In the blink of an eye, it’s early summer, and it’s the harvest season of the year again.
The Imperial Manor, presented as a gift by the Crown Prince of Chu, has been particularly busy recently.
Thousands of acres of wheat fields have yielded a bumper harvest. Not only are Zhuangzi's tenants extremely happy, they are all very motivated and busy harvesting all day long. They use flatbed trucks for both humans and animals to transport bundles of unthreshed wheat straw to a special site for the next step of operations.
The noble family heads of the middle and lower classes whose families are not very strong have been visiting Huangzhuang very diligently recently, partly to observe and partly to learn.
Jia Cong ignored these guys, and in one fell swoop, except for the two talents who had officially entered the Shuntian Mansion with Lian Er, they were all brought to work in Huangzhuang, which they called "practice".
Therefore, there are young men everywhere in the fields, even Xue Pan is not left behind, but he is surrounded by many young men brought from home to help.
With these students working around the clock, supervising and participating in the front-line harvesting from time to time, the little stewards did not dare to deceive the superiors at all, and a lot of twists and troubles were avoided.
While Jia Cong and the noble disciples who came to observe were touring various parts of the farm, he quickly summarized and sorted out the various data collected by the disciples, formed a reasonable data report, and used the little time he had to eat and rest to teach.
With modern thinking, he naturally understands the importance of data statistics.
As long as the patterns are found, it is easy to see the production distribution of Huangzhuang, possible problems, etc.
More importantly, to verify the series of improvement suggestions he proposed before, did any problems arise during the specific implementation process, or were they incompatible with the environment?
In short, he will use detailed and reliable data as well as various supplementary opinions to form specific written specifications. By filling loopholes and enhancing advantages, he hopes to be able to replicate this year's harvest, or even go further.
He didn't want to rely solely on his "fancy ideas" and the tenants' years of farming experience. As Huangzhuang's field management model, that would be too rough and inefficient, and it would inevitably "depend on the weather".
Disadvantages.
Although the younger brothers were not very familiar with everything in the fields, they carried out Jia Cong's instructions without hesitation, even running around in the fields under the sun.
Jia Cong made it very clear that whatever they learned at Huangzhuang would be their personal responsibility and transferred to other farms.
He emphasized more than once that farm management should not be underestimated. If you really want to manage the farm well, you need to spend a lot of time and energy to learn and improve, including the reasonable allocation of personnel and materials, logistics and warehousing, and weather forecasting.
Once the farm can be managed in an orderly manner and expanded to a township or even a county, it is not impossible to control it.
In the private study meeting, Jia Cong explained the secrets clearly.
In the future, they are very likely to enter the officialdom, and they will not even lack the opportunity to manage a place. As long as they master the effective management model of large farms, at least they will not perform too badly in this agricultural era.
The younger brothers have reached the highest level of imperial examination, which is basically the top level.
It's not that you can't continue, but resources for ethnic studies will no longer be invested. If you have talent, you can definitely join an academy to continue your studies.
It’s not that I feel sorry for the expense, but that when I reach the level of Jinshi, although simple study and improvement are important, accumulating connections is even more critical.
Classmates, classmates, etc., are relatively reliable relationships after taking the imperial examination and becoming an official, at least the Jia clan cannot provide them.
In fact, he does not encourage his younger brothers to pursue the path of being a scholar. The Jia family itself is not a purely scholarly family. The traces of nobility are too strong. Even if they successfully pass the examination and are awarded the title of scholar, they will be squeezed out and suppressed intentionally or unintentionally.
On the contrary, it is better to just go to the stage of electing people. At least with the power of the Jia family, it is not difficult to help the people arrange eighth- or ninth-grade official positions such as the county government leader Bo Xian Cheng.
As long as you achieve good results, you don't have to worry about being picked off. As long as you are really capable, your promotion speed will not be worse than that of an orthodox Jinshi.
Of course, if the Jia family has trained more people through clan studies, and the title of Ningrong's second family is gone, they can transform into a scholarly family. This is something that needs no further mention.
When taking the training class, he made it very clear that whether it was professional skills training in the school or farm management experiments, they were all means to improve one's own abilities.
Learning well at this time will be very beneficial to their future development.
There is no need for a heavy hammer to play the drum, and he has no intention of being a nanny. Whether the younger brothers are willing to take the initiative to learn and improve is their own business.
The opportunity has been given, but he has no control over whether he is willing to take it or not.
Fortunately, the group of younger brothers under my command are quite clear in their minds. Whether it is studying, investigating data, or taking the initiative to participate in production supervision and management, they are relatively active in improving their abilities.
Even Xue Pan showed no signs of falling behind, which is very rare.
After this guy had studied at Huangzhuang for a few months, he excitedly told Jia Cong that the store stewards owned by the Xue family and the head of the farm were simply asking for death if they tried to fool him again.
