Fields of Gold
Chapter 434 Vegetable Shed
Zhou Yang was surprised that the taste in his heart was very complicated. In the end, however, the royal treatment was not desirable, the task was accepted and the sound was colourful.
Later, Yu Xiaograss's orchard spread all over the mountain, and the fruit was sold to the entire north and south of Da Ming, when fame was loud. Zhou Yang quit his duties at the Imperial Palace and became the general manager of the orchard. His treatment was more than twice as high as that of the Imperial Palace. The master also divided his profit by half.
Don't underestimate half the profits. Many people are poor all their lives, and it's hard to earn a year's dividend. My old colleague from the Imperial Palace was very jealous! Of course, these are the last words.
The administrators on the imperial side of the estate came down honestly, did their job, and the fruit trees also had special people waiting for them. Yu Xiaograss focused on serving the watermelon on the king's estate in Yangxian next door. As the nursery was a little late, she asked Little Heavenly Stone to shorten the nursery period by a third. Anyway, there are not many watermelons planted on the outskirts of Kyung. One of them is not grown by a bridging method like her.
At the time of the marriage, she asked the King of Yangxian to select a trustworthy person and teach them how to marry by hand. These people are not tenants of Zhuangzi, but servants of Jingwang Palace, not to mention loyalty can be guaranteed.
Married to watermelon seedlings on the gourd, they were transplanted into the watermelon fields, irrigated with well water with spiritual power, and the growth was natural and good. Those whose hearts made a mockery of Yu Xiaowei's lack of understanding of farming, and who messed with their breath, had long lost their feelings of contempt. If you look at people and break down farming in time, you can also plant fruit trees and watermelons well, and you have to say that you are very good at planting. The Emperor sealed her as a farming officer, a wise decision indeed.
The capital doesn't know how many people are staring at the Imperial Estate. More than two months later, the tenants of the estate, led by the superintendent, harvested corn in flames. Can you hold your feet in the Imperial Estate? Is that not an old crop handle? The maize tenants, full of joy in the harvest, talked about this year's view.
Liu Sangshu had been stationed at the Imperial Palace early in the morning. When he saw the corn stick he had collected, he laughed and the pleats appeared. The corn stick is a lot bigger than last year. The corn particles are full. Compared to last year's harvest, that's really not a grade.
One acre of test field corn was collected first. Liu Sangshu himself took the corn grain down and couldn't wait to weigh it on the floor. Heh! One acre actually yielded 2,000 kg of food!! I thought the yield of more than 1,000 kilograms last year was already high. Compared to this year, it was abused as scum last year. Surely, it is wise to let Miss Yu run the estate as a farmer!
Those who stared at the Imperial Estate and waited to see the lively officials shut their mouths. Most officials in the Chapel were opposed to the appointment of a little girl as a household official. However, the emperor's attitude was resolute, facilitated by the family minister and the Yangxian king, and they were not resolutely opposed to it and were watching it change.
The output of this year's estate is similar to last year's, if not worse. They have something to say. After all, the annual landscape is different and the climate is different, which is why “the people eat by the sky” is said.
The year was not very good, with very little rain after the summer, even the Royal Estate's deep well water level was minimal. After autumn, there were several more torrential rains, which certainly had some impact on crop growth. People on the outskirts of Beijing lost 30% or more of their food production. I thought the little girl must have planted it.
I didn't expect the Imperial Estate to be unaffected by the weather, stunned by much higher yields than last year. Officials sent from the Household Department were also surprised by the data they got back. Farmers who bought maize seeds and went back to grow them actually produced more than a kilogram. In this way, corn, as a high-yielding crop, will soon be promoted in the North. I'm afraid if we line up next year to buy seeds, we'll squeeze out the grain stores in the capital!
Tang Gu's data also came in, and the rest of the family nearly a thousand mu (Yangxian King's 800 mu to Yu Xiaograss, naturally into Yujiazhuang's house) harvested more than 1.8 million kilograms of food. In other words, the acreage is close to 2,000. I heard Tang Gu and surrounding villages sent representatives to negotiate with Yuhai to buy maize seeds at high prices. If the rest of the family says yes, this high-yielding crop of maize will first be popularized in Tang Gu!
Tang Gu is the sealed land of the Yangxian King, and the credit for the popularization of high-yielding crops cannot be left to the Yangxian King alone. As a result, the chapel became lively these days, discussing the widespread cultivation of maize in the outskirts of Beijing and surrounding prefectures.
The troubles in the chapel have nothing to do with Yu Xiaograss, a six-point official. Now she's bored and rich!
In the summer, Yu Xiaograss planted a hundred acres of watermelon on the next estate and is now on the market. She roughly estimated that watermelon acres produced more than 8,000 kg this season. Watermelon seedlings after marriage, improved disease and pest resistance, coupled with the spiritual power contained in the soil, make it very convenient for people on the estate who specialize in serving watermelons.
