At the beginning, I was a rich female prisoner

"There are not many snake flowers left. I want to keep some for seeds and plant more so we can make beer next year. As for your secret recipe, I'll ask you for it next year when I have snake flowers. I also want to raise the price of beer again." Yang Yunsheng said.

Yu Yunxin smiled when she heard this. Yang Yunsheng was really a businessman who would not do business at a loss. She asked, "How much do you sell this beer for per bottle?"

"Twenty taels a bottle, but the supply is still insufficient to meet the demand. Some second-hand vendors are selling it at thirty taels a bottle and people are scrambling to buy it. I want to raise the price to fifty taels a bottle." Yang Yunsheng replied.

"Why are you selling it so expensive?" Yu Yunxin asked in surprise.

"What kind of place is Jiangnan? It's the granary of the world and also the money warehouse of the world. Scarcity makes things valuable. I've also let some middlemen take advantage of this business opportunity. Besides, this hemp snake flower is also very rare. After all, it came from the Western Regions. I spent a lot of effort to find two sacks this time. You must keep some for seeds!"

Yu Yunxin understood and nodded, "Okay, I get it. I'll leave some seeds."

Yang Yunsheng took out a stack of banknotes and said, "This is the money for 5,600 bottles of beer. A total of 56,000 taels. Keep it."

Yu Yunxin took the banknote and asked, "You have been traveling between Jiangnan and Nanling County by boat frequently recently. Have you heard about the troubles that Qianyue Valley is causing for the Cao Gang?"

Upon hearing this, Yang Yunsheng asked, "Miss Yu, do you know anyone from the Cao Gang?"

Yang Yunsheng looked at Yu Yunxin, nodded, and said, "I heard that the second in command of the Cao Gang suddenly disappeared. It was said that he stole the Misty Rain Order of Misty Rain Manor and disappeared. Now the Cao Gang and Qianyue Valley are sending people to look for Yu Zhen."

Yu Yunxin immediately understood the reason why Yu Zhen disappeared after stealing Yanyu Ling. Yu Zhen didn't want Shangguan Hongling to trouble Yu Yunxin. It was good that there were no modern probes in ancient times. Finding someone was like looking for a needle in a haystack. She immediately came to her senses and said, "Boss Yang, wait for your beer today. I just came from the porcelain kiln. I have made the beer cups. There are more than 5,000 cups in total. I will take you out to see them." After that, Yu Yunxin led Yang Yunsheng to the side of the ten ox carts and showed him the beer bottles and beer cups.

"One hundred taels for two bottles of beer and a cup for free is nice. No one should think the one hundred taels plus the cup are too expensive." Yang Yunsheng said, looking at the exquisite white porcelain cup.

Yu Yunxin didn't say anything. She was thinking about the second crop of rice. Yang Yunsheng looked at Yu Yunxin in a daze and asked, "What's wrong with you? Why are you so worried like an adult? Or do you still not know how to spend so much money?"

Yu Yunxin saw Yang Yunsheng trying to turn around, so she stepped back and said, "I'm only fourteen, don't have any improper thoughts about me. Besides, you're already in your twenties, so what's the age gap?"

Yang Yunsheng knocked on Yu Yunxin's head and said, "I just saw you were daydreaming and pulled you back. I thought too much about you."

"Have you ever heard about the second crop of rice in Jiangnan?" Yu Yunxin suddenly asked.

"I've never heard of the second crop of rice. What's the matter? What new way have you thought of to make money?" Yang Yunsheng asked.

"No, I'm just asking." Yu Yunxin said and turned to walk towards Huashan Village.

Yang Yunsheng rested for a while in the wooden house next to the beer workshop, tasted the beer duck made by Yu Yunxin, and then left Wangshan County with the goods.

Huyue Village is still under construction, and now there is only a temporary inn next to the official road. The delicacies are naturally fried chicken, roast duck, beer duck, and various braised dishes. With these delicacies, the people on this official road are basically ordinary people in the army now. Now the temporary inn has little income, but it can cope with the wages and expenses of so many workers. Although these people were left to her by her second uncle, it doesn't matter if they don't pay them, but Yu Yunxin is not an evil capitalist. She still has to pay the corresponding wages, otherwise her night market town will not be built until when, including the large vegetable shed she has to build around the ash forest in the back.

The tea garden is taken care of every day. She also mixes the fermented beer residue with rice bran to feed the chickens. The water used to wash the beer pot flows directly into the dug pond. Here she raises some ducks and geese. In winter, she will plant some ornamental lotus and water lilies in this pond so that it will be more lively.

Before harvesting the rice, she told Yu Tinghai about her idea of ​​harvesting more than 20 rice fields. Yu Tinghai was naturally pleased to hear it and asked, "Xin'er, you want the villagers to harvest rice according to your method, rent it for two months for one tael of silver, and give them the fertile land after cultivation? Do you know how many acres of rice fields there are in Wangshan County?"

