Ji Ranjia told the Ji family about her plans and let them move directly into the new courtyard, Zhuangzi's fields were taken care of by Ji Weihai and the tenant farmers, the blacksmith shop was handed over to Ji Weihu to operate, the wine shop and the embroidery room were managed by Gu Sifan's good ability, and Ji Weihe and Ji Xiaoye were apprentices in it.

She didn't wait for the Ji family to refuse, and then she said that she had made a lot of money by betting on Gu Sifan with silver, and these properties were her dowry shop. She didn't have a caring person, so she gave it to her mother's family to take care of it, and then paid them a monthly fee according to the market price that is common in Kyoto.

"Big brother and sister-in-law, don't shirk it, I guess this is the last time I will help you, and how you live depends on how hard you work. Besides, if the silver is left on hold and there is no small silver, it is better to buy a field and a shop, I have bought it all, and I can't ignore my close family members, but push the opportunity to make money to others, right?

If you don't want to go, do a good job, and be worthy of the monthly money. ”

"I mean you can't open your mouth," Ji Weihai glared at her angrily, "This is what you said, the last time." No matter more, your ignorant brother has ambitions, and there are times when you regret it. ”

Ji Ranjia nodded again and again, she didn't want to waste this precious family affection with silver.

The life of the Ji family is on a trajectory, Ji Weihai drives an ox cart to the field every day to report, and a hundred acres of land have to be carefully served. Ji Ranjia only leased 90 acres of land to tenants at a rent of 40% of the market price, and the other 10 acres were leased to Ji Weihai at the same price.

The price of Kyoto is high, and an acre of land can produce two taels of silver a year, and ten acres is twenty-four taels, and he can get more than fourteen taels after removing the rent! In addition, this is only based on the amount of ordinary wheat crops, and the weather in Kyoto is quite good, and some corn can be planted from other countries between wheat harvest and sowing.

Although the price of corn is not as high as that of wheat, it is better than the quantity, and it can have more than ten taels a year.

Tenant farmers can grow as many as they please, such as watermelons, cotton, sesame seeds and other precious items, as well as mass-produced potatoes that support bloating. As long as the planning is good, God will have mercy, and the farmers can live a prosperous life, eat some meat at two ends in three days, give the baby an egg every day, and pull new clothes for the whole family during the New Year.

For this matter, Ji Weihai and Yu Yuan discussed for a long time, after all, in the future, the baby will study in Kyoto, not to mention the bundle of one or two silver per month, even pen, ink, paper and inkstone are a huge expense. If they make the same careful arrangement as other tenant farmers, they will look at forty or fifty taels a year, and they will be able to save seven or eight taels after removing their own expenses, and then removing the money for the two babies' bundles, books, pens, ink, paper, and inkstones.

The second brother, Ji Weihu, has a solid learning ability as a blacksmith and has four years of experience, and is now able to make a lot of ironware on his own. Ji Ranjia gave him five taels of silver every month, and then half of the profit for each piece of ironware, and he could get seventy or eighty taels in a year. Their family doesn't have a baby yet, and they can save it by deducting forty or fifty taels of expenses.

Ji Weihe is an apprentice, and he can only get 500 yuan a month, but he officially learns from the shopkeeper, and he is the big shopkeeper after three years of teaching, and he has five taels of silver a month, and half of the profit. I'm afraid I'll earn more than the second child by then.

The little sister doesn't need to think about it at all, with the eldest sister and sister-in-law, the little girl's husband's family will not be bad. But Ji Xiaoye is a strong one, she sticks to Ji Ranjia every day, and is ready to learn all her sister's skills, so that she can't be hungry or frozen, and her life is good. I heard that the palm-sized double-sided embroidery can be sold for five or six taels of silver in the embroidery shop, and when the little sister learns it, she can directly leave her brothers behind.

In such a comparison, Ji Weihai and Yu Yuan had a sense of urgency for the first time, and as the boss, they were obviously the most embarrassed. They are still young, and they will not have two or three babies in the future? After offering the eldest and second, can the children in the back only look at it?

Once the babies have studied, they can't stop for more than ten years!

The men of the Ji family were all busy, and Yu Yuan took three babies and Ji Xiaoye every day to accompany Ji Ranjia, who was accustomed to being wild by Gu Sifan.

When the weather was warm, Ji Ranjia asked people to sweep out a place in the courtyard paved with blue bricks to put a straw mat, and put a short pile blanket on it, and put Nini on it to climb around. The three of them were doing needlework, and looked at the two boys in the yard shaking their heads and being beaten by the three-character scripture.

Yu Yuan held a veil in his hand and frequently looked at the child in a daze.

Ji Ranjia couldn't help but ask, "Sister-in-law, but what's the difficulty?" ”

Yu Yuan shook her head again and again, can she say that her family is particularly short of money? As long as she opens her mouth, is there any difference between this and asking her sister-in-law for money directly? It is someone's business that the sister-in-law is rich, after all, she is a girl who marries outside, and her heart is always towards her mother's family, which will annoy her husband. "It's okay, there are a lot of children, it's panicking."

