Happy New Year. Ten chapters were released today, two chapters every two hours. I wish readers and friends a happy Chinese New Year and all the best!

After discussing it for a while, it was decided that according to the precedent, everyone would jointly fund and work together with the Fan family, so as not to hurt each other's harmony because of mutual competition.

For a while, the hall was full of laughter and laughter, and the atmosphere was quite harmonious.

Fan Yubin saw that the time was ripe, and lost no time in throwing a reassurance to everyone: he promised to take out samples of glass, glass mirrors, wool cloth, and wool carpets within half a month. In the end, whether to buy shares or not, you can first look at the samples before making the final decision, and the Fan family will not be reluctant. After hearing this, everyone sighed again in their hearts, they really have nothing to say when they have reached such a point! Fan Yongdou and Fan Sanba also nodded again and again, their faces full of joy and relief.

When these wealthy giants left the Fan Mansion, they were all smiling, and everyone was full of pride, as if they had all picked up gold ingots. After going out, he was also gentle with the butlers, servants, and coachmen who came with him, and shocked those subordinates who were at a loss and panicked.

That night, the Fan Mansion had a family banquet. Delicacies from the mountains and seas, beef, mutton and pork... It's like a marquee. However, the deepest impression in the whole house is what potato flour, potato roast beef, potato fried shredded pork and cold shredded potatoes and other potato series dishes taught by Young Master Yubin in the kitchen.

On July 9, the eleventh year of Chongzhen, the birthday of the old lady Fan of the Fan family, Fan Yubin, the eldest grandson of the Fan family, made a shining appearance and earned enough eyeballs. Another new star of the Fan family has risen.

That night, Fan Youde, the chief housekeeper of Fan's Mansion, Fan Youlu, the second housekeeper, Fan Youcai, the general ledger, Fan Youqi, the chief treasurer, and Tie Rushui, the head of the nursing home, received the highest instructions from Mrs. Fan: In the future, all the orders of Young Master Yubin do not need to ask for other instructions, just do it.

Early the next morning, one by one instructions were passed down through Fan Gui like snowflakes: immediately put down a glass workshop nearby, and a special person was in charge; Immediately recruit a large number of women with weaving skills, recruit or buy Persian women with weaving carpet skills, and a special person is responsible; recruit or buy 400 healthy and honest young people between the ages of eighteen and twenty-five, regardless of nationality, preferably orphans, and those who are skilled in archery and horses are preferred; Eighty loyal, reliable, and experienced family members and guards under the age of 30 were immediately drawn from the family members and caravan guards, and veterans who had seen blood on the battlefield were preferred, and cavalry was given priority; Ouyang Xiong, the deputy leader of the caravan escort, returned to his home to listen to it; Recruit all kinds of craftsmen, the more the merrier; Immediately buy 100 bright and flexible children between the ages of 6 and 10, send them to the private school of the clan, and arrange for someone to take care of them... These directives are varied and varied, although some of them are incredible, and some of them make people laugh and cry, but they are still quickly arranged for implementation.

The Fan Mansion was busy jumping chickens and dogs, but the initiator Fan Yubin seemed to be lying leisurely on a soft chair under the grape trellis in his small courtyard, humming an unknown song in his mouth, but he was quickly calculating in his heart.

It's really intense. But it's not fast, it's a troubled time, and it's a good time to fish in troubled waters and make a big show. If you wait until the Qing army enters the customs, unifies the Central Plains, and the general situation has been decided, and then implements your own plan, the difficulty must be difficult to go to the blue sky, and the result must be to light the lamp in the toilet - to find (death). Fan Yubin knew that it was now the eleventh year of Chongzhen, and it was only five or six years before the fall of the Ming Dynasty, and he had to race against time. He touched his head and smiled a little self-deprecatingly, in his previous life, he was only a company director, but now he feels like the president of the company.

In Mrs. Fan's study, Fan Yongdou was quietly looking at a report, looking at it, he seemed to smell something different. He squinted, and a sly glint flashed in his eyes: This kid has a lot of ambitions! He was silent for a while, slowly clenched his hands, and his eyes became sharp: heroes emerge from troubled times! Perhaps, now is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for the Fan family, doesn't the old saying say that the prince will have a kind of Xiangning? ?

Fan Yubin didn't expect that his arrangement would arouse Old Man Fan's surging ambitions, and his ambition was even greater than Fan Yubin.

In the large dining room of the Fan family, it was crowded with people, and people from all over the country who came to learn to grow potatoes were gathered here. In the dining room, mouth-watering aromas fill the air, and a few chefs are sweating as they prepare a potato feast, and everyone stretches their necks around them, drooling and waiting to be savored. Freshly scooped potato flour is served with steaming bone broth, accompanied by freshly fried chili oil and Shanxi's unique old vinegar; The aroma of roast beef with potatoes is tangy; There are also fried shredded potatoes with green peppers and shredded potatoes in cold salad. Next to him, a chef is steaming potato steamed buns, some are pure potatoes, some are added with some flour, and some are added with some goat's milk and milk. As they did it, they talked endlessly about the methods to the people around them.

Just after noon, when Fan Yubin walked into the dining room, everyone was burping while still reminiscing about the delicious food just now. Seeing that the young master of the Fan family was coming, he hurriedly knelt down, his face was very excited.

"It's really better to teach by words than by example!" Fan Yubin sighed in his heart. That's exactly what he wanted. Fan Yubin hurriedly asked everyone to hurry up. The leader was an old man in his sixties, named Wu Laofu, who had four sons, all of whom were well-known for their farming skills. He knelt on the ground, trembling and holding on, his eyes just looked at Fan Yubin, and his weathered, withered yellow and black face was full of expectation. He hesitated and stammered, "Young Master Fan, can this potato really have a yield of three thousand catties per mu?" ”

"As long as the planting is right, there will be." Fan Yubin said kindly, his tone was unquestionable. Of course, Fan Yubin is confident that in later generations, Zhangjiakou will be a famous potato and corn growing city in the country. The latitude and soil here are prime areas for potatoes and corn, and the yields per acre are frighteningly high.

"You can plant with confidence, potato seeds don't cost money, and our Fan family wants all the harvested potatoes. If everyone can't grow it, the Fan family will also give you grain according to the average yield of wheat that year. Of course, if everyone else has planted it, you can't grow it, then not only will you not pay for it, but you will also be punished. Fan Yubin smiled and continued.

Wu Lao was stunned, the old tears in his cloudy eyes were crisscrossed, he suddenly kowtowed like pounding garlic, and cried loudly: "Young master, if it is really as you said, potatoes have such a high yield, you are a living bodhisattva, you are a life-saving immortal!" For a while, the whole yard was filled with kowtows and excited sobs.