The next day, Jiang Saburo purchased a lot of New Year's items in the county seat and prepared to take them back to his hometown.

He quietly told his daughter that he had sold all the looms at the price of fifty taels each.

"This time, I earned more than 1,800 taels of silver."

Jiang Saburo said with a smile: "Our family bought a large piece of wasteland on the southern slope, and when we start spring next year, we will hire someone to open up the wasteland and build a pepper garden there."

When there is more pepper in the future, I will not soak the white pepper. I've asked people about it, and as long as you pick the half-ripe pepper fruit and dry it directly, the black pepper flavor is more fragrant. ”

If white pepper is made, the pepper fruit will have a peculiar smell if it is soaked in water for a long time, and it will faintly stink if it is not handled properly, and it is not as spicy as black pepper.

So Jiang Saburo decided to tan all black pepper in the future.

Sakura: "That's not bad, but it saves a lot of work. ”

Jiang Saburo nodded, and said: "My family has bought a lot of high-quality paddy fields, and there are many low-grade dry fields, and I plan to use those low-grade fields to grow cotton." ”

It was the end of the year, and the poor peasant households in many villages could not live anymore, so they sold their fields and dragged their children to Dongchen Village to work as hired farmers.

Because Dongchen Village is now wealthy, the villagers have all bought fields after they have savings in their hands.

There was so much land that he couldn't grow it with his own labor, so he hired someone to plant it.

After a long time, the hired poor farmers felt that it was good to be hired farmers in Dongchen Village, at least they did not have to worry about how to pay the land endowment for two seasons a year, and they could also secretly learn the craft of planting golden fungus in Dongchen Village, and when they saved money, they also bought some fungus seeds.

The villagers of Dongchen Village have freed up their hands to plant more golden fungus, as well as pepper and cotton, so that everyone feels that it is not wrong to earn money and farm the land.

Jiang Saburo continued: "I am going to build a few tiled houses on the vacant land outside the courtyard, and your mother said that she will build a textile workshop there, and then buy ten looms and twenty spinning wheels, and ask the weaver to come back to spin and weave cloth in the future." ”

"Okay!" Sakura raised her hands in approval.

In this way, no matter how much cotton you grow, you don't have to worry about not being able to sell it, and in the end you will be lowered by wealthy businessmen.

At the mention of paddy fields, Sakura suddenly remembered something.

After the New Year, he will be six years old, and in May and June of the year of the six-year, the villages along the river will suffer a major flood.

Although this flood was not as devastating as the one a few years later, there were definitely people who died in the flood.

Floods will also destroy farmland along the coast, destroying all the seeds and seedlings in the farmland.

After hesitating for a moment, Sakura decided to tell his father about it now, so that he could think of a countermeasure sooner.

"Dad, tell you something very important."

Sakura Bao said with a serious face: "In the past few days, I have dreamed of a big flood again. ”

Jiang Saburo was stunned: "Dreamed again?" ”

He almost forgot that his family's original intention in moving to the southern slope was to prevent flooding.

"When will it happen?" Jiang Saburo did not doubt the authenticity of his daughter's words at all.

Because it turns out that the little girl is like a goddess... Ahh Like a little fairy, every word she says is as precise as an oracle.

"Probably in May or June." She did forget the exact day.

I only know that those days were very hot, and then there were lightning and thunder and torrential rain, and it rained for several days.

"I dreamed that the farmland around the river was flooded, and not only my village, but also all the villages and farmlands near the river were washed away by the flood."

The last few sentences were made up by Sakura Bao.

Nine times out of ten, she surmised.

The upper reaches of the river are a large river, and they are only tributaries of that great river.

If the water level of the upstream rivers rises sharply, it will naturally affect the water levels of the downstream tributaries, and the only way to stop the flood water rushing down from the upstream is to evacuate the villagers in advance and reduce the casualties of people and livestock.

Jiang Sanlang's face was solemn and said, "Wait until I go back and discuss with Sun Lizheng to see what to do." ”

This is no small matter.

It is not only necessary to prevent casualties, but also to discuss how to prevent the surrounding people from putting seeds into it.

Once the flood hits the fields and the harvest is lost, the people lose a lot of grain, and then face the urging of Xia Fu, I am afraid that it will be difficult to continue in the future.

And the imperial court will not pay attention to this kind of small-scale disaster at all, and the taxes will not be less when the time comes, and in the end the people will have to drag their families and flee the fields.

If you think that the people of the same country have nothing to do with you, you are very wrong.

Because the taxes they don't pay will be shared equally among the rest.

The more they fled, the more taxes were apportioned among the rest.

This caused one family to flee, and the ten families of the joint insurance followed, even if they did not lose much.

And if ten families escape, they will face dozens of families associated with them must also flee.

In the end, it could cause the entire township to flee.

Although the people of Dongchen Village are rich, no matter how rich they are, they cannot afford the taxes of the whole township.

Therefore, we must not let the people lose too much, let alone make them feel that they have to escape.

This matter must be communicated with Li Zheng, and then Li Zheng will come forward to prepare the villagers for the flood.

Subsequently, Jiang Saburo hurried back to his hometown with two nieces and a pair of twin sons, as well as a bunch of things.

Ying Bao and Jiang Quan Jiang Cheng will not go back for the time being.

Because they still have to take advantage of the end of the year to earn more money.

In the past few days, the business of the shop has been getting better and better, and the chestnut cakes and persimmons in the warehouse are almost sold out.

Not only that, the golden ear snow fungus was announced to be sold out, and only two samples of the gourd were left at the door, one was pasted to attract wealth and treasure, and the other was to make money on the day.

This is because Jiang Quan is not allowed to sell, otherwise even these two will be bought.

"The people in the county are really rich." Jiang Quan sighed, turned his head and asked his eldest brother, "Have you made a good account?" How much money can we earn this month and last month? ”

Jiang Cheng buried his head in the plate and ignored him.

Sakura has a rough estimate in his heart, and the money to build a few big houses must be enough.

When spring begins, she will build three, no, five large tile houses, and a large warehouse that is fireproof and waterproof.

Then use precious wood to make a slip of tables, chairs and furniture, and receive guests in the future is also decent.

Most of the people who buy things from the family shop have a bit of family background, but they can't make people feel that they can't be on the table in the store.

She wants to build a specialty store that belongs to the Jiang family in the county, even if someone follows the trend in the future, she is not afraid of fighting with her family's shop.

She has rootless water at home, as well as special pills, and no matter how bad she is, she can always attract a lot of customers by listing it for people to see a doctor and treat incurable diseases.

Jiang Quan saw that his eldest brother ignored him, and spoke to his little cousin again: "If we earn more this time, let's buy another carriage." ”

It's too inconvenient to only use that one inside and out.

Hearing this, Jiang Cheng raised his head: "You're right, why don't you pay a hundred taels of silver from me first, you and Yingbao go to the mule and horse market to buy a carriage and come back, and we can come and go for the New Year." ”

Sakura clapped her hands in agreement: "Yes, yes! Just buy a carriage and we'll go now. ”

The mule and horse market will not open when it is late, and they will all go home for the New Year.