Traveling to Daliang Kingdom starts from falling into the water

Chapter 901 Is it okay not to beat him?

When he heard his father ask if there were at least three parties involved, Gu Wenxuan's eyes lit up, and without saying anything more, he quickly went to flip through the papers on the Eight Immortals table.

Gu Erzhu saw his eldest son reach out and pull out a piece of rice paper buried under a stack of papers. The piece of rice paper was not big, only about the size of his palm.

Of course, if you spread your hands out, they would be two slaps.

My hands are itchy.

Is it okay not to beat him?

"Dad, look."

"I can't read." Gu Erzhu said arrogantly, but his eyes were honest as he looked at the contents on the paper. "Five lines, five families?"

"Yes."

They have a prominent background. They are princes, emperors, princesses, emperor's consorts, and important officials in the court. It seems that only the Zhao family is a little inferior among them. No wonder his sixth son said that his senior brother Qian didn't want the young couple to offend anyone.

"Burn it." Gu Erzhu crumpled the paper into a ball and handed it to his oldest son. "Dad has a plan in mind. Tell your father-in-law later, and don't write it on paper."

"My son knows that there are too many things for you to worry about in the future. I was afraid that I would forget them, so I wrote them down specially for you to read this morning."

Gu Erzhu thought that this was the case. His Liu Lang was not so stupid as to write this when he was preparing to write a lot of paper.

Seeing that his eldest son had torn up the paper ball, put it on the fire tray with a tinder to light it, and was waiting with a poker to disperse the ashes, he smiled and shook his head.

Afterwards, he did not wait for his eldest son to finish his work and come back to talk to him, but simply went to read the contents of the paper spread out above the Eight Immortals Table.

Well, this manor wants to make a whole sack. As I said before, this manor has an orchard for making candied fruit. I want to add fruit wine, which is also possible. Home-brewed fruit wine is very good...

Gu Wenxuan wiped his hands with a towel and turned back to Gu Erzhu's side. His father had already moved to the other side of the eight-immortals table at a fairly fast speed.

What happened to you not being able to read?
Of course, not only were the sketches he drew basically clear at a glance, but the notes he wrote were also simple and clear without being too abstruse, so it was no surprise that his father could understand them.

There is a kind of person who can learn everything very quickly since childhood, but lacks someone to guide him. His current grandparents are undoubtedly not competent parents.

If the family had been supporting his father to study for the imperial examinations, based on his father's IQ and EQ, compared with the Zhao family in the control group, the Gu family might have surpassed the Zhao family before the age of 20.

"I understand all of this. I have to say that my son is quite smart! But, Liu Lang, how come you don't understand the work in the fields?"

"What?" Gu Wenxuan looked puzzled, and glanced at the place his father pointed at, "I'm right, isn't the purpose of raising pigs to fertilize the fields?"

"That's not it. It wouldn't be wrong for each farm to have a pigpen or something. The three farms we had before were very well maintained. Dad was talking about throwing manure."

When spring ploughing begins, there is one job that must be done, and that is spreading manure.

Preparations for composting usually begin in the summer of the previous year.

The manure pit for composting is very large, and the manure is piled up as high as a hill. After a winter of accumulation, it becomes particularly solid when winter comes, and needs to be broken up with a spike rake.

Of course, these heavy labor jobs are hard labor jobs. If there are tenant farmers, they are the tenant farmers' jobs. If there are no tenant farmers, they are hired as long-term workers. Otherwise, ordinary servants can't handle it. Besides, his servants are busy, including the little kids. Everyone has their own talents and specialties, and they also have their own work areas.

It is impossible for him and his wife to send a servant who has the potential to be a manager to do these chores. At most, they can hire a long-term worker to benefit the village. Anyway, there are many people who want to be his long-term worker.

It must be said that even though the treatment offered by his family is apparently not much different from that of the Zhao and Tian families, which are known as philanthropic families, the benefits offered by his family are still the best.

For example, during the two quarters of last year, he and his wife intentionally relaxed some of the tax benefits, so that his tenants could basically have two meals a day.

He said that in today's era, even if the weather is good and there is no famine, as long as the tenants can have two meals a day without having to eat porridge, he and his wife would be the best employers.

The same is true for other farms, not to mention the dowry farms under his wife's name, the internal cohesion among the tenants of the three farms that he and his wife had previously owned is also the strongest.

So far, as long as the small workshops in the three villages employ members of tenant farmers' families to work in the workshops, no one has gone wrong.

Even when it comes to dirty and heavy work like accumulating fertilizer and spreading manure, everyone is extremely enthusiastic. Last year, not only did they complete the spring ploughing and sowing, but every family also raised pigs.

Is there something wrong with the throwing fee his father mentioned?

It shouldn't be.

Even though he disliked this job as it was tedious, this time he still made an effort to improve it according to the rules and regulations of the first three villages and implement them simultaneously in the next few villages.

"At this time of year, the pigs have already been slaughtered. Where can we find such a large manure pit? Could it be that these tenants in the farms have already saved enough manure?"

Oh, this is what you are talking about. Gu Wenxuan understood, "Dad, I forgot to tell you that before the Dragon Boat Festival last year, I instructed the people below to have a good relationship with the night incense in the city."

“…Good boy!”

"Haha, I'm not your son who doesn't know the world. I'm from a farming family, so I know that in order to have a good harvest, I need to fertilize the soil.

And look at this farm—" Gu Wenxuan said, and quickly pointed to a sketch on the Eight Immortals Table based on his memory, "There is silt in this puddle that can be used to fertilize the fields.

Zhiming and the other five people will now hire long-term workers to cooperate with the tenants to repair the ditches and clean up the silt from the water bubbles. His son will not just focus on small workshops.

No matter what, whether it is a farm or a fruit farm, the essence of a farm is the harvest, and the reason why we want to add a small workshop inside is to make the best use of it. "

"..." Sanya, have you seen enough of your cleverness in killing two birds with one stone? Looking at his old son, Gu Erzhu smiled sincerely, "Then this farm will also be reclaimed to grow a lot of soybeans?"

"It's also for the purpose of fertilizing the fields. I think it's better to reclaim the land first and then rent it out to tenants instead of wasting it. After all, there's no need to pay taxes in the first three years.

Three years later, even if the tax exemption from my academic achievement is not as much as the number of acres of land, I still have an oil press and can use the money to support it without having to sell soybeans at a low price.

This can avoid an extra sale and purchase, and also avoid being blocked by someone else's supply one day. Like the Tian family, it sounds good, just go to them if you need anything.

It's not that I don't trust the Tian family, but can I take it seriously? Let him give me a hundred acres of sweet potatoes at this time of year. I admire him!
Of course, I don’t mind the Tian family for talking nonsense and only speaking according to the situation. I just can’t leave all my back-up plans to the Tian family.

These farms are the foundation of our family. Whether they produce fine grains or coarse grains, not counting the tenants, they must be enough to supply food for our thousand people."