If nothing unexpected happens, this year's five or six acres of land will yield tens of thousands of kilograms of harvest. Next year, if we plant crops, we can plant at least several hundred acres. With this year's planting experience, the villagers can plant on a large scale next year with even more confidence.

If all goes well, the sugar mill in the village will be up and running by the end of next year.

"I understand, Madam, please rest assured!"

"I've got it. The five of us will go back and study it carefully. We won't make any decisions we don't understand. We'll choose one person to come and ask for their opinion."

"We will certainly live up to your trust and make this species good!"

Looking into Bai Manshan's bright eyes under the clear moonlight, Shui Qing sighed that Bai Manshan was truly prescient, choosing the cleverest and most agile among the more than one hundred people. Entrusting tasks to clever people was especially worry-free.

If you run into a teammate who's as incompetent as you, you can get so angry you could vomit blood, and they still can't teach you anything!

She continued, "It's probably too late to build your houses now. You'll have to make do with a thatched hut for now. After spring planting, you can build adobe roofs and use gray tiles like the rest of the village. That way, you won't have to replace the thatched roofs every year, saving you manpower."

As for choosing a location to build the house, there is Baijiazhuang in front. Go and ask the people in the village where you can avoid flooding. I have prepared fifty taels of silver, which should be enough for your ten or so families to buy gray tiles.

Build as many houses as possible, and make them as big as possible. Big houses and big yards make living in them comfortable.

The climate here is mostly hot, so larger houses are cooler than smaller ones. Land in the village isn't as expensive as in the city, so you can build more and bigger houses.

Moreover, since they are all large families, once they settle down, they will have more and more children, which will save them the trouble of adding more buildings every year.

Gong Shang felt that the surprises today were coming one after another.

In fact, once they arrived in Zhulin Village, their family had already started preparing their lodging. As long as they could eat their fill, they were at ease. They had no money or belongings, and it was spring planting season, so they never thought about building a mud-brick house that would require a lot of effort, let alone a tiled house that would cost several taels of silver!

Unexpectedly, the host offered fifty taels of silver right away. You have to know that they have more than a hundred people and they don't even have fifty taels. This is more expensive than buying them.

Fifty taels of silver is almost enough to buy forty or fifty acres of land...

Zhou Youzhou's eyes welled up with tears again.

Are they wronged living in thatched huts? They were only fit to live in thatched huts anyway. Not to mention the servants in the manor, many families in their original village also lived in thatched huts.

The master also said that using gray tiles on the roof saved them the manpower to replace the thatch on the roof every year. But what master cares whether the servants are tired from replacing the thatch? Isn't this the work that the servants should do? The master is obviously thinking of them!

The other three felt a warm glow in their hearts; their master had specifically instructed them to build a large house, saying that a big house would be more comfortable to live in...

Shuiqing opened the warehouse again and had five people move the cloth onto the cart and tie it up. The chickens and rabbits were put into bamboo baskets. There was no rush. They would set off in the middle of the night and could pack them up just before they left.

The rice and flour were stored in wooden buckets, with a layer of oil paper placed on top for the eggs to absorb shock and prevent them from breaking.

After giving the instructions, Shuiqing told everyone to go get some sleep—they were leaving for Zhulin Village in the middle of the night, and staying up all night would be bad for their health.

With everything prepared, Shuiqing entered the main house, took out the land deed and indenture that Bai Manshan had given her, put them into a wooden box in the inner room, and then put them into a storage cabinet to carry with her.

We now have fields, land, and people; we have two profitable businesses, and we expect to add another by the end of next year. We urgently need cash to buy shops... We also don't know how well the medicinal herbs are selling in Yuhang...