The next month, Jiang Sanlang purchased many New Year items in the county town and prepared to take them back to his hometown.
He quietly told his daughter that he had sold all the looms at the price of fifty taels each.
"That time I earned more than 1,800 taels of silver."
Jiang Sanlang smiled and said: "Our family has bought a large piece of wasteland on the south slope. When next spring, we will hire someone to open up the wasteland and build a pepper courtyard there.
When there is more pepper in the future, he will no longer soak red pepper. He asked people to pick half-ripe pepper fruits and dry them directly, so that the black pepper produced will be more fragrant."
If red pepper is made, the pepper fruit will have a peculiar smell if soaked in water for a long time. If not handled properly, it will smell faintly and is not as spicy as black pepper.
So Jiang Sanlang decided to make black pepper from now on.
Yingbao: "That's not bad. It saves a lot of work."
Jiang Sanlang nodded and said: "My family has bought a lot of good paddy fields and a lot of dry fields. He plans to use those dry fields to grow cotton."
He happened to buy it at the end of the year, and many poor farmers in the village were unable to make ends meet, so they sold their land and took their children to Dongchen Village to work as farm laborers.
Because now Dongchen Village has become wealthy, all the villagers have bought fields after they have saved money.
If there is a lot of land, it will surely be cultivated with the little labor of one's own family, so why not hire someone to do it?
As time went by, the employed poor farmers felt that it was good to be a farmhand in Dongchen Village. At least they did not have to worry about how to pay the two seasons' land tax every year. They could secretly learn the art of growing golden fungus and snow fungus in Dongchen Village.
When I save some money, I will also buy some strains of bacteria.
The villagers of Dongchen Village freed up their legs to plant more golden fungus, snow fungus, pepper, cotton, etc. In this way, everyone felt that making money and farming could be done at the same time.
Jiang Sanlang continued: "He is planning to build a few tiled houses in the open space outside the yard. My mother asked to build a textile workshop there and buy ten looms and twenty spinning wheels. In the future, we will ask the weaver to come back to spin and weave cloth.
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"Okay!" Ying Bao raised her legs in agreement.
In this way, no matter how much cotton you grow at home, you don’t have to worry about not being able to sell it or being priced down by wealthy merchants at first.
Speaking of paddy fields, Yingbao suddenly remembered something.
I will be six years old after the Chinese New Year, and in May or June of my sixth year, the villages along the Chuanhe River will suffer from a major flood.
Although the flood was not as destructive as the one a few years later, people were definitely killed in the flood.
The farmland along the coast will also be washed away by floods, and all the seeds and seedlings in the farmland will be destroyed.
After hesitating for a moment, Ying Bao decided to tell her father about the incident now so that he could think about the wrong move earlier.
"Dad, tell me something very important."
Ying Bao said with a serious face: "In those days, he dreamed of having a flood again."
Jiang Sanlang was stunned: "Dream again?"
He almost forgot that the original intention of moving his family to the south slope was to prevent floods.
"When will it happen?" Jiang Sanlang did not doubt the authenticity of his daughter's words.
Because it turns out that the little girl is like a goddess...ah! Like a little fairy, every word she says is as accurate as an oracle.
"Probably in May or June." She really forgot the specific day.
I know that those days were extremely hot and muggy, and then there were thunderstorms and thunderstorms that lasted for several days.
"He dreamed that the farmland around the Chuanhe River was flooded. Not only our village, but all the villages and farmland near the Chuanhe River were washed away by the flood."
The next few sentences were not made up by Yingbao.
According to her speculation, this will most likely be the case.
The Chuanhe River is a big river, and the port they have there is just a tributary of that big river.
If the water level of the big river in Youyou rises sharply, it will naturally affect the water level of the tributaries in the east reaches. The strength of a few small towns alone will not be able to stop the flood from the east in Youyou. The only way is to evacuate the villagers in advance and reduce the number of people and livestock.
of casualties.
Jiang Sanlang looked solemn and said: "Wait until he goes back to discuss with Sun Lizheng and see what to do."
That's no small matter.
Not only do we want to prevent casualties, but we also want to discuss how to prevent the surrounding people from spreading seeds.
Once floods hit and the fields fail to harvest, and the people lose a lot of grain, and then face the pressure of summer tax, the confinement may be unsustainable in the future.
The imperial court will not pay attention to small-scale disasters like this at all. When the time comes, taxes will not be reduced, and the people will have to drag their families and families to flee the fields.
If you think that the people from the same country running away from their fields have something to do with me, you are totally wrong.
Because the taxes they did not pay will be shared equally among the Yudong people.
The more people escape, the more taxes will be shared among Yu Dong's heads.
That would cause one family to flee, and ten families under the joint protection to flee, even if they didn't lose much.
If ten families flee, dozens of families related to them must also flee.
In the end, Coco caused the whole town to flee.
Although the people in Dongchen Village are wealthy, no matter how wealthy they are, they cannot afford the taxes of the entire township.
Therefore, we must not cause the people to suffer too much loss, let alone make them feel that they must escape.
That matter must be communicated to Li Zheng, who will then come forward to prepare the villagers for floods.
Later, Jiang Sanlang hurried back to his hometown with his two nieces, his twin sons, and a lot of things.
Ying Bao and Jiang Quan and Jiang Cheng will not go back for the time being.
Because they really want to make more money during the end of the year.
In those days, the shop's business was getting better and better, and the chestnut cakes and persimmon cookies in the warehouse were almost sold out.
Not only that, the golden fungus and snow fungus were declared sold out, leaving only two samples of the gourd displayed at the door, one with a sticker to attract wealth and the other with a sticker to bring in gold.
That was probably because Jiang Quan refused to sell them, otherwise even those two would be bought.
"People in the county are really rich." Jiang Quan sighed and turned to ask his elder brother: "Have I settled the accounts? How much money can we earn every month?"
Jiang Cheng buried his head in his calculations and ignored him.
However, Ying Bao had a rough estimate in her mind that she would have enough money to build a few large houses.
When spring comes, she wants to build three, no, five large tile-roofed houses, and she really wants to build a large warehouse that is fireproof and waterproof.
Then use precious wood to make a row of tables and chairs, so that you can receive guests decently in the future.
Most of the people who come from home shops to buy things have some wealth, but don't let others think that their shop is not a good one.
She wanted to build a specialty store unique to the Jiang family in the county. Even if someone followed suit in the future, she would be afraid of competing with her family's store.
She has Wugen water and very effective medicine pills. If she doesn't sell it, she can always attract a lot of customers because of her expertise and words of support.
Seeing that his eldest brother ignored him, Jiang Quan shut up with his younger cousin: "If we earn more that time, let's buy another carriage."
It's too inconvenient to just use the same one inside and outside.
Hearing those words, Jiang Cheng raised his head and said, "I was wrong. Please ask him for a hundred taels of silver first. Yingbao and I will go to Luoma Market to buy a carriage. It will be convenient for us to come and go during the New Year."
Yingbao clapped her legs in agreement: "That's right! Just buy a carriage and let's go now."
Even though it was late, the mule and horse market didn't open yet. They all went home last year.
