The next day, Sikong Mansion sent someone to deliver two thousand taels of silver and the title deed of 500 acres of land to the furniture factory.
At this point, Du He owned more than 500 acres of land on the banks of the Bahe River. Everywhere he looked, it was his territory.
Du He gradually had a plan in his mind, but the area was so big that it was completely impossible to plan for a while.
As for the peace talks between Du He and Changsun Wuji, the Changsun family deliberately suppressed them, so only a few words could be heard in Chang'an City.
On this day, Du He, Qin Huaiyu, and Cheng Chumo were eating hot pot by the river.
After eating to his heart's content, Cheng Chu said in confusion: "Brother, there is something I don't understand. The Cuiwei Building incident made a big fuss that day, but the final result was that the Changsun family paid compensation. Could it be that we just let that bastard Changsun Chong go?
Egg?"
Even Qin Huaiyu was very puzzled.
Du He shook his head: "The purpose of fighting is not to fight, but to fight for resources. This is an eternal truth. Now, my goal has been achieved. As for Changsun Chong, he is already a dead person in my heart. It's just time.
It’s just a question, why bother seeing a dead person.”
Qin Huaiyu said with emotion: "Du He, although you are the youngest among us, your foresight is unmatched by any of us. Come on, I respect you."
"Brother, I will hang out with you from now on." Cheng Chumo said excitedly.
Several people drank until they were drunk, and Lingding was very drunk.
Early the next morning, Du He didn't get up from bed until three o'clock in the morning.
When I walked out of the room, I found the old man walking back and forth in the yard.
He asked curiously: "Old Fu, why are you wandering around?"
The old man said: "Master, I have nothing to do these days!"
After saying that, the old man came over and complained: "Now there are Princess Changle and Zhang Du watching over the furniture factory, Yang Hao and Wang Erniu in the Tang Dynasty study, and Princess Runan watching over the accounts. I'm here to help you."
Old Bones has become a useless person."
Du He couldn't help but laugh when he saw Lao Fu's dejected look.
This old guy just can't sit still.
He said: "Who said you have nothing to do? There is a big thing waiting for you to do now."
"Oh, Master, you have remembered me. I thought you thought I was useless and didn't plan to use me anymore!" The old man was as happy as a child and quickly asked what was going on.
Du He ordered: "Go to Chang'an City immediately and recruit a few farmers. They must be able to farm. The more experience, the better."
"Master, did I hear you correctly? If we are looking for farmers, is it possible that we have to farm?"
"That's right, farm the land and grow potatoes. In the near future, your young master and I will be the most awesome farmer in the entire Tang Dynasty, hehe..." Du He said.
Du He had carefully inspected the bag of potatoes he had won in the lottery. They were all good, but he was reluctant to touch any of them. He just wanted to plant them as soon as possible and keep the seeds. If he used them to eat fried potatoes, it would be a waste of money.
When the old man heard this, he went to Chang'an City in person regardless of the situation.
Nowadays, the most indispensable thing in Chang'an City is farmers. These people are all victims of famines in Shandong, Henan and other places. They live in Chang'an City all day long, relying on the porridge distributed by the government, and can barely survive.
When I heard that I could earn 10 cents a day for farming, I wished I could all come to the furniture factory.
Finally, the old man selected five young and strong men and brought them to the furniture factory.
Du He asked Zhang Jian to inquire secretly, and only after confirming that these people were innocent, he signed a contract with everyone. A group of farmers were illiterate and only knew that they could get money by pressing their fingerprints, which was a lot.
In the afternoon of that day, Du He personally led these people to clear a piece of land of about half an acre on the river bank, and asked a few men to start digging the land.
The five men worked until dark and finally dug up the land.
Du He asked everyone to carry water for watering.
Early the next morning, the men were asked to continue plowing the land. After plowing it once, they asked everyone to cut down trees nearby and surround the half-acre of land with a fence, leaving only an opening for entry and exit. Then they arranged the furniture.
Two security guards from the factory guard the land day and night.
On the third day, the land was still being plowed and fences were being built.
Du He's arrangement confused everyone.
There is nothing in the field. I rummaged around and found nothing. Isn’t this a waste of money?
Even Lao Fu ran to ask Du He in confusion, but Du He only said four words: Be patient and don't be impatient.
So everyone repeated the life of plowing the ground and building fences and walls.
Six days later, Du He personally went to the field to look at it and found that the soil in the original wasteland had become moist and fine. He nodded with satisfaction: "It's OK now..."
Planting potatoes actually doesn’t have much content. It only requires Du He’s guidance, and these few crops can be done very well.
In less than half a day, half a bag of potato seeds were planted.
Du He told the old man: "Old man, from today on, you will keep an eye on this land for me. If there is any situation, report to me at any time. Anyone who dares to come close will be killed."
The old man heard Du He say that if he planted these potatoes, he could produce at least a thousand kilograms per acre. At that time, he was so surprised that he couldn't speak and kept saying that this was a divine thing.
He knew that this matter was very important, so regardless of the objections of others, he found someone to build a simple house next to the potato field, where he ate, drank and had sex, in order to keep abreast of the situation in the potato field at any time.
Five days later, the potatoes began to sprout.
After Du He checked it himself, he jumped up and down like a child.
The most lacking thing in the Tang Dynasty is food. Once high-yielding potatoes are added, countless lives will be saved.
…
The days seem to have become calmer, just like the water of the Bahe River has been calm these past few days.
Except for the weather, which is getting hotter day by day, everything seems to be still.
May 24th.
night.
There was a meteor shower.
It is said that Li Er immediately summoned Yuan Tiangang and Li Chunfeng into the palace. The two old Taoists unanimously believed that this was a sign of the prosperity of the Tang Dynasty and congratulated Li Er.
Li Erlong and Yan Dayue.
Unexpectedly, in the middle of the night, news of a water leak suddenly came from the palace.
A fire burned down the entire Imperial College.
Fortunately, there were no casualties.
It doesn't matter that the Imperial College was destroyed. The key point is that all the books in the Imperial College were destroyed.
The most important thing is that the students who are about to take the scientific examination this fall don’t even have their books.
Li Er was furious and fined Kong Yingda to sacrifice wine, shut himself up for a month and fine him a year's salary.
In the morning of the next day, Li Er announced the matter in public. When asked how to deal with the matter, everyone was filled with indignation and expressed their intention to severely punish the officials of the Imperial College.
Li Er said with a headache: "Dear sirs, what I want to solve is not just the issue of punishing officials, but I want to ask you, how should we recover from the destruction of tens of thousands of books in the Imperial College?"