Zhenguan Han-in-law

Chapter 263 Farming
Chapter 259

After Wei Hao came out of Ganlu Hall, he went straight home. When he got home, he lay down and felt very comfortable. Wei Furong had been busy outside for a day, and Wei Furong needed to keep an eye on those fields.
Now Wei Furong feels that he is very busy. He is too busy. There are too many properties in the family, and several sons-in-law came to help. They only have 200 mu of land, and they will be able to arrange it soon.
But Wei Hao has tens of thousands of acres of land, which requires a lot of manpower.
At this moment, Wei Hao's eldest brother-in-law, second brother-in-law, third brother-in-law and Wei Furong arrived at home, ready to have lunch.

"Is Hao'er back?" Wei Furong asked casually.

"I'm back, I'm resting in the small courtyard!" The housekeeper immediately replied.

"What are you talking about, are you resting? What a bastard, I've been so busy that I've never stopped, did he rest?" Wei Furong heard this, stood up, twisted his stick and went to Wei Hao's small courtyard.

"Hurry up, catch up, hold father-in-law later!" Cui Jin saw it, and hurriedly called the other two brothers-in-law to go together, Wei Hao's second brother-in-law Wang Qixian, and third brother-in-law Ye Chengfu also hurriedly followed,
Arriving at Wei Hao's small courtyard, Wei Furong went straight to the living room, opened the door, and found Wei Hao sleeping there snoring.

"You bastard!" Wei Furong walked over quickly, and Cui Jin and the others followed. They thought that Wei Furong was going to beat him just like that, and wanted to stop Wei Furong, but they were still a step too late.
Then they watched in astonishment as Wei Furong stabbed Wei Hao with a stick.

"You son of a bitch, you son of a bitch!" Wei Furong called Wei Hao when he stabbed Wei Hao with a stick!

"Who!" Wei Hao sat up very upset, and then saw Wei Furong's big face, and then saw the stick in Wei Furong's hand, jumped up instantly in fright, and went down from the other side of the collapse.

"Father, dad, I haven't done anything. I haven't done anything recently!" Wei Hao stretched out his hand, signaling Wei Furong not to hit him yet, but to listen to himself.

"You still have the nerve to say that you didn't do anything. Your father and I can't take care of our busy meals. You are still sleeping at home. Don't you care about the tens of thousands of acres of land at home? Ah, I will manage it alone. Ah, you son of a bitch, sooner or later you will lose all the family property!" Wei Furong chased Wei Hao with a stick,

Wei Hao just ran along the soft slope to prevent Wei Furong from hitting him.

"Father, speak with conscience, when did I lose my family, I got all the land in the family back!" Wei Hao felt that the injustice was unreasonable!

"Then you don't care, let him run out?" Wei Furong stopped, knowing that he couldn't catch up, and now that he was too old, he couldn't win.

"Father, what, I'll go in the afternoon, okay?" Wei Hao stood there and shouted at Wei Furong.

"Hmph, I won't break your leg this afternoon, you bastard, you don't know where the family's field is now, so how will you be in charge of the family in the future?" Wei Furong pointed at Wei Hao and cursed.

"Go, go, I'll definitely go in the afternoon!" Wei Hao said hastily, he can't do it, he's really too busy, there are so many places, his father and son are the only ones in the family, and they can't push it to others.

"Hmph, go to eat and sleep!" Wei Furong took the stick and left, Cui Jin and the others also hurriedly followed,

Now Wei Furong has a very temper, and he will be scolded if he is careless. The servants in the family have been scolded a lot recently, but their sons-in-law have never been scolded. After all, they are sons-in-law. Wei Furong can still distinguish clearly. The son-in-law came to help, but he could still scold them.

When Wei Hao arrived in the living room, the food had already been served.

