Since Yan Heng redeemed his family's more than 100 acres of land, he has been thinking about how to turn his land into wealth, and he can't let people's fields be so barren all the time.

Yan Heng considered renting directly to collect rent, but he did not have the energy to find tenants, and the profit from renting was not very good.

Yan Heng wanted to make a new attempt, he wanted to change the traditional way of smallholder economy to manage his own land.

He contacted Xiyangfan through Ouyang Jin, and learned that there were already potatoes, a so-called high-yield food, that began to appear in Daming.

Like other time-traveling novels, Yan Heng didn't want to let this food spread and promote naturally, and he felt that he needed to speed up its promotion.

Although the potato is only a starchy food, it has been greatly promoted since the eighteenth century because of its high yield and low requirements for land fertility.

Some people even say that this imported product has made a great contribution to the continuation of a certain dynasty for more than 200 years.

Of course, Yan Heng promoted it not to let it renew the life of the Ming Dynasty, and Yan Heng was not sure if the potatoes could really affect the lifespan of a dynasty.

He now wants to promote potato cultivation mainly because it is cheap to produce, and it can also be derived from many delicacies, and it can be used as a staple food in bad years.

Yan Heng admits that in this era, people may not have realized the value of potatoes.

But he believes in the promotion ability of his Wenqu study, plus the shelf life of this food is also very long, and the storage conditions are not high, Yan Heng is not worried that he will not be able to sell it when the time comes.

This is why Yan Heng reclaimed wasteland, and he wanted to grow economically valuable crops on his land with minimal effort.

Yan Heng now needs many farmers to complete his plan, and the way to recruit a large number of yeoman farmers at one time is naturally his own clan.

Each family has a piece of cloth, each child has a silver leaf to send down, the draft does not forget the people who dig the well, the wealth does not forget the kindness of the clan, Yan Heng's gift makes the clansmen very satisfied, and they all say that Yan Heng's family does not forget the roots.

Yan Heng also said the purpose of asking his clan to reclaim the mountain land, and the purpose was naturally that he wanted to buy the reclaimed mountain land.

After hearing this, the clansmen also made such a decision when Yan Heng's family had made a fortune and wanted to buy land, but it was not good to annex the fields of the clansmen, and while praising Yan Heng's family for not relying on power and oppression of the clansmen, they all expressed their willingness to sell their mountain land to Yan Heng at a low price.

For the clansmen, the mountains are the same as the chicken ribs, and they can't produce food, but they have to pay a tax for it, and now it is better to sell it to Yan Heng's family for silver.

Yan Heng was naturally happy about this, and he was busy and expressed his willingness to buy the extra mountain land of the clansmen.

As a result, the clan meeting that was supposed to discuss the rebuilding of the ancestral hall turned into the scene of Yan Heng's acquisition of the mountainous land of Qili Village.

The clansmen did not dare to say that Yan Heng was a nerd who read rotten books, but only said that Yan Heng was benefiting the township, and he was actually helping his neighbors when he bought land, so they all fought to sell their useless mountain land to Yan Heng.

Yan Heng also did not refuse to come, and spent 500 taels at an ultra-low price of half 21 mu to buy 1,000 acres of mountainous land in Qili Village.

Yan Heng didn't expect the clansmen to be so generous, he really wanted to ask his father Yan Zhun, didn't you react violently when he sold the fields, why did these clansmen sell their fields today without any pain?

Daddy Yan Zhun has now blackened his face, and now he can't wait to pull Yan Heng's ears to teach him a good lesson, although he professes that he doesn't want to pay attention to mundane affairs, and only thinks about reading sage books, but no matter how stupid he is, he knows how valuable the mountains are.

In the past few years, many good fields and good land of the Yan family have disappeared, but most of the barren mountains are still left, what is the reason, that is, no one wants the mountains!

And now, his eldest son, who is usually the best at making money and making money, has gone to buy the mountains of the clansmen desperately!

Daddy Yan Zhun couldn't wait to go up and grab Yan Heng now, and loudly asked him if he was stupid, but just now he had already said that he didn't care about mundane affairs, and only relied on Yan Heng to assist in family affairs.

Now he can't slap himself in the face, so he can only pretend to sit there generously, and say to Yan Qi with a wry smile: "Third uncle, look, my brother Heng is like this, he likes to suffer losses since he was a child!" ”

Yan Qi also smiled, and all the useless land went to Yan Heng's family, and the tax pressure of the rest of the Yan family was also reduced a lot, so he boasted: "Brother Heng is kind, you are a good father to teach!" ”

Uncle Yan Jue couldn't stand it anymore, and quietly pulled Yan Zhun's sleeve: "Brother Heng is doing this too much, although you have some money now, but Brother Heng and Brother Song will have to take the show in the future to raise people to the scholar or something, they all have to spend money, almost get it, and this benefit is too much." ”

"Out of the way! Out of the way! ”

Daddy gritted his teeth and smiled bitterly.

Uncle Yan turned around and patted his knee, sighed, he didn't know what to say for a while, although he was the patriarch, but his younger brother was Xiucai, and his nephew had just won the county test when Jin Gui was the case, and he knew that it was useless to say anything at this time.

And the aunt Li was rare to be generous, saying that she had been planting Yan Zhun's 20 acres of land before and had not returned it, and now she simply exchanged her own 100 acres of mountain land.

When the uncle Yan decided to hear this, he was furious, and rarely angrily reprimanded his aunt Li Shilai, saying that other clansmen bullied Brother Heng for not knowing how to farm and deceived him of his money, and Li Shi, as his own aunt, did the same, it was really too undeserved.

And the Li family is not convinced, and argues that everyone else can exchange it and sell it, why can't he, who is a mother-in-law, sell it.

Although Uncle Yan Zhu said this sentence about his aunt Li, he also slapped the other clansmen in the face, and the other clansmen also helped the Li clan, vying to ask Uncle Yan Du where he felt that he had deceived Brother Heng.

Seeing that his uncle was determined to be out of kindness, and he wanted to help himself but he was not a person inside and out, Yan Heng hurriedly persuaded his uncle and the Li family, and expressed his willingness to accept the kindness of his aunt Li.

Aunt Li was very happy to get the land deed, and the other clansmen were also happy, and they all vied to say that Brother Heng was well aware of the righteousness and considerate of the clansmen.

Only the uncle beat his chest in a hurry, he had been planting the fields for decades, and he knew very well how much income the mountains could make, so he wanted to accuse his nephew, who was the head of the case, but when he thought that he was just an ordinary farmer and his nephew was a student of the county, he didn't know how to blame.

Seeing this, the father pulled his uncle back: "Brother, you can dissipate your anger and let him suffer a loss, how can you know people's hearts if you don't suffer a loss." ”

"Alas, Brother Heng is too kind-hearted, what if he really becomes an official in the future", Uncle Yan couldn't help but worry.

Yan Heng spent five hundred taels of silver, and finally got more than 1,000 acres of mountainous land, which is equivalent to less than half a tael per mu.

Yan Heng didn't know why his clansmen were so emotional, and sold the mountains to himself like cabbage, although his family's land was not a mountain, but a vegetable land, but it couldn't be so much more expensive than the mountains, and he didn't know if Ouyang Jin was too generous, or the clansmen were too generous.

However, anyway, now my family is really a large landlord family covering an area of 1,000 acres.