Chapter 364 The Caravan Master Comes Again
"Everyone, be quiet and listen to me."
Seeing this, Fu Qiuhua, Wei Chengyi and the other two exchanged glances, then continued from their perch on the haystack, "I believe you've all seen that the potato yield, as we promised, has reached 6,000 kilograms. The corn won't disappoint either. However, to enrich everyone's rations, we hope you'll choose to plant sweet potatoes in the second season. Based on our trial planting results last year, the yield of sweet potatoes is slightly higher than that of potatoes. Seeds will still be collected from each village at the county government office."
The growth cycle of spring potatoes is very long. In order to plant the second season of crops, they only planted corn and potatoes in the first season. In order to let the people see the difference between the three high-yield crops, they must vigorously promote the planting of sweet potatoes in the second season.
"good."
With the high yield of potatoes, no one would doubt the credibility of the government, and the villagers responded in unison.
"Village chief, please count how many people in the village are willing to grow sweet potatoes."
"Thank you, Master."
The village chief immediately bowed his head. Trying to grow a second crop of crops was an unprecedented big thing, and he dared not be careless.
"Okay, I'll go back first if I'm fine."
Nodding with satisfaction, Fu Qiuhua turned around and prepared to leave with Wei Chengyi and the others.
"Master, take care!"
The village chief hurriedly followed them, and only after watching their carriage disappear from his sight did he turn back to the field and shout at the villagers to quickly get involved in harvesting potatoes. He also wanted to know whether the yield per acre was that high.
“It will allow other villages to reap the benefits as well.”
In the carriage, Yuan Xiu could hardly hide his excitement, as if he had made a good harvest.
"Well, when I get back I'll have people go to each village to notify them."
Fu Qiuhua nodded in agreement. Wei Chengyi and his wife smiled at each other and said nothing more. In this way, their plan was half successful. When the second crop was harvested, the people would no longer go hungry. However, before that, they had to ensure that every county had enough water.
The new food, potatoes, can be harvested. Like Xinghua Village, every household in every village has begun harvesting. When the people saw the mountains of potatoes and learned about the astonishing yield, many of them were moved. As people at the bottom of society, not having enough food to eat and not having warm clothes to wear was their normal state, but now, they have seen hope that they will no longer be hungry.
The news of Datong County's bumper potato harvest soon spread to other counties due to the deliberate publicity of Wei Chengyi and others. Ordinary people might not be able to do anything about it, but the wealthy families in various counties sent people to Datong County to inquire whether the potato yield per mu was really 5,000 to 6,000 kilograms.
As June came, the weather gradually became hotter and the corn in the fields was about to mature. On this day, the head of the caravan, Chen, came again. This time he also wanted 20,000 bottles of wine. He also hoped that they could supply 20,000 bottles every month and required that all of them be given wine glasses.
"I'm sorry, Mr. Chen, this might be a little difficult. I can sell you the wine, but I really can't sell you the wine glasses. We don't have that many."
After a moment's contemplation, Shen Xiangwan rejected his request. The Zhao family's pork workshop had resumed operations, and the fields needed work. Zhao Dajiang simply didn't have time to help her make bamboo boxes. Furthermore, the glass workshop also had to run its business, so how could he continue to help her make wine cups? After the markets in Mingzhou and Jiaozhou opened up, she wouldn't give away wine cups anymore. Now, none of them were given away in Chenzhou, and it hadn't affected their sales at all.
"Are you really not going to be flexible?"
Chen Dangjia continued to ask without giving up. It was because he knew that wine glasses were no longer given away in Chenzhou that he made a special request, but he didn't expect to be rejected by her. When selling wine, having wine glasses or not is two completely different concepts. They sold the previous batch of wine to the royal families of various countries in the Western Regions. This time they planned to sell it to those ministers or nobles. It would undoubtedly be a bit troublesome without wine glasses.
"For the 20,000 bottles you ordered this time, I can deliver the wine glasses, but I really can't deliver anything else."
Their cooperation has always been very friendly, and Shen Xiangwan is unwilling to cause any conflicts, but they really don't have that much energy to make a large number of wine glasses.
"Well, I still want 20,000 bottles of wine a month."
Knowing that she really wouldn't give in, Chen Dangjia had no choice but to give up. However, he still chose to continue ordering wine. The royal families outside the Great Wall particularly liked wine, and they would probably buy it even without wine glasses.
"no problem."
Shen Xiangwan agreed without a second thought. As long as she wanted, she could increase production at any time. This year, she wanted to make as much money as possible. She might not have the time next year or the year after.
"I heard your sorghum liquor production has increased. I should be able to get 100,000 kilograms, right?"
If possible, he would have asked for a huge amount long ago. God knows how well their sorghum wine sells in countries outside the Great Wall. The 50,000 catties last time was not enough, and 100,000 catties probably wouldn't be much either. It was because he was afraid that if he asked for too much, she would refuse.
"Master Chen, you really dare to speak."
Shen Xiangwan couldn't help but laugh, and nodded after finishing the job: "Okay, 100,000 catties is 100,000 catties, but don't give so much next time."
Their sorghum liquor really has no trouble selling. Even though the production has doubled, it is still not enough to sell. Not to mention the mature market in Chenzhou, the newly developed Mingzhou and Jiaozhou have extremely amazing sales every month. Wine merchants from other provinces have also approached them, wanting to purchase their sorghum liquor and wine. Cheng Yusheng rejected them all because the production of sorghum liquor really couldn't keep up, and she didn't have that many wine glasses to give away for wine.
"Thank you, Madam Wei."
Seeing that she didn't refuse, Chen Dangjia finally smiled and said, "This is the payment for the goods. Madam Wei, please click on it."
"No need, I still trust Mr. Chen."
After taking the banknote, Shen Xiangwan threw it aside without even looking at it. They had cooperated so many times, and she believed that Chen Dangjia should not be short of her money, unless he didn't want to do business with them anymore.
"Okay, I'll leave first if I'm fine."
With that, Chen Dangjia stood up. He still had to go to the village to buy sausages and bacon. Those things were especially popular among people from countries outside the Great Wall. Every time he bought as much as he could, he didn't worry at all that he would end up with a lot of stuff left over from not being able to sell them.
"Yuan Ying, please help me see Master Chen off."
"yes."
Yuan Ying stepped forward and gestured to Chen Dangjia: "Please!"
"Um."
After nodding to Shen Xiangwan again, Chen Dangjia turned and strode away. Yuan Yue, who had just returned from outside, happened to pass by them. Seeing that she looked a little unhappy, Shen Xiangwan couldn't help but ask curiously, "What's going on? Didn't you go to the kiln factory?"
"Stop talking, I'm almost pissed off to death!"
Sitting down opposite her in a huff, Yuanyue picked up the teapot and poured herself a cup of cold tea. She urgently needed to cool down and didn't care whether her behavior was a bit beyond her status.
[End of this chapter]
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