Yu Yunxin asked, "Father, how many do you know?"

"Of course I know. There are a total of 340,000 acres of land, of which 180,000 acres of fertile land in Wangshan County are now rice fields." Yu Tinghai replied.

"Do you think anyone would give me two months' leave at 500 wen per mu?" Yu Yunxin asked.

"The villagers should give you 500 coins for two months. Now the villagers here have no other income, and 500 coins are enough for their expenses for about half a year. Otherwise, I will issue you a notice, 500 coins per mu for two months, and the land is well plowed." Yu Tinghai stroked his beard and said, "But where do you get so much silver? It will cost at least 90,000 taels of silver."

"Dad, don't worry. The Queen has given us a lot of rewards, plus the dowry left by my mother. The Emperor shouldn't say anything. Besides, if there is any gain, I still have to pay grain tax." Yu Yunxin said, counting on her fingers.

"Okay! I'll give you a document. You will bear the risk of whether Wangshan County can produce a second crop of rice. If it succeeds, it will be a good thing for the people of the world. Also, Your Majesty will exempt villagers from taxes this year as long as they participate in the construction of water conservancy projects and provide two able-bodied men. With these two pieces of news, I believe the villagers will be happy to give you the harvested rice fields." After Yu Tinghai finished speaking, he began to write the announcement.

The next day, Yu Yunxin first came to Xinghua Village, which was the first to have water. The rice ears here were fuller than those in the two villages outside the county town.

The villagers clapped excitedly after reading the two notices. When they heard that they would get 500 coins for harvesting rice according to Yu Yunxin's method, they were all willing to rent their fields to Yu Yunxin.

Today, Yu Yunxin was still wearing men's clothes to make it easier for her to work. Even Chunyu and Qiu Shuang beside her were wearing the same clothes. Yu Linshan also came to help, and even He Bo and Liu Bo came to Xinghua Village together.

Holding a sickle in her hand, Yu Yunxin said to everyone, "Everyone, watch carefully and cut the rice only about seven or eight inches long. Then she demonstrated it to everyone several times."

"We understand. When will the county magistrate give us the money?" The people in Xinghua Village asked for the benefit of the whole village.

Yu Linshan smiled and said, "Of course, after you harvest the grain and we inspect it to your satisfaction, we will give you 500 coins per mu as a reward."

"Okay, everyone, do you understand? If you don't understand, please look at it again. If you understand, let's start harvesting rice!" the head of the village shouted to the villagers.

"Some villagers replied, we understand that we will harvest the rice seven or eight inches below the ground and we will cut off the yellow leaves." Several strong men in the village shouted.

After a while, the crowd dispersed and a few people began to sing local folk songs.

Yu Yunxin asked the headman who was cutting rice in the field: "What are you humming here? I don't understand."

The village head smiled and replied, "This is a harvest song passed down by the older generation of Xinghua Village. It means that there will be a good harvest next year."

"So this is what the village head is like! Okay, you can just send us to other villages first." Yu Yunxin said.

"Okay, I'll see you off." The village head put down his sickle and wanted to see everyone off, but Yu Linshan stopped him and said, "The village head doesn't need to bother us, but we can't delay the autumn harvest."

"Okay, take care. I won't see you off." The village head didn't know what to say in the end, and these words came out of his mouth.

After everyone left, several villagers approached the village head and said, "Village head, do you think the county magistrate is a fool with lots of money? We have been farming for so many years and have never heard of a second crop of rice."

"Who cares? As long as we harvest the rice according to his method, we will get 500 coins. The land will be empty after the harvest, so we can just consider it as selling the rice stalks to the son of the county magistrate. We won't suffer any loss." One of the villagers replied.

The man from Xinghua Village patted the two of them and said, "This water was brought down from the mountain by the county magistrate. No matter how much we keep the rice farm, we should cut off the extra rice straw and yellow dead leaves so that we can feel at ease when we take the money."

"You are right, head of the village. We just need to do as you tell us." After saying this, the villagers went to the fields and started harvesting rice.

Yu Yunxin used the same method to go to other villages and was recognized by the villagers. After all, there was a money of 500 wen per acre, and some wealthy families had more than ten acres of land, which added up to more than five taels of silver. Who would resist money?

The whole Wangshan County is bustling with farming activities. Yu Yunxin knows that the most important thing for the second crop of rice is fertilizer. In the past few days, she has been collecting feces of various animals with the women in the tea garden, collecting leftover bones from restaurants, and picking up leaves from the mountains.

Everyone was very confused about what she was doing. Yu Yunxin just smiled and said nothing. She was going to make chemical fertilizers, and in the end she would get organic fertilizers. They were rich in nutrients and had a long-lasting effect. They could promote the growth and development of plants and improve the soil structure. He couldn't let women do the composting. He spent a few taels of silver and found a few men in Chenjia Village. Although it was a busy farming season, some villagers were willing to help her compost for the sake of money. She had to record the changes in the compost pile every day. Chunyu also sewed a special veil for her, but in this hot day, there were so many stinky things that even if she brought a few more sachets, the smell couldn't be covered up.

