Ye Jianqiu

Stepping on Qianyue, ascending to the top.

The strange stones are collected from the eight wildernesses, and the gold and silver are gathered in the six together.

Smelting into a furnace, and gradually forming an army.

The flames rise, the purple air rises, Qingyang quenches the sky fire, and Yingshan sharpens Baofeng.

In the Red Star Hope Farm, the tall chimneys of the steelmaking workshop are billowing white smoke, and the workers in the workshop are working in full swing.

The burning room was extremely hot and stuffy. Lao Mu raised his hand to wipe his sweat, then threw the bloody screw into the steelmaking furnace, clapped his hands and said, "Old man, if it was back then, I would never miss it. Leaves, you can fix that girl in place!"

Lao Hu also wiped the sweat off his face and said, "Blow it, I can pin people to the ground with a mouthful of thick phlegm!"

The talking old Hu was shirtless, wearing a big oilcloth apron, holding a soft, semi-liquid red iron ball with pliers and repeatedly hammering it vigorously on the iron felt board.

Lao Mu squatted on the ground and pulled the huge bellows vigorously, and said disdainfully: "Hey! Then why didn't you use that 'saliva' technique?"

"Didn't I see you holding a bolt and wanting to try your hand! What's the matter, that girl died in the end?"

Old Hu lowered his head while talking. He carefully looked at the good iron ball that had been repeatedly folded and hammered. He shook his head dissatisfied, picked it up and threw it back into the crucible.

As the saying goes, steel can be made after one hundred refinements, and the iron lump waiting to be smelted in front of us has a lot of impurities, and it is still very brittle and easy to break when it is made into tools.

Lao Mu said: "It's not dead, it's just that the frontal bone is broken. When our brothers were peeping outside, we thought it was that girl playing tricks again, but we saw her head almost hitting the stove and took it away." Legs! In a hurry, I, Lao Mu, threw a screw... Aunt Li is a bodhisattva, and she puts people in her room to wait on her, and she is awake now."

Lao Hu vigorously stirred the red iron in the cauldron and said, "There is nothing Guan Ye can do now, he can't throw the half-dead girl on the street. Since she is not dead, stay here and work hard! Except for the steel-making workshop and the engineering department, all the workers on the farm went to harvest wheat.”

Lao Mu was surprised: "Old Hu, you said that instead of harvesting wheat, the people in the engineering department dug up underground warehouses. Manager Ye said that they wanted to build a large-scale cold storage, but didn't this cold storage have to have ice? Where did they come from in such a hot day?" Get some ice?"

Old Hu smiled triumphantly and said, "That's why you don't understand, with our Royal Highness King Qi, what are you afraid of!"

Lao Mu suddenly realized: "That's right, King Qi is the royal family. I heard that the royal family can not only call wind and rain, spew fire and sand, but also freeze everything into ice."

"That's right!"

The two laughed heartily.

The workers on this farm are actually Zhao Chun's subordinates.

Although Zhao Chun is a prince, he likes to make friends with useful talents, regardless of their status.For example, reckless rivers and lakes, rangers and bandits, killers and counselors, demoted criminals, or skilled craftsmen... In the words of the past, it is to unite all forces that can be united.

Now the workers of this farm, after Zhao Chun appointed good candidates, Lu Yanyu gathered these professionals in the prison, and finally Yang Xiaomi, who didn't know the inside story, picked them up from the prison, and logically divided them into two batches and transported them to the farm.

No wonder Ye Jianqiu always wondered, the workers on the farm are so smart that they can all win the Science and Technology Award.Whenever he proposes a new technical concept, just like Archimedes gave a fulcrum, those workers can quickly comprehend and extend its deep meaning, so as to develop new products.

Examples include trailed disc harrows and conventional plows.

The main functions of these two agricultural tools are exactly to enter the soil, crush the soil, turn over the soil, and remove the stubble before plowing.He only drew a sketch, and after carefully explaining the parameters of various angles, the technical department and the steelmaking workshop joined hands to produce a two-meter-wide and accurate product in no time!After a few horses walk through the field with a row of rakes, they can deeply plow a large area of ​​land!Breathtaking.

Ye Jianqiu didn't know that someone from the farm would secretly hand over the first-hand technical information to Zhao Chun.And Zhao Chun will secretly start construction and production in Cangqiong, a place where the seasons are like spring and there is plenty of rain, which is more suitable for planting crops.Cangqiong not only has a large farm, but has even started cooking salt, making machinery, digging silver mines, and making weapons!

