[Red House] A beautiful girl welcomes the spring

Since Jia's mother ordered grape juice and apple juice to be made, it is natural to report this matter to Jia She.No, the Yan family found out about making grape juice and apple juice from Yan Biju, and immediately came to the door.

Jia Shen thought that making fruit juice is not as good as making wine, and the grape juice in it is still a derivative of wine. In addition, he needs a large amount of money to collect sweet potatoes in the second half of the year, so the two recipes were tied together, and the Yan family asked for 17 yuan. A security deposit of two silver coins.

The share is also compared to the wine, half of the family.

I don't want to, the Yan family advertised these two things under the name of Jia Yan, and said that the real noble girl of the family would not smell of alcohol easily, which would only make people feel uneducated and provoke Jiangnan, especially Yangzhou and Jinling. The female family members of the wealthy merchants frantically sought after these two kinds of brewed juices.And as Jia Yan's status rose step by step, these two kinds of brewed juices were sold at the same price as Western wine.

The Yan family and the Jia family made a lot of money from these two kinds of brewed juices, but this is something for another time.

Let's talk about Jia She's here, since February of this year, he has been busy with the farm. He has established more than ten small farms, and the area is not large. The largest is only one hundred mu of sandbar land, but every Zhuangzi raised thousands or even tens of thousands of chickens and ducks.

The chickens and ducks at this time are not like the chickens and ducks introduced from outside in the later generations, which grow up in a month, but they are native species, and it takes several months to grow from chicks to big chickens.

As Jia Yan said, with maggots and earthworms, these chicks and ducks will grow faster.

Since many of Jia Amnesty's Zhuangzi were set up on sandbars, these chickens and ducks inadvertently ate the locust larvae that hatched in the sand.

It made the Qin Tianjian very strange: how could it be considered a mistake?How could it be wrong?

Only the emperor who had been paying attention to Jia Amnesty nodded secretly in his heart.

He probably knew what was going on.

However, the absence of locust plagues is a good thing after all.

I don't want to, this year, from the end of autumn this year, signs of drought began to appear in Shandong.Not only has there been less rain and snow this year, but the next spring, when spring rain is as expensive as oil, there was not a single drop of rain!

Then, in May, a large locust plague began in Shandong.These ate up Shandong, and then moved to Gyeonggi-do.Along the way, the refugees cried for their fathers and mothers, and the county magistrates, magistrates, and magistrates everywhere were also devastated.There is even a county magistrate in a certain place who directly set fire to the crops and locusts that had not yet been harvested in the field, and threw himself into the flames, leaving only an expedited note to the court.

This kind of thing, the housewives of the rich and powerful families like Mrs. Jia Muwang would not know about it. At most, they would just order the servants to serve Mishe porridge.

As for the cruel scene of the drought outside, only Lin Daiyu can imagine a thing or two through those books.

Then there is Jia Yan, relying on the film and television materials of her previous life, she only has a half-knowledge about these things.

Only Jia She, who really faced this directly, knew how terrifying the refugees who came with the locust plague were.

In fact, because of Jia Yan, Jia She was also very careful about drought and locust plagues. Hearing that there was very little rain and snow in Shandong this year, Jia She was mentally prepared.

Not only did he set up more than a dozen Zhuangzi in the southeast of Gyeonggi-do, near Shandong, he also asked the people below and the Yan family to help. Earthworms are feeding.

At the beginning of May of this year, news of locust plagues began to spread sporadically from various counties in Shandong. However, at the beginning, the lower officials blindly concealed it, and then in August, they could no longer hide it.

Accompanied by the six hundred miles of urgent documents, the entire court shook.

On the other hand, I got the recipe for making grape juice and apple juice. The Yan family harvested a lot of grapes and apples last year. This year, they bought green seedlings from the people in Shandong and made an appointment for this year's harvest. As a result, the locust plague came together, and the head of the Yan family had to come to plead guilty with Jia Amnesty.

There is no way, Shandong's harvest this year is wasted, and the money they invested in Shandong this year has also been wasted.

If it wasn't because the locust plague was too big, the owner of the Yan family could have gone to other provinces, for example, to buy apples and grapes in Gyeonggi-do. It was because the locust plague was too severe this year, and the owner of the Yan family was worried that Gyeonggi-do would follow suit. That's why they specifically pleaded guilty to Jia Amnesty, saying that this year their wine and juice business may not have a share.

Also because of the timely response of the Patriarch of the Yan family, Jia She was informed of the locust plague much earlier than the court.

Also because of this reason, Jia Amnesty even made arrangements one step earlier than the court.

