After dressing as a widow

The three elder brothers and the man all thought that Lin Zhen was there for food, but only Lu Xuan knew from Lu Lu and Niu Da that Lin Zhen used rice to make rouge and gouache business, so she hurriedly said: "Yes, although I don't know about the rice in the south. What about Bistem rice and purple heart rice, but Lizhou also has it, as well as black rice and oriole rice."

Lin Zhen became interested, "Is there any in our house, bring some and let me have a look."

"Yes, it's all the rice that came in last year." Lu Xuan was in charge of the kitchen's purchases. No one knew better than her. She went to the kitchen and grabbed a few kinds of rice, and put them on the table in front of Lin Zhen. on the case.

"This is green rice, this is purple heart rice," Lu Xuan pointed to the faintly green rice and the rice that looks the same as ordinary white rice on the surface, but the core is light purple after being crushed, and then pointed to The other two kinds, "black rice and oriole rice have a low harvest after planting, and few people plant them, but the porridge is sticky and soft."

As soon as the rice was in front of him, Lin Zhen felt that it was slightly different from the rice he had seen before. The several types of rice in front of him, even the white rice, were better than those in Anyuan Town, Fucheng, and Kyoto. The grains were full and the rice was fragrant. Intense, with more vibrant colors.

Lin Zhen has already made experience in making jade noodles. The noodles made from this kind of rice must be better than the previous ones.

He asked Lu Xuan: "What is the price of these rice in the rice shop in the state capital?"

Lu Xuan said: "White rice is five renminbi a dou, green stalk rice and purple heart rice are seven renminbi a dou, and black oriole rice is more expensive, eight and a half renminbi a dou."

A bucket of rice weighs twelve and a half catties, which is less than half higher than in Kyoto.

No matter where it is, rice is a fine grain that can only be eaten by the wealthy. Most people eat sorghum, buckwheat and wheat. Combined with the thalassemia in Lizhou, it is reasonable to sell it at such a price.

However, the cost of jade powder is slightly higher, but compared to the huge profits of jade powder, this cost is only a small head.

As long as a large amount of mid-grade and low-grade jade powder flows into the capital, he can really make a fortune every day.

After coming back for a while, the heat from his body was completely dissipated. Lin Zhen couldn't sit still and got up to go out again, still taking Lu Xuan with him.

When the two of them stepped out of the gate of Zhizhou's government office, they saw Lu Lu and Niu Da surrounded by a group of people, all of them were asking about harvesting the grass.

"Are you really harvesting secluded grass? Didn't you lie?" An old man with a skinny face and high cheekbones asked eagerly. He was carrying a pannier on his back, and he was holding a five-year-old child in his hand. He looks like he has been malnourished for a long time, with thin limbs and only a bulging belly.

He was also pushing in front of Niu Da and Lu Lu, but he didn't dare to squeeze the two of them, and the elder brother asked eagerly, "Isn't it a lie, my lord, one penny and one catty?"

"Do you accept it!?"

"What I heard just now was Youcao, not something else?"

"..."

The anxious and noisy voices were mixed together, and the questions they asked could hardly be heard.

Niu Da and Lu Lu who were surrounded said hoarsely: "Collect grass, yes, there are a lot of grass in the field, one penny and one catty!"

Suddenly, Lulu saw Lin Zhen through the gap, jumped and waved to him: "Boss!"

The eyes of the big guys all fell on him. Seeing him waving to the outside of the crowd, they all looked at Lin Zhen. Seeing Lin Zhen coming out of the government office, dressed in a rich and noble manner, he unconsciously stood back Standing, the sound also stopped.

Lin Zhen walked over and said loudly: "I am the one who harvested the grass this time. If you dig the grass, you can send it here. Someone will weigh it and pay you money."

Seeing that one of his elder brothers actually said that he harvested Youcao, these common people were a little murmured, but when they thought that Lin Zhen came out of the government office, they were a little more convinced than before.

Thinking that Lin Zhen only needed five hundred catties, he hurriedly took his family back home, carried the basket on his back, his eyes were as bright as lanterns, and he could only see the grass.

After sending them away, Lin Zhen took the deer, deer, and cattle with him, and ran to several rice shops in the state capital. Finally, because he promised that he would use a large amount, he asked the shopkeeper of the rice shop to save a few pennies on a bucket of rice. Pull some rice to go to the government office.

Lin is really impatient, and he can't stand delay in doing anything. If it wasn't already dark after returning from Mipu, he would still go to Fangyazi in the city and ask if there is any large area around the government office that hasn't been rented out yet. yard.

After all, this is the magistrate's government office, it's okay for him to just pile up some materials now, and it will die when he recruits people.

The next day, Lin Zhen got up early and planned to continue to run outside. First, he found a suitable yard as a place for materials to be piled up and a place for workers to work, and then started work as soon as possible.

He thought he had woken up early enough, but when he opened the door, he heard voices coming from the front.

Niu Da, who didn't know what he was called to do, was holding a lantern in his hand, and was blowing out the candles inside with his head down. When he saw Lin Zhen woke up, he hurried over to salute: "Boss."

