Therefore, these 60,000 acres of sweet potato land must not only be dug early, but also made into sweet potato flour as soon as possible after they are dug up.

As for others, it is the opposite, whether it is made into sweet potato noodles, dried sweet potatoes, or sugar, the higher the sweetness, the better.

Especially for sugar production, it may be better to dig after the frost falls, but if the sweet potato grows in the field for too long, it is easy to frostbite and rot, which can damage its quality.

In this way, how to distribute these sweet potatoes, when to dig them out, and some precautions, Zheng Linchu and Jiang Qianyue carefully explained.

The batch of sweet potatoes concocted last time, because the quantity was not too large and the time was not very long, her family didn't pay too much attention to the details in this regard, since Lin Chu had focused on it now, she would naturally focus on it.

"Don't worry, I can save it, and I will always pay attention to the condition of sweet potatoes when the time comes," Jiang Qianyue replied.

"Okay."

For her, Zheng Linchu is still relatively relieved.

After saying this, he heard Zheng Linchu ask again, "Do you still have sweet potatoes at home?" ”

"About three or four hundred pounds."

"Three or four hundred catties", Zheng Linchu pondered for a while, "If you can, try to help me make sugar, three points for it, one point for syrup, one point for sugar, and one point for brushing, and send it to me after it is made, it's better to hurry up." ”

It seems that Lin Chu is still quite anxious about the sugar production, Jiang Qianyue thought to herself.

Knowing the importance of this matter, she naturally hurriedly agreed.

Then I heard her ask, "Did you dry the sweet potato residue before?" ”

"Yes, nearly seventy percent, we're all drying."

"Ten catties of sweet potato dregs, how many catties of dry dregs can be produced after drying?"

"Hmm", Jiang Qianyue thought for a while, "The minimum is two and a half catties, and if you want to dry it more dryly, it is not cost-effective, and it is extremely difficult." The most cost-effective is to give three catties. ”

"Then when the sugar is delivered, bring me three catties of this kind and twenty catties."

"Good".

I don't know what the use of this ten catties of dried sweet potato residue can be, Jiang Qianyue was a little curious in her heart, but people didn't say it, and she didn't want to ask.

It's rare to come here, and the two chatted for half a day, and Jiang Qianyue didn't go back until it was late.

After the people left, Zheng Linchu, who was sitting alone in the study, couldn't help but sigh, Lang Jing looked honest, and he had a lot of eyes, and he really didn't see the wrong person.

It's just that this person has calculated on her head, which really makes her cry and laugh.

On the other hand, Jiang Qianyue went back and told everyone about the Zheng family's sugar making.

When she heard that she was going to make sugar, Tang and the others reacted more excitedly than her.

This is an extremely valuable thing, and it is even more profitable!

And according to Zheng Linchu's character, when she eats meat, she must give her family some soup to drink.

Even the broth, for them, is extremely profitable.

How can I not be excited.

Knowing that sweet potatoes can be used to make sugar, there are only so many sweet potatoes left in the family now, where are they willing to eat, so they simply use them all to make sugar.

Xue Yuhai and Zhang Xingyuan, two laborers, hurried to weigh all their sweet potatoes.

There are a total of 360 catties of sweet potatoes.

Then it's all sugar.

For such an important thing, everyone couldn't wait for a moment, and they couldn't wait to start making sugar on the same day, and they didn't care about the middle of the night, so they got together to study the secret recipe for sugar making.

Making sugar may sound like a lot of money, but it's actually quite simple.

The main thing is that the raw materials are simple, only wheat and sweet potatoes are needed.

The crowd summed up the steps of sugar production, the first is to soak the wheat into malt.

This is not difficult, they are little people, who doesn't know this.

The secret recipe says that the ratio of the two is 100 catties of sweet potatoes and 2 catties of wheat.

Just in case, they simply soaked ten catties of wheat.

Before sugar is made, the malt must be prepared four or five days in advance.

When the malt was ready, early in the morning, everyone got up and began to make sugar.

Participating in the production are the Tang family's mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, as well as the two sisters Xiaoqi Xue Longjing, Xiaojiu Xue Xuanjing, and Xue Yuhai.

As for the rest of the Xue family, each of them has something to do, and unless they rest at home, they don't have the time to participate.

Speaking of which, didn't the Xue family open a 'academy', why is it that now everyone is 'not doing their jobs' and not going to study?

It turns out that although this 'academy' is still there, it is no longer the same as it used to be.

Jiang Qianyue is no longer a gentleman now, and the Xue family directly hired Zhang Xiuxin and Old Man Zhang to be Mr. and Dean.

And the Xue family no longer goes to study every day, but has changed to self-study.

After all, at least half of the people have something to do, and now that the Xue family is a big business, everyone has a lot of affairs, so naturally it is impossible to sit at the desk all day long as in the past.

Everyone is career-oriented, supplemented by academics, and basically only when they are free will they study and learn words.

They are not pure scholars, to put it bluntly, they still have to beg for a living.

Everyone can study at home or go to the 'academy'.

The 'academy' is open normally, and the students are still recruiting, taught by Old Man Zhang.

The salary that the Xue family gave to Old Man Zhang was two taels of silver per month, and three meals a day were included.

Nowadays, there are a large number of students in the 'academy', and those new students, as long as there is nothing important at home, basically come to class every day.

The other old students who have achieved success in their studies are similar to the rest of the Xue family, usually going to work when they have something to do, and only coming to class when they have nothing to do.

And there is something in this, but it is not their own business, but what they do for the Xue family.

There are tens of thousands of long-term workers recruited by the Xue family, these people have to be managed, right? There are also more than 100,000 acres of land that must be managed in a planned manner, and there will be temporary recruitment of workers in the future, arranging work for more than 10,000 villagers, etc., there are many things.

It is obviously not enough to rely on the Xue family's own dozen people, these students are the best assistants.

The Xue family doesn't know anything about them, and they have the grace to teach them, so it is naturally more reassuring for such people to use.

And after a few years of study, they can also read and hyphenate, and it is very suitable to hire literate people like them to help manage or record information, copy contract documents, etc.

For these old students, working in the Xue family for a long time is not to mention that they earn more than working as coolies in the fields, and they are decent, of course, they are a hundred willing, and their families are also fully supportive.

Seeing that they were so promising, the other villagers were envious and actively let their children come to Xue's house to study and learn calligraphy.

Although it is necessary to pay some restraints in the early stage, it is only a few pennies a day, and the return in the later stage is endless, and now the family's field is also rented to the Xue family, and there is no need to go to the field often, and it is not too delayed to go to school.

And the Xue family accepts students not limited to men and women, not to mention men, just these women in the village, their families thought that after they finished their studies, they could bring at least twenty or thirty yuan of income to the family every day, and they didn't have to be worse than men.

The change in the minds of the villagers also made the Xue family's 'academy' full of students, and at a glance it was a piece of Wuyang, thanks to the large courtyard where the team members lived, otherwise they really wouldn't be able to stay for so many people.

In view of what Xue Langjing said about the establishment of the clan before leaving, Jiang Qianyue planned to wait for this batch of sweet potatoes to be exchanged for silver, and then directly build a formal academy for the students to study.

It is a good thing to not only be able to repay the township to gain a good reputation, but also to cultivate more useful talents for the family.

Hey, it seems to be far away again.

Continue to talk about going back to Xue's house.