Crossing the Qinghe Landlord GL MTL

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After seeing off a businessman from Hongzhou, Zhang He closed the door and turned back to the eaves. In such a hot day, thanks to the ice provided by these merchants, she felt much cooler. Plus the iced watermelon, it was a pure enjoyment.

　The watermelons in the field have grown. In addition to entertaining visitors and selling them to Sun Ning, she usually chills them and shares them with Xia Jiniang and Zhang Xian. And Little Peanut was still young, so Zhang He could only let her drink a little watermelon juice.

　Little Peanut has already grown two lower front teeth. In addition to drinking milk, Zhang He also asks Xia Jiniang to make some mashed potatoes and egg yolk soup for her to eat. Xia Jiniang remembered that when Xia Jin was that old, all he drank was rice porridge. She didn't understand how Zhang He figured out how to let little peanut eat such food. The problem was that little peanut loved to eat it!

　If Zhang He or Zhang Xian also ate egg yolk soup when he was young, then potatoes only became available in recent years. How did Zhang He know that peanuts were edible? But there were so many puzzles about Zhang He, and she didn't care about such a small thing.

　Eating watermelon, Zhang He suddenly said: "How many cold melons did Sun Ning's people come to take away today?" These days, she is either hiding in the backyard mill studying the pedal thresher, or entertaining visitors, and Sun Ning's main store When people come to buy fruits and vegetables from her, Xia Jiniang is responsible for the reconciliation.

　"About fifty." Xia Jiniang said.

　Sun Ning bought not only potatoes and white eggplants from Zhang He, but also watermelons. Although he also planted some watermelons in his field, they didn't feel as sweet as Zhang He's. Zhang He only planted more than 600 melons per acre, and he bought more than 400 of them one after another.

　If Zhang He had not grown too many fruits and vegetables, Sun Ning might have bought all the ingredients for his store from her. He once said to Zhang He, "If Qing'an also opened a restaurant, there would be no need to worry about lack of business!" Zhang He smiled

　: "It's a pity that I can't operate it."

　Sun Ning said in surprise: "Doesn't Qing'an know that His Highness asked the officials to allow the Pinguan House to operate?"

　His Highness naturally refers to the prince, while Guanjia refers to the seriously ill emperor. After the emperor became seriously ill, the prince was in charge of government affairs. However, the prince did not dare to usurp the emperor's power at this juncture, and everything was still reported to him. One of the things he did was to allow Pinguan's family to open a shop for business.

　In the past, Qin Emperor Gaozu prohibited not only officials but also their families from engaging in business in order to prevent the officials' families from taking advantage of their power to compete with the people. However, it is limited to immediate family members. For example, Sun Ning is Tong Liyu's brother-in-law, which does not count.

　But with the relaxation of the system, some high-ranking officials will still do some business to accumulate more wealth. When King Shou and King Jia were competing for the position of crown prince, in order to win the support of more people, they offered such conditions, which made 80% of the officials in the court support him.

　However, the prince did not completely condone the business of high-ranking official families. He stipulated that officials who were in office or idle at home, the children of scholars with family qualifications, those who had been awarded the title, and the family members of officials who were local officials were not allowed to operate. If the operations of other persons not within the scope exceed a certain amount of assets, they will not be exempted from the privilege of allocation.

　Zhang Heyi has no official position. Although he has the qualifications, she is destined to not be in her turn. It is no problem for her to do business. Thirdly, she has no official position. Her only relative who is an official is also in Luoyang.

　Zhang He is not interested in doing business, but if she can grow peanuts, tomatoes, pumpkins and other crops in the future, she can open a restaurant to sell new crops.

　This day seems a bit far away, but there are people who can benefit from this policy. She said to Xia Jiniang: "If it can be implemented, the second brother will not have to worry about the eldest brother being a Jinshi and will not be allowed to operate in the future!

　" My mother is also happy for Xia Luo Silk, just because Xia Luo Silk is now being traded by the Fang family, and it is guaranteed not to lose money. Moreover, the government took great care of his herbal medicine shop, and everyone in the herbal medicine shop knew not to use unfair means to suppress him.

　On weekdays, there are also some individual customers who come to him to buy herbal medicines, and there are also poor people who want to take advantage of his crude medicines. The business of his herbal medicine shop is getting better and better. Not only did he change to a larger shop, he also hired two junior brothers to help him.

