Villagers found that this year's spring plowing was a little different from previous years.

Zhuangnai is originally dry land, but this year we diverted water to create 20 acres of paddy fields. This is really strange.

"What's going on?" Ma Guifang asked Zheng Lai, who was responsible for supervising the paddy fields, in confusion.

Zheng Lai also knew little about it, so he replied straight away: "I heard that it was rice seeds brought from the south. The boys from the Zhou family spent four months squatting in a shed to study and came up with a new seed. The third lady then asked to open twenty acres of rice seeds."

The paddy fields are left to them to toss."

Ma Guifang was stunned when she heard this, "Twenty acres! If we can't grow anything, how much food will be wasted."

Zheng Lai shook his head, "Who knows what Miss Third is thinking? We don't understand, and we don't dare to tell. Just do our job well. We will know in a few months when the rice grows."

Ma Guifang thought about it. Anyway, in the past few years, the farming methods have been changed every year, and the harvest has been getting better and better every year. Believing in the Lord's family is right.

The two of them went about their business.

Of the twenty acres of paddy fields, three acres were planted with hybrid rice seeds cultivated by Zhou Rong and others, and the remaining seventeen acres were planted. Xu Yue was ready to make a big gamble, leaving only two acres of three-line rice seeds and planting the rest.

If you want to hybridize rice, you have to pay attention to the planting method. You must first select high-quality rice seeds, then cross-plant two pairs of different lines of rice, and artificially pollinate them after they have heading and flowering.

The hybrid rice that has been developed can save this pollination effort, but it can only be planted for one season, and each generation is not as good as the last.

Therefore, new hybrid rice seeds must be cultivated every year to maintain such high yields.

But now everything has just begun. Whether agricultural students can successfully cultivate hybrid rice seeds in large quantities depends on the autumn harvest in July and August.

Ever since the rice was planted, Xu Yue's heart has been tied to the twenty acres of experimental field.

All other chores were left behind and left to Junmei and Xu Dalang. They were only responsible for communication matters in Jiaozhou in the south.

The Gongsun Hao family's shipyard stopped after completing the eighth sea-going ship. They only built each component according to the decomposition drawings. It seemed that the shipbuilding plan was stopped, but in fact it was just waiting for an opportunity to assemble the components.

All eight large ships were launched into the sea, and there were more ships going back and forth. The exchanges between the north and the south became more and more intensive.

Xu Yue didn't know how much effort her sister had spent. After arriving in the south for more than a year, she was able to continuously deliver sugar, refined salt, kelp, grain and other bulk materials from the south to the north.

Perhaps, magic is the greatest source of energy.

This year, Xu Yue, apart from focusing on the operation of her Wubao family and hybrid rice, spent the rest of her time building warehouses.

But with so many warehouses built, Xu Yue always felt unsafe and always wanted to hide these things where outsiders couldn't notice.

However, the only secret space she has is the pitiful little space in the research room.

In order to relieve the pressure, Xu Yue discussed with her mother and father remotely through the intercom and decided to sell sugar and refined salt.

In one fell swoop, it caused a sensation in Yuyang County.

The fine icing sugar, as white as snow, costs only 700 Xujiachou per stone, which is equivalent to less than six Xujiachou per pound.

Refined salt without any bitter taste only costs 600 Xujiachou per stone, which is equivalent to five Xujiachou per pound, which is equivalent to the price of a pound of rice in Xujiazhuang.

Regardless of the price of white sugar, Daqing's sugar production is not very large, and most of it is bought by aristocratic families and powerful people, and very few are left in the private market. Therefore, the selling price has been fluctuating high and low, regardless of the seller's price, and the buying and selling market is chaotic.

However, the price and output of salt have always been relatively stable. In the past, coarse salt cost 800 yuan per stone, which is equivalent to 6.6 yuan per pound.

When it reaches the hands of ordinary people, the price should be eight to ten yuan per catty.

However, this was only the price before the Red Turban uprising. Now that heroes from all over the country have joined together, the world is in chaos. Warlords in various places are refining coins in large quantities, and inflation is particularly severe.

In the past few years, a pound of salt was worth about 100 yuan per pound. In the past two years, it has increased to 200 to 300 yuan per pound. Ordinary people cannot afford it or buy it.

Yuyang County is slightly better. Its neighbor Bohai County has salt mines. Both counties are under the control of a warlord. Coarse salt can still be purchased, and the price is relatively stable, ranging from 130 to 150 yuan.

between.

The salt produced from the salt mines in Bohai County is wholesaled by the government to private salt dealers, and then sold by the salt dealers to ordinary people's homes. Gongsun Hao, a former slave trader and private salt dealer, said that the profits are huge.

earn!

Xu Yue got the support of her family and as soon as she put out the salt and sugar, she instantly felt the relief Gongsun Hao felt at that time.

The volume of cargo transported by sea ships is very large. Twenty thousand kilograms of salt and ten thousand kilograms of sugar can be transported by just one ship. Compared with the carriage, horses and a lot of manpower required to travel by land, the cost cannot be lower.

As a source manufacturer without middlemen to make profit differences, countless coins were thrown into her Xu family's money box from all around Yuyang. Soon Xu Yue felt that the warehouse that had just been built was about to be full again.

The income of more than 200,000 yuan from peddling made the family's finances, which were originally a bit tense, instantly become more relaxed.

For a time, there was an endless stream of businessmen specially recruited from other places after hearing the news, which briefly stimulated a wave of GDP in Yuyang County.

But it was a pity that they arrived late. The total amount of sugar and salt was not large, and they had already been divided up by the local gentry from Yuyang's aristocratic families.

However, it was not a wasted trip because I failed to grab salt and sugar. I could always make a little profit by transporting the porcelain, charcoal, ready-made clothes, rakes and other goods from the Xujia market.

I just came to Xujia Wubao this time, and I always felt something was wrong after I went back.

Such a powerful Wubao stood outside the Yuyang County city, and the Yuyang prefect just let it go?

Among these merchants, there are many government merchants who heard the rumors and took risks to come from other states and counties. The purchase of goods is fake, and the truth is to find out the truth.

In the past two years, there has been a rumor circulating in the North that the husband-and-wife generals under General Gongsun Zan have a vague desire to be rebellious and self-reliant.

But in the past, everyone just listened to it. After all, the couple did make great contributions to Gongsun Zan's victory in the Bingzhou.

Now that I have come to take a look, I can't tell whether the rumors are true or false.

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"Brother, I wonder if the master will have time to see us today?"

A middle-aged businessman from the south grabbed Zheng Lai, the market management supervisor who was hurriedly passing by the hotel, and asked cheerfully.

Behind the businessman, there were several companions who had come with him. The younger one looked to be in his mid-twenties, and the older one was nearly forty. It was the middle-aged man standing in front of Zheng Lai who smiled like a Maitreya Buddha.

merchant.

Zheng Lai still had some impression of him. It seemed that his surname was Jia. He had arrived in Xujiazhuang half a month ago for the icing as fine as white snow.

It's a pity that I arrived too late, as Tang Shuang had already been divided up by Gongsun Yan and Gongsun Yu, relatives of the host family in Wubao next door.
Chapter completed!