An alpha's ancient life record

It was inconvenient for the county government to discuss matters, so the next day, at the restaurant that greeted her when she first arrived, Shen Qingshu made an appointment with several big merchants from Yueshui County.

After three rounds of tea, Shen Qingshu didn't bother to play the game, looked around, and said straight to the point: "Everyone has made up their minds about the sugar workshop?"

Before coming, Mr. Zhou had already communicated about this matter. The businessmen knew well that they wanted them to express their views and pay the money. They didn't know if this was really a sugar factory or if the lord was asking for bribes in this name.

It’s okay if you really want some filial piety, but according to the scale of Tangfang mentioned by Mr. Zhou, if you don’t pay a penny but have to take half of the shares, it’s really a bit of a lion.

It is said that the people do not fight with the officials, but the officials do not compete with the people for profit. They have such great fortunes, and they have more or less contacts in the officialdom, so they are not very afraid.

Several people looked at each other, and Jiang Shen, the leader, smiled politely: "Your Excellency wants to revitalize the place, and we naturally support it with all our strength, but you don't know that ordinary ponds actually cost a lot, but the profits are not very big. I don't know if the method of decolorization that the adults said is true?"

"I know that you have doubts, so I brought the decolorized real thing here, everyone, let's see." Shen Qingshu gestured with his eyes, and Master Zhou put the bag of off-white sucrose in the middle of the table and unfolded it.

Several businessmen came up to take a look, and they were all a little surprised. If it was this color, they could indeed sell for a good price. They were well-informed, and after whispering to each other for a while, they quickly calmed down. Jiang Shen asked: "It is indeed as white as snow, but I don't know What is the cost of this method, my lord?"

His family also knows a method of egg white decolorization, but the cost is too high and it can only be produced on a small scale.

"The construction cost is extremely low, almost only labor costs." Seeing their doubts, Shen Qingshu added: "Everyone sign a contract, and I will tell you about the decolorization method immediately, and you can go back and try it before investing in the construction of the workshop. "

After all, this is an official-based country, and she is not worried that after these people know the method, they dare to leave the county government and do it alone.

If this was the case, the half of the shares would be worth it. Several people exchanged glances with each other, and the scene was silent for a while, so Shen Qingshu found an excuse to leave the table, giving them a space to communicate and discuss.

This secret method seemed to be profitable, and they didn't want to offend Shen Qingshu too much. After a while, she came back after cleaning her hands. The merchants had already discussed the results. Jiang Shen offered her a cup of tea and said with a smile: "My lord loves you, and you are willing to ask me to do things later. , the little people dare not obey their orders."

This meant that she agreed, and Shen Qingshu smiled, and said a few polite words, it would be best if it could be resolved peacefully, and she didn't want to use power to overwhelm others.

After sitting for a while, Shen Qingshu got up and left the table. Master Zhou would naturally discuss the details later.

Soon, the two parties drew up a deed, in which several businessmen jointly contributed to occupy the shares, and the county government took half of the shares in the name of government supervision.

In terms of workers, priority is given to recruiting small workshop owners who have lost their livelihood as a result, and the raw materials are purchased in a unified manner. Because the sugar making steps are simple and orderly, assembly line production is naturally adopted.

After knowing the method of pouring sugar with yellow mud, because it is too convenient, several investment businessmen are very worried about the leakage of the method, and have thought of many ways for it.

However, Shen Qingshu felt that it would be a matter of time, and with this speed of news spreading, Yueshui County could take a two-year advantage.

Based on the original sugar mill of a certain businessman, a larger sugar mill was expanded, and the people in Yueshui County have also heard about it, because the sugar cane left over for the sweet mouths of the children in previous years, this year No worries about not being able to sell.

The factory is recruiting workers for peeling and squeezing juice. If you work hard, you can earn twenty or thirty yuan a day. At this time, there is not much farm work. Many farmers will go to the county to do small labor to subsidize their families. For them , the work plan of the sugar workshop is very cost-effective.

Shen Qingshu was not idle either, he often went to the sugar mill to see that when the sugarcane matured, it was transported in bundles, squeezed into sugarcane juice, and then turned into handfuls of snow-white sugar and shipped out.

She looked at the old-fashioned "sugar cane bed" juicer, and was eager to improve it, but manpower is so cheap in this era. When one person gets tired, the other will go up immediately. Everyone just hopes to recruit more people. There is no need to save manpower at all.

I learned this from talking to the farmers who worked. Although being criticized by Master Zhou as demeaning, Shen Qingshu didn't care. She seldom wore official uniforms outside. With a pretty smiling face, everyone lost their guard in a short while, and they talked endlessly.

As a result, Shen Qingshu's comprehension of the Shu dialect has improved rapidly, and he can understand it even if he speaks faster.These working farmers came from nearby villages. Because the work was relatively easy, many women and teenagers even came here. They were not afraid of being tired, but they were afraid that the sugar factory would not want them.

An old farmer said: "Don't worry about that, it's not tiring at all compared to going to the fields. The more you do, the more money you will definitely get back."

His face was yellow and black, like a thick shell, with many and dense wrinkles, deeply carved into the skin, full of wind, frost and dust.

He is a tenant farmer who has no land of his own, and his family is attached to a landlord in the village. He has cultivated for him from generation to generation, and half of the harvest from farming has to be handed over every year. Shen Qingshu asked him when he knew about the land that was issued by the imperial court in the past. ?