　Some time ago, he paid back the money that Xia Jiniang lent him one after another. Xia Jiniang found that even after he exceeded the original loan, he still continued to give her one or two thousand dollars a month and refused to accept it.

　Xia Luosi had no choice but to say: "If it hadn't been for Ji Niang and my sister-in-law, I would have died in prison unjustly. Moreover, the Fang family only did business with me because of your face. I will return this to you every month." A little money can't repay your kindness! The dowry you lent me back then is treated as your share in this herbal medicine shop. You should share some of the money you make every month!" Xia Jiniang had no choice but to accept the money

　. , even though her and Zhang He's family wealth is now hundreds of times greater than this amount of money.

　However, Zhang He does not want to live solely on the current income in the future: the side yard and backyard of her home are being expanded. In addition to the barn, cowshed, donkey shed and chicken coop, she also bought a house on the west slope from the government. In the wasteland, a pasture was built.

　The pasture is only twenty acres in size. It has sheep pens and pig pens, and houses the twelve sheep she put out from the system and eight pigs.

　A sheep is worth five thousand yuan, but a pig is only worth one thousand yuan. Zhang He only needs to pretend to buy sheep on different days, and he can unknowingly release the animals from the system. Raise it openly. Xia Jiniang gave her money to buy pigs and sheep, so she naturally kept it quietly.

　Zhang He also secretly sold the bad horse, and then took out the good horses in the system and let them roam here. When she took Little Peanut for a walk here, she would walk the horse by the way, and most of the time she would lead the horse back to the stable.廄里.

　In order to prevent someone from stealing sheep or pigs, Zhang He hired two people to help him, one to raise pigs and the other to herd sheep.

　In early June, when Zhang He's employees were wondering when Zhang He would tell them to harvest the hundred acres of rice fields, Zhang He shouted excitedly in his backyard.

　Little Peanut, who was originally in the cradle, was about to be coaxed to sleep by Xia Jiniang. She was so frightened by her shout that she immediately opened her eyes. Xia Jiniang looked at her, and she looked at Xia Jiniang, and then she burst into tears.

　"..." Xia Jiniang had no choice but to pick her up and comfort her, while Zhang He ran in excitedly and said, "Jiniang, I built the threshing machine!"

　Zhang He built the thresher a long time ago, but she tried it several times, and either some parts came off the axis or the gear teeth didn't fit together. Fortunately, Qiu San asked the metallurgist to help make many gear teeth, giving her more opportunities to debug. After trying for most of the day today, she was sure that there would be no more problems before she dared to tell Xia Jiniang that she had succeeded.

　Xia Jiniang had a straight face, showing no joy at all. Zhang He's enthusiasm cooled down slightly. When she looked carefully, she saw that little peanut was crying hard. She asked: "What's wrong with the peanut?"

　"Your yell scared her, and you asked what's wrong?" Xia Jiniang was happy for Zhang He, but compared to the thresher, the little peanuts were more important. .

　Zhang He said angrily: "I, let me coax her!"

　Xia Jiniang handed the little peanut to Zhang He, and the little peanut hit her chest mercilessly with his little fist. She pretended to be injured and said: " Ji Niang, I was beaten by her!"

　Xia Jiniang pursed her lips and smiled, and said: "That's right!"

　Zhang He also grinned, and while coaxing little peanut, he carried her out and said, "I'll take you to have a look. New farm equipment!"

　Xia Jiniang also followed, but the thresher was already very familiar to her. After all, she saw Zhang He tinkering with it every day, but this was the first time she saw how it worked.

　"How to get rid of the grain?" Xia Jiniang was very curious.

　"Jiniang, step on the board below."

　Xia Jiniang hesitated for a moment, but still lifted up her skirt and stepped on it gently, and saw the roller in front of her begin to rotate. She was a little surprised, stepped on it a few more times, and found that the wooden board under her feet would not only return to its position as she released it, but also make the roller rotate faster and faster without her exerting much force.

　"At that time, put the rice ears on it, and the grains will be knocked off. But Ji Niang, you have to be careful not to touch it, otherwise your fingers will be broken." Zhang He reminded.

　Xia Jiniang retracted her foot, glanced at Zhang He again, and said, "Then why don't you hold the peanut further away? What if you accidentally...?"

