farming female castellan

When Chen Zhongyan returned home, he said to Chen Fan: "When my house is finished, the workers will go and build houses for you."

Chen Fan nodded: "Exactly, they have experience."

News came from the other side of the mountain that this year's summer planting area has doubled, and the transplanting is going smoothly.

After Xia Zhong was busy, it was already a small heat, and the capital never sent any personnel transfer documents, and the three non-local Jinshi did not receive the news of the appointment of officials.The matter here is probably really left to Chen Zhongyan.

Chen Zhongyan appointed all the three Jinshi as the master book; Cao Dezheng was appointed as the county captain; Qiu Farong was appointed as the county magistrate;

He went to the construction site and called away a group of masons.

Some people quietly bit their ears:

"Have they been driven away?"

"It's very strange. They all work very well. At first I thought they were going to be in charge."

"There are people who babble when they're not in charge, and they don't say anything."

"Is it true that honest people are easy to bully?"

"Then shall we do well?"

"Of course, if you don't do well, you will have to leave immediately."

Those people followed a group of guards through the mountains and forests and came to a strange place.

"There is a cement road being built here, and your wages are [-] Wen per day, while those in charge are [-] Wen more, and the foremen are [-] Wen per day. Three meals are provided every day." The guard Yunfeng said.

None of the artisans laughed.Someone boldly asked, "Is this place safe?"

Yun Feng looked at him: "Did you run into danger all the way over the mountain?"

"Follow you, there is no danger, but this place..."

"This has long been our territory." Yunfeng said.

The craftsmen froze, wanted to say something, and swallowed it again.

Yunfeng glanced at the crowd: "There is a place for you to live in the cottage, what you have to do is to build roads and don't run around. Without our protection, you don't know how you died."

The craftsmen swallowed in fright.

Still bold: "This is our territory."

Yunfeng looked at everyone: "We can't run around in our territory. Do the people here know you? Do the beasts on the mountain know you? Do the people who want to invade the village know you?"

The craftsmen fell silent.

When they arrived at the place where they lived, they saw that the house was clean, there were vegetable fields beside it, and chickens and ducks were raised. It was a completely ordinary rural scene, and they felt a little more at ease.

In the evening, Chen Fan hugged and nursed his youngest son, while Zhang Ci fanned the fan while looking at the child: "This kid is really fat, his flesh is all piled together."

"That's how cute it is, like a lotus root." Chen Fan was full of joy.

Just after feeding, the twins knocked on the door and came in.Zhang Ci raised the fan in his hand and asked, "Are you here to fan your mother?"

"Hold your mother," said the eldest son.

Chen Fan picked up Chen Qi, Zhang resigned to hold Chen Ji, and the baby danced on the bed.

"My brother is fat." Chen Ji went to grab the baby's arm, but failed to catch it for a while, and then went to grab it again.Chen Qi shook his fan clumsily.

Zhang Ci smiled all over his face: "It's very interesting to see the children playing like this every day." He went to get the fan in his son's hand, and Chen Qi went to Zhang Ci's side with great praise, and replaced Chen Ji.

"Would it be fun if five people shared a bed at night?"

Zhang Ci simply shook his head to express his rejection.

Chaoyun called his wife outside the door, came in, hugged the youngest son, and left with the twins.

Zhang Ci slowly shook his fan and said, "I found a saltpeter mine over there, I will bring some over tomorrow, and then I will think about how to exploit it."

"I'll do a trick for you when I get the saltpeter tomorrow."

"What trick?" Zhang Ci became interested.

"Secret first."

Zhang Ci still wanted to ask, but he didn't feel embarrassed, so he went to torment Chen Fan.

After work the next day, Chen Fan saw saltpeter.

"Is this soaked and filtered?" She was surprised.

The guards kept everything secret, and the saltpeter was directly and quietly transported into Chen Fan's yard.She asked Chaoyun and Muyu to bring two basins, one large and one small, the smaller one is fine, and another bucket of water.

In front of the door, Chen Fan put the small basin in the big basin, and then poured water into the two basins.

"What does this have to do with saltpeter?"

"You can play in it."

Seeing her mysterious look, Zhang Ci picked up a piece of saltpeter and was about to put it in, but suddenly withdrew his hand again.

"It might be better to smash it up." He put the saltpeter on the paper and smashed it up, then put it into the big basin, watched intently, and found that the water in the small basin was slowly freezing.

"Wow!" The gentle Zhang Ci let out a strange cry.

"It's going to freeze." I could still respond to this sentence and lowered my voice.

Chen Fan raised his eyebrows with a smile: "The saltpeter will absorb a lot of heat when it meets water, so the water in the small basin freezes."

In fact, making ice with saltpeter was originally an ancient method, which was discovered in the Tang and Song Dynasties.The development of this time and space may be different.

Zhang Ci was very excited: "It's Xiaoshu now, and it's time to use ice. It's too late in the capital, but the business in Xiangzhou and Chunzhou can be done."

Chen Fan looked at him with a smile: "My husband is very business-minded."

"This is a big business. Ice is hard to come by in summer. You can transport the saltpeter over there in the capital first, and then start making saltpeter and ice next year." Zhang Ci's plan is very clear, "Let the guards do this, and find Xiang Xiang first. Governor of Chunzhou, give them [-]% profit and let them be responsible for sales."

Chen Fan asked: "Natural saltpeter can usually be found on rock surfaces, caves or salt marshes. They found saltpeter, did they find salt?"

Zhang Ci shook his head: "Perhaps the salt mine will be discovered after a while."

"Are there enough nitrate workers?"

"That's enough. Some farms have dispatched some people to go there. They used to be busy farming, but now they are busy mining and transporting." Zhang Ci looked at her: "I want to go inside and have a look."

Chen Fan brought him into the space, and he looked at the forest with a regretful tone: "Is there no iron mine here?"

Chen Fan laughed straight: "How to mine iron ore?"

"There are basically no trees here, and the land is a bit empty." Zhang Ci looked at the land beside the forest.

"It's still a matter of planting medicinal materials. The rare medicinal materials outside are grown inside. New varieties of long-fiber cotton can be grown a little bit, and then let the common people grow them. Some people are already doing cotton spinning and weaving, and strive to expand production next year. "

Zhang Ci was not reconciled, and kept digging with a dagger: "How do you know what's inside if you don't dig deeper?"

After digging for about half an hour, it was full of soil, not even stones. He stopped and started digging on the ground: "I think this mountain is just the top of the mountain, and the bottom is the main body of the mountain."

"Aren't you afraid of digging a hole and falling?" Chen Fan felt that this place could not be easily explored.

"Isn't it possible to grow crops on the ground over there? It should be possible here too." But he stopped, "Let's go out."

The days are busy every day, and ice sales in Xiangzhou and Chunzhou are very hot.The crops in the fields are growing well, and the people are raising more and more poultry and livestock.

The watermelons were successfully planted, and everyone in the county government got two watermelons.The Liu family paid [-]% of the profits to the county government.

A winery not far from the county government has also been built, and Chen Fan is going to start making wine again.