Now that the afterglow of the pepper is still there, Qi Sheng arranged for people to distribute the seeds to the people in the other four counties, so that the people in the four counties can also drink some soup.
Now that the season is not yet busy, Qi Sheng set up a chili processing workshop at the border of Heping County, Yuping County and Jiaping County, and at the border of Taoping County, Caiping County and Jiaping County.
There are many ways to eat chili. In addition to selling dried chili, there are also chili noodles, etc. These are easy to store and transport. In recent years, Qisheng plans to make Pingzhou the hometown of chili. When Dasheng spreads, it will still allow the people of Pingzhou to seize the opportunity to collectively earn some small money.
The same goes for other aspects. Qi Sheng also encouraged the villagers to raise poultry and livestock, and the government stepped in to settle the major restaurants and restaurants in the counties so that they could not lower the price of meat at will.
Nowadays, there are countless people coming and going in business, and restaurants and restaurants have made a lot of money with this Everbright. When Qi Sheng issued this order, the family members of the restaurant didn't have any objections. The ingredients can't be reduced in price, they can add more items to the menu, and they can also make money!
Taking advantage of the people's free time, Qi Sheng arranged for a new round of road construction projects. As the saying goes, if you want to get rich, you must first build roads. Only when it is convenient to travel can caravans come continuously like a spring.
After the new season of sweet potatoes was harvested in October, Qi Sheng nodded with satisfaction, and next year they will be allocated to the people of a county to plant.
A year has passed in the blink of an eye, and every household in Caiping County has harvested a lot of sweet potatoes. Nowadays, sweet potatoes are still a rare commodity. Except for saving their own seeds, they are all sold to the government at a good price.
As a new kind of grain, the imperial court naturally wanted to expand the planting of sweet potatoes as soon as possible, so the Ministry of Households paid for the purchase of sweet potato seeds from these common people, and shipped them to the main planting counties in Dasheng.
Now that Pingzhou pays a lot of taxes, Qi Sheng also has money to start construction.
Considering that there is only one small natural reservoir in Pingzhou, Qi Sheng decided to level the river and expand the canals in Pingzhou, so as to store water for flood control and drought, and reduce the impact of the weather to some extent.
It is another slack season, except for a very few people who apply to work in workshops, many laborers are idle at home, but compared with previous years, they no longer have to worry about having enough to eat.
But when the government enlisted people to dig ditches and repair canals, there were still many people willing to respond. The people in Pingzhou now especially believe in Qi Sheng, and they all support Qi Sheng's government orders. Besides, the common people are not stupid, Qi Sheng's policy is for the sake of the people of Pingzhou, unlike those corrupt officials who either honor their superiors or fill their own pockets when they have money.
In the past two years, several counties in Pingzhou have newly built a number of canals and established countless new shops. All counties have standardized streets to house small vendors.
Half a year ago, Qi Sheng collected ways to eat sweet potatoes, and once adopted, the rewards range from ten to one hundred taels.
The people in Pingzhou are always thinking of ways to try various methods, especially the woman who is in charge of the spoon at home. In her spare time, she always wonders how to make a way of eating that satisfies the master of Zhizhou.
"Daughter-in-law, do you think this vermicelli will be satisfied?" Song Laosan hesitated, feeling a little too ordinary.
Song's third daughter-in-law, Mrs. Zhang, also frowned and worried, but thinking about the situation at home, she made up her mind and said, "Master Qi treats the people generously. You see, the second master's family wanted to produce a dried sweet potato a few days ago and went to the government to ask for rewards. Qi Your Excellency should reward him with twenty taels of silver, our vermicelli has gone through a lot of processes, it is no better than his idea!"
Song Laosan nodded in agreement when he heard this. There are many brothers in their family, and he is not favored by his parents. Since his parents married him a daughter-in-law, they have divided the family directly. Apart from being assigned to a room , the land is only divided into two parts, and usually they can only grow some food and vegetables to eat for themselves. If the daughter-in-law is not good at making tofu, his family still doesn't know how to live.
And ever since Pingzhou began to grow chili and sweet potatoes to make money, Song Laosan was always jealous when he saw that every family built a big house to eat delicious and spicy food. He couldn't help hiding and crying several times. Too partial to the boss and the second child, and feel sorry for his wife and children not having a good day with him.
Thinking about the hard times before, Song Laosan no longer hesitated, he just went to the government, he was not cheating, the adults should not beat him, at worst he would be kicked out.
Song Laosan carried the air-dried vermicelli on his back, and rushed to the prefecture of Jiaping County before dawn.
When Qi Sheng just announced the news, some rogues who were opportunistic and wanted to ask for rewards still thought of using any method to fool him, Qi Sheng was not annoyed, it was only after they finished talking that each of them rewarded twenty boards that these non-business people Dispelling the idea of taking advantage, fewer and fewer people came to offer ideas, but Qi Sheng was never too satisfied. Qi Sheng frowned, and if there were no good ideas, he might have to secretly arrange them.
Thinking this way, Qi Sheng raised his eyebrows when he saw the yamen servant in front of the door coming to pass the news. It has been five days since no one came to offer an idea. I hope he won't be disappointed this time.
When he came to the front hall, Qi Sheng looked at the patched coarse clothes, the honest man who was nervous and knelt on the ground and dared not get up since he came in, he had no choice but to lower his tone: "Get up and answer, I can't eat you."
