Yan Heng decided to continue the kindness and kindness, and renovated the ancestral hall, he had already sealed thirty taels of silver to his uncle for a strict decision, and he, the patriarch, asked Mr. Yin and Yang to choose a date for the start of construction and choose someone to cut wood.

At the same time, Yan Heng also sealed 20 taels of silver to the third grandfather Yan Qi, and asked him to find someone to repair the congested canal in the village and find someone to collect stones for the renovation of the ancestral hall and the construction of bridges.

Fifty taels was not enough, and he also deposited fifty taels here in his uncle's strict decision, so as to establish a family education at that time.

In addition, Yan Heng continued to put fifty yuan to his uncle to strictly decide here, saying that when Yan Heng's family needed to plant this thousand acres of mountainous land, they needed the wages of the clansmen to help work.

Watching the white silver move out of the carriage of the Yan Heng family, and looking at the cloth and silver in their hands, the clansmen could no longer say whether they were happy or moved.

Now Yan Heng's family wants them to help them work and give them wages, and they also say that they are paid 50 wen per mu.

The clansmen were even more embarrassed when they heard this, and they all said that they knew that Yan Heng's family were all scholars and didn't know how to farm, and it was nothing for them to help loosely weed and weed as a clansman.

But Yan Heng insisted on refusing, and these clansmen had no choice but to accept it.

Uncle Yan Jue didn't know what to say about Yan Heng anymore, he didn't feel distressed when he thought that Yan Heng was a cub selling his grandfather's field, but now he feels that Yan Heng is a loser and shouldn't count.

Daddy Yan Zhun also began to hide silver in his pocket, he was afraid that his eldest son would spend all the money, and he would not have the money to sell medicine to nourish yang qi.

Only the aunt Li is now more pleasing to the eye the more she looks at Yan Heng, and she went to pick her own oranges to stuff for him and Xiao Yan Song to eat, and she was afraid that Yan Heng and Xiao Yan Song would be hungry, so they would cook noodles for the brothers to eat at night.

When Yan Heng asked Xu Deming to take out a hundred taels of silver, Aunt Li's eyes widened even more, and she hurriedly came over with hot noodles: "Big nephew, who are you?" ”

"This is for your uncle, over the years, my family has spent a lot of money on you, and you have also helped my family a lot, a full hundred taels, it is a piece of the heart of my father and little nephews, and I hope you are not too little."

Yan Heng put a heavy bag of silver on the wooden table where his uncle was stern to knock on the cigarette pouch and pot.

But the uncle Yan Du didn't speak for a long time.

One hundred taels is too big for his uncle's strict decision, in this era, the average family is only thirty or forty taels a year, and one hundred taels is equal to the income of his uncle's family for three years without eating or drinking.

Aunt Li was already at a loss and didn't know what to say, and said with a smile: "Where do you need so much, a full hundred taels, I have never seen so much silver in my life, hehe!" ”

"You take this silver back, the family doesn't talk about two families, in my place, Brother Heng, you don't have to be a façade, and it doesn't cost money to be an official and marry a daughter-in-law in the future."

When the uncle solemnly refused, the aunt Li had already entered the back room with the silver.

Seeing this, Uncle Yan decided to shout: "Return the silver to Brother Heng!" ”

Aunt Li didn't listen.

Uncle Yan decided that there was no other way but to stomp his feet, Yan Heng had to persuade him with good words, what is the cost of preparing for Yan Zhiqing to study and marry a wife in the future, his family does not lack this money or something.

In this way, the uncle was willing to give up.

Yan Heng's move, Daddy Yan Zhun had no opinion, and took his uncle Yan Zhun to go outside to drink wine and chat about family life in front of a round of Haoyue, maybe for Daddy Yan Zhun, he owed his brother Yan Zhun finally repaid, which made him feel a lot more comfortable, and Uncle Yan Zhu also felt a lot more at ease because his brother Yan Zhun came back safely and was no longer borrowing money.