"In the past few days, it all depends on your brothers-in-law. They are all here. They are busy with this matter every day. Your youngest brother-in-law is still watching at Zhuangzi, and he will send food there later. Those places Fortunately, there are a lot of cattle to buy recently, and the old man bought more than 300 cattle, which is enough, but it is still slow!" Wei Furong sat there, talking to Wei Hao, and there was no topic.

"Well, thank you brother-in-law, that worked hard for you!" Wei Hao immediately said to them, clasping his hands.

"Why are you talking about this, the family is busy now, little brother, if you are free, you can also help your father-in-law to share some things. There are some things that only you can do, and we can't do them!" Cui Jin said to Wei Hao.

"Yes, yes, by the way, after a while, do you have time? If you have time, go with me to work outside. You can both write and do easy work. The daily salary will not be less than 30 Wen. Do you want to go? "Wei Hao asked them.

"Such a high salary?" The three of them looked at Wei Hao in surprise.

"Of course!" Wei Hao said happily, he has the final say, 30 Wen is the uniform price for scholars.

"Can it last long? Can it work for a few months?" Wang Qixian also looked at Wei Hao and asked.

"It's not for a few months, it's for as many years as you want. However, let's do it first. I'm not in Chang'an. I'll come back after a few months. At that time, I still have things for you to do, things to make money, You don't have to worry, by the way, Dad, my brothers-in-law are helping you with the work, and you have to pay some money!" Wei Hao said and looked at Wei Furong.

"Little brother, you can't do this. If you do this, you are slapping your brothers-in-law in the face. You should help your father-in-law's house. Besides, without you, we still want to gain a firm foothold in Chang'an City. If you want to own such a thing, father-in-law, you can't listen to my brother's nonsense!" Cui Jin said quickly, and the other two nodded.

"I know, I still need you to teach me how to do things, eat quickly, and be busy after eating!" Wei Furong said to Wei Hao, Wei Hao nodded with a smile, probably father will have other places to compensate them,
After eating, Wei Hao went to his own farmland. They were all in one piece, quite large area, involving dozens of villages, all of which belonged to Wei Hao's family. Wei Hao walked in the farmland, looking at those The old farmer frowned, isn't this too slow?

According to their speed, it would be nice to be able to plow a fifth of the land in a day!
"Why is it so slow, how many cows does our family have?" Wei Hao looked at Wei Furong as he spoke.

"There are 700 cows in total!" Wei Furong said with a frown.

"Then when do you want to plow the land? Really!" Wei Hao said and walked towards the old farmer, wanting to see why it was so slow.

"Master, stop first!" Wei Hao said, the old farmer didn't know Wei Hao either, but he knew Wei Furong, he was the master of the family.

"This is my son! Wei Hao!" Wei Furong said.

"Hey, Lord Guo, why are you still in the field?" The old farmer was very surprised when he heard that, they all knew Wei Hao, and knew that Wei Hao was Duke Xia, but they just hadn't seen him.

"Well, you pick up the plow and let me have a look. According to your speed, when will you be able to plow the land?" Wei Hao looked at the old farmer and said,

Hearing Wei Hao's words, the old farmer picked up the plow. Wei Hao squatted down and looked at it carefully. Such a plow could not plow deep at all, and there was also a problem with the front design of traction.

"Well, that's fine! Keep busy, that's not okay!" Wei Hao clapped his hands after finishing talking to him, thinking that Qu Yuanli should be released, otherwise his land would be ruined completely. Not finished.

"Don't worry, Grandpa, it will definitely be finished. Look over there, my whole family is digging the ground, and they can dig seven or eight fractions of the field in a day! My family rented and planted 40 mu of land for you, and it is estimated that one month will definitely be able to plow the land." It's over, it won't delay the farming season!" The old man said with a smile to Wei Hao, and Wei Hao looked over as he spoke,
Sure enough, in the distance, there were more than a dozen people digging in the field, even half-grown kids were working.

