Grasp the farming script in the famous book

After Suellen got married, Roland really felt refreshed. From then on, all the people in Tara respected her and obeyed her words. She managed the whole Zhongzhi Garden with ease.

After returning from Atlanta, the first thing Roland did was to register a trademark for the tea in the manor—she did not dare to rashly register the trademark of "Dahongpao". After all, such a precious tea originates from the East, and only China is the true source. .

In the end, she made a decision and registered the trademark of "Tara·Dahongpao", first to indicate the place of origin and secondly to indicate the tea species, which sounds quite catchy.

Melanie and Carleen volunteered to help Roland design a good-looking font for the logo. When Roland saw it, it turned out that Carlene took out the Rosary left by Ellen and put the beautiful font on it. I traced them one by one, and finally drew the first "trademark" belonging to Tara.

Will and Wei Xili went to Jonesboro to handle the trademark registration, and they asked Roland for money after they came back.

"The registration fee is ten dollars."

Will stretched out his hand to Roland.

"Everyone in town says you've got a rich man. That's ten dollars for you."

But Wei Xili, who knew Tara's real financial situation, knew in his heart that Roland only had ten dollars in his pocket.

Once the trademark was registered, Tara fell into abject poverty again.

"Scarlett, would you like to... think again. It is indeed... a little expensive."

For some reason, Wei Xili didn't really want Roland to spend the ten dollars to register a trademark—it wasn't that he didn't realize the importance of a trademark, but that... her views were too clear and assertive.

Her goal is very clear, that is to risk everything to restore Tara.

And she is brave and does not leave any retreat—it is this kind of courage that scares Wei Xili.

"Don't think about it," Roland bluntly handed the ten-dollar gold coin to Will, "Will will pay the money, and Ashley will sign all the documents for me and bring back the proof."

"By the way, Will took the newly squeezed castor oil to the town and sold it, and exchanged it for some salt."

"Pork, take an inventory of the crops that will be harvested recently, and see what neutrons are missing, and let Will buy them back from the town together."

Tara is not a place where everything is self-sufficient. Besides food, there are some necessities that need to be exchanged from the town.Fortunately, Tara still has some cheap and high-quality unique products, which can meet the needs for the time being.

So, the two knights under Roland set off to Jonesboro according to Queen Tara's order, and returned in exchange for the trademark certificate, salt and neutrons.

Word has begun to spread in Atlanta that Tara makes good tea.

The reason was that Roland gave a jar of the extremely rare Dahongpao to the newly married Suellen couple.

In order to show off, Suellen used this black tea when entertaining guests at her own home, and even brewed a little in Frank's shop to entertain generous customers.

Soon after, Suellen wrote back to her elder sister:

"...I want some more tea from Tara."

Roland Zhanxin smiled and replied unceremoniously:

"...I remember the tea 'not to your taste'."

She categorically rejected Su Ailun's request. At this stage, the "Dahongpao" is too rare and precious to be wasted on the exchange of gifts between relatives.

Suellen would have complained.

But if you complain, just complain, they are already married.

Of course, Roland didn't let Suellen complain. She mentioned the value of the "wedding gift" she gave to Frank, and Frank immediately wrote back, asking her not to care about his wife's nonsense, and Tara. There is no need to rush to repay the arrears at all, and you can repay it whenever you want.

At this time, Roland began to write letters to the big tea merchants in several port cities - the names and addresses of these tea merchants were introduced to her by Ruide.

Roland: I just need it, so I'll accept it.

She wrote letters to these tea merchants, and attached a little sample and the brewing method of this tea.

By the time these samples were sent out, Tara's inventory of Dahongpao would be completely used up.

Even if these tea merchants are interested, they have to wait until the next batch of finished tea is produced——

Thinking of this, Roland put down his pen and turned to the corridor outside Tara's house to watch Melanie and Carleen make tea.

Making tea is delicate work that does not require much physical strength, but it requires patience and care.So Roland asked Melanie and Carleen to help.

Melanie had her ups and downs, but she never complained.

Whenever she felt able to get out of bed, she would sit with Carreen and process the young leaves of the tea tree she had picked leaf by leaf.

"Dahongpao" is between green tea and black tea. The tea-making process is the most complicated: from withering the leaves, to greening and killing, then rolling, drying, and finally sorting and boxing.

The most difficult of these are the two processes of "greening" and "finishing", which are time-consuming, labor-intensive, and require a high level of fire control, requiring experience and skills, so Roland did them all by himself.

Once Roland finished "finishing", the tea leaves just out of the pot came to Melanie and Carleen, and they quickly kneaded the hot tea leaves with their hands and kneaded them into shapes.

