For the next few days, the thieves did not come back, and the masters did not come again.

The craftsman in charge of building the greenhouse came to tell him that the greenhouse had been made and asked him to come and see it.

When Tian Zhiyu was walking on the path, he saw that the wheat in the field had grown gratifyingly, and then he thought that in the past few days, he was either busy teaching Feng Sigong and them to play football, or he was busy writing "Peony Pavilion" for Yu Xiao, and the rest of the time was also practicing martial arts non-stop, and he almost forgot about plowing the field.

Fortunately, when he arrived at the wooden house, he saw that Lao Chen and Lao Li had already used the fermented fertilizer in the experimental field according to his instructions.

Tian Zhiyu went to see the greenhouse first. The craftsmanship of these craftsmen is really good, this greenhouse is completely made according to Tian Zhiyu's intentions, and rows of shelves are also built with bamboo poles, and test benches are built with bricks. There are also a number of stoves, which are not needed for the time being now that the weather is warmer.

Tian Zhiyu thanked these craftsmen again, and gave them some silver as a thank you, but the craftsmen still thanked Tian Zhiyu, and then left happily.

Tian Zhiyu went to see Lao Chen and Lao Li again. When I gave instructions to them at that time, Tian Zhiyu said that the experimental field should also be divided into several pieces.

Since Ma Bencai gave him ten acres of land for experiments, he divided them into five pieces, each of which was two acres. Since he was not fully sure of the standard of fertilization, he asked Lao Chen and Lao Li to use different amounts of fertilizer for these five experimental fields, and wrote down the dosage in detail, and finally saw which dosage had the best effect.

He took Lao Chen and Lao Li to inspect the ten acres of experimental fields, and it took almost half a day to turn around, and finally he found that there were still a lot of weeds in the field.

"Lao Chen, can all these weeds in the field be pulled out?" Tian Zhiyu asked.

Lao Chen hurriedly walked up to Tian Zhiyu and said, "Tian Gongzi, Lao Li and I just pulled out the grass the day before yesterday, and it was very clean. These are new growths. In the spring, all kinds of weeds grow wildly, and unless they are pulled once a day, it is impossible to pull them out completely. ”

Tian Zhiyu thought about the pesticide problem again, but still couldn't solve it, so he said to Lao Chen and Lao Li: "In this way, you find a way to hire two or three people, hire them for a long time, and all the tasks are to weed, to ensure that there are no weeds in the field before the wheat is ripe." As for the cost, it is calculated at twice the normal labor cost here. ”

When Lao Chen heard this, he hurriedly said: "Childe, this is actually not cost-effective. In the end, the money spent in this way may be compared with the wheat harvest, and it may be worth losing money. ”

Tian Zhiyu waved his hand and said: "It's okay, my purpose in this experimental field is not to make money, just to test how much yield can be achieved with the fertilizer I made, without weeds and pests and diseases." ”

Lao Chen thought for a while and said, "Okay, in this case, Lao Li and I can contract this work, and from now until the wheat harvest, we will ensure that we turn around every day to ensure that there are no weeds and insects in the wheat field." As for the fee, we don't want to pay twice as much as the child, just give it to us at the normal cost. ”

Lao Li also hurriedly chimed in: "Exactly, on weekdays, the two of us also go around for a short job, if the son needs it, we guarantee to do better than the people outside." ”

Tian Zhiyu thought to himself, this is fine, these two people were recommended by Ma Bencai after all, they should be completely trustworthy, and they will have to use fertilizer again in the future, and they can save a lot of trouble.

So Tian Zhiyu agreed with the two of them that they would inspect once a day, and if they saw weeds, they would pull them out, and if there were pests and diseases, if the two of them were too busy, they could ask him to apply for funds and hire a few more people.

Then Tian Zhiyu told them about the raw materials for making fertilizer, and asked them to find them again, the more the better, and after coming back, according to the previous method, they also used those large vats to ferment.

Lao Chen and Lao Li hurriedly agreed.

Tian Zhiyu consulted the price of hiring tenant farmers here, calculated the total cost, and gave them a month's salary in advance after giving them all the money for purchasing fertilizer raw materials.

