To Rule in a Turbulent World

"Qi Min Yao Shu" is dedicated to the disposition of various crops, including what kind of fertilizer to apply in which area, whether it is plant ash or human and animal urine, etc., as well as the key points of threshing and seed selection.

"Shen Nong Jing" talks about the types and functions of plants.

Without exception, these books all have comments from my mother. It seems that my mother also wanted to renovate the villa back then, enclosing a few small plots of land for farming. There are corresponding analyzes in the book, which mentions, No matter how the land is, what the harvest is, and what the price of rice is in the market outside, some rice must be planted to avoid famine.

Qiao Keer also wrote about the plague in the south of the Yangtze River that she encountered when she was a child. That plague left a deep impression on her.Therefore, whether it is a harvest year or a famine year, grain must be stockpiled.

You Miao looked around and believed that growing rice is the safest, because no matter what year, everyone has to eat, rice and noodles cannot be sold, and it is not bad to store them in their own granaries.

You Miao marked out a place and wrote "8000 taels" on the area of ​​the rice field. The high field in the east is about to plant rice, and it will be planted in the spring when the waterwheel is built.But in the low-lying area, from the east of the villa to the big pond, the soil is loose, so you can consider planting rapeseed. When you find a beekeeper, build a row of beehives by the pond, so that when you go out from the villa, there will be a lush field of rapeseed flowers. It is really pleasing to the eye.

"What's the price of oil now?" You Miao said.

Zhang Er looked up at You Miao and said, "58 Wen a catty."

Li Zhifeng said casually: "55 to 65."

You Miao nodded, and asked again: "How much rapeseed oil can one acre of rapeseed produce?"

Both Zhang Er and Li Zhifeng couldn't answer, so You Miao went to Qimin Yaoshu, which said that 250 catties of rapeseed per mu of land, and rapeseed can squeeze [-] catties of oil.The yield per mu is five taels of silver, plus honey, which is almost the same as growing rice, not much more.

With a flick of his pen, You Miao circled [-] mu of land to plant rapeseed.

Someone was shouting outside, the voice was vaguely inaudible, it seemed to be calling You Miao.

"Boss!" said the man's voice, "Are you at home? I see you are here!"

You Miao jumped up as if being stung, put on her boots in a hurry, but couldn't put them on, and ran out barefoot, saw a man poking his head in the yard, and said, "Why doesn't there even have a maid in such a magnificent garden? "

"Uncle—!" You Miao yelled, ran across the corridor, and threw himself into the man's arms, rubbing and rolling like a lunatic.

That man was Qiao Jue from You Miao's mother's uncle. When he saw You Miao, he hugged him, pressed his head against the wall, rubbed his head, and said, "You little bastard! If my uncle doesn't come to see you, how dare you pay him back?" I'm not going back to your mother's house!"

When You Miao saw Qiao Jue, she cried and laughed. She dragged him into the main room, pressed him on the couch, burrowed into his arms, and buried him on his chest, without saying a word for a long time.

"Okay, okay." Qiao Jue just couldn't help laughing, patted You Miao on the back, and signaled him to get up. Seeing that You Miao's eyes were red, she laughed and said, "I just wanted to say that you have grown taller, and you are still taller than a Crying like a child."

You Miao sniffled, Li Zhifeng came over with his boots and helped him put them on, You Miao went to get tea in the inner room by herself, and said, "Why are you here?"

Qiao Jue said, "I'll come to see you. Your second uncle's life is hard to live with. In a few days, I'm thinking about going to you."

You Miao smiled through tears and said, "I don't have anything else here, but there are many houses, just come and choose one to live in."

You Miao stood on tiptoe and took down a set of pots and a box of tea from the high place. Qiao Jue looked around, shook her head and said, "This is the Zhuangzi that Second Sister bought back then? It's not bad." Then she nodded to Li Zhifeng , Said: "You can do your work, you don't need to wait, I am his uncle, you can treat me as your own."

Then who is Qiao Jue?She was originally the second owner of Shaoyuan Tea House. In the past, Qiao Keer's parents had four children. During the plague in the south of the Yangtze River, the eldest daughter and son-in-law both fell ill and died.

Qiao Zhang, the eldest son of Shaoyuan Tea House, took over the tea house after his parents died, and married a famous local woman, Bai Shi.

The third daughter, Qiao Ke'er, married You Dechuan and was You Miao's mother.

The youngest son, Qiao Jue, was born just when the tea plantation was in decline. He looked a bit like You Miao when he was a teenager. Everyone said that his nephew was like an uncle. The age difference between Qiao Jue and You Miao was only five years old. Yes, when I was young, I often lived in Biyu Mountain Villa, and You Miao and You Miao looked like brothers, both of whom were carved in powder and jade, and looked like jade trees facing the wind.

What's even more rare is that not long after Qiao Jue was born, her parents were infected with the plague. Qiao Ke'er hired Qiao Jue a nurse, Nanny Sun.This Nanny Sun was also You Miao's nanny later on. According to the practice of the Jiangnan family, after drinking the milk of the same nanny, she was a good brother since she was a child, and they had to take care of each other on weekdays.

So Qiao Jue and You Miao are not only relatives of uncle and nephew, but also playmates since they were young. They are brothers and sisters. Needless to say, after You Miao returned home and came to Jiangbo Villa, she wanted to meet Qiao Jue first, but thought that her uncle's family had many Miscellaneous, the second aunt who heads the family is not easy to deal with.Going there would only cause trouble, so why not settle down first, and let Qiao Jue come over after the villa has grown in size.

Qiao Jue is also a talented person. He is proficient in astronomy, arithmetic, four books and five classics, Qimen Dunjia, divination and tea ceremony, and he is proficient in almost everything. When he was studying, he once refuted his master to the point that he had nothing to say, but he was unruly by nature and didn't like writing essays. Fame and fame, when You Miao went to Beijing to study, Qiao Jue was still managing accounts for Shaoyuan Tea House, writing and calculating casually every day, and then came out to wander around after doing the calculations.

You Miao took down a black and white clay pot, one black and one white cups, and said, "I happen to have some silver mist from Junshan."

"Not busy." Qiao Jue said hurriedly: "You drink mine, I brought some tea for you to taste."

Qiao Jue took out a bag of tea from her sleeve and said, "This is a little frozen top oolong I hid the year before last."

You Miao did not use her mother's wedding tea set, but made tea with these two cups, and then asked, "How is the family going?"

Qiao Jue sighed, and said helplessly: "It's not like it was a few years ago. It's noisy every day, and the business is not as good as every year. In my opinion, the shop of the tea shop is closed, or a pawn shop is opened instead. Look at you The second uncle, who grows some tea with great difficulty throughout the year, he wants to pay the price of the person who came to collect the tea, and it’s fine if it’s all cleared, but he refuses to listen to the persuasion, and wants to sell it in his own tea plantation.”

You Miao knew that the business of Shaoyuan Tea House was not good, part of the reason was because his father You Dechuan was too good at doing business, and now the tea merchants in Jiangnan were scrambling for business opportunities, and they were about to kill people and set fire to them. How could Qiao Zhang be as smart as others? The tea merchants who all colluded together?