Within a few days, a young man who went to Xiaohe Village to sell tofu brought a message back and said, "Zou Lizheng asked their village to arrange two women to enter the city with him on July 17th."

The governor Hao wanted to promote the new spinning wheel technology in Shizhou. He had distributed the built spinning wheels to the five county magistrates under him. Then these five county magistrates promoted the technology to each township and every village.

Although the location of Xipo Village is a little off, it is still under the jurisdiction of Lishi County, and it is still relatively easy to catch up with anything.

There are five counties in Shizhou, namely Lishi, Pingyi, Dinghu, Linquan and Fangshan. Among them, Lishi County and Dinghu County have a slightly larger population, while the other three counties are slightly smaller.

Once when Luo Yong and Zou Lizheng were talking about pig farming experience, he asked him about the population of Lishi County.

"Sanlang thought there should be many people in our county?" Zou Lizheng asked him with a smile.

"Fifty thousand?" Luo Yong reported a relatively conservative number. If it were put in the 21st century, let alone counties, just one town can be easily a few more people than this one.

"..." Zou Lizheng didn't say anything, but just smiled and shook his head.

"Thirty thousand?" Luo Yong guessed again.

"..." Zou Lizheng still shook his head.

Luo Yong silently said, "Ten thousand?"

"I'm afraid it may not be enough." Zou Lizheng shook his head and smiled bitterly: "Your Xipo Village is very lively now. People come and go every day, so how can this be done elsewhere?"

"The previous dynasty rule was harsh and refused to live with the people. The people had no way to live, and the population naturally became weaker and weaker. Then after the dynasty changed, wars began. Since Emperor Gaozu founded the Tang Dynasty, it has only been sixteen or seventeen years since the founding of the Tang Dynasty. Even the baby born in the first year of Wude, he is only sixteen or seventeen years old. Not to mention that there were wars during the Wude period, and there were wars in the early years of Zhenguan. The war was originally meant to fill in the lives of people."

What does it mean to have a county of 10,000 people? Luo Yong used to study in the second-rate university, and the 20,000 students were scattered on such a large campus, and he didn’t think there were many people.

In his lifetime, Luo Yong felt for the first time that the number of 10,000 sounded so desolate. He also knew that the population was sparse at this time, but he didn't expect it to be sparse to this extent.

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In the next month, tools like a spinning wheel were vigorously promoted on their land.

This kind of spinning wheel is not a precision instrument, and it does not require craftsmen with superb skills to build it. Generally, villagers can do a few carpentry tasks and draw pictures. Basically, they can also make a useful spinning wheel for their own homes. Some people do it well, while others do not.

The Luo family's spinning wheel was placed directly outside the yard for everyone to see. Some villagers simply took wooden tools and set up stalls there to do as they did. Not to mention, the Luo family was really lively at that time.

If there is someone who has no men in the family, or who really can't do this, I ask the villagers in the same village to help me make one and then send some thank you gifts later.

With this hemp spinning wheel, the speed of spinning hemp is indeed much faster. At the beginning, some people could not adapt to it. Some of them could not learn it, so they had to give up and still use spinning threads.

Most young people learn quickly. Luo Yong looked at Erniang and the others. It was smooth in just two or three days. Even Siniang Wulang could spin a few times. Wulang's child was a boy. He sat in front of the spinning wheel for half a day. Siniang couldn't do it. She would rather go up the mountain to pick up firewood and go outside to fetch pig grass than make this.

"Who dares to marry her in the future?" Erniang often said a few words to her.

"Sister, you don't want to marry yourself, why do you tell me this?" Si Niang had just run away for a long time, got back from a basket of pig grass, picked some wild fruits, had a lot of grass on her head, and her hair was messy.

"I am used to being able to block me with words. Come into the house quickly and take care of it. If you don't see me, you will think of it as a crazy girl." Er Niang said, then pulled her into the house.

Luo Yong smiled and listened to the two sisters fighting each other. The fourth lady was really eye-catching. She talked back to Er Niang a lot on weekdays, but she only saw that the other person was in a good mood. When the second lady was really angry one day, she would find a place to stay.

Recently, Tian Chonghu has become more talented. He cooks tofu with his parents at home all day long, and he doesn’t run around and play wildly in the village. Then Luo Siniang vaguely has a tendency to become a child leader.

Luo Yong looked at the wild fruits she picked. They were pretty good. There were no fruits in their place. In the entire Xipo Village, Luo Yong had never seen any other fruit trees except for a few persimmon trees.

