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Soon after Wang Haoran returned from iron ore mining, a businessman came to visit.

"I've heard the name of the little young master for a long time, it's rare to see it today, it's really an honor!" This businessman came to the Xie family's old mansion under the leadership of Xu Xuan'an, saw Wang Hao, and then said politely.

"I wonder why this boss is here?" Just looking at the clothes, Wang Haoran knew that the right way was a merchant.

"Oh, a certain surname is Tan character Mengde, which is a native of Hangzhou. I took the liberty to visit today, I want to buy some rice seeds from the little master, I don't know if it's okay? Shang Jia asked bluntly.

"As the so-called business is profitable, I don't know how Boss Tan plans to make profits?" Wang Haoran thought for a moment before asking, he didn't want the businessman to speculate the price of miscellaneous rice seeds too high, so he was not in a hurry to make a statement.

"Please rest assured that the little young master endured humiliation in the matter of rice research back then, but he did not make a profit in the matter of rice seeds, so righteous, even on our side, there is a good reputation, presumably people who want to make profits from this do not dare to come to the door. Although Tan has a little money, he also knows the suffering of the people, and he will not make a fortune from it. Tan plans to exchange the grain seeds at the same price, and when the people harvest, Tan will recover one or two percent of the harvest in the harvest other than one stone per mu, so as to make up for the cost of transporting rice seeds, and I hope the little master will be more considerate. ”

"There's nothing wrong with that." Wang Haoran himself is not willing to do loss-making business, at most he can contribute some manpower for free, "Is Hangzhou growing two rice rice a year?" ”

"Yes, Tan wants to wait for the rice here to be harvested and send it back as soon as possible, so as to catch up with the agricultural season."

"Can you catch it?" Wang Haoran didn't know much about farming, but he vaguely remembered that there was not much time between early rice and late rice.

"Hurry up, hurry up overnight, if there are no accidents, it will still be in time."

"If only you could catch up? As for the price of rice seeds, I will sell them to you at the price of ordinary rice, but you must explain to the people over there that the rice that comes from this rice must not be produced, otherwise there may be no harvest. Wang Haoran pointed at Xu Xuan'an and said, "For other matters, you can discuss with Xuan'an." ”

After sending Tan Xuande away, Xu Xuanan asked: "Little master, I want to wait for the rice harvest here to rush to Hangzhou, where two crops of rice can be planted a year, and for rice research, I can take twice as much time to study, see if it's okay." ”

"Of course you can, but I don't know if your family agrees with you going to such a far place, so you should discuss it with your father."

"Or I'll go back tomorrow, the letter doesn't say clearly."

"That's fine. However, if everyone in your family agrees, then you can't wait until the rice harvest is over, and then you have to buy fields and recruit workers to prepare for going there, and it will be too late if you don't go ten days and half a month in advance. ”

The next day, Xu Xuanan hurried back to Chang'an, estimating that it was difficult to do his father's ideological work, and it took several days to rush back to Puzhou.

"Little master, my father and mother have agreed to let me go to Hangzhou." As soon as Xu Xuanan returned to Puzhou, he found Wang Haoran and said.

"That's good, but you're not familiar with life over there, so you can ask any of your employees if anyone wants to go, and the treatment is preferential. There is also that Boss Tan, he has to rush back to Hangzhou to arrange rice affairs in the next few days, you can go with him. You have to build a good relationship with him, and if you have any problems over there, you can ask him for help. ”

In a few days, Xu Xuanan will take one of his subordinates to follow Tan Xuande to Hangzhou. Wang Haoran felt a little guilty about this, after all, Xu Xuanan was only sixteen or seventeen years old, for this reason, Wang Haoran gave Xu Xuanan enough funds in Hangzhou, and specially invited Tan Xuande to eat and drink, hoping that Tan Xuande could take more care of Xu Xuanan. In addition, when they talked about department stores, Wang Haoran also said that he could let Tan Xuande open his own one in Hangzhou. Tan Xuande was also very enthusiastic and rushed to pay the bill, but Wang Haoran didn't care about this money, as long as Xu Xuanan was in trouble, Tan Xuande could lend a hand.

After another half a month, the rice was ready to be harvested. This time, the area of mixed rice is very wide, and the people are happy to see such a large area of heavy rice ears, and some farmers who have already harvested their own rice are happy to come to help harvest for free.

Wang Haoran plans to exchange all the miscellaneous rice harvested this time for farmers to sow seeds. Although some people failed to harvest after exchanging the second-generation miscellaneous rice seeds last time, Wang Haoran also made up for the yield of one stone mu one by one as promised before, so this time the enthusiasm of the people to exchange the first-generation miscellaneous jiao rice seeds is not less than last year. At this time, Xu Xuan'an was already in Hangzhou, and Wang Haoran couldn't spare the manpower to handle the matter of exchanging seeds, so he could only go into battle in person.

Tan Xuande's people who stayed here loaded the first generation of seeds and sent them to Hangzhou as early as when they harvested the rice, while the farmers here waited for Wang Haoran to dry the rice before they began to exchange rice. After Wang Haoran finished compensating the peasants for the unharvested rice, and had been busy exchanging rice seeds for a few days, Wang Jingxiu and others also came back after surveying the route of the railway.

Wang Haoran checked the drawings drawn by Wang Jingxiu and others, the track back and forth is straight through the villa area and the adjacent street in the downtown of Zhongcheng, and the U-turn device of the rail car is installed at the end, which is not inappropriate, the rail car is not big, and the speed is not fast, and the impact on pedestrians is not great. So Wang Haoran asked them to start designing the specific implementation plan for the construction of the railway, and when they designed it, they could start to build the track.

On Chen Jun's side, the human-powered rail car is relatively simple, and a sample has been made, which is a "four-wheeled bicycle" that is pedaled by one person, can sit two people in the back seat, and has only brakes and no steering wheel. This is just a supporting facility in the villa area, and the audience is small, so Wang Haoran just let the factory make more than a dozen rail cars, but what he didn't expect was that there were many people in Midtown who liked to take the rail car, and regarded it as an elegant thing. (To be continued.) )