"But raising silkworms is different, two hundred acres of mulberry orchard, this year can only raise about two hundred silkworms at most, how many silkworm cocoons can be produced, silkworm cocoons become silk, only half of them can be used to make silk quilts, the cost is so high, it should indeed be sold for two taels of silver."

Mama Li immediately calculated an account in her heart, and couldn't help smacking her tongue.

Cotton is planted in the ground, watering and fertilizing is enough, and when the pest is serious, it will be a little harder, but no matter how hard it is, it is easier than raising silkworms.

Raising silkworms requires a certain amount of technology, and if you are not careful, silkworms are easy to die in a large area, and if you don't raise them well, they will reduce production, so they need to be carefully maintained by workers, and they must not stop for a moment.

In the same field of nearly 200 acres, cotton can harvest more than 60,000 catties, while silk is less than 10,000 catties in the end.

Gu Qing's pricing seems to be a loss on the surface, but in fact, he has made a lot of money, and this money is much easier than raising silkworms.

"After the cotton is promoted, every household has cotton, and the quilt actually can't make any money, I never thought of making money from this, we should focus on clothing design."

Gu Qing said with a smile, "When other people didn't know what cotton was, we produced cotton underwear and took the lead in occupying the market, so we didn't worry about making money in the future......

While the two were talking, a figure stood outside the door, and the figure, afraid of being discovered, turned around and hurried away.

After the cotton was completely harvested, it was already mid to late September.

The autumn mood is slowly becoming stronger, and the peanuts, sesame beans and other things harvested in the autumn have also begun to slowly be stored in the warehouse, but these villagers do not plant much, and they are busy in three or five days.

Only Gu Qing has something important to do here, and that is to harvest chili peppers.

In the late autumn season, the last batch of peppers are hanging on the seedlings one by one, fiery and red, which looks very attractive.

Whether it is chili sauce or chili powder, it must be made of red pepper, arrange for people to collect all of it, part of it is dried to make chili powder chili noodles, and part of it is directly cut mixed with salt or beans to make sauce...... All of a sudden, the whole mansion was filled with the smell of chili peppers.

At this slightly less busy time, Li Zheng called a meeting of the whole village.

The honey locust tree in the village has become a special place for village meetings, and there are many stones of different heights placed next to it to make it convenient for the elderly or pregnant women to sit and attend the meeting.

"Calling everyone over today is about dividends." Li Zheng cleared his throat and said loudly, "At the beginning of the year, under the leadership of the county lord, the big guys worked together, after seven months, the development of the village is obvious to all, since our village has a commercial street, it is very convenient for the big guys to buy something, no need to get up early in the morning to go to the city, we will not talk about it ourselves, the main thing is that everyone has made money!" ”

As soon as they heard about the money, the villagers took it even more seriously.

"Minmin, come up and report to everyone."

As soon as Li Zheng's voice fell, Gu Minmin, also known as Jin Hua Niang, stood on the stage with the account book.

"Hello everyone, I'm Gu Minmin, and I've been recording all aspects of the village's income and expenditure in the past seven months."

She spoke very calmly, "The income of our village includes two aspects, one is the income of the tea mountain, and the other is the income of the village to receive tourists, and the income of the tea mountain is 28,400 ......."

The villagers gasped.

"The reception of tourists has been since the Lantern Festival officially began, and for seven months now, the daily income has been between 20 taels and 50 taels, a total of 6,300 taels."

"The total of the two incomes is thirty-four thousand seven hundred taels."

The voice fell, and the audience fell silent.

The next moment, the crowd boiled and erupted into an astonishingly high level of discussion.

"My God, more than 30,000 taels of silver, really fake?!"

"I only knew that the village was making money, and I thought it would be a thousand taels, but I didn't expect it to be 30,000 taels!"

"Our Gujia Village is going to get rich, my God!"

"Old man, how much money did our family raise at the beginning, and how much can we divide in this way?"

“……”

"Quiet, all quiet!" Li Zheng shouted loudly, "This is income without removing costs, and there is not so much without costs!" ”

The crowd fell silent.

Gu Minmin continued to speak: "The cost is mainly the cost of manpower, including the people who receive tourists, the people who protect the safety of tourists, plus the wages of the roasted tea masters, a total of seven hundred taels. ”

"After removing the cost, the profit is 34,000 taels!"

"Thirty-four thousand taels is also a lot, I have never seen so much money in my life."

The old people in the village raised their hands to celebrate, but at the same time, they also questioned it.

"I sold the shop last time and divided so much silver, why is there still silver?"

"That's right, we took over the house and divided the money from the shop, why should we pay back the silver?"

"Lizheng, are you mistaken? How can this money be given to us? This should be the county lord's silver! ”

"That's right! Run, everybody, or we'll have to divide the money again!" ”

"Hurry up and disperse, disperse!"

Aunt Zhao stood up and said to Li Zheng: "Li Zheng, please go and tell the county lord, we don't want this silver, our people in Gujia Village have shops and shops, and those who don't have shops are working in the workshop, the days of Gujia Village have passed, let the county lord take back these silvers!" ”

"If the big guy agrees with what the aunt of the Zhao family said, then withdraw quickly, don't stay where you are and wait for the silver to be divided!"

Seeing that thousands of villagers turned around and wanted to leave, Li Zheng stomped his feet, glared at his eyes and scolded angrily: "I see who dares to go!" ”

Seeing that Li Zheng was angry, everyone stopped and looked at Li Zheng in confusion, and Li Zheng said in time: "This is the dividend that the county lord said, and each family will receive it according to the head!" There are a total of 2,800 men, women and children in our village, plus the county lord's family, and each person will receive 12 taels of silver! ”

The crowd fell silent.

Just when everyone was still hesitating whether to receive this dividend, a discordant voice sounded.

"Lizheng, I have a sentence that I don't like, I know I shouldn't say it, but I have to say it."

The patriarch of the Zhao family stood up, "We have more than 2,000 people in Gujia Village, more than 200 households...... Oh no, after the homeless people formed the village last year, there were almost 400 households, so many households, most of them were surnamed Gu, so the Lizheng of our village is also Gu Lizheng......"

Li Zheng frowned: "Lao Zhao, what do you want to say?" ”

"I just want to say, whether it's a tea mountain or a tourist, these are all in the hands of your surnamed Gu, how much you earn, how much you cost, how much you earn, it's all up to you surnamed Gu."

Patriarch Zhao got straight to the point, "How do we know that this account book is true, how do we know if the Gu family is greedy from it?" After all, wealth is moving, and with so many tens of thousands of taels of silver at home, I don't think anyone will be indifferent......"