Planting a fairy in ancient times

Chapter 410. 436.

Chen Qingluan went to Chen Xiaoyu and said that when Zou Zhizhou wanted a fan recipe, he was full of guilt.

"Xiaoyu, I'm sorry, I didn't say anything and told Zou Zhizhou that we were sweet potato fans. Don't think this 1000 taels is too little, just treat it as compensation from me." Chen Qing Luan took out a few banknotes and gave them to Chen Xiaoyu.

Of course Chen Xiaoyu refused to take it.

"Uncle Qingluan, did Zou Zhizhou force you to give him the recipe?" Chen Xiaoyu raised her eyebrows and asked angrily.

Unfortunately, she thought Zou Mingtao was a rare good official!Didn't expect that Zou Mingtao wanted to take over her family's fan Fang Zi and make money as a fan just after she sent sweet potatoes over?

"No, Zhizhou Zou didn't ask us to give away fan recipes for free. He said he would cooperate with our family. However, Zhizhou Zou said that there is no money in the yamen now, and he will only give us the money after the tax comes in next year." Chen Qingluan explained.

Chen Xiaoyu breathed a sigh of relief.

Fortunately, okay, Zou Mingtao is not a corrupt official.

Unfortunately, she thought she was mistaken!
"What kind of fan are you doing? Now that the food stores are closed, Zou Zhizhou might as well just sell sweet potatoes! Isn't it too much work?" Chen Xiaoyu waved his hand and said.

The food shortage in Pingjiang Mansion is getting worse day by day.

As long as Zou Zhizhou is willing to sell sweet potatoes, there will be plenty of people robbing them.

"No, it was the water in the Guancang last night..." Chen Qingluan hurriedly told Chen Xiaoyu what he knew.

"Wait, wait, Uncle Qingluan, you said that all the sweet potatoes in the official warehouse are raw?" Chen Xiaoyu was startled.

Chen Xiaoyu always thought that after the common people paid taxes on raw sweet potatoes, the government would send people to process the sweet potatoes before putting them in the warehouse.

You know, raw sweet potatoes can't be stored for long at all, and it's good enough to be stored for more than half a year.

Chen Xiaoyu remembered that when she provided sweet potato seeds to Xuanyuan Muye in the form of "Master Fairy", she also attached a sweet potato planting guide!

In the sweet potato planting guide, there are suggestions for sweet potato storage.

Did Xuanyuan Muye lose the planting guide she wrote?

"The sweet potatoes in the official warehouse must be raw!" Chen Qingluan was a little confused.

Chen Qingluan didn't understand what Chen Xiaoyu meant.

People pay taxes, what they pay, and the government puts in warehouses, what they get.

A few years ago, the government did not collect sweet potatoes when collecting taxes!

The people who only grow sweet potatoes at home have no choice but to sell the sweet potatoes and use the money to pay taxes.

In the past two years, Nian Cheng has not been doing well.

This year, the rice harvest in Pingjiang Prefecture is in short supply again.

Fortunately, the cultivation of sweet potatoes in Pingjiang Prefecture has been widely promoted.

Although the common people could not earn any money, a family of five would not die of hunger as long as they planted two acres of sweet potatoes.

The government did not collect the grain tax this year, so it said that sweet potatoes can be used instead.

However, paying sweet potatoes is twice as much as paying rice.That is to say, the original tax of [-] catties of rice would cost [-] catties of sweet potatoes.

But the people are still happy.

One mu of high-quality field has only harvested more than 100 catties of rice this year. If sweet potatoes are grown, the yield per mu can basically reach about [-] catties.

In the first year of harvesting sweet potatoes, the people in the government had no experience. After receiving them, they were piled up in the warehouse like rice and ignored.

"Oh~! Raw sweet potatoes will sprout after spring! How to eat then?" After listening to Chen Qingluan's explanation, Chen Xiaoyu stamped her feet anxiously.

