Crossing the Qinghe Landlord gl

After sending away a merchant from Hongzhou, Zhang He closed the door and turned back to the eaves.In such a hot day, thanks to the ice sent by these merchants, she felt much cooler. Adding the iced watermelon, it was simply enjoyable.

The watermelon in the field has already grown well. In addition to entertaining people who came to visit and selling it to Sun Ning, she usually chills it and shares it with Xia Jiniang and Zhang Xian.But Xiao Huasheng was still young, so Zhang He could only let her drink a little watermelon juice.

Little Peanut has already grown two lower front teeth. In addition to drinking milk on weekdays, Zhang He also asks Xia Jiniang to make some mashed potatoes and egg yolk soup for her to eat.Xia Jiniang remembered that when Xia Jin was this age, all he drank was porridge, and she didn't understand how Zhang He figured out how to let Xiao Huasheng eat such food. The problem is that Xiao Huasheng still likes it very much!

If Zhang He or Zhang Xian ate egg yolk soup when he was young, then potatoes were only available in recent years. How did Zhang He know that peanuts are edible?But Zhang He has so many puzzles, she doesn't care about such a small thing anymore.

While eating watermelon, Zhang He suddenly said: "How many cold melons did Sun Ning's people come to take away today?" Xia Jiniang is responsible for reconciliation when people come to buy fruits and vegetables from her.

"Fifty or so." Xia Jiniang said.

Sun Ning bought potatoes and white-skinned eggplants from Zhang He, not to mention watermelons.Although he also planted some watermelons in his field, he felt that they were not as sweet as Zhang He's. Zhang He only planted one acre and produced more than 600 melons, and he bought more than 400 of them one after another.

If Zhang He hadn't grown too many fruits and vegetables, Sun Ning's main store would have bought all the ingredients from her. He once said to Zhang He, "If Qing'an also opens a restaurant, I don't have to worry about not having any business!"

Zhang He smiled: "Unfortunately, I can't operate."

Sun Ning asked in surprise: "Doesn't Qing'an not know that His Highness asked the officials to allow the operation of the House of Officials?"

His Highness naturally refers to the crown prince, while the official refers to the seriously ill emperor.After the emperor became seriously ill, the crown prince was in charge of all government affairs. However, the crown prince did not dare to seize the emperor's power at this juncture. He still reported everything to him. One of the things was to allow the House of Officials to open a shop for business.

Once Qin Gaozu wanted to prevent the family of high-ranking officials from competing with the people for profit, so not only the officials, but also their family members were prohibited from doing business.However, it is limited to immediate family members, such as Sun Ning being Tong Liyu's brother-in-law is not included.

It's just that with the relaxation of the system, some families of high-ranking officials will still do some business to hoard more wealth.When King Shou and King Jia were competing for the crown prince, in order to win more people's support, they put out such a condition, which made more than [-]% of the officials in the court support him.

However, the prince did not completely condone the family of high-ranking officials to operate business. He stipulated that officials who were in office or idle at home, sons of scholars with family background qualifications, people who got Jieju, and family members of officials who were officials in the local area were not allowed to operate.Others who are not within the scope will not be exempted from the privilege of technology distribution if their operations exceed a certain amount of assets.

Zhang Heyi has no official position, and although he has family qualifications, it is destined not to be her turn. It is not a problem for her to do business, and she has no fame in the past three years, and the only relative who is an official is also in Luoyang.

Zhang He is not interested in doing business, but if she can grow peanuts, tomatoes, pumpkins and other crops in the future, she can open a restaurant to sell new crops.

This day seems to be a little far away, but there are people who can benefit from this policy, she said to Xia Jiniang: "If it can be implemented, the second brother will not have to worry about the eldest brother who won't be allowed to operate after becoming a Jinshi!"

Xia Ji Niang is also happy for Xia Luosi, because Xia Luosi is now in the Fang family's business, and it has been guaranteed not to lose money.Moreover, the government took good care of his crude medicine shop, and everyone in the crude medicine shop knew that they could not use improper means to suppress him.

On weekdays, there are also some individual customers who come to him to collect crude medicines, and poor people who are greedy for his crude medicines for cheap. His business in the crude medicine shop is getting better and better.Not only did he change to a bigger shop, but he also hired two juniors to help him.

