Upon inquiry, I found out that there was a wealthy family who ordered more than 20 pigs every day.
Furthermore, the city gate officer discovered that every day when the city gate was opened, the whole city would rush out to the city as if they had agreed on it. They would line up to leave the city, three times a day, heading in the same direction. For two consecutive days, there was an indescribable smell wafting around the city gate.
When my boss came to inspect, he thought someone had dug a big dry toilet at the city gate, and it smelled really sour.
It took only five days to harvest all the wheat fields in Yunxi Town, and half of the land had been plowed. If it weren't for the concern that the labor intensity was too high and the livestock couldn't handle it, the sowing process would probably have been even faster.
Although everyone didn't understand why the boss was in such a hurry to harvest and plant, and although there was a lot of work to do every day, the boss also prepared food in various ways and the portions were large and filling, so everyone couldn't find any fault even if they wanted to complain.
What are you doing? It’s just for a bite of food!
But when a large amount of wheat fields were required to be planted with sunflowers, the village head and the village head could no longer sit still.
With the farmers' love for the land, they did not care whether they would be scolded by their employers and came to ask questions one after another.
What is going on? The farms here in the capital have never grown rice before. Now, these one thousand acres of land are all planted with something they have never heard of. What if there is a total crop failure? What will these people eat and drink?
Farming is not something that can be decided on a whim. Isn't this too rash? Our ancestors have been growing wheat for generations, so why did they suddenly change to rice?
To put it bluntly, isn't this like a blind man leading the way and giving blind orders?
Qiao Xin is not at the manor, and Shi Yazi is currently taking over all the work. He personally comes out to entertain these old manor heads.
Even though they are not very old, they may be able to become managers because they have gained experience among a large group of competitors.
He smiled and said to the visitor:
"Since the old lady has ordered this, we must carry it out unconditionally. It's not that we will have no food to eat. The more than 1,000 acres of rice in Laohu Town will be harvested in two or three months, and the Qiao Mansion has already stored some food in the past few days. You are also members of the Qiao family, how can we let everyone starve to death.
Besides, not everything passed down from generation to generation is necessarily good, otherwise how could everyone live in such poverty and still not have enough to eat?
Isn't this rush to harvest completely different from the past? Weren't there so many new farm tools before? Look, everyone has used them. Does anyone dislike them?
Again, don’t replace the master’s ideas with our own. If everyone could see everything clearly, we wouldn’t have to suffer poverty for generations.”
Wang Shulin was filled with shame when he heard this, and he was the first to apologize and leave. Once he did, the other people who came to question him also left.
As soon as he left the house, the village head asked Wang Shulin, "Why did you leave without saying a word? How can we continue to ask questions?"
"What are you asking? This land belongs to the Qiao family. They can do whatever they want. We should just do our own thing and stop worrying about other people's business. Don't be anxious when the emperor is not."
The village head was so anxious that he said something he didn't think of. "Hey, hey, hey, how can it be the same? They are the masters and managers, so they naturally worry about food and drink. How can we compare? We live on these little things in the soil. If this thing is harvested, and the Qiao family doesn't care about it, won't we all be doomed?"
Wang Shulin quickly covered the other person's mouth.
"How can you say such things? I don't know about others, but the Qiao family will not ignore it. These officials in Beijing make a living under the nose of His Majesty, so they have to be more concerned about their reputation. Besides, this used to be the imperial farm. If you just drag someone out, who knows who is behind it? As the head of the farm, how can you not know about this? If that day really comes, the Qiao family will not be able to hide it even if they want to."
These words obviously touched the heart of the village head. Even if others didn't know what kind of people in the village were, he knew it. Many of them were released from the palace of the previous dynasty, and some were exiled for offending nobles. In this village alone, there were more than a hundred eunuchs.
Although he looks like a villager, in fact people's hearts are not so uniform. As the head of the village, he is very restricted in doing anything.
I originally thought that Qiao Xin would do a great job of reorganizing the personnel after taking over the farm, but I didn't expect that they did reorganize it, but they only reorganized the fields.
They don't care what others think and rush to harvest right away. From the elderly to children, anyone who doesn't work will have no food to eat.
They eat three meals a day in the fields and mountains, and are not given the opportunity to bring the children home. Even if the children are sleeping in their cradles, their mothers have to carry them on their backs to do some light work.
Those who originally wanted to be lazy in the village, but hadn't seen a grain of rice for two days, and heard that everyone was eating fish and meat in the fields, with their mouths full of grease, how could they continue to lie down?
Qiao Xin doesn’t care what these people think. Even if she hears it, she won’t care.
If you have hands and feet and want food to be delivered to your mouth, you may have come to the wrong place!
The Qiao family didn't have enough surplus food to support idlers. As long as you were willing to work, you could have a meal. She saw who performed well during the harvest and who was lazy and slack, and made some preparations for the future population adjustment in the village.
If you are idle and refuse to change, I'm sorry, just go somewhere else and don't say she didn't give you a chance.
Yunxi Town, Linshui Town and Laohu Town will all establish different workshops in the future. The personnel issue will definitely require a thorough screening.
It was impossible for her to accept all of these original residents.
Shi Yazi is now reporting the results of the summer harvest to Qiao Xin.
"One mu of land yields only two shi. Some poorer plots may not even yield two shi. People usually grow wheat for one season, then grow some vegetables and sell them in the city in exchange for some rice."
On average, one mu of land produces less than 200 kilograms of grain. Is that so little? After deducting the portion that needs to be handed in, wouldn't there be very little grain left?
With this output, everyone has been able to stick to the old ways for so many years. No wonder they are suffering so much.
It is only the beginning of May, so it is still in time to plant another season of late rice. These are all excellent fields, but the fertility and seeds are not good enough. Due to the limitation of manpower, there is no opportunity to cultivate them carefully. In addition, natural disasters and other reasons have led to this result.
"Plant a grain of millet in spring and harvest ten thousand grains in autumn." What a beautiful ideal.
“There is no idle land in the world, but farmers still starve to death” is the cruelest reality.
Shi Yazi said, "Although this place is close to the Qingshui River, the terrain is higher than the river bank. The previous owner was reluctant to spend money to dig a water diversion canal like we did in our town, which made it difficult to irrigate the land. If we dig wells and build canals now, it will probably take a lot of manpower and may delay farming."
Qiao Xin also considered this problem, so she decided to plant sunflowers this year.
This thing is relatively drought-resistant. She planted the seeds first, and with the help of the next heavy rain, she could save the trouble of watering the land. Later, she could free up manpower to dig wells and build canals.
Where do the seeds come from?
Qiao Xin found an excuse to go out, and when he came back he hired a caravan, and this thing came.
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