Crossing the famine, I am a poor fish, and my descendants have to work hard

"How much grain does Zhuangzi harvest every year?"

"Madam, the yield of millet with shells is about 300 jin per acre."

Millet is millet with shell. After processing and shelling, it becomes millet.

One acre of land produces 300 kilograms of grain, and 1000 acres can produce about kilograms of grain.

Compared with modern times, the yield is not very high, but due to the planting technology, crop seeds and lack of chemical fertilizers in this dynasty, the output is considered good.

"Ever tried growing wheat?"

"Madam, I have planted it before, and the yield per mu is about 300 kilograms."

It's almost the same. In order to avoid repeated cropping, we have to switch back and forth between crops.

I just don’t know if rice can be grown.

“Rice cultivation?”

"Madam, I have planted it before, but the yield was relatively low, only about 160 kilograms, and I have not planted it since then."

160 kilograms, compared with the more than 2000 kilograms of modern technology, it is more than 10 times less.

"Then let's plant rice this year. I'll cultivate the seedlings and send them to you when it's time to plant them."

Zhao Yuanzhen wanted to try rice grown using modern technology, such as hybrid rice.

See if we can increase production.

"Yes, ma'am."

Then he walked around the village.

There are not many houses in the manor, probably because the owner does not live here. The furnishings are very ordinary and there is not much landscaping.

After checking the layout of the manor, Zhao Yuanzhen thought about building all the factories that were about to be constructed in the manor.

For example, the Tremella Room, the block printing factory, the beauty product production plant, ceramics, winery, paper mill, chili sauce factory, etc.

This way, it is both concealed and easy to manage.

However, the earliest we can start construction is next month. It is cold now and the ground is still frozen, so we can't dig the soil.

After a round of inspection, there were no major problems.

"Butler, from now on you will be called Zhang Shang. I will have someone come to transfer the property to you someday. For now, just keep it as it is. We can make new arrangements when spring comes."

"Thank you for the name, Madam. I know it now."

"Well, I will send someone to teach everyone swordplay this afternoon. Let all men practice carefully. If you help me, I will check it later. From now on, everyone will receive a monthly stipend of 2 coins of silver."

"Yes, thank you ma'am."

Before, Zhuangzi had no monthly salary, and these slaves who sold themselves were only provided with food and accommodation.

Now I actually have monthly allowance, this boss is really kind-hearted.

After the inspection, Zhao Yuanzhen took his men away.

After returning, he asked Zhang Dao to select a few people to go to Zhuangzi to teach swordsmanship.

The lunch was very rich, with pig heads and pig trotters cooked in various ways, and of course many dishes to relieve the greasiness.

Zhang Sandao and Sun Zhang from the old house were invited by Zhao Yuanzhen to have lunch together.

The cooks have all been carefully trained by Qian Xiaohui and have good skills.

The dishes they prepared were all very delicious and won the couple's constant praise.

In the afternoon, Zhao Yuanzhen took the jade tablet of imperial decree to the yamen, hoping that the yamen would send someone to help transfer the ownership of the slave.

The transfer of slaves mainly required detailed registration of portraits, height, weight, etc.

There are too many people in the village, so it is not advisable to go to the government office to transfer the ownership.

I had thought that if the person registered at the yamen disagreed, I would show the jade tablet of imperial edict, but it turned out that it was Lord Wu on duty.

“Jin-sook is nice.”

Lord Wu looked at Zhao Yuanzhen and stood up and saluted.

Zhao Yuanzhen raised her eyebrows. The news came out quite quickly.

"Hello, Lord Wu. I recently acquired a farm and want to transfer the ownership to the people in the farm. There are too many people, so I want to ask the people from the household registration office to help me go to the farm to handle it. I wonder if you have time tomorrow?"

"Of course there is. Don't worry, Zhen Shuren, I will arrange it soon and ask someone to go over and register tomorrow."

Are you kidding? General Zhao is now a first-rank general who protects the country, and Madam Zhang is a third-rank lady of honor. How could they not have time? They are already busy trying to curry favor with her.

It's true that things change. I never thought that the woman who used to look down on me would become the one I have to look up to in less than half a year.

"Thank you very much, Master Wu."

"You're too polite, Jin-sook."

Zhao Yuanzhen handed the matter over to Zhang Xinbai and asked him to come to the yamen tomorrow to pick up people to handle the transfer.

Thinking that the factory will need a lot of people in the future, and it just so happens that the transfer is coming, I decided to buy some more.

Living in a manor is very comfortable.

If you come earlier, you can cultivate it earlier, but it depends on the quantity you buy.

Forget it, I'll go to the dental shop first and see how much I can pick.

I chose the same dental clinic I had been to before. I chose a total of

Among them, 30 farmers were selected, who were planning to buy some more land in the village for farming.

There are 40 maids, who are prepared to make beauty products and will be distributed to other places later.

The servant selected 40 people, who were to be trained as reserve forces.

There are 20 servants and 20 cooks, and these will also be trained first.

All these cost more than 1000 taels of silver.

These were sent to the farm by the pawnbroker.

