Women Wearing Men: The Growth Path of the Bastards of the Aristocratic Family

After coming out of the Yibin County Government Office, Gu Yunji felt depressed in his chest.

Although the final result was achieved, it can be seen from the scene where the chiefs were arguing just now that they were not active in planting yams, and they were even very resistant.Moreover, Gu Yunji visited several towns later, and found that this was not a special case in Fuxing Town, but a common phenomenon in the entire Xuzhou Prefecture.

Lichang is the lowest level of officials, representatives of the general public, like the ordinary people of this era, with narrow vision and weak ability to accept new things; Li has a lot of power, and they can say whatever they want in front of the villagers. As long as they want to, they can block all the news from the government.

However, the head of the village knows the situation of their respective villages very well, and can talk to every villager. The government has limited manpower, and it is impossible to follow the order from top to bottom. Li long.

The matter of promoting yams was even more difficult than Gu Yunji imagined.

Gu Yunji was walking back to the government office with a frown on his face, when he saw Zhang Cuiying walking over with excitement on her face: "Mr. Gu, are there any more potato seeds? We don't have enough in the village, every household wants them."

Gu Yunji looked at her in surprise: "Are you sure? I don't even want the chiefs of other villages, but your village doesn't have enough?"

Zhang Cuiying smiled embarrassingly: "Maybe they don't know how good yams are, so they are unwilling to accept them. Our village is different. When I planted yams for adults before, in order to avoid leaking, I hired people from the village to do it." Long-term workers, they have seen the high yield of yams with their own eyes."

"Before I was worried that it would spoil the adults, I didn't let them speak out, and I couldn't hold them back. Later, when I heard that you want to distribute seeds for free in the Syrian state capital to promote, everyone was very happy, and immediately told the family. , This matter has been spread in our village for a long time.”

"Everyone was very disappointed to learn that the potato seeds were only distributed to the village head. Let me ask you, sir, can you make an exception and allocate an extra batch of seeds to Zhangjia Village, so that every household can plant a little bit?"

Speaking of this, Zhang Cuiying said hastily: "Of course, if your lord is in a difficult situation, then forget it. We will definitely follow your lord's arrangement."

Under the premise that the progress of other towns is not going well, it is rare for the villagers of Zhangjia Village to be so active. Gu Yunji finally got some comfort in his depressed mood, so he couldn't bear to refuse: "This is no problem. How about allocating another thousand catties of good seeds to Zhangjiacun, and how much each family gets, you can distribute it yourself?"

Zhang Cuiying smiled happily: "Okay, okay, no problem, thank you, Mr. Gu!"

When it was time to get the seeds, Zhang Cuiying left happily, but the enthusiasm of one village in Zhangjia Village did not mean that other villages were also very active. Judging from the entire Syrian prefecture, the people were not very interested in planting yams.

A few months later, on the eve of New Year's Eve, the first-generation yam seeds distributed to the village chief were supposed to be ripe. Gu Yunji visited several villages at random, intending to see the situation.

Unsurprisingly, the situation is dire.

At the beginning, when those chiefs were in front of Gu Yunji, they were submissive due to his power, and they promised well, but in fact they didn't pay much attention to it in their hearts.There are quite a few people who do one thing to the face and another thing behind the back, and after returning home, they don’t grow them at all, and the yams pile up at home are rotten and no one cares about them.Hearing from a distance that the government came to inspect it, he hurriedly prepared to dispose of it, but finally bumped into Gu Yunji and others head-on, and the scene was very embarrassing for a while.

Some people planted 150 catties of yams, but only harvested about [-] catties, and stubbornly claimed that the yield of yams was so high, and there was nothing tricky about it.In the end, under Gu Yunji's repeated questioning, the other party was willing to admit that half of the seeds had been eaten by them, and they hadn't planted all of them.

There are even a few outrageous cases, the yams were distributed to relatives and friends to eat as soon as they were taken back, and not a single bit of sown yams were left behind.When they heard that the government was coming to inspect it, they were afraid of being punished, so they unexpectedly obtained dozens of catties of taro, dyed it vividly yellow with dye, and insisted that it was potato in front of Gu Yunji.

Gu Yun's complexion was even yellower than that of "Potato" at that time, and he was so angry that he almost pouted on the spot.

Of course, many of them still took this matter very seriously and went back to plant potatoes according to the government's requirements. As a result, this led to another part of the chaos.

Some people are fearful and sincere, for fear of ruining what the government entrusted, after planting the yams, they go to see them from time to time, weeding once every three days, and watering once every two days.Because I was too worried, I pulled out the yams one by one to see how they were growing when they were halfway grown, and the result was unquestionable—they were all planted to death.

After some visits and spot checks, in the end, less than one-third of the village chiefs completed the tasks assigned by the government, and the results were very unsatisfactory.

When the news reached the magistrate's house, Yan Zhengqian almost burst out laughing: "I have long felt that this is unreliable, and Gu Yunji insisted on doing it. Now it's all right, screwed it up? Few people are willing to do it." Kind! Fortunately, I didn't agree to take the money at the beginning, otherwise I, the prefect, would also be implicated."

The master Pang Fu also gloated: "Actually, it's not that no one wants to plant them. One of the villagers in Fuxing Town planted them well after returning home, and finally harvested more than 200 catties of yams! As a result, the guy saw that the yield was so high. With greed, he hid a thousand catties at home, and only took out more than 200 catties to distribute to the villagers."

"Later, Gu Yunji led people to conduct spot checks in their village. As soon as the Dongchuang incident happened, the villagers realized that the village chief had hidden so much. They were so angry that they scuffled with him. Fortunately, Chen Peishi took it for him, that kid still has a big bump on his forehead."

Yan Zhengqian laughed again when he heard the words, and finally sighed hypocritically: "Young people are impatient, eager for quick success, so ambitious, and always want to make a big career, how can it be so easy in reality? When he reaches my age, he will You will understand that there are all kinds of things in the world, and everything is not easy."

Pang Fu looked puzzled: "It's strange to say, what kind of favor did that Huizhou merchant named Fan Li take from Gu Yunji, and he was willing to give him 5000 taels of silver to buy seeds for nothing? Now things are messed up, and the 5000 taels of silver is gone." The water is floating, Fan Li must fight him desperately?"

Yan Zhengqian said slowly: "I don't know if I'm going all out or not, but if I were Gu Yunji, I'd be too guilty to see Fan Li long ago!"

The promotion of yams was not ideal. Although Gu Yunji was disappointed, he did not regret it. No matter what you do, the first step from scratch is the most difficult.What's more, his move is equivalent to speeding up the process of history. Originally, potatoes would not be introduced to the mainland for at least several decades, but now it is so much earlier, it is certain that it will be difficult.

That being said, Gu Yunji still feels a little guilty towards Fan Li in his heart, the potato business is already like this, and the best reward and compensation for him is to manage the pepper business well.