It takes about ten days to complete the pile. In order to prevent the unpleasant smell from spreading to the distant Chenjia Village, the villagers made some reed mats and covered the pile of fertilizer.

The governor heard about this and came to Xinghua Village. He saw Yu Yunxin busy distributing money to the villagers. After she finished, Governor Yang came over and asked, "Miss Yu, are you sure about the second crop of rice you made?"

"I'm not absolutely sure." Yu Yunxin said without even thinking.

"This is one hundred thousand taels of silver. Are you willing to give it away?" Governor Yang asked.

"This money from Governor Yang is not going to be wasted. Why don't I just give it directly to the villagers so that my father can become a respected county magistrate. When the emperor finds out, can we return to the capital earlier to become high-ranking officials?" Yu Yunxin said jokingly as she glanced at the rice fields with rice stalks left behind and said, "After the rice is harvested, the rice fields need to be irrigated." She wrote it down as she spoke.

"Okay, since I'm the prefect, I'll accompany you. Anyway, the villagers won't suffer any loss if they don't have money. My Nanling County has also asked all the people to do the same as Wangshan County. By the way, is there anything else I should pay attention to?" asked Prefect Yang.

"We need fertilizer. The fertilizer for the second crop of rice must be sufficient." Yu Yunxin replied.

"But where can the people get the fertilizer?" asked Governor Yang.

"Make your own compost! Making compost is not a difficult task. Yang Yunshou, I'll take you to see the manure I made these days." Yu Yunxin said as she pulled Qiu Shuang and Chun Yu to Chenjia Village, in front of three half-person-high piles of earth that she had people compost.

As soon as they approached Yu Yunxin, the other two put on sachets and added a layer of dried flowers. The smell made the governor choke. If he had rhinitis, this smell could probably cure it. Pointing to three large piles of earth covering two acres of land, he asked, "What did you use to pile these?"

Yu Yunxin directly wrote down the composting method and took Yang Taishou a little further away and said, "These things are available in the countryside. You can also collect some swill and leaves from restaurants. I don't need to tell you about farmyard manure. I think it should be available in both the countryside and the city!"

Governor Yang looked at the composting method, covered his nose and asked, "Will this work?"

"Sir Yang, you can come and see it in two days. It will be completed in less than ten days in such hot weather. The smell will not be so strong in two days. I will send someone to get the fertilizer in the middle to apply the first wave of fertilizer to the rice fields." Yu Yunxin replied, covering her nose.

"Okay, I get it. People in our Nanling County are not afraid of the stink." Governor Yang saw that the raw materials for composting were easy to find, but the smell made him happy and he left leisurely in the carriage.

Yang Taishou of Nanjun issued a decree that all the farmers in all the counties and villages should keep rice farms. When the prince, who was supervising the workers in Yuzhou, heard about the second crop of rice, he immediately ordered the prefects and governors of Yuzhou, Quanzhou and all the states in the south to follow this method.

Prefect Yang also wrote a copy of Yu Yunxin's composting method to all the prefects and governors south of Yuzhou and Quanzhou.

Officials throughout the South were reluctant to hear this, but they had no choice but to obey the prince's order and ordered all the people to harvest the rice and leave it in the rice farms.

Prefect Yang sent several officials to assist Yu Yunxin in recording the situation of the second crop of rice, which saved Yu Yunxin a lot of trouble. Even for composting, he found more than 30 villagers who came from different counties to learn the composting method, and invited some scholars to carefully record every step of the composting method.

After the prefectures and counties in the southwest and southeast had left rice stubs, the first rain arrived in Nanling County and Yuzhou.

"Miss, look, it's raining. It must be because you wanted to use the second crop of rice to help the people, and God is helping you." Chunyu said happily while looking at the rain outside the window.

Yu Yunxin glanced out the window and said, "This heavy rain came just in time. It looks like there is great hope for my second crop of rice."

"Miss, if the second crop of rice fails, your 100,000 taels of silver will be wasted." Chunyu said with some concern.

Yu Yunxin smiled and said, "No, at least I gave the money to the villagers. Chunyu, do you know how wealth comes from?"

"I don't understand this!" Chunyu said truthfully.

Qiu Shuang listened and smiled.

"Money is like water, it needs to flow out before it can flow in." Yu Yunxin pointed to the rain outside the window and said, "This rain can nourish all things, just like the money I spent is left in the hands of the people of Wangshan County, just like water spilled on the ground. The villagers can use the money to buy seeds for next year, or buy their food for half a year. Only when the people of Wangshan County live well can we earn more money in Wangshan County. If Wangshan County is full of poor people who can't even get enough food, how can we lead the people of Wangshan County to prosperity?"