The Xue family took into account the taste of fresh sweet potatoes before, in fact, they had already priced it as a vegetable, if it was calculated in terms of fruits and vegetables, based on its taste, in the case of being monopolized by their own family, a penny and a pound were naturally low.

But if it wants to monopolize this business, it must not be able to appear in front of the world as a complete sweet potato.

Once it has been processed, it can only be regarded as food, and the taste is no longer an advantage.

Everyone knows that food with too much moisture is the most difficult to preserve.

If you want to store it for a long time, you can't keep it.

In this way, the results of a pound of sweet potatoes are compared with other grains, and a pound of money is not very cost-effective for the Zheng family.

Therefore, Zheng Linchu said that if he gives two cents and three catties, he will definitely not pit them.

After talking about the price, it was the amount that the Zheng family needed.

I only heard Zheng Linchu say to everyone, "If a year is counted as two seasons, the yield of 600 hectares of fertile land is my bottom line, and the more the better, that is, thousands of hectares, and I can also eat it." ”

Six hundred, thousands!

Are you sure it's not 600 acres, thousands of acres?

Hearing these two numbers, everyone in the Xue family who was frightened by them gasped even more, and their faces were in disbelief.

Only Wen An, who was sitting on the side, had a gleam in his eyes, and then dissipated.

When everyone recovered from the shock, they heard Zheng Linchu say again, "I also know that hundreds of hectares of land are difficult for everyone to gather in a short period of time. Therefore, I, the Zheng family, can pay the silver for you in advance, so that you can prepare enough fields as soon as possible to prepare for the next season. ”

As soon as she said that she could pay the silver for her family in advance, Jiang Qianyue and Xue Kejing glanced at each other, both remembering what the pavilion chief said a few days ago.

I look forward to the situation that the Xue family will one day be able to buy all the thousands of acres of mountains and forests.

If they could really get the silver in advance, their Xue family might not be able to buy all the endless mountains in the town.

It's just that even if all the sweet potatoes on the 4,000 acres of land they planted are sold to Zheng Linchu after they are ripe, it will be more than 10,000 taels of silver at most.

And if the Xue family wants to get all the remaining 900 hectares, they have to ask at least 60,000 or 70,000 taels, even if they only need 500 hectares to make up 600, they will need more than 30,000 taels of silver.

Then this advance of silver does not seem to be enough.

Before the two of them could express their opinions, Zheng Linchu continued, "I remember that the spring potatoes you planted a few days ago were estimated to be ripe in August, right?" ”

"The estimate is so, but how it is, we have to wait until the time is up, and we can determine the specific harvest date after seeing the growth of sweet potatoes, after all, this spring potato, our family is planting it for the first time."

The one who knows the most about sweet potatoes is Xue Shanjing, and now she is also in charge of this sweet potato field.

"Then the seedlings that have been bred seem to be also cut in July and August, right?"

"That's right", Xue Shanjing probably understood what she meant, "It's just that if you want to cut the vine seedlings of this batch of sweet potatoes directly to cuttings, it seems to be a little late."

Perhaps only a few days can be made up in mid to late August, and cutting seedlings early will inevitably affect the harvest of sweet potatoes, and a few days later will not be able to catch up with cuttings, so only this time the seedlings are the safest. ”

Hearing this, Zheng Linchu pondered for a while, "Then try to recruit as many people as possible, and plant as many as you can during this time." ”

At this time, Jiang Qianyue also expressed her concerns, "This batch of spring potatoes is only worth more than 10,000 taels of silver at most, I don't know how much silver Miss Zheng can prepay us in advance?" ”

Zheng Linchu seems to have thought about her question for a long time.

"I remember that the mountain forest where your Xue family's land is located covers an area of 1,000 hectares, and it seems that there are about 900 hectares excluding the part that everyone has bought.

For these nine hundred hectares, I will pay you sixty thousand taels of silver in advance. I will pay another 20,000 taels for the rest, and you can rent as much as you can for the villagers' fields, including the cost of enclosing those fields.

I only have one request, I hope that you can recruit enough people to cut as many seedlings as possible and grow more sweet potatoes in that feasible period of time. ”

Regarding her proposal, Jiang Qianyue thought about it, but still had some concerns.

"Miss Zheng, do you know that food has been the life of the people since ancient times? Sometimes the people were more concerned about food than money, so it seemed difficult to rent a large amount of land.

And even if it is rented, it will be one east and one west, and the fields will be more scattered, after all, even if the people are willing to rent out, they will only do so under the condition of ensuring that they have enough food in their homes.

In this way, it seems to be more difficult to enclose and build, I wonder if Miss Zheng has a solution? ”

Zheng Linchu seemed to have already considered, "Qianyue seems to have forgotten what business my Zheng family is, can this grain be less than theirs at that time?" ”

"In other words, if the villagers don't collect the silver, Miss Zheng is willing to provide us with food to offset the silver taels?"

"Not bad."

That seems acceptable, as it doesn't hurt them to do so.

But Jiang Qianyue and others still didn't dare to make a decision directly.

"Miss Zheng said that the amount of silver is huge, we are not very good at making claims, I wonder if the girl can wait for Lang Jing to come back and then discuss with her?"

"Naturally, I just have something to talk to Lang Jing about."

At this point, everyone has a bottom on the price of sweet potatoes and the amount of plants that need to be planted.

That's it.

Zheng Linchu chatted with everyone for a while.

After that, he left first because he had some personal affairs with Wen An.

The scholars gathered around to discuss the tools that Zheng Linchu had brought, as well as the instruction manual.

It seems to be the first time the two have talked to each other.

I only heard Wen Andao, "I have something to ask Miss Zheng to answer." ”

"Miss Wen, please speak."

Wen An was very puzzled, "Sweet potato sweet potato, as soon as you hear this name, you can know that it is named because it comes from Fanbang, and we, the so-called Fanbang countries in your Chu mouth, don't know that there are so many ways to eat sweet potatoes, and there have never been sweet potatoes in Chu State, why do people know so well how to eat it, as well as how to plant and store it?" ”

Zheng Linchu asked rhetorically, "What kind of thing has you not heard of?" ”

"Sweet potato flour and sweet potato vermicelli."

I heard Zheng Linchu laugh and said, "This method was left by my ancestor of the Zheng family, I think she saw it from some ancient books, and then recorded it."

Maybe in ancient times, there was still this law in your country, but then it was lost? After all, your country does not have the same culture as our Central Plains, nor does it have many words to record the past, and it is not impossible for some things to be passed on and lost. ”

"Huh!"

Wen An sneered, opened her eyes and said nonsense, she could believe this?

Zheng Linchu didn't explain any more.

But I heard Wen An say very certainly, "Miss Lin has only seen sweet potatoes on paper except for a few times in the Xue family, right?" ”