Traveling through ancient times.

The more than 3,000 merits in Jiang Yizhou's account were accumulated in the past two months.

More than 2,000 points of these points were awarded to her by the Supreme Rule last time when she took in those tenants and farmhands who were driven into desperation by the landlords.

This made her more determined to benefit more people, so that they could have a house to live in, something to do, food to eat, clothes to wear, and...

When Jiang Yizhou thought about the "farm" he was going to build in the future, his mood inexplicably became excited.

In Yunshan Farm, everyone is busy in full swing.

A constant stream of horse-drawn and mule-drawn carts, loaded with cassava, left Yunshan Farm, and more horse-drawn and mule-drawn carts entered the farm.

These vendors' goods were bought on the way before they even reached their destination.

Business is booming.

After deducting expenses, I earned nearly half of it.

So they turned back again, bought more cassava, sold it, and came back again... and so on, traveling back and forth between Yunshan Farm and several surrounding counties.

Just as the head of the Jiang family said before, except for the first ten days when the best discount was one penny for three kilograms, after that it was only one penny for two kilograms.

Merchants still come and go.

Yunshan Farm harvested millions of kilograms of cassava in less than a month and sold them all within a month.

Except for a small portion that Jiang Yizhou gave as a gift to County Magistrate He, the rest was basically sold to passing merchants.

Of course, Jiang Yizhou still kept 20,000 to 30,000 kilograms for himself. In addition to eating it himself, he basically used it as "wages" for the people who came to the farm to help.

Giving them food as wages is more practical for them than just taking copper coins directly.

For the businessmen, this time the profits are the most satisfying, and there is no need to worry about sales at all.

But there were also some regrets: they heard that the cassava branches could be used as seeds, buried in the soil, and could be harvested directly the next year.

They wanted to buy it with money, but the head of the Jiang family refused to do so, saying that it would be left for the people nearby to grow. Oh, and some of it was given to Magistrate He for promotion.

Never mind, let’s wait until next year. There will definitely be more cassava next year.

……

At the end of December, Yunshan Farm finally sent away the last wave of merchants of the year, and the fields were re-plowed in preparation for next year's planting.

The cabbages that were planted after the corn harvest were also sold 90% with the help of this cassava sales.

There is still 10% left, and Jiang Yizhou plans to make it into pickles. Anyway, he can leave it to Qiuju and the others to deal with it, and maybe they can come up with a different flavor.

Jiang Yizhou had the cassava branches sorted, and he kept some for himself to plant, and gave the rest to the people who worked as helpers on his farm to plant.

This time, everyone knew that this thing had a higher yield than wheat and corn, and was more resistant to hunger, so they prepared to plant it on the previously abandoned mountain land.

Another group of people do not own any land at all and are tenant farmers and farmhands who have left the landlords' homes.

Jiang Yizhou decided to release some of his land and rent it to these people for farming.

The rent is 30%.

Only 30%?

According to the high-quality corn, wheat and cassava introduced by the head of the Jiang family, the yield per mu is over a thousand kilograms. After deducting 30%, he can still have a surplus of 700 kilograms.

This, this is even more than the profit from renting ten acres of land from the landlord in the past year.

The key point is that we used to rent so much land and work hard all year round.

Now, the land in Yunshan Farm has a ready-made irrigation network and water wheels. It is said that if you rent the land, you can use the thresher for free...

What’s the difference between this and just giving them food?

Therefore, as soon as this news was released, almost everyone was excited.

Regardless of whether they already had land or not, everyone wanted to rent Jiang Yizhou's land.

Jiang Yizhou had to come up with a new rule: limit a family to rent a maximum of ten acres, because if they rented more, they would definitely manage it in a rough manner, which would be too wasteful.

Furthermore, if these people rent too much land, they will spend all their time and energy on the land. In this case, how can there be more laborers to work in her workshop?

In this way, those tenant farmers and farmhands who were the first to break away from the landlords were the first to rent land, totaling more than 20 households.

Soon after, tenant farmers and farmhands came one after another...

By the time of the Chinese New Year, Jiang Yizhou had rented out all the land in Yunshan Farm.

He only kept a few hilltops for himself, because there were more than ten ponds built on the hills, which were the "lifeline" of the entire farm.

And dozens of acres of land near the village were kept as private plots.

There are more than 2,000 acres of saline-alkali land and barren mountains that are being reclaimed.

A total of more than 600 acres of land were rented out to more than 60 households.

Some live closer, in their original homes.

Some of them were originally quite far away, and they originally lived in shabby thatched huts, so after moving to Yunshan Farm, they had to rebuild their houses.

Jiang Yizhou planned an area and rented the land to them to build houses.

These people have nothing to begin with, so it is impossible for them to come up with money to repair their houses.

Jiang Yizhou lent it to them at zero interest.

The team for repairing the house is also ready: the engineering team led by Yucui has increased from the original forty or fifty people to a fixed number of more than one hundred.

Each team consists of twenty people, divided into six teams.

Now that the ditches on the saline-alkali land have been almost completed, all these people have been transferred to repair the houses.

They had built a "suite" with Jiang Yizhou before, and this time they just copied it.

...New Year’s Eve.

This is the second year since Jiang Yizhou came into this world.

She looked at the Yunshan farm that had changed so much, with smoke rising from cooking fires everywhere and smiles on people's faces. She felt dazed for a moment: it was like a dream.

She would never have been able to do all this without Xiao Tongzi.

Jiang Yizhou sipped the cassava wine that had just been developed by the food processing workshop and asked Xiao Tongzi, "Do you think this wine can be marketed?"

She had heard before that cassava wine should not be drunk because it is bad for the body.

However, Qiu Ju and others were still allowed to go ahead and explore, and they actually made some wine. In fact, the principle is similar to that of fermenting wine from grains.

The only difference is that there are some toxins such as methanol in it. Then she specifically asked Xiao Tongzi to check if there is a special method to remove these impurities.

After all, the wine was already made, so the exchange price for this process was saved. As for the process of removing impurities... Jiang Yizhou spent 2,000 merits to exchange it.

That is to say, in the entire winemaking process, the real difficulty is not how to ferment starch into wine, but how to remove impurities and harmful substances so that it can be preserved for a long time.

At this moment, what Jiang Yizhou was drinking was pure grain wine obtained through the process of removing impurities.

She only knew that the wine was strong, but she couldn't tell whether there were any residual toxins in it.

After a while, Xiao Tongzi said, "Well, there are no toxins and impurities anymore, and the conditions for long-term storage have basically been met..."

Jiang Yizhou was overjoyed. He raised his head and drank the wine in the glass.

Then we found Brother Tao - now Brother Tao is responsible for cement production, so the pottery workshop is handed over to Brother Tao for management.