　"Look, she's not crying anymore!" Zhang He was surprised to discover this fact. Little Peanut turned his head to look at the rotating drum, and he was also very curious.

　"Yeah~ Yeah!" Little Peanut responded cooperatively.

　Xia Jiniang smiled and asked, "What has Erlang decided to name this farm machine?" "

　There was a wind grain machine before, and now it is a threshing machine." Zhang He did not intend to use the pedal-type threshing machine of later generations for his farm equipment. After all, the name is so complicated that it is difficult for ordinary people to remember it.

　"It's easy to remember." Xia Jiniang had a close connection with Zhang He, and she said, "Now that we have a threshing machine, it's a good thing for us!" "Why is it only a good thing for me?" Zhang He asked

　. 　"With it, we don't need to hire too many people to help with harvesting. How can we think it's a good thing if some people don't have this job?" With the pedal threshing machine, the efficiency of

　threshing has been greatly increased.

, not only makes people feel more relaxed, but also greatly reduces the loss of grains. The threshing work that originally took half a month to complete may be completed in just a few days. This is useful for some families who need to find work. Talking about nature is not a good thing.

　Zhang He smiled and said: "But the advancement of agricultural machinery can reduce the suffering of the people and make them more active in farming. Overall, the people's life will only be better, not worse." I was worried that Xia Jiniang would hear this. If you don't understand or doubt her, she can't explain it to her using words like "production level".

　"I'm worrying too much," Xia Jiniang said.

　Although Zhang He developed a threshing machine, she still needed help from hired workers. After all, she planted a hundred acres of rice, and the threshing machine could not operate at high intensity.

　When she moved the threshing machine to the edge of the field to teach the employees how to use it, many villagers came over after hearing the news. They were all very happy when they heard that Zhang He had figured out a "threshing machine" that no longer required hard work to thresh the straw. Interested.

　It was also Zhang He's first time to use a thresher to thresh grains. When a bunch of straw was rolled on the drum several times, 90% of the grains were removed, and only some scattered grains remained stubbornly on the rice stalks. As she demonstrated, there were bursts of exclamations from the surroundings, and some even wanted to reach out and touch the roller out of curiosity.

　Zhang He warned: "If you want to cut off your hands and feet, just go ahead and put them on." They were so frightened that they retracted their hands and did not dare to touch them.

　Zhang He carefully warned the hired workers, telling them that they had to stop after using it for a while, and also taught them how to disassemble the wooden buckets containing grains... And the name of her threshing machine spread throughout Qinghe Village overnight

　. Every day, people come to her field to watch how it works. Some people can no longer hold themselves back and ask her to borrow a threshing machine. Their reason is simple: "My family can't afford to hire anyone to help. If there is such a farmer, It can save a lot of effort..." This

　is the first time that the threshing machine has been used, and Zhang He cannot guarantee whether there will be any problems. And after every use, she had to hire workers to move it back for maintenance, so she could not rent it out for the time being. Many people were very sorry for this.

　With the use of the threshing machine, and Zhang He also deliberately controlled the number of stones of rice, everyone discovered that Zhang He's 100 acres of field produced a total of 400 stones of rice, with an average of four stones per mu! Some people attribute this to the threshing machine that reduced the loss of rice, while others believe it is because of Zhang He's grain seeds.

　No matter what they thought, it was one of Zhang He's purposes. She did not control the output to three stones and five buckets as usual. Firstly, it was to make everyone realize the importance of the threshing machine. Secondly, it was also for her future. There is no need to hide part of the food in the system.

　As long as she slowly increases her output, there will be a steady stream of people coming to her to buy grain seeds. Her purpose is naturally not to make money, but to prevent the yield of high-quality conventional rice from declining in a few years or even more than ten years.

　As long as her high-quality conventional rice is always transported to the outside world, and then slowly increases from four stones to four stones, five buckets, five stones... or even seven or eight stones, as long as she is still alive, or the system still exists, it will take a few decades. It will not be a problem to ensure that every household has a surplus of food.

　She didn't think about the problems after her death. After all, when the production level improved, the output of food would naturally increase, and with potatoes and sweet potatoes, the people's food and clothing would no longer be a problem. As for the court's taxation, it was beyond her control.

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