The villagers found that this year's spring ploughing was a little different from previous years.

The village was originally dry land, but this year it was actually diverted to make 20 acres of paddy fields, which is really strange.

"What's going on?" Ma Guifang asked Zheng Lai, who was in charge of supervising the paddy fields, puzzled.

Zheng Lai also didn't know much about it, and replied: "I heard that the rice seeds were transported from the south, and the Zhou family squatted in the shed for four months to study and come up with a new seed, and the third lady instructed them to open twenty acres of paddy fields for them to toss. ”

Ma Guifang smacked her tongue when she heard it, "Twenty acres!" If you can't grow anything, you will have to delay how much food. ”

Zheng Lai shook his head, "Who knows what the third lady thinks, we don't understand, we don't dare to say, just do our job well, and after a few months this rice grows, we'll know." ”

Ma Guifang thought about it, anyway, in the past few years, he has changed his cultivation method every year, and the harvest is better and better every year, so it is right to believe in the Lord's family.

The two of them went their separate ways.

Twenty acres of paddy fields, three of which are planted with hybrid rice seeds cultivated by Zhou Rong and others, and the remaining seventeen acres, Xu Yue is ready to gamble once, leaving only two acres of three-line rice seeds, and the rest are all planted.

If you want to hybridize rice, you have to pay attention to the planting method, first you have to select high-quality rice seeds, and then cross planting two different lines of rice, and wait for heading and flowering, and then artificial pollination.

The hybrid rice that has been obtained can save this pollination effort, but it can only be planted for one season, and one generation is not as good as the next.

Therefore, new hybrid rice varieties have to be bred every year to maintain such high yields.

But now that everything has just begun, whether the agricultural students can successfully breed hybrid rice varieties in large quantities depends on the autumn harvest in July and August.

Since the rice was planted, Xu Yue's heart has been tied to the twenty acres of experimental fields.

All other chores were left behind and handed over to Junmei and Xu Dalang to do, and they were only responsible for the communication matters in Jiaozhou in the south.

Gongsun Hao's shipyard stopped after finishing the eighth sea ship, and only built the parts according to the exploded atlas, which seemed to stop the shipbuilding plan, but in fact it was just waiting for an opportunity to assemble the parts.

All eight large ships went to sea, and there were many large ships going back and forth, and the exchanges between the north and the south became more and more intensive.

Xu Yue didn't know how much effort her sister had spent, she had only been in the south for more than a year, and she had been sending sugar, refined salt, kelp, grain and other bulk materials from the south to the north.

Perhaps, magic is the greatest source of energy.

This year, in addition to paying attention to the operation of his own Wubao and hybrid rice, Xu Yue spent the rest of her time building a warehouse.

But with so many warehouses built, Xu Yue always felt very unsafe, and always thought that she could hide these things in a place where outsiders couldn't notice.

However, the only secret space she could have was the pitiful little space in the research room.

In order to release the pressure, Xu Yue discussed with her mother and father remotely through the walkie-talkie, and decided to sell white sugar and refined salt.

All of a sudden, it caused a sensation in Yuyang County.

The fine frosting, which is as white as snow, only costs 700 Xujia chips for one stone, which is less than six Xujia chips for one catty.

There is no bitter refined salt, one stone only costs 600 Xujia chips, which is converted into one catty and five Xujia chips, which is equivalent to the price of one pound of rice in Xujiazhuang.

The price of white sugar does not matter, because the sugar in Daqing does not have much production, and it is mostly wrapped up by the powerful of the family, and there are very few in the private market, so the price has been high and low, and the seller opens the price, and the buying and selling market is chaotic.

However, the price and output of salt have been relatively stable, and in the past, coarse salt was 800 yuan a stone, which was equivalent to 6.6 yuan a catty.

In the hands of ordinary people, it should be the price of eight to ten yuan a catty.

However, this is only the price before the Red Turban Army has not revolted, and now the world is in chaos, and the warlords everywhere are refining a large number of coins, and the inflation is particularly severe.

In the past few years, a pound of salt was equivalent to about 100 yuan a pound, but in the past two years, a pound has risen to 2 or 300 yuan, and ordinary people can't afford to eat it or buy it.

Yuyang County is slightly better, the neighboring Bohai County has salt mines, both counties are under the control of a warlord, coarse salt can still be purchased, and the price is relatively stable, between 130 and 150 yuan.

The salt produced from the salt mines of Bohai County is wholesaled to private salt dealers through the official family, and then sold by the salt dealers to the homes of ordinary people.

Xu Yue got the support of her family, and as soon as she put the salt and sugar out, she instantly felt the comfort of Gongsun Hao at that time.

The sea ship carries a large amount of cargo, 20,000 catties of salt and 10,000 catties of sugar can be transported by one ship, compared with the carts and horses and a lot of manpower required by land, this cost can not be lower.

As a source manufacturer without middlemen to make the difference, countless coins were thrown into her Xu family's money box from around Yuyang, and soon Xu Yue felt that the warehouse that had just been built was about to be full again.

The more than 200,000 yuan from the sale made the family's finances, which were still a little tight, instantly relaxed.

For a while, there was an endless stream of businessmen who were specially found from other places when they heard the rumors, which briefly drove a wave of GDP in Yuyang County.

But it's a pity that they came late, and the total amount of sugar and salt was not much, and it had already been divided by the local family gentry in Yuyang.

However, it is not a trip in vain, I failed to grab salt and sugar, and the porcelain, charcoal, garments, plough rakes and other goods in the Xujia market can always earn a little money when they are transported back.

It's just that I came to Xujiawubao this time, and I always felt a little wrong after I went back.

Such a strong Wubao stands outside the county seat of Yuyang County, and Yuyang Taishou just let it go?

And among these businessmen, there are also many officials and businessmen who have heard the rumors and risked coming from other states and counties, and the purchase of goods is fake, and it is true to listen to the truth.

In the past two years, there has always been a rumor in the north, saying that the husband and wife generals under the command of the general Gongsun Zan have a faint desire to rebel and stand on their own.

But everyone just listened to it before, after all, the husband and wife did make great contributions to Gongsun Zhan's merger.

Now that I have come to see it, I can't tell whether the rumors are true or false.

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"This eldest brother, I don't know if the main family can have time to see me today?"

A middle-aged businessman from the south grabbed Zheng Lai, the market management supervisor who hurriedly walked in front of the hotel, and asked Lehehe.

Behind the merchant, there were several companions who came with him, the younger one looked twenty-five or sixteen, and the older one, nearly forty years old, was the middle-aged businessman who stood in front of Zheng Lai and smiled like Maitreya Buddha.

Zheng Lai still has a little impression of him, as if he is surnamed Jia, and he arrived in Xujiazhuang half a month ago, and he came for the frosting as fine as snow.

It's a pity that it came too late, and the frosting was already divided by the main relatives of Wubao next door, Gongsun Yan and Gongsun Yu.

However, the group of Jia merchants did not leave because of this, but stayed in the hotel, saying that they wanted to meet the master's family and discuss big business.