Every Red Mansion dungeon must play the ending of Long Aotian

Canglan knows etiquette well.

This is easier said than done.Because it means a lot of money and food.Not to mention Lin Zhan, even Lin Ruhai was very curious about what Xing Xiuyan would do.

Coincidentally, Yao Yuanfang came to Yujia'ao the next day.Originally, the Zhuangzi of each family rented two seasons in the previous year, and now it is October. Although it is a little earlier, it is also the day to pay autumn grain.As a result, before the autumn grain arrived, he, the head of the village, came alone, which made Xing's wife very surprised:

"Why?

Yao Yuanfang said: "If you go back to your wife, there is one thing that needs to be reported to the girl."

"What's the matter?"

"It's the peat and brown carbon found under the ponds that are being dug."

brown carbon, brown coal.

Xing Xiuyan was overjoyed: "Really? How good is the color? How is the burial? Is it good for mining?"

Yao Yuanfang grimaced, and said, "Back to the girl, although the brown carbon is not bad, it is not deep buried! After we drained the water from those paddy fields, we dug down a full foot deep, and it was all peat. The best fertilizer. We dug to a depth of one foot and seven feet before we saw the dark brown carbon. Mr. Jiang said that our Zhuangzi should be on the edge of these brown carbon, under the more than 100 mu of paddy fields in the northwest of Zhuangzi. The underground that extends for hundreds of miles to the northwest is probably full of brown carbon."

One foot and seven feet deep, that's less than five meters six!In ancient times when the labor force was underground, this was not an easy depth to mine, because in this day and age, the tools used by the common people to mine peat were basically hoes and dustpans, and their physique was seriously low due to lack of food all the year round. Lignite that is more than five meters underground requires a lot of labor.

If it weren't for Xing Xiuyan's high wages, good food, rice and meat, those men might not be willing to work hard to dig these ponds so deep.

Generally speaking, digging more than one foot is enough.

Mrs. Xing, who was sitting next to her, was puzzled: "Didn't the girl say before that it is enough to dig a pond for a length of three to five feet, how could it be so deep?"

Yao Yuanfang replied: "Back to my wife. The villain originally thought the same way. I don't want to. After Mr. Jiang saw the bottom of the pond, he asked to continue digging..."

Well, both Xing's wife and Xing Xiuyan understood.

No matter what Yao Yuanfang said, he was just a servant. How could he beat a court official like Jiang Yanzhi?Since Jiang Yanzhi strongly demanded to continue digging, he could only continue.He himself didn't expect that when he dug down a few feet, he found lignite!

Xing Xiuyan immediately stood up and said, "I need to ask my adoptive father for instructions on this matter."

What happened next was not something she could do alone.

Lin Ruhai in the front room got the news, and after getting the news, he said to the girl who sent the message: "Go and talk to the second girl, and ask her how she wants to take care of the Zhuangzi in Lijia Village."

The girl said crisply and authentically: "Master Lao asked, the girl has already ordered that peat is better, and brown carbon is better. If peat can be mined as fertilizer and lignite as fuel, it is naturally the best strategy. I just don't know." What are the relevant laws and regulations of the imperial court, so I sent my slaves to ask your lord. The girl also wants to ask, does the family want to buy land in Lijia Village."

Although the ready-made peat mines and coal mines are somewhat difficult to mine, they are not very difficult, and they are quite attractive to people like them.Now that peat mines and coal mines have been discovered, if the news leaks out, I am afraid that the prices of nearby farms will soar.

Lin Ruhai replied: "The mining industry under the direct jurisdiction of the imperial court is nothing more than gold, silver, copper ore, iron ore, salt, clay and jade mines. There are several types of coal, among which peat is not under the jurisdiction of the imperial court, and brown carbon depends on the color and depth of burial. Some businesses can be run privately. Jiang Yanzhi knows this best. As for the purchase of land, I will discuss it with my wife later.”

Peat mines are originally fertile soil, even if they are not used for mining, they are also excellent for planting crops.

"Yes."

Seeing that Lin Ruhai had no other orders, the girl withdrew.

After receiving Lin Ruhai's reply, Mrs. Xing grabbed her daughter's arm and said without waiting for her daughter's answer, "Girl, are you thinking of buying a field again? Let me tell you, it won't work!"

Xing Xiuyan said: "Mother~!"

"If you can't say it, you can't! When your second aunt and third aunt got married, there was no dowry land in your family!"

Xing Xiuyan said: "If Auntie is worried that Second Aunt and Third Aunt will have complaints, then how about my daughter giving money to Second Aunt and Third Aunt and buying a Zhuangzi to compensate Second Aunt and Third Aunt?"

Xing's wife said: "You want to use the money Mr. Lin gave you?"

Xing Xiuyan said: "Look at what Aunt said. Is your daughter like that?"

Lin Ruhai gave the two sisters 2 taels of silver for them to run the village.If it is used for operating and building, including expanding her own village, that's fine. If she is used for it to buy property for the second aunt of the Xing family, for example, what kind of person will she become.

"you promise?"

Xing Xiuyan quickly swears and swears.

Only then did Xing's wife say: "Okay. But there is a deadline. Before you sow in spring next year, you can collect the money for your two aunts to buy the Zhuangzi. Otherwise, don't even think about it."

Provoking Xing Xiuyan to wail again: "Aniang~!"

"It's not negotiable! Or you can just give up this idea!"

Xing Xiuyan immediately said seriously: "Daughter promises to Auntie that the task will be completed."

Xing's wife was still worried, and issued another restriction: "Remember, you can only save this money with the future of these two villages! I will have to check the accounts at that time!"

This caused Xing Xiuyan to howl again, but it shocked the mother and daughter Cheng and Lin Daiyu who rushed over after hearing the news.

