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Chapter 275 Master Hou Visits

In the busy time, it has been five months since Wang Dong came to Datang.

When the time entered July, Wang Dong found that the climate of this year seemed to be much higher than that of later generations. After entering July, Shanzhou was already in the midsummer state. Wang Dong quickly checked the information and found that the entire Tang Dynasty was in the middle and early stages. The earth has entered a warm climate era, that is, under such natural conditions, plateau areas like Tubo can be cultivated on a large scale, so a large number of nomadic peoples have risen because of this, and the Tang Dynasty has also experienced high yields brought about by high temperatures. Under the same conditions, it has also entered a period of bumper harvests year after year.

The benefit brought by the high temperature to Wang Dong is that he found that he originally planned to plant tobacco leaves for one season in Shanzhou, but the harvest came before midsummer. Can receive twice a year.

While Wang Dong was happy, he had to work overtime for days because of this. After all, the harvesting of tobacco leaves and the subsequent series of processing are quite professional technical tasks. Quan Datang is probably the only one who has learned planting in later generations. People who smoke tobacco and have fairly high agricultural skill points can complete this work, so Wang Dong had to take Wang Ji and a group of slaves to start chopping, tying and curing tobacco day and night.

He also selected some good roasted tobacco leaves and processed them into cigarettes, and sent them to the general office of the marching army to let Hou Junji get acquainted with the products he wanted to entrust him to sell.

In July, the weather was already unbearably hot, and the sugar beets had also entered the harvest season. The whole farm was extremely busy, and even Mrs. Yang came out from Shanzhou City to stay in the farm all day long, managing the field with Wang Dong and others. , and the harvested sugar beets have to be continuously transported to the sugar factory for processing, which makes Liang Shu, who has just obtained a managerial position in the farm, busy. I never tire of doing it.

This morning, seeing the sun was about to rise from the twilight in the sky, Wang Dong stood at the door of a small bungalow in the farm, staring blankly at the rooster. He knew that the guy was going to crow in just a few minutes. Well, I just have to wait for that rooster to crow, and the whole farm will be busy again.

"Tsk." Wang Dong sucked a toothache.

"Let's discuss it, why don't you stop calling today? I have been working hard for a month, and I am more tired than working in the modern world... Do you know twelve hours a day? Twelve hours, twelve hours I worked from sunrise to sunset, and the slaves were asleep, and I had to go to the factory to watch. I’m not as good as a serf..."

"Don't dare to stop, don't dare to stop for a second, once you stop, the system will remind me of the task, I really don't want to do it anymore."

Just as Wang Dong was thinking about the rooster, thinking about killing the rooster secretly, and then he could declare that he didn't hear the rooster crowing, so it was natural for the whole farm to have a day off , he suddenly saw He Luo running in from the outside excitedly

"My lord, Hou Shangshu is here."

Wang Dong was taken aback for a moment and finally shifted his focus from the damn rooster, and looked up at He Luo.

About 5 minutes later, Wang Dong rode out of the farm with He Luo and others, and Hou Junji came to Wang Dong very quickly.

Wang Dong asked curiously: "My lord came to my Zhuangzi in a hurry today, but what's the matter?"

Hearing that the car curtain was opened, Hou Junji sat inside with a smile on his face and said to Wang Dong: "It's nothing, I just came here to take a look... It's just that, the things you gave me two days ago are still novel. "

At the same time that Hou Junji said these words, Wang Dong already understood what Hou Junji was here for... He saw that while he was talking, the cigarette dangling from his mouth was still flickering on and off.

Wang Dong was a little speechless. It was only less than ten days since he gave Hou Junji cigarettes. He never thought that Hou Shangshu could not leave his cigarettes now... Sure enough, it was because Datang's life was too boring, so he didn't What things can be adjusted, are people particularly prone to addiction to smoking?
After greeting each other with Wang Dong, Hou Junji poked his head out of the window and looked at Wang Dong's dry house in surprise, then nodded and said, "I didn't expect you to spend such a short time, Raise all these houses."

Wang Dong said with a smile: "It is because of the adults that I invited such a good field, and our Wang family was able to build this property."

Hou Junji smiled and waved his hand, his car moved forward, and soon passed by an acre of tobacco fields being harvested.