"Why is there a sound in front?"

Niu Dao Dao: "It's the people from the villages around the state capital. Some came here in the middle of the night, and some people are still rushing here now."

Lin Zhen patted his head. He was so busy yesterday that he was so busy that he was dizzy. Gu Lin told him about this. The yamen servants went to the surrounding villages to talk to the people about composting manure and Quyuanli grain seeds. up.

These people must have come to find out the truth. Lizhou is poor and the food production is low. It would make them feel better, so they couldn't help not asking.

Lin Zhen smiled, and waited for Lu Lu to come in with water for washing his face and mouthwash, changed his clothes after washing, and went to find Fang Yazi after breakfast.

After a while, it was already bright, and more and more people gathered in the front yard. As soon as Lin Zhen walked out from the corridor connecting the back yard and the front yard, he saw that the yard in front of the originally spacious main hall was crowded with people. , It was really crowded, even crazier than the people who asked Youcao yesterday.

The yamen servant, who was in charge of watching these people to avoid any accidents, had seen Lin Zhen and knew that he was the uncle of Lord Zhizhou, so he quickly sent someone out to take him out.

Lin Zhen looked at the face of the yamen servant who obviously hadn't slept all night, and said, "How many villages have you notified in total?"

"Huifulang, because your lord is worried that there may be errors in the communication of the government order, we personally went to each village to inform, a total of 36 villages."

There were not enough horses in the government office, and the few horses brought by Lin Zhen and the others were also used by the government servants to run errands. The 36 villages, in the sparsely populated Lizhou, were already the largest area they could notify.

As for the farther counties and towns, they will not be able to catch up with this time this year, and the journey back and forth will be enough.

Lin Zhen looked at the people representing their villages who came from various villages, and said to Lu Lu behind him: "Go back and tell Lu Xuan in the kitchen to bring some boiled water to the front."

"Yes, boss." Lu Lu turned back and walked to the backyard, came to the kitchen to find Lu Xuan, "Sister Lu, the boss asked you to boil two pots of water, and mentioned that you will go ahead to quench the thirst of people who came from the surrounding villages."

"Okay, Lulu, what are the people from the village doing here?" There must be a lot of people in the two big pots of water, so what happened?

Lu Xuan didn't know, but felt that since the new Zhizhou lord and Boss Lin came, the prefect government office seemed to be on wheels and running forward.

He no longer had the leisurely energy he had when Xu Zhizhou was around.

And Lin Zhen in the front yard, escorted by the yamen servants, slowly walked out of the inseparably crowded yard, hearing the repeated words of compost, manure, plowshare, and grain seeds from time to time.

Such a scene is so familiar, and it is so similar to the first time I mentioned compost in front of Father Lin. That year, the Lin family used compost. The next year, all the households in Liyu Village couldn’t wait to use it. year, fourth year...

Such a bountiful harvest scene will probably reappear in Lizhou in the future.

On the street outside the Fuya, there were also some people who looked like they had been working all year round. They stretched their necks to look inside, and some of them stood up and walked back and forth in a hurry.

"Can you tell me that this is reliable? We have never heard of compost and manure before. We can't work in vain for a year without harvest, and let the whole family drink the northwest wind and starve to death." It's a villager from Yang Village. He's not very old, but his complexion is dark, and he works all year round. He looks more than ten years older than his actual age.

"I told you not to wander around. It made me dizzy. Aren't the village chief and grandpa inside? You'll know what's going on when they come out."

"Also, didn't the official who went there yesterday say that someone has used this method before, and they all had a good harvest."

The man who was turned dizzy by the young man spoke humanely, but his own gaze was also looking straight into the mansion, wishing to see a hole so as to see what was going on inside.

God knows that when they saw the yamen servant go to Yang Village yesterday, they thought that someone had committed a crime and was going to be arrested and locked up in the yamen, but they didn't know that the yamen servant asked them where the village head was, and found out that the village head was sitting next to them On the ridge of the field, he directly said a lot of things that they understood, but didn't understand.

What kind of compost and manure can increase the harvest, what kind of plowshare can plow the land with only two people, so that they can not only save labor but also quickly open up wasteland.

In the end, he even said that the new masters of the government office allowed them to borrow grain seeds from the government office on credit, plant them on the land plowed with a Quyuan plow, and pay them back when they harvest this autumn.

These things are like heavy mountains, pressing down on these peasants who have been honestly farming all their lives, and they are in a fog.

Until the yamen servant asked them if they understood, they didn't speak, the yamen servant explained it twice, and finally asked them to rush to the government office today to listen to the adults tell them personally.

Now that they are here, my heart is like being bitten by ants.

Suddenly seeing a yamen servant coming out surrounded by people, it happened to be the yamen servant who went to their Yangcun yesterday, the young man couldn't help running up, just about to talk, seeing Lin Zhen's clothes and appearance, he quickly shut his mouth and backed away.

This is Lord Zhizhou's family.