Sweet potatoes with buds have a very bad taste and are easy to rot.

Chen Xiaoyu really didn't expect that these people's brains don't know how to adapt at all.

"Ah? Then... what should we do now? Shall we tell Lord Zhizhou?" Chen Qingluan was also taken aback.

"I'll go to Zhizhou Yamen with you!" Chen Xiaoyu stood up and decided to go to Zou Mingtao again.

This year is not a good year, presumably when the government collected taxes, a lot of sweet potatoes were collected.

In case the pile really sprouts in the warehouse, it would be a waste.

When Zou Mingtao saw that the niece brought by Chen Qingluan turned out to be Chen Xiaoyu, he couldn't help being dumbfounded.

"Miss Xiaoyu, it turns out that you belong to the same family! Hahaha... Zou is really lucky to be able to deal with Miss Xiaoyu for several days." Zou Mingtao said cheerfully.

Seeing Chen Xiaoyu, Zou Mingtao thought of Chen Xiaoyu's "Sleeve Universe" spell, and his heart was burning.

"Zou Zhizhou, I came to you on business. Can you tell me how many sweet potatoes are left in the official warehouse?" Chen Xiaoyu asked.

"This..." Zou Mingtao hesitated.

The amount of grain stored in the official warehouse is regarded as a secret of the government.

Zou Mingtao dared not reveal casually.

"Oh~! Why don't you hurry up and say it? Otherwise, the sweet potatoes will be rotten after spring, so don't ask my master for help. My master just doesn't have the ability to turn rotten sweet potatoes into good ones." Chen Xiaoyu curled her lips, Some unhappy.

"What? Miss Xiaoyu, you said the sweet potatoes in the official storehouse will rot after spring?" Zou Mingtao was in a hurry.

"Although sweet potatoes are high-yield, they are perishable. Didn't any of you read the sweet potato planting pamphlet that my master gave me before?" Chen Xiaoyu became more and more angry.

In the past few years, no one has asked Chen Xiaoyu how to preserve sweet potatoes.

Chen Xiaoyu thought that with the clever minds of the people of the Xuanyuan Dynasty, they would have figured out how to keep sweet potatoes longer!

"Sweet potato planting manual? What is this?" Zou Mingtao asked.

Seeing Zou Mingtao's confused face, Chen Xiaoyu knew that Xuanyuan Muye must not have passed on the planting manual.

This forgetful guy, the next time he sees him, he will definitely beat him to the ground.

Chen Xiaoyu felt ruthless in her heart.

However, Chen Xiaoyu had no choice but to solve the immediate problem.

"Zou Zhizhou, it's like this..." Chen Xiaoyu, from Balabala, explained the advantages and disadvantages of sweet potatoes.

Hearing from Chen Xiaoyu that sweet potatoes will grow buds in spring, Zou Mingtao broke out in a cold sweat.

It's less than three months since I left Chun at this moment.

"What should we do? There should be at least tens of thousands of sweet potatoes in the official warehouse!" The situation was urgent, and Zou Mingtao couldn't care less about hiding it.

"Zou Zhizhou, it's alright, I'll give you the fan recipe first, and you can arrange someone to open a fan workshop as soon as possible, and process some sweet potatoes into vermicelli." Chen Xiaoyu wrote a copy of the recipe to Zou Mingtao.

"Miss Xiaoyu, how much silver should I pay you?" Zou Mingtao asked cautiously.

Zou Mingtao is not an ignorant person.

Chen Xiaoyu and Chen Qingluan's fan workshop should make a lot of money a year.

Chen Xiaoyu gave it out like this, which was equivalent to cutting off a source of income.

"The prescription does not cost money. However, I have a condition." Chen Xiaoyu thought for a while and said, "Zou Zhizhou, I only give you the exclusive right to use the prescription for three years. After three years, I will pass on this prescription to you." go out."

(End of this chapter)