Playing intrigue is worse than engaging in infrastructure

After entering September, the crops in the fields began to harvest one after another.

Because Song Qingyuan repaired drainage and irrigation water conservancy facilities in the spring, and the follow-up fertilization work is also carried out in an orderly manner under Boyan's supervision, so the growth of the crops in the field this year is very gratifying.

But the best growing ones are the soybeans that Song Qingyuan sent people to plant.

The main reason is that the soybean crop does not pick the land, and does not have high requirements on temperature, precipitation, etc., so the yield is naturally higher than other crops.

It’s just that soybeans also have a troublesome problem, that is, within a few days after soybeans are fully mature, the pods will explode, and the beans inside will be scattered all over the ground. Harvesting will be very troublesome and cause relatively large losses.

However, if the harvest time is too early and the moisture content of soybeans is too high, if the drying time is not thorough, it is easy to mildew.

This worried Boyan and others, seeing that the pods in the field began to turn yellow day by day, but they couldn't think of a useful solution.

In the end, he had no choice but to come to Song Qingyuan for help.

Early in the morning, Song Qingyuan had just finished his breakfast and went back to his palace to deal with official documents, when he saw Boyan and others walking towards him.

Several agricultural officials looked sad and hung their heads, like eggplants beaten by frost.

Seeing Song Qingyuan, the three of them seemed to see life-saving straws, their eyes lit up suddenly, and they walked in front of Song Qingyuan in three steps.

"What's the matter?" Song Qingyuan looked at the three of them with some doubts.

Judging from the direction Song Qingyuan came from, he should have come from the north of the palace.It was actually a bit strange that he was not in his own palace early in the morning, but came back from outside.

But Boyan and the others didn't have time to pay attention to these things. After saluting, they hurriedly explained the problems they had encountered in the past few days.

Problems harvesting soybeans?

Song Qingyuan lowered his eyes and thought about it.The harvesting time of soybeans is indeed a little short, but he has seen mechanized production in later generations, so he ignored this problem.

But what can he do?

Song Qingyuan looked helplessly at the three people in front of him. He couldn't be expected to build a large combine harvester, could he?

"Can't we send more people? I remember that the soybeans planted this year aren't too many?" Song Qingyuan asked after thinking about it.

He remembered that there were plenty of hands when the seeds were planted.

What's more, the leftover soybean meal from the daily oil extraction in the oil mill is given to the common people. Recently, some pastures are specially cut for sale. The common people should be able to spare time to harvest the crops.

Because the extracted soybean oil is basically sent to the workshop and will not be used for food, the workers are not so particular about oil extraction.The remaining soybean meal was not very clean, so Song Qingyuan simply gave it to the people to feed their livestock.

"Your Highness, you know that we didn't have so much land to plant in Mobei. It was because His Highness built aqueducts and improved the land this year that we got so many farmlands. Therefore, the people's families didn't have so many crops to harvest. farm tools."

Boyan sighed, and blamed himself: "I'm also to blame for this, I didn't think about this issue at all before."

It turned out to be the case.

Song Qingyuan nodded, "Is there not enough iron?"

If Mobei's iron supply is not enough to build farm tools, he can ask Qin Zizhen to transport some back from Yanyun.

It's just that things like iron are strictly controlled, and I'm afraid it will take a lot of trouble.

"It's not because of this reason." Boyan shook his head, this iron mine area can still produce it.

Song Qingyuan frowned slightly, he couldn't think of any other reason.

Seeing Song Qingyuan's expression, Boyan couldn't help being stunned for a moment before reacting, and quickly explained: "It's because the people's families are not rich, and they can't afford the money to buy farm tools."

There is another reason that Beyondsoft did not mention.Many farmlands improved by Song Qingyuan were distributed to the nearby people, but the people had little experience in farming, so they inevitably had concerns.Therefore, I dare not spend a lot of money to ask blacksmiths to make agricultural tools such as sickles.

Before plowing and sowing, they borrowed Quyuan plow and seeds from the government, and agreed to hand over [-]% of the grain to the government after harvest.

Only then did Song Qingyuan understand, rubbed his eyebrows and said, "I forgot about this aspect."

He casually said, "It's not a big deal," and then he saw Boyan and the others looking at him eagerly.

Song Qingyuan's heart was frightened by the sight, and he quickly beckoned for several people to follow.

Just like Song Qingyuan didn't think it was a big problem, Boyan and others didn't understand why His Highness could be so relaxed.

It wasn't until Song Qingyuan brought the person back to his palace that they realized that there was a kind of ability called "money ability".

Song Qingyuan pointed to Jiang Duo and said to Boyan: "This is the housekeeper of my house, you can just ask him for the money for buying farm tools."

Facing the stunned eyes of Boyan and others who were too shocked, Song Qingyuan looked at each other: "Is there any problem?"

"Ironware costs a lot, and there are hundreds of households in a single village in the west of Guangcheng City. Why don't you just forget it, Your Highness..." Boyan managed to recover and stammered.

"I know, it's okay, you just go and get it." Song Qingyuan waved his hand indifferently.

Can you do whatever you want with money?

Song Qingyuan used facts to prove: If you have money, you can do whatever you want.

