Chapter 132 The First Pot of Gold

After returning home.

Lin Zhiyi was very angry.

She ordered Chai Ya to nail the back window shut.

No matter whether he is the future emperor or not, she doesn't want to provoke him again.

Apart from what she agreed with Li Wenjing, she would not care about anything else.

At night, Li Wenjing really wanted to jump out of the window to explain to Lin Zhiyi, but found that the rear window could not be opened.

He went around to the front, but neither the door nor the front window could be opened.

I knew Lin Zhiyi was really angry.

In order not to disturb the Lin family, he had to leave first.

In the past few days, Lin Zhiyi has been avoiding Li Wenjing intentionally or unintentionally, which makes Li Wenjing miss her very much.

Zhang Wanqing was also sent to the county by Zhu Sheng, who rented a small courtyard for her, gave her some silver, and threatened her that if she dared to run back and cause trouble in front of her master again, she would be sold to a brothel.

Zhang Wanqing cried and was very unwilling.

But when she thought of Li Wenjing's sinister and murderous face that day, she gasped and didn't even dare to cry out loud.

She was really scared.

After Zhang Wanqing was sent away, Li Wenjing felt much more at ease. He had tidied up the fields and was just waiting for Lin Zhiyi to deliver the sweet potato seedlings.

Despite the agreement with Li Wenjing, Lin Zhiyi started planting on his own first and only promised to give the seedlings to Li Wenjing later.

Li Wenjing naturally wouldn't say anything.

Lin Zhiyi persuaded his father Lin Fu, and on the day of planting the sweet potato seedlings, the Lin family still hired villagers to do it.

Although sweet potatoes are easy to grow, Lin Zhiyi added spiritual spring water to the water used to irrigate the fields when planting the sweet potato seedlings.

While planting sweet potatoes, Lin Zhiyi asked his father to find Muramasa and buy another five acres of paddy fields to grow rice.

Lin Zhiyi calculated that the seedlings she grew could only be used to grow five acres of rice.

Originally, there were no vacant paddy fields to sell in the village.

If there were any, no one would be willing to leave them idle.

Although Muramasa was curious and felt that it was too late for the Lin family to buy paddy fields and plant rice at this time, he did not ask any more questions.

It happened that a family went to the county to open a shop and made some money. They moved to the county and lived there. They had ten acres of land. Muramasa asked the Lin family if they wanted it, and Lin Zhiyi agreed to buy it all.

I also ask Muramasa to let me know if anyone has land to sell.

Next year she plans to plant large areas of crops such as rice and sweet potatoes.

Muramasa agreed.

It was almost the end of May when Lin Zhiyi sent the seedlings to Li Wenjing and taught him how to plant them.

Fortunately, it’s not too late to plant now.

When burying the sweet potato seedlings in the soil, Li Wenjing grabbed Lin Zhiyi's hand and used her hand to bury the roots of the sweet potato seedlings in the soil.

"can we talk?"

“No need.”

Lin Zhiyi pulled his hand away.

"I've already sent her away."

Li Wenjing explained.

"What does it have to do with me?" Lin Zhiyi said calmly, "Let go."

Lin Zhiyi pulled her arm out of Li Wenjing's hand with all her strength. "I've taught you everything I need to teach you. I won't come again."

Lin Zhiyi got up and walked away.

She thought Li Wenjing would come after her to explain, but until she got on the carriage, Li Wenjing did not follow her.

There was actually a hint of loss.

Lin Zhiyi was driving the carriage. Although she greeted the villagers as usual along the way, she always felt that as soon as she drove the carriage past, someone would gossip about her.

Lin Zhiyi was not mistaken. The villagers had been talking about her these days.

Most people are wondering why such a good girl like Lin Zhiyi was divorced by her husband's family.

They were also very curious about Lin Zhiyi's sweet potato planting.

They had never seen the seedlings in the field before, and had no idea what would grow in the end.

Lin Zhiyi just hopes that their new house can be completed soon.

The eldest brother Lin Xiuran was busy in the fields for two or three days, and then went to supervise the craftsmen building the house. Naturally, those craftsmen were arranged by Muramasa, and Lin Xiuran made the design drawings, and he supervised them to prevent the craftsmen from making mistakes.

As soon as I walked to the door, I felt that the carriage at the door looked familiar. After taking a closer look, I found that the carriage seemed to belong to Boss Cui.

When I entered the main room, it was indeed Boss Cui, and my father Lin Fu was entertaining us.

"Zhizhi, come here quickly, Boss Cui is here to give you some money." Lin Fu said.

Boss Cui saw Lin Zhiyi come in and handed over a wooden box.

Lin Zhiyi took it and opened it. There were actually six silver ingots. Each ingot was not very big, with ten taels of silver, totaling sixty taels.

Lin Zhiyi was surprised. She didn't expect that Boss Cui gave her so much in just one month.

She only got 30% of the profit, which was 60 taels. In this way, she made a total profit of 200 taels.

"Miss Lin, do you know how many we've sold? Over 200, each for one tael of silver. To be honest, the cost was only a hundred wen. Here's the account book, please take a look."

Boss Cui handed over the account book.

Lin Zhiyi flipped through it casually and handed it back to Boss Cui. "Boss Cui must have done a good job of promoting it, otherwise it wouldn't have sold so many."

Fangling County is also Fangzhou. The prefecture and county are governed by the same government. It is the most prosperous city in the entire Fangzhou, and businessmen from various counties will come to Fangzhou.

Therefore, it is normal to sell more than 200 pieces.

"But Boss Cui, have you ever thought about this? If this curved plow were to become popular, other companies would immediately imitate it, and then the price of this plow would be driven down to dirt cheap."

"I have indeed thought about this. Therefore, when it was forged, it was all made by my Cui family members themselves. No blacksmiths were allowed to interfere, in order to prevent the blueprints from being leaked."

Boss Cui explained.

Lin Zhiyi nodded, "Even if the blueprints haven't been leaked, this plow has already been sold, and it would be easy to copy it.

Besides, we want to sell to the whole of Da Gan. If the market opens up in the future, Boss Cui can't just do the work himself, right? He has to hire people."

Lin Zhiyi's words surprised Boss Cui. Selling nationwide, her ambition seemed to be even greater than his.

"Miss Lin, do you have any good ideas?"

Lin Zhiyi frowned. In this era, patent protection could not be registered, so the only option was to obtain protection from the imperial court.

"How about this, Boss Cui? I remember the imperial court also issued an edict prohibiting counterfeiting. You present the curved plow to the court in exchange for patent protection. If you can obtain an official document, you can legally crack down on counterfeiters.

It would be even better if we could cooperate with a large and reliable family, let them invest in sales, and provide them with protection.

In addition, the production of the curved plow was assigned to different craftsmen, and the process was separated, with each craftsman producing a small part, so that one person would not have to master all the skills.

Boss Cui's eyes lit up when he heard this. Miss Lin's brain was really active.

If we ask him to sell it to the entire country of Dagan, I'm afraid he won't be able to do it.

If he could find a merchant from Fangzhou and have them sell the products nationwide, giving them some profit and selling more products at a lower profit margin, it would be much better than just selling the products in the iron shop.

"I'll do it right away."

Boss Cui left happily.

He seemed to see the silver money coming towards him.

Unexpectedly, he received a difficult customer, who ended up becoming his God of Wealth.