The two had long heard from the craftsman who built the house how generous Tian Zhiyu was, and now seeing that he was really generous, they were both happy and willing to work for him with all their hearts.

After Lao Chen and Lao Li left, Tian Zhiyu stared at the wheat field that had just been irrigated once, and compared the wheat here with the wheat next door, and he didn't see that the wheat in his experimental field was better than others, so he couldn't help but be a little worried.

He went back to the cabin, which was already full of pots and pots. He had thought of doing all sorts of experiments in the cabin, but now that he has a greenhouse, he can put everything in the greenhouse.

Since Ma Bencai gave him so much money, Tian Zhiyu thought that he really had no restraint, not only did he give generous to others, but he was also not stingy with himself, and he bought everything he should buy.

At the moment, he thought that he was actually quite tired from moving over, so he simply waited for Lao Chen and Lao Li to come and teach them the task.

And he only needs to be responsible for doing his own experiments.

He thought that when he was in biology class in high school, the teacher taught the principle of cultivating polyploid plants, and now that he thinks about it one by one, most of them still remember.

Once again, he thanked him for his extraordinary memory.

He recalled that one of the most crucial things in cultivating polyploid plants was colchicine. This colchicine is extracted from lily plants, and when he thought of this, Tian Zhiyu realized that he had encountered a problem.

The extraction of colchicine was very easy in later generations, because at that time, ethanol for extraction experiments could be easily purchased anytime and anywhere.

But in this world, if you want to buy ethanol, it is simply impossible.

There is a lot of alcohol in this world, but the alcohol content of the wine here, even the wine with the highest degree, is about the same as the beer of later generations, and the ethanol needed for extraction experiments is very different.

Tian Zhiyu thought, I don't know if those distilleries have raw liquor with higher alcohol content, so it is much easier to find a way to purify it than to use those wines on the market to purify.

After Lao Chen and Lao Li came back, Tian Zhiyu first asked them to move all the pots and pots to the greenhouse and put them according to the needs of their own experiments, and then he asked them which winery in Yuhang City made the highest degree of wine.

Lao Chen didn't know what he was doing when he asked this question, but he didn't dare to ask, so he had to say: "If you want to talk about the degree, I'm afraid you have to go to Qiantang Village to find it, almost every household in that village makes wine, and I can't say which one has the highest degree of wine." ”

Tian Zhiyu inquired about the specific location of Qiantang Village and left there.

......

Qiantang Village is located in the east of Yuhang, not a short distance from where Tian Zhiyu lives.

In order to save time, Tian Zhiyu found the housekeeper Qin Ming and asked him to help him prepare a carriage, Qin Ming earnestly asked if he needed to accompany him, Tian Zhiyu politely declined.

When the carriage arrived a few miles away from Qiantang Village, Tian Zhiyu smelled a strong aroma of wine. This feeling is the same as when he passed by Moutai Town on the original earth, and the smell of wine was filled with a radius of several miles.

When he entered the village, Tian Zhiyu asked the horseman to find a place to rest first, and he walked inside by himself.

This village is not too big, Tian Zhiyu roughly estimated, there are about more than 200 households, and there are only more than 1,000 people when it is full.

But this village, with only about 200 households, has dozens of breweries.

Every street in this village is full of the banner of a certain wine-making workshop, and a large vat containing wine is placed at the door of every household.

He walked to the widest street, and was thinking about which one to visit, when the door beside him creaked open, and out of it came a handsome little lady.

She wore a high lily bun and a homely cardigan, her steps were light, and her waist was like a wicker when she walked, and her posture was quite graceful.

When she saw Tian Zhiyu standing in front of her blankly, she first pursed her lips and smiled, and said, "Does Childe want to buy wine?"

Tian Zhiyu nodded.

She said: "Then come to our house to have a look, our family has plum wine, osmanthus wine, hawthorn wine, and the most famous rice wine in Yuhang." Our daughter is red, and people within a radius of dozens of miles will come to our house to buy more than a dozen jars, bury them in the ground after returning home, and drink them when their daughter gets married. ”

Tian Zhiyu, who was already a little drunk, heard her crisp and moving voice, looked at her smile, and seemed to be really drunk, and his brain couldn't react for a while, so he followed her into the house.

