Man Bao didn't care what her father said, she hadn't told him that she would provide them with wheat seeds.
She directly asked Bai Shan to go out and discuss quietly, "Can your family supply all the wheat seeds?"
Bai Shandao: "The problem shouldn't be too big. It's just the autumn harvest. This year, there is a drought near the capital, and Longzhou has also been affected a little. Grandma definitely didn't sell the harvested wheat."
So he should be able to gather several hundred acres of wheat seeds.
Bai Shan asked: "This is also a big event, why don't you tell Uncle Zhou?"
"Let's wait until the Mid-Autumn Festival is over," Man Bao said, "I must let my father have a good time."
Bai Shan thinks so too, when they bring Mai Seed over, Uncle Zhou will use it even if his heart hurts.
Bai Shan turned around and went to discuss with his grandmother.
Mrs. Liu had already guessed that the three children had earned a lot of money by relying on the new wheat seeds. Now the new wheat seeds have basically become popular, and the imperial court and even themselves often distribute good seeds to the people. The people in the field are still using the old seeds they kept, and the children will definitely have to be replaced.
Either buy it, or make it yourself.
The former cost a lot, while the latter, Luojiang County is too far away from Yongzhou, but Longzhou is not far away, and it only takes three or four days to go back and forth, so she guessed that they would get it from Longzhou.
Mrs. Liu was still very happy, and said to Bai Shan: "This year, there is drought in the capital area, and floods in Shengzhou. I guess that the price of grain will rise, so I haven't sold the wheat harvested this summer, but the Ministry of Households allocated it properly. At present, the grain price in the capital is very stable, it rose by less than two yuan a while ago, and now it has fallen back, so the wheat is cheap for you."
Bai Shan immediately said with a smile: "Grandmother, Man Bao didn't want us for nothing, and we will return it to us when we harvest it next year."
Mrs. Liu said with a smile: "I know, with the relationship between our two families, do we still use politeness?"
She said: "I will let Liu Gui go back to Longzhou tomorrow and let him escort the wheat seeds. But I want to ask you, are you planning to make this job field the same as your little Zhuangzi?"
Bai Shan pondered for a moment and then said: "Grandmother, farming is very hard. I think the principles in this world are very strange. My education and the books I read tell me that land is very precious, and even the changes of dynasties are often caused by land. But I have calculated that the income from the land is not high, but everything in this world, no matter what, cannot be separated from the land."
"A piece of Shu satin varies from Wudiao to a hundred gold. The difference is the silk, and it is also due to the different craftsmanship of the people. But the mulberry leaves eaten by the silkworms are all from the land. From planting mulberry leaves to When Shu satin is worn on a person, the person who wears it, the merchant who sells it, and even the craftsman may become rich, but only the person who first raises silkworms and grows mulberry seems to be poor all the time, why?"
Mrs. Liu: ... how does she know why
No, why should she think about such a question
Why did Shanbao think about such a problem
Mrs. Liu was about to speak, but Bai Shan was already sitting at her feet and said: "But those who farm the land will not always be poor. Look at the long-term workers in our small village, how poor they are from the beginning."
It was so poor that he didn't even have a change of clothes, let alone a house, a wife and children.
As a result, it's only been a few years, not to mention clothes. They have a house, a wife, and children. Although two of the children are not their own, they are also adopted children, right
Now there is no shortage of food and clothing, and they also have a share of the large chickens, ducks and geese raised in the village. I can't guarantee that they will always have meat to eat, but we can guarantee that they will always have eggs to eat, even if they are no worse than ordinary rich people.
"There's also Uncle Zhou's family. Life in Manbao's family was not easy before, but isn't it doing well now?" Bai Shan said, "So the problem is not with farming, but with on people."
"I was thinking, how should I plant this land?"
Mrs. Liu: ... She just asked a question.
Bai Shan continued to talk about his thoughts with his grandmother, "In the past, my grandmother always let me inherit my father's behest, so I wanted to avenge my father and become an official like my father, but now I vaguely understand what I want to do in the future."
Mrs. Liu's heart immediately settled down. She smiled and asked softly, "What do you want to do in the future?"
Bai Shan's eyes shone brightly, and he said: "Just do this to make the world peaceful and the people live and work in peace and contentment."
Mrs. Liu nodded in satisfaction, reached out and patted his head with a rare hand, and said softly, "Go and rest."
After waiting for him to leave, Mrs. Liu could not settle down for a long time, and then said softly to Nanny Liu: "This child has grown up."
Grandma Liu answered "Yes" with a smile.
Man Bao and Bai Shan, who were hiding outside the window and eavesdropping, met, "So you want to persuade Mrs. Liu like this?"
"This is clearly my heart."
Man Bao was very puzzled, "But you told me during the Chinese New Year, that Confucius had three ambitions, 'The old man is safe, the friends believe in him, and the young are cherished'. You are small and short-spirited, so you made a wish, 'The old man is safe, the friends are trustworthy'." ' is enough, it can be seen that your ambition has been set long ago, why did you just tell Grandma Liu now?"
Bai Shan nodded her nose and said: "You don't care, just wait for the wheat seeds from Longzhou to arrive."
Man Bao wrinkled his nose and snorted, "He is really a treacherous person."
But she didn't go to Mrs. Liu's place to expose him, because it was late at night, and the two of them went to wash up and go to bed. The next morning, they went to the other two miles to see the remaining one hundred acres of land they had left. .
In fact, they are almost connected together, but the more than one hundred acres of land happens to be within the range of the other two miles, so it is under the management of another village chief. Only then went to Pu Village.
After thinking about it all night, the people in Pu Village agreed to Man Bao's request, and then began to wait anxiously for the rent.
Man Bao himself also breathed a sigh of relief, and then pretended to have expected it, took the book box from Daji, opened it directly, and took out the pen, ink, paper and inkstone from it, "In that case, we will register today , Today happens to be the Mid-Autumn Festival, and everyone is having a good time, and tomorrow we will start tidying up the fields and preparing to plant wheat."
The head of the village hurriedly took the place of everyone, and then asked people to move tables and chairs out of the house to make them for them.
While grinding the ink, Man Bao said, "I've read the documents. My 1,000-acre land, including the farthest 100-odd acres, was rented and planted by people from your village before?"
The head of the village replied "Yes" with a smile, "This is also the request of the yamen, otherwise it will not be easy to collect rent if they are separated."
That's why he was worried, he didn't want to take care of the job field, not to mention the trouble, if he couldn't pay the fixed rent, he, the village head, would be held accountable.
If you accidentally meet a bad official and ask for more strange and more, everyone will have a hard time.