—— Qi Wang Zhao Chun is much more ruthless than the Cao family.

Prince Zhao Chun, who seems to be doing nothing, is actually very busy.On the one hand, he has to take the overall situation into consideration and sit with Zhao Hao to discuss state affairs for the grand goal of stabilizing the Zhao family.Maybe the two of them were playing chess one second, and Zhao Hao stuffed a dragon robe into his arms the next second, chasing him down again in the name of rebellion!Therefore, he had to be fully prepared.

Lao Mu added another shovel of charcoal to the steelmaking furnace, holding on to the shovel, wondering: "Didn't Manager Ye have a meeting to talk about the Cao family? Why is there no movement?"

"In the busy wheat harvest season, there is no time to trouble the Cao family! Besides, there are now imitations of our farm's products in the shops outside. Some things are not all imitations of the Cao family, but also made by other workshops... Now two The little steward is so worried that he has a small meeting every day, and he is talking about this matter!"

"That's true……"

Lao Mu thought of something, and suddenly burst out laughing: "Maybe, the good thing between Ye Guanshi and Chaoge is coming soon."

“How come you see?”

"They stay late in the tent every night in the name of holding a small meeting. They must have entered Hong Kong!"

"The brothers on our farm listened to the wall, why didn't we hear anything?"

"That Guanshi Ye's bed is tightly sealed, no sound can come out."

"Nonsense, if you're new to human affairs, you'll definitely be screaming in pain!"

"Yo, you quite understand!"

"of course!"

Lao Mu looked at the fleshy Lao Hu with a smirk.

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Mrs. Li carefully brought the decoction to the bedside, gently helped Ye Wanzhen whose head was covered with gauze, and said distressedly: "Girl, it's time to drink the medicine."

Ye Wanzhen sat up softly, and said with tears in her eyes, "Auntie, thank you..."

"My child, why don't you thank me, drink the medicine quickly, and when you recover, how about working on the farm with your aunt?"

"Ah."

Ye Wanzhen obediently drank the soup in one gulp, and Mrs. Li handed her a piece of candied fruit.Seeing her obediently opening her mouth to eat, Mrs. Li supported her to lie down in satisfaction.

"Sleep for a while, and let the farm doctor come and have a look at it tomorrow."

"Ah."

Mrs. Li just wanted to leave, but someone grabbed the corner of her clothes: "Auntie..."

Hearing Ye Wanzhen's pitiful voice, Mrs. Li stopped, sighed and said, "Son, your brother doesn't want to see you, and my aunt has nothing to do."

"Auntie, I just want to apologize to Big Brother..."

"Girl, you can stay at ease. Since your elder brother didn't say anything, he acquiesced. Besides, your elder brother is not at the farm today and has something to go out."

Ye Wanzhen's eyes lit up: "Could it be that the gentleman in the black robe is here again?"

Mrs. Li shook her head: "That gentleman doesn't come often, today your elder brother is delivering a letter for your Uncle Jingshi."

"Oh……"

Ye Wanzhen lay down disappointed.

Mrs. Li picked up the empty medicine bowl and walked out of the tent. Looking at the busy wheat field in the distance, she couldn't help thinking.

That Situ Jin was a child with a bad temper.Ever since Xiaoqiu fell in love with him, it was rare to hear how nice he was to Xiaoqiu.Especially when he got married, Xiao Qiu was heartbroken, but Situ Jin didn't notice it...

Mrs. Li was heartbroken. That night, she couldn't fall asleep when she heard the commotion inside the tent, so she stood outside and kept looking in.That Situ Jin seemed really angry, even the legion had issued an order not to allow the sergeants to come to the farm to play football again... It seems that the fate of the two is over.

Mrs. Li sighed, Xiao Qiu went out early in the morning, I don't know if he will be unhappy when he comes back...

Ye Jianqiu sneezed, rubbed his nose, and walked with a letter while looking at the surrounding environment.Mr. Jing Shi told him that the recipient of the letter opened a bookstore in Gantang Lane. I heard that the scale is quite large, so I don't know if it is easy to find it.

Ye Jianqiu is actually very homely. He has never been to Gantang Lane. After all, Qingyang is also very large, and he has never set foot in some streets and alleys.

When he walked on the street looking left and right, a luxurious sandalwood carriage passed by him.

