After picking up the daughter of the lucky star, the whole village prospered

The next day, Jiang Sanlang purchased a lot of New Year's items in the county town, and prepared to take them back to his hometown.

He quietly told his daughter that he had sold all the looms at a price of 50 taels each.

"This time I earned more than 800 taels of silver."

Jiang Sanlang smiled and said: "Our family bought a large piece of wasteland on the south slope, and in the spring of next year, we will hire people to open up the wasteland and build a pepper garden there.

When there is too much pepper in the future, no white pepper will be soaked.I have asked people that as long as half-ripe pepper berries are picked and dried directly, the taste of black pepper is more fragrant. "

If white pepper is made, the pepper fruit will have a peculiar smell if it is soaked in water for a long time, and if it is not handled properly, it will smell faintly, which is not as spicy as black pepper.

So Jiang Sanlang decided to make black pepper in the sun in the future.

Yingbao: "That's not bad, it saves a lot of work."

Jiang Sanlang nodded, and said: "The family bought a lot of high-quality paddy fields, and many low-grade dry fields. I plan to use those low-grade fields to grow cotton."

He bought it just in time, as it was the end of the year, and poor farmers in many villages could not survive, so they sold their fields and dragged their children and daughters to Dongchen Village to work as farm laborers.

Now that Dongchen Village is getting richer, the villagers all bought land after they had savings in their hands.

Once there are too many fields, I can't plant them with my own labor alone, so I hired someone to plant them.

After a long time, the poor farmers who are employed feel that it is good to be a farmer in Dongchen Village. At least they don’t have to worry about how to pay the land tax for two seasons a year. Save money, but also buy some fungus species.

The villagers of Dongchen Village freed up their hands to plant more golden fungus, pepper and cotton, etc. In this way, everyone felt that earning money and farming was the right thing to do.

Jiang Sanlang continued: "I am going to build a few tile houses on the open space outside the yard. Your mother said that she would build a weaving workshop there, buy ten looms and twenty spinning wheels, and ask the weavers to come back to spin and weave cloth later. .”

"Okay!" Ying Bao raised her hands in agreement.

In this way, no matter how much cotton you grow at home, you don’t have to worry about not being able to sell it, and the price will be lowered by wealthy merchants in the end.

Speaking of paddy fields, Yingbao suddenly remembered something.

After the new year, I will be six years old, and in May and June of the year when I am six years old, the villages along the Chuan River will suffer from a major flood.

Although this flood is not as destructive as the one a few years later, people will definitely die in the flood.

The farmland along the coast will also be destroyed by the flood, and all the seeds and seedlings in the farmland will be destroyed.

After hesitating for a moment, Yingbao decided to tell his father about it now, so that he can think about countermeasures earlier.

"Father, let me tell you something very important."

Ying Bao said with a serious face: "These days I dreamed of flooding again."

Jiang Sanlang was taken aback: "Dream again?"

He almost forgot that the original intention of his family moving to the south slope was to prevent floods.

"When will it happen?" Jiang Sanlang didn't doubt the authenticity of his daughter's words at all.

Because it turns out that the little girl is like a witch... Ah bah!Like a little fairy, every word she said was as precise as an oracle.

"About May or June." She really forgot the exact date.

I only know that those few days were extremely hot and humid, and then there was a heavy rain with lightning, thunder and thunder, which lasted for several days.

"I dreamed that the farmland around the Chuanhe River was flooded. Not only our village, but all the villages and farmland near the Chuanhe River were washed away by the flood."

The next few sentences were made up by Ying Bao.

According to her guess, nine times out of ten it will be so.

The upper reaches of the Chuanhe River is a big river, and what they have here is just a tributary of that big river.

If the water level of the upstream river soars, it will naturally affect the water level of the downstream tributaries. With the strength of a few small towns alone, there is no way to stop the flood from the upstream. The only way is to evacuate the villagers in advance to reduce the casualties of people and livestock.

Jiang Sanlang looked solemn, and said: "When I go back, I will discuss with Sun Lizheng and see what to do."

This is no small matter.

Not only to prevent casualties, but also to discuss how to prevent the surrounding people from putting all the seeds in.

Once the floods hit the fields and the crops would be wiped out, the people would lose a large amount of grain, and then faced with the urging of Xia Fu, life would probably be unsustainable in the future.

However, the imperial court will not pay attention to such small-scale disasters at all, and there will be no less taxes at that time, and in the end, the people will have to drag their families to flee the fields.

If you think that it has nothing to do with you that the people from the same village flee to the fields, you are very wrong.

Because the taxes they did not pay will be shared equally among the rest of the people.

The more people who escaped, the more taxes were distributed to the remaining people.

This caused one family to flee, followed by ten UNPROFOR families, even though they hadn't lost much.

And if the ten families flee, the dozens of families associated with them must also flee.

In the end, it may cause the entire township to flee.

Although the people in Dongchen Village are rich, no matter how rich they are, they cannot afford the taxes of the whole town.

So we must not let the people lose too much, let alone make them feel that they have to escape.

This matter must be communicated with Lizheng, and then Lizheng will come forward to make the villagers in all villages prepare for the flood.

Afterwards, Jiang Sanlang hurried back to his hometown with his two nieces, a pair of twin sons, and a bunch of things.

Ying Bao and Jiang Quan Jiang Cheng will not go back for the time being.

Because they still have to make more money during the end of the year.

In the past few days, the business of the shop has been getting better and better, and the chestnut cakes and persimmon cakes in the warehouse are almost sold out.

Not only that, the golden fungus was declared sold out, and there were only two samples of the gourd left at the door.

This is why Jiang Quan refused to sell them, otherwise even these two would have been bought.

"The people in the county are really rich." Jiang Quan sighed, then turned to ask his elder brother: "Have you settled your accounts? How much money can we earn this month and last month?"

Jiang Cheng buried himself in dialing the abacus and ignored him.

But Yingbao had a rough estimate in his heart, the money to build a few big houses must be enough.

When spring begins, she will build three, no, five big tile-roofed houses, and a big fireproof and waterproof warehouse.

Then use precious wood to make a row of tables and chairs, so that it will be decent to receive guests in the future.

Most of the people who come from a shop to buy things have a little background, but they can't make people feel that their shop is not good enough.

She wants to build a specialty shop that belongs exclusively to the Jiang family in the county. Even if someone follows suit in the future, she is not afraid to fight her shop.

There is no root water at home, and there are special medicine pills, no matter how bad she is, she is listed as a doctor, specializing in the treatment of difficult and miscellaneous diseases, which can always attract many customers.

Seeing that his elder brother ignored him, Jiang Quan talked to his younger cousin again: "If we earn more this time, let's buy another carriage."

It is too inconvenient to use only that one for inside and outside.

Hearing this, Jiang Cheng raised his head: "You're right, why don't you pay 100 taels of silver from me first, and you and Yingbao go to Luoma Market to buy a carriage and come back, so we can come and go during the Chinese New Year."

Ying Bao clapped her hands in agreement: "That's right! Just buy a carriage, let's go now."

The luoma market will not open even if it is too late, and they all go home and go to busy years.