Song Laosan got up tremblingly, not daring to lift his head, clutching the basket tightly in his hand, waiting for Qi Sheng to ask questions.
In order to let him relax, Qi Sheng started to chat with him about the daily life: "How many children are there? Are there arrangements for them to go to school now?"
Song Laosan replied truthfully: "Back... back to your lord, there are three boys in Caomin's family, but...but they are still young, and none of them were sent to study."
The eldest child of Song Lao San's family is six years old and old enough to be sent to school. Unfortunately, their family is poor, and it is not easy to feed the whole family, let alone let the children read and write.
Qi Sheng frowned, thinking that every family's life is getting better now, look, there is one who is having a hard life.
Qi Sheng asked: "How many acres of land does your family have? Besides farming, what do you usually do for a living?"
Song Laosan was nervous, and continued to stumble back: "My lord, Caomin's family has two parts of land. Usually, Caomin will do part-time jobs around, and his wife sells tofu in the town."
It turns out that there is less land, but now that there are many merchants coming and going, the tofu business should be good, and there are also many places to work. How can life be so bad
Although Qi Sheng didn't want to embarrass him, he still asked curiously: "Since that's the case, you should have a lot of income every month. How can you live in such poverty?"
Song Lao San was so frightened that he knelt down on the ground again, thinking that Master Zhizhou disliked his family and hindered Pingzhou. But the mother and son have been a little weak and sick for the past two years, and most of the money the family earns is now spent on medicine."
Song Laosan finished speaking in one breath, and waited tremblingly for Qi Sheng to speak, while lamenting the injustice of God, which made their family's life just a little better, but then being thrown into the bottom of the valley, and at the same time worried that Qi Sheng would beat him out. So I made new clothes with all my heart.
Qi Sheng understood it, and then he was relieved. He said that under his rule, except for those lazy bastards who don't think about making progress, how could there be such an honest man living in a difficult life.
Qi Sheng called him to get up again, and then asked: "Then do you have any good ideas and new tricks for eating whole sweet potatoes today?"
Qi Sheng made up his mind, as long as this idea is not intentionally fooling him, he will reward this person with a little more money, seeing how brave he is to come to the government, if it is not for the sake of earning more money, he might not even be able to drag him back.
Seeing that Qi Sheng didn't blame him, Song Laosan was a little relieved. His lord was indeed as they said, generous and gentle, and he thought he was concerned about their lives when he cross-examined him just now.
Song Laosan grabbed the back basket, grabbed a handful of vermicelli with a clean cloth towel, and hurriedly replied: "My lord, these are the vermicelli that the grass-roots daughter-in-law tried to make for many days. After soaking in hot water and cooking, add more Spicy shallots and garlic are more fragrant than noodles!"
Qi Sheng was very surprised when he heard this, could it be that this vermicelli really made people think of it? He didn't keep his identity anymore, he hurried over to take the sweet potato vermicelli and looked around, he was a little surprised and called his servant: "Go, boil this vermicelli in hot water, make two bowls as he said and serve it."
The servants took the order to go, Qi Sheng asked about the steps of making vermicelli in detail, and he couldn't help nodding with satisfaction, although the process still needs to be perfected, but it is worthy of praise for making it like this.
It wasn't until he ate the cooked sweet potato noodles that Qi Sheng praised: "Not bad, not bad, your vermicelli is the best idea so far, come here, bring me five hundred taels of silver."
Song Laosan's eyes widened upon hearing this, and he looked up at Qi Sheng in disbelief.
"That's a good idea. Your family will be credited for setting up a vermicelli workshop in Pingzhou in the future. The five hundred taels is a small reward for you. If you have any difficulties in the future, you can come to the government office to ask me for help."
Song Laosan was completely stunned at this moment, not knowing what Qi Sheng said, he followed the guards and left Zhizhou's mansion in a daze.
It wasn't until the guard turned his head back that Song Laosan realized it, and then he was nervous and excited and didn't know what to do. After silently slowing down for a while, I hurried home.
Qi Sheng didn't know how happy Song Laosan was, he sorted out the method of making vermicelli, and attracted a few wealthy businessmen with good reputations.
"This is a vermicelli made from processed sweet potatoes that a farmer thought of. I tested it carefully. It is easy to store and transport, and it is also convenient to cook. It is convenient for ordinary people to buy and eat, or for people on the road. what idea?"
These business people are the most keen. After knowing the advantages of vermicelli and trying the taste of vermicelli, they know that business opportunities are coming.
Qi Sheng wants to set up a vermicelli workshop, but he thinks that once peppers and sweet potatoes are popularized, the people of Pingzhou will lose their current advantage in making money. If they don’t come up with other workarounds, after a few years, the number of caravans coming and going will definitely decrease a lot. , who made Pingzhou so remote.
Now that he has mastered the unique processing method, he can attract many caravans for a while, and can create more conditions for the people of Pingzhou to work.
Qi Sheng didn't need to say much, the vermicelli workshop was settled.
Since ancient times, merchants have always paid attention to speed, so in just a few days, several vermicelli workshops of different sizes have sprung up in various counties of Pingzhou. It was busy recruiting workers and buying, and Qi Sheng sent another five hundred taels to Song Laosan's family. Silver, it can be regarded as giving him the share of selling vermicelli in advance.
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