If the business woman does not help the poor, the villain's dream of prosperity will be shatter

On the sixth day of the first lunar month, Qin Shu set out from Jinzhou, passed through Gushan, and loaded sweet potatoes and corn onto trucks and transported them to Chunshan Zhuangzi in Jin.

Arrived at Chunshan Zhuangzi the day before the Lantern Festival.

Jin covers an area of ​​20,000 hectares, and has jurisdiction over 19 counties and more than 400 villages.

The terrain is covered with green mountains in the southwest and fertile plains in the northeast. The southwestern rocky mountains are mainly mineral deposits, and the most famous Panjia Kiln and Zengjia Kiln in Dazhou are located in this area.

Further north are the low mountain slopes where you can try growing sweet potatoes, and on the terraces near the mountains you can try growing corn.

Qin Shu's tens of thousands of acres of fertile land are all located in Chunshan County, northeast of Jin.

Chen Cheng, the manager of Chunshan Manor, Zhang Danian, the security guard, Zhu Zhi and others, as well as Fu Ying who stayed here to build the bud pond, all came out to greet them.

At this time, several bud-growing ponds had been built on the open space on the south side of the village.

Qin Shu was watching everyone busy unloading the goods. Fu Ying quietly walked up to her and asked in a low voice, "What's going on? What should we do next? Is there a plan?"

Qin Shu smiled, "What rules are needed for farming? What's wrong?"

Fu Ying looked back and raised an eyebrow at Qin Shu, "Look, here it comes again."

Qin Shu followed Fu Ying's gaze and looked back. She saw that some villagers from the surrounding area had already gathered outside the village.

Qin Shu and Fu Ying looked at each other, then turned and walked out of the village.

As they walked, Fu Ying quickly whispered to Qin Shu, "Since I came to the manor to build the bud-raising pond, people have been constantly coming to mess with it. Sometimes these ponds are built the day before and destroyed overnight."

"Later, the guards sent by His Royal Highness Prince Jin and my subordinates took turns on night duty, and these pools were barely built."

Qin Shu smiled and said, "No hurry, let's go out and take a look first."

According to the emperor's wishes, the fields needed to be re-surfaced to grow new crops, and new taxes would be set based on the latest measurement results.

In this way, a large amount of hidden land will be surveyed, the amount of land owned by each household will be re-confirmed, and the land will be re-divided into grades according to the terrain and fertility of the fields and registered.

In order to evade or pay less taxes, ordinary people would transfer their land to the name of an official.

Once surveyed, these lands will be confiscated as unowned land.

Therefore, this land survey operation will infringe upon the interests of the original land holders.

It is bound to cause crazy opposition and boycott from these people.

Those common people who destroyed the bud-breeding ponds several times were bewitched by some people with ulterior motives and started a war.

In Cheng Ju'an's words, Qin Shu is just an ordinary citizen and does not need to be the one who stands out.

She and Fu Ying walked out of the village and waved to the villagers nearby.

When the villagers saw that she was a frail young woman, they were less afraid of the imperial envoy and gathered around her.

Qin Shu smiled and said, "It seems that all the elders and villagers know what I do. May I ask, uncles, do you have any mountain land at home?"

The burly man walking in front exchanged a glance with his companions, and asked with a vigilant look on his face: "Why are you asking this?"

"I wonder if you can grow crops on your mountain land. If not, would you be willing to rent it out?"

She smiled at the villagers who looked puzzled and said, "I will only rent it for one year. In addition to the rent, if you help me plant sweet potatoes, you can get one penny for every ten plants you plant."

"When the harvest season comes, just give me half of the dried sweet potatoes. The other half will be yours as a reward."

"As for the uses of sweet potatoes and sweet potato vines, if you are interested, I will also teach you everything I know."

This is equivalent to having three harvests from one piece of land.

One rent, one commission, one sweet potato.

Such a good thing must be like pie falling from the sky, right?

The other old man coughed and asked, "Sir, don't you need to re-measure the land?"

