Xiao Yao carefully checked the cash recovered with the output registered by Steward Liu, and asked Xiaocui to bring the account book sent by Qiusheng, remove the reasonable loss, and all the accounts were matched, and Xiao Yao was very satisfied.
Several decisions are made. 1.
Let Steward Liu tell the farmers who grow vegetables to take care of the vegetables left in the field, and let Zhuang Ding pick all the other remaining vegetables in the field, give five catties of each vegetable to the farmer who grows vegetables, two catties for each of the other farmers, and send five catties to each vegetable shop in the city, and hand over the rest to the kitchen for the people living in the farm to eat. 2.
Give the peasant households who grow vegetables the maximum yield of wheat per mu as originally agreed, and immediately divide 40% of the wheat for them to take back, and at the same time reward the vegetable farmers with one tael of silver per mu.
Third, the monthly money for Liu Steward rose to six taels, (more than ten times higher than the previous five hangings) because of the management of rice, so no longer rations will be issued in the future, and the monthly silver for his wife has also risen to five yuan, five Zhuang Ding monthly silver taels, food and housing, 500 catties of rations every year, sent to the home.
Because of the hard work in the past few months, Liu Guan was given a reward of 20 taels of silver, Zhuang Ding was 10 taels each, and Liu's sister-in-law was given 5 taels.
In addition, a reward of twenty taels of silver was also given to Qiusheng in the vegetable shop in the city, and Qiuyue's father, mother, sister-in-law, and invited men each received five taels of silver.
As soon as Xiao Yao's decision was announced, the entire farm and village were boiling, Steward Liu's family and the five Zhuang Ding didn't expect their master family to be so generous, and they were usually very generous to them, but now they not only increased their monthly money, but also gave out so many silver rewards, which is money that they can't earn back for many years.
One by one, they happily went to Xiaocui to receive the silver, and spontaneously kowtowed to Xiao Yao to thank him.
The people in the village, I heard that more than a dozen families who planted vegetables not only received forty percent of the wheat, but also gave one or two pieces of silver per acre, all red-eyed, peasant households, some have never seen silver in several lifetimes, and those who grow vegetables, less than five taels, more than ten taels, each household is happy that they can't sleep all night, I can't imagine that the new owner is so generous, although this season's vegetables are tired and bitter, but compared with the income, it is much more valuable.
In the countryside, you can marry a daughter-in-law for three taels of silver, which is a lot of money.
Several families made an appointment to go to the farm together to thank Xiao Yao and Steward Liu, and by the way, they said that they would still grow vegetables next year.
Those who didn't grow vegetables were jealous and regretful, and they also came to ask for vegetables to be planted next year.
Xiao Yao smiled and comforted them, letting them grow food with peace of mind, and assuring them that as long as they did what she asked, they could earn money.
Let them quickly refertilize the fields, plough and water them, prepare the fields and go to Steward Liu to receive seeds, and let them plant new grain varieties --- corn.
These people now listened to Xiao Yao's words, but when they listened to the holy decree, they immediately went back to serve their own land, Xiao Yao asked Steward Liu if there were still rice seedlings?
She just read the book, saying that rice and vegetable rotation is the most suitable soil, Liu steward said after looking at the seedbed, there are still a lot of seedlings left, should be able to plant another ten acres.
Xiao Yao asked the ten acres of vegetable land next to the rice field to be converted into a rice field, and the rest of the vegetable field was disinfected with quicklime water before continuing to grow autumn and winter vegetables.
The seeds brought by Xiao Yao are: broccoli, lotus white, cauliflower, chrysanthemum, oily lettuce, lettuce.
Xiao Yao handed over all the things such as farming, paying all kinds of taxes and forced labor, etc., to Steward Liu, and began to devote himself to building his own manor.
This season's vegetables earned her more than 8,000 taels of silver, and after deducting the cost, there were nearly 8,000 taels of reward.
She could have built a comfortable manor as she wished.
For this reason, she went to the capital to arrange things to do for Qiusheng, who had nothing to do for the time being.
Let him find her the best team of craftsmen in the capital, the more people the better, she knows that the construction efficiency in ancient times is not better than that of modern times, all rely on labor, the construction period will be very long, and she wants to move in before the arrival of winter.
So a lot of craftsmen are needed.
The second job she found for Qiusheng was to ask him to find sawdust in the capital, especially in the places where the official family built houses and palaces, collected a large number of sawdust shavings and other sawdust, and sent them to the farm by car after collecting, Xiao Yao didn't tell him what he wanted these sawdust that no one wanted, and Qiusheng didn't ask much.
