Planting a fairy in ancient times

Chapter 282. Chapter 281.
The villagers in Xinghua Village are very grateful to Chen Daniu. It was Chen Daniu who asked everyone to plant all the land with sweet potatoes, which saved everyone from the fate of starvation!

After the first crop of sweet potatoes was harvested, villagers in Xinghua Village made a lot of money by selling sweet potato seeds and guiding villagers in surrounding villages to plant sweet potatoes.

After the second crop of sweet potatoes was harvested, the villagers learned that other prefectures and counties in Pingjiang Prefecture were short of food.Some villagers thought about buying sweet potatoes at a low price in Changzhou County and shipping them out to sell at a high price.

Unfortunately, such a business is not easy to do.

Although the yield per mu of sweet potatoes is high, there are many disadvantages.

Unprocessed sweet potatoes have a lot of moisture, and the skin is easily scratched during transportation.Sweet potatoes with broken skins will rot if they cannot be eaten within a short period of time.

Moreover, sweet potatoes are not easy to store. If they are not dried into dried sweet potatoes or made into sweet potato powder, the storage is not good, and they will sprout or rot if they are not careful.After the sweet potato sprouts, the taste is extremely bad.

If you sell dried sweet potatoes?The villagers spent a lot of energy processing, and the purchase price must be high.Ship it out and want to sell it at a high price to make money?If the price is too high, people will definitely not want to buy it.

The villagers didn't want to expend effort to process the sweet potatoes, so they could only sell the sweet potatoes to Chen Daniu.

The sweet potatoes in the field were harvested one crop after another, and some villagers gradually became dissatisfied with Chen Daniu.

This Chen Daniu didn't know what was going on, he always asked everyone to plant sweet potatoes and plant sweet potatoes.

In spring, when the villagers with surplus food were preparing to raise seedlings and plant rice, they were stopped by Chen Daniu.

Chen Daniu did not forget what Chen Xiaoyu said, there will be a plague of locusts this year!
If you grow sweet potatoes, even if the sweet potato leaves above are eaten up by locusts, the sweet potatoes below the ground can always survive the locusts.

After the autumn harvest, some villagers planned to plant wheat, but were stopped by Chen Daniu.

The plague of locusts has not come yet!Grow wheat?What to do when the locust plague comes?
However, Chen Daniu was only talking about the locust plague in his own heart, and he didn't even dare to talk about it to his sons.

You can't talk nonsense about this kind of thing, if you are labeled by the government as "bewitching the public", you will die.

Chen Daniu didn't dare to talk about the locust plague. The villagers were stopped by Chen Daniu again and again, and their noses were almost crooked.

This Chen Daniu is too nosy, right?

Obviously everyone's family is not short of food, but Chen Daniu still asks everyone to plant sweet potatoes.I have eaten sweet potatoes for more than a year, no matter how delicious they are, I am tired of eating them!

Besides, while sweet potatoes have high yields, they also have many disadvantages.

Ordinary people consume half a catty of rice every day, which is almost enough to fill their stomachs.

Sweet potatoes are not good, there is too much water, and everyone must consume at least two catties of sweet potatoes every day to fill their stomachs.More importantly, eating too much sweet potato is heartburning!After eating too many sweet potatoes, I want to eat something greasy like scratching my heart.

However, Chen Daniu didn't know what was going on. As early as the end of last year, he told everyone not to raise pigs, but to raise poultry such as chickens, ducks and geese.

Now, the pig pens of every household in Xinghua Village have been converted into chicken coops, duck coops and goose coops. It is really not easy to eat pork.

All the surrounding counties have grown sweet potatoes, and the villagers' sweet potatoes can't be sold at a price.

Apart from selling it to Chen Daniu's family's fan workshop for two cents a catty, no one wanted it at all.

Sweet potatoes are not easy to store. If you don’t work hard after harvesting and dry the sweet potatoes into dried sweet potatoes, they will easily rot or sprout.

