The fierce peasant woman is busy farming

The people around the queen are all capable people.

Anyone who is sent out by the queen to do something must be someone she thinks is useful.

Zhou Yue was happy to let go. It was better that she didn't have to worry about anything other than technology and business model.

By the time Zhao Shouzhong had finished setting up the restaurant, the sanitary napkin workshop was also completed in a large house next to the imperial palace.

Even the embroiderer has been found.

Zhou Yue had already sent Qing Mo back to Yi County to make preparations, and he came here to report that everything is ready.

The embroidery master sent from Yi County also arrived, and Sun and several cooks from Fenghuangtai Village also arrived.

Princess Ning and the Queen saw that the technicians employed by Zhou Yue were all women.

Only those heavy work that requires carrying things on one's back or shoulders are done by male laborers.

Everyone was surprised.

This is how Zhou Yue explained it to them: Life is not easy for women in the countryside. They need to take care of housework at home, take care of their husbands and children, and work in the fields outside to earn money to support their family.

Now I have the ability to teach them a skill, and when she was teaching, she found that women have more advantages than men in learning technology, management, sales, etc.

Women are careful, intelligent, have strong empathy, better endurance, and are more grateful. They do everything very well.

Therefore, I think that on the one hand, it will give women all over the world more opportunities to work; on the other hand, it will make her own business better, and she can employ more women.

Princess Ning and the Queen, both women, agreed with this.

Not to mention the common people, many of the women around them are very smart and can learn things once taught, but they just don't have the opportunity.

They thought that if women were given the same opportunities and stages, most of the people standing in the court would probably be women.

I have had this idea for a long time, but I just didn't dare to say it out loud and risk the world's disapproval.

Now that Zhou Yue has such insight, they all feel the same way.

While Zhou Yue was busy in Beijing, Master Cui in Yi County was also busy.

Some of the measures he took to improve people's livelihood took effect quickly.

When spring comes and flowers bloom, Yizhou Prefecture is thriving.

The emperor was very happy when he received the report.

After all, he is still Prime Minister Cui, and his methods are still as sophisticated and effective. However, it is a waste of his talent to be a palace lord.

When Zhou Yue returned to Yi County, Xuan Mo and Jun Mo both entered the county school.

Master Cui suddenly transformed himself into a master of the mansion.

Zhao Shouzhong followed Zhou Yue to Yi County like a follower.

Of course he knew Master Cui, but they had no friendship before and he didn't dare to have any friendship.

When I got here, I didn't dare to visit.

I've only met him a few times in Qingmo's shop.

Zhou Yue returned to Fenghuangtai Village because the village chief said someone wanted to sell land.

This time someone was selling paddy fields. Although the amount was not large, it was at least 30 acres.

Thirty acres is nothing compared to the thousands of miles of fertile land in the Central Plains and the south.

But in the northern mountains where there is a shortage of soil and water, it is already a large piece of land.

When Zhou Yue heard the news, he immediately took the money and went back to the village to check.

Although the farmer, Yuan Mo, is not at home, he will still buy land if he has the chance.

The main reason is that there are not many such opportunities.

Farmers and landlords all regard land as their life.

Unless I encountered a huge difficulty, I would not think of selling the land.

Otherwise, a hundred years later, when you go to the underground, you will not be able to face your ancestors.

After buying the land, even though family members were busy with their own things, no one was farming it.

You can also rent it out to someone else to grow for a while and wait for Yuan Mo to come back.

It’s early spring now, but I still haven’t made any plans on how to farm the land at home.

Old Man Ning had no experience with the cotton seeds that Yuan Mo and Zhou Yue brought back, and didn't know how to plant them.

Zhou Yue didn't know either, so she had to ask Master Cui for advice.

Master Cui was very interested. Although he didn't understand it, he knew many people in Beijing.

He wrote a letter to his friend who was an official in the Ministry of Revenue in Beijing, but received no reply.

After waiting for a long time, someone from Beijing came. It turned out that the Ministry of Revenue had no experience in growing cotton in the north.

But considering that cotton cultivation was introduced from Anxi, the climate there is no warmer or more humid than that in the north of the Dahui Dynasty.

It should be possible to plant it here.

Later, Xuan Mo found a travelogue of an ancient person among the many books given to him by Master Cui.

It records in detail the cotton planting techniques and management methods of the plants at different stages.

There are also possible pests and diseases that may be encountered.

Master Cui was overjoyed and asked the court to allow Yuan Mo to return home early to experiment with cotton planting.

The area of ​​cotton cultivation in Dahui Dynasty is currently very small and the yield is extremely low.

The amount of cotton needed by Dahui every year was huge, and most of the money was earned by merchants west of Anxi and overseas traders.

If cotton can be successfully grown in the North and promoted on a large scale, it will be a major leap forward in agriculture.

Master Cui had been in the Ning family for a long time and knew that Yuan Mo loved farming and summarizing his experiences.

Originally, it was his family that proposed the cotton seeds, and now Yuan Mo is in charge of this matter, and the court only gives a small amount of money and seeds.

In the final analysis, the court made the profit.

This is a major event that will benefit future generations. If successful, even the emperor will be recorded in history books by future generations.

The court quickly replied that the Ministry of Revenue went to the Ministry of War to negotiate, and it turned out that he was just a soldier serving in the military.

Moreover, he served for less than a year and did a lot of things at the border.

His family brought many benefits to the soldiers at the border, and everyone from top to bottom spoke well of Yuan Mo.

It was already April when Yuan Mo received the order and made a long journey back home.

In fact, most of the farming season this year has been missed.

However, in the mountains in the north, the weather is still very unstable, with changes from hot to cold.

Some crops may not survive even if they are planted.

Therefore, farming in the north starts later.

Zhou Yue discussed with Yuan Mo, who had just arrived home exhausted, and decided to start sowing cotton the next day.

The court allowed Yuan Mo to return home early because he was allowed to grow cotton. It would be unreasonable not to plant some cotton this year.

In order to make the seeds germinate as quickly as possible, Zhou Yue thought and thought, and came up with a solution, which was to cover them with film.

If there is no film, it can be replaced by other things.

For example, wheat straw, oil paper, and even Zhou Yue experimented with papermaking in advance for this purpose.

Then apply oil on the paper to make oil paper as thin as a cicada's wing to cover the seeds.

One is to keep warm, two is to retain moisture, and three is to prevent wild animals from gnawing on seeds and seedlings.

Afterwards, I found that the effect was quite good.

Yuan Mo was also deeply inspired and thought about this matter every day. He built a shack next to the broken land in the mountains and lived and ate in the mountains all day long.

Well, after all, Master Cui, Xuan Mo and the others came down from the mountain, and Yuan Mo moved in again.

But his conditions are not as good as those in the cave. At least the cave doesn't leak much.

His shack leaked when it rained. It rained heavily outside but drizzled lightly inside.

Zhou Yue felt sorry for his eldest son and muttered: It would be nice if we had a tent.

When Yuan Mo heard that the army had tents, he immediately asked Grandpa Ning to make a tent for him.