He asked the Yan family to help him go to the south to buy more chicks, ducks and gooses—the Yan family was originally a maritime merchant, nothing else, there must be ships, and the ability to find ships must be top-notch.With the Yan family's capital ship, are you afraid that you won't be able to transport chickens and ducks? ——The other side released all the chickens, ducks and geese that were originally locked in the cage.

Because Jia She has a lot of farms in Gyeonggi-do, and Gyeonggi-do is vast, the locusts only harmed a few counties in the southeast of Gyeonggi-do.

But the refugees who came out of Shandong were so hungry that they would catch these chickens and ducks, regardless of whether they belonged to them or not.

For this reason, the tenants under Jia Amnesty who were in charge of raising the chickens and ducks clashed with the refugees several times, causing casualties.

Unexpectedly, there are such officials in this world who don't have much ability to govern the territory. Seeing that Jia pardoned too many chickens and ducks and refused to be caught by the refugees, he sent the impeachment papers to the emperor's court.

There was even Wang Ziteng, who had had a rift with Jia She because of Wang Xifeng before, and immediately fell into trouble. Jia She was so angry that he lifted up his sleeves and almost beat him up in the Golden Palace!

After being pulled away by the ministers, Jia Amnesty almost knelt down on the Golden Luan Hall with snot and tears and cried to the emperor:

"... Long live, it's not that I don't have sympathy. In fact, I have prepared more than 100 million catties of sweet potatoes, all of which were newly harvested last year. As for the chickens, ducks and geese, long live, chickens, ducks and geese eat locusts. Even if they Each one can only eat five locusts per day, 150 chickens, ducks and geese, and can eat [-] locusts in a day, which is [-] million locusts in a month! It’s not that I hate those chickens, ducks and geese. In fact, these chickens Ducks and geese are the heroes of eradicating locusts. If those chickens, ducks and geese are allowed to enter the stomachs of those refugees, what will happen to the locusts? Let them wreak havoc on Shandong and then on Gyeonggi? Chickens, ducks and geese have become evil wolves, but when faced with those locusts, they immediately become insects! They have hands and feet and don’t know how to cull locusts, and they say it’s God’s punishment! Since it’s God’s punishment, they will stay in Shandong and suffer That is, why bother to harm the chickens, ducks and geese raised by the minister? The minister specially went to the south to buy them, just to control the locusts. It is not that they did not prepare food with them, or they touched a few eggs, and the minister did not care. I will argue with them, but they insist on catching my minister's chickens, ducks and geese..."

The emperor was still worried about the locusts. After hearing Jia She's words, he didn't say much, and directly took the Minister of Civil and Military Affairs, angry horses and light furs, to the southeast of Gyeonggi-do.

It's not too far anyway. If you ride fast, you can make a round trip in three to five days.It's just that the last few tens of miles need to be walked.

That is to say, it took tens of miles of walking, so that the emperor knew how effective Jia She's chickens, ducks and geese had been.

From the beginning of walking, there were occasional migratory locusts pounced on people's faces sporadically, and later, there were more and more of them, even covering the sky and the sun, and the sky was hardly visible.

And right in front of the emperor and his ministers, at their feet, a little rooster walked past them with a locust the size of a thumb in its mouth.Seeing that these people did not come to catch them, the little rooster swallowed the locusts in its mouth, and then went after the other one.

Not only chickens, but also ducks and geese.

Looking up, tens of thousands of chickens, ducks and geese are flopping in the fields. It is because of these chickens, ducks and geese that the number of these migratory locusts has greatly decreased after entering Gyeonggi-do.

These chickens, ducks, and geese are still guarded. When two men with brooms saw the emperor and his party, they thought they were the landlords of some family, so they came over and said, "Do you have a field here? You have also seen it. This year's harvest It's over."

The emperor said: "This fellow is very polite. I heard that there are many refugees here..."

"Oh, what you want to talk about should be the troubles caused by refugees? It's been a few days. It's also thanks to our master. By the way, you don't know that our master is the first-class general of the Rongguo Mansion. Our master I greeted the masters of Futai and asked those refugees to work, and went to repair the embankment with work in lieu. Although there is not enough rice and noodles, there is enough millet and sweet potatoes, and there is an egg for each meal!"

Gu Zhizhang said, "All those refugees have gone?"

"Those who didn't dare to cull the locusts have gone. Those who dared to cull the locusts are now busy in the fields like us. Even the children are picking up duck eggs with baskets."

Their meals are also poultry eggs, sweet potatoes, millet and so on.

With a master and tens of thousands of chickens, ducks and geese, these people are much more peaceful than those refugees.Because they know that their master will not ignore them.