The Agricultural Tycoon of the Red House

After the Grain Grain, the weather is getting warmer day by day, the fields are full of greenery, and it is time for the Empress Dowager Qianqiu again.This time, because of the death of King Jing Jing, the Queen Mother's mood was not so high.However, because of this, the royal family and nobles all felt that this was a good opportunity to show off their magical powers, and they all tried their best to make the Queen Mother amused.

But no matter what their tricks are, in the end they still have to get the approval of the queen mother first, so as to avoid the danger of offending.

The queen mother shook her head when she heard about it, "What are you doing with so many tricks? Why hasn't the Ai family seen it? Go and go, but I'm not in the mood. I'm getting old, and the Ai family can't stand the excitement."

Concubine Liu Gui was entrusted by the emperor to ensure the future of the Empress Dowager, but what if it is not lively?She can't do business with the emperor!Concubine Liu Gui also knew the Queen Mother's temper, so it was useless to try to persuade her, so she simply made a detour.

Concubine Liu Gui sighed pretending to be disappointed: "Your birthday, we as juniors should naturally follow your wishes. If you say no, then we won't do it. I just feel sorry for the children in the deep boudoir, and they all look forward to your future." They were able to join in the fun when they were singing, but this time they will be disappointed."

"You're right, the Ai family should make room for young people." The queen mother ordered Concubine Liu Gui to recruit wives from various families, and bring all the youngsters of her own family, "If you can let those boys and girls of the right age take the opportunity to join Make a few couples, Aijia's birthday will not be in vain."

"What the queen mother said is very true. The concubine also feels that there is less joy in the palace recently. It would be great to add some excitement, draw a red line, and make a few happy events." Concubine Liu Gui suggested.

"Okay, okay, I'll do as you say." The queen mother was finally happy.

Jia Lian was supervising the unloading of the goods at the pier when the noble concubine Yi's decree came to Zhen Guogong's mansion.Muban was also there, but he was puzzled, why did the Duke of the State invite him to come here for such a thing? His task was to study farming equipment, so what did the matter of the Ministry of Water Transport have to do with him?

The goods this time are quite special, they are all packed in big bamboo baskets, and there are about 100 such bamboo baskets one after another.One of the baskets was carried to Jia Lian and Mu Ban. After opening it, Mu Ban saw that it contained large yellowish-brown objects.

"This thing is for you." Jia Lian introduced with a smile.

Muban looked at Jia Lian suspiciously, poked it with his hand, it was very elastic, and smelled it, it didn't have a big smell, only when he got close, he could smell a slightly strange and smelly smell.

"What is this?"

"Natural rubber. As you can see, it is very elastic, and it has very good strength and resistance to flexing. In short, you will feel confused about what I say now. Go back and try it yourself and you will know."

Now Muban already has his own agricultural machinery factory. In the past year, he has recruited more than a dozen talented people like him with high salaries across the country, and he is still expanding the number of recruits.

Jia Lian personally took the people to move the things to the warehouse of the farm machinery factory.There were dozens of barrels of refined turpentine in the warehouse before, and Muban didn't know what to use for this stuff.

"Use turpentine and wine, be sure to have a high concentration of wine, mix together to dissolve rubber, and you can make a rainproof material, which is more useful than a coir raincoat."

Jia Lian probably asked someone to roughly prepare a small piece. After it was formed, it was placed on the hidden rice paper and watered to prove its waterproofness.

Moban and others were shocked by the waterproof function of the rubber. No matter the water is sprayed from left, right or up and down, it can keep dripping, which is really amazing.Muban finally realized something, and led his colleagues to continue to listen to Jia Lian's suggestion.

Next, Jia Lian will introduce rubber hoses, pistons, etc., which will be easier to describe.However, Jia Lian does not know how to make this aspect, so he can only roughly put forward an idea, roughly saying that the addition of sulfur will improve the durability and durability of rubber, but the specific operation must be studied by professionals like Muban.

