Su Jinli looked at the steward with round eyes unhappily, and said coldly, "What are you looking at me for?" The ploughing cattle are sick and can't plow the fields, so they don't let people come to plough the fields, delaying the spring ploughing, can you afford it? ”

She was dressed as a man at this time, and her identity was the entourage brought by Chu Yan.

Despite this, the steward could guess that her identity was not ordinary when he looked at her clothes.

He suspected that Su Jinli was Chu Yan's confidant, so he was very careful.

After hearing Su Jinli's words, his face instantly turned into a bitter melon: "Su Gongzi is afraid that he doesn't know, the plow used to plow the land is very heavy, if people come to plough the land, I'm afraid it will exhaust people to death!" ”

Although his face was very ugly, in fact, he was quietly relieved in his heart.

In fact, he had wanted to do this for a long time, after all, spring plowing is a major event, and if it is delayed, he will definitely be blamed for this matter.

Just let people plough the land, and it is likely to cause death. When the time comes, if there is a disturbance, he will still have to be punished, and it will not end well.

Obviously, someone offered to hire people to plough the land, so he only had to pretend to refuse, and then agree, and the matter was done.

Even if someone dies in the future, it doesn't have much to do with him. He has already refused, but Su Gongzi refuses to listen to persuasion, and he has to use people to cultivate the land, so he can't be blamed.

Anyway, those tenants are as cheap as grass mustard, and if they die, they will die, and when the time comes, he may be able to make a profit.

The steward thought proudly, and said cautiously: "Lord Qiqi, this person's strength is not as good as that of a ploughing ox, even if you can use people to plough the land, the speed will be much slower, and I am afraid it will still delay the spring ploughing." ”

This matter must be explained clearly, otherwise it will not become his fault if the spring ploughing is delayed at that time?

The steward secretly made calculations in his heart.

Su Jinli glanced at him deeply, and the corners of his mouth hooked coldly: "When did the ploughing cow get sick?" If something so big happens, why don't you report it in time? If it weren't for the princess's memory of spring ploughing and specially asking the prince to come and check it, wouldn't she be kept in the dark by you, a slave? ”

The steward didn't expect her to suddenly attack, so he couldn't help but be startled and almost fell to his knees.

Halfway through his knees, he realized something was wrong.

This Su Gongzi is just the entourage of King Qin, as the steward of Zhuangtian, it is right to kneel to King Qin, what is the matter with kneeling to this person?

When the steward thought about it, he straightened his knees again, and explained without humility or arrogance: "Su Gongzi doesn't know that this ploughing cow had a sudden accident, and it was not a small deliberate concealment and not reporting. The prince has just gotten married, and it is a big day, how dare the little one disturb the prince with such a trivial matter? ”

"It's ridiculous, it's the first time I've heard that spring ploughing is actually a trivial matter!" When Su Jinli said this, he couldn't help but glance at King Qin, "What does the prince think?" ”

King Qin was about to explode.

When he brought Su Jinli here, he didn't give notice in advance because of Su Jinli's request.

He originally thought that everything was going well here in Zhuangtian, and he could let Su Jinli take a look at the large piece of fertile land in his hand.

Who knew that as soon as he came to this farm, he learned the bad news that the ploughing cattle were sick and could not plow the land!

Something so big happened, and the steward of this Zhuangtian dared to hide it and not report it!

Under his hands, there is such a bold Diao slave!

Chu Yan was so angry that he even had the heart to kill, and when he saw that the steward was actually disrespectful to Su Jinli, he was so angry that he kicked the steward and kicked him upside down and flew out.

"Waste stuff! What does this king want from you? ”

The steward screamed, and after landing on the ground, he didn't care about the pain, and hurriedly knelt down and crawled over: "The prince spares his life!" The little one has always been loyal to the prince, and he has done his best, and he will never dare to hide it! ”

Chu Yan felt disgusted when he looked at his tearful appearance, and said angrily to the guard: "Drag it down, and give this king a good check!" ”

Something happened to the ploughing cow, and such an important news was concealed and not reported, he wanted to see what kind of intentions this person had!

After the steward was taken away, Su Jinli asked the others again.

I learned that all the ploughing cattle were indeed sick, and they had been strained so badly recently that they couldn't plow the land at all.

However, Chu Yan's farmland has a total of 100,000 mu of land, of which 40,000 mu need to be cultivated, and the remaining 60,000 mu is planted with wheat and rape.

These 40,000 acres of land are planted with alfalfa grass for the purpose of fertilizing the land.

This spring ploughing is to plow the alfalfa grass directly into the ground, and then plant rape, soybeans, rice, and some vegetables.

Forty thousand acres of land is not a small amount, and it would take a month to plough all the land with oxen alone.

Now that the oxen are sick, it will only take longer if they use people to plough the land.

Because the strength of a man is not as good as that of an ox, it is certainly not very efficient to plow the land.

But when it was time for spring ploughing, no one could even get extra ploughing cattle.

Chu Yan didn't know much about farming, so after listening to the situation in the farm, he felt that his head was big.

However, spring ploughing could not be delayed, so he could only say: "Let's try to see if we can get ploughing oxen from elsewhere, and as for ploughing, let people do it first." Spring ploughing must not be delayed, no matter what method you use, this king must ensure spring ploughing! ”

Zhuang Tian is quite large, in addition to a big steward, there are many small stewards below.

At this time, when the little stewards heard Chu Yan's words, they felt a burst of bitterness in their hearts.

They are really bitter.

Although there were many tenants in the farmland, the tenants did not have enough to eat, so let them plow the land, and it was not known how many people would die of exhaustion by then.

But Chu Yan has already said that spring ploughing can't be delayed, this is to force them to die!

But there was no way, Chu Yan had already spoken, and they had to do it no matter how embarrassed they were.

So, soon a tenant brought a plow and began to plow the ground in front of Chu Yan.

Because the plough was so heavy that one person could not control it alone, he had to tie a rope to the plow, with two people pulling in front and one person holding the plow behind.

But even so, efficiency is still very slow.

Su Jinli took a look at it and found that the plough used by these people was a shallow plow, not to mention the limited depth of the cultivated land, and it was particularly laborious.

And the plough is indeed heavy, even if two strong men pull it in front, the speed is still slow.

The panting voices of the two were also very heavy, obviously tired.

Her brow furrowed more and more, and she quickly took out a pen and paper and drew something in the small notebook.

Chu Yan's face was also very unsightly, he had already seen that using people to plough the land was very slow, unless they could find enough ploughing cattle, otherwise this spring ploughing would definitely be delayed.

At this moment, he suddenly saw Su Jinli painting something.

Chu Yan was curious, and couldn't help but walk over: "What are you painting?" It's ......"

As soon as he asked, he saw the picture drawn by Su Jinli on the paper, and suddenly guessed something.