After Zijun left, Siqi was still a little lost, but she didn't have time to be lost for too long, and she still had serious things to do.

Now that I have discussed it with Jiang Erye, the first step now is to take back all the wool in the hands of the villagers, which does cost some silver.

There is also to slowly mobilize them to accept the planting of new crops, Siqi doesn't know what the people here think, these crops are what they are used to planting, and suddenly they have to change, and there will definitely be people who can't accept it, so you have to put a lot of effort into it.

Lu County is like this now, it must be a big change, Tiankuo hopes to do things smoothly, and has sent a letter to the prefect before, hoping to get his support.

Of course, this is also the meaning of the face, he knows what kind of character the prefect is, and he didn't like it when he looked at him, these days I get along with the people below, don't you know everything you know?

Although his appointment is in the Ministry of Officials, but this prefect is bigger than him, he still has to give him face, if he really doesn't give him a breath to make such a big move, then he will stumble you everywhere, and things will be difficult to do.

After a few days of the letter, I finally received a reply, the prefect not only did not support him, but also reprimanded him in the letter, Lu County was originally like this, affected by geographical conditions, it can only be like this in the future, now engage in those things, time-consuming and laborious, when the bamboo basket is empty, the above will be blamed, if Tiankuo has to come to Hulai, don't take him, he doesn't want to get into trouble.

He said that Tiankuo was still happy, this is obviously to let Tiankuo decide for himself, he will not touch his hands, and if he gets into trouble in the future, just don't find him.

Is that better than him sticking a kick in it and stopping them from doing things, right?

Tiankuo was very happy after getting the letter, and showed it to Siqi, and the husband and wife both had the same meaning.

Since the prefect said so, what else do they have to be afraid of? Just throw off your arms and do it.

In the past few days, Siqi has been busy collecting wool, and if you want to collect wool, you must first find out what price the people here usually sell wool at.

After knowing the price, Siqi felt even more sorry for them, the best wool here only sells for more than 20 wen a catty, and the slightly worse can be sold for 10 wen.

How big is a pound of wool? She didn't know how much a sheep could produce, but she knew that this thing took up space, and even if she collected a few bags of hemp, it wouldn't weigh much.

It's a waste of hard work to raise sheep and shear the wool and sell it for such a price.

There are a total of seven large towns in Lu County, and the villages under each town range from 10 to 30, which is a very large county, and it covers a wide area.

Fortunately, Tiankuo has two right-hand men, Wang Tianxiang and Wang Tianlai, who are very familiar with the people here, and it is much easier to leave this matter to them.

Tiankuo and Siqi want to do something, Wang Tianxiang and Wang Tianlai know, since they trust the two of them, they will not hide everything, this is originally a major event to let the people of Lu County live a good life, they also have this idea, so everyone should be honest with each other.

After they learned that they were going to let the people sell their wool to them, they immediately drove their own car to the countryside, and within a few days they contacted all the people in charge of this Lu County.

Because of their good popularity, the people below also believed in them, saying that they wanted to sell wool to the government, and everyone agreed without thinking about it, and some people didn't even ask the price.

Siqi thinks that if this place is not rich, it is against the principles of heaven, the geographical environment is a little worse, but it is also full of treasures, and the government and the people here are also very harmonious, it is simply too perfect.

The price of wool varies every year, but the most expensive has not exceeded 30 wen a catty, and the price given by Siqi is 30 wen for high-grade wool, and 20 wen a catty for inferior wool, and there is a white and flawless one, and the texture is also very good, you can sell it for 35 wen a catty.

Wool can be sheared twice a year, once after spring ploughing and once after autumn harvest, which is also one of the common people's harvest in a year.

Siqi raised the price all of a sudden, and the people could sell it for more money, buy a few good clothes in winter, and think that this winter will be more comfortable than before.

They were all stunned when they knew that the price was so high, and some of them of course wanted to sell their wool to the government as soon as possible, for fear that they would regret it.

There are also some people who say privately, is it that the husband and wife of Zhixian are too young and do not understand the market, how can the wool be sold at that price, if it is taken back at this price, how will it be sold at that time? Maybe you'll lose money.

This person, there are good and bad, even in this kind of place where the government and the people are harmonious, there are also people who are very selfish, they think that the government may lose money, but they don't want to wake up, but think about selling their wool quickly, so as not to regret it.

In fact, this kind of person is the majority, and he really thinks about others, after all, he is still a minority.

Some people said, "Lord Wang, how can this wool ever be sold at such an expensive price, does the county magistrate not understand the market?" If you really take it back at this price, and you can't afford to sell it at that time, won't you lose a lot of silver? Our county is poor, and the county government estimates that there is no money, don't you know that the county lord and his wife will make up for the silver? ”

"If they really let them put all the money into it, and they can't make money, then our sin will be great, no one has taken this place seriously for many years, and finally a reliable magistrate has come, we don't want to let the magistrate leave here because of this."

Wang Xiancheng said, "You can rest assured that this is it, since you dare to give this price, of course, you have also learned in advance, I will not hide from you, Mrs. Zhixian's family has done some business, and she has already told people about the sales of this wool, otherwise you don't dare to buy it from your hands, and now everyone will sell it as much as you have, and divide the good and bad at home, so as not to waste effort when you get the wool." ”

Someone else said, "If you don't have enough money, it's okay to take it in a while." ”

Wang Tianxiang said again, "Don't worry about this, Mrs. also specially explained it before, pay the money with one hand and deliver the goods with the other, everyone is willing to sell it to the village chief's house, and after all the money is collected, someone from the county government will naturally come and transport it back." ”