Tian Minyan asked Xie Chengzhong to post the recruitment notice for part-time workers on the bulletin board at the head of the village, and people quickly gathered around it.
"Ah? I'm just inviting a woman." A man looked at it, let out a sneer, and walked away.
"Xie Gouzi, why are you inviting a woman this time? What can a woman do?" Some men seemed very disappointed, but they did not go away and only asked Xie Chengzhong coolly.
"My name is Xie Chengzhong now." Xie Chengzhong glanced at the man and said: "It's not that I have to hire a woman, but the work my boss has to do this time is fine work. Men are rough and have no patience, so I just
Invite women. Of course, older girls and girls who have knife skills can also sign up."
"So Gouzi, what are the Tian family doing right now?" someone asked.
Xie Chengzhong took out a potato, pointed at the sprouts and said, "Did you see that a potato like this needs to be cut into chunks and cut along the sprouts, and the stem cannot be cut off. Lai Wang, can you grown men do it?"
"What is this?" Someone looked closer.
"This is an object passed down from the West. It's called a potato. The native name is potato. Our second girl said that if you cut a potato like this into pieces and plant it, the crops that grow out will be no worse than sweet potatoes. It can also be used for cooking.
It is an excellent agricultural product that can satisfy the hunger." Xie Gouzi looked at everyone proudly and said: "My second daughter said that if we grow this, if we take good care of it, the yield will definitely exceed three stones per mu."
"Gouzi, just brag as hard as you can, the leather is not broken yet." Someone in the crowd laughed, and then everyone laughed in unison.
Xie Chengzhong snorted, remembering Tian Minyan's words and didn't say much, he just yelled: "Are you bragging? We'll see when the harvest comes. Brother Laiwang, we won't bet too much, just two cups of wine, will it work?"
"Okay! If that's what you said, what if I treat you to three cups?"
“Okay!”
Name, we can only invite fifteen people, first come, first served."
Tian Minyan's family has always paid generous wages. Although cutting potatoes is a delicate job, it is not that difficult, and it is during the slack season. Soon, a small queue was formed among those who signed up.
Tian Minyan looked at it from a distance and couldn't help but smile when she saw Xie Chengzhong took out a few sweet potatoes and asked them to try their knife skills on the spot before registering their names.
"Second girl, Brother Xie is really good at bragging." Xiaoxing shrugged her nose and said, "You must teach him a lesson later, because his complacency will definitely ruin the girl's reputation."
"Sometimes we just want this effect." Tian Minyan pursed her lips and smiled and said, "Let's go."
High-profile publicity is actually a very important lesson in marketing. She asked Xie Gouzi to be so high-profile because she was actually planning for the future. They said today that potatoes will cost as much as three stones to be grown in the future, and they will be grown from wasteland.
, people will naturally come to ask for help. At that time, there is no need to sell potatoes, and there is no need to worry about not selling the potato seeds.
The people Xie Chengzhong invited were all very good at knife skills. On the second day, a piece of land was vacated in the yard of the house at the end of the village. Tian Minyan personally demonstrated how to cut potatoes into pieces and how to put them. The sisters-in-law and girls put on Tian Minyan's knife skills.
Yan's special rubber gloves were put to work.
Tian Minyan took a look and saw that they were all cut well, and some of her hands and feet were very flexible. She cut out two or three potatoes in a short time, and she felt a little relieved.
Fifteen people, plus Tian Minyan and herself, chatting and laughing, cut all five hundred kilograms of potatoes into pieces within a few days, and placed them layer by layer in a special large wooden box to encourage seedlings.
Autumn sowing is finished in early August, and most farmers are idle, but the Tian family is very busy.
During the time of promoting seedlings, Tian Minyan asked several long-term workers to open the gate to irrigate the wasteland once more, apply fertilizer again, and when the seedlings were still a week away, they spread quicklime to disinfect.
In the rice fields, she did not relax. In order to prevent people from stealing the fry, a thatched house was built in the field of the Tian family, and the long-term workers took turns to guard it at night. Twenty days after the fry were released, she mixed the bran wheat with the bait, and then spread the tender seeds.
She used grass to raise the fish and applied manure once. She was relieved when she saw the fry growing.
The days are flying by in busyness, the scorching hot summer is about to pass, and after the beginning of autumn, Tian Minyan's family's hundred acres of wasteland has begun to sow.
One potato pit at a time. Compared to the failed attempt to plant potatoes in the yard in the summer, Tian Minyan made a more detailed plan this time. She barely measured the depth and spacing of each pit before planting it with a ruler.
