Don't you want to lose the little girl of the master? I will let you lose the official hats on your heads first, and you will never turn over! Those who have no intention of embarrassing the little girl for the time being are not so easy to talk to. No, you have to beat these guys with high eyebrows and low eyes.
Zhu Junyang took a step forward and stood beside Yu Xiaocao, standing side by side with her, expressing with his actions and attitude that he was supporting the little girl.
"According to the emperor's orders, no matter the officials in charge of farming in the household department or the stewards of the Huangzhuang, they will all obey the orders of the agricultural officer Yu. If they don't obey, they will be severely punished!" Zhu Junyang's sharp eyes swept over those hearts An unruly official paused for a moment, and continued, "Everything in Huangzhuang should be handed over to the household department and the master. The master suggested that all matters in Huangzhuang should be decided by the newly appointed agricultural officer. Liu Shangshu, what do you think?"
"I have no objection. In terms of farming, the old man is only the second-in-command. Ms. Yu is far superior to the old man in this area. She will be in charge of Huangzhuang affairs. I can rest assured!" Then, Liu Shangshu told the officials and stewards present one by one Introduce to Yu Xiaocao. Who is in charge of what is explained in detail.
Yu Xiaocao listened carefully. Those officials in the Ministry of Household Affairs are all dispensable, such as recording officers and treasurer officers. They also know little about farming, so they cannot be counted on. The stewards in the Huangzhuang perform their own duties, and the arrangements are reasonable. For the time being, she was not prepared to take any action, but just quietly listened to their reports.
After everyone finished speaking, it was reported that the carriages of the maids had arrived. Looking at the time, Yu Xiaocao stood up and said: "The potion has been delivered, please ask Guanshi Wang to gather the tenant farmers on the Huangzhuang, and after the official adjusts the ratio of the potion, we will start irrigating immediately. After all, farming time waits for no one! "
Steward Wang was sent by the emperor himself, and he is one of the chief stewards under Su Ran. Because of Su Ran's attitude towards the Yu family, especially Yu Xiaocao, Manager Wang naturally respected her a little more and obeyed her words.
Soon all the personnel on Huangzhuang were mobilized, carrying buckets and shoulder poles, haunting the fields. These tenant farmers were divided into ten groups, and each group had a group leader who was in charge of the ratio of potion deployment. The well water mixed with medicinal water was irrigated into the fields.
Xiaocao specially let the little butian stone transform into a golden light, and wandered around all the land in Huangzhuang. With the current magic power of the Xiaobutian Stone, although it is only in this circle, the soil of Huangzhuang has been improved, and the aura inside is enough to support the growth of crops in the field. When harvesting in autumn, it must be a bumper year!
There were a lot of people in Huangzhuang, no matter men, women, old or young, they were assigned tasks, and even the stewards were ordered around, and within half a day, the 3,000 mu of fertile fields planted with corn were all irrigated.
Because Liu Shangshu was unwilling to leave, the officials of the household department also accompanied him around the field.
Seeing the corn seedlings that had just sprouted two small leaves, which looked so green and moving in the afterglow of the setting sun, Liu Shangshu stroked the beard under his chin, smiled and said with relief: "Miss Yu, I don't know if it is the old man's. Illusion, how come the corn seedlings are much more energetic just after the potion is irrigated. It seems that they have grown up so much... "
Zhu Junyang glanced at Yu Xiaocao, whose eyeballs were spinning around and seemed to be thinking of an excuse, and helped her out: "Master Liu, is it your psychological effect? No matter how powerful the potion is, it can't be effective immediately. As for growing up It’s even more nonsense. The growth of all things has its own laws to follow. Yu Nongshiguan is not a god, so how can he have such magic power?”
Liu Shangshu also felt that he was overthinking, he laughed and said: "What King Yangjun said is very true. Is it because the old man is too urgent, so he has such an illusion?"
The officials in charge of farming around him also murmured in their hearts: They don't know whether the corn seedlings have grown, but they are indeed much more energetic than what they saw in the morning. The entire field is full of vitality, which seems to flow from every leaf. Could it be that these are their illusions
In the red glow of the sky, two horses, one red and one black, walked side by side on the wide and flat official road, and occasionally a crooked neck tree stretched its green leaves in the afterglow of summer on both sides. Immediately there were two figures reddened by the sunset, one was thin and delicate, and the other was tall and slender. Behind them, two riders and an ordinary green-shed carriage followed.
"What the hell are you thinking about again?" Seeing Yu Xiaocao bowed her head in silence and her eyes rolled from time to time, Zhu Junyang could easily see from her expression that she was thinking about some important issue.
Yu Xiaocao looked up at Zhu Junyang and asked, "Tell me, if I plant some fruit trees on the mountain behind Huangzhuang, or open up a field next to Zhuangzi, cover it with a greenhouse to grow vegetables, and sell them to those dignitaries in the capital .Will the emperor agree?"
