Take the farm down to earth

Chapter 33 033
"Yes", Shun'er understood Shi Zhongkui's meaning, "I'll send someone to ask my uncle and master, there should be news back soon."

"En", Shi Zhongkui nodded, and waved Shun'er to leave, but he thought in his heart that Xue Pan's birthday should be the third day of May if he remembered correctly.

The third day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar is only about a month away. If it is replaced by modern time, it will be almost the beginning of June. Xue Pan will definitely feel honored to send some large and excellent-looking peaches there.

Sitting on a chair and waiting for Jia's family to come to the door, Shi Zhongkui's mind couldn't help sinking into the space farm in his mind.

The first peach tree to be planted on the farm was already six or seven meters high four months ago, with a diameter as thick as half a meter.

It's a pity that there are still only 20 fruits on the tree, ten catties a day, not a penny more, and not a penny less.

Moreover, the taste didn't get much better, even after eating too much, Shi Zhongkui still felt that it was not as delicious as before.

Therefore, he only kept a peach tree as a thought, hoping that the tree would gradually become a spiritual fruit due to the age.

After more than five months, 20 fields have been planted with peaches for 20 days in a row to make 1 kilograms of preserved fruit. There are also about 1500 kilograms of fresh peaches in the warehouse.

6 Two of the best peaches weigh about 600 catties at this time.

小麦种了在19块田地里种了20天收获3800斤，大米直接种了40天，存够了7600千斤。

The rest of the time is allocated to grape persimmons and dates. Occasionally, when there are no fresh vegetables, I also allocate a day or two to plant them from time to time.

So in the past six months, I have been studying behind closed doors at home, and I have not wronged myself by eating.

Early the next morning, he took Shun'er to ride outside the city.

When they arrived at the farm of the family that Xue Pan mentioned, they were overjoyed.

Although this place is not big, it is a farm dedicated to cultivating spices and flowers and making rouge.

With the excuse of a scholar going out for an outing, he easily entered the farm, and was even taken by the head of the village to play among the fields.

And Shi Zhongkui didn't need to steal, Zhuangtou probably wanted to earn some extra money, so he tried his best to recommend all kinds of flowers and potted plants to him.

Pretending to be entangled, I thought it would take a lot of talking, but I didn't expect to buy more than a dozen potted plants including saffron with only 2 taels of silver.

On the way back to the city, Shi Zhongkui sighed, the saffron that the owner's family had worked so hard to find was actually sold by his subordinates for 2 taels of silver.

After returning home, a piece of rhizome was planted, and a large number of teeth were quickly separated. After the teeth were cut, all 19 fields were planted with crocus.

Collect 190 catties of safflower every day, and you can get about 1.8 catties of flower cores.

If it is dehydrated into dry saffron, it costs about 5 taels, 15 catties a month, and 180 catties a year.

One tael of dried flowers is 10 taels of silver, which is indeed equal to one tael of gold.

1.8 taels of silver a year, this income is definitely more than the income of Ningguo Mansion and Rongguo Mansion on the farmland.

After visiting relatives in Yuanchun, Jia Zhen of Ningguo Mansion only received 3000 taels of silver from the farm for one year, while his own expectation was 5 taels.

Even if Jia Zhen said that there were a little more in Rongguo Mansion than in Ningguo Mansion in previous years, the total of the two mansions may not have 1 taels.

Of course, the two prefectures should not only have these incomes, and the farm should not only have one in the north.

Shi Zhongkui would not sell all the saffron he harvested at the beginning.

After all, this thing is a medicinal material after all, but dried flowers can be stored in the warehouse.

Waiting for the right time to sell it is actually the same, and in Central Asia and Europe, saffron is a hard currency that preserves its value better than gold.

Shi Zhongkui also thought about selling it to Arab businessmen or Persians.

The silk and tea in the Central Plains traveled along the Silk Road, firstly through the Yumen Pass, to the Western Regions, and this route was basically controlled by the Persians.

When he went to the market, he saw some blond foreigners

The second is to take the Maritime Silk Road.

Before the great voyage, because the Suez Canal was not opened, the sea merchants who came to Asia were basically Arabs.

The ship went ashore on the Red Sea, traveled overland to the Mediterranean, and went all the way to Venice, Italy, where merchants in Venice sold spices, porcelain, silk and other oriental goods throughout Europe.

The Arab, Persian, and Venetian merchants who mastered this route were the richest group of people in the hundreds of years of the Middle Ages.

The merchants of Venice can even decide the outcome of most wars in Europe.
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Rongguofu.

Mother Jia, who had finished her dinner, saw Wang Xifeng coming over with a happy face and a maid, carrying seven or eight fruit plates.

Look carefully, except for the snacks that are often eaten at home, they are all preserved peaches, dried persimmons, dried dates and raisins.

He couldn't help but asked in doubt, "Girl Feng, preserved peaches, dried persimmons, and dried dates are common, but where did you buy these raisins?"

Wang Xifeng felt happy, Jia Lian finally took a breath for himself, "Old Ancestor, you are asking the wrong person."

See Jia Mu, Mrs. Xing, Mrs. Wang, Li Wan, Jia Baoyu, Lin Daiyu and Sanchun all looking at him.

Wang Xifeng smiled and said, "Didn't the Elder Master let Lian'er go to Daxing to do errands yesterday, and this afternoon when Lian Er came back, he went to the Elder Master.

But Xing'er came to me with some candied fruit and told me that it was a gift from a friend Lian Er made.

I saw that these foods looked no worse than the tributes in the palace, and I had someone try them again, and then I took them out for the old lady, the two wives and the girls to taste. "

When Mother Jia heard that someone had tried it, she felt relieved about Wang Xifeng, and reached out to grab a few raisins and ate them.

"The taste is really good." After finishing speaking, he said to the women who served this table, "You all have a taste, it can be regarded as Lian Er's filial piety, remember us."

A group of women laughed and ate.

After a while, Jia's mother suddenly asked Wang Xifeng, "Is Lian'er still with his father?"

"Isn't it?" Wang Xifeng was worried that Jia Lian would be scolded or even beaten, so she sent these dried fruits, and she saved to call Jia Lian for questioning in the name of Jia's mother.

"It's been two hours. It's not that Lian Er has something important to bother the old man for so long, so that the old man hasn't even been summoned for dinner."

Of course, Mother Jia could hear Wang Xifeng's worry, and after thinking about it, "Yuanyang, ask the East Court, no matter how important the matter is, you have to finish the meal first."

"Yes, old lady."

But Yuanyang only left for a while, and then came back to report, "It was said that the eunuch Xia from the palace is here, and the elder, the master is bringing the second master Lian to accompany him in the Rongxi Hall."

Mother Jia hurriedly ordered someone to watch outside Rongxi Hall.

Not long after, Yuanyang came in again and whispered a report in Jia Mu's ear, "I heard from the master's servant that the master ordered someone to withdraw 500 taels of silver from the public treasury in the mansion."

Mother Jia's face darkened, but she didn't say much. The old lady has experienced too much about eunuchs like Xia Shouzhong being greedy for money.

On the contrary, it is the eunuchs who don't want money when they come to the door, which is the big trouble.

(End of this chapter)