After rolling, the tea leaves already have the tight and strong shape of "Dahongpao" finished tea.After that, it needs to be baked again, and then it can be picked and packed.

What Melanie and Carreen were doing now was the final picking.

The two of them need to pick out the tea stalks and tea pods mixed in the ready-made tea, and put the strip-shaped finished tea into the tin box made by Will.

When Roland went to watch, Melanie and Carleen didn't speak, they concentrated on picking the tea leaves in their hands.The afternoon sun shone softly on them, on the beautifully shaped tea leaves in their hands.

The surrounding area is extremely quiet, and one can hear the crisp and melodious chirping of cuckoos, as well as the rustling of tea leaves being poured into tin boxes.

Serious people are the most beautiful.

Roland didn't say a word, just admiring the wonderful picture in front of him.

Suddenly her son Han Wade ran over, his footsteps on the wooden floor were loud.

"Mom!" Wade yelled, startling the people who were picking tea leaves.Both Melanie and Carleen were taken aback, and turned around to find Roland.

Melanie reached out and patted her heart, and said angrily, "Scarlett, why didn't you make a sound when you came out?"

Carleen also raised her head and smiled at her eldest sister - she has been reluctant to talk since the end of the war.But recently she was much better, and a blush could be seen on her pale, almost transparent skin.

Obviously, work made Carleen gradually forget her sorrows.

Roland clapped his hands together: "Thank you for helping me!"

Melanie snorted and said, "Look at your politeness. Who doesn't know that you are so busy with Tara that you don't even have time to spend with Wade."

"We can do these jobs, you can play with Wade for a while!"

Roland felt that the little thing beside him was stretching out his hands, grabbing his skirt tightly—囧!

She has no experience with children at all, so she is at a loss now.

From the "implanted emotion", she can't experience the thing called "maternal love". It can be imagined that Scarlett doesn't like Charlie Han at all, and now she doesn't like the posthumous son he left behind as a matter of course.

She turned and tried to pull the skirt out of Wade's hand.

But she couldn't pretend to be fierce, otherwise she would immediately scare the little thing to tears.

It was Melanie who helped her: "Wade, that cuckoo you made out of corn leaves, go and show your mother."

Wade's eyes lit up, he turned and ran.

Roland breathed a long sigh of relief, and praised sincerely: "Merry, you still know how to coax children!"

Melanie replied with a smile: "Wade likes you the most, Scarlett, everyone here likes you!"

Roland suddenly felt jealous.

She was about to answer almost immediately: No, Merry, everyone here likes you.

Yes, Melanie has this magical power.

She can make everyone around her feel sorry for her and be kind to her.Men respect her, women love her, children love her...

Roland felt that even if he worked hard to support all the people in Tara, in people's hearts, he was far inferior to Melanie——

In Tara, she is a tyrannical, critical, authoritarian, and self-assertive dictator.

But under the continuous persuasion of Melanie's gentle eyes, Roland was able to gradually believe that she might... indeed be quite likable.

Wade showed her a bird made of dried corn leaves.To be honest, the compilation was not bad——Roland just boasted a few words, and Wade was overjoyed immediately, and ran away yelling: "Mom, I'll make you another one..."

Roland actually felt a little flattered.

Melanie and Carreen both smiled softly beside her.

Unexpectedly, Wade added another sentence: "This one is only for Aunt Melanie, don't grab it."

Roland: ...!

In the children's world, Melanie had the absolute upper hand: from the eldest child Pulissy (14 years old should be considered an older child), to the little baby-Melanie's own son Beau, everyone seemed to be clingy. Same on Melanie's dress.

But in the adult world, including Melanie, everyone must bow to Roland and listen to her.Because what she said is also immediate, and the effect can be seen immediately.

Three men appeared at the end of the road: Wei Xili, Will and Polk.

They returned from the field a little earlier than Roland expected.

Roland realized something, beamed with joy, and asked Will, "Successful?"

Will looked at Roland with a smile, reached out and patted the agricultural tools on his back, and nodded.

Today, Roland asked the men to try the first "seeder" that they made. Judging from the time it takes for these men to complete the work, there is nothing to say about the improvement in efficiency.

As for the user experience——

Polk said happily: "Miss Scarlett, with this thing, Pork feels as relaxed in the field as he is in the house..."

Polk was originally Hao Jiale's personal servant.After Lincoln declared all niggers emancipated, he remained loyal at Tara—but refused to do the work that "ordinary" niggers would do, until Roland forced him to go to the fields.

But now, Polk actually felt that going to the ground was also a kind of fun.

This fun comes from the latest "planter".