Jiang Duo is already familiar with Song Qingyuan's prodigal family, and their Highness indeed has such a heroic capital.

Of all the things Song Qingyuan did, just one of them could bring him monstrous wealth, let alone more than one of them.

As far as the current wealth is concerned, Song Qingyuan is doing many things with money, such as the poorhouse and alcohol.

Making alcohol is still expensive, otherwise Jiang Duo might have to expand the treasury again.

"However," Song Qingyuan thought for a while, and added: "Those agricultural tools cannot be distributed to the common people for free. They should be rented first, and then they will be exchanged for grain when they earn money from the fields next year."

Song Qingyuan refused to distribute ironware to the people for free, not because he was stingy, but mainly because he didn't want the people to develop the habit of relying on the government for everything and unwilling to work hard on their own.

He himself does not lack this little money, but if the people develop the concept of relying on him or the government for everything, it will not be conducive to the future development of Mobei.

"I understand." Boyan and the others saluted, and thanked Song Qingyuan with great gratitude, before getting up with a dazed expression.

Xu Shi solved a big problem, Boyan finally remembered what he had just ignored, and asked: "Where did your Highness go this morning?"

Song Qingyuan replied indifferently: "I discussed some matters with King Mobei."

In fact, I went there for breakfast, but saying this seems to be not good for my personal image.

Boyan couldn't think of any urgent issue that His Royal Highness and the King should discuss together in the early morning, so he nodded with a half-understood understanding, took his leave and left.

"Tell me, how much is His Highness's family property?" After leaving the palace, several people were still muttering to each other.

"I don't know, I'm afraid it's even richer than the king's treasury." Another person guessed.

"I think so too, but our treasury in Mobei has never been full."

"Too."

The guesses of the three of them are relatively close to the facts. Yilian mentioned that as soon as he has money, he allocates it to the military camp. This year's treasury can have a lot of surplus, all thanks to Song Qingyuan's distribution of the income of each workshop to him. .

But the most profitable business is salt production.Although Song Qingyuan lowered the price of salt by a few points, as an indispensable necessities of life, the sales volume of salt would not be low.

In addition, the quality of the salt produced was so good that within a few months, even the most remote tribes had used the salt produced by the royal court.

Now, the salt in Mobei no longer needs to be sold from the Southern Zhou Dynasty, and there is one less rope around their necks.

And all kinds of delicious beef products also began to be sold to the Southern Zhou Dynasty and were accepted by the people of the Central Plains.

I think this winter in Mobei should be better than last year.

In the wool workshop, Song Qingyuan also ordered people to slow down the production of exquisite cushions, and began to focus on ordinary clothes.

The cold air in Mobei is often earlier than that in Central Plains.Song Qingyuan remembered that in mid-October last year, the weather in Mobei had already cooled down, so the production of woolen clothes had to start earlier.

The cloth produced will not only supply the people in Mobei, but also occupy a foothold in the Southern Zhou Dynasty.

This kind of plan was a little anxious, but the situation forced Song Qingyuan to urge everyone to speed up.

From the secret security sent in the past few days, Song Qingyuan was keenly aware that neither Yan Yun nor Nan Zhou would be at peace for too long.

Yan Yun and Nan Zhou were like the silence before the storm, seemingly calm, but inside they were turbulent.

Fortunately, Song Qingyuan had been preparing for the wool since last year.After saving for more than half a year, a lot of wool has been accumulated in the workshop, and the wool can be sheared again in a few days.

Therefore, although it takes a lot of hard work, it is not difficult to produce enough woolen cloth in time for winter.

Song Qingyuan's only regret is that until today, Amin has not worked out a way to knit a sweater.

Helpless, Song Qingyuan had no choice but to give up the idea of ​​spreading knitting skills.

If the common people know this craft, they can weave thick clothes at home and save a lot of money as long as they buy some wool.

Song Qingyuan didn't get involved in the wool workshop, mainly because he really had no experience in this area, and the only thing he could do was to raise wages for the hardworking ladies.

In the workshop, more work has always paid more, and the nimble ladies can even earn four to five hundred Wen a month, which is more than most men in the city.

Many men are used to women submitting to them on weekdays, so they always feel that they are nobler than women.

Now the women who look at workshops earn more than twice as much as themselves.Many people's hearts are not at peace all of a sudden, and they say some sour and weird words all day long.

These days, there are often similar remarks on the street, all kinds of ugly words, even Song Qingyuan's reputation has been implicated.

To say that he only employs women in his workshop is to do something shameful and nasty.

Within a few days, these news reached the deity's ears.

Song Qingyuan was reading in the study that day, when he saw Jiang Duo walking in angrily, and reported the incident to himself angrily.

"I don't even look at who gets all the money earned by the women in the workshop, but they can even say such things." Song Qingyuan couldn't listen anymore, and interrupted Jiang Duo with a wave of his hand.

You know, except for widows whose husbands died, there is no law that women can set up their own households.

That is to say, regardless of whether the women who work in the workshop are married or not, the money they earn belongs to the whole family.

If the girls in the workshop earn more, they can pay more attention to the status of women in the family, Song Qingyuan can accept it.But I never expected that this group of people would even be good-looking after getting a bargain.

Although it is only a small number of people, it is enough to make people angry.

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