"Well, yes, I know! Do it well!" Wei Hao nodded, and then continued to watch those people work. Although they rented and planted the land of Wei Hao's family, as the owner, they needed to provide all the farm tools , and also compensated them with some meat. There are more than 3000 households who farmed land for Wei Hao's family.

Wei Hao inspected it, and said hello to Wei Furong, saying that he would get a better plow out, such work would definitely not work.

Wei Furong didn’t force him, it’s good to be here, he doesn’t know these things, just teach him slowly, just teach him before he leaves, now he can do it, just do more, in fact, it’s not a job Physical work is about arranging things, and everything makes way for spring sowing.

When Wei Hao returned to his house, he began to design Qu Yuanli. After it was finished, he asked the family blacksmith to make it, and at the same time asked the family carpenter to make the shelf. After about an hour, Wei Hao finished it and brought his family Bing came to his farmland again.

"Why are you here again?" Wei Furong asked immediately when he saw Wei Hao approaching.

"Father, let's go. I got a new plow and let the people try it. If it works, our family will use this plow in the future!" Wei Hao said to Wei Furong,
Wei Furong also attached great importance to it when he heard it. He also knew that his son had the ability to make good things, so he immediately stopped a farmer and asked him to stop. On the cow's neck, and then let the farmer start plowing the field.

"Huh, the cultivated land is so deep, and so fast?" The farmer saw it, it was amazing, the cultivated land was very deep, and the speed was also fast.

"Yo ho, you bastard, you really have the ability!" Wei Furong knew it was a good thing at a glance.

"Of course, it's much faster than yours, and the arable land is deeper, which is very helpful for those crops to grow roots, and can even increase production!" Wei Hao proudly said to Wei Furong,
Wei Furong also nodded, then continued to look at it for a while, then opened it and said: "This plow is better, I will use this at home now, and produce it at the fastest speed, otherwise, I will be busy!"

"Okay, I'll tell the carpenters and blacksmiths at home to do this. Anyway, I guess I can make about [-] of them a day, and this is the only way to do it now!" Wei Hao said to Wei Furong,
Wei Furong nodded, and he also estimated in his heart that with this plow, one cow can plow more than 2 mu of land a day. Calculated in this way, the speed is several times faster than before. The plowing is based on the depth, which is good for crops.The father and son stayed at the farm until dark before going back.

The next day, the family summoned more blacksmiths, all of whom were invited by Wei Furong, as well as the carpenters, and asked them to make Quyuan plows as quickly as possible. After they were finished, they were sent to the farm immediately.
As for iron, Wei Furong went to buy it. There was no other way, even if it was expensive, you sometimes needed to invest in the farmland at home. Fortunately, there were a lot of them at home. Find those blacksmiths to buy, the price is about 100 yuan, and the quantity can be cheap,

Wei Furong doesn't care if it's illegal or not, he buys it if it's cheap, because the family needs too much.

"Father, are you going to buy private iron?" Wei Hao looked at Wei Furong in surprise and said, he only learned about it when he heard the blacksmith at home talking.

"Well, what's the matter, I ordered 2000 catties, 35 Wen a catty!" Wei Furong asked Wei Hao, looking at Wei Hao.

"Father, smuggling salt and iron is a capital offense, they have such courage?" Wei Hao still looked at Wei Furong in shock and said.

"What do you know? Do you know where the iron comes from? You really think it came from those blacksmiths. They have iron, but they are all given to them by customers. When they are forged, the rest A few, how many can there be, those aristocratic families are the ones who really make the iron, understand?" Wei Furong lowered his voice and said to Wei Hao.

"How could they have it?" Wei Hao still looked at Wei Furong in puzzlement and asked.

"Of course they have them, not to mention other people, just say that those small families have them, and our Wei family also has them. It's just that who is in control, I don't know. Anyway, everyone does this. If they all go to the government to buy iron, Who has so much money, of course, I have to buy some iron from the government, or they will check!" Wei Furong looked at Wei Hao and said,

Wei Hao nodded, wanting to continue to ask about this matter, so he asked: "It's so cheap, those people can also make money?"

