Chapter 30: Six Hundred Miles Expedited

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When they came, everyone was in a hurry and confused, and when they left, they all called each brother and sister, and they were all smiling. Obviously, friendly cooperation has been reached.

A food workshop was established, and the Jiang family accounted for 4% of the shares with technology. The others are invested in silver, the Zhou family is 1 percent, the Qu and Jiang families each account for 2 percent, and Master Lu and another master of money and grain each account for half percent.

The promise and huge benefits of persimmons and canned food can be seen by anyone who is not a fool.

Especially canned food, if it is ready to be shipped to the north, it will definitely make a lot of money.

Jiang Wenyuan holds two golden mountains in his hands, it stands to reason that he can eat alone after he finishes, and with his current status, others can only watch even if they are red-eyed.

The reason why this huge cake was taken out and shared with them was that the time was tight, and if one more day of delay, the loss of the fruit farmers would be greater. He didn't want to see the fruit farmers in Qingzhou lose their money.

These large merchants not only have very strong funds, but also mature sales channels and extremely broad network resources. With their strength, they can sell their fruits as quickly as possible and reduce losses.

Second, except for him, the rest of the Jiang family are honest people. Everyone is good at farming, but they can't get these twists and turns in the mall.

It's better to be generous, everyone cooperates, mutual benefit and win-win, and everyone is happy. His baby daughter said that this is called recruiting (official) businessmen (business) to attract (seduc) capital (knots).

For all merchants, it would be a fool not to accept the olive branch handed in their hands. The Jiang family, they can't climb it if they want to climb it on weekdays!

Two days later, on the Qingjiang River in the east of the city, a workshop called "Qingjiang Food" was established, and the news was released that a large number of fresh oranges, oranges, plows and persimmons were purchased.

Oranges, mandarins, and the purchase price, two pounds per penny. Pears are one and a half pounds and two pounds, and persimmons are one and a dollar and three pounds. Although this price is not as high as last year's retail price, it is still a very high price compared to this year.

For a while, the people rushed to tell each other and picked their own fruits here.

At the same time, a small shop in the west of the city also posted a notice to buy a large number of chestnuts, hazelnuts, dates, kiwifruit and other mountain goods and fruits that are not suitable for canning.

This was Jiang Yuqing asked Jiang Wenyuan to send someone to collect it. There is a place in her space that will not deteriorate.

Collect it now, firstly, so that the people's hard-earned things can be sold somewhere, and secondly, when they are released in winter, they can make a difference.

It's really not good, you can eat it yourself or give it to the clansmen as a gift.

Who would have thought that this harvest would almost be unstoppable. In nearly 20 days, all kinds of nuts and fruits were harvested to 780,000 catties.

In the meantime, because of the lack of silver, Jiang Wenyuan also went home and asked Lao Hu for some.

His father joked to him: "When others are officials, they all go to the house to buy money, but it's good for you, you can't talk about it, and you still put it upside down." ”

Jiang Wenyuan asked with a serious face: "Then, why don't you make some money for your son?" ”

When Old Man Jiang heard this, he instantly slapped the table: "You dare!" If you dare to do that unfaithful and unrighteous thing, Lao Tzu will break your legs. ”

In a blink of an eye, everyone was looking at him with a smile on their faces, and then they realized that they had been swept away by their youngest son.

I couldn't cry and laugh for a while: "It's good that you are a third child, you dare to make fun of your old man, it's just a big rebellion......"

The canning of food in the food workshop is also in full swing. The first batch is already on its way to the north. The persimmons are also very well sunburned, and now they are waiting for the frost to fall.

In the midst of the hustle and bustle, the September girl grabbed the golden skirt and flipped away. The October girl dragged Xiao Suo to appear immediately.

The leaves of some trees have turned yellow, and the wind blows and flies everywhere. The leaves fall, return to the roots.

The sweet potatoes in Jiang's field have grown large enough to be harvested. Two days in advance, the Jiang family released the news that the family was going to dig sweet potatoes.

The sweet potato field planted by the Jiang family is known to everyone in the village. When I first planted it, I was asked what it was. The Jiang family said it was a sweet potato.

As for how this thing came about, the caliber of the Jiang family's unification to the outside world is that when Jiang Wenyuan entered Beijing to take the exam, he accidentally rescued a Taoist priest from Youfang on the way, and the Taoist priest gave it to him.

It is said that it is a grain from overseas, and the yield is very high. But they don't know exactly how much it will be produced.

It is only said that their family will try to plant one first, if it is really as the old Taoist priest said, the yield is very high, and it will not be too late to distribute it to everyone when the time comes. Now that I heard that this thing is about to be harvested, everyone naturally wants to see what is going on.

On the fifth day of October, the autumn is high and cool, and there are no clouds.

Early in the morning, Jiang Wenyuan rushed back with Master Qian Liang and a team of people. In addition to the seven boys who went to school, the Jiang family went out of their nests.

Sickles, hoes, sacks, baskets, and scales.

The villagers who rushed to see the excitement after hearing the news also surrounded the sweet potato fields.

Jiang Wenyuan took the lead and personally rolled his trouser legs to cut vines. Seeing this, the others also took their scythes and followed.

Some of the villagers were so anxious that they ran home to bring scythes and join the army of vine cutters.

More than 30 men spread out in the field, but in half an hour, they cut off the vines of one and a half acres.

The cut vines can be used to feed pigs, cattle and sheep in bundles, and there is no waste at all.

Now comes to the point.

