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They were extremely busy with all matters related to the project. When these minor officials saw Mu Qing recruiting people, not only did they not feel excluded in the officialdom, they even breathed a sigh of relief.

The county magistrate doesn't do much, but the county magistrate does.

After being exploited for so long, every petty official has dark circles under his eyes.

at last!

Someone from the county government has arrived.

While eating in the cafeteria, the old men from the county government looked at the newcomers with love in their eyes.

Just in time, I will be free from the sea of ​​suffering soon.

If it weren't for the salary increase offered by the county magistrate, they would have been unable to work.

The salary was raised from 200 wen a day to 400 wen a day, and the government could no longer afford to pay the wages.

The job of a minor official in the government was stable, and after Mu Qing came, he also had a salary, so he could still make a living.

They did it with pain and joy.

If Mu Qing knew what these petty officials were thinking, he would only complain silently.

Escape from suffering?

impossible.

No matter whether they are new or old officials, Mu Qing will not let them return to their previous bad state without stimulating their last bit of potential.

Hu Miaomiao and Yuehong also felt the kind gazes of those clerks, which made them more determined to stay in the county government office.

Today's training included some simple symbolic calculation methods and various unheard-of words, which all seemed new to the new clerks.

In less than two days, a group of clerks with strong learning abilities were able to memorize the multiplication table fluently and try to apply it.

In the red era that Mu Qing lived in, multiplication formulas were one of the things that every child started to memorize in early childhood.

Not to mention the average Chinese person's level of mental arithmetic when doing grocery shopping.

The Tianchi Dynasty's arithmetic had not yet introduced Arabic numerals, and the calculation methods were complicated, so Mu Qing simply used the arithmetic in the primary school textbooks as part of the training.

You can't do without arithmetic.

The water conservancy project in Huangxian was gradually developed, and arithmetic was used in many places.

Mu Qing closed the account book, and her relationship with You Yi went from being open to being underground.

Wave after wave of small amounts of colored glass flowed into Shengjing, impacting the original colored glass market.

You Yi used colored glaze to open up the market for the rich and powerful, and gradually came into contact with other colored glaze manufacturers.

In addition to Mu Qing's factory, Mu Qing also knows five other sources of glass production.

Scarcity makes things valuable, and the price of colored glaze has dropped a lot.

Hu Yin and his group were considered to be the group of businessmen with a cooperative attitude.

Mu Qing had asked Hu Yin to sell Liuli a long time ago and made a small profit.

The group of landlords and businessmen who left were not so lucky.

It is unlikely that Huangxian can continue to make high profits relying on Liulichang.

The future of Liulichang will be towards the refinement of items.

Liuli's revenue has decreased, but Huang County still has 10,000 people to feed. Mu Qing feels stressed when he thinks about this.

We need to increase revenue and reduce expenditure.

It's time to start promoting improved varieties.

Mu Qing accumulated a lot of rice seeds.

If it had not been involved in the Party-Faction Persecution, perhaps Xiaoniu Village near Shengjing would have been Mu Qing's first pilot village.

The amount of rice seeds is large, and should be enough for half of Huang County.

After a month, Yuehong and Hu Miaomiao gradually got the hang of it.

The collision of new and old ideas opened the door to a new world for Yuehong and Hu Miaomiao.

A fulfilling life is always busy. The canals and dams were completed perfectly thanks to the efforts of the whole county.

The rain is coming too.

The long-dry land finally received rain.

The rain was heavy, and the drops of rain formed a line.

It rained for three full days.

Grandma Li stood in front of the newly built thatched house, leaning on her crutches.

She stared at the rain, sadly:

"The rain came, but it came too late."

Two lines of clear tears slowly flowed from Granny Li's turbid eyes.

As soon as Yuehong finished work, it started to rain heavily.

Yuehong came back holding an umbrella, but was still soaked by the rain.

As soon as Yuehong heard what Grandma Li said, she knew that Grandma Li was moved by the scene.

Her family and Granny Li's family all died in the disaster.

Yuehong was not relieved, but she couldn't hide the joy on her face:

"The rain came not too late. Lord Mu gave us a batch of improved rice seeds. According to Lord Mu, the yield of this batch of grain seeds is roughly twice that of millet and beans!"

"Now Mu Shu and I are responsible for the promotion of improved rice varieties. I believe that soon half of the people in Huang County will be able to grow high-yield grain varieties."

As Granny Li listened, her mood became less bad:

"Great, County Magistrate Mu is indeed a fairy. With this good seed, the people of Huang County will be better and better."

Mu Qing's idea of ​​having half of the farmers in Huang County grow hybrid rice is undoubtedly a good one.

In fact, the reality is more cruel than expected.

After the completion of the Huangxian Water Conservancy Project, only one in ten of the farmers' crops survived. It was a little less, but if they could be saved, every bit of harvest would count.

In Huang County, rice, wheat, millet and beans can be harvested twice a year.

Rice is divided into single-season rice and double-season rice according to different planting systems:

One-season rice is usually sown around the Qingming Festival;

In summer, the second season rice can be sown in late June or early July.

Huang County has a short frost-free period, and the light conditions per unit area are good, but the accumulated temperature time is insufficient.

It is now the end of June.

The planting time of millet is in spring and autumn. The high temperature in summer is not conducive to the growth and development of millet. Spring is the main sowing period of millet, generally from March to April.

Autumn is suitable for early-maturing millet varieties with relatively short growth periods, which are generally sown from September to October.

It is still three months before the millet harvest.

At this point in time, the second season of rice planting has just begun.

Mu Qing, Mu Shu and Yue Hong have been warming up to the rice planting matters.

Several announcements were issued.

Mu Qing asked the village heads to publicize the advantages of hybrid rice, such as high yield and large grains, in the villages, and planned to officially start planting hybrid rice in early July.

Most of the people in Huang County depend on the land for their livelihood. After experiencing drought, they have always regarded Mu Qing as a fairy sent to save them.

They regained their trust in the county government.

but.

Food is very important. Grain seeds are related to survival.

Rather than using farmland to grow hybrid rice, they would rather replant millet and beans.

No matter how good the hybrid rice is, if the yield is unexpectedly low, the risk will be too great for them to bear.

Therefore, up to now, the only people who have opened up farmland to grow rice are the families of minor officials in the county government, and people like Hu Yin who have a large amount of farmland.

Historically, people's acceptance of new things is a gradual process, from rejection to trial, from trial to promotion, and finally to universal application. This is a process of slow development and gradual progress.

Mu Qing would not blame the people of Huang County. They had never seen the yield of hybrid rice. Perhaps their understanding of rice was still at around 100 kilograms per mu.

New things are always unknown, and we feel uneasy because we don’t understand them, but we cannot stop moving forward because of the uneasiness.

Thousands of sails passed by the side of the sinking boat, Wan Muchun in front of the diseased tree.

New things will inevitably replace old things.

Mu Qing is determined to tackle the tough task of promoting rice.