Ji Ranjia chuckled and thought about it carefully, these two boys of the Ji family are very sensible, diligent and not squeamish, and they are very polite and hurtful, and they are not other people's skin monkeys. She knew that her sister-in-law was prevaricating herself, and she didn't need to think about it too much, she understood the crux of the matter. The eldest brother is already the limit of planting ten acres of land alone, and no matter how much he exhausts people, the gains outweigh the losses. If they hire long-term workers, they are not willing to spend money.

Ten acres of land can easily live in their small town, and it is more than enough to support two students. However, the price of goods in Kyoto is too high, and the level of Kofuko and the quality of the goods are placed here, and everyone can accept it.

She couldn't help them financially anymore, but she could come up with ideas.

Ji Ranjia has always been confined in a boxy courtyard in her previous life, but she has no shortage of books to read, many of which are various travelogues and scripts. People's minds are imprisoned, and if they can't jump out, they can only be mediocre.

Planting fruit trees is not realistic, and it takes a long time to go from saplings to bearing fruit.

She squinted her eyes slightly, and suddenly pursed her lips and smiled, "Sister-in-law, Xianggong has been in the palace for a while, and he should know some capable people." Why don't you and your brother learn how to grow flowers? ”

"Planting flowers?" Yu Yuan was stunned, what is there to plant flowers?

"Yes, plant flowers! There are many particulars about planting flowers, such as planting honeysuckle, different types of honeysuckle have different yields, and the price will fluctuate. This flower has high medicinal value and high consumption, so my sister-in-law and brother do not worry about selling it. However, there is almost no output in the first year, and in the second year it can produce 200 kilograms per mu, and in the third year and thereafter, it can reach 300 kilograms or more. It can be sold for 90 wen per kilogram, which is much more expensive than crops.

Then there are the rouge gouache flowers, as well as ornamental flowers. However, these are more demanding for planting. ”

Yu Yuan couldn't help but pinch his fingers when he heard it, and after a long while, one acre of land can have eighteen taels in the second year, and twenty-seven taels in the third year! If there is no income in the first year, the family will have to drink the northwest wind, but they can plant half of the crop and half of the honeysuckle first, and if the honeysuckle rises well, they will continue to plant the other half of the land the next year.

In the first year, the days are tight, but in the second year, you can get 90 taels! In the third year, it was more than two hundred taels!

This is grown by his own family, thinking like this, Yu Yuan excitedly grabbed Ji Ranjia's arm, "Sister, what you said is true?" With such a way to make money, why don't others plant it? As soon as she finished speaking, she was a little worried.

Ji Ranjia smiled and nodded: "Sister-in-law is like a mountain, this kind of crops and planting flowers are the same, otherwise how can other flower farmers rely on craftsmanship to eat?" This is also a skill that has been passed down from generation to generation, and it is easy for everyone not to pass it on. Honeysuckle is a good seed, sometimes all over the mountains, but there are many diseases, and those who do not know how to plant face great risks, so there are not many people who try. ”

"So, can that sister-in-law find someone to teach us? Do you want to teach Shu Xiu? How much do you need, my brother and sister-in-law still have some savings here. Yu Yuan couldn't help but ask eagerly, the couple couldn't sleep at night during the recent period.

In the past, in their hometown, every family had similar conditions to them, and they were very content with the situation in front of them. But when they arrived in Kyoto, their eyes were opened, and they had to think about the future early.

"It's still a bunch of cultivation, sister-in-law, you're really funny," Ji Ranjia was amused and giggled, "There are a lot of flower farmers in the palace, but it's not difficult to ask for advice on planting honeysuckle, and there are also books on this in the library." ”

Yu Yuan nodded again and again, excited, picked up Nini who climbed in front of him and kissed her fiercely, "Your aunt is really a lucky star for our family." ”

This is what the eldest brother often says, and every time he says it, he can make Ji Ranjia's cheeks flush.

When Gu Sifan returned home in the evening, Ji Ranjia mentioned the matter.

"Xianggong, you should know someone, right?" She asked a little weakly, and she slapped her chest with her sister-in-law during the day. For more than half a year, she was spoiled by Gu Sifan, and she had a kind of blind worship and trust in him. Of course, it is also related to the fact that she knew his position and power in her previous life, so she felt that any problem could be perfectly solved by him.

"Uh-huh," he said comfortably as he enjoyed the little woman's attentive service of serving tea and pouring water.

"Recently, the lord has helped the emperor sort out the books, the people take food as the sky, our country has a big food gap, and countless people starve to death every year, not to mention the years when there is a war.

Even food and clothing cannot be guaranteed, so how can one country talk about others?

So we started with books on agriculture to see if we could find ways to increase crop yields.

Not to mention that your words reminded me that there are places where the environment is harsh and crops cannot survive, but there are tolerant plants to grow. ”

Not only that, in the final analysis, it is a matter of silver, after all, Jiangnan Water Town is known as a granary, and surplus grain can be sold out. However, the impoverished areas must have a way to seek silver, and they cannot always rely on the imperial court for relief.

In addition, there are many inferior fields, saline-alkali lands, and dry lands throughout the country, so can they be fully utilized?

He squinted slightly, and many places were rich in land, but sparsely populated, and it was estimated that it would be feasible to migrate over a large area, and for a while his mind was mixed, and countless thoughts came to him.