"Of course they can make money. How much do they spend for the government? It is estimated that they will lose money for 100 Wen, but for those aristocratic families, they can still make a lot of money.

The old man heard that if it is done well, the cost of a catty of iron is about 20 Wen. Spring and autumn are the peak seasons for iron, and many people will buy some. For example, if you have 100 Wen, you are going to buy it from the government. Yes, or to buy private?Everyone must buy private ones! "Wei Furong continued to speak to Wei Hao.

"Oh, the aristocratic family has already done it at a cost of about 20 renminbi, which means their technology is good. Why didn't they provide it to the court?" Wei Hao continued to ask.

"It's not that you don't know the relationship between the aristocratic family and His Majesty. How could they dedicate it to His Majesty? Your Majesty actually knows, but there is no way, because the court doesn't have enough iron to sell, and the people need iron. What should I do? I can only open my eyes." Close one eye!" Wei Furong sat there, looked at Wei Hao and said,

Wei Hao nodded, he understood what was going on, Li Shimin probably couldn't control it, after all, now the common people need iron, and the court doesn't have it, so they can only figure out their own way.

As for the aristocratic family, after all, they have a lot of background, they must have a way to get the iron. For the next few days, Wei Hao stayed at home with Wei Furong and watched Chun Geng.

In addition, Wei Hao in the cotton field also told those people to get ready. Wei Hao specially hired a few old farmers to watch over them and do weeding and fertilization.
As the weather got warmer, Wei Hao also started experimenting with sowing cotton in his own yard. Those seeds are very precious, Wei Hao dare not let them be blind, and still need to experiment.

A few days later, Wei Hao saw that the cotton seeds had germinated, so he started to take half of the cotton seeds to the farmland and asked them to sow the seeds first. After all, it is still cold in spring, so this still needs to be considered.
For the other half, Wei Hao wants to wait a few days before getting it.
After finishing the cotton work, Wei Hao began to hand over the house drawings he had drawn to his second brother-in-law!
"My God, you want to build such a house, and you painted it yourself?" The second brother-in-law Wang Qifu asked Wei Hao in shock.

"Well, I drew it all by myself, brother-in-law, don't lose it, now you just let those people start digging corners, in addition to preparing enough bricks and tiles, I have also made a budget here, It takes about 120 million yuan to make money, and 100 million yuan for tiles. You have to buy these!
The other is wood, here I have also made statistics, size, length and quantity, all of them are available, and you need to arrange someone to buy them. Let Dad give you the 1000 penny reserve, that is, when you need to pay a small amount, you will pay directly! " Wei Hao said to Wang Qifu.

"Okay, I see, don't worry, wood is easy to talk about, but it's just bricks and tiles, brother, this is really not good, this needs to be bought through Chaotang! This is not what I want to get in the yard. A stable, to build three walls, you need [-] bricks, the price of bricks is not cheap, a brick costs [-] penny, tiles cost [-] yuan, and you can’t buy them yet, so you have to queue up!” Wang Qifu faced Wei Hao It's hard to say.

"What, you can't buy a brick for a penny?" Wei Hao heard it, looked at Wang Qifu in shock and asked.

"Yes!" Wang Qifu nodded.

"Then, are there no folks? No one in the folks fired? Bricks can't be controlled by the court, right?" Wei Hao immediately looked at him and asked.

"Yes, folk ones are more expensive, [-]% higher. They don't have as many people as the court, but if they want to get so many bricks, I guess they can take out all the kiln factories around Chang'an City for half a year. Empty!" Wang Qifu stared at Wei Hao and said.

"There is such a thing, is it difficult to fire bricks? Can it be more difficult to fire than ceramics?" Wei Hao looked at Wang Qifu with difficulty and said.

"I don't know, anyway, so many bricks and tiles, it's really hard to buy!" Wang Qifu said in distress.

(End of this chapter)