I knew that you old thing just wanted to ask for a price, and what kind of stuff did you talk about, Su Hao thought disdainfully in his heart. Just now, when he saw Zhu Xi pretending to be a ghost, his eyes were rolling around, and he knew that he was making up nonsense, just to give more weight when negotiating the price. However, then again, Zhao Luo's family does have to have such an old housekeeper, otherwise with Zhao Luo's rich second-generation nature, that bit of family property would have been taken away.

"Mr. Zhu, I don't know how much it will cost you to make up for the earth's qi?" Su Hao didn't want to talk too much with Zhu Xi, so he asked the other party to make a price straightforwardly.

"I wonder how many coals Master Su plans to drive?" Zhu Xi asked rhetorically.

The mountain field belongs to other people, and he will definitely not be able to hide it from others if he opens a few tongs in the future, so Su Hao also told the truth: "This mountain field has many coal veins, I estimate that it will be thirty or forty tongs before and after." However, these tongs are not opened at the same time, and it is estimated that it will take several years. ”

"If that's the case, then let's say an integer, 1,000 taels, what does the master think?" Zhu Xi raised a finger and looked at Su Hao and said.

"You ......"

Chen Guanyu immediately wanted to jump up, this was blatant blackmail. These mountain farms were originally barren mountains, and idleness was idleness. Mining coal on this mountain and giving the mountain owner some money, which is as it should be, but suddenly driving to a high price of 1,000 taels is a slander.

Su Hao quickly stopped Chen Guanyu and didn't let him say more, and then asked Zhu Xi with a smile: "What Mr. Zhu said, is it a total of 1,000 taels?" ”

"What the old man said is 1,000 taels a year." Zhu Xi responded.

"Mr. Zhu, isn't this price a bit ......" Zhao Luo couldn't listen to it anymore, when Yu Fuyang came to him and said that he wanted to open a coal kiln, he only received 20 taels of silver from Yu Fuyang, and now Zhu Xi's mouth is 1000 taels, and it is every year, which is really a bit of a lion's mouth. As an elegant person, Zhao Luo felt that this kind of sky-high asking behavior was a bit inappropriate.

Zhu Xi turned back to Zhao Luo and said, "The owner, the price of the old decay is actually not too high. You think, Master Su led people to mine coal in the mountain field, and this coal will deface the ground. Master Su and they left after mining coal, and we will have to hire short-term workers to clean up in the future, which is not a small cost. ”

Zhao Luo saw that Zhu Xi said so firmly, and he was helpless, he smiled awkwardly and said to Su Hao: "Master Su, you see this matter ......."

Su Hao still looked at Zhu Xi with a smile on his face and asked, "Mr. Zhu, I don't know if there is room for negotiation for the price you said?" ”

"Negotiable...... Naturally, there are also some of them. Zhu Xi said hesitantly, he offered a price of 1,000 taels a year, and he originally planned to let Su Hao bargain. In his thoughts, even if Su Hao cut off half of his waist, leaving 500 taels, or even 400 taels, he was willing to accept it. In recent years, the income of the Zhao family has not been as good as it was back then, and with the rent collected in the fields, life is a little stretched, if you can add an additional income of a few hundred taels, at least it can be alleviated.

Zhu Xi was ready to let Su Hao bargain, but Su Hao didn't care about it, so he only threw out a sentence and asked him if he could move the price. He had the heart to pretend to be tough, and said that there was no room for a price, and he was afraid that Su Hao was a second man who didn't know how to bargain, and he really ran away with a word.

In this mountain farm of the Zhao family, some people have always said that there is coal underground, but no one can tell where the coal is. Yu Fuyang, who came to open a coal kiln some time ago, is said to have a very bleak prospect for the coal kiln. Now finally there is a big man who plans to take down the mountain field and open more than a dozen tongs, if he runs away because he didn't say a word, Zhu Xi will regret it.

"It's good to have a discussion, can Mr. Zhu give a reserve price for the late birth?" Su Hao asked.

Zhu Xi stubbornly said: "Master Su, when we talk about trading, one party asks for the price, and the other party pays back." If Master Su thinks that the price of the old decay is a little higher, you can offer a price that you think is suitable, and everyone will discuss it. ”

Su Hao said: "Okay, since that's the case, then I'll talk about my price." My price is, not a tael of silver......"

"What did you say!" Zhu Xi's eyes widened, and he originally looked like a little cataract, but now he can't see it at all. If Su Hao's counteroffer is 100 taels or even 50 taels, he can understand it, but as soon as the other party opens his mouth, he says that he won't pay a tael of silver, is this because he wants to eat the overlord meal?

"Master Su, this seems to be a little inappropriate." Zhao Luo couldn't accept Su Hao's domineering, and said with an unpredictable expression, "Mr. Zhu's price is indeed a little higher, but Master Su said that he didn't give out a single tael of silver, didn't he want to use official coercion to suppress people?" ”

Su Hao laughed and said, "Mr. Fengling, Mr. Zhu, don't worry, I haven't finished yet." ”

"Master Su, please speak." Zhu Xi suppressed his anger and said.

Su Hao said: "A thousand taels of silver, there will always be a time when it runs out." In a few years, I will wait until the coal mining is finished, I don't know what kind of use this mountain farm in your house can be used? I have an idea, I want to make a deal with your house, so that you can get a hundred years of income, what do you think? ”

"What deal?" Zhu Xi asked.

