Chapter 1321 【1320】 Buried Female Farming Chronicle 48 (5000)

Next is the season for eating wild vegetables. There are too many toon, elmgrass, paper towel, locust tree, broom seedlings, gray cabbage, amaranth, etc. that you can’t finish.

Good news also came one after another.

First, the house in Tangjiacun was tidied up. The godmother-in-law set up a stall outside the county town specializing in soybean products. The business was not bad. She could earn a hundred or ten copper coins a day. Although it was very hard, at least she saw life.

The hope!

After Wei Ying left home, he would send her a letter every time he passed by. The letters introduced the people in each place in great detail. Fortunately, he could not write classical Chinese, otherwise she would have looked troubled.

brain.

Xiaomang would also bring these letters back for her when he went to the city to see his mother.

The most important thing is that they were really lucky to find a village with a hill tens of meters high. They planted fruit trees. There were almost 100 acres of land under the mountain, including dry land, paddy fields, and...

There is fertile land, and the asking price for the land alone reaches one thousand taels. Including the mountain, the total asking price is three thousand taels of silver. After the summer harvest, the ownership can be transferred.

Bai He also went over to take a look. In Zhuangzi, there was a well and a waterwheel next to the paddy fields. There was also a well next to the fertile fields. Although there was nothing on the dry land, it was still good, flat land.

The farm has pig pens, sheep pens, and poultry houses, as well as adobe houses where servants live, and brick houses where the owners come to stay on vacation.

The owner said that if his son had not made a fortune in Fucheng, they would still be reluctant to part with this village. Three thousand taels was the lowest price, a fixed price, and they refused to bargain.

Bai He went to the Escort Bureau and asked the people from the Escort Bureau to check the Zhuangzi and make sure there was no problem. Then he transferred the ownership of Zhuangzi to Xiangzi before the beginning of summer.

Why Xiangzi? Because she is a woman and unmarried women cannot establish a household, so they have to use Xiangzi's name.

Before Wei Ying left, he told her that if she needed help, she could go to the head of the escort agency, Lu. She felt that Zhuangzi couldn't miss it, so she went to visit him with fruits.

Unexpectedly, Miss Lu was quite cheerful and checked it out for her in three days. She did not dare to say that she wanted to buy Zhuangzi herself, but only said that she was asking for help from a friend.

So as not to be hated by others anymore.

Zhuangzi transferred the ownership before the beginning of summer, but Zhuangzi could not take it over until after the summer harvest. During this period, all the income from Zhuangzi still belonged to the original owner.

This Zhuangzi must be in a state of no one.

During the summer harvest, even the godmother and sister-in-law rushed home to join in the labor. Xiaomang and the godfather were already sweating from the work in the fields.

In previous years, she and Liu'er would bring them meals, but this year was no exception. They still gave them cold skin, cold noodles, jelly and other foods to relieve the heat.

Their wasteland was planted with rapeseed, which was harvested long before the summer harvest. Then they planted soybeans, and later made some bean paste.

The harvest in the wasteland is not good, mainly because the location is not very good, there is a lack of sunlight for maintenance, and the pests and diseases are also serious. In ancient times, there were no pesticides, so everyone relied on the weather. If there were too many bugs, Liu'er would catch the bugs and come back to feed them.

Chicken, I am a little tired, but the effect is immediate and good.

After all the grains are returned to the warehouse, the next season's rice has to be prepared.

Soon, Xiangzi came back and said that Zhuangzi had sorted it out and he could take the poultry at home to Zhuangzi. This also meant that the scope of poultry breeding could be expanded, but this was not the most important thing. The important thing was to contact Chang Gong.

Come and plant next season's food for their farm.

"I have closed the noodle stall. Sister, we have built such a big village with one hundred acres of land. Now I am also a proper landlord. Time does not allow me to set up a stall anymore, so I just

Once I can close the noodle stall, I will devote myself to renovating this farm."

"Your reaction is very quick. I was just about to tell you about this, but I didn't expect you to make arrangements. In that case, then stop setting up a stall and focus on tossing your village. My next arrangement

Yes, 30 acres of paddy fields are used to grow rice, 40 acres of fertile land are used to grow medicinal materials, 20 acres are used to grow vegetables, and 30 acres of dry land are used to grow wheat, soybeans, sorghum, millet and other miscellaneous grains. How easy is it to find long-term and short-term workers in farming?