Even chickens and ducks don't like to eat sweet potatoes that have sprouted, and sometimes they can only be thrown away.

At the request of Chen Daniu, every household in Xinghua Village raised a lot of poultry, basically every family started with twenty.

However, Chen Daniu was very meddlesome and told everyone not to kill chickens and ducks to eat before the Chinese New Year.

I don't know when it started, but there are rumors in Xinghua Village that the reason why Chen Daniu has been asking everyone to grow sweet potatoes is to make more money for the fan workshop at home.

Otherwise, everyone will stop growing sweet potatoes. Where can Chen Daniu's vermicelli workshop buy sweet potatoes?

At first, such gossip was circulated among several villagers.After a while, all the villagers in Xinghua Village had heard this version.

Some villagers were outraged.

If you want to make money, Chen Daniu, why do you have to sacrifice our interests?Chen Daniu wants to be a fan to make money, and I also want to grow rice and wheat to improve my diet!

No, I can't go on like this anymore. I can plant whatever I want in my own field.

On this day, more than a dozen villagers came to Chen Daniu's house and asked Chen Daniu for an explanation.

Chen Daniu was doing accounts in the study, when he heard the yelling outside, he came out.

Seeing a group of people around his door, Chen Daniu was stunned.

"Chen Lizheng, you tell everyone not to grow rice and wheat, but to grow sweet potatoes for the sake of making money for your own family. Isn't that too wicked of you?" Jia Yinzhu yelled.

Jia Yinzhu has long been jealous of Chen Daniu's fan workshop.

Chen Daniu's family must have made a lot of money with the crowds of fans pulling out every day.

Jia Yinzhu wished he could open a fan workshop at home.It's a pity that being a fan requires a secret recipe, and Jia Yinzhu doesn't know it, so he can only stare blankly.

However, this did not prevent Jia Yinzhu from being jealous.Jia Yinzhu couldn't make any money, and he wished that Chen Daniu's family couldn't make any money either.

"That's right! Chen Lizheng, my family will be planting wheat in winter, and I've eaten sweet potatoes for a year, and now I feel like throwing up when I smell sweet potatoes." He Xiaobing also yelled.

He Xiaobing is Jia Yinzhu's wife-in-law, who was called by Jia Yinzhu to help.

The He family wanted to grow rice in the spring, but was stopped by Chen Daniu, and was very dissatisfied with Chen Daniu.

"My family is even worse. There are six people in my family. They fart every day after eating sweet potatoes, and the house smells of stinky fart every day." Zhang Laosi said with a smile.

Zhang Laosi is also one of those people who want to grow rice in the spring.

Chen Daniu's face turned dark.

One by one, did he think that Chen Daniu stopped them from growing rice and wheat for his own benefit?

If Chen Daniu wanted to make money, wouldn't it be better to ask everyone to grow beets.

The sugar workshop is the golden rooster that lays the golden eggs. The sugar workshop starts working for one month, and the money earned is enough to keep the fan workshop busy for a whole year.

However, in this case, Chen Daniu certainly couldn't say it in front of the villagers.

Hate the rich and dislike the poor.

If the villagers knew that Chen Daniu's sugar workshop was so profitable, they might not know what they would do!

"Fellow folks, I, Chen Daniu, do things with my heart. I ask everyone to grow sweet potatoes, and I also think of everyone." Chen Daniu explained patiently.

"For the sake of everyone, I think Chen Li is thinking of himself! Without the cheap sweet potatoes we provide, can Chen Lizheng's vermicelli workshop continue to operate?" Jia Yinhua stood beside her elder brother Jia Yinzhu, waving her hands and shouting.

Compared with a year ago, Jia Yinhua has lost a lot of weight.

There was no way. When Jia Yinhua first returned to the village, every household didn't have much food in stock. Even the sweet potatoes were sold to the county government to make sweet potato seeds.

(End of this chapter)