"Yes", Shun'er understood what Shi Zhongkui meant, "I'll ask my uncle to ask, and the news should be coming back soon."

"Yes," Shi Zhongkui nodded and waved his hand to signal Shun'er to leave, but he thought to himself that if he remembered correctly, Xue Pan should be his birthday on the third day of the fifth month.

The third day of the fifth lunar month is only about a month. If it is modern time, it is almost the beginning of June. At that time, I will send some big and excellent peaches to you, and Xue Pan will definitely feel proud.

While sitting on a chair waiting for the Jia family to come to the door, Shi Zhongkui's mind couldn't help but sink into the space farm in his mind.

The peach tree that was the first to plant into the farm was more than ten meters high four months ago and was as thick as a diameter of half a meter.

Unfortunately, there are only 20 fruits on the tree, ten kilograms a day, not a tiny or a little less.

Moreover, the taste did not become very good. Even after eating too much, Shi Zhongkui felt that it was not as delicious as before.

Therefore, he only left a peach tree as a thought, hoping that the tree would slowly turn into a spiritual fruit due to its age.

After more than five months, 20 fields were planted in 20 consecutive days for 20 consecutive days to make 1,000 kilograms of dried fruit, the existing fresh peaches in the warehouse have also been stored for about 1,500 kilograms.

The best peach weighing 6 taels per weight is about 600 kilograms at this time.

The wheat was planted in 19 fields for 20 days and harvested 3,800 kilograms, and the rice was planted directly for 40 days, saving enough 7,600 kilograms.

The other time is allocated to grapes, persimmons and dates. Sometimes when fresh vegetables are gone, one or two days are also allocated to plant from time to time.

So I have been studying at home for half a year, and I have not felt wronged by myself after eating.

The next morning, I took Shun'er to the outside of the city with me.

When I arrived at the farm of the family that Xue Pan mentioned, I was immediately overjoyed.

Although this place is not big, it is a farm specially used to cultivate spices, flowers and make rouge.

On the grounds that scholars went out for an outing, they easily entered the farm, but were also taken by the head of the village to play among the fields.

Moreover, Shi Zhongkui doesn’t have to steal. The shop head probably wants to make some extra money and strongly recommends various flower pot plants to him.

I was so confused that I thought it would take some time to talk, but I didn't expect that I could easily buy more than a dozen potted plants including saffron for only 2 taels of silver.

On the way back to the city, Shi Zhongkui sighed. The saffron that the owner had found through hardships was sold by his subordinates.

After returning home, they planted a piece of rhizome and quickly divided a large number of teeth. After cutting off the teeth, all 19 fields were planted with crocus.

If you charge 190 kilograms of safflower every day, you can get about 1.8 kilograms of flower core.

If it is dehydrated and turned into dry saffron, it will be about 5 taels, 15 kilograms a month, and 180 kilograms a year.

One liang of dried liang is indeed equivalent to one liang of gold.

18,000 taels of silver a year, which is definitely more than the income from Ningguo Mansion and Rongguo Mansion on the land.

After Yuanchun visited the marriage, Jia Zhen of Ningguo Mansion only received 3,000 taels of silver from the farm in one year, while his own expectations were 5,000 taels.

Even though Jia Zhen said that Rongguo Mansion had a little more than Ningguo Mansion in previous years, the two governments were likely to have no 10,000 taels in total.

Of course, the two governments should not have only these incomes, and the farms would not have only one in the north.

Shi Zhongkui would not sell all the saffron he harvested from the beginning.

After all, this thing is medicinal material no matter what, but dried flowers can be stored in the warehouse.

The same is true when the time is right. Moreover, saffron is more valuable than gold in Central Asia and Europe.

Shi Zhongkui also thought about selling it to Arab merchants or Persians.

The Silk and Tea in the Central Plains were all taken to the Silk Road, leaving Yumen Pass and the Western Regions, and this road was basically controlled by the Persians.

When he went to the market, he had seen some blonde foreigners

The second is to follow the Maritime Silk Road.

Before the voyage, because the Suez Canal was not opened, the maritime merchants who came to Asia were basically Arabs.

The ship entered the Red Sea and went ashore, took the land to the Mediterranean, all the way to Venice, Italy, and then the Venetian merchants sold spices, porcelain, silk and other unique goods to the whole of Europe.

The Arab, Persian and Venetian merchants who mastered this route were the richest group of people in the Middle Ages.

The Venetian merchants could even decide the outcome of most wars in Europe.

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Rongguo Mansion.

After using dinner, Jia Mu saw Wang Xifeng carrying her maid with her face full of spring breeze and carrying seven or eight fruit plates.

After a closer look, except for the snacks I often eat at home, there are all peach jelly, persimmon cakes, dried dates and raisins.

He asked in confusion, "Phoenix girl, peach jelly, persimmon cakes, and dried dates are common, but where did you buy these raisins?"

Wang Xifeng felt happy, and Jia Lian finally breathed a sigh of relief for himself, "Oncestor, you asked the wrong person."

I saw Jia Mu, Mrs. Xing, Mrs. Wang, Li Wan, Jia Baoyu, Lin Daiyu and Sanchun all looked at me.

Wang Xifeng smiled and said, "Didn't the master ask Lian'er to go to Daxing to do business yesterday? After Lian'er came back this afternoon, he went to the master's side.

However, Xing'er brought some dried fruits to me and told me that the things were given by a friend Lian Er made.

I saw that these foods did not look worse than the tributes in the palace at all, so I asked someone to try them again, so I took them out for the old lady, the two wives and the girls to try them."

When Jia Mu heard that someone had tried it, she was relieved to Wang Xifeng, so she reached out to grab a few raisins and started eating.

"It tastes really good," he said to the woman who served the table, "You all try it too, it can be considered that Lian Er is filial and still remembers us."

A group of women started to eat with laughter.

After a while, Jia Mu suddenly asked Wang Xifeng, "Lian'er is still with him?"

"That's not it." Wang Xifeng was worried that Jia Lian would be scolded or even beaten, so she gave them these dried fruits, so she had already saved them and called Jia Lian to question them in the name of Jia Mu.

"It's been two hours. It's not that Lian Er has any important things to bother the master for so long, so that the master hasn't even summoned dinner."

Of course, Jia Mu could hear Wang Xifeng's worries. After thinking about it, "Yuanyang, ask your East Courtyard, no matter how important things are, you have to use the meal first."

"Yes, old lady."

But Yuanyang only left for a moment and came back to report, "It was said that the eunuch Xia in the palace was here, the master, the master was taking Master Lian to accompany Rongxi Hall."

Jia Mu hurriedly ordered someone to go outside Rongxi Hall to stare.

Not long after, Yuanyang came in again and whispered in Jia Mu's ear, "I heard from the master's servant that the master ordered people to bring 500 taels of silver from the mansion's treasury."

Jia Mu's face darkened, but she didn't say much. The old lady had experienced too much about eunuchs like Xia Shouzhong's greed for money.

On the contrary, eunuchs come to the door and don’t have money, which is a big trouble.
Chapter completed!