Traveling through ancient times.

In the evening, after finishing a day's work, Jiang Yizhou sat down to eat with several of her capable assistants.

As usual, everyone reports on what happened that day.

Yucui spoke first.

Yucui received affirmation from Jiang Yizhou today, who said that the ditch she planned was very good, and the ditch that had been dug was also good, and that it would be reinforced when there were sufficient stones or other materials in the future.

In addition to verbal praise, they also promised to give material rewards after the completion of the project.

So when Yucui was introducing herself, she was full of energy.

She knew that the lady had put her in charge of the pond before to see if she could manage things, but this time, letting her manage the water channel alone was a real test of her ability.

So she must do this well.

She understood deeply that the young lady was not the ordinary woman in the backyard that she had heard of or seen before, who was content to be controlled by fate and only knew how to complain about herself here.

The young lady does not just regard this farm as a temporary place to stay, but as the foundation of her real life.

Therefore, these lands must no longer be relied upon for food as in the past. Instead, we have to build water wheels and dig ponds. The purpose is to make good use of these lands.

Irrigation is the basis for making use of these lands.

She started working when she was very young. She had many brothers and sisters in her family, and her family only had a few acres of thin land on the hillside, which was very similar to the situation here.

If the weather is good, the whole family can barely have a bowl of thin soup that is presentable enough to drink.

If it is a drought year, even if the whole family works together to irrigate the crops, it will be a drop in the bucket and the production will either decrease or disappear.

So they could only rent land from outside to cultivate it. The rent for the rented land was 70%. Some landlords were more generous and asked for 65%.

After deducting the rent, they couldn't even afford a bowl of porridge, and they couldn't even have enough to eat even if they worked hard all year round.

That year there happened to be a severe drought, the harvest from the fields was halved, and some crops even yielded nothing.

There was no food to pay the rent, but the landlord didn't care and still wanted to collect the rent.

So, in order to pay the rent, she was dragged by her father to the human market and sold.

Yucui was eleven years old at that time. She could understand her parents' hardship and helplessness, but she would never forgive them.

She was also lucky. She met Jiang Yizhou's mother, Mrs. Jiang, who bought her before his father was deceived by a brothel madam and was about to sell her to a brothel at a higher price.

Later, her family found out that she seemed to be living well in the Jiang family, and they sent people to ask for money, asking her to help her brother and younger brother get married.

She pushed him back directly - I have already been sold by you for twenty taels of silver. From the moment I was sold, my favor was severed. Now you still want to suck blood from me? Dream on.

She tried hard to climb up in the Jiang family, wanting to...

Yucui recalled that she almost took the wrong road. Fortunately, the young lady helped her see the man's true face in time and recognize her own position, so she did not fall into the abyss.

She likes her current life very much, the desire for power to command the workers to work; the sense of accomplishment when looking at the water diversion channel that has been dug;

Imagining that this piece of land will be changed because of this in the future, her heart is full of anticipation.

Therefore, Yucui not only carefully figured out the direction of the water diversion channel herself, but also asked other people for advice.

Then he used branches to draw sketches on the ground over and over again until it was completely reasonable and then let the workers continue digging.

Yucui heard the young lady talk about the future prospects of the farm: this large area is wasteland, and they want to reclaim it.

The area covers about 700 to 800 acres, and the young lady plans to go to the county government to apply for the formalities in the next two days.

If you are an ordinary family: you can just open up wasteland, cultivate it, and then let the government define it, and then you can get a land deed.

But Jiang Yizhou wanted to enclose too much land, and even though it was wasteland that no one was optimistic about, he still needed to pay a certain deposit.

It is guaranteed that the land can be reclaimed successfully within three years, otherwise the land deed will not be issued.

This was exactly what Jiang Yizhou wanted, so she paid a deposit and said that the whole area would belong to her for reclamation.

As long as the canal is successfully built, this place will become a huge granary.

…After Yucui’s introduction, it was Yunxin’s turn.

Yunxin said: "Now the original land has basically been plowed, and the manual ridge-making can be completed in the next few days at the latest. As for the terraced fields on the hillside, we can start in the next few days."

She introduced it methodically, with a twinkle in her eyes.

She discovered that she actually liked the fresh air outside, and didn't like being trapped in the backyard, fighting with the maids and servants. It was too tiring.

Well, it seems that the workload now is more tiring than the busiest time in the past, but although she is physically tired, she is happy in her heart.

"Oh, by the way, Miss, someone asked me again today, what are those seedlings? I heard from some aunts that cassava cannot sprout at this time of year. Miss, are those really cassava?"

Jiang Yizhou smiled and explained patiently: "Yes, it is cassava. That's what my father said when he gave me the seeds. He said it was a merchant from another place who wanted to sell something to my father, and the seeds were given as a bonus."

Yunxin: "Is it really cassava?"

"what happened?"

"They said cassava is not tasty at all, it's just a tiny piece of wood. In the past, during the famine, some people ate it and I heard that someone died from it. So they said that this thing is very tenacious, and it often grows in the ground. They just dig it up with the roots."

After Yunxin finished speaking, she asked, "Miss, are we really going to plant cassava on all these hundreds of acres next year?"

She was filled with worry.

Originally, if you just scatter some sorghum seeds on the field, you can still harvest some. But if you plant cassava, which they say is useless, wouldn’t all the manpower, material resources and money invested be wasted?

Jiang Yizhou said, "Oh!" and continued to comfort the other party with a smile: "Don't worry, this cassava seed is definitely different from the others. If you don't believe me, don't you believe my father?"

Jiang Yizhou added: "However, there is only a small bag of seeds, which is definitely not enough to plant hundreds of acres, so the terraced fields on the hillside will be given priority. The rest will be the original land. I will go to the county town to see if I can find some better seeds for the remaining land..."

When Yunxin heard the young lady's gentle words, her originally uneasy heart calmed down.

That’s right, the young lady must have her own plans, and now she just needs to obey her instructions.

Jiang Yizhou's "success" was that she heard Xiao Tongzi's message, because she found some seeds here, so he searched for some similar improved models in his own exchange mall.

Just like cassava seeds, since cassava is already here, the improved version can be redeemed with only a few points.

Xiao Tongzi just said that because there are already wheat crops here, the wheat seeds that originally required one thousand merits only need five hundred.