He said that this girl must not be idle, and as expected, she came to the capital only a few days before she came up with the idea of Huangzhuang. Huangzhuang was originally the place where the emperor used to cultivate and improve food crops. As long as she can successfully complete the tasks assigned to her by the emperor and use the hills near Huangzhuang to obtain some small benefits for herself, the emperor will definitely not care about these.
"As long as you don't occupy the land that Huangzhuang already had, it shouldn't be a big problem. How about I write a note for you and ask the emperor for instructions?" Zhu Junyang felt helpless about Xiaocao's little head, which was always thinking about how to make money. There is a bit of admiration.
Writing notebooks is really not her strong point. Besides, based on the dog-climbing brush calligraphy she had practiced for a few days, the emperor seemed to be struggling to write the calligraphy. If someone does it for her, she is naturally happy.
"However, if you build a greenhouse, you need a lot of glass. The price of large pieces of glass is not cheap. Several greenhouses in Beijing are used to grow precious flowers and plants. If you use it to grow vegetables, you don't know when it will be available." cover the cost… "
Zhu Junyang wondered if the manufacturing office seemed to have bought a batch of glass with good transparency, and wondered if the emperor had any arrangements there. If he asks the emperor for it, what are the chances of success
Yu Xiaocao made some calculations in her mind. If she wants to grow greenhouse vegetables in a large area, she can't just point to the glass greenhouse. As King Yang said, the cost is too high, and the investment is too much, so it's not worth it...
"Then... Can King Xiaojun get fruit tree saplings, or the fruit trees that bear fruit that year!" Yu Xiaocao thought that if the vegetables in the greenhouse can't be produced this year, first get some fruit trees, and sell the fruits next year or make them into cans. a profit.
It's not easy to live in the capital. It's good to live anywhere in the capital, but the expenses are too high, and money is always used. Although she has a salary, that little salary is enough for what to do, a year's salary is not enough to buy a hairpin or a bracelet. Therefore, it is not enough to save money, but to open source!
Zhu Junyang had an expression wrapped around his body: "What kind of fruit tree do you want? No one can't get it back! Just ask."
"Apples, oranges, peach trees, pear trees, apricot trees, grape vines... How about getting a few of each? When will you be able to get them at the latest?" Of course Yu Xiaocao would not bring those fruit trees from the south, Too dazzling. The ones listed with my fingers are all common fruit trees in the north.
"I want it now? Isn't it best to transplant fruit trees in spring? Get them here now, can they be planted?" Zhu Junyang was a little worried.
Yu Xiaocao snorted with her upturned little nose, and said arrogantly: "With my girl's ability, there are things I can't grow? You can wait to eat fruit next year!"
Seeing the little girl's expression, Zhu Junyang looked like the golden yellow kitten she raised, with her head almost raised on her back, and couldn't help but said with a smile: "You, don't blow the cowhide too much, be careful that it breaks!"
"Underestimate people! Do you still want to eat the fruit?" The little girl boldly began to threaten him.
For the little girl's ability, Zhu Junyang still trusts him very much, he just teased her a few words, just wanting to see how she blows her hair. The peach tree in the backyard of Yu's family in Dongshan Village was originally just a wild peach on the mountain, and the fruit it produced was not to mention small, and the taste was slightly sour, which was really not delicious. But after being carefully handled by the little girl, the peaches produced, not to mention the size, taste as sweet as honey, and the pulp can be sucked into the mouth with a small bite. Even the old man without teeth can Can eat a few.
There is also the vine in the yard, which can eat sweet grapes from April. The grapes from other people's homes would go bad in two days if they were not stored, but the grapes in Yu's yard could be stored for a week in the capital without any change in taste. The bull's-eye-like grapes were well received by the noble ladies in Beijing, and they all asked the mother and concubine about the origin of the grapes, which annoyed the concubine mother very much.
It is conceivable that if the little girl tosses out of the orchard in Huangzhuang, it will be absolutely terrible. It is very likely that the fruit in the entire capital is monopolized by her! It seems that it is necessary to set up a few fruit shops among the shops under my own name. When the time comes, the little girl will grow and sell herself, produce and sell herself, and women sing and husbands follow, wouldn't it be beautiful
Thinking this way, after sending Xiaocao back to the General's Mansion, Zhu Junyang wrote a note overnight and handed it over. He also ordered his subordinates to collect fruit trees around the capital, and they didn't get too many of them. Five or six trees, let the little girl toss about it first.
After the court the next day, Xiaocao was called into the palace again. Perhaps it was the shadow in her heart caused by entering the palace the day before yesterday, and her heart beat when she mentioned entering the palace. I don't know if the emperor will go back on his word and covet her colorful stones.
This time, Mr. Su did not lead her to the imperial study room, but led her towards the path leading to the imperial garden.
"Mr. Su, how is the emperor feeling today?" Feeling that it is not good to ask the emperor directly, Yu Xiaocao decided to use the emperor's mood to judge whether it is a good thing or a bad thing to enter the palace this time.