Granny Cao, who was sitting in the carriage, couldn't help laughing when she saw Ye Jianqiu passing by.Qian Zhuang, who was sitting next to her, knew that when the old lady squinted her eyes and stared at a place with a smirk, it was another bad idea.

——That's right, Mrs. Cao has ordered her subordinates to recycle the cotton in the hands of the legion's family members at a high price.

In fact, her purpose is not cotton, but because of cotton seeds.

Old farmers often say: If the mother is strong, the children will be strong, and if the mother is weak, the children will be weak.It's actually a seed.

Breeding by ordinary people is very simple, just leave the thickest spikes in the fields.But it is not easy for the people to get seeds, and there is a problem with the seeds left behind, that is, they will degrade and reduce production in the second year, and the good seeds will be kept less and less, and finally they have to go to the place that specializes in selling seeds to buy good seeds.

Therefore, powerful farms, such as the Cao family, will use their best land as farmland.

To keep the seeds in the field, we must patiently and meticulously use manpower to select the most fertile and shiny seeds one by one.Moreover, the distance between the fields for farming is much wider than that of ordinary fields, which is not only ventilated and light-transmitting, but also prevents other crops from being mixed.The management of the farmland is very troublesome, manure and hoeing are several times more than ordinary fields, and the water must be irrigated in time.

However, the first batch of seeds harvested in the reserved farming field can not meet the requirements. The first batch of fine seeds need to be manually selected again, and they can be used or sold after planting them in the same way for about two years. This method is also called "purification and rejuvenation".

Ordinary people do not have the energy and financial resources to do it, so they have to buy from large farms.

Therefore, it is not unreasonable that the price of seeds on the market is much higher than that of ordinary grain.

When the old farmers in Caojiazhuangzi saw the seeds on the farm, they were all shocked. They had never seen such a particularly fine and novel variety in the field they had planted all their lives!So someone proposed that even if these seeds do not need to be specially cultivated in the field, they can maintain at least three generations of good varieties!If you stay in the field and then cultivate carefully, the time will be even longer!

When Mrs. Cao thought of this, the wrinkles on her face turned into flowers.

In fact, the Cao family not only hoarded a large number of seeds from the farm, but also copied them.

It takes at least a year for an ordinary new product to go on the market.Since the establishment of the farm, it only takes a few months for Cao's workshop to complete the design, manufacture, distribution and sales of new products.Because the Cao family has abundant manpower and material resources, the products of the Cao family are more beautiful and practical than the same products on the farm, and the price is also lower.As a result, the farm business is even more difficult to do.

Granny Cao has another purpose, which is for her fifth child.

The fifth child worked as a cow and a horse on the farm, but Ye Jianqiu didn't give her son the slightest chance.As a mother, she has long since disliked her!

So Cao's mother gradually eroded the farm's market share by using the method of stripping cocoons. If Ye Jianqiu's business can't continue, and he still goes back to grow flowers and sell vegetables, without his supernatural powers, he might just rely on that ordinary face. Stay with Lao Wu!At that time, I'm afraid he will have to look at the faces of the Cao family!

——Between notoriety and profit, Mrs. Cao chose the latter without hesitation.

Ye Jianqiu has not really understood the dangers of the "Jianghu". After he first experienced setbacks in starting a business, his confidence and passion were not dampened, and he was still actively trying to find a way to deal with it.But time will prove that he will face more hardships and growth in the future.

When the carriage drove away, Ye Jianqiu finally smelled a hint of ink from the thick sandalwood wind.He couldn't help but heaved a sigh of relief, it was really hard to find a way, and Mo Xiang showed the way.

When he came to a gate, he saw a lot of guys coming in and out busy inside, and some of them were holding movable type copper plates, which were horizontal and vertical, horizontal and vertical, and square-shaped fonts, obviously this was a family. printing workshop.

There is also a large two-story bookstore at the entrance of the workshop, with four big characters "Yaxiang Bookstore" inscribed on the plaque.

Ye Jianqiu was amazed, there are so many books here!When he saw the neat rows of bookshelves and piles of books in the bookstore, he couldn't help but straighten his clothes.After all, it is a scholarly and noble place, so we must maintain etiquette and demeanor.

He asked a young man about the shopkeeper, and the young man quickly invited out a young man with a long coat and a handsome appearance.

Ye Jianqiu's first impression of that young master was that he was indeed a scholar, with gentle and elegant demeanor.

