Chapter 1295: Plans for the coming year
When Qiao Xuan and Shao Yunduan came, they had tens of thousands of silver notes in their arms, and they paid for it on the spot.
It is only forty miles away from the capital city, and the official road is wide and flat. It can be reached in less than an hour by carriage. Although this place is not on the official road, it is less than ten miles away from it.
The entire one-way journey takes about an hour and a quarter of an hour.
These are all cultivated lands and can be used for planting directly next year, saving the trouble of clearing wasteland.
Qiao Xuan has already made a rough plan in her mind to plant potatoes, watermelons and cantaloupes next year.
The twenty acres in the city were all planted with strawberries.
The ten or so acres of potatoes this year will definitely have a good harvest. There is no need to worry about seeds. At least we will be able to plant several hundred acres next year, right?
Plant a few hundred acres of watermelons and Hami melons, and sell them directly to Beijing when they are ripe.
There is very little large-scale agricultural production nowadays, so Qiao Xuan is not worried at all that these two kinds of melons will not be sold after they are grown.
The two bought a piece of land, and the landlord enthusiastically offered to introduce tenants to them, but Qiao Xuan declined.
Naturally, she had to recruit tenants and hire a few people. She had planned to set aside a piece of land to build houses for the tenants and servants to live in.
Warehouses, tool rooms, material yards, etc. are also planned to be neatly arranged one by one.
But she didn't plan to do this herself. She planned to hand it over to Song Shi and let Song Shi be fully responsible.
Song Shi has followed them diligently and hard for so long, and has been trained by running around all day. It's only a thousand acres of land, so Qiao Xuan doesn't mind letting him practice.
Song Shi was so happy that he knelt down and kowtowed to Qiao Xuan on the spot, repeatedly saying that he would do a good job and would not let his wife down.
Qiao Xuan didn't know whether to laugh or cry, and hurriedly asked him to get up.
On the way back, Qiao Xuan told Shao Yunduan in the carriage how to plan and plant the 1,200 acres of land. She spoke with great interest and Shao Yunduan listened with a smile and naturally had no objection.
His wife has always been so enthusiastic about growing vegetables, farming and various crops. Her eyes light up whenever she talks about it, so he naturally won't spoil her fun.
Songshi took on this task and took it very seriously.
He didn't want to trouble Qiao Xuan, so he went to ask the managers on Zhao Shu's side for advice, and he did a very good job.
Qiao Xuan was quite satisfied and just let him go.
However, Songshi will be a small steward in the future, and it will definitely be very busy to manage all these lands. It is not good to have no male servant in the house.
Qiao Xuan told Shao Yunduan about this. The two of them called a human trafficker and bought a servant of about fourteen or fifteen years old, named Qingyan, to help with some chores.
What Qiao Xuan didn't expect was that her own strawberries were very popular in Jinquanlou. The shopkeeper soon came to her house in person, wanting to increase the daily purchase volume. If possible, it would be best to increase it to about 300 kilograms per day.
Because Jinquanlou has a floor of private rooms specially set up for female family members, there are quite a few female guests.
These strawberries are especially popular with female customers. When the ladies want to buy some to take away, Jinquanlou naturally cannot refuse them, because they provide take-out services for the snacks, candied fruits, and even tea in the teahouse if customers want to take them away.
But in this case, the strawberries seem not enough.
But if it was other snacks or candied fruits, they could just buy them or make them, but strawberries were only supplied by Qiao Xuan’s family.
The guests spread the word that the strawberries were rare, and they wanted to try them even more. They would buy them even if they had to pay two taels of silver per pound.
(End of this chapter)
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