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"It's easy to find. You don't have to look for these by yourself. When the time comes, they will take the initiative to deliver them to your door. However, our family is too small, and I can't do it alone. Even if Uncle Wei helps me, I think it will be quite difficult, sister.

Otherwise, you can go over and help

Me? That Zhuangzi is also close to Tangjiacun. Xiao Mang and Liu'er also went there. There are many people and strength, so we have to buy some people. The long-term and short-term workers will leave work and go home. When they are away, this Zhuangzi is normal.

Order must be reversed."

Bai He felt dizzy just thinking about it, "This village we bought is too big, so we can't even take care of the fruit trees on the mountain, right?"

Xiangzi also found that it was beyond his ability. He felt that everything seemed to be a problem when he entered this village. When he opened his eyes, he had to think about how much work he had to do today and how many mouths he had to eat. The long-term workers came to work here and had to take care of them at least a day.

One meal, one hundred acres of land, and thirty or so people can't be turned around.

Everything is difficult at the beginning, so Xiangzi should be worried. Unless she becomes familiar with this procedure in the future and Zhuangzi's rules are established, it will not be too late for her to be lazy and live in seclusion in the mountains. Now, I am afraid it will not be so easy to fall asleep and wake up naturally.

So the two donkey carts made four trips, and finally transported all the family's poultry, livestock, pots and pans to the village, including some of the Wei family's things, in Uncle Wei's words.

"The daily necessities have been put away, so it's better to pull them over and use them. Anyway, I won't be able to go back for a while. I can just keep one set for home use temporarily."

Bedding, clothes, sauce jars, everything that could be loaded on the donkey cart were all packed. But those that couldn't be loaded, she secretly moved them to space.

The villagers were reluctant to see her move. If they got sick again after she left, wouldn't they have to spend money?

Bai He could only comfort them: "I come back every now and then. Look at our house still here, how could we not come back even if we don't come back?"

But when they asked her where to move, she just said: "Our relatives have set up a village, and we are asked to go there to help and take care of food and housing. I will go over and help for a while. As long as I am free,

Come back immediately,"

After all, she didn't tell them exactly where she lived, not because she was afraid of them going to catch the autumn wind, or because she was afraid of seeing a doctor, but because she really hadn't stabilized yet and didn't want to cause unnecessary trouble.

"Our little home doesn't look big, but I didn't expect it to be quite large enough to hold things. We didn't even finish it in four trips, and the rest is enough for us to use when we go home occasionally."

When she arrived at her new home, Xinzhuangzi, both adults and children were very happy. Uncle Wei only said that it was the money she earned from selling medicine. No one except Xiangzi knew that it was the money from robbery.

Xiangzi and Uncle Wei went to Fucheng and brought back five middle-aged women who were cooking, five middle-aged men, and ten teenagers, ranging in age from ten to thirty years old, a total of twenty people, all using

Those who came to work were those who had been farming in the village for a long time. He also chose hard-working people who had experience in farming, planting trees and raising livestock and poultry.

After buying back the manpower, Xiangzi sent experienced middle-aged men to greet the long-term farm workers, and the literate ones were responsible for recording working hours. They worked for five hours every day, and before leaving work, they could go to Liu'er to collect the day's wages.

wages.

Five hours is ten hours. Considering that it is not easy to support a family, Bai He gave them three copper coins each, plus four large steamed buns and a portion of pickles, which is equivalent to almost five copper coins per person per day. Why is this so?

That's because their family has no limit on food, so you can eat whatever you want until you're full.

It can be said that the long-term workers are full at the midday meal, and in the evening four wotou and a portion of pickles can be taken home and shared with the children. This kind of humane arrangement is definitely the first of its kind in eight villages in ten miles, and all the long-term workers are grateful.

, Bai He also felt that it helped them and maximized his own interests, so why not?

It was quite troublesome to change a lot of change every day, so after a few days of implementation, I adopted the method of accounting and monthly settlement. Of course, anyone who needs it urgently can borrow it at any time, and just deduct it at the end of the month. It is all for physical strength.

Living, ten hours of work a day, facing the loess and back to the sky, Bai He felt that giving them a hundred and ten coppers a month was what they deserved.