In short, after Yan Heng spent more than seven hundred taels of silver, the entire Yan clan finally regained its previous harmony.

For Yan Heng and Xiao Yan Song, in this world that pays attention to self-cultivation and governing the country and leveling the world, it is easier for them to be favored by the upper rulers.

When Xiong Xiu, the magistrate, learned about it, he praised Yan Heng's move, and ordered the inspection department to open the door for Yan Heng to buy potatoes from Xiyangfan.

Jiangxi is close to Fujian, and Fujian has always been a major maritime trade province, and now the Ming Dynasty has been open since Yongle, especially in Nanchang Province, the Yangtze River rich area is not surprising to see the Western Ocean, and the Western Fan is also because of the long shelf life and easy processing of potatoes will also be carried in large quantities, plus now there is government support, so a large number of acquisitions are not difficult.

On the second day after Yan Heng returned to Qili Village, Xu Deming, who had returned to the city, pulled three ox carts of potatoes to Qili Village.

Daddy Yan Zhun is a showman who has been to the provincial capital, and he is no stranger to seeing potatoes, and he directly wants Yan Heng to get rid of Xu Deming, for no other reason, because many of the potatoes that Xu Deming bought have sprouted, and Daddy Yan Heng also knows that sprouted potatoes are poisonous.

Yan Heng didn't listen to his father, and he didn't have the energy to explain to his father, because he wanted Xu Dechang to buy Western potatoes at a low price, and almost always discarded the sprouted potatoes that he didn't want.

In this way, the cost can be minimized.

Daddy Yan Zhun only said that he was stubborn, and he was also a loser, and he united with his uncle to count him down.

The aunt was very enthusiastic to help Yan Heng, and helped Yan Heng call all the adult men and strong women in the Yan clan.

And Yan Heng took advantage of this to teach the people how to help their families grow this kind of extraneous thing called potatoes.

Yan Heng knows that potato reproduction belongs to tuber reproduction in asexual reproduction, and planting is very simple, only need to loosen the soil and dig the pit and then bury the cut tuber in the sandy soil, and pour organic fertilizer, that is, manure.

Therefore, the tribesmen understood it when they heard it, and they all said it was easy.

Seeing that the clansmen said this, Yan Heng asked his aunt to help bring the fifty hanging money stored in his uncle's house and show it to the clansmen, as long as they now plant one mu according to their own demonstration, they can come and get the money.

For a time, the clansmen didn't even care about their own family's farm work, and their enthusiasm to help Yan Heng's family was very high.

One day, before dawn, I came to get the potatoes in the dark, and then went to the field that already belonged to Yan Heng's family to loosen the soil and dig the pit to plant potato tubers.

There are also those who planted potatoes for Yan Heng's family under the moonlight, and some of the whole family did not let go of the head of the family who were driven to Yan Heng's field to work.

Turning over the soil and throwing a few pieces of potatoes, such a labor can be completed for one acre of land can get fifty wen, for them is simply a pie in the sky is a good thing, no one wants to earn less than anyone else.

More than 50 Yan families and more than 200 people have completed the planting of more than 700 acres of potatoes in three days at a rate of more than 200 acres a day.

Even the aunt Li, who never works in the field and only eats melon seeds in the house, has been much more diligent recently, carrying a hoe every day.

Yan Heng didn't expect that just such a small amount of money could stimulate the enthusiasm of the people so high, which made him fully aware of how cheap the labor force in this era was.

On the third day that Yan Heng had left Qili Village, Yan Heng's field was officially spring ploughing!

A whole 1,000 acres of potatoes were planted on a large scale in this small village in northern Jiangxi at a speed that no one expected.

The clansmen are very happy and embarrassed, they are simple, they will always consciously pick up some dung to water the land of Yan Heng's family after they feel that they have taken advantage of Yan Heng's family, and prevent children from trampling on it, and even at the suggestion of the third grandfather Yan Qi, they also sent people to take turns to guard.