At the end of November, heavy snow arrives and temperatures drop below freezing.

At such times, many people are wearing fur jackets by the fire.

Even Li Hang is no exception to this.

After all, they are all mortals with the naked eye, and it is impossible to say that they are not afraid of the cold.

However, there is a big stove, Li Hang doesn't care, there is a small blower below, and there is a bamboo pipe on the top that leads the exhaust gas to the outside of the house, which is used to exhaust the exhaust gas.

Li Hang sat near the fire. "Dali, have there been any reports of houses collapsing with snow recently?"

"No, our Donglin Port is okay, most of the houses are supported by wood, and they are not so easy to collapse, and those thatched houses are not necessarily." Wang rubbed his hands together, and then looked at the strange temple outside, which he really felt a little strange compared to the temples he had seen.

It's kind of like a restaurant.

Even the monks are mostly good at cooking.

"I've already told him on the side of the monk Huiyun, let him try to contain those who have collapsed houses, give them a job, just let them wash dishes in winter or something, then this kind of thing will be more convenient, how are we preparing here?"

"Almost!" Wang Dali nodded excitedly.

Winter! This good thing is finally done.

"Hmmm! It's going to be the New Year, the big winter is still to let people have a good New Year, after all, it's almost the New Year, and everyone is going to start preparing for spring ploughing again, vigorously, when the time comes, these people in the entire Donglin Port, when the New Year comes, each family will send some meat. ”

Meat is still something that Li Hang wants to have, but for those ordinary families who can hardly eat meat, Li Hang is almost no shortage of meat at home now.

Now he has to find ways to make meat every day.

Otherwise, it's easy to be rejected by your own girl.

Li Hang rubbed his forehead helplessly.

"Well, I'll go before the Chinese New Year, but master, should we stock up on some ice this winter? After all, saltpeter also needs money. ”

"Reserve it if it's convenient, if it's too cold, forget it! Anyway, saltpeter can be used to make ice cubes, so we don't need to rush like this, plus saltpeter can also be reused, and the cost will not be very large! ”

Li Hang glanced at the little kid playing with snow on the side.

The grain harvested in the autumn is in the warehouse, but a lot of meat is still hanging on the beams, and there is still too much meat at this time, so it must be well preserved many times. After a while, when they finished playing, they took the meat hanging on the beams of the house to the warehouse area, remember to take some more ginger out of the warehouse, and boil ginger water to drink later. Haunt the Cold! ”

Li Hang looked curiously at the heavy snow blocking the road in the distance.

It's still very cold in the north these days, at least at this time, the ferry port of the entire Donglin port has frozen, and those ships can't come up, even if they are as powerful as the Su family, they can only organize a huge horse team at this time, and frantically rely on horse-drawn trucks to transfer materials here.

Of course, at this time, ordinary materials will not come, and those who come are some rare in case, such as silk and other things, it is precisely because of this huge profit that they will work tirelessly to send it, but it is still scarce.

It can be said that the main materials for the winter are already stored around autumn.

After all, it's winter, and now it's snowing outside, and there's no complete road, so it's not easy for him to go out and walk around at this time, and even the business with the current winter is much worse, and even those who come out to buy things are a lot less.

In the winter, most people don't have anything to do, and many just go out to chop wood or find something to do around, after all, even in winter, there are still a lot of things.

Especially now that the imperial grandson and Li Hang have now begun to ask everyone to turn over the land when it snows in winter.

Although this greatly increases the consumption of labor, it can freeze the insects to death, and the top of the farm has also made marks where various pests can stay, especially locusts, which like to bury their eggs in the ground, and there are special marks on it, and even a separate page is used to draw the appearance of locust eggs.

As soon as these locust eggs are found, local villagers can collect them and feed them back to chickens or crush them and mix them into pigs, cattle and sheep feed.

Anyway, this kind of high-protein stuff can be used to the best of its ability.

It would be a waste if it was just burned.

Ploughing an acre of land every day, these people probably have a lot to do! "Dali, go outside and look at the ploughed ground, check and check, and if they really collect enough locust eggs, they will feed our chickens!"

Li Hang said with a smile.

If we can really insist on turning the land every winter to catch locust eggs, or even spread it nationwide in this way, then there will be much less chance of seeing locust plagues in the future. It is equivalent to the reduction of risk in the change of direction.

And once this practice is promoted, it can also enrich the types of feed, so that locust eggs are used as feed, which can be said to kill two birds with one stone, plus locust eggs, it will not necessarily die for ten years, so it is also a good feed, the only trouble is that this locust eggs are usually 10 cm under the soil, so they have to be turned deeper.

If it is 10 centimeters of ordinary soil, it is not a problem to turn it with a plough ox and a plow, but this is winter, and the difficulty of turning this soil in the snow is simply touching.

But that's how it works.

In particular, these collected eggs can save a lot of feed money.

Now looking at these men who were hired to turn the ground everywhere, Li Hang couldn't help laughing. "Do you think there will be a bumper harvest in these farmlands next year?"

"Husband, we don't need to live on these grains, it's better to ......" Zhou Yurong whispered, she was also very depressed, this kind of tax is not as good as her own income when calculated seriously, wouldn't it be better for your husband to be a smooth man and get rid of all the favors?

Shaking his head, Li Hang touched Zhou Yurong's head. "So you don't understand, if I am exempt this year, then what about the future? Isn't it necessary to avoid every disaster year? So what do they need to pay taxes for? Taxes are to be handed over to the state, not to me, and I am now exempting their taxes, that is, I am personally paying for them, and I am helping them to bear their taxes, and I can help them once, but I can't make them have no sense of responsibility. If I always do this, they will even resent me when I don't! ”

There are so many examples of this in later generations. No matter what it is, once the other person's kindness to you becomes a habit, you will unconsciously take it for granted.