Hou Junji watched with great interest as many slaves in the farm outside the car were chopping tobacco leaves, and some specially tied the tobacco leaves into bundles in a staggered way, and put them on a wooden stick, and then carried them together Go, and asked Wang Dongdao curiously: "Is this the raw material for the cigarette you sent me?"

Wang Dong smiled and nodded: "This kind of tobacco is the main crop in our farm."

Speaking of this, Hou Junji couldn't help but show an expression of interest, he took a few more glances at the workers who were chopping cigarettes, and then said with a smile: "A while ago you brought me these cigarettes, saying they could be smoked. To relieve fatigue, I thought it was nothing at first, but I didn’t expect to like the taste after I smoked it twice, and now I don’t smoke it for a moment, so I feel like there is no taste in my mouth.”

Hearing this, Wang Dong felt a little guilty. He gave Hou Junji a pack of cigarettes, and briefly explained how to smoke. He originally wanted his future backer, who was sure of himself, to get acquainted with his own products. In less than a day, he became addicted to smoking.

"My lord, are you almost finished smoking? If you still want it, you can get some more from me."

When Wang Dong said that Hou Junji nodded eagerly, he smiled and said: "Oh, that's true... the carton of cigarettes you gave me was smoked out in the blink of an eye. Tell me, tell me, if it hadn't been for today I just have time to come to your place, but my place is closed for a while...hahahaha."

Wang Dong couldn't help rolling his eyes when he heard the words, he understood why Hou Junji came here specially today, and at the same time couldn't help being surprised, after smoking a cigarette in ten days, it seems that Master Hou has quickly entered the ranks of old smokers.

At this time Hou Junji smiled again and said: "And the canned white fungus you sent me, I eat it is also very good, um, every time I eat it, I feel my lungs are very lubricated."

It's okay to moisten the lungs while smoking.

Wang Dong complained in his heart, and at the same time the car continued to move forward, Hou Junji lifted the curtain to look out the window from time to time, and found that the tobacco fields around him seemed to be endless. After walking for about 5 minutes, he couldn't help but asked Wang Dong, "What is it?" How many acres of tobacco have you planted?"

When Wang Dong heard this, he immediately said to Hou Junji: "It's about seven or eight hundred acres."

Hou Junji couldn't help being stunned when he heard the words, he never imagined that Wang Dong actually planted so much tobacco.

Before he could ask a question, the group of people had already arrived in front of the farm buildings. Before that, Hou Junji had only seen the dry houses from a distance. Because the land was too big, those houses could not be seen on the horizon. It's not clear, but when he actually arrived at the living area of ​​the farm, Hou Junji couldn't help being stunned.

Wang Dong's farm did not have the beautiful and grand mansions of ordinary landlords' homes. Instead, in the shortest possible time, slaves had to build rows of dry houses. Too much.

Wang Dong's farm now has a total labor force of nearly 100 people. In order to ensure the labor efficiency, Wang Dong does not give them a low quality of life, so everyone builds a work shed.Anyway, the cost of building a dry base shed is not high, especially after the slaves have mastered the skills of making dry bases, building the work shed is a kind of work that can exercise their skills.

Arranging work sheds for a hundred workers was actually placed in the Su's Building in later generations, which was a matter of several tube buildings. However, at this time, the dormitories that Wang Dong could accommodate them in were all bungalows, and bungalows with a standard of 100 people were spread out. The visual impact is quite great, and with the addition of the dining hall, bathhouse, toilets, etc., what appears in front of Hou Junji is a very simple one in Wang Dong's eyes, but in the eyes of the Tang people at this time, it can be called Tight and organized simple living area.

Rows of dry-basket houses have a uniform standard, so neat that even the heights of the doors and windows are exactly the same. The ditches at the entrances are horizontal and vertical, and each ditch is carefully covered with stone slabs. There are workers on duty holding brooms Diligently cleaning the public roads, farm workers walking by in twos and threes chatting and laughing, and some people yelled at each other, and walked to the cafeteria with rice bowls.

This neatly arranged convening appeared in front of him at once, and it looked quite imposing, especially when he was unprepared, Hou Junji couldn't help being stunned when he saw it.

(End of this chapter)