Chapter VII
Bai Jiaxuan's father Bai Bingde died after all, and it was the same day as Vanilla gave birth to a baby.
Or just looking forward to his grandson landing, Bai Bingde had lasted for so long, otherwise he would have been unable to hold on according to his physical condition.
Bai Bingde even named his grandson in advance, which was Bai Xiaowen.
When the doll landed, the sound of crying reached Bai Bingde's ears on the hospital bed. Bai Bingde's eyes widened, revealing only a few yellow teeth left. He laughed, opened his hands, and murmured.
"Come on... Come on, hug my good grandson..."
The voice was low and trembling, but unfortunately he didn't wait for his grandson to come in the end. After saying this, the old man kicked his legs and was completely exhausted.
Bai Bingde's funeral is also the most grand one in Bai Luyuan in these years. During the years when he was the patriarch, he has not achieved much, but he is also diligent and has been very popular.
The number of people who gave him funeral was more than 500, and they went to the Bai family's ancestral tomb to the west.
Bai Jiaxuan really wanted to squeeze out a few tears, but she couldn't. The old man had been with him for a whole year and wiped his body and urine. He was a filial son for more than a year, and he really deserved this person.
But his father passed away without any sadness, and he could only apply some spicy food under his nose. Finally, on the day of his burial, he was red and cried.
Tears were like the weather like the sunny rain. When the old man died, the family became much more refreshing. After two days of sadness, his mother, Bai Zhao, became relieved. Who told her that she now has a baby grandson?
Bai Jiaxuan didn't like the name Bai Xiaowen very much about this son. Who told him to read the original work?
Bai Xiaowen in the original work is a truly two-faced person, who is the kind of person who says one thing and does another, but he is the one who lives the most casual life in the original work.
Maybe this is the reality. Bai Jiaxuan doesn’t know if this son will be like in the original work in the future, but his children and grandchildren have their own blessings, and Bai Jiaxuan doesn’t believe that this person can live exactly the same.
The birth of his son Bai Xiaowen can also add new vitality to this family and dispel the shadow of his father's death.
Bai Xiaowen's birth also cleared the last obstacle for Bai Jiaxuan to succeed as the leader of Bai Luyuan.
He had married six wives before but had no children, but now he finally had children and was still a male, so he should naturally succeed as the patriarch.
In the third month after Bai Bingde's death, with the consent of those uncles, Bai Jiaxuan officially succeeded the 18th clan leader of Bai Luyuan.
Lu Zilin has been depressed for a while. He has been looking forward to the position of patriarch since he was eighteen years old. It has been almost ten years, but in the end he was still in vain.
The patriarchs of this era have quite a lot of power. Bai Luyuan has to decide whether it is big or small.
Of course, it is not the so-called one-man rule. A few older uncles are considered supervisors. If the patriarch does too much, they can rely on their seniority to scold them.
If Bai Lu is a big family, then Bai Jiaxuan, the patriarch, is also the head of the family.
Not only do you manage big and small matters in the village, but you also have to manage the village style and discipline. You cannot let the villagers commit crimes. The general idea is to ensure the simple customs of Bailuyuan.
Fortunately, nothing big happened in Bailuyuan. The biggest news in the past two months was that a bag of beans was thrown at the house of the widow of the East King of the Village. Finally, it was discovered that it was Bai Xinger, a famous lazy man in the village, stole it in the middle of the night.
After Bai Jiaxuan was in charge, he discovered that Bai Luyuan had no major problems, but many minor problems, and many nonsense. Now that it is 1911 this year, I went to the county town to inquire about the news last time, and the situation is getting worse and worse.
The first thing Bai Jiaxuan did was to find a way to solve the problem of Bai Luyuan eating.
I won’t say that this depends on the weather for food. The straw is thin and long, the corn stalk is not taller than itself, the corn cob is sparse, and the yield is not as high as one quarter of the height of later generations.
This land has been plowed and sown for hundreds of years every year, and with this primitive planting method, there is only one food and clothing.
To seek vitality in troubled times, the first thing is not to starve to death. If it is true that there is a drought as in the original work, all these more than a thousand people will be pressed on Bai Jiaxuan, and you can't watch hundreds of people starve to death.
Bailu originally had a curse. Once the number of people exceeds one thousand, a natural disaster will occur every few years, and hundreds of people will die each time. In the end, the population will be controlled within one thousand people again.
The population of Bailuyuan is now more than 1,200. According to the curse in the original work, it is estimated that it will be here in a few years.
But in Bai Jiaxuan's opinion, this is nonsense. The only explanation is that natural disasters are too frequent on this land, and farmers have no way to avoid natural disasters.
Bai Jiaxuan promised the ancestors of the ancestral hall that since he promised to protect them through the troubled times, he would definitely break this curse.
The first way to break this curse is to let everyone have extra money. If there is a drought, as long as you have money, are you afraid that you will not be able to buy food?
Zishui County is only a few dozen miles away from Chang'an City, and Bailuyuan is only a hundred miles away from Chang'an City. You can use a carriage to get back and forth one day.
The reason why they could not resist natural disasters before was simply that the farmers were trapped in their minds and they had no other way to get rich.
Bai Jiaxuan wants to get rich many ways, but it is really difficult to lead the whole village to get rich in the countryside, but he had a plan in his mind before.
Since you can’t make money by growing wheat, just plant other crops.
For example, Chinese medicinal materials?
