Early spring in the world [farming]

During the busy farming period, the common people are busy harvesting late rice, so naturally they have no time to pay attention to other things, and there are many fewer people visiting Su's house.

"Soon, my old man's first seven years old body wanted to invite Daoist Su to my house to do a ritual, and he was saved."

The old lady who lost her husband a while ago wiped away tears and begged Su Beigu sadly.

Although Su Beigu sympathized with her, he would not change his principles for her sake, and said: "I can help you go back to Taizhen Temple to find brothers from the same sect, some of them are very good at doing things, I believe they will live up to your trust .”

The old lady was stunned for a moment and asked, "Can't Daoist Su make a move? The price is easy to negotiate."

Su Beigu shook his head: "I practice with all my heart, and I never touch techniques."

Her attitude is firm. Although the old woman is disappointed, she also knows that she can't force others to be difficult, not to mention that she has the real ability to resent her and see if she has the ability.The old woman thought, since they came from the same school, the Taoist priest recommended by Su Beigu must have good Taoism, so she agreed.

Su Beigu wrote a book for this, and someone sent it to Taizhen Temple.

Since then, anyone who came to her for fortune-telling, practice, or geomantic omen, she sent to find a Taoist priest of Taizhenguan with the same words.

Too real.

After receiving another order to do things, a female crown touched her head and went to the hall master of Taizhen Temple, saying: "The hall master is strange, why is the incense in our temple so prosperous recently? One after another, there are people going all the way He ran to Guanli and invited us to perform deeds."

In the past, the signboards of Taizhen Temple were "Zhong Xiangu Yunyou enlightened Chunhua real people", so the incense is not bad, but because there are many rules and they are all female crowns, so there are fewer people who come to them to do things.

But in the past two weeks, not to mention the increase in the number of guests, people who paid a lot of money to invite them to do things are also coming in an endless stream. Many of them are Fuqiu villagers who have abandoned Fuqiu Temple and came all the way to find them.

The hall master listened to Nuguan's words, pondered for a moment, and said: "Fuqiu Township... If I remember correctly, Junior Brother Su who took leave to practice at home is in Fuqiu Township, right?"

"It seems that Uncle Niu went to Fuqiu Township before and personally brought back the news about Uncle Niu."

"Could it be that she did something in Fuqiu Township?" The hall master frowned, thought for a while, and got up to find the quiet master Wen Yingxiu.

At this time, Wen Yingxiu was not talking about scriptures and teachings. Lu Youdao was sitting in front of her. Neither of them spoke, and the atmosphere was so frozen that it was suffocating.

The appearance of the hall master broke the silence between each other, Lu Youdao took the opportunity to stand up and salute: "Hall master."

The hall master felt that she was a little strange, and his eyes suddenly became curious: "This is..."

"Disciple Lu Youdao."

As soon as she said this, the hall master remembered that she had become a monk in Taizhen Temple, and then went to the capital with her family.The hall master said: "Are you back to Tanzhou?!"

"Yes."

Wen Yingxiu spoke in a timely manner: "Why is the Hall Master here?"

The hall master suddenly remembered the business he had come here, hurriedly ended the chat with Lu Youdao, and asked: "Master Jing, do you have any news about Junior Brother Su?"

Mentioning his most valued disciple, Wen Yingxiu frowned slightly, and said, "She is practicing at home."

The hall master informed the recent changes in the Taoist temple, and speculated that it might have something to do with Su Beigu.She knew that Su Beigu was capable, but the "capacity" in her cognition was not that Su Beigu used supernatural powers, but that Su Beigu's whole body was full of secrets. When Gu appeared on the stage, there was bound to be a vision, either following her order to blow wind and rain, or something else happened, so everyone said that her Taoism was profound, and the spells she chanted played a role.

It's just that Su Beigu's health is too poor, so she has almost never taken orders from outsiders, so that only people inside the Taoist temple know her ability. up?

Wen Yingxiu's expression remained unchanged, obviously he had heard something from Lu Youdao.After a long time, she got up and said: "I will personally go to Fuqiu Township to find her and ask her to come back."

The hall master hurriedly persuaded: "There is no need to force her to come back."

Now it is very good, the performance of the Taoist Temple has improved, and the income has also increased. Everyone talks about being tired, but in fact they are very happy.

She came here just to find out what Su Beigu had done and whether there would be any bad influence.

Lu Youdao smiled slightly: "I suggest, let the little uncle come back, only the Taoist temple is the place to practice purely, she is at home, influenced by the world, it is easy to mess up the heart of practice. This time is just to find out where the stolen money is for others In this place, he used the fairy art in full view, exposing his ability, which violated the rules of Guanli."

The hall master's eyes widened: "She used fairy art?!"

Su Beigu really knows fairy art?Could it be that the previous vision was also due to the use of fairy art?

No wonder the recent incense is so popular, I am afraid that the people of Fuqiu Township think that the Taoist priests of Taizhen Temple are such masters with supernatural powers?

