Chapter 349: New Crops
If it weren't for the size of the mirror, they wouldn't have needed to be transported in such a large wagon.
Then the difficulty of transportation and the safety factor will be greatly reduced.
So, these people with five surnames and seven wangs decided to find the king of Shu again and talk to him to see if they could make the mirror smaller.
Or, simply let the King of Shu ship the mirror out, and they can give enough shipping.
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At this time, Li Su, the king of Shu, was preparing to lease all the land confiscated from the Zhao family in Yizhou to the people of Yizhou.
Naturally, if it is only planted naturally by the people of Yizhou, it will naturally not be contracted.
Because the crops of this era are all harvested once a year.
Even winter wheat was not introduced.
This month, even if the land is contracted, there is no way to plant.
Therefore, if there are no other measures, these lands will definitely not be leased this year.
It would be a pity to let these lands sit idle for a year in vain.
Therefore, Li Su is ready to take some special measures.
For example, he could hire people to farm the land and then plant crops that he had designated.
The people of Yizhou are really miserable.
Li Su decided to introduce some new crops, starting with Yizhou, to improve the lives of the people.
Therefore, under an order from Li Su, Yizhou immediately issued a notice.
The Yizhou Thorn Mansion recruited the people and planted the land.
Each person can contract five acres of land and plant crops according to the prescribed method.
And each person can get paid 1,000 wen per year.
A thousand dollars, it's really not much.
However, for the people of Yizhou, this is already a huge amount of money.
Because even if they planted five acres of land by themselves, after deducting the taxes they paid, they would not be able to earn a thousand yuan.
The income of this job is simply too high.
And this notice, I heard that it was personally issued by Li Su, the king of Shu.
Now Yizhou is quietly undergoing some changes.
For example, salt factories, glass factories, cement factories and steel factories all require a large number of people.
Well, at the same time, there is also the construction of the new city, which also requires a lot of manpower.
In these factories, they all eat three meals a day, and they are paid ten cents a day.
This salary, let alone in Yizhou.
Take the entire Datang as an example, it is a high salary.
The shortage of manpower required by these factories can reach about one-fifth of the labor force in Yizhou.
These people who can work in the factory, the life of their families is naturally more prosperous day by day.
The salary of ten yuan a day is 300 yuan a month, and 3,600 yuan a year.
This money, if put in the past, is definitely a middle-class home.
This is something they can't even think of.
And those families who have not been able to enter these factories to work are very envious of these families who have jobs to do.
In the past, everyone lived a hard life together, and that was it.
But now, they are still living a hard life, but they can only watch others make a fortune and become well-off.
That mood was terrible.
And now, Yizhou is recruiting workers again.
And this time, the wages given by the Metropolitan Governor were not as high as those for working in those factories.
But for the people of Yizhou, it is also a lot of income.
Moreover, farming is their old business, and there is no danger.
Those who work in factories have a high income, but there are also certain risks.
I heard that there are also cement factories in steel factories, and there have been accidents and deaths.
However, because other factories are willing to pay for the injured people, the cost of soup and medicine is not to mention.
When recuperating from an injury, a compensation that is much higher than the salary will be given.
This kind of treatment, but they have never encountered it.
As a result, those injured people felt that they had taken advantage of the factory and felt embarrassed.
As for those who cause death, the pension is as high as 10,000 yuan.
With this money, it also allows those families who have had accidents to have a secure life in the future.
Of course, no matter how much is given, no one wants to have an accident.
Farming, there will be no danger.
Therefore, after the notice of recruiting people to farm was posted, many people came to apply.
And this time, the entire Yizhou also recruited a lot of people.
After all, the Zhao family's land really has a lot, and it occupies one-tenth of the land in the entire Yizhou.
Li Su directly handed over the task this time to Wu Meiniang.
Since she is ready to train Jiang Wu and Mei Niang into a strong business woman of the female president type, she must cultivate her ability as soon as possible.
This is a strong woman who has the ability to be the emperor and govern a country in an orderly manner.
The ability is definitely very strong.
Li Su believes that with only some training, Wu Meiniang will soon be able to do this job.
However, Wu Meiniang would be wrong and regard this matter as a test for herself by the King of Shu.
Therefore, in terms of how to organize these people, Wu Meiniang is particularly attentive, and it can be said that she has used the spirit of twelve.
And although Wu Meiniang is the first time to control so many people, she is actually organized in an orderly manner and is not chaotic at all.
This made Li Su's side, those who wanted to see Wu Meiniang's liveliness, all gasped.
This little lady is definitely not to be underestimated!
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These people also need to undergo some training before they can work.
The crops that Li Su wants to plant cannot be the existing crops of Datang.
These crops are all seeds that Li Yu bought directly in the mall.
At this stage, Li Su decided to plant potatoes, sweet potatoes, corn, peanuts and peppers first.
Among them, potatoes and sweet potatoes are high-yielding crops.
With these two crops, the people of Datang will not be hungry.
Corn and peanuts can be paired with winter wheat.
The original planting cycle of one crop a year has been changed to two years and three crops.
Three crops in two years, but it is equivalent to giving the people an extra year's harvest in two years.
Potatoes, sweet potatoes, corn, peanuts and peppers are grown differently from ordinary crops.
It is necessary to train in advance and then plant according to the requirements.
Fortunately, these people are hired workers.
They get paid, and they do whatever the employer asks them to do, and they are very obedient.
There are many people and great strength, and Wu Zetian is extremely effective in organization.
As a result, the planting rate is very fast.
It only took more than ten days to plant all these crops.
Of course, planting crops is only a preliminary task.
The next step is to be carefully served.
It can be said that Li Su is very strict with the requirements for tending to these crops, so that the hired people have almost no time to be lazy.