Tara in the past has always been adhering to the "extensive" sowing method of directly spraying neutrons in. Anyway, the soil quality is good, as long as it is sprinkled in the middle, the cotton seedlings will rise up and grow.

But now Roland's method is different. She took Will and the others to sow densely in a small field first, and when all the seedlings grew, they planted the middle seedlings one by one into the field—Roland took care of this. It's called nursery.

As for why seedlings were raised—Roland told the bewildered men in front of him: Tara's black slaves have all run away, and the most lacking thing is manpower.

Gone are the days when more than 100 black slaves would farm the fields as before.

They only have such a small number of people, and it is simply unrealistic to win such a large piece of Zhongzhi Garden.

The only way is to plant the land well and produce more yield than before on less land than before.

So Roland had to raise the seedlings before going to the middle school.

The cotton seedlings she chooses to sow are the strongest. Those that are not healthy enough will never have a chance to be planted in the ground.

Although the area that the existing manpower can take care of is limited, every stalk that is taken care of is the best cotton, and people don't have to waste time on those bad middle seedlings-this saves a lot of labor out of thin air.

A seeder is a tool used to plant seedlings in a field.

It is a long iron pipe with a height of half a person. One end is a tip that can be opened, and the tip is connected to a handle. The user can open the tip with both hands and let the things in the pipe fall to the ground.

All the materials are "garbage" picked up from Tara's cotton fields, but the effect is surprisingly good:

When sowing medium seedlings, Wei Xili was responsible for measuring first. After measuring the appropriate spacing with a ruler, he made marks on the previously plowed land.

Polk and Will worked together, with Will sticking the tip of the planter into the ground and Polk dropping the whole cotton plant through the opening above the planter.As soon as Will lifted the handle and then lifted the planter, the cotton seedlings were "centered" in their proper position.

During the whole process, the people in Zhongtian didn't even need to bend down.

That's why Pok was so happy, and felt that the work in the field was not hard at all.

Wei Xili was very surprised. He even went to touch each of the cotton seedlings that had been "pierced" into the ground to make sure that each one was planted firmly, no worse than the ones in human hands.

At first he thought it was Will's idea, a new tool made.

But hearing Will cheerfully announcing the good news to Roland, Wei Xili realized that this was not Will's idea, but a tool that Roland came up with.

Wei Xili wanted to say something, to praise or thank Tara's master.

Who knew that Roland would ignore him at all, and she called Will directly: "Do you still have strength? I still have several tools, all of which need you to make a model first, and we will slowly adjust..."

She didn't forget to care about Will's body: "How is it? Is it okay? Does your leg still hurt today?"

The question and answer of the two and Will's laughter came from a distance.

Polk clapped his hands and laughed, Melanie and Carleen both smiled, and Wei Xili was stunned——

Why does it look like now that Roland and Will have become a very good couple?

But Roland couldn't think of this at all. She had countless ideas in her mind. In addition to this planter, she also had automatic watering, fertilizing, and spraying equipment that she was eager to make.

And the most important item is the large cotton harvesting machinery.

Large-scale cotton harvesting machines were widely used in later generations—after all, the efficiency of picking cotton by hand is too low, and mechanical harvesting is the only way to solve the problem.

Roland had anticipated the scene of cotton harvesting, so he had to plan ahead.

She sourced hardwoods of various sizes from Frank's new sawmill.In addition, Frank really found "knives" for her - all small old scissors, which were eliminated from the Atlanta hospital.

These scissors, with the nails removed, are a circular handle with a small blade.

Roland put on leather gloves, threw all these scissors into boiling water, boiled them, dried them in the sun, removed rust, and brought them to Will, put the handles of the scissors on the wheels made by Will, shook the handles, two The handles of the knife in different directions hook the simulated growing cotton balls, and the cotton is "picked" from the cotton bolls with a strong hook.

After seeing this experiment, Will admired Roland already.

"Your whole machine, I think it can be worth twenty workers."

Roland designed a "big guy" with seven or eight runners side by side, capable of harvesting several ridges of cotton at the same time.

Roland smiled and said nothing - a machine that can replace twenty workers is definitely not her highest level.

However, further improvement of the mechanical level requires more refined materials and a more powerful power system.

When she can use high-quality steel, and diesel and gasoline engines, machinery that can replace hundreds or thousands of workers-that's not a problem.

Now all she has is hardwood, scrap scissors, and camels to power the machine—what more does she want a bicycle?

"Will, look, besides this automatic cotton picker, we also have an automatic cotton screener, an automatic cotton gin, and an automatic baler..."

"Tara's goal is to use the least amount of manpower and do the most work to harvest the cotton in the entire Zhongzhi Garden smoothly."