Xing's wife relieved her anger and said, "It's too late to regret it now."

Xing Xiuyan immediately said seriously: "I guarantee it will be completed."

The bet made by the mother and daughter soon reached Lin Ruhai and Lin Ziqing's ears.Lin Ruhai's vacation is limited, so he can't watch in person on Zhuangzi, but Lin Ziqing is about to be the teacher of Meng Xuetang, and his son Lin Nian and Lin Tuisi will be the teacher of Meng Xuetang in Lijiacun. It can't be hidden from the father and son.

Xing Xiuyan never thought of hiding it, she even asked Lin Daiyu if she wanted to be together.

Of course Lin Daiyu would not refuse.

In fact, this time is already a bit late.After all, it has already entered October, and now when I wake up in the morning, there is frost on the ground, and the temperature outside has dropped to close to zero. It’s okay in Jiangnan, and the winter in Jiangnan is warm, but in Gyeonggi, it’s almost the time of ice and snow. At this time, I want to It is too late to plant in the ground.

Fortunately, the characteristics of the Xingjia and Linjiazhuangzi are that they raise a large number of poultry and livestock such as chickens, ducks and pigs. When the Meng School was built before, the two Zhuangzi of Yujiaao built a large number of greenhouses.Because a lot of greenhouses have been built, and livestock such as chickens, ducks and pigs have not yet been put in place, this ready-made house was directly used by Xing Xiuyan.

Of course, she didn't forget to send someone to ask Jiang Yanzhi, and learned that the Guochao stipulated that if the brown carbon buried more than one foot five is used by the family, it does not need to be taxed, so Yao Yuanfang immediately asked the local county magistrate to prove it. , directly reported, and then mined lignite and processed it into honeycomb coal nearby.

According to the national law, if these peat and briquettes are used by Xing Xiuyan's own dowry Zhuangzi, they are not taxed, but Lin Daiyu's Zhuangzi next door is used, and this part of the transaction is taxable.

In order to earn money, Xing Xiuyan started to use multiple methods:

One is to order many wooden boxes from nearby villagers.Xing Xiuyan strictly stipulated the data of many wooden shelves and wooden boxes, let alone the wooden shelves, because those wooden boxes do not need to be tightly stitched, nor do they need to be covered or painted, and almost everyone can make them.

The mortise and tenon structure of oriental carpentry and the craftsmen's excellence even made Xing Xiuyan worry that these wooden boxes would cause water accumulation due to their high quality, so that she had to ask for a few holes in the bottom of the boxes for drainage.

The second is to raise seedlings.Xing Xiuyan is almost stuck in time to grow cucumber seeds, pumpkin seeds, spinach seeds and various leaf vegetable seeds, and hydroponics for sweet potatoes.In fact, there are not many green leafy vegetables in winter. Whether it is sweet potato vines or spinach green vegetables, they are all easy to grow. Xing Xiuyan is not worried that they will not be sold.But the technical content of these things is really too low, and she has no doubt that once she starts, a large number of people will follow suit and the green leafy vegetables will not be sold.In contrast, cucumbers still have some technical content, but they are easy to sell at a price.

The third is to let Yao Yuanfang go back as soon as possible, and organize people to bring more peat and lignite from Lijia Village.Peat can be used to prepare culture soil and culture medium, and brown carbon can be processed into briquettes to maintain the temperature of greenhouses.

The fourth is to go to the surrounding villages to collect rice stalks to make rice thatch.There is also the collection of bones for two fermentations to make soil-based phosphate fertilizers. Of course, chicken manure and cow manure are not forgotten.

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Originally, winter is the slack time for farming. Scholars will hurry up to study at this time, and most farmers will earn a lot of money through part-time jobs to have a good year.Xing Xiuyan paid a lot of wages here, so the people in the two villages were naturally willing to contribute.

But here Xing Xiuyan changed into cotton clothes, and led people to watch these greenhouses in person.During the day, I lead people to use rice thatch to shade and keep the cucumber seedlings warm. At night, I lead people to put away the rice thatch to let the cucumber seedlings breathe.

When necessary, she will climb up and down to check the growth of the vegetables in each box—these greenhouses are built high, and the shelves in the greenhouse are all three or four stories high, and must be used for fertilization and harvesting at high places— — This made Lin Daiyu very worried, for fear that she would step on the ground.

There are also sweet potatoes, vines, spinach, green vegetables and various leafy vegetables. Xing Xiuyan patrols twice a day, and she also sent people to monitor the water and land traffic from Zhuangzi to the capital.Coincidentally, although there was a lot of rain and snow this year, the river did not freeze, which saved a lot of trouble.

In this way, in November, the sweet potato vines and spinach in the greenhouse can be harvested one after another.Shipped to the capital via Tongzhou.

It has been snowing since mid-October in central Beijing. Unless there is a cellar, most ordinary people can only rely on tofu and bean sprouts for the winter. Getting angry and bleeding gums are common phenomena.Ten boatloads of green leafy vegetables were delivered to Beijing, and the people were overjoyed. Even though the price of these leafy vegetables was more than twelve times the usual price, they were still snapped up every time they were transported into the city.

In December, the crispy and tender cucumbers are not to mention more attractive.

Xing Xiuyan is a county lord appointed by the imperial court, and both Cheng and Xing's wife are appointed wives. At the end of the year, they must go to the palace to receive a banquet. Mrs. Cheng and Mrs. Xing took Lin Daiyu, Xing Xiuyan and Lin Zhan's family back to Beijing, and the matter here can only be handed over to Zhuangtou.

So far, she has earned nearly 3000 taels of silver from spinach and other leafy vegetables.

The author has something to say: The seedlings of pumpkin seeds are not raised because the heroine wants to eat pumpkins, but because pumpkin seedlings are needed for cucumber grafting.

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