After two days of exposure to rubber, Muban began to understand how much the use of rubber would bring about a change in his equipment research.He became more and more excited, and spent almost day and night in the farm machinery factory, leading people to figure out the production and production of rubber.

It took about two months for Moban to come up with a systematic method of manufacturing rubber tubes and pistons.Jia Lian only needs to provide him with manpower and material resources, and build a special rubber factory for him.

Jia Lian now has a lot of properties. Apart from eating and using the land on the village, the purpose of production is no longer for food production, and all of it is used for breeding.In the hybrid rice experiment last year, after the varieties were successfully selected, almost all the land was used for hybrid rice cultivation.There is also a field for raising seedlings in spring, such as strawberries, tomatoes, pumpkins, etc. Each seedling is planted in a small clay pot, most of which are sold to farmers at a low price, and some will be loaded a little farther away A little bit of the area for sale.

The breeding mode of new varieties is not only operated in this way in the capital, but small farms in various places also receive the same instructions, use the same breeding methods, and sell them at a low price.One penny, that is, the price of buying a biscuit, can buy two tomato seedlings.Considering that each household will not grow too many tomatoes, and they can continue to plant them in the coming year, this amount of money will not be a burden to farmers.

The reason for having to collect money is still considering the huge loss of costs under the national scale of operation, and there may be more continuous operations of new varieties in the coming year.

Of course, this kind of ultra-low-priced vegetable seedlings is not unlimited supply, and each family has to purchase according to the number of registered households, but domestic slaves are not included in the calculation.Each vegetable seedling will be distributed reasonably according to the head, such as three tomatoes per person, one pumpkin and so on.Once this amount is exceeded, the price will be doubled tenfold to avoid malicious hoarding by some merchants and driving up prices.If you meet rich people who want to buy more, the price is also ten times the same. The face of rich people is not good. If you have money and want to eat more, you can get more money. Anyway, the money he takes will be used to subsidize the poor in the future. It is a kind of doing good deeds in disguise.

By the beginning of this year, Jia Lian’s small farm schools have developed more than 100 schools in various places. Because of the popularity of Jia Lian, small farm schools, etc. throughout last year, many local young people are proud to be here. Study independently, hoping to pass the exam and enter the place that the fellow villagers in Shili Bacun envy.Small-scale agricultural schools recruit newcomers, gradually like the imperial examinations, and some places even open schools for the examination questions for entering small-scale agricultural schools. I heard that there are not a few applicants, and the classes are full.

Farming has become a popular thing nowadays. Compared with the imperial examination, which has a very low pass rate, studying farming hard and raising a family is a topic that young people are more willing to talk about.

Therefore, Jia Lian's reputation among the people is rising day by day, and there is a tendency that no one can match him in the court.Even the prime minister Jing Yingguang, who has been favored by the emperor for more than ten years, is better than Jia Lian's current grand occasion.

It stands to reason that the suspicious emperor should be worried again.But whenever the emperor had such worries, as long as he had a heart-to-heart talk with Jia Lian, all worries would be gone.

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One day, the wind was sunny and the birds were chirping.

The emperor was bored and wanted to have a heart-to-heart talk, so he took Jia Lian to visit the Imperial Garden again.

"Aiqing, I recently heard that you are very popular in the city and land. If you go out, can you have ten baskets of eggs in the back of the car?"

"I can't figure it out, why these people are so lazy." When Jia Lian was chatting with the emperor, he glanced out of the gazebo from time to time.

"Aiqing, you heard me wrong, I said something about delivering eggs."

Jia Lian nodded, "This is exactly what I'm talking about. Your Majesty, if you have time, you can tell me something fair and talk to those people. Your small Zaozhuang is just a breeding farm, not for them to help old hens hatch young ones." Where the chicks are."

The emperor was stunned, "W-what? You said they sent eggs so that you could help hatch the chicks?"