When planting potatoes, people from Luo Huzi and Qi Shu's family were invited, and Tian Minyan's uncles also came to help. However, except for Luo Shi, who had a big belly, everyone in the Tian family went to the fields.
Farmers don't have special shovels, so they all use pig's big fan bones to scoop out manure. Tian Minyan used this bone shovel to apply base fertilizer to the pit to grow potatoes. At this time, someone ran over.
"Second girl, the magistrate has come to your land again. Go and pick him up quickly."
Tian Minyan was stunned, straightened up, and frowned, Lord Wen is here again?
"Nanny, do you want me to pick you up?" Tian Huairen also heard it and hurried over.
"Well. Dad, you are the head of our family, so you have to go." Tian Minyan nodded, then said to everyone, and walked down the mountain with Tian Huairen.
Wen Shanchu was only halfway there when he saw Wen Shanchu, but this time it was different from last time. This time he was only accompanied by Chief Dai and a few yamen officials. Of course, the magistrate came to Yangmei Village, which naturally alerted Li Zheng.
He was catching up at a trot from behind.
"The daughter of the people (grassroots) has met Mr. Wen."
Tian Minyan and Tian Huairen saluted together. Wen Shanchu quickly raised it and said with a smile: "I've alarmed you all, get up quickly."
When Tian Minyan stood up straight, he said again: "The little girl has grown taller again."
Tian Minyan smiled and asked: "Why do you have time to come to Yangmei Village?"
"Autumn sowing has begun. I'm inspecting the autumn sowing situation in each township. I heard that your Tian family has made a big noise, so I came over to take a look. How about it? Will it delay your work?" Wen Shanchu said with a smile: "Let's go together.
Let me tell you."
Tian Minyan and Tian Huairen stepped aside half a step, and slowly explained their recent work.
Wen Shanchu listened and nodded secretly. When he came to the wasteland of Tian Minyan's house, he saw many people separated in various places, bending down and planting some crops.
He approached and happened to be standing next to Zhou Gui. Zhou Gui had seen such a big man before, and he immediately knelt down and said, "Kowtow to the big man." Others who were busy also ran over and knelt down to kowtow.
"Hey, get up, get up quickly, you are busy with your work, don't take care of me." Wen Shanchu quickly helped Zhou Gui and others, and then said to Tian Minyan: "It seems that I shouldn't have come, it's hindering your work.
Already."
"Sir, they are also excited." Tian Minyan explained with a smile, and then said to the people who came to greet them: "Go and get busy."
Wen Shanchu picked up another potato seedling, looked at it, and asked, "Is this the potato you are talking about?"
"Yes, sir." Tian Minyan nodded, and added: "Potatoes are also a type of potato with a high starch content. They are just as filling as sweet potatoes, and whether they are steamed or fried,
They are excellent crops for cooking.”
"There are such good things in the Western Region, but I am ignorant. Girl, you are young and know a lot." Wen Shanchu narrowed his eyes and looked at Tian Minyan.
Tian Minyan covered her eyelids and said: "Actually, I also listened to the seed shopkeeper's introduction, and I vaguely saw it in that book before, so I remembered it."
"If it can produce three stones of grain as you said, it will be a great blessing to our Hongjing Dynasty." Wen Shanchu smiled faintly.
"Sir, I'm just trying to plant it." Tian Minyan said modestly: "If it can succeed, it's good. If it doesn't, then we can only study it further."
"Haha, you have the courage to try, good, very good!" Wen Shanchu glanced at the dung shovel and potato seedlings on the ground, and said: "Speaking of which, I haven't been in the fields for a long time, so let me try to grow this kind of potato.
.”
"Sir, you can't do it." Tian Minyan was startled and quickly stopped her, while Tian Huairen was so frightened that his face turned pale.
"Sir, you are so rich and precious, how can you go down to the ground?" Lord Dai Bo was shocked and stretched out his hand to grab the bone shovel that Wen Shanchu had grabbed.
"What a noble body, Lord Dai, I don't like to hear this." Wen Shanchu gave him a cold look and said, "I am also from a poor family. When I was young, I worked in the fields and farmed. Now, I am just reliving my old dreams.
.Dear Lord Bo, don’t say that next time.”
Dai Zhubo was so trained that he was sweating all over his face. He winked at Tian Minyan fiercely, and Tian Minyan spread her hands to signal him to calm down.
Although Wen Shanchu had been working in the fields when he was a child, he had been living a good life for a long time. With the help of Tian Minyan and his daughter, he managed to plant about twenty potato seedlings, but he was so tired that he was sweating profusely and could not straighten his back.
