Water Margin farming to become powerful

Chapter 123 Master Sun Reorganizes the Rotten Straws
Sun Xin was unconsciously looking at Pan Jinlian with admiring eyes, and suddenly heard Li Zhi's wife say: "Li Zhi, have you finished eating? The owner's wife is still waiting at home. Don't delay, let's go quickly."

Pan Jinlian's face turned pale.

Regarding Sun Xin's family affairs, Pan Dahu had told her earlier that Pan Jinlian knew that Sun Xin's mother-in-law was the daughter of the Hu family on Dulonggang. people.

Pan Jinlian understood that most of Sun Xin's refusal to accept her was because she was afraid of that woman, but Pan Jinlian still couldn't help yearning for Sun Xin.

While waiting for Pan Dahu to come out just now, Pan Jinlian deliberately put on makeup again, just looking forward to meeting Sun Xin.

Sun Xin coughed and said hastily: "Brother Pan, I have an appointment in a few days to invite everyone from the Yamen in Yuncheng County to dinner. I don't know anyone here in Yuncheng County. Can I come to you?" How about a treat at the villa?"

"It's simple, let me know when the time comes, and my house will be used by my virtuous brother."

As soon as the Pan family's carriage left, Li Zhi's mother-in-law's eyes flickered, she looked at the table and dared not speak.

Sun Xin glanced at her, and finally understood what Sister Gu told her just now, this little girl...

But he didn't bother to expose the thoughts of the two of them, he greeted everyone and got into the car.

There was no way to go back to Shili Pai that night, so Sun Xin and the others went to live in Hu's Village.

The news that Hu Cai quietly increased the tax on the whole outfit has already spread in the Hu family village, and it is not easy for Hu Cai to stay in the village, so he no longer knows where he has been dealt with by Hu Taigong in the past few days.

Hu Cheng was the only one who entertained Sun Xin.

Hu Cheng asked someone to pour hot tea for Sun Xin, and asked about Li Zhi, Sun Xin took the teacup and explained it in detail.

Hu Cheng nodded and said: "It's really troublesome for Master Zhuang not to listen to discipline, but this time you are trying to make an example of others."

Immediately he sighed slightly again: "But it's easy to scare the dealer, but it's really difficult to make the dealer listen to you for a long time."

"Although you want to keep the farm going for a long time, why do people believe in you in the eyes of the farmer? In the eyes of others, if one day they hate you as the big owner of the farm, you might take it away in the next year. If they go to his field, they will always have some self-preservation thoughts."

Sun Xin nodded and said, "If you want them to contribute willingly to Zhuangshang, you must provide them with a sense of security and the expectation that Zhuangzi can stabilize the system."

Hu Cheng's eyes lit up: "That's exactly what I mean, but it's not as accurate as my brother-in-law can say."

The two chatted for a while, and Sun Xin told Hu Cheng that he would invite the head of Yuncheng County to have dinner together on a certain day. Hu Cheng said that he would definitely come too, rested at Hu's Village that night, and set off for Shili Pai the next day rush to.

Back at Zhuangzi, it was very lively in front of the Sun Family Fair, which was the day of the first and fifteenth day of the Lunar New Year, and it was also the time for the half-monthly plenary meeting of the Supervisory Committee.

Although Li Zhi made a mistake, Sun Xin still reminded him to attend the meeting in the afternoon when he got off the car.

Li Zhi breathed a sigh of relief when he heard that Sun Xin still asked him to work in the supervisory committee, and repeatedly said that he would go.

In the afternoon, everyone arrived at Sun Xin's courtyard. Li Zhi hadn't come yet.

Seeing Sun Xin coming out, Zou Yuan came over and looked at Sun Xin as if he wanted to say something, but couldn't speak.

Zou Run's personality was much more straightforward, and he asked Sun Xin directly: "Master, did Li Zhi betray Zhuangzi and go to the yamen to file tax returns as the head of his own family?"

Sun Xin glared at him and said, "What does it mean to betray Zhuangzi? It's just that he himself has a bad opinion, and he doesn't need the word 'rebellion.'"

"It's just that everyone will take this matter to heart in the future. We are a Sun Family Village, so don't try to harm the whole Zhuangzi for your own pettiness. I won't deal with it like this the next time."

Everyone nodded, and then Sun Xin changed the subject and asked several Zhuangtou: "Are you ready for the straws that I told you to prepare first?"

Zou Run pointed to the cart outside the courtyard and said, "Some good ones have been picked and brought over, and all the straws in the warehouse have been rummaged."

Jie Bao asked suspiciously: "Master, you don't want us to burn this wheat stalk in the field and let all the women, old and children in the village collect and store it, but what are you going to do?"

This apprentice is very smart. Although he is a bit tired at work, he is very curious and willing to think about things.

Sun Xin walked over and looked at the straws while smiling at everyone, "Guess all of you."

Zou Run was the first to guess: "Master, are we going to use the straw to make fertilizer?
Xie Zhen smiled and said, "What an idiot, if you want to make fertilizer and burn it directly into plant ash and leave it in the field, wouldn't it be fine? After so much effort to clean it up, it must be something else to do."

Zou Run said aggrievedly: "Master asked me to guess, so I guessed, why are you laughing at me again?"

Tao Zongwang said with a smile: "I see that the owner of the farm is planning to take the wheat to produce other things."

Sun Xin nodded with a smile and said: "Tao Zhuangtou is right. We are now on the right track in farming in the village, but there are still many other sidelines that can be developed. Now Zhuangzi can produce the most stable output every year. The by-products are these wheat stalks. With so much wheat harvested every year, the straws can’t be used up as feed. If they are burned in the field and turned into plant ash, the fertility is not very high. Even if they are used to light a fire in the kitchen, the fire will be hollow. Xuhuo, no matter when. I would like to develop some other uses for it."

"Now I have two ideas. One is to make the straw into a seed bag to grow mushrooms, and the second is to burn the straw with potion and use it instead of cotton."

These two usages of Sun Xin are unheard of by everyone.

Zou Run murmured after hearing this: "This straw can also grow mushrooms to make cotton?"

But Tao Zongwang has already started to think, the more he thinks, the brighter his eyes become.

Fungi belong to mountain treasures in this era. If there is a way to artificially plant them, the profits will be huge. As for cotton, cotton crops have just become popular in the Song Dynasty these days, and the planting technology is still very immature, and cotton textiles are still expensive. .

He didn't know to what extent Sun Xin said that the wheat straw could replace cotton after treatment, but even if the wheat straw could not completely replace cotton after treatment, it could only become a kind of thermal insulation filler, it must be very useful. market.

Before the popularization of cotton, rich people can naturally wear warm animal skins to keep warm in winter, but ordinary poor people will have to worry about it. The poor have to collect reed flowers, straw, catkins, and even some thin Wood shavings, paper scraps, etc. are filled into the two-layer jacket to keep warm.

As long as such warm clothes are filled for a long time, the fillings will fall off, and the fillings will gather in the lower part of the clothes, which greatly weakens the warmth retention, and the rough fillings will quickly damage the clothes.

(End of this chapter)