After meeting Duke, Levine was very happy, but a little embarrassed. He scratched the back of his head and didn't know what to say.
"You were fired, weren't you."
"Yes, boss."
"Then come over and work for me. The salary is still the same as in the store. The monthly salary is 6 silver dragons. If you perform well at the end of the year, you will get a bonus."
"Yeah!" Levin nodded vigorously.
Duke smiled and asked: "I heard from Sally that you don't live at home now, right?"
"They rented out my room." Levin replied that his parents were not kind to him and had been trying to kick him out since he was an adult.
Now that all the rooms have been rented out, Levine can't go back, he's been expelled, and he doesn't even have a place to live.
Fortunately, Aunt Abi took him in and let him stay at home for a few days.
"Go to Aunt Abi's house and move all your things here. You will live here from now on. There is a utility room next door. You can clean it up yourself."
"Hmm!"
After Levin packed his things, Duke took him out for lunch.
With some money in his hand, Duke didn't want to treat himself harshly. He went to restaurants when he had to, after all, he only had to spend a lot of money to eat. The main reason was to buy spiritual beast meat in private to practice the blood refining method, which cost a lot of money. After lunch.
Then I took Levin to Little Duke Farm.
The civilian construction team hired with money does not have any puppet assistance and relies entirely on the workers' own hands and feet.
However, the construction speed is not slow.
In a few days, the foundation has been dug, the wall frame has been erected, and the pouring of steel and cement has begun. Of course, they are all ordinary steel bars, without adding any spiritual gold. The main reason is that spiritual gold is too expensive, and the parts to cast the sand eagle cost several times.
The spiritual gold of a golden dragon can be used to build a house at a sky-high price.
"Boss, what am I going to do on the farm?"
"You are a resident worker on the farm and you have to do all kinds of chores. But our first task now is to hire a group of farmers to complete the autumn sowing of this hundred acres of land."
"What do we plant?"
"Wheat."
Duke took Levin with him to supervise the construction team for a while, and then went to hire farmers non-stop. There are a large number of farms outside Sheshou Town, and there are many fixed farming teams. You can hire them at any time as long as you spend money.
After negotiating a price of 50 silver dragons, we contracted all 100 acres of Little Duke Farm to a farming team.
The captain's name is Old Joseph. He has a big beard and smokes a pipe wherever he goes.
"Don't worry, leave it to us. My old Joseph's reputation is as reliable as this big crab!" Old Joseph patted the giant crab-shaped puppet behind him and said loudly to Duke.
This farming team has three dilapidated "crab-shaped puppets", which are civilian puppets specially developed by Erxue Tower for farms. They integrate plowing, sowing, fertilizing and harvesting. The farming team relies on three crab-shaped puppets to sow seeds in one day.
Fifty acres of land.
It only takes two days to build one hundred acres of land on Little Duke's farm.
"Then when will you go to my farm?" Duke asked.
Old Joseph took a puff on his pipe and blew out a large cloud of smoke: "In a week, it's all gone in the past few days. You specialize in growing wheat, right? Don't worry, you'll have enough time in a week... You have to go now
If you buy wheat seeds, you will get 20 kilograms of wheat seeds per acre!"
One mu of land contains 20 kilograms of wheat seeds, and one hundred acres of land equals two thousand kilograms.
Duke wrote it down and asked: "I want to plant mixed wheat with Lingzhi. How much Lingzhi wheat is suitable to plant?"
"In this case, you'd better ask a spiritual plant envoy to help you arrange it. However, when we grow wheat on other farms, most of them mix one pound of spiritual wheat on ten acres of land. You can buy ten pounds, or less.
Five pounds is fine, but any lower will have no effect."
"I understand." Duke nodded.
"We also need to buy fertilizer. I've seen the land here in Xiaohewan. The soil fertility is not very good, so we need a lot of fertilizer."
"How much do you want to buy?"
"For sowing and fertilizing one acre of land, you need about 20 kilograms of special fertilizer, and you need to add two more fertilizers later. Calculating, you need to apply at least 50 kilograms of fertilizer for one acre of land."
Spiritual plants can not only resonate with the spirit plant's sea of breath, but also can breathe and resonate with plants of the same species.
Therefore, most farms grow Lingzhi wheat. Not all Lingzhi wheat seeds are spread on one acre of land, which would be too expensive. A pound of Lingzhi wheat seeds on the market costs 30 silver dragons, while one acre of land requires 20 silver dragons to plant all of them.
No farmer can afford a pound of seeds.
Relying on the breathing resonance ability of Lingzhi, it is completely possible to mix seeds, and mix a little Lingzhi wheat with ordinary wheat varieties.
The spiritual plant user can use the breathing method to guide it, which can make the quality of ordinary wheat better, and even have a probability of evolving into a new spiritual plant.
Negotiated cooperation with the farming team and paid a deposit of 20 Silver Dragons.
Duke went to the seed shop in town.
Only ordinary seeds are sold here, and one pound of wheat seeds costs about four or five copper dragons. He bought two thousand pounds of wheat seeds at one time, and the boss finally sold them at the price of 4 copper dragons, for a total of 80 silver dragons.
Then go to the fertilizer store.
Fertilizer is not much cheaper than seeds. Two kilograms of special fertilizer costs one copper dragon. Duke did the math and was not willing to buy fifty kilograms of special fertilizer for one acre of land. He first bought ten thousand kilograms of fertilizer needed for sowing.
The price is 50 Silver Dragon.
Then Duke went to Shenjiao City and went to a spiritual plant store that he had visited before.
"Come and take a look, young man." The boss is still enthusiastic.
"I'm here to buy Lingzhi wheat seeds, five pounds."
"Chenghui 150 Silver Dragon."
"Cheaper, boss. I have my own farm. I will definitely come to your store to buy seeds from now on."
"Oh, it's a small business... This young man is already a farmer at a young age. Please take care of my business from now on. This small packet of Qi-enhancing Fertilizer can be considered as a gift from me." The boss packed a pack of 3 Silver Dragon Spirit Plants.
Gas fertilizer is a discount.
Wait until all the requirements are ready.
Duke settled the score.
Fertilizer costs 50 silver dragons, followed by 2 gold dragons; wheat seeds cost 80 silver dragons, and spiritual wheat planting costs 150 silver dragons; asking the farming team to sow seeds costs 50 silver dragons.
"You have to hire people to take care of the wheat seedlings in the middle, and you have to hire a farming team to harvest it in the later stage...added together, this kind of wheat costs at least 7 gold dragons!"
If the rent of 20 gold dragons is spread over ten years, and based on the calculation of planting two crops of wheat a year, the cost of one crop of wheat will increase by 1 gold dragon.
"The cost of 8 gold dragons, I wonder if I can sell 20 gold dragons after next year's harvest... If I can sell it, I can say that I can make a net profit of 12 gold dragons in half a year, which is equivalent to the income of 2 gold dragons a month. This is no better than Little Sam's card repair shop
Make less money."
It's just that 20 gold dragons is an ideal return. The planting industry is greatly affected by the climate. If there is a disaster year, you may have to pay compensation.
"It's better not to think about making money yet, as long as you can protect your capital."
Duke does not necessarily rely on the farm to make money. He is a card repairer, and refurbishing second-hand cards is his main income now.
So.
By the beginning of October, Old Joseph came with a farming team to sow seeds, and the roof of the house on Little Duke Farm was also built, just waiting for the interior decoration.