"Otherwise? There is no shortage of eggs in my family. This is a well-known fact." Jia Lian spread his hands and looked innocently at the emperor.

After the emperor heard this, he suddenly felt that it made sense, nodded, and walked out of the gazebo with cheap, ready to continue talking to him about the high voices of the people in Fujian.

At this time, Jia Lian suddenly saluted, insulted, and hurried to the side of the peach tree. At some point, he conjured up a magnifying glass in his hand and shone it on the tree trunk. Then he couldn't help but say that he was suffering from powdery mildew. , It's time to prune the branches, make some peach blossoms bloom well, and there will be big peaches to eat in autumn.

The emperor couldn't help but secretly rolled his eyes, he really felt that he was blind, he thought too much last night, thinking that Jia Lian with such a prestige would make his wits stunned and have wolfish ambitions.In addition to peach trees, plum trees and apricot trees, there are people in the crop fields of sows and roosters. How can he be in the mood to be an emperor.As the emperor, does he still have the time to farm and pruning?

The emperor breathed a sigh of relief, and at the same time looked at the scene of Jia Lian circling around the peach tree, couldn't help but knocked himself on the head.

The emperor was dumbfounded and blamed himself for his stupidity. Jia Lian had already "discussed" with the eunuch who repaired the garden, and even showed the little eunuch how to prune the branches with pruning shears.

The emperor coughed.

Jia Lian hurriedly lost his work, and continued to report to the emperor on the current standardization of agricultural chemicals production, as well as the large-scale production of glass, and the improvement plan of light industrial textile machines. At the same time, he also mentioned the production and planting of rubber. There is a land subdivision reform implemented this year.

The emperor automatically ignored Jia Lian's long-winded words. He didn't quite understand, but he probably knew that things were going in a good direction, so he let it go.On the contrary, the emperor became a little interested in the reform of the land system later on.

"After the implementation of your land division system, will the nobles from all over the place be dissatisfied and make trouble?" The emperor looked grave.

"There is dissatisfaction, but it is not to the extent of causing trouble. The property of rich households exceeds the amount stipulated by the imperial court. It is just that they cannot continue to buy and garrison land, but they will not be forced to hand over the excess land, so it will not harm their interests. .”

Jia Lian came up with this method of restricting the purchase of land. First, he kept the area of ​​arable land in the hands of farmers, and second, he introduced conditional low-price land to ensure that farmers without land can grow land.

Low-priced fields can only be bought and sold with the government, and contracts can be signed. They can be rented at low grain rents every year, or they can be purchased directly at low prices.But there is a very important point, low-price land has a special title deed, and the resale can only be sold to the government. If it is sold to private individuals without authorization, it will be punished by criminal law.The specific and detailed operations are standardized and meticulous, which can basically completely avoid profit-seeking villains taking advantage of loopholes.

There are basically three ways to increase the area of ​​cultivated land in the future: first, rich households sell it;This method is slow, but after all, the rich and powerful are not easy to offend. Although the process of boiling frogs in warm water is long, the final result is very effective, and this is enough.

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After Jia Lian reported everything to the emperor, half of his lips were worn off.After returning home, I drank a few bowls of tea and found that my daughter-in-law was not there, so I went to see Mother Jia.Coincidentally, Jingxin is here, as are Daiyu, Yingchun, Mrs. Xing and Jia Min.But Yingchun and Daiyu were about to say goodbye, so they happened to go out and salute Jia Lian by the way.

Jia Lian glanced at the two girls and felt that they were not quite right. They both lowered their heads and blushed. No matter how they looked at them, they felt that the two girls had been wronged.

"What's the matter? But who bullied you, tell me second brother will clean it up for you!" Jia Lian said coldly, as if he wanted to uphold justice for them.

As soon as this remark came out, Jiamu, Jia Amnesty and Mrs. Xing were amused at the same time.

Daiyu blushed even more, stomped her feet, and took Yingchun with her.