Traveling through ancient times.

Chapter 123 Daily life

Jiang Yizhou was very pleased to see Yucui and Yunxin, who had completely transformed into real stewards.

He said, "That place is even more barren and desolate than here, and it is dozens of miles away from the town market. If you want to develop it, the initial investment will be very large. Now you should prepare for this year's summer harvest, and it won't be too late to make arrangements there after the funds are recovered."

Yunxin said, "We contracted out several hundred acres of land last year. According to the rate you gave, we only charged 30% rent. For the rest, if they are willing to sell their grain to us, we will buy it at five cents per pound, or they can sell it themselves."

"Because it has become their own land, these people take very good care of it. I conservatively estimated that the yield could reach 1,000 catties. We can collect at least 100,000 catties in rent. According to the current market price, five cents per catty, plus some other income, it is probably more than 1,000 taels of silver."

"There is also the wasteland that was reclaimed last year. After several rounds of forage and vegetable planting, this season we planted the wheat seeds given by the owner. I went to check it out a few days ago. It's growing well, and the yield per mu can be at least 500 to 600 kilograms."

Jiang Yizhou nodded. The saline-alkali land had just been reclaimed, and it was quite good to be able to reach this level.

She said, "By the way, don't sell the wheat you harvested over there for now. Let's store the granary we built earlier for now."

There are about 2,000 acres of land, and 500 kilograms per acre, which is about 1 million kilograms.

Yun Xin said: "I think although the current grain prices are not as high as last year, if everyone grows high-quality wheat in the future, the price will definitely drop." If you sell it now, you can get more money in return.

Jiang Yizhou did not hide anything from her capable subordinates. She said frankly: "Have you noticed that the rain this year has become less than in previous years?"

They looked at each other. Although they were busy with various things all day, they often went to the fields and occasionally heard people say that there was less rain in recent years.

But the farm has a complete irrigation system, and the most important thing is that it draws water from a tributary of the Canglang River, so they don't feel much about it.

Several people nodded in agreement, promising to make preparations according to the instructions of the head of the family.

Jiang Yizhou: "Let's plant rice on the wasteland next season to further purify the salt and alkali in it."

Yun Xin wrote it down in her notebook, "Master, should we still store this rice?"

Jiang Yizhou: "This improved rice variety has not been promoted yet. When the time comes, take out half of it and promote it like the wheat before. Each household in Yunshan will be charged three cents per catty, with a limit of ten catties. The rest will be charged ten cents per catty. The rest will also be hoarded."

"it is good."

Yucui: "For the project, we basically pay with grain and keep accounts, so we don't have any cash income, but we can barely break even."

Jiang Yizhou: "It's good enough that you can maintain the balance here. Right now, the people don't have extra money and food. It will be fine in two years."

She paused for a moment. "By the way, the project is mainly about adjusting the surplus labor force at the moment. We can relax a little during the busy farming season and slow down the projects that are not urgent. We can recruit more people during the slack season. The infrastructure suggestions you gave me before were very good. Just follow this step. Roads, canals, ponds, warehouses, and entertainment facilities can also be arranged. In short, try not to have too much surplus labor here."

Yucui nodded heavily, "Master, I understand."

In the past, they didn't understand that, apart from building canals and roads, which could bring some practical benefits, the rest was simply sending money and food out.

Now they understood, in the words of the owner of the house, that only by sending out the food could these people have enough to eat, survive, and continue to stay on the farm.

They gave the money away so that these people had money to buy things on the farm.

In the end, their labor was given to the farm, and their money would also return to the farm.

It seemed like a long detour, and it seemed to be a futile effort, but it firmly tied these people to the interests of the farm.

Tao Er's cement workshop has expanded its production scale and can now produce five to six thousand kilograms of cement per day, but it is still in short supply.

However, most of the funds still came from County Magistrate He, with more than 2,000 taels of silver returned every month.

He has saved more than 10,000 taels from the Chinese New Year to now, but nearly half of it was used to open the honeycomb coal workshop, the Yunshan grain station, and other local affairs.

As for the rest, Jiang Yizhou asked people to continue to stockpile carbon stones.

Because Yunshan was basically all developed for growing crops and setting up workshops, as the population increased, there was simply not enough firewood.

The daily kiln firing, plus the daily consumption on the farm, requires a large amount of fuel.

If anything happens in the future, the fuel issue alone will be enough to strangle Zhuangzi.

Therefore, no matter what he planned to do next, Jiang Yizhou made stockpiling food and carbon stone his top priority.

Jiang Yizhou glanced at several senior managers and said, "Once the funds are in place, we will go to develop the wasteland of Jiang'an County. I asked you to train some people to take over. How are you doing?"

Several people seemed very excited and were eager to get started. The construction here was basically on the right track. Many of them had grown up with them and could take over with a little guidance.

Although it is more comfortable to stay here, their hearts are gradually becoming bigger - the world outside is so big, they are lucky enough to follow the head of the family, so of course they want to go out and take a good look.

Although pioneering is more difficult than living here in retirement, but... watching the land become full of vitality little by little, and turning from barren to prosperous, the sense of accomplishment is irreplaceable by anything else.

So except for Tao Er and Tao Da, one of them is in charge of the ceramic workshop and the other is in charge of the most important cement workshop, the other managers all expressed that they are ready and can go out with the owner of the house to venture out at any time.

Jiang Yizhou was very satisfied looking at the people he had brought up.

What made her most sad was that most of these managers were women.

So, although women can only stay in the back house, is it just short-sighted and narrow-minded? It’s just because this society does not give them a platform.

In other words, this society confines them to the tiny space of the backyard, limiting their space to explore and create.

She even had some doubts. In fact, those vested interests knew that women had great potential, so they were afraid that once they were given space and platforms, they would no longer be under their control and they would lose their innate sense of superiority.

Without further ado, it has been nearly half a year since Jiang Yizhou left the farm at the beginning of the year. This is the first time this year that he has held a formal meeting with everyone.

After checking everyone's work, I made arrangements for the next work.

They were just waiting for the summer harvest to be over and the funds from Yunshan Special Brewing to be recovered, and then they would prepare to go to Jiang'an County to open up new land.