It is also good to eat some wild fruits occasionally, supplement some trace elements, etc. Luo Yong washed these wild fruits, picked up one and took a small bite, which was so sour. It was a bit of a pity to lose it, so he scooped a spoonful of brown sugar from the kitchen and put it in a stone pottery bowl, and asked the little ones at home to eat wild fruits with brown sugar.

After a while, the aunt and the others came over and saw that these younger brothers and sisters in their family were eating wild fruits like this, so they also laughed: "Eating wild fruits will still be sweet. Look at you guys, haven't seen each other for a few days, but they have gained weight again?"

"Sister, I'm not fat, I'm growing up." Goro said quickly.

"Let me see." Lin Xingle acted as a gesture to compare Bi Goro's height and said, "It's really taller."

"Sister-in-law, you can sit here for a while today. We will cook porridge later and stay and eat together." Luo Yong said to the two of them.

In addition to the many fields to grow in the Lin family, there is also a vinegar business at home. Sometimes it is very busy when it is busy. As soon as the old lady gets busy, she will come back less. Today, it is rare for the two of them to come together, so Luo Yong asked them to stay and have porridge together.

In order to supplement nutrition for all kinds of people, the Luo family now cooks porridge once every afternoon.

Whether it is Luo Yong himself, Er Niang Si Niang Wulang, they are in the stage of growing and growing, and they are all very edible. They just had lunch at noon, but soon they were hungry again. Recently, at two or three o'clock in the afternoon, their family either cooks sweet porridge or salty porridge.

Salty porridge is usually made with white rice porridge made with meat and DISM. White rice is so expensive in their place. Luo Yong bought it twice, and it hurts very much. However, although it is expensive, the white rice at this time is really more nourishing.

The things in the sweet porridge are mixed, basically eight-treasure porridge, not only sorghum, red beans, millet, and red dates, but also dried longans, lychees bought from the county dry goods store, lotus seeds and walnuts, and put some mixed things. Just this, for the children of the Luo family, it is simply a top-notch delicacy.

After a while, the old lady and the second lady went to the house to spin and talk. Si Niang Wulang and the others stayed in the convenience store, while looking at the store, while completing the task of calculating words assigned to them today.

Luo Yong went to the kitchen to wash rice and cook porridge, and Lin Xingle went to help burn the fire. Today, it was sweet porridge. Lin Xingle was surprised when he saw the southern dried fruits that Luo Yong took out of the jar: "You are too willing to eat this."

"Brother-in-law, don't go out and say it. If you don't know, you will think that there are any mountains of gold and silver in my family." Luo Yong said with a smile. He also knew that Lin Xingle was a honest person and would not have any bad intentions. He was afraid that he would not be careful and would take out something new and tell others about it.

"Since you don't let me say it, I will naturally not say it." Lin Xingle agreed.

Although they didn't say it, they couldn't stop the porridge from floating outside the yard. At this time, the villagers passing by the Luo family yard all had to swallow a few mouthfuls of saliva. In this desolate and barren era, some people had never smelled such a rich sweet fragrance in their lives.

Lin Xingle was also on fire in the kitchen. Although his family had some money and food, he was also frugal and never spent money big. Like longans and lotus seeds, he had only seen them in the county's dry goods store a few times when he grew up so old. Lin's father and mother would never buy them.

While drinking porridge, Luo Yong saw a child leaning out outside and waved to him in.

The child's surname is Feng and his nickname is Gou'er. There is only one grandma left in the family. His grandma is a little crazy, sometimes good and sometimes bad.

"You eat it, don't go out and say it." Luo Yong made him a bowl of hot porridge.

"Um." The child didn't feel hot and drank it.

"If you go out and say it, they will snatch it with you another day." Si Niang added. She said this to the point. Feng Gou'er is not afraid of anything else, but is afraid that another child in the village will snatch food from him.

"Yeah!" Feng Gou'er nodded violently.

"Eat slowly and don't choke."

Seeing the child swallowing hot porridge hard, Luo Yong remembered the words Zou Lizheng said to him. There were only 10,000 people in this county, and each of them was extremely precious. But there were so many children who couldn't even fill their stomachs every day and lived a life of insecurity. I don't know if there would be a day when I grew up.

Feng Gou'er looked a little silly and didn't know what she would look like when she grew up. Some children were late and were slow when they were young. It is unknown if they could achieve something great when they grew up.

Luo Yong didn't want this kid to repay him for his kindness in the future. After all, he has food and drink now, so he can't watch a child starving to death in the village.
Chapter completed!