Traveling through ancient times.

Jiang Yizhou dared to invest an entire season's grain income into territorial expansion. In addition to the coincidence of the visit of County Magistrate He, it was also the result of her long-term consideration.

Her greatest confidence comes from none other than Xiao Tongzi.

After she sold the corn and corn thresher, her merits accumulated to more than a thousand points again because of the promotion of high-quality seeds and the liberation of people's labor to a certain extent.

Then, after Xiao Tongzi learned of her idea of ​​expanding the scale, he personally used the information he had accumulated to help Jiang Yizhou check the situation of the saline-alkali land.

It was discovered that the situation in that saline-alkali land was not particularly serious. Of course, an ordinary person would not be able to change it.

First of all, in order for this land to meet the planting requirements, there must be a water source, and a large amount of water for dialysis;

and special plant seeds adapted to saline-alkali soils;

In addition, in the early stages, not only a large amount of manpower and material resources need to be invested, but also time costs and so on.

These are destined to be beyond the reach of ordinary farmers who are still struggling to make ends meet.

Of course, the landlords and gentry can do it too.

But they won't spend so much money and energy to do it - they have ready-made things to exploit: whenever they encounter natural disasters or man-made disasters, they can easily annex the land from the farmers. Why would they bother to do the thankless work of reclaiming wasteland? !

Jiang Yizhou's current situation is: she wants to expand the territory of Yunshan Farm and meet the production conditions for establishing a series of workshops in the future.

It was simply unrealistic to rely solely on the surrounding farmers and landlords to find sources of goods. The farmers had no surplus supplies, and the landlords had long wanted to suppress them, so it was impossible to cooperate with them.

So she had to expand herself. As I said before, the surrounding lands either belonged to ordinary farmers or had been annexed by landlords.

Where does the land come from? We can only open up new land.

Fortunately, the saline-alkali land a few miles away from the hills had been barren, making it her best choice.

Yucui had already quietly brought the water here, so the rest of the things became simple.

According to Xiao Tongzi, as long as the land is watered one or two more times, some salt- and alkali-tolerant herbaceous plants can be planted from the system.

After these plants grow for one or two rounds, they can not only further reduce the amount of salt and alkali in the land, but also feed poultry and livestock.

These plants were specially selected by Xiao Tongzi for Jiang Yizhou because they are the cheapest and most suitable for the land.

A total of three plants were exchanged.

When Yucui led people to dig a water canal in this wasteland, they also scattered the various grass seeds that Jiang Yizhou had exchanged from Xiao Tongzi.

The grass seeds started growing before the ditch was completely dug.

So Jiang Yizhou asked people to buy dozens of piglets and hundreds of chickens and ducks and started a semi-free-range mode.

Anyway, there are not enough weeds now. We have saved some corn and more vegetables and fruits than we can eat. In more than a month, it will be time to harvest radishes.

At that time, not only can radish tops be eaten by poultry and livestock, but radishes can also be used to feed pigs.

...Jiang Yizhou's Yunshan Manor was visited by the county magistrate, who also cleared her name - the head of the Jiang family.

At the same time, he also took the initiative to help her promote the products, which was considered as endorsing her farm both in name and in reality.

In this way, her fame spread farther and louder.

The whole village was thriving and bustling with activity.

It seems that everything is going on one after another and it's very busy.

But in fact, Jiang Yizhou now has much more free time than he did in the first few months after he arrived.

Because she gradually delegated management authority.

What made her most gratified were the two girls, Yunxin and Yucui.

I originally thought that Yunxin had a gentle personality and was not suitable for management, but since the planting and production on the farm was handed over to her, she has managed it in an orderly manner.

She also remembers clearly all the people who came to work and those who lived near Yunshan.

You have to know that Jiang Yizhou was able to remember these people because of Xiao Tongzi's help, while Yun Xin knew all the personnel information on her own.

Now, Jiang Yizhou only needs to tell the other party what to plant next season, and the other party will arrange it properly.

From organizing personnel, storing harvested crops, maintaining the land, etc., Jiang Yizhou doesn't have to worry about anything.

The same thing happened to Yucui. Before that, she had only told the other party about her prospects in Yunshan Farm, knowing that the most important thing here was the water source.

So in the past year, in addition to organizing people to dig ponds and build water diversion channels, she also visited everywhere, asked local people, and went to Fusong Town and even the county town to look for maps of this place. She actually found a tributary of the Canglang River more than ten miles away, so she asked people to find a suitable place to dig a gap and divert water. After building a dam and installing a water truck, Jiang Yizhou planned to take over the large saline-alkali land and barren mountains.

It can be said that without Yucui's positive and tenacious fighting spirit, Jiang Yizhou's plan to expand his territory would have been delayed for at least a few years.

There was also the Jiang's Carpentry Workshop. Zhang Daniu gradually showed her management skills, so as the number of orders increased, the workshop also hired two carpenters. If there was no special matter, she only had to report to Jiang Yizhou once every ten days.

Then there is Jiang’s food processing workshop.

Jiang Yizhou originally planned to use it to process cassava, such as grinding flour, making vermicelli, etc.

Now Qiu Ju, who used to work in the kitchen, is in charge. It was mainly because during her time in the kitchen, she was curious about some of the novel foods that Jiang Yizhou proposed, and she was very proactive and always kept her word. So Jiang Yizhou let her be the manager of the food processing workshop.

Now we have hired two regular workers, both of whom are farmers from nearby. They are hardworking and clean. They wear uniform clothes and must wear aprons, sleeves, special hats and masks once they enter the processing workshop.

Jiang Yizhou used the existing ingredients and let them try out many new things.

For example, there are several acres of private plots next to the farm. If the vegetables and fruits on them cannot be eaten, they will be made into various dried vegetables.

For example, when Jiang Yizhou saw the newly harvested corn, she thought of popcorn and corn cobs. She used to be afraid that eating too much would make her fat, and there were too many alternative snacks, so she didn't like them. But now, she really missed these flavors.

At Jiang Yizhou's suggestion, Qiu Ju and two workers worked hard in the workshop, and actually made popcorn and corn cobs that were similar to those in Jiang Yizhou's original world.

Qiuju said that this thing consumed too much sugar, and it would be a loss if it was not sold at twenty cents per pound.

Oh, yes, sugar... Jiang Yizhou immediately thought of sugarcane.

It seems that there was something similar to sugarcane in this era, but its sweetness was not as good as corn stalks, and it was particularly hard and thin.

Jiang Yizhou glanced at the exchange price - 3000 merits. Well, let's put this aside for now.