This reminded Bai Jiaxuan of a world he had traveled through. Bai Jingqi, who was surnamed Bai and the mansion. The Bai family made a fortune by making a fortune by Chinese medicinal materials. Bai Jiaxuan knew that style better than anyone else.
And he has a lot of secret recipes in his mind. Seeing that the troubled times are approaching, which business is the most profitable?
It must be selling medicine!
I just sell trauma medicine, a medicine that can stop bleeding and sterilize, and even a magical medicine that has more effect than a certain white medicine.
Bai Jiaxuan never thought about how big the business was with this. He just wanted to rely on the land of Bailuyuan to support the fellow villagers of Bailuyuan.
Bai Jiaxuan had already had an idea in his mind. Just after the Chinese New Year, he went back and forth to several medicinal materials markets and bought some Chinese medicinal seeds. After he came back, he did not call everyone to have a meeting.
When he was calling everyone to plant this thing for the first time, everyone would definitely not believe it. Although he is the patriarch, he doesn’t want to force everyone to plant it.
He just planted all his 20 acres of water land. Everyone was curious when they saw Bai Jiaxuan planting all the best water land on these medicinal materials.
Bai Jiaxuan was not stingy and told everyone directly that anyone who wants to plant it can go to his place to buy seeds. When the medicinal materials are mature, he can help everyone sell them.
Everyone was a little cautious about these Chinese medicinal materials that they couldn't understand. Only a few families had planted a few acres of land. Bai Jiaxuan didn't force it. He guided the planting technology for free for those farmers who planted medicinal materials.
The days in this rural area are so dull, every day, every day, it took another half a year to go.
In the past year, the villagers of Bailuyuan have lived a good life, because they have not paid grain for two consecutive years, and everyone has some surplus grain in their pockets.
This was also what Bai Jiaxuan asked. In the past two years, the outside world has become a mess. In the past two years, several groups of people came to Zishui County. Either the Qing soldiers were repeated or the Ge Ming Party occupied it.
However, this has nothing to do with Bailuyuan, which is fifty miles away from the county town. Because of the chaotic management, no one is coming to urge food.
This also made Bai Luyuan live a rare and peaceful life in the past two years.
However, such a small day is obviously just a mirror in the water. You can see or touch it. Such a small day is broken in a blink of an eye.
In 1911, the Qing court had already set sun. In the second year, the young emperor of the Qing court finally announced his abdication. The Ge Ming Party was in a hurry and the momentum was rising. Zishui County also established a county government, and the newly appointed leadership team also took office.
Zishui County has not been peaceful in recent years, and there have been several waves of people. Now it has finally settled down. However, no matter which wave of people comes, they will not leave half of them when they leave.
Seeing that the Qing court was over, the National Government was officially established, and the newly appointed team, Xiong Ran began to think about revitalizing people's livelihood. This would require money to make trouble, but now the county government warehouse is empty.
After all, the chrysanthemums decided that the first thing they did when they took office was to find a way to make money and food!
First of all, it is necessary to restore the tax payment of grain. And they found through inventory that good guy, because of the chaos in management in the past two years, there was no record of tax payment on the accounts. That's easy to deal with, then I just need to pay all the money in three years!
So a vigorous delivery of food began.
The grain collection teams were soon arrived at each village, and Bailuyuan was naturally no exception. The Bailuyuan, the person who came to collect grain was not an outsider, but a villager named Tian Fuxian.
Tian Fuxian was originally from Bailu Plain. His family was once settled and his previous generations were not satisfied. When Tian Fuxian's generation came to become a small official with the Ge Ming Party, his first task was to come to Bailu Plain to collect grain.
The Bailu Plain covers more than 2,000 acres of land, and the tax grains of the past three years are not a small amount!
Moreover, Tian Fuxian is a local. Before he took office, he had already found out that Bai Luyuan had not paid the land tax in the past two years.
Good guy, as soon as he told his boss about the news, the newly appointed "county magistrate" slapped the thigh, and this fat sheep was good, so he made up his mind to make a good note from the White Deer Plain!
So Tian Fuxian came to Bailuyuan with a few dog legs and a short gun on his waist!
When Tian Fuxian came to Bailu Plain, Bai Jiaxuan was sweating profusely and harvesting herbal medicines that he had planted for a year.
He had already made plans for these 20 acres of Chinese medicinal materials. He first processed the medicinal materials in Bailuyuan, prepared the medicinal powder himself, and finally made the packaging uniformly. He was planning to make a long-term brand, which is exclusive in this world.
However, he was not planning to sell it nearby, but transported it to other big cities to sell it. He still understood the principle that big trees attract wind, and there was no need to cause disaster for Bai Luyuan.
He is planning to go to a big city to find a long-term pharmacy, and will supply it to the pharmacy every year from now on. He is not worried about not being able to sell the medicinal materials. He will sell these 20 acres of medicinal materials at a sky-high price.
The medicinal materials grown on this land are just ordinary Chinese medicinal materials, but after Bai Jiaxuan's configuration, they have become magical medicines that can stop bleeding and sterilize.
He did not intend to do the business much, nor did he intend to purchase the traditional Chinese herbal medicines grown by farmers at high prices. He would give them a little profit at most, but this profit was three times higher than their profits of growing wheat.
With three times the profit, these farmers can have enough money to resist various disasters in the future.
But in this era, it is not a good thing for farmers to have extra money. This means that the sheep is getting fatter and fatter. Since it is a fat sheep, it will definitely be slaughtered.
And Tian Fuxian was the first little brother to catch this fat sheep and slaughter!
Chapter completed!