Jiang Wenkang took the lead in carrying the hoe, walked to the end of the ridge, first removed a little soil, and then slashed down with a hoe, and then pulled it, and a nest of red lumps was exposed.

Two more hoes went down, and a nest of sweet potatoes was all taken out of the ground. Suddenly, there was an exclamation all around: "I'm a mother, why is there so much in this nest, and it's so big." ”

Jiang Wenkang happily mentioned this string of sweet potatoes and counted them, and there were seven.

The largest one is the size of his palm, to say the least, it is more than a pound, and the small one is also two or three pounds. After checking it, this plant has to weigh at least four or five pounds.

One is only four or five catties, so many pieces per acre, the yield is ...... Jiang Wenkang's eyes were red.

It's not just his eyes that are red, but everyone present has red eyes.

The men didn't say a word, each grabbed a ridge, picked up a hoe and started drying.

The rest of the people did not lag behind, and took baskets and sacks and other household goods, and followed behind to pick them up.

Exclamations were heard from time to time.

"Wow, this one is so big, bigger than my head."

"Oh my God, this one has eleven sweet potatoes."

"Hurry up, bring another sack, I can't hold ......."

After an hour and an hour, all the sweet potatoes of one and a half acres were harvested. The data from Jiang Wenyuan's side also came out.

A total of 7,289 catties were harvested, with an average yield of 4,859 catties per mu, which was the result of weighing twice.

Hearing this data, look at the mountains of sweet potatoes piled up in the ground.

Everyone fell silent, and then their eyes turned red.

One of the officials suddenly knelt on his knees and cried, "Mother, open your eyes and see, with a yield of four or five thousand catties of grain per mu, we will never go hungry again, never again." ”

Seeing this, the official who came with him patted him on the shoulder with red eyes as a sign of comfort.

Jiang Wenyuan knew about the situation of this servant. His father died young, and his mother took him to survive.

Later, the hometown was hit by a disaster, and there was no harvest in the field. His mother took him with his neighbors and began to flee.

On the way, in order to keep her son alive, the mother saved her own rations for her son, and finally starved to death.

Fortunately, he later met a good man, picked him up and raised him, and learned from his adoptive father, became literate, and was recommended to enter the county government as a servant.

Seeing his mother starve to death, no wonder he was so sad, and he felt it today too.

Jiang Wenyuan asked people to pick out the bad ones and take them home to steam and eat them later.

The rest are not allowed to move, this is next year's grain, the lifeblood of the people.

After transporting all the sweet potatoes back to the mansion, Jiang Wenyuan arranged a special room for storage, and arranged for people to guard them twelve hours a day.

It's not that I don't worry about my family, it's that I'm afraid of the small night outside. At any time, there is no shortage of people in this world who take risks for the sake of profit.

After settling everything, Jiang Wenyuan hurriedly returned to the county government with people.

After returning to the county office, Jiang Wenyuan immediately wrote a letter, enclosing a booklet detailing the cultivation method of sweet potatoes, together with a basket of sweet potatoes without picking the root diameter, and sent it to the government office quickly.

Two days later, Li Zheng, the governor of Lingzhou, received Jiang Wenyuan's letter, and couldn't help laughing after reading it.

After that, a six-hundred-mile expedited was launched to send Jiang Wenyuan's original letter and sweet potatoes to the capital.

It only took eight days for the things to arrive in the capital.

When the east and west arrived in the capital, it was the time of the Great Imperial Meeting. Hearing the layers of urgent reports from outside the hall, all the courtiers sighed in their hearts.

It's over, it's not like there's another disaster somewhere!

Even Emperor Xia Jing on the throne was suspicious.

"Report - six hundred miles of the Zero State Mansion is expedited!" The dusty messenger with a tired face ran into the hall with a bamboo basket on his back and knelt down, took out the letter sealed with fire paint in his arms and said: "Your Majesty, the Lingzhou Mansion is six hundred miles away. ”

Li De, the chief eunuch beside Emperor Xia Jing, hurriedly trotted down, took the messenger's letter, and moved a basket of heavy things to the imperial stairs. And the messenger was taken down to rest.

The emperor took the envelope, tore it open in three or two strokes, and looked at ten lines at a glance, and his eyes instantly widened.

He grabbed the letter in one hand, pushed away the eunuch who was in the way with the other, personally dragged the bamboo basket over, lifted a string of heavy fruits from it, and checked it, at least it weighed four or five catties.

The letter is true.

Emperor Xia Jing couldn't help but spread his hands wide, looked up to the sky and shouted: "Okay, good, good, God bless me Daxia!" Hahahaha! ”

The emperor's loud laughter spread throughout the hall.

The courtiers, who had been paying close attention to the emperor's every move, immediately breathed a sigh of relief.

The emperor is happy, this is a happy event! On the other hand, I was curious, what kind of happy event is this, it is worth using the six-hundred-mile expedited, which can make the emperor so happy.

This suspense didn't hang for long. Emperor Xia Jing laughed for a while, vented the joy in his heart, and gave the letter to Zhang Xiu, the head of the household.

"Zhang Qing, come and see! And a few of you, all of you have come to take a look, everyone has come to see it. On the one hand, he asked Li Deshun to move the sweet potato down for everyone to see.

When the ministers read the letter, their temples jumped with astonishment.

It's no wonder that the prefect of Zero State will use six hundred expedited delivery, and if the thing is true, it will be eight hundred miles expedited.

Zhang Xiu's eyes were red.