Some time ago he repaid the money that Xia Jiniang lent him one after another. Xia Jiniang found out that he still gave her one or two yuan of money every month after finding out that he had exceeded the original borrowed money, but refused to accept it.

Xia Luosi had no choice but to say: "If it wasn't for Ji Niang and her sister-in-law, I would have died unjustly in prison, and the Fang family did business with me because of your face. I will pay you back this money every month." A little money can't repay your kindness at all! The dowry you lent me at the beginning is considered as your share in this herbal medicine shop, and you should share some of the money you make every month!"

Xia Jiniang had no choice but to accept the money, even though her and Zhang He's family fortune was already thousands of times that of the money.

However, Zhang He does not want to rely on the current income for a living in the future: the side yard and backyard of the house are being expanded. In addition to the stables, cowsheds, donkey sheds, and chicken coops, she also bought wasteland on the west slope from the government. , built a ranch.

The ranch is only [-] acres in size, and there are sheep pens and pig pens, which house the twelve sheep and eight pigs she released from the system.

A sheep is worth five pennies, but a pig is only worth ten pennies. Zhang He only needs to pretend to buy sheep on different days, and he can release the animals in the system without anyone noticing. Raise it openly.Xia Jiniang gave her money to buy pigs and sheep, but she quietly put it away again.

Zhang He also secretly sold the bad horse, and then took out the good horses in the system and put them here for free-range breeding. When she took Xiao Peanut for a walk here, she would take the horse for a walk, and most of the time she would take the horse back to the stable. inside.

In order to prevent someone from stealing sheep or pigs, Zhang He specially hired two people to help him, one raised the pigs and the other herded the sheep.

In early June, when the Zhang family's hired workers were wondering when Zhang He would order them to harvest the [-]-acre rice field, Zhang He shouted excitedly in his backyard.

Little Peanut, who was in the cradle, was about to be coaxed to sleep by Xia Ji Niang, but was startled by her yelling, and immediately opened his eyes.Xia Jiniang looked at her, and she also looked at Xia Jiniang, and immediately burst into tears.

"..." Xia Jiniang hugged her helplessly to coax her, while Zhang He ran in excitedly, saying, "Jiniang, I made a threshing machine!"

The thresher Zhang He built it a long time ago, but she tried it several times, and either some parts fell off the shaft or the gear teeth did not fit together.Fortunately, Qiu San asked someone from the metallurgical supervisor to help make a lot of gear teeth, which gave her more opportunities to debug. After trying for a long time today, she was sure that there would be no more problems, so she dared to tell Xia Jiniang that she had succeeded.

Xia Jiniang's face was stern, showing no joy at all, Zhang He's enthusiasm cooled down a bit, and when she looked carefully, she saw that Little Peanut was crying hard."What happened to Peanut?" she asked.

"That yell of yours scared her, and you still ask what's wrong?" Xia Jiniang was happy for Zhang He, but compared to the threshing machine, the little peanut was more important.

Zhang He resentfully said, "I, I'll coax her!"

Xia Jiniang handed Little Peanut to Zhang He, and Little Peanut mercilessly hit her chest with his small fist. She pretended to be injured and said, "Ji Niang, I was beaten by her!"

Xia Jiniang pursed her lips and smiled, "Yes!"

Zhang He also grinned, coaxing Little Peanut, and walking out with her in his arms, saying, "I'll take you to see Xinnongqi!"

Xia Jiniang also followed, but she was already very familiar with the threshing machine. After all, she saw Zhang He tinkering with it every day, but it was the first time she had seen how it worked.

"How do we get rid of the grain?" Xia Jiniang was very curious.

"Ji Niang, you step on the board below."

Xia Jiniang hesitated for a moment, but she still lifted the hem of her skirt and stepped on it lightly, only to see the roller in front of her start to spin.She was a little surprised, stepped on a few more times, and found that the wooden board under her feet would not only return to its position as she let go, but also could make the roller rotate faster and faster without her exerting much force.

"At that time, put the ears of rice on it, and the grains will be knocked off from above. But Niang Ji, you have to be careful, don't touch it, or your fingers will be broken." Zhang He reminded.

