Chapter 515 Who should you thank
“Dang, Dang, Dang!”
The village chief rang the gong, and the villagers who were leaving work in the evening gathered at the edge of the drying field, waiting for the leader speak.
Baron Turgot did not listen to what the village chief said and followed the convoy for a month. The process was the same in every village.
A stage has been set up on the drying ground, a stove has been set up next to it, and the noodles have been cooked.
This village has only been incorporated into the Duchy of Wesson for just over a year. It was originally the territory of a knight, but now it belongs to Frederick.
The villagers' minds were still stuck in the old serf era. They would do whatever the village chief asked them to do. It didn't take long for the whole village to come to the drying field under the arrangement of the village chief.
They washed their hands in confusion, took a bowl and fork, and poured a bowl of noodles on the stove. They added hot soybean oil with fried green onions, ordinary soy sauce and shredded tofu to the noodles.
Then everyone stood there with fragrant noodles, at a loss. The bravest one just swallowed.
Ales was used to this situation and said to the village chief: "Miller, let them eat."
Miller shouted to the villagers: "This is what Grand Duke Weisen invited you to eat. Eat it quickly!"
After hearing this, the villagers immediately wolfed down the noodles. No one thought about why the old man let them eat noodles. I ate when I was told to eat.
The noodles are made of pure white flour, without any grains. How many serfs have been growing wheat for more than ten generations, today is the first time to eat flour ground from wheat.
The soybean oil mixed with noodles has a bit of beany smell, but it doesn’t matter anymore. Eating oil means having strength, and I don’t get to eat it a few times throughout the year.
Not to mention the salty umami flavor brought by the salted soy sauce and shredded tofu, that is a world they have never been exposed to.
Baron Turgot sneered at this. Every village did this, and no one knew how much flour was wasted.
After all the villagers, adults and children, had licked their bowls clean and those who were choking had been rescued, Miller jumped on the stage and asked loudly: "Are the noodles delicious?"
Some of the villagers said sparsely: "It's delicious~"
"Can't hear you!" Miller yelled, "Did you feed the noodles to the dogs just now? You don't have the strength to eat them?"
< br>“Are the noodles delicious?!”
This time half of the villagers answered.
“Still can’t hear you!” Miller looked very angry, “Louder!”
This time, the villagers answered each other well, at least everyone They all spoke.
"I still can't hear you!" Miller stamped his feet angrily.
Over and over again, the villagers finally shouted in unison: "It's delicious!"
Miller looked very satisfied and continued to say loudly: "Grand Duke Weisen invited you to eat such delicious noodles, and you didn't say 'Thank you Grand Duke Weisen'?!"
The villagers followed the momentum and roared. Get up: "Thank you Archduke Wesson!"
"One more time," Miller continued to shout, "Who do we want to thank?!"
Then the villagers shouted thank you ten times. Only then did Archduke Wesson stop.
Miller continued: "Do you still want to eat noodles like this?"
Baron Turgot curled his lips amidst the voices of "thinking". He didn't know what the use was of shouting these things all day long. Could it be possible to make people loyal just by shouting?
He didn’t know that shouting slogans like this is really effective for farmers who are not very flexible. Many hair salons, supermarkets, restaurants and other places in Frederick’s hometown use this method to cultivate children. (hū) has raised (you) many young people who have just arrived in the city, and even illegal pyramid schemes and profiteers who trick the elderly into buying things will use this method.
Miller looked very satisfied, and then said loudly: "Everyone, think about what life was like before, how much food is left in the food tank after one year, and how much is there this year?!"
"Red nose, yes, it's you, come up!"
The rosacea man standing at the front did not expect that he would be called out, and was at a loss for a moment.
Miller jumped off the stage and dragged him onto the stage.
This red-nosed man has messy hair, a bit of gray hair, a face full of wrinkles, and a slightly stooped waist. It can be seen that he is only in his early thirties.
Miller asked him: "Speak loudly to everyone, how much food did your family of three have in the past?"
Red Nose's legs shook violently, and he hesitated: " There is... one... one jar of oats, and half... half a jar of beans."
After Miller came to the village from Weissensee to become the village chief, he visited every house, and they used pottery. The volume of grain vats made by making or hollowing out tree trunks is relatively uniform. One vat can hold about 300 kilograms of oats or rye, and half a vat of beans can hold about 150 kilograms.
The one-year ration for Hongbi's family of three consists of 300 kilograms of oats and 150 kilograms of miscellaneous beans. In addition, there is a large piece of salt and less than two kilograms of lard. Meat, eggs, and milk can only be found in dreams, and they have to be picked while chopping wood. Wild vegetables.
People in the village are the same as him. Throughout the year, they can only eat 80% full during the busy farming days, and they can only go hungry at ordinary times.
After he finished speaking, Miller said to him: "How much food does your family have this year? Say it loudly!"
