Wear to the Ming Dynasty to farm

After the wells were dug for all the families in the village and Zhu Tiejiang's family, the well-drilling team wanted to make some money by drilling wells, so they persuaded Qiao Jiwei to lead them to dig wells in the village or county.

Faced with such a large business, Qiao Jiwei naturally did not refuse, and led them to the county seat the next day.The work of selling wine and clothes was naturally handed over to the two female relatives of the family.

Qiao Jiwei led the team to the county, and the first business was at the shopkeeper Wu's house. His family needed a lot of water every day to run the tavern, and it was troublesome to ask the tavern clerk to carry water every day.It just so happened that Shopkeeper Wu was close to Qiao Jiwei again, so the first stop of the team in the county town was naturally his house.

Shopkeeper Wu entertained them for dinner every day. After drilling the well, Qiao Jiwei undercharged Shopkeeper Wu according to the team's expenses in the tavern.

After completing this business, other families in the county also invited the well drilling team to dig wells for their homes.Faced with such a large customer demand, manpower was naturally insufficient, so Qiao Jiwei had to recruit another group of people from the county.

After discussing with a certain family in the county, Qiao Jiwei told them in advance to buy some iron and go to blacksmith Zhu in the county to forge water pumps.The fee charged for drilling a well is the same as when I was in the village—two hundred cash.Of the two hundred essays, Qiao Jiwei took fifty essays, and the remaining 150 essays were divided among others.Tiejiang Zhu gave other people money.

After all, drilling wells is faster than forging water pumps. Often the well drilling team drilled wells for three households in the city, but Blacksmith Zhu failed to build a single water pump.

The well-drilling team in this compartment had just dug a well for a family, and the neighbor lady of this family came directly to the yard to urge: "Your well has also been dug, hurry up and dig it for my family. My family just cooked beans and rice." , just eat and have enough."

Faced with this urging, Qiao Jiwei often refused.If the well-drilling team shakes blacksmith Zhu too hard, it will often put pressure on the blacksmith, and adding a well to the people's yard for nothing will increase the risk of falling into the well.Qiao Jiwei couldn't do such lifeless things just to earn more money in advance.

But other people in the team often say that Qiao Jiwei is stubborn, what is he going to do without making good money.

Be stubborn if you are said to be stubborn, it is always safer.These people have never encountered the disaster, so they think it is far away.The lives of the lower class people in ancient times were really cheap. Who would care if they fell into a well and died?I'm afraid no one remembers that Qiao Jiwei's team will be angered for no reason.

Over time, Qiao Jiwei found that this integrated model of building water pumps and drilling wells became more and more cumbersome.Qiao Jiwei made timely adjustments, separating blacksmith Zhu's work of forging iron from the work of digging wells here.If someone wants to suppress a well, he must first buy a water pump from Zhu Tiejiang, and then find a well-drilling team to dig a well for his house.

However, since Zhu Tiejiang was busy making suppression well pumps all day long, people in the county approached Qiao Jiwei to make appointments for water pumps and other business.In this way, Qiao Jiwei held several positions by himself. Although he was busy, he was able to handle various things with ease.

If there is no work to dig wells, these team members will wander around the city all day.

Qiao Jiwei sneaked back to the village to recruit people to grow sorghum.Qiao Jiwei does not plan to grow other crops this year, only sorghum and potatoes.I happened to meet Brother Xiang'er while digging the ground.Without saying a word, he went down to the field to help Qiao Jiwei.The two of them started to work, and the progress of farming was significantly accelerated.At dusk, Qiao Jiwei drove back to the county town.

Zhao Ji has been addicted to gambling these days, the servants at home have been dismissed almost, and today he has no cash for gambling.I don't know where to find out the news, and I found the place where Qiao Jiwei temporarily lived.

Qiao Jiwei opened the door for him personally.Seeing that Qiao Jiwei was really here, he smiled all over his face, "I knew you were here, come back to the village with me, and I'll sell you some more land, this time for five hundred yuan per mu."

Qiao Jiwei didn't have time to go back to the village at this time, so he immediately refused: "Let's wait a while, I have to lead everyone to dig a well."

Zhao Ji was a little anxious, "If it doesn't work, I will join the well drilling team."

Qiao Jiwei was about to refuse, but he couldn't bear Zhao Ji's repeated requests, so he had to be recruited into the team.But this Zhao Ji was born a young master, not only can't do heavy work, but also adds to the chaos, which is often said by others.

Blacksmith Zhu was obviously more nervous.But with him alone, it is obvious that he cannot meet such a large demand, so Zhu Tiejiang had to pass on the craft of forging pressurized water pumps to his son and several nephews at home.He would never dare to recruit apprentices, and if he learned to forge water pumps, he might steal his skills.

The more kill pumps he built, the more proficient Zhu Blacksmith's skills became.Even so, the manufacture of kill pumps is in short supply.

However, at this time, iron was also getting scarcer, and many clever people in the county seized this opportunity to collect iron everywhere in the county.Qiao Jiwei learned of this trend, so he sent Zhao Ji to Blacksmith Zhu to be responsible for keeping accounts, and he made the best use of him.

Many people in the county have accumulated a lot of scrap iron over the years, and they don't know where to throw it.Now, when these ironware are handed over to scrap iron collectors, they get a lot of money instead.The rusty scrap iron came to the hands of Zhu Tiejiang and others. After quenching and forging, they formed a well killing pump, which actually realized the reuse of waste.

