Nongmen Rice Flower Fragrance

Chapter 49 Buying Someone ([-])

After getting along, Li Xin found out that the owner of the Zhuangzi was named Zheng Xing, and his family lived in Nanbai County, and his family was in the silk business.This time, he wanted to sell Zhuangzi to collect money, because he wanted to try to do sea business.

In the coastal waters of the south of the Yangtze River, there are also several piers open for business with foreigners.Foreign merchants will bring all kinds of novelties to Tianchen Dynasty, and people here will also bring porcelain, tea, silk and other things to sell overseas.Although business at sea is risky, the profits are also amazing.Many things that are not unusual in China can be sold at sky-high prices after sailing thousands of miles to other countries.

However, it takes a long time to go back and forth once, and it takes two or three years.Since it is rare to go once, it is natural to bring more things.Zheng Xing and his friend who was in the sea business bought a few big ships together, just want to take more goods out and earn a good fortune.

After coming here, Li Xin has never seen the sea yet!Hearing what Zheng Xing said, she felt yearning for it.

After Zhuangzi made the deal, Zheng Xing said that some of the cattle used in Zhuangzi had also been left to Li Xin, so it was considered as a friend.Li Xin was very grateful. She didn't expect Zheng Xing to be so generous. She saw that there were cattle raised in Zhuangzi, and many of them were used to cultivate those fields.Farm cattle in this era are not cheap, and those cattle are still worth a lot of money.

Zheng Xing also asked Li Xin if he wanted people from Zhuangzi. Some of the people in Zhuangzi who were in charge of farming were tenant farmers nearby, and some were servants bought by the Zheng family.Not counting the tenant farmers, there are more than forty servants, men and women, old and young.In addition to the stewards, the rest, some are responsible for farming, and some are responsible for serving people, such as sweeping and sweeping the house, waiting for the master to come.There are also some children who are descendants of the servants.

In this era, there is a saying that a family has a child, that is, the slaves in the mansion generally refer to the servants, and the children born, unless the master's family is particularly gracious to release them, will be the family's servants for generations.When you are young, you generally don't have any errands, but when you are of the right age, you have to start doing things.

In fact, Li Xin has always been unable to accept having servants at home, but now, after hearing Zheng Xing's words, she is a little hesitant.Those servants have always been on the Zhuangzi, and they are very familiar with the affairs of the Zhuangzi. If those people are kept, it will definitely be half the effort to do things.Otherwise, if she bought an empty Zhuangzi, it would be very difficult to get started.After she has figured it out, she will hire a good person. I am afraid that she will miss the planting in winter.

Shopkeeper Sun's intention was to let her keep those people, so she would have people available.Such a big Zhuangzi, since he bought it, he must use it as soon as possible, otherwise it would be a waste.Li Xin thought for a while, but still agreed. Zheng Xing was very happy, so he said that he would go back and get the deed of sale, which would be handed over to her soon.Originally, there were quite a few people in Zhuangzi, and if he sold Zhuangzi, he really didn't know how to deal with those people.If it was said to be sold casually, I would be a little guilty. Anyway, those people have served for many years and have not made any mistakes. If they are sold casually, who knows who will be sold to them!If the new owner is not good, he has treated those people badly.

If it is said to take it home to serve, there will not be so many people in the family.Many servants have served in the mansion for several generations, and they have given birth to many family children. There are gradually more useless people in the mansion.Moreover, every month has to give Yueyin, which also increases the burden on the mansion.

Those people's deeds of sale were all in the county's home, and they couldn't get them for a while, so Zheng Xing asked sisters Li Xin and shopkeeper Sun to live in Zhuangzi now, and he sent people back to get them quickly.Li Xin had no objection either, she also wanted to take a walk around the village and think about what she wanted to plant.

More than 600 mu of land is really huge, and it is necessary to plan carefully what to plant.She doesn't spend much on seeds for her hand-made eggplants and peppers now, and there are quite a few seeds collected in the institute, which can be planted for hundreds of acres, and those mountainous lands can be used.If you start raising seedlings in winter, you can plant them all in spring.There are also a lot of sweet potatoes, and there are still some seedlings in the vegetable garden, and those seedlings can be planted in a lot of land. If we take some sweet potatoes to raise seedlings, we can plant some seedlings first when they grow, and we can plant more land.The yield of spring potatoes is the highest, so there should be more varieties. Although the yields of summer potatoes and autumn potatoes are not so high, they are still good, and some can be planted.

Then a lot of corn seeds were harvested, and many acres could be planted, and some pumpkins could be interplanted in the cornfield.There are really a lot of things that can be planted in the mountains, but the paddy fields are a bit difficult to manage.The main reason is that she doesn't have many potato seeds, only a few hundred catties left, and she can't plant many acres. It seems that she still needs to grow rice.

She doesn't want to grow wheat at all, mainly because the yield of wheat varieties in this era is low, and the wheat cycle is long, which occupies too much land.

In the winter season, it seems that it is more appropriate to plant potatoes, and many others can only be planted in spring.Rapeseed and peas can be grown in the south in winter, but I don't know if anyone grows rapeseed in this place.If it is possible, it would be good to plant the last season of rapeseed, which can also fertilize the land and generate a lot of oil.

She asked the steward of Zhuangzi. The steward of Zhuangzi was a husband and wife. The man was in his 30s and his name was Wang Fu. Her wife's surname was Yang.Generally speaking, Wang Fu is still in charge of farming, while Yang is in charge of the food and drink of the people in the village.

After Li Xin asked Wang Fu, she learned that Zhuangzi planted two crops a year, one crop of winter wheat and one crop of rice, and one year passed, but there was no one and new ideas, and the surrounding people also planted in the same way.Occasionally, some people grow some other things, such as soybeans and peanuts, but they don't grow much.

These places are not next to counties and towns, and no one knows how to grow vegetables and sell them.Generally, those who grow and sell vegetables are those who live on the edge of the county or town, and they supply them to restaurants or morning markets.

Li Xin also asked Wang Fu about rapeseed, but Wang Fu said that he had never heard of this kind of vegetable.Li Xin remembered that rapeseed seemed to be called brassicae in ancient times, so he asked Wang Fu if he had heard of brassicae.This time, Wang Fu said that he had heard of it, and there were people nearby who would grow it and eat it.But no one knows how to use brassica seeds to extract oil. They all plant a little bit as vegetables and eat them, and they don't want them when they get old.

Li Xin was very happy to hear that it was nearby, so Li Xin asked Wang Fu to look for it and see if he could buy some seeds.Although Zheng Xing has not handed over everyone's deeds of selling their lives to Li Xin, but Zheng Xing has already ordered everyone in the village to listen to Li Xin's commands. Naturally, Wang Fu knew that the little girl in front of him would be his future master. .After stopping Li Xin's orders, he took some people to look for brassica seeds.

(End of this chapter)