In other words, although Jia Cong knows some concepts of the development of modern agriculture, he really doesn't understand the specific situation.
We only know the superficial concepts of deep cultivation, intercropping, and recycling of resources. As for the specific operation and matching, we need to slowly accumulate experience through the practice of Huangzhuang, and collect relevant data to form an effective set of farm management.
A farm planting method that is relatively scientific but adapted to the current era.
Fortunately, he had memorized various farming books in the main world and Daqing. Many of the farming experiences and techniques in them could be taken to Huangzhuang for experiments and then incorporated into the resource recycling system.
After a year of exploration and experimentation, with some successes and some failures, a preliminary method has been formed.
However, the middle and lower class noble families who planned to cooperate with Jia Cong have seen a real harvest. Not to mention that they no longer have any doubts in their hearts, at least they have a lot more confidence.
During the harvest season, after following Jia Cong's younger brother around the imperial village for almost half a month, representatives of these middle- and lower-class noble families proposed specific cooperation, mainly by inviting Jia Cong's younger brother to their farm to guide the management.
This is what it should be. Previously, he was invited to send his subordinates to help these nobles adjust their plans for the fields. However, since Huangzhuang has not yet produced tangible results, these adjustments are only superficial.
The situation is different now, and it’s impossible not to believe it when the facts are in front of you.
There is no need to weigh it in detail, and there is no need to hire a professional accountant to calculate the harvest. The harvest of Huangzhuang this time is definitely a lot better than in previous years.
Anyone who is not blind can see it.
Therefore, these noble family representatives who are interested in cooperating are much more sincere this time.
Jia Cong is naturally not stingy. As long as the other party has the ability, he will let his subordinates station in their farm all year round.
What a valuable practical opportunity this is?
Even if the farms in hand of these noble families who want to cooperate are not as large as the Imperial Village, if they are well managed, they can also help the farms to increase their yields, improve the recycling of resources, and the harvest of other additional products, as well as the management of tenants.
None of it can be done easily.
Once you are able to achieve results, it will not be a problem to become a ninth-grade substantive officer in the Ministry of Household Affairs or the Ministry of Works.
Not only is the Imperial Village enjoying a bumper harvest, but "The Best Farm", which is gradually entering a better state, is also becoming more and more popular during the harvest season.
Especially when the semi-monthly magazine published by Huiyou Bookstore compared some management techniques used in Huangzhuang, as well as tips on high-yield fields, proving that some of the methods are feasible in reality, it became even more popular.
This can be seen from the fact that the sales data of physical books have been on the rise, as well as the fact that more and more people have taken the initiative to inquire at the Huangzhuang Management Office.
I heard that some of the powerful and powerful landowners in the capital have begun to think about it.
Jia Cong doesn't care about this. If you are willing to cooperate, please take the initiative to come to the door. He has no idea of going to door-to-door sales.
All he wants is influence. The output of Huangzhuang is related to the most important food issue. I believe that more and more landowners will be willing to cooperate.
By that time, its influence in the city will gradually increase, and Huangzhuang's influence may cover more than a dozen counties in Shuntian Prefecture.
Once most of the landowners in Shuntian Prefecture become interested, the tenants and landed people under their control and influence will not be able to escape.
In an agricultural society, the number of farmers is the largest. How much popularity can be gained by then, and how much luck can be transformed through the Fortune Pagoda?
I am afraid that the entire bottom floor of the pagoda will be filled with golden luck!
Even now, Jia Cong feels that everything he does is going smoothly, he can clearly feel the progress during cultivation, and his dark strength is also rapidly advancing towards the level of perfection.
The expansion of ethnic studies and the addition of several miscellaneous subjects, which were originally thought to be affected, and the possible dissatisfaction among the tribesmen, did not happen at all.
All of this filled Jia Cong with joy, and it was clear that his luck was profound enough to affect those around him.
It's a pity that the world of Red Mansions is just a place with low martial arts and some mysterious methods. Otherwise, if it were a world where luck could be directly realized, Jia Cong would have become a top powerhouse.
All I can say is that luck can't be stopped when it comes.
I don’t know whether it was because of the excitement of the harvest in Huangzhuang or because of the many talents that the clan school has produced in succession. The former teacher Jia Dairu finally admitted the fact that his teaching level was poor and sent his only grandson Jia Rui to the clan school to start a new career.
Return to study.
This is nothing at all. Anyway, there are hundreds of students in Ethnology, and there are many stubborn ones among them. A guy with bad conduct like Dojiary is nothing.
Jia Cong is now a master of ethnic studies. He can completely control the situation and does not worry about naughty students not being disciplined. With this boy Xue Pan, he can completely solve the problem.
If it really doesn't work, why don't you still ask your parents? In this era, talents are cultivated under the stick...