Qin Shu smiled and asked, "Why should I re-measure the land?"

"Aren't you an imperial envoy? You are here to plant new crops under the order of the emperor. Do you need to reorganize which fields to plant and how much crops to plant?"

Qin Shu burst out laughing. "This uncle is half right. Qin Shu is here to grow crops by imperial decree. But the imperial decree from the emperor to Qin Shu only states that crops should be grown, and there is no mention of measuring the land. It would be bad for Qin Shu to act on her own and disobey the imperial decree, right?"

The villagers were immediately in an uproar, asking in unison, "Is this true? Will the land be re-measured? We already have fruit trees planted on our land, but can we still plant the new crops you mentioned?"

Qin Shu smiled and nodded, "Sure. As long as the treetops don't completely cover the ground and there's enough distance between the trees, it'll be fine."

"Then, if we help the girl plant them, we can get one penny for ten trees? Isn't this price a bit low?"

Qin Shu smiled, "Uncle, one acre of land can plant thousands of sweet potatoes, and planting sweet potatoes is very simple."

She looked around, walked to a piece of soft land, piled up the soil into a ridge, and dug a few small holes.

Then he pointed to the small pits and said, "In each of these pits, just put a bucket of water and a seedling, and then use the surrounding soil to cover it. In between, you need to turn the seedlings and weed two or three times."

"When the frost falls, the sweet potatoes will bear fruit. Then the potatoes are peeled and dried and dried in the sun."

All the villagers gathered around Qin Shu, sighing, "That's it?"

"Isn't this too simple?"

"Yes, when we grow winter wheat, we not only need to release frozen water, but also spring water, apply spring fertilizer, and weed. We only get a few hundred kilograms of grain in one season."

After paying the taxes to the land officials, there were at most three or four hundred kilograms left.

For families with many people, the grain tank is basically empty at the beginning of the year.

In spring, most families can only fill their stomachs with coarse grains with bran mixed with wild vegetables.

One acre of land can be used to plant thousands of trees, and one can earn a hundred coins in commission alone.

This is more money than what you can earn by carrying heavy bags for several days.

Someone asked curiously, "How do you eat these sweet potatoes?"

Qin Shu smiled and said, "You can cook, grill, make porridge, and make steamed buns. The dried sweet potatoes and vines can also be fed to pigs. Livestock will grow faster with food. When you sell the pigs at the end of the year, it will be another harvest."

"And this time I'm going to plant another kind of food, corn, which can also be eaten in many ways."

"Moreover, intercropping corn with winter wheat does not affect wheat planting. With corn, we can have two harvests a year."

An old man asked, "How do you grow corn, girl?"

Qin Shu smiled and said, "If you are willing to plant it yourself, Qin Shu can teach you how to plant it and provide corn seeds for free. All the proceeds will belong to you."

"But if you are worried, you can rent the wheat field to Qin Shu for a season. Just like planting sweet potatoes, if you are willing to help Qin Shu plant, Qin Shu will pay you per acre."

"The original wheat harvest from the land belongs to you all. If the wheat harvest is less than in previous years due to planting corn, Qin Shu will compensate everyone for this loss."

"After the corn is harvested, the corn will belong to me and the corn stalks will belong to everyone. After the corn is harvested, everyone can turn over the land again and plant winter wheat without any impact."

The villagers discussed it for a long time before they elected an old man, who said to Qin Shu, "We have to go back and discuss this with our families."

Qin Shu said quickly, "Okay. Thank you for your help and explain to the neighbors. His Royal Highness the Prince of Jin is worried about the people of Jin not having enough food to eat, and he is restless and unable to sleep at night."

"Qin Shu was also entrusted by His Royal Highness the Prince of Jin to take the lead in promoting the planting of new crops in Jin. I hope to solve the problem of Jin's many mountains and little water, and the scarcity of food, so that the people can have enough food."

After saying this, he bowed deeply to the villagers.