In order to recruit enough labor, Xue Kejing, who was now in charge of this matter, went to the pavilion chief again.

When the pavilion chief saw that only Xue Kejing came this time, he joked with her, "The third girl of the Xue family, why are you the only one who comes, and Miss Jiang is not with you this time?" In the past, the two of you went in and out together. ”

Xue Kejing didn't have anything to do with the pavilion chief, and replied to him generously, "Pavilion Chief, don't make fun of me, Sister Qianyue is in charge of the mountains and forests, and I will take over the recruitment of people now." ”

"It seems that the third girl has grown up quite fast, I remember that when you first came, you still followed Miss Jiang and didn't make much noise, but I didn't think that now you can be on your own", the pavilion chief praised it.

"Where, where, I'm embarrassed by what the pavilion master said."

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After confirming Xue Kejing's intentions, the two took an ox cart to the next town.

Naturally, along the way, they continued to discuss recruitment.

When the pavilion chief saw that she was a girl, he didn't mind sitting in the same car with him, a man from a foreign family, and knew that this girl from the Xue family was also a person who was not limited to small things.

Naturally, his attitude towards her will not be as contemptuous as that of an ordinary little girl, but simply treat her as a real businessman.

And this little girl herself is also shrewd, and she can speak even more.

When the pavilion chiefs of other towns received the two, if it weren't for the Cai pavilion chief who knew Xinwen Town, the pavilion chief would never have believed that such a young girl in her twenties could really talk about such a big business with him.

After that, it was only under the repeated assurances of Pavilion Chief Cai that he dared to believe it.

For the villagers in other towns, the Xue family didn't bother too much, but directly signed a contract with the pavilion chief.

The content of this contract includes the labor required by the Xue family, the wages paid, the length of recruitment, and from which day to which day, and stipulates that during the working period, the villagers must live in the residence provided by the Xue family, and the Xue family will provide food and lodging.

After some bargaining, the two parties finally agreed on the salary, after which the contract was signed and the deposit was paid.

After visiting the pavilion chief for two days in a row, Xue Kejing was able to recruit enough people to make reservations.

In a few days, the mountain was completely reclaimed and encircled.

At this point, the Xue family truly owned thousands of hectares of fertile land.

Of course, more than 40,000 acres of land that had been tenanted for a period of five years have now been successfully encircled, and almost all of them are surrounded by the hundreds of thousands of acres of mountainous land.

For the more than 40,000 acres of land, the contract signed between the Xue family and the villagers is that the Xue family will rent the seeds for five years first, and whether they will continue to rent the seeds after five years depends on the wishes of the Xue family.

If the Xue family wants to continue renting the plant, the villagers must rent it to the Xue family, and if the Xue family does not need it, the villagers can return to the fields.

The term is three years, and after three years, even if the Xue family is unwilling, the villagers have the right to return to the fields.

After the field reclamation is completed, it is time for the Xue family to pay the wages.

This time, the amount of labor hired was large, and it lasted for a long time, and even built a wooden shed for a few days, and they paid more than 14,000 taels of silver for the wages alone.

If it weren't for the fact that the Xue family had contacted the timber merchant and the charcoal merchant early, sold a large amount of wood charcoal, and sold a lot of firewood, I am afraid that this salary would not be enough to pay.

After the completion of the mountain reclamation and construction, the wages were settled with the Xue family, and the villagers, who had worked hard for more than a month, could finally go home happily with their wages.

However, this does not mean that you will not be able to work for a short time.

More than ten days have passed, and it is time for the next season of cuttings.

The Xue family will also recruit laborers.

The villagers in this town, as long as they meet the needs of the Xue family, the Xue family will give priority to recruitment.

Before the reclamation of their mountain land was completed and the villagers had not left, the Xue family had signed a new contract with them in advance.

The remaining insufficient will be recruited in other towns.

Therefore, it was only a dozen days after returning home, and this part of the laborers who had signed a contract with the Xue family returned to the mountains and forests again.

After the Xue family got hands on the mountains and forests, they let people build a number of simple wooden sheds at the foot of the mountain that can be used for people to live temporarily.

Anyway, there are all kinds of timber on the mountain, and there is no shortage of labor, so it doesn't take much effort or money to simply build a shed that can sleep at night.

After all, the laborers work in the mountains during the day, and they don't eat food here, so they really just sleep at night, and it is better to build a shed than to sleep directly on the mountain, and the weather is not too cold during this period of time anyway.

In addition to the sufficient timber for the house, the other expenses and the wages of the hired workers cost only four thousand taels of silver.

If you can only live once, the four thousand taels of silver plus wood is naturally not cheap, but the Xue family's field will be planted several times a year in the future, and this shed can be lived in for a long time, so the silver will be worth it.

However, the next season of sweet potatoes will ripen from October to November, when the weather is already quite cold, so this simple shed is not enough to see.

In this way, the Xue family will have to spend at least a few thousand taels of silver to renovate it in the future, so that it can live in the winter.

That's for later, so I won't show it here

Let's talk about the cultivation of sweet potatoes.

It is now the middle of July, and the seedlings that have been raised before can be cut and cuttings.

And that batch of spring potatoes, because the sweet potato vine seedlings are in the vigorous growth period, cutting some vine seedlings has little impact on the growth of sweet potatoes, and you can also start cutting sweet potato vine seedlings in batches for planting.

It's just that the sum of these two is not too much for more than 100,000 acres of land, and the Xue family only recruited some villagers who were closer to the mountains and forests to come back and plant.

After the breeding seedlings are cut, they will continue to draw seedlings, although the number cannot be compared with the first batch of sweet potato seedlings, but there is better than nothing.

And the sweet potato vine seedlings, in this vigorous growth period, cut off some vines will soon pull out new ones, as long as you grasp this degree, you can cut them in batches.

This will continue until early August, when the sweet potatoes can be excavated, which also means that a large number of seedlings and cuttings need to be cut.

On the day before the sweet potato was excavated, both the laborers from the town who had not returned and the villagers from other towns went to live in the wooden shed under the leadership of their own homes.

On the second day, the construction officially started, and at this time, the villagers who had stayed here to cut seedlings and plant seedlings naturally became half of the villagers' masters.

Basically, one person with more than a dozen people is familiar with the process of work.

Everyone had to cut out all the seedlings in four days, plant them in the field, and dig up this batch of sweet potatoes by the way, which was also a very heavy task.

Some of them are responsible for cutting vine seedlings and digging sweet potatoes.

Most of the others are naturally responsible for the planting.

No matter what kind of food or fruit or vegetables you grow, it can't be easy to cultivate.

Like this sweet potato, although it is easy to grow, it requires a lot of steps.

Turn over the ground and fertilize, ridge making, hole setting, watering, place the sweet potato seedlings into **, bury the soil, and steadfast sweet potato ridges.