Let’s arrange them all in the manor first.

The supplies still needed to be purchased. Fortunately, the family had a grocery store, and the owner of the grocery store prepared 200 sets of supplies, and the items that needed to be distributed were also delivered to the farm.

Of course, Zhao Yuanzhen paid.

Otherwise it will be difficult to do the accounting.

If some goods are insufficient, we will give away as much as we have and ask the shopkeeper to purchase more goods quickly.

As usual, I also bought some cloth.

They were also sent to the village.

Everything has been arranged. I haven't thought about going to Butler Xiao to share this month's bonus yet.

I went to the former Third Prince’s residence again.

Butler Xiao received her warmly.

"I have already prepared the accounts and am waiting for Zhen Shu to come."

"I've been busy these past few days, so I finally have time."

"Well, please take a look at this account book."

Zhao Yuanzhen took the account book and handed the beauty salon's account book to Butler Xiao for review.

"This is the shop that the Queen and I cooperated with. The Queen said that you can just come to the palace to settle accounts with you every month. Here is the account book, take a look."

"Okay, the queen did explain."

The two of them were each holding an account book and flipping through it.

The glass shop's turnover was 112 million, and Zhao Yuanzhen got 4% of the profit.

It converts to 44.6 taels.

The beauty parlor opened on the 23rd, with a daily turnover of about 5700 taels, a total of 7 days this month. The Queen Mother gets 2% of the profits.

He received 7980 taels.

After settling the accounts with Butler Xiao, he said goodbye.

I am worried about Zhuangzi's affairs.

Zhao Yuanzhen went to the farm again, found Zhang Shang, and gave him loyalty pills and strength pills.

He was told to receive a series of items and arrange for food and lodging for the new servants, distributing them in portions to each person.

Tomorrow the cloth manufacturer will ask someone to come over to teach them how to make clothes and bedding.

There were many servants, so the transfer took two days.

Zhao Yuanzhen brought Zhang Qingyan over and asked those who were free and could do needlework to come and make clothes and quilts.

Each person made two sets of clothes, including inner and outer clothes, shoes and socks.

The quilts are all made thick, 8 catties quilts and 2 catties mattresses.

In case there would be a need in the future, I made some more and put them in the warehouse.

Thinking that spring is coming soon, there is nothing to do now.

Zhang Qingyan led her team to make a set of spring clothes and two sets of summer clothes for everyone.

There are also work clothes in the shop. Spring and summer styles are also made.

We also made two pairs of shoes for each person, so they can just take them and wear them when they are busy.

Others are learning this skill.

Practice swordplay, archery, literacy, recipes, etc.

There are no new shops to be opened for the time being.

20 of the maids who made the clothes and work clothes were sent to the beauty salon, 5 of them went to the nail school for manicures, 8 were assigned to the lobby, and the remaining 7 went to the technician school for beauty massage to relieve everyone's stress. The salon was basically overcrowded every day.

Zhao Yuanzhen also took advantage of this leisure time to start learning agricultural knowledge crazily.

I learned everything carefully, including seed selection, soil, climate, sowing, fertilizer, care, weeding, and harvesting.

Planting techniques for various fruit trees, herbs, fungus, vegetables, etc.

There are also various breeding issues of chickens, ducks, pigs, dogs, cows, sheep, horses, etc., which are all studied systematically.

She planned to raise more in the spring to feed her family.

Now there are more than 400 people in my family, shops and farms, and the daily expenses for food and drink are not small.

She studied first, and then taught it systematically to the servants after learning.

In this way, apart from occasionally visiting the shop, he spent the rest of his time teaching the slaves various skills.

This study took more than a month.

When Zhao Yuanzhen felt a little hot wearing her cotton clothes, she realized that it was already early March.

This is March in the lunar calendar, which is equivalent to around May Day today.

Fortunately, I have almost finished learning all the courses.

He ordered people to dig up the soil and found that it was basically thawed.

We can finally start the construction.

Zhao Yuanzhen took a pen and paper and began to draw the design.

Zhuangzi needs to be replanned and prepared to be used as a factory production base for various industries.

The farm covers a total area of ​​more than 150 acres, two-thirds of which will be used to build factories, and the remaining one-third will be used to build dormitories, canteens and other public facilities.

A wall should be built between the factory and the living area to separate the two areas. It doesn't need to be too high, 2 meters is enough.

Each factory building should also be separated by a wall, which is also 2 meters high and can block the line of sight.

Two-thirds of the village is more than 100 acres, more than 6 square meters, about 300 meters long and 222 meters wide.

The factory area needs to build a Tremella room, a block printing factory, a beauty product production factory, a ceramic factory, a papermaking factory, a winemaking factory, and a food processing factory.

There is also an instant noodle factory. Zhao Yuanzhen is wondering whether to build it here or in the village, so that she can hire villagers to work in the factory.

After thinking about it, I decided to build an instant noodle factory in the village to boost the employment rate in the village and provide more jobs for women.

Zhao Yuanzhen did not design the Silver Ear House to be too large; about 100 square meters would be enough. Too many would instead lower the market price.

After all, rare things are more valuable.