Xia Jiniang withdrew her foot, looked at Zhang He again, and said, "Then why don't you hold Peanut further away, in case you are not careful... what should you do?"

"Look, she's not crying anymore!" Zhang He was surprised to find this fact, and saw Little Peanut turning his head to look at the rotating drum, also very curious.

"Yeah~ah!" Little Peanut responded cooperatively.

Xia Jiniang smiled and asked, "What name has Erlang decided to name this agricultural tool?"

"There was a wind valley machine before, but today it is naturally a thresher." Zhang He did not intend to use the foot-operated thresher as a name for later generations. After all, it is so complicated that it is difficult for ordinary people to remember.

"It's easy to remember." Xia Jiniang and Zhang He had a good understanding, she said, "Now that we have a threshing machine, it is a good thing for us!"

"Why is it just a good thing for me?" Zhang He asked.

"With it, we don't need to hire too many people to help harvest. How can some people think it's a good thing if they don't have this job?"

With the pedal thresher, the efficiency of threshing has been greatly increased. Not only can it make people more relaxed, but the loss of grains will also be greatly reduced. The threshing work that originally required half a month of labor may only It can be completed in a few days, which is naturally not a good thing for some people who need to find work.

Zhang He smiled and said: "But the progress of agricultural equipment can reduce the hardships of the people and make them more active in farming. Overall, the life of the people will only be better, not worse." Worried that Xia Jiniang would listen If she doesn't understand or doubt her, she can't use words like "production level" to explain it to her.

"I was worrying too much." Xia Jiniang said.

Although Zhang He has developed a thresher, he still needs to hire workers to help. After all, she has planted [-] acres of rice, and the thresher cannot continue to operate at high intensity.

When she moved the threshing machine to the edge of the field to teach the hired workers how to use it, many village names came to hear the news. They heard that Zhang Hezhuo had developed a "threshing machine" that no longer required vigorously beating straw to thresh. They were all very happy. interested.

It was also Zhang He's first time to use a threshing machine to thresh. A bunch of straw was rolled on the roller several times, and [-]% of the grains were removed. Only some scattered grains remained stubbornly on the rice stalks.Following her demonstration, there was a burst of exclamation around, and even more curious people wanted to reach out to touch the roller.

Zhang He warned: "If you want to cut off your limbs, just put them on." Immediately, they were so frightened that they withdrew their hands and did not dare to touch them.

Zhang He carefully instructed the hired workers again, telling them to stop after a while, and also taught them how to disassemble the wooden bucket that holds the grain...

And the name of her thresher spread throughout Qinghe Village overnight. Every day, people came to her field to watch how it works, and some people couldn't help but asked her to borrow the thresher. Their reason It's simple: "My family can't afford to hire someone to help. If I have this agricultural equipment, I can save a lot of effort..."

It was the first time that the thresher came in handy, and Zhang He couldn't guarantee whether there would be any problems.And after every day she has used up, she needs to hire workers to move back to her for maintenance, so she can't lend it out for the time being, which many people regret very much.

With the use of the threshing machine, and Zhang He also intentionally controlled the number of stones in the rice, everyone discovered that Zhang He's [-]-acre field had produced a total of [-] stones of grain, an average of four stones per mu!Some people attributed this to the thresher reducing the loss of rice, while others, as always, attributed it to Zhang He's grain seeds.

No matter what their thoughts are, it is one of Zhang He's goals. She did not control the production at three stones and five buckets as usual. No need to stash part of the grain into the system anymore.

As long as she slowly increases the production, the people who will come to her to buy grain seeds will continue to flow.Her purpose is naturally not to make money, but to prevent the production of high-quality conventional rice from declining in a few years or even ten years.

As long as her high-quality conventional rice is always transported to the outside world, and then slowly increase from four shi to five dou, five shi... or even seven or eight shi, as long as she is still alive, or the system still exists, it will be done in a few decades. It is not a problem to let every household have surplus food.

She didn't think about the problems after her death. After all, when the production level increased, the food output would naturally increase, and with potatoes and sweet potatoes, people's food and clothing would no longer be a problem.As for the taxation of the court, it is beyond her control.

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