When it came to the red nose, he didn't panic and immediately said excitedly : "This year there is a tank of wheat, a tank of beans, and half a tank of flour as white as snow!!!"
Miller asked again: "Is that just a little bit?" "No, no!" Red Nose continued to say excitedly, "I sold other flour and cheese and bought new clothes and new shoes for the whole family!"
After he finished speaking, he patted the gray cloth clothes on his body. This was the first new clothes that his family had bought in half a century.
Miller asked him again: "Have you been able to live like this before?"
Red Nose immediately shook his head: "No, no, only in dreams."
Miller said loudly to him: "Remember, it was Archduke Wesson who brought these good days, why don't you thank Archduke Wesson?"
Baron Turgot took the noodles from his servant behind the stage and started sucking them. What happened next was exactly the same.
Miller called a few more villagers to the stage to repeat the conversation.
The most rapid change after the Duke of Wesson occupied this village last year was taxation.
In the past, the serfs in the village could only keep the rations and take away the rest. Now they keep the grain and then collect 30% of the remaining grain as rent. For a time, the villagers' grain tanks were not enough.
After several villagers stepped down, Miller continued: "Don't think that the food at home is too much now. What you eat is not as good as my daughter!"
"Let me tell you, my daughter is the first woman in the Principality of Wesson who can drive a tractor and has been in the newspaper!"
"Now she can eat meat every day at home, a pork knuckle every five days!" "
"My former neighbor now works in a steel factory and can eat one chicken leg a day. When he gets tired of chicken legs, he eats pig's trotters!"
"They all went to school. Yes, if you want your children to have meat to eat every day in the future, send them to school!”
Youth enrollment rate is a key data for the village chief’s assessment, and there is a vote for the village chief’s year-end award! veto power, so almost all village chiefs are focusing on this matter.
Miller finished the simple mobilization meeting about remembering the bitter and recalling the sweet, and finally said: "Tonight, our Grand Duke Wesson not only treats everyone to eat delicious noodles, but also invites everyone to listen to music and watch a show!"
"In the past, this was something that only gentlemen could enjoy, but now you can enjoy it too. Who should I thank you for?!"
After a thunderous sound of thanks, tonight's performance began in the chorus.
“May my God bless Archduke Wesson,
our good lord Frederick!
Frederick is in good health! "
Miller kicked and dragged the villagers sitting on the ground up. When singing this song, they all had to stand up and sing along. Even if they couldn't sing, they had to hum along.
< br>After the singing, the villagers could sit down, and then the drama began.
The content of the drama was very simple, it was about the daily life of a family in a rural area, interspersed with the need to wash hands before meals and after using the toilet, and the inability to wash hands. Details of daily life such as open defecation and throwing garbage into the trash can, as well as farming knowledge such as how to cultivate land scientifically and the appropriate amount of fertilization, and also popularized knowledge on taxation, justice, military service, etc.
Practice. It proves that for villagers who are all illiterate, such a drama is easier for them to remember
After the over-an-hour drama ended, various departments took to the stage to give speeches to further popularize laws and regulations on taxation, education, and military service.
The next morning, the accompanying doctor conducted a physical examination on all the villagers and gave medicine to some sick villagers.
Miller approached Ahlers to discuss something. Baron Turgot was eavesdropping not far away, but they did not hide it from him.
Miller said: "Tomorrow I will take your car to the town to find something to do with the agricultural technology station."
Ales replied with a smile: "Okay, take the top or bottom of the car. Whatever you want.”
Miller ignored his joking and asked him: "Have you heard about the flame grass that is being promoted recently?"
"I heard that it was brought back from the southern continent. It doesn't need much water and grows a lot. "
"Most of the land in our village is difficult to water. I plan to plant there and raise pigs or cattle."
Ales recalled it and said, "I heard. A little further, the grass is one or two stories high, and the seeds on the top are fiery red when they are ripe."
"I remember that the seeds have to be soaked in flowing water for one night before being eaten by pigs and cattle. , or boil it in boiling water for a few minutes, otherwise it will be poisoned.”
"The same goes for the grass stalks. You can't eat them directly. They have to be piled up and fermented for a month, just in time to survive the winter."
"You are from Lizi Village. You should know the preferential policy for trial planting of new crops. You apply to the Ministry of Agriculture.”
Baron Turgot despises Miller’s decision. He has to wait for others to grow new crops for two years before he can try to grow them. Otherwise, it will be over if the crops die. .
That night, Ahlers and the others treated the villagers to a meal of noodles, and then began to teach them to sing. They were all propaganda songs such as "Hand Washing Song" and "Pay the Rent". Duer Even an artistic scholar like Baron Ge couldn’t stand it after listening to it for a month.
Early the next morning, the convoy continued on the road, arriving at another nearby village before evening, and then repeated what it did in this village.
The team left, but the influence remained in the village. Many villagers talked about the good things of Archduke Wesson all the time.
So Frederick kept sneezing in the north.
(End of this chapter)