After walking into her yard, Tian Zhiyu saw that the courtyard was full of vats for wine, some of which were covered with lids, which should be full of wine, and some of which were empty, waiting for new wine to be baked.

The little lady led him into the house, and then shouted behind the curtain of the door, "Come out quickly, there are guests buying wine." ”

After a while, a handsome young man, about the same age as the little lady, came out from behind the curtain, with a simple smile on his face.

The little lady smiled and said to Tian Zhiyu: "This is my father-in-law, just tell him what wine my son needs to buy." ”

Tian Zhiyu suddenly laughed dumbly, thinking that the little lady was married, and instantly laughed at himself for being unproductive, and followed him when he saw that he was good-looking.

The young man walked up to Tian Zhiyu, wiped his hands vigorously and said, "Childe, what wine do you want to buy?"

Tian Zhiyu smiled and said, "Dare to ask your family, which is the strongest wine?"

The young man was stunned for a moment, and then said with a smile: "Our family's wine is about the same, but plum wine is plum flavor, osmanthus wine is osmanthus flavor, and rice wine is the purest wine flavor. The average person only drinks three or four bowls and gets drunk. ”

Tian Zhiyu said: "Then can you take some, let me taste it?"

"Of course, I'll fetch it for my son," said the little lady with a smile, and walked in the direction of the curtain.

Tian Zhiyu saw that the young man was still a little restrained, so he continued: "I see that almost every household in Qiantang Village makes wine. ”

Speaking of this young man, he immediately came to his senses and said: "That is, our village has a history of thousands of years of winemaking, and the edge of the village is the Qiantang River. In the past, we were still exclusively for the royal family. ”

Looking at the pride on the young man's face, Tian Zhiyu then asked: "Then the wine brewed in your village should all be of these types, right?"

The young man nodded and said, "It's almost, there are only so many types, but the craftsmanship of each company is different, and the quality is also good or bad." ”

Tian Zhiyu nodded, at this time, the little lady came in with two jars of wine, and after putting them on the table, she untied the red cloth on it, took off the lid, filled half a bowl with a bowl, and handed it to Tian Zhiyu.

Tian Zhiyu took it, put it to his nose and asked, sure enough, it was fragrant, fragrant, and then took a sip, and the taste was also excellent.

He glanced at the young couple, and when he saw that the two of them had longing eyes, he couldn't help but feel a little soft-hearted. Originally, he came this time just to see if there was any wine with a higher degree or original wine, and he didn't have to buy it, but at this moment, seeing their hospitality, and looking forward to it, plus it was not good to ask people questions if he didn't buy some wine, he simply said: "It's really good wine, how much is this wine a jar?"

The little couple saw Tian Zhiyu praising his wine, they were very happy, the little lady glanced at her husband, and saw that he was still hesitating, so she said: "This is the best wine in our family, it usually costs ten yuan a pound to sell outside, this jar of wine is exactly ten pounds, plus the money of the jar, we charge you one hundred and twenty yuan, which is the lowest price nearby." ”

Tian Zhiyu already knew that in Yuhang, one tael of silver could be exchanged for 1,500 Wen, so after calculation, one tael of silver wine could buy twelve jars of wine and there was a surplus, and he couldn't help but feel that this wine was really good and cheap.

It's just that since Tian Zhiyu arrived in Taiyuan, he has Ma Bencai to eat and drink, and he has given him so much money, which makes him think that everyone in this world can easily make money, but he never thought that for the vast majority of people, one or two pieces of silver is already a lot of money.

The little lady saw that Tian Zhiyu was a little hesitant, and immediately said: "If the son thinks the price is expensive, we can be cheaper." ”

Tian Zhiyu hurriedly said: "At this price, it's not expensive, I'll give you two taels of silver, you prepare twenty bars for me, and the rest will be the money you pay for me to load the car." ”

When the couple saw that he not only did not bargain, but also gave them more money, they were very happy, and after taking Tian Zhiyu's money, they went to prepare wine.