The third job is to find a workshop for burning porcelain, let them burn some utensils according to Xiao Yao's paintings, and send them to the farm after they are fired.
The fourth job was to ask him to go to the blacksmith who had made the iron hot pot in the first place, make another batch of pots, and let him make something else according to the way he drew it.
Originally, as soon as the dishes were sold out, Qiusheng's shop had nothing to do, and they were at a loss.
Xiao Yao has always given them the moon silver, and he will not let the guy quit.
Qiusheng felt quite guilty in his heart.
Now that he had found so many jobs at once, he immediately became happy. happily drove away with his buddies.
Xiao Yao returned to the farm, and according to the villa and farm and her own home in the previous life she had seen, she designed the main building of her manor, which is the house she wants to live in.
The main building is well designed, which is the design of the entire manor.
According to her idea, the manor should have a large granary, underground cold storage, mushroom room, nursery room, large kitchen, small kitchen, dining room, conference room, the house of Steward Liu's family, a place to collect grain and vegetables, Steward Liu's office and reception room, and his own special office and reception room.
The maid, Zhuang Ding's house, the dormitory of the temporary hired workers, the drying ground for grain, and the parking place for the horse shed and three carriages (Xiao Yao bought two carriages) and so on, Xiao Yao also wanted to build a greenhouse in the back garden and plant some out-of-season vegetables in winter.
But she didn't want to spoil the view of the back garden.
At a cursory glance, the existing farms are not large enough and not enough.
Finding Steward Liu to discuss the expansion with him, to see if he could buy the land around Zhuangzi and expand it into Zhuangzi, Steward Liu smiled when he heard it, and said to Xiao Yao: "Miss, the land around Zhuangzi is ours, we are temporarily lending it to tenants to let them build houses and live in it temporarily, and now we want to use it, we just need to take back these lands." ” Xiao Yao was overjoyed when she heard this, and asked Steward Liu to find another Zhuang base, and compensated these tenants with a sum of silver that could build a new house, so that they could hurry up and build a house and move out.
Vacate the Grange and prepare to rebuild the estate.
Qiusheng soon found a large number of craftsmen who built houses, there were seventy or eighty people, and the chief craftsman was an old man of about fifty years old, who was said to have worked in the palace when he was young, and later he had been a master craftsman who built houses and repaired houses for high-ranking officials and nobles in the capital, and brought a group of apprentices with excellent craftsmanship, who were famous in the capital.
Qiusheng spent a lot of words and paid a lot of money before he said that he would gather people to work in a remote mountain village so far away from Beijing.
Xiao Yao has great respect for the old man, other craftsmen live in their own temporary grass huts, Xiao Yao rented a private house for the old man and several big craftsmen, and let the lady of the Liu steward cook for them alone, and hired four or five tenant women to cook and wash for other craftsmen, boil tea and send water, food treatment is something they have never had before, fine rice and white noodles, there is meat at once, because it is a hot day, white sugar and mung bean water, supplied all day.
The craftsmen are treated with unprecedented respect and work hard.
Xiao Yao contracted all the work and materials of the manor to the construction team, and the quality and price of the materials were checked by Steward Liu, because he did not understand the quality and price of wood, fire bricks, and Steward Liu had participated in the construction of the original old manor, and he was much more expert than Xiao Yao.
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Xiao Yao just told Liu that he must have good materials and don't be afraid to spend money.
To give the house time to prepare materials, Xiao Yao asked the craftsmen to dig underground facilities such as underground cold storage and biogas digesters according to her requirements.
Chicken farms, pig sheds, cowsheds, horse sheds and sheepfolds were built outside the village with bricks and timber from old houses.
The ancients were very kind-hearted, and the bricks, wood, stucco, etc. they bought were reasonably priced and of good quality.
This made Xiao Yao very satisfied.
After preparing the materials, Xiao Yao's whole mind turned to his own design through repeated negotiations with the old man to modify them, and let the old man build them.
The old man is really a skilled craftsman, although he can't fully understand Xiao Yao's design, but he can cleverly lead the craftsman to build the things that Xiao Yao wants according to the design.
For three months, Xiao Yao soaked in the construction site during the day, modified the design at night, added or subtracted some projects, and was busy every day, people became dark and thin, but her spirit was very good, and she was happy every day.
Seeing that the houses in the manor were being built day by day, Xiao Yao let Qiusheng's custom-made porcelain also be burned, Qiusheng personally escorted the car over, and Qiuyue came with him, Xiaocui was so happy that she insisted on staying with Qiuyue for one night, Qiuyue saw that Xiao Yao and Xiaocui lived in a simple house, the surrounding environment was also very poor, and her eyes were red, Xiao Yao smiled and said: "Now it's only temporary, in another month, you will live in a new house, the new house is much better than here, you don't want to leave when you come." ” Xiao Yao asked Xiaocui to accompany Qiuyue to the village, and he took Qiusheng and porcelain to the manor's room to install these things.