Su Hao said: "I want to ask your government to allow me to mine coal in the mountain field, and I don't pay a penny for rent." How about I give you 50 acres of Nakata? ”

"50 hectares of Nakata!" Zhu Xi was so shocked that he almost stood up. According to the level of output, the field can be divided into upper, middle and lower, one acre of upper field is worth twenty or thirty taels of silver, one acre of middle field is worth more than ten taels of silver, and one acre of lower field is only worth a few taels of silver. Su Hao claimed to give the Zhao family 50 hectares of Zhongtian, which is equivalent to seventy or eighty thousand taels of silver, how is this possible?

"Master Su isn't joking to entertain the old age, right?" Zhu Xi took a deep breath and asked.

Su Hao pointed to the map on the case and asked Zhu Xi: "Mr. Zhu, from this map, there are no less than 100 hectares of flat land along this small river. ”

"The land was all red soil, and the land was barren and uncultivateable. When my father was alive, he once asked farmers to try farming, but one mu could only harvest a few buckets of grain, which was unprofitable, so he abandoned farming. Zhao Luo said disappreciatively.

Su Hao said: "If this land can be transformed into arable land in the later life, the yield is not daring to say much, and it is not a problem for one acre of land to produce two stones, can this be regarded as Zhongtian?" ”

Zhu Xi looked at Su Hao and asked, "What does Master Su mean......"

Su Hao said: "This kind of red soil is just too acidic, and the other is that it lacks organic ...... Well, there's something else missing in the dirt anyway. If a large amount of quicklime can be applied to change its acidity, supplemented by other fertilizers, within one or two years, the soil quality should be significantly improved, up to the capital of Zhongtian. ”

For the transformation of red soil, there were some more mature methods in the Ming Dynasty. The application of quicklime to neutralize the acidity is one of them. In addition, farmers had to apply burnt ash such as chicken feathers and cow bones to their fields, but people at the time did not know that the purpose of this was to increase the phosphorus content in the soil, but only that it had the effect of improving the soil.

Zhu Xi obviously understands this method, he said: "What Master Su said was actually thought of when the old club was here. It's just that this transformation of red soil requires a lot of quicklime and cow bones, both of which are expensive and rare. Slowly, it is 50 hectares of transformation, even if it is 10 hectares, it will cost 100,000 catties of lime and 20,000 catties of beef bones, and this is only a year's cost. I don't know what tricks Master Su has to get so much lime and cow bones? ”

Su Hao said: "Mr. Zhu, this is what Wansheng wants to discuss with your mansion." In his later life, he was mining coal in the mountains, and with coal, why is it difficult to burn lime? I promise to supply you with 500,000 catties of quicklime every year, the price is calculated at 8 cents of silver per 100 catties, what do you think? ”

As mentioned earlier, due to the lack of coal in the south, the price of lime is abnormally high, and the price of quicklime in Fengcheng is 2 coins and 100 catties of silver, and the supply is still very limited. Su Hao proposed to provide quicklime to the Zhao family at a price of 8 cents of silver and 100 catties, and it could reach a supply of 500,000 catties a year, which made Zhu Xi overjoyed.

"Is Master Su serious?" Zhu Xi asked.

Su Hao said: "We can sign a contract for this, the price and supply can be written into the contract, if it can't be completed, I will pay you money according to the contract." ”

"How dare you, how dare you." Zhu Xi said politely, "So, what about the beef bones?" It's not something you can find casually. ”

Su Hao said: "I can't find so many cow bones, however, I can provide you with another thing, the effect of the fat field will not be worse than the beef bones, and the price is much lower than the beef bones, every 100 catties, even if it is 3 yuan." ”

"Is there such a thing?" Zhu Xi asked in surprise, "Why has the old man never heard of it?" ”

Su Hao smiled, and said in his heart If you have heard of it, it will be strange. In the field, the farmer uses cow ashes mixed with plant ash to wrap rice roots, and the phosphorus in the cow ashes is taken. After later generations understood this truth, they directly used phosphate rock powder as a source of phosphate fertilizer. When Su Hao was digging a well in Guangfeng Township, he once accidentally found a small phosphate mine in the mountains, with small reserves and low grade, which could not meet the requirements of industrial production in later generations, but at present, it is quite profitable to mine some and grind it into phosphate rock powder and sell it to farmers as phosphate fertilizer.

"Mr. Zhu, this thing is called phosphate fertilizer, which is secretly made from minerals in the mountains in the late life, and the effect of fertilizing the field is better than that of cow bones, and the fertilizer effect can last for several years. It has been estimated that 50 kg of phosphate fertilizer can be applied to one mu of red soil to achieve the effect of soil modification. To transform the 50 hectares of red soil in your house, there are 250,000 catties, and these 250,000 catties of phosphate fertilizer can be provided in late life. Su Hao said.

"Good!" Zhu Xi clapped his hands and said, "If Master Su can really provide 500,000 catties of lime and 250,000 catties of phosphate fertilizer to our government every year, then our government can not collect a penny for renting a mountain field for coal mining." ”

"A word?" Su Hao asked with a smile.

"It's a deal!" Zhu Xi said categorically.