.

Daohua reminded: "If you want to marry a soldier, do you have to build a house for the family to live in first?"

Xiao Yeyang nodded: "I will demarcate a piece of land near General Town to build a house." After speaking, he got up in a hurry and went straight to write the papers.

So positive, it can be seen that he is usually worried about the marriage of the soldiers.

After the Lantern Festival, Xiao Yeyang was busy again.

In February, after the spring ploughing began in various places, Daohua also became busy.

The climate in Liangdu is better than in Ganzhouwei. By mid-February, the temperature will not be so cold, and sowing can be carried out.

Daohua bought two Zhuangzi and one pasture before, but she didn't go to see it. Taking advantage of the opportunity of spring ploughing, she was going to take her son to see it.

As for the tens of thousands of acres of wasteland, there is no requirement for rice flowers in the first year, so the tenants are asked to plant some corn and potatoes to support the land, and by the way, the canals are dug out.

At the beginning of March, the temperature has obviously warmed up, and Daohua took the rice out of the house and went straight to the village and the pasture outside the city.

As the first family of Xiliang, the Wei family held the best Zhuangzi and pastures.

The fields of the two Zhuangzi are all high-grade fertile fields. Seeing that the tenants are cultivating in an orderly manner, Daohua directly went to the pasture without leaving much.

This pasture is not as big as the rice flowers bought in Ganzhou Wei, but the location is very good, and the grass grows lush.

When Daohua bought the ranch, she directly bought all the cattle and sheep raised in the ranch. When the carriage drove into the ranch, she happened to meet the herdsmen shearing the sheep.

Seeing Daohua staring at it, Yan Shouhou quickly said, "The sheep raised in this pasture are of a sheep breed, and they can harvest wool once every spring and autumn."

Daohua asked, "How will they use the wool?"

Yan Shouhou: "The wool will be sold to merchants, who will twist the wool into threads, and then weave it into wool blankets and wool felts."

Daohua thought of the woolen sweater she wore in her previous life, and asked, "Is no one using wool to make sweaters?"

Yan Shouhou was silent for a while: "Compared to cotton clothes, wool clothes are still too expensive, but I haven't heard much about them."

Daohua nodded: "Don't sell this batch of wool. Let the ranch people wash the wool and send it to the house. I have other uses."

After that, Daohua took the rice to play in the pasture for a while, and then went home.

After returning to the mansion, Daohua drew the needles for the big sweater, and then gave it to Gu Yu to ask the carpenter in the mansion to make a few sets.

In mid-March, Yan Shouhou sent several boxes of washed wool to the palace.

There are maids and wives in the house who can spin yarn, Daohua found a few people and asked them to pick out several different thicknesses of wool according to her requirements.

After that, I bought dyes to color the wool, and all the wool was dyed. It was the end of March.

"What are you doing?"

Daohua's movement was not small, and Guo Ruomei was attracted.

Daohua smiled and said, "I want to knit clothes with wool."

Guo Ruomei: "It's fine to leave these things to the servants, why do you need to do it yourself."

Daohua: "They don't know what I want to do." After that, she took out two needles and started knitting in front of Guo Ruomei.

"Wool blankets and wool felts woven by textile machines cannot be used by ordinary people at all, but those knitted from bamboo like me are affordable to many people."

Guo Ruomei was surprised when she saw that a piece of rice flower was woven in a short while: "I only know that a weaving machine can weave cloth, but I didn't expect that two bamboo sticks can actually weave."

Said, looking at Daohua in surprise, "How can you do this?"

Daohua: ". I read it from the book."