When the first watermelons matured, the watermelons on the market were long gone. When the big, sweet watermelon came on the market, it was quickly robbed. In the Yuwei of autumn tigers, eating a sweet, cool watermelon is an unparalleled feeling!
Plus, the watermelons on Prince Yangshen's estate are bigger than regular watermelons, and the red and white melons inside are not separated by the sweeping green and white melons, and they taste better. If this watermelon were to go on the market in the summer, the average watermelon would have been robbed without a single market. With watermelons with more sweet juice and plenty of water, who would rarely have melon nuts that taste like snacks?
A hundred acres of watermelon is still missing, and the supply of noble officials in the capital is not enough. Whether it's a civilized party, a friend drinking, a flower party for a girlfriend show, or a banquet for the ladies, if a plate of watermelon fruit is missing from the table, everyone else will complain that the owner has neglected them. Gradually, the owner will find that when the banquet is set up again, the object of the banquet will push three blocks and four blocks to find excuses to escape. His (her) friends are not as close as they used to be...
Watermelon sales exploded, Yu Xiaograss was happy for a few days, and started to get busy again. The plastic film of the workforce finally met her requirements, not only tough but also transparent. The vegetable shed was built in flames.
Busy figures everywhere in the Imperial Estate. In the test field, the corn straw was chopped down, and the roots of the corn had to be picked up one by one, and ploughed deep into the ground. Yu Xiaograss commanded the construction of a vegetable shed while busy breeding winter wheat. It's a breeding, it's just a cat that lets the little patchwork stone illusion run back and forth in the warehouse and soak up the spiritual energy into the seeds.
The vegetable shed is also co-operated by some people in the workforce. The bare roof support has kept the workforce busy for some time. With regard to the vegetable shed, Yu Xiaograss knew only half of it, relying on her previous life's experience of working in the vegetable shed for six months, she thought about building it while making slow progress.
Under the iron making techniques of this era, steel production is even lower. So the skeleton of the steel structure is out of the question, only bamboo can be chosen as the skeleton. With bamboo poles and wood as the arch material, the plastic film is covered when the backbone is supported. In winter, the grass-roots layer is very warm.
By the time the winter wheat has been sown, the vegetable shed will be ready. The first year was inexperienced and only a hundred acres of large shed farming was carried out. On the next estate, a row of large sheds has also been built, but they are not used to grow vegetables, but to grow anti-seasonal watermelons and melons.
What's most lacking in winter? Vegetables and fruits, of course. Vegetables are cabbage except radish, cabbage or radish. As for fruit, it's dried apples and pears stored in the fall. In the past, even if you had more money, you couldn't get fresh fruit. Not necessarily this winter!
After the big shed is built, Yu Xiaograss will pay her own luggage and invite an experienced vegetable farmer from nearby to serve the vegetables in the big shed. Green leaf vegetables grow for a short period of time, and when seeds are dispersed, especially with spiritual power, they grow well and can be harvested in a month.
For vegetables like cucumbers, eggplants, bean horns and tomatoes, they are grown in special sheds, faster and better than in spring. The hired vegetable farmers are amazing. However, they thought it was the effect of the sheds, and were surprised and eager to open the court to the sale of plastic films. Will they be able to grow such vegetables in the future?
Every year at the end of the fall, when people store their autumn vegetables, cabbage radishes pile up in the cellar and can eat all winter. As soon as this time of year, the feast is minimized, because the dishes are too single to be eaten.
But not this year! The pattern of the capital city, east, west, rich, north, poor and south. Jingwang Palace has established five additional vegetable melon fruit shops in the east and west of the city. Generally speaking, in late autumn and early winter, such shops are either converted to dried fruit or closed. Because there are no fruits and vegetables to sell! The King's Palace has opened a number of new fruit and vegetable shops.
Thinking of the vegetable shed and watermelon shed of the Imperial Village on the outskirts of Beijing, Jingzhong Da Guan's noble and wealthy merchant giant Jia's gaze focused on these shops. Because we all know that there are not many vegetables grown in this year's big shed, we don't know if we can supply the entire city with vegetable consumption.
The fruit and vegetable shop is finally opening in anticipation. The first batch was served with green leaves. Fresh spinach, fresh oatmeal, crispy raw celery, green oil lettuce, as well as rice noodles, pickles, wood ear dishes, pea seedlings, etc. filled with local shelves, that green color makes people love it, can't help but buy it all back.
On the first day of business, these fruit and vegetable shops were doing well. Since it was a limited sale, the privileged buyers almost didn't fight. Fortunately, the King of Yangxian had seen the flourishing of the halibut shop, and a foresighted guard had been sent to maintain order so as not to cause a violent conflict.