I saw that young master walked forward with a smile, and made a bow to Ye Jianqiu: "Excuse me, brother, is there something wrong with me?"

Ye Jianqiu hastily bowed to the gourd painter, and said politely: "Next, Ye Jianqiu, the steward of the legion farm, is here to deliver the letter for Uncle Jing Shi. Excuse me, are you Brother Li, Li Ziding?"

"It's down."

After receiving the letter, Li Ziding invited Ye Jianqiu to come to the study behind and wait.

Ye Jianqiu sat down quietly, and Uncle Jingshi told him that the recipient would definitely write back a letter, and asked him to send it.

After seeing that Li Ziding opened the letter paper and read it carefully, he couldn't help smiling, and turned his head to look at Ye Jianqiu from head to toe carefully.

I saw that young man sitting by the window was slender and fair, his eyes were like pools of pools, his blue clothes were spotless, his little feet were exquisite and cute...it was quite in line with his own wishes.It's just that there are traces of frosty white on that black ink-like long hair... She is also an infatuated species!

Ye Jianqiu didn't know that the letter he handed to Li Ziding was actually a "self-recommended matchmaker book". Mr. Jing Shi was full of praise for his "son" between the lines. It's hard to find...Of course, Mr. Jingshi didn't hide the fact that Ye Jianqiu had gray hair. He only said that he was hurt because of deep love.

Mr. Jingshi knew that this Li Zi was a man, but he was upright and not coquettish, he was good at doing business but not pedantic, his family background was strong, and he was still single in his [-]s, so he was an excellent choice for his son-in-law.Therefore, Mr. Jingshi, who was inconvenient to go out, designed such a way out.

Sensing the other party's careful scrutiny, Ye Jianqiu felt a little uncomfortable. He blushed and lowered his head, put away his lazy sitting posture, put his spread legs together, and retracted his feet neatly.

Li Ziding smiled, looked away, and started to write a letter back.

Just as he was picking up his pen, he seemed to ask casually: "I don't know what kind of elegance Mr. Ye has in his daily life?"

Ye Jianqiu was taken aback, Ya good?

He had no choice but to say: "It's not elegant, I just read some books and plant some flowers and plants on weekdays. As for the farm, of course the main thing is farming."

"I see. I have some gardening books here, and I can give them to Mr. Ye to read."

"Thank you so much."

"You are Welcome."

"Do you like listening to storytelling?"

"Storytelling? I like listening to it!"

"Do you like watching plays?"

"Well, if you sing well, you like to listen to it. If you sing badly, your ears will suffer."

"Ha ha……"

That Li Ziding couldn't help laughing: "He is an interesting person. If you don't think it's too noisy here, Mr. Ye can come here often. We can listen to operas and drink tea together, and we won't waste this good time."

"Well, let's talk about it when it's okay. I'm very busy now."

"I heard that idlers are not allowed to enter the Legion Farm, so Zi Ding won't come to bother you, but just wait quietly in the bookstore for Mr. Ye's invitation?"

- How does that sound like a date?

Ye Jianqiu laughed: "Let's talk again, heh, talk again."

After that Li Ziding smiled slightly, he nodded secretly in satisfaction.

I saw Li Ziding flicking up his long sleeve with one hand and holding a pen in the other, doing it in one go like a dragon and a snake, which is very magnanimous.

Ye Jianqiu felt that this plum must be the ancient person who truly exudes oriental charm from head to toe.

When Ye Jianqiu went back, he was holding a large stack of books in his arms, and that Li Ziding was very hospitable and stayed with him for a long time before reluctantly saying goodbye...

Mrs. Li tiptoed to watch the way back from the farm, and when she saw Ye Jianqiu walking over with a pile of books in her arms, she ran to the threshing ground in one breath, and happily said to Mr. Jingshi: " It's done, it's done! That kid must have taken a fancy to our Xiaoqiu, and he gave away a lot of books."

Mr. Jingshi mentioned in the letter that if Li Ziding is interested in the other party, he will send a letter as a sign.

Mr. Jing Shi, who was sitting on a small bench and helping to bind the straw, also excitedly stroked his beard and said, "Okay, the beauty of a gentleman, but the next step depends on the fate of the two of you."

The workers who were driving livestock, pulling rocks and crushing wheat straw looked at each other in blank dismay, and the shrewd Lao Shui suddenly slapped his head, something bad happened!

He dropped the work in his hand and ran to the racecourse!