Thinking that he didn't have any magic power and didn't know any supernatural powers, the hall master felt embarrassed.

"We can't let her break the rules." Wen Yingxiu dropped a sentence, and said to the hall master, "I will stay away for a few days, sit quietly and settle the matter, and ask the hall master to take care of it."

Tang advocated opening his mouth, but in the end he couldn't say anything against it.

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On the day when Tan Guan entertained the members of the Su family and the neighbors who were watching outside the door for a drink, Su Beigu and Tan Ruyi went to Tan's house together, but Lu Xuehuan had no time to come because she was busy managing the harvesting of late rice.

Fortunately, she is not the protagonist today, even if she is not there, everyone doesn't care.

Tan Guan thanked everyone for helping him remove the suspicion and cleared his innocence. Of course, he was most grateful to Su Beigu.

Everyone's faces were embarrassed, obviously they were just here to join in the fun, but they were promoted to such a high position. While feeling guilty, they were also a little flustered, and they kept looking for reasons for themselves, for example, they also offered to help at the beginning, and then went to Su Zhengkai's They also contributed to the recovery of the money from the wine shop.

Only in this way can they accept Tan Guan's toast with peace of mind.

It has to be said that Tan Guan played this skill very beautifully, which not only eased everyone's taboo against the Tan family, but also they would not be ashamed to stand by and watch when similar things happened next time.

After drinking for three rounds, everyone went back to their homes after eating and drinking enough. Only a few members of the Su clan were kept by Tan Guan. Thinking of Lu Xuehuan saying that Tan Guan had something to discuss with them, they were sober for three minutes, and they were a little nervous , and some expectations.

Tan Guan smiled brightly: "How about eating and drinking, everyone?"

"Thank you Qin Dalang for your hospitality today." The members of the Su clan laughed.

"Where do you need to be polite to me? I think everyone is wondering why I asked you to stay... Actually, I have some business that I want to discuss with you, should I sum it up?"

The members of the Su Clan looked at each other, curiosity overwhelmed everything: "What business?"

"You all know that I've been working on a cotton gin recently. This machine is simple and convenient to operate, but it's not easy to build. Not to mention a lot of iron is needed, and many parts have to be very finely crafted..."

The people of the Su Clan have no patience: "Just make a long story short!"

Tan Guan didn't play around with them anymore: "The people here are all wealthy families with a little wealth, so I would like to persuade everyone to grow more cotton."

Members of the Su Clan: "..."

What kind of business is this? !

Seeing their disappointment, Tan Guan further explained: "You may think that I persuade you to grow more cotton to sell my cotton gin, but in fact this is just a small purpose of mine, and the bigger purpose is to achieve a win-win situation! "

Why did the appearance of the cotton gin promote the development of the cotton industry?Because it reduces costs and improves efficiency, more and more people grow cotton.As a very important crop, cotton involves both agriculture and the textile industry. Especially now that cotton textiles account for an increasing proportion of all textiles, the output of cotton is not high due to the low production level. high.

When Tan Guan was negotiating with the magistrate of Qiu County, he proposed this idea. If every household has a cotton gin, will the people who are willing to grow cotton change?

Definitely.

As more people grow cotton, the output of cotton will inevitably increase.The demand for cotton in the north is very large, and when Yiyang County has become a large cotton area, merchants from the north will inevitably come to Yiyang to buy cotton.

There was a commercial tax in the Great Wei Dynasty. The common people had to pay the land tax for growing cotton, and the merchants had to pay the commercial tax when they bought cotton. This was equivalent to two government taxes, which would greatly increase the tax revenue.

And tax revenue is one of the criteria for assessing the performance of local officials. If taxation achieves gains without exorbitant taxes, it must prove that local officials have made great achievements in governance!

This is why Qiuzhi County praised the appearance of the cotton gin.

This is a big aspect. When it comes to local merchants and farmers, the increase in cotton will inevitably increase the number of cotton processing workshops, and the demand for cotton gins will further increase...

Another point is that the expansion of the cotton planting area means that more people need to pick cotton, and the part-time workers who have lost their jobs because of the cotton gin have a new employment direction.

Tan Guan's saliva was dry: "...At this time, the sooner the family expands the number of acres of cotton planted, the sooner it will make a profit."

The people of the Su clan were very moved when they heard it, but they still had doubts: "What if everyone has gone to grow cotton, but no one has grown the food? What's more, the land where cotton has been planted can no longer be continuously planted with cotton, and you have to grow other vegetables. Isn't that right?" Is it wasted?"

Tan Ruyi interjected: "Cotton and rice can be planted differently! Use better fertilizer to ensure that the yield will not be reduced. If it is not possible, planting vegetables and mushrooms is also a way of crop rotation!"

When it came to agricultural fertilizer and mushrooms, everyone subconsciously looked at Su Beigu who was sitting on the sidelines and did not speak but listened, thinking, do they have to buy agricultural fertilizer from Su Beigu?

Su Beigu: "..."

You see what I do, I never thought of advertising my own fertilizer.

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