As for the people who were bought, the women cost about five taels of silver, the young men cost about ten taels of silver, and the middle-aged men cost eight taels of silver. Since they were bought, they are like slaves. Logically speaking, it is enough to take care of food and housing, but

In order to motivate them to work, Bai He will provide a bonus system. Depending on each person's performance, he will give rewards ranging from ten to thirty copper coins every month. After all, they also have to live.

Bai He felt that he just opened a company with temporary workers and permanent workers. These two types of work need to be controlled in different ways.

Wei Cheng and Xiangzi were busy working in the fields every day, while Liu'er and the women in front were responsible for cooking.

Bai He originally wanted to find a medicinal farmer to plant medicinal materials, but later found that time did not allow her to plant too many types of medicinal materials, so she simply planted vegetables, melons and fruits, so that she would not have to do anything in the ground.

I have too much to worry about. Every day I lead San'er to patrol the fields and watch the workers planting land and vegetables.

The purpose of raising livestock in Zhuangzi is to accumulate fertilizer. Otherwise, where does the fertilizer for those fields come from? How much does it cost to buy it from outside?

So the poultry and livestock on the farm suddenly expanded. Twenty pigs and twenty calves were caught in the pig pen. The calves were raised to prepare the land for farming. Eight donkeys were also bought.

, she collected enough ten horses, and also went to the horse market and bought five horses. She spent a little money to get the eight horses in the space to have their identities, so she transferred the thirteen horses to Zhuangzi three times.

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Chickens, ducks, geese, quails and rabbits were also arranged, with more than fifty of each type.

Once such a large scale operation started, even Xiangzi felt that their family's food was not enough, and they had to go out and bring a cart back from time to time.

After all, it’s not just people, there are also these animals, chickens, ducks, geese and rabbits. There is grass everywhere in this season. If you put it directly in the mountains behind, no one will dig up the wild vegetables on the mountains. Grass seeds and insects are their food, so you can save money.

They did a lot of things without worrying about being stolen. Not to mention that the entire mountain belonged to their family, and the back mountain was a cliff that no one could climb up.

If it continues to develop at this scale, chickens and eggs will lay eggs, and we will soon be able to make back our money by selling chickens and eggs.

In order for these chickens, ducks and geese to lay eggs in a fixed place, so that they would not have to search for eggs all over the mountains and plains, they tried to circle a fixed place for them to move. Outside the area is the place for rabbits, and inside the area is the territory of chickens, ducks and geese.

To prevent them from flying over, nets were woven in the sky along with the fruit trees, and shacks were built to prevent them from getting gonorrhea when the weather was bad and they had no time to move to the shacks down the mountain.

In the first year, the livestock at home were not big enough to help with the work, so they had to rent cattle to plow the land. This was a bit troublesome, but it reduced the workload of these long-term workers and improved efficiency.

Most of the women who come to grow vegetables are women from nearby villages. They are hired as part-time workers. They don't have to pay for food. They only receive two coppers per person per day. However, it is eight hours of work, and they are not manual labor at all.

, even so, there are still many people who come to sign up, and their rules are simple. Don't eat and drink around to make up for your income. People who find that not only do they have no money, but also their family's long-term workers will be kicked out.

The short-term workers hired by the long-term workers are either their own sisters or their wives' relatives. When it comes to joint and several liability, who would dare to make up the numbers and be lazy?

After all, it's not easy to find a stable job these days. This shop also provides food and delivery, but there is no such shop beyond this village.

Therefore, everyone cherishes this hard-won opportunity, but it does not mean that some people do not take chances. After Xiangzi decisively fired five people, they realized that this was for real and never dared to make mistakes again.

Liu'er fiddled with the abacus to calculate the accounts. She felt very distressed when she saw the money flowing out like running water.

Bai He also advised her: "Because it is the busy farming season, there is no need to pay for seeds, labor, fertilizers, renting cattle, fodder for animals, rations of vegetables for people, and buying clothes and bedding for these people all year round."

Is it all a waste of money? But when the harvest comes in the fall, you will feel that the money spent is finally worth it."

"Actually, you don't have to wait until autumn. Look at these vegetables, the poultry, and the fruit trees on the mountain. Aren't these all net gains? There are male and female livestock. They can be bred and sold in the horse market in the future. You can't just look at what you have in front of you.
To be continued...