Leisurely Daily [System]

Before traveling by land, it took more than a month to go back and forth between Lishan Village and Shangjing. This time, I took the water route and saved a lot of detours. One month is enough to go back and forth.

A few days after Jiang Fan and the others came back to Lishan Village, Miao San and the others came back, and Gu Changqing was also with them.

Gu Changqing finally came back. This year, he stayed in Shangjing for most of the time. Apart from taking care of Gu Fangqiu and Huashan, he also stood up for Jiang Fan and expanded his relationship in Shangjing.

Who in this world doesn't want a youthful face and a healthy body. Jiang Fan's health-preserving fruits and skin care products are now very popular noble products in Beijing. It would not be difficult for the rich and powerful to have a relationship, not to mention that the relationship with King An was revealed later, and those people couldn't wait for it.

Gu Changqing spent more than half a year in circles that he had no contact with before, and he felt very touched.

"...They tried to ask me to see me several times, but I refused them all." Gu Changqing was talking about Jiang Feng, the uncle of the original owner Jiang Fan, and the whole family headed by Gong Yang.

Not only the Constant Temperature Tree, Jiaoyan Pavilion, Huashan Pavilion, and Baizhen Pavilion did not sell these families, at least on the surface, did these families ask someone to buy them in private? Gu Changqing really didn't pay attention.

However, he did this not because he was stingy with those few fruits, but because he wanted to trample the face of this family on the ground and tell some people in Shangjing that their family did not deal with these families. , then stay away from these few.

This move was relatively effective. At least as far as Gu Changqing knew, several merchants and officials who had dealings with the Jiang family or several other companies began to put aside their ties.

The next step for Gu Changqing is to annex all these businesses and stores.

This is also what Jiang Fan meant.Back then, the original owner was obese, although he was not good-looking, but he treated people sincerely. Those people didn't like him, but why bothered to play tricks on him, causing the original owner to die because of this.

Gu Changqing came back, but he was a man who couldn't stay.When Gu Changqing was doing business with Jiang Zhen, the first place he went to was the nearest mutual market. He had seen the grand occasion of the transaction back then. After so many years, he wanted to visit again.

When Jiang Fan heard the place he was going to describe, a place name flashed in his mind.

Cotton is a detached dicotyledonous plant that likes heat, good light, drought tolerance, and avoids stains. It is suitable for planting in loose and deep soil, and Jiangfan is located in the rainy south.

Normally, cotton is sown in March and April. After a growth period of about [-] days, it enters the harvest period in September and October.The cotton that Jiang Fan brought from Boss Xiao was planted in late June, and it has been more than five months now, and the bolls are almost spun.Normally, the cotton planted by Jiang Fan would not be harvested, but because of the constant temperature tree and nutrients, everything it needed was absorbed from these two, so it was able to harvest.However, the subsequent promotion of planting is not so simple. The quality of the seeds that Jiang Fan feeds with nutrients is good, at most it will make him more adaptable to the environment in the future. It is still impossible to completely change the growth habits of cotton. .

And the place Gu Changqing mentioned is very suitable for growing cotton.But ordinary people need a process to accept a new thing, Jiang Fan can't run over and say, ah, you can grow cotton, this is good.Just relying on what you say, no one is so stupid to believe you directly.So Jiang Fan asked Gu Changqing to see if there was any land for sale when he arrived at that place. If there was any land, he would first buy a few hundred acres and plant it. When cotton was promoted in the future, he would take the lead in planting it for the local people to see.

Gu Changqing didn't go there empty-handed this time, he also had a lot of money in his pocket now, and brought his men, bought a batch of goods, and walked overland.While walking, Gu Changqing left people to live in the area. In addition to the money given by Gu Changqing, these people also had portraits of the gangsters in their arms.

Every time the goods are sent from Lishan Village, Jiang Fan will specially divide them into two parts for him, one part for him and Gu Fangqiu to eat, one part for him to keep as a gift, and use the relationship to investigate the events of the year. Gu Changqing was not willing to eat and sent them all out. Although there is no progress yet, he has finally made progress.

After Gu Changqing left, Jiang Fan was idle, playing intimate games with Guan Xiujin all day long, but Zhang Shumo got busy.

The tea mountain covers an area of ​​nearly 800 mu. According to the minimum requirement of two tea pickers per mu of tea land, the total number of people needed for this mountain is close to [-]. Although workers can be recruited in nearby villages, the gap between villages Most of them are not that close.Traveling in ancient times was inconvenient. In modern society, it would be enough to drive back and forth to pick up these tea pickers every day, but this is not the case here. Either build roads and build carriage pick-up points, or build dormitories to provide food and lodging.

Jiang Fan tends to the former. If he has the cost of building dormitories, board and lodging, he might as well repair the surrounding roads. This is a good thing that will benefit generations.

