Chapter 281 Taking over Caili Farm
Lu Yuhong’s study at Anzhou Academy is not just as simple as it seems. He also has a mission - to help Chu Lan find the Ninth Prince.
Because according to various previous clues, if the Ninth Prince is alive, he should be in the Jiangnan area.
"The overturn of the Xu Guogong case cannot be a coincidence. There must be someone behind it, but it's not clear who did it." Chu Lan asserted.
The emperor had always been obsessed with the late Empress Xu. If the Xu Guo case was overturned and the ninth prince was still alive, one can imagine the result. The situation in the court would inevitably change drastically.
"Hey, I don't understand this anyway. If you ask me to find it, I will help you find it. I don't care about the rest." Lu Yuhong waved his hands, not wanting to think about such a brain-consuming thing at all.
"Yeah." Chu Lan naturally knew that Lu Yuhong would not listen to this.
It was precisely because he didn't care about this that he was willing to tell him.
In his position, it is difficult to have someone who can understand and trust him...
Thinking of this, a figure suddenly appeared in Chu Lan's mind.
In the afternoon of that day, he and he sat leisurely in the yard of the farm, basking in the sun and drinking the secret tea that was only available there.
Thinking of this, Chu Lan asked the tea pavilion attendant: "Do you have winter melon tea here?"
The attendant shook his head in confusion, not knowing what winter melon tea was.
Chu Lan was a little disappointed: "Back off."
Lu Yuhong became more energetic: "Winter melon tea? What is that? Does it taste good?"
Lu Yuhong was much more interested in eating than in the disputes in the court.
"It tastes good, but you can't drink it anywhere else." Chu Lan said.
"Where can we get a drink? Let's go drink it!" Lu Yuhong was full of curiosity about things he had never tasted.
"Wait until you have the chance. You can't just go to that place if you want to." Chu Lan said.
"There are places in Taizhou that Prince Qi wants to go but can't go to?" Lu Yuhong asked suspiciously.
"Yes. Yes." After saying that, Chu Lan moved his eyes to the window and looked at the East Lake, thoughtfully.
It is not difficult to get into that place, but it is difficult to be welcomed in.
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The government office is in full swing, and Wei Ruo himself is not idle either.
Zhuang Ziwei Ruo, who had taken a fancy to Fei Tongpan that day, asked Xu Zhushan to come forward and buy it.
Fei Tongfan was an elegant man and named his village Caili Farm.
Wei Ruo thought the name was good so he didn't change it, and incidentally gave his original village a matching name: Younan Farm.
This Zhuangzi, Mrs. Yuan, also had a name before giving it to her, it was called Yuan Family Farm, so she removed the plaque when giving it to Wei Ruo.
Wei Ruo was also lazy and didn't give him a new name after taking over.
This time, it was thanks to the second Zhuangzi that I got a decent name. In this way, Wei Ruo has a total of three farms in Taizhou Prefecture, Xiaoyangshan Farm in Xingshan County, and Younan Farm covering an area of 2,000 acres (Mrs. Yuan donated 1,000 acres of fertile land, and subsequently purchased and expanded it by 1,000 acres) , and the fence-picking farm of one thousand acres of land that was just purchased.
90% of Xiaoyangshan Farm grows sweet potatoes. The harvest of sweet potatoes all over the mountain last year was very impressive. As long as the harvest is normal this year, it will not be a problem to fill several warehouses with sweet potatoes, and a lot of sweet potato additional products can be produced.
Younan Farm's original 1,000 acres of fertile land underwent rectification and top dressing after the wheat harvest this year. The 1,000 acres of land purchased later were relatively barren, so Wei Ruo spent some time improving it with top dressing, and it is now ready for planting. Eighty percent of the two thousand acres of land is now planted with rice, and the remaining 20% is waiting for Wei Ruo's taro planting.
Wei Ruo already had a general understanding of the situation of the newly purchased Caili Farm. The soil fertility was insufficient and many of this year's seedlings were frozen to death. Wei Ruo needed to make adjustments and arrangements.
In addition, Wei Ruo has a piece of sandy land in Baima Village next to Shitou Village. Now it is contracted to people from Shitou Village to help her grow sweet potatoes in the sand.
Wei Ruo's property now is much more than that of Xiaowei's Mansion. If Mrs. Yun knew that her daughter had so much property outside, I wonder if her jaw would drop.
Wei Qingwan always felt that if Wei Ruo competed with her for favor, she didn't know what she would think if she knew that Wei Ruo didn't need the Wei family's favor at all.
After Wei Ruo took over Caili Farm, he first met with the people in charge of the farm.
If Wei Ruo comes as Xu Heyou, and the owner of the farm is Xu Zhushan, the people in the farm naturally think that she is their young master.
Wei Ruo checked Zhuangzi's account books, and there were indeed a lot of problems, but they were all things Wei Ruo had known about before, so there was nothing surprising.
The farm was full of tenants. According to the original regulations, tenants had to pay a rent of one hundred pounds per acre per year.
In previous years, when the harvest was good, one acre could produce three to four hundred kilograms of rice a year. If the rent was one hundred, the remainder would be enough to feed and clothe the tenants' families for a year.
But since the year before last, the harvest has dropped sharply. Last year, the yield per mu was less than 200 kilograms. Even though the Fei Tongpan family exempted everyone from some rent, they could not completely solve the problem.
This year's cold wave froze to death most of the seedlings that were being drawn, causing the whole farm to feel gloomy and gloomy.
After Wei Ruo read the account books and inspected the situation, he directly gave the order: "I understand the situation, please go down and ask the tenants to shovel all the seedlings in the farm." After hearing this, the steward of Caili
Farm His eyes widened, wondering if there was something wrong with his ears.
Manager Zhao from Caili Farm is much younger than Manager Yu. He looks to be in his thirties, in his prime. He has a big beard, is tall and burly, and looks like he has no shortage of strength.
"Young master, this is not possible! This is absolutely not allowed! These remaining seedlings are the only hope left for farmers this year! If they are all pulled out, everyone will have no chance to live! They will all starve to death!" Manager Zhao quickly dissuaded him. road.
"Follow it. If you don't let everyone have enough to eat this year if you do what I say, I will use my own money to send two hundred catties of rice and two hundred catties of noodles to every household." Wei Ruo gave her answer directly without any nonsense. Promise of.
At this moment, Manager Zhao was stunned, his eyes, which were not very big, widened.
Their previous boss was already a very benevolent person, and would give everyone free rent during the year when the harvest was low, but I had never heard of any boss giving food to the tenants. This was simply unheard of!
"Or do you think these remaining seedlings will allow farmers to grow enough food for them to eat next year?" Wei Ruo asked.
Manager Zhao shook his head repeatedly.
"You can't just do what I say. My Younan Farm is not far from you. I don't know if you have heard about the wheat harvest at my farm before. If not, you can go there by yourself another day. Look at the granary over there, how much wheat is in it."
There was a small bug in the chapter updated yesterday, which has been corrected. Thanks to Baozi who pointed out the mistake for me~
(End of this chapter)