When Tian Minyan saw it, she quickly took the farm tools from his hands and said, "Sir, although it's the beginning of autumn, it's still hot today, so why don't you take a rest."
Wen Shanchu also nodded, followed her to the sun-shaded melon shed, took a sip of tea handed over by Tian Minyan, and said self-deprecatingly: "It's because I'm old. I haven't gone to the ground in these years, so I can't straighten my waist."
Already."
"You are in your prime, how old are you?" Tian Minyan stood and laughed.
"Old man." Wen Shanchu put down his tea bowl, sighed, looked at the farmers busy in the fields and said, "I think back then, when I was a young man, I was like your brother. After I left school, I went home to help with the planting.
I read at night with a light on. Life was difficult at that time! Do you know that there was a great famine more than 20 years ago, and I..."
Tian Minyan stood aside, folding her hands in front of her lower abdomen, listening quietly, smiling and saying nothing.
Wen Shanchu talked for quite a while, and when he saw her smiling lightly, he said, "Ah, look at what I'm saying to a child. Isn't it boring?"
"It's okay, I just didn't expect adults to have suffered so much." Tian Minyan said.
Wen Shanchu chuckled, stood up and said: "It's all over, so I am particularly interested in crop farming because I have experienced it. Come on, take me to see your rice fields and fish farming."
Tian Minyan hurriedly agreed, took Xie Chengzhong and Xiao Wu, and took Wen Shanchu to the fields.
It has been more than 20 days since the fry were released, and the fish swimming in the fields have doubled in size, and they are competing in groups for the tender grass, which is very gratifying.
Wen Shanchu looked at it carefully, and even went down to the field ridge to take a closer look. He also invited Tian Minyan to ask about the breeding situation in detail, including how to dig the fish ditch, when to release the fry, and how to manage the breeding after release.
Tian Minyan also knows that the technology of rice field and fish farming cannot be mastered alone. Once their Tian family's crops are harvested, the situation will definitely be spread. As the county magistrate, Wen Shanchu will not let go of this good political achievement that benefits all people.
I am also happy to give this favor.
So, when she saw him asking, Tian Minyan answered in great detail. Dai Zhubo behind her, while being ordered to quickly write down the key points with a pen, looked at Tian Minyan in surprise and thought to herself, what this girl said is so clear, could it be that this rice field
Is fish farming really possible?
"If it's true as you said, this rice field fish farming will yield both crops and fish, Tian family girl, do you know what it will bring?" Wen Shanchu stood up and looked at Tian Minyan and asked.
"Sir, we are just farmers. What we know is based on books and the experience passed down from our ancestors. This is still an experiment. We don't know whether it can be successful. If it can be done, it will definitely be a blessing to all people in the world.
We are in the Southern Kingdom." Tian Minyan replied with a faint smile, and added: "Of course, we have to rely on the adults to lead us farmers to get rid of poverty and become rich."
"Girl, you know too much. I don't know whether it's a blessing or a misfortune. If you were a man, you would be as good as many men in the world." Wen Shanchu seemed to be deeply touched.
Tian Minyan rolled her eyes and said: "Even a daughter is not inferior to men! However, no matter how smart I am, I am just a country girl who knows how to farm. Those big achievements should be left to men to earn."
Well, my lord, you say yes or no?"
Smart, aware of the general situation, knowing how to advance and retreat, this girl cannot be described as just smart, she is gentle and kind to her original intention.
"Don't worry, girl, it should be your Tian family's. Not a penny will be lost." Wen Shanchu said with a smile: "I'm just waiting for the delicious taste of this fish, and I'm also waiting for the good news from your Tian family."
"Sir, if you want to eat fish, may I ask you a favor?"
"you say."
"Your Excellency, you also know that my family has this rice field to raise fish. Although there are long-term workers guarding it at night, it is difficult to guard against it. I am afraid that there are some people who cannot guard against it. My Lord, can you let a team of government guards occasionally walk in my field?
"
Tian Minyan thought about it, their family would get better and better. They were raising fish in the rice fields, and seeing the fish getting bigger day by day, there would naturally be more jealous people trying to make plans, so she had to guard against it.
"This is easy to handle. When I get back, I will ask someone to make a document announcing that your rice field and fish farming is a new technology and is a test field for the state and county. If anyone fishes in troubled waters with evil intentions, he or she will be put in jail and faced with lawsuits." Wen Shanchu
After thinking for a while, he said: "In this case, no one will dare to make any decisions."
"Thank you, Sir." Tian Minyan was overjoyed and hurriedly blessed her body. In this way, anyone who wanted to have an idea would have to weigh it.