The old farmer said that it has long been gone. There was a drought more than ten years ago, and the harvest was greatly reduced. There was no way to borrow money from the landlord. As a result, the harvest in the second year was still not good. his land,

Shen Qingshu asked him again, there are so many wastelands in the county, why would he rather be a tenant farmer than reclaim the wasteland.

The old farmer laughed loudly, saying that she is indeed a child of a rich family. She can only reclaim wasteland in autumn and winter. As a tenant farmer, she works hard every year to get enough food for a year. Starved to death first.Reclamation of wasteland is at least a few layers of skin, even if it is worked hard, there is no water canal, and the land is not very fertile. If you are not careful, peaches will be picked by others. What should I do?Therefore, I would rather be a tenant farmer than cultivate wasteland.

After the old farmer finished speaking, he heard the steward yelling, drank the water in the rough porcelain bowl, and went to carry the sugar cane again.

Shen Qing walked out of the sugar workshop, silently thinking about what he learned these days.

There is a swamp in Yueshui County near Ping County. After inspection, she thinks it is very suitable for land reclamation. From the perspective of the government, as long as people are organized to dig rivers and canals to drain water, level the land, and complete the irrigation system, it will become a large area. Fertile fields.

The most important thing is that no one stood up to organize. In addition to paying taxes every year, the townships actually had to perform corvee according to law, but the number of manpower was limited. What Shen Qingshu wanted was to raise money to open up wasteland.

That's why she wanted to set up a sugar mill to earn money. It's just empty talk, without food and money, it's impossible to force the people to open up wasteland.

These days, people depend on the sky for food. God is not happy. More sun or more rain will lead to greatly reduced harvests, and the people will have no food and clothing. Landlords will take advantage of these opportunities to annex land.

As the population increases and the contradictions become more and more acute, uprisings will break out, the world will be in chaos, the population will decrease, and then social wealth will be redistributed to enter the next cycle.

This is an unavoidable contradiction between man and land in feudal society, unless it can enter the industrial age. However, even in later generations, landlords and tenant farmers only exist in a different way, because resources are limited.

Shen Qingshu didn't expect to go so far, she just wanted to make the people of Yueshui County richer by opening sugar workshops and developing wasteland.

It all depends on how the white sugar is sold after it is transported to the capital. The first batch of sugar is produced and the local response is very good. After a while, it will be transported to the capital for sale.

For this reason, Shen Qingshu also sent a letter to Meng Bozhou. There are many shops under his family name, and it is relatively easy to promote this kind of white sugar, and the two sides are also mutually beneficial and win-win.

It was still afternoon when Shen Qingshu returned to the county office, she went to the bedroom, but she didn't see Lin Wei, and when she entered the study, there was no one there, so she couldn't help being a little surprised.

Lin Weizhi didn't like to go out here, she was used to seeing her as soon as she got home, she found a saddle and asked, "Where is the lady?"

He glanced at her and said, "Master, you forgot, isn't Madam's painting club opened, and I just went to the painting club in the afternoon."

Shen Qingshu was taken aback for a moment, then remembered that today was the first time that class started. She had joked that she would go with Lin Weizhi to congratulate her on her successful opening.Lin Weizhi was determined not to allow it, saying that she was afraid that she would scare the students.

Shen Qingshu was busy with the sugar factory, so he gradually paid no attention to it.

She dismissed the saddle and turned around. The two chattering girls, Sheng Han, were also taken away. Some withered autumn leaves fell in the yard, which seemed too quiet. Only her own footsteps could be heard. The lively inner house suddenly seemed a little lonely.

Shen Qingshu seemed to have seen the courtyard clearly now. She sat down at the stone table, and suddenly felt a subtle sense of loss in her heart. She was the one who encouraged Lin Weizhi to go out and start a painting club, but he was no longer by her side. , but she became a little worried about gains and losses.

She knocked on the table unconsciously with her fingertips, and even wanted to get up and go to the painting club to find her immediately, but she finally restrained this urge, and only then did she realize that she was so deeply attached to her, only because she had been waiting for her Behind him, he can be seen anytime and anywhere, so Shen Qingshu didn't notice it.

When the two of them came to this remote county town, it seemed that Lin Weizhi had been relying on her all the time. In fact, she needed her more. She was not such a strong person in her heart, and her desire for affection and intimacy was stronger. big.

No wonder some selfish people don't like their partners to go out to work, and hope that the other party will rely on them wholeheartedly. Shen Qingshu smiled self-deprecatingly.

They are independent individuals, Lin Wei only has what she wants to do, and she was happy for her at first, maybe it's just that she is not used to it, and it will be fine after a while.

But she just felt unaccustomed to seeing no one for a while, so when they first came here and were busy with official business, Lin Weizhi was waiting for her in the back house all day, how should she feel?Thinking of this, Shen Qingshu felt very guilty again.

When she came back from the outside, she was a little tired and wanted to take a nap in the afternoon. After sitting for a while, Shen Qingshu collected her emotions before returning to the bedroom and lying down with her eyes closed.

After waking up, she continued to deal with business as usual. She was quite efficient today, but after being on duty, she still didn't see Lin Weizhi coming home.

作者有话要说：感谢在2021-06-1919:24:04~2021-06-2018:49:01期间为我投出霸王票或灌溉营养液的小天使哦~

Thanks to the little angel who threw the mines: 3 expired pesticides; 1 leisurely potato;

Thanks to the little angel of the irrigation nutrient solution: 10 bottles of a salted fish; 5 bottles of leisurely potatoes; 3 bottles of a boat; 1 bottle of ggg;

Thank you very much for your support, I will continue to work hard!

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