Xiao Yao customized the toilet, sewer pipe and washbasin, she asked the craftsman in advance to reserve the place to install the coarse porcelain pipe, using the method of inserting a thin pipe into the thick pipe, from the second floor to the first floor, and the first floor to the underground biogas tank, the interface was wrapped tightly with coarse linen, and then sealed with mud, and finally let the craftsman use bricks to build these pipes in the corner, everything was done, it was already dark, Xiao Yao took Qiusheng back to the rented place, Xiaocui and Qiuyue had already prepared the meal, the two of them washed their own, and hurried to eat, after eating, Xiao Yao asked about the situation in Qiusheng City, assigned him a new task, and asked him to go to the room prepared for him by Xiaocui and Qiuyue to rest, Qiuyue and Xiaocui came over to change Xiao Yao's men's clothes and put on light pajamas, Xiaocui brought the three of them mung bean water that had been frozen for a day with well water to quench their thirst.
Qiu Yue said to Xiao Yao in a hesitant manner: "Jia Si, who is next to the emperor, has come to the shop. ” Xiao Yao said indifferently: "Come on, come on, is he going to buy vegetables?"
” Qiu Yue saw that she didn't attract the attention of the young lady, and then said: "The emperor may have known that our family was ransomed, Jia Si went to see me in the shop, he asked me if I was redeemed by you, and asked me where you are?"
I kept saying no, I don't know.
He didn't say anything and left.
I don't think he believes it at all, I came back with my brother in the city for a long time, and I was sure that no one followed, so I just wanted to tell you about it, Miss, so that you can be mentally prepared in advance, but I am afraid that someone will find me soon. ” Xiao Yao listened, didn't speak for a long time, thought to himself that it seemed that trouble was coming again, and after thinking about it, he knew that he was not as good as before, he had a family and a business, he could live on his own, and he could live well, as long as he resolutely refused to go back to the capital, he would never force himself to go, right?
Thinking through everything, he said to Qiu Yue, who was looking at her nervously: "I know, don't worry, if he finds here, I have my own way to deal with it." ” In the next month, Xiao Yao asked the carpenter to make different styles of furniture for the room where he and Xiaocui lived and the various rooms in the manor according to the furniture he had painted in his previous life, of course, the most popular ancient furniture in the capital.
The craftsmen have already begun to build the courtyard walls, lay the floor tiles for the courtyard, and do the finishing work.
Xiao Yao took a group of craftsmen to install the custom-made things sent by Qiusheng in each room in his manor villa.
The upstairs floor where I live is covered with solid wood floors.
By the end of September, all the buildings of the manor, including the courtyard walls and gates, had been built, and the floor tiles had been paved.
All that was left was to paint the interior and exterior walls, paint the wood in the eaves roof corridors, and paint a few doors.
Xiao Yao was dizzy and dizzy all day long, because no one could replace her in many things, and she had to do it herself and teach the craftsmen to do it.
I don't care about the things in the field.
It's all up to Steward Liu to be busy.
During this period, the corn in the field obtained a bumper harvest, the highest yield per mu reached 900 catties, and the minimum was more than 700 catties, because the tenant farmers had never eaten corn, and Steward Liu told them that they could give 20% of wheat per mu according to the yield of corn, and 3 coins of silver.
After all, growing corn is not as hard as growing vegetables.
Moreover, the yield of corn is much higher than that of wheat, and two percent of eight or nine hundred catties is a little more than forty percent of four hundred catties.
These corn tenants harvested an extra crop of wheat, and each household received three to six taels of silver, and they were very satisfied.
No more fussing about growing vegetables.
After harvesting the corn, they all applied fertilizer as soon as possible, and went to Steward Liu to receive wheat seeds.
Xiao Yao told Steward Liu that his wheat crops were good, and he could yield thousands of catties per mu, and he should have seven or eight hundred catties at the next point.
Steward Liu now believes 100% of Xiao Yao's words.
Therefore, he adjusted the rent back to 70%, first, because the seeds were provided by Zhuangzi, and according to the convention, 70% should be paid.
Second, the seeds are good, and the yield per mu is high, which is basically twice the best yield per mu in the past, and 30 percent is more than 40 percent in the past, and the tenant farmers do not suffer losses.
Xiao Yao thought for a moment and nodded in agreement.
(To be continued)