Then, at the foot of the tea mountain, Jiang Fan left a large piece of land, except for a part of the open space for drying tea, to build a tea house.Bamboo strips for cooling tea stalls and boiler stoves for frying tea need to be built before February.

When Jiang Fan was planting sugar cane and tea, Guan Xiujin was not there, and the two came back to rest for two days. Early this morning, Jiang Fan took Guan Xiujin to Floating Water Village.

The sugarcane is still early to mature, and it has to go in April next year. At the moment, the sugarcane is growing in the field, and it looks like weeds.

However, the sugar room has already been built, and the tools for squeezing juice and the stove for cooking soup are all ready.At this time, the sugar cane has already started to be harvested. Jiang Fan recruited a few sugar producers who are familiar with this industry from other places, and asked them to buy a batch of sugar cane from other places, and asked them to bring people who don't understand to familiarize themselves first, and wait for someone to take over. , they will try to refine and decolorize sucrose into white granulated sugar as Jiang Fan said.

Jiang Fan was reluctant to let them wait until April to experiment with his own sugarcane. In his opinion, it was a huge waste of nutrients.

When Jiang Fan arrived at the sugar room, the workers were busy, the juicer was squeezing the juice, and the soup maker was cooking the soup. Several master craftsmen gathered together to think about how to fade the sugar. When they saw Jiang Fan coming, they hurriedly greeted him.

Jiang Fan looked at it for a while to understand the process, and then asked a worker to cut a section of local sugarcane for him. After scraping off the outer skin, Jiang Fan opened his mouth and took a bite. It was hard, but fortunately this cut was not long, otherwise Jiang Fan felt that his teeth would be broken after eating this cut.

However, although it is hard, the taste is good. It is very sweet but the juice is not too much. No wonder the sugar production is low.

Jiang Fan took two and took them away.

After getting into the carriage, Jiang Fan thoughtfully said to Guan Xiujin, "I'll cut it into small pieces for you to eat when I get back."

He thought it was okay for him to gnaw sugar cane, but he really couldn't imagine Guan Xiujin gnawing sugar cane with a grim face, just thinking about Jiang Fan couldn't help but laugh out loud.

Guan Xiujin seemed to know what Jiang Fan was thinking. He put his arms around Jiang Fan's neck and pulled him forward to lick his lips, tasting a slight sweetness on the tip of his tongue, "You can try it first."

Naturally, this kiss did not break up after touching each other. The two kissed together for a while before Jiang Fan pushed Guan Xiujin away, straightened his clothes, and said solemnly: "Okay, it's broad daylight, it's not good to do this kind of thing all the time." of."

It was just a kiss, Jiang Fan seemed to have forgotten how shameless he was to pester Guan Xiujin for a kiss those days.

The two left Fushui Village, turned to Wangjia Village to see the tea mountain.

The tea mountain has been sorted out, and the mountain roads passing by have been paved. On this day, many people are busy on the tea mountain, carrying out another wave of segmented planting.

The taxis on the tea mountain drink tea. They have been transplanted to the tea mountain since the beginning of September. After nearly three months of planting, the tea mountain is almost full. Jiang Fan estimates that the first wave of tea can be picked in February next year.

There is no difference between Shiyin tea and other tea trees except for the color of the drinking part, and the way of picking and frying tea.The only difference is its picking season. Shiyin Tea has a one-month picking period and a one-month growing period, so there are six months of picking in a year.And every month, the buds are picked in the first ten days, and the buds and leaves are picked as the growth grows faster and faster. In the last ten days, there are no buds to pick, and all the leaves are picked.The earlier the picking, the better the quality, otherwise the lower the quality.

However, Jiang Fan felt that as a secondary plant fed with nutrients, it was probably better than the best native plants at the foot of the mountain.

Construction was underway at the foot of the mountain. The engineering team was old acquaintances who helped Jiang Fan build houses and roads. The foreman saw Jiang Fan coming over to say hello and told him about the road construction.

For road construction, although Jiang Fan has a lot of money, it is impossible for him to pay all the expenses.He can spend most of the money and treat it as a good deed. As for the rest, those villages have to pay.

Jiang Fan handed over this job directly to the foreman. If he could convince those people to build the road, then there would be projects and money to be made.

The foreman was not stupid. He knew that Jiang Fan built the road to make plans for the tea mountain in the future. He told the villagers that if the road was repaired, Jiang Fan could come to their village to recruit tea pickers in the future. It's very convenient, if it's not repaired, the carriage will run and waste time, then Jiang Fan will have to go to other villages to recruit.

In this way, things went smoothly. The bad roads in rainy days were annoying to people. In the past, if they didn’t repair it, it would cost too much money and people couldn’t bear it. But now someone has repaired part of it for them. Fool.