Some painters also found Tiejiang Zhu's workshop and negotiated with Tiejiang Zhu to paint some flowers such as peonies, roses, chrysanthemums on the pumps, or engrave some poems from the Tang and Song Dynasties, and then Tiejiang Zhu paid them some money.For this reason, the water pump has also become like a work of art, and the appearance is better.Compared with the pumps at that time, the pumps made by Zhu Tiejiang for the first time were too crude.

Qiao Jiwei led the well-drilling team to and fro in the county until May.When it was time to grow peanuts and millet again, some members of the well-drilling team wanted to go back to the village to farm, while others wanted to continue digging wells in the county town to earn more money, relying on the strength of the women at home.

On the fourth day of May, Qiao Jiwei returned to the village with those who wanted to go home and farm, so as to celebrate the Dragon Boat Festival.Another group of people chose to stay in the county and continue to recruit some people to dig wells.

Families in other villages in the county who were struggling to make ends meet found that drilling wells was a quick job, so they rushed to join the drilling team, earning some money and improving the lives of their families.

At the same time, other well-drilling teams also appeared in the county, but found that most of the people in the county had well-killed wells, so they went to other counties in groups. , although a little overconfident, but since I have this idea, it shows that I am still enterprising.

After the Dragon Boat Festival, it's time to harvest the wheat again.

Qiao Jiwei was going to cut wheat in the field, but before he left, Xiang'er's family came.Before their family could harvest their own wheat, they had to cut it for Qian's family first.Because of the sincerity of this family, Qiao Jiwei himself felt embarrassed.

Qiao Jiwei followed them into the field, and just as he was about to cut the straw, the sickle was snatched away by Brother Xiang'er. "I'll chop these wheat, you rest."

For some reason, Qiao Jiwei always felt that Brother Xiang'er was a little too enthusiastic about him these days, and his eyes kept resting on him a few times.And brother Xiang'er hasn't married a wife yet, could it be?But Qiao Jiwei didn't think too much, and asked casually, "This year's wheat is growing pretty well."

"Yes, the rain and snow are good this year." Brother Xiang'er looked at Qiao Jiwei again when he spoke.

Last year, many people knew how to make wheat rubbing machines. This year, they carried them around the streets of various villages and made a lot of money.Qiao Jiwei didn't join in the fun, so he just collected other people's wheat at home.Qiao Jiwei paid at the market price of two cents per liter, and did not intentionally lower the price of wheat.After all, they are all from the countryside, and the most important thing in business is honesty.

The people who planted corn last year tasted the sweetness. This year, after more than ten days of cutting off the wheat, they all planted corn in the original field.Although these families are happy to grow corn, the size of the cornfields is still relatively small.Dyed hemp clothes and sorghum wine are sold in the county, and people in the village know which way to get money quickly. This year, most of them grow sorghum and hemp.They really didn't have this kind of awareness before. They only knew that there are many kinds of wheat to eat enough, so they didn't want to make some extra money.

And Qiao Jiwei further simplified, planting half of the five acres of land with potatoes and half with sorghum.

After planting the corn, the villagers became free again.People in the village took advantage of this spare time to start a sideline business. Those who knew how to make fish tofu went to sell fish tofu; Noodles or dumplings, although the income is meager, they can indeed earn some hard money.

Qiao Jiwei relied on the harvested wheat, ground them into flour, and then removed the bran.Beat eggs into flour made from new wheat and try to make cakes. Fortunately, Qiao Jiwei learned how to make cakes in modern times, and now he just uses them.

On the land of East Asia, most of the flour made from wheat is relatively hard, which is not very suitable for making bread and cakes.This may also affect people's eating habits to a certain extent.As the old saying goes, one side's water and soil support one side's people, and one side's water and soil can naturally support one's diet.

But cakes made of wheat from this place can still be sold, since the starch is the same anyway.

Qiao Jiwei added sugar and eggs to the dough one after another, and started baking the small cakes according to the steps he remembered.The aroma of the bread gradually diffuses during the baking process.Attracted by the scent, Jade asked, "Master, what did you do, it smells so good."

Qiao Jiwei said, "Cake."

Qiao Jiwei divided the baked cake into two halves, eating half for himself and selling the other half.

He put the cakes at the door of his house without yelling, just waiting for the villagers to buy them.

A villager passed by and saw that Qiao Jiwei had made new food, and said with a smile, "What is this?"

"cake."

"Why are you so capable? You can think of things that others can't think of."

Qiao Jiwei said: "No, it's just doing some small things."

There were not many cakes this time, and they were sold out quickly.Qiao Jiwei put the copper plate back home, went out and sat on a rock on the slope.

The grass on the slope was green, and Qian Dayong was all that came to mind at this moment, recalling his smile and his unreasonable troubles.This person is so strange, he doesn't care when people are around, but keeps important people in his heart when he's not around.

Qiao Jiwei was immersed in his longing, but he didn't know that Jade was also on the slope.She sat down next to Qiao Jiwei, and seeing Qiao Jiwei sitting in a daze, she asked softly, "Missing Brother Dayong?"

Qiao Jiwei shook his head.

Fei Cui continued her own words and said, "Brother Dayong treats the young master very well, and he is also in love with you, young master. You can hide it from others, but you can't hide it from me, you have him in your heart, don't you?"

Qiao Jiwei felt that Emerald talked too much, "Shut up."