Chapter 137: Reclamation of Mountains and Forests
The pavilion chief inquired again, and soon inquired about the Xue family's recent affairs.
I finally understood why the county lord was dissatisfied with them.
In his heart, he also felt that the county master really had nothing to do, but although he thought so in his heart, he couldn't do anything as a pavilion chief, so he could only inform Jiang Qianyue and the others of the reason.
Hearing this, everyone in the Xue family was depressed.
This county master is too inexplicable, he holds a grudge, but they have no grudge against him, how can they not get along with their own family, how can a county master be so angry.
Of course, they can only complain in confidence, but they don't dare to come out, in case someone with a heart hears and reports it, their Xue family will definitely not be able to eat and walk around.
Scolding and not scolding, being anxious and impatient, Tang and the others have nothing to do except sulk secretly.
I can only continue to wait.
However, Xue Langjing, who had always been quite concerned about buying land before, comforted them in turn.
It's a little later, anyway, you can't run away from this land, and you can buy it sooner or later, so why rush it.
After the mountain land was bought, it was necessary to hire many people to cultivate it, and it was necessary to build fruit forests, which cost a lot of silver.
And in order to sign the 20 or so deeds of sale at home, there is not much money left in the past, and the money to buy land is still just saved.
When the mountain land was bought and there was not much left, it happened that the day of paying the team members had come again, and they had to remove seventy or eighty taels of silver, as well as the unpaid twenty-five taels of silver for the uniform, adding up to at least one hundred taels.
When all this money is paid, there will be no room for it.
It's better to wait a few more days to save more money.
Everyone was not in a hurry under Xue Langjing's persuasion, so they waited, just like hers, they would definitely be able to buy it in the end anyway, and even if they bought it too early, the money for building the orchard would not be enough, and it would be useless to put this land in their hands.
So the people waited with peace of mind.
Eight more days passed.
Even the newly customized team uniforms were worn on the players for several times before the county's instructions came down.
The title deed or something, it was signed by the pavilion chief, and Xue Langjing, the buyer, was required to sign and draw the mortgage, and the final completed documents were sent to the county.
Therefore, on the second day after the instructions were issued, the hunting team was led by Yi Xueqing and Bai Rongrong to hunt, and Xue Langjing himself went to the town with Jiang Qianyue to deal with the purchase of land.
After the most tedious process in the past, the next step is much simpler, just pay the silver, sign the title deed, and the land can be bought.
After that, the pavilion chief will send someone to measure the number of acres of land, divide the part that belongs to the Xue family, and mark it.
After signing, Xue Langjing became the shopkeeper again, and I believe that other affairs can be handled at home, and they can handle it better than her.
She continued to lead a life of hunting.
Buying land is just the beginning, and then she has to earn money to build a fruit forest.
Of course, in the days to come, the task of the hunting team is no longer just to earn money.
One of the most important tasks is to find seedlings and seeds.
In the short term, it is obviously unrealistic for her to choose the most valuable fruit seedlings and fruit varieties to plant that fruit forest.
Then you can only find anything suitable and worth a little silver, and you will take it back.
In the past, the deeper you go into the forest, the more valuable things you have, and the same goes for this fruit seed and fruit seedling.
The periphery can be automatically ignored, because even if you can find a small amount of silver, it will take a lot of effort, so it is better to go directly to the depths.
If you look in the depths of the wilderness, you will find something more valuable than them.
Thousands of acres of land, the number of fruit seedlings and fruit seeds needed is not a big project.
In the future, their main goal will be to find all kinds of fruit seedlings.
However, no matter how much they don't choose, there are only about 20 people in the hunting team, and these people can't fill thousands of acres of land anyway, and they still have to buy the part that they can't fill.
If they spend all their time searching for fruit seedlings, the harvest of fruits, vegetables, and game will be greatly reduced, and the daily income will be less.
However, this missing part is actually just invested in the fruit forest, which is a long-term transaction, and it can always be recovered later.
After discussing it with her family, the result was the same as she thought, she didn't have to ask her to find any fruit seedlings in the mountains.
Some are not very valuable, and instead of wasting this time looking for them, it is better to spend this time looking for more valuable herbs, fruits and vegetables, or hunting, and then use the money earned from these harvests to buy fruit seedlings.
As for the extent to which this value is worth or not, it is up to the players to grasp it.
Having said that, building a fruit forest is easy to do, but it is actually quite cumbersome to do.
The original mountainous land, which belonged to the imperial court, could not be used by the people at will.
Although they don't have the right to belong, they can still go to the wood, or pick wild vegetables and fruits, but they are not allowed to cut down trees and dig up the soil.
The so-called wood-picking means that you can chop firewood, cut mountain grass, sweep leaves, and so on.
But now that it belongs to the Xue family's private property, other people can't enter this private land without the permission of the Xue family.
Generally, uncultivated mountains and forests are overgrown with grass and trees, and they are extremely dense, which is not conducive to people walking.
But these mountains and forests that are often visited by the people are a little different, and the people need firewood, wild vegetables and fruits, all of which must be obtained from the mountains.
Wild vegetables and wild fruits can fill the stomach, and firewood can not only be burned at home, but also sold for money.
Except for some effort, cutting wood is a business without capital.
This kind of business without capital will naturally be rushed to do, as long as it is against the law by not cutting down wood and digging soil.
Therefore, in fact, many resources in this mountain forest have been snatched away by the people, which is a bit of a loss to the Xue family.
But on the other hand, if there is less to deal with in the mountains, then they will spend a lot less labor on the cultivation.
When the Xue family was choosing a mountainous area, these two factors were naturally taken into account, and after comprehensive consideration, this mountainous area was selected.
A few days after the mountain forest was bought, the town sent someone to measure the land.
Jiang Qianyue didn't go to this job, after all, she still has classes to take at home, and as a teacher, it is not good to be absent for a long time.
And it is not necessary for her to measure the land, as long as someone from the Xue family is present, it will be the same for anyone to go.
In the end, the two brothers Xue Yuhai and Xue Shanjing negotiated with the people who measured the land in the past.
After the Xue family gave enough hard money, they got a result that they were quite satisfied with.
When the mountain land was in hand, the Xue family began to recruit workers again, hiring villagers to reclaim the mountain land for their family.
For this reason, the villagers who had been waiting early naturally flocked to the village, trying to grab more jobs for their families.
The most abundant on this mountain are mountain grasses and trees, as well as some weeds.
For the trees, the Xue family naturally wants to come back all.
As for the mountain grass and weeds, except for some of the ashes left on the mountain to burn, the rest cannot be wasted, and must be brought back as firewood.
But obviously, the Xue family will definitely not be able to burn the grass and trees cut out of the thousands of acres of mountainous land.
They thought about it, if the villagers were willing to ask for the part of the mountain grass, they could use the mountain grass at half price for part of the wages.
And the trees are naturally not afraid of not being able to use them.
Those with good texture can be sold as timber to timber dealers.
If it cannot be sold as wood, it is used to burn charcoal, etc.
In this way, you can dispose of the excess vegetation and exchange it for some silver.