Magistrate Yin, Zhao Liya and the others had inquired about him, and they found that he was not a very good person, but he was not bad either. If he had money to earn, he would definitely not be dissatisfied with it.
The land has been bought, and Zhao Liya feels relieved.
Next is the busy autumn harvest season. The purchased wasteland does not need to be reclaimed for the time being. It will not be too late to reclaim it until November or December. A potato vermicelli making workshop, including a warehouse, will be built on the ground in Bajiao Village.
Tool rooms, offices and other buildings.
With previous experience, if you reserve the building materials first, two months will be more than enough.
Here at Bajiao Village, everyone has smiles on their faces and is already gearing up to start work.
Bajiaozhai is slightly smaller than Zaihu Village, with more than 260 households in the village. What Zaihu Village has, they will finally have.
Potatoes are easy to work with and have a large yield, but because people don't pay enough attention to them, not many are actually grown.
In addition to selling them, each family saved some potatoes to make seeds for next year. For those who did not plant them this year, many bought or exchanged them, and they also got a lot.
Therefore, even though Zhao Liya and the others refused to refuse anyone who came, and everyone who knew the news from all over the country dug up the inventory in their own fields and sent over what could be sold, the final inventory was taken, and the total collected was about 200,000 kilograms.
This is not a lot. You must know that to plant 600 acres next year, about 180,000 kilograms of seeds will be needed.
In other words, basically everything purchased will be kept as seeds, and only about 20,000 kilograms can be disposed of.
Twenty thousand kilograms is really not much. Zhao Liya decided to keep the twenty thousand kilograms instead of selling them to restaurants in the city.
One hundred and eighty thousand kilograms were stored in the warehouse of the sugar pressing workshop. Zhao Liya hired brothers Li Guangwu and several people from Zaihu Village to help guard it, and patrolled it twice a day from time to time.
Brother Li Guangwu patted his chest and reassured them.
As long as you spread the word, this is something that Zaihu Village is protecting, and no one dares to touch it.
Otherwise, you deserve to be beaten to death.
Zhao Liya kept her word and taught everyone several dishes made with potatoes: hot and sour shredded potatoes, stir-fried potato slices with three delicacies, roasted potato cubes with sauce, steamed potatoes, fried potato cakes, potato stew...
In short, potatoes can be paired with almost anything, no matter how you prepare them.
The hot and sour shredded potatoes, ground three delicacies and sauce-roasted potato cubes are particularly popular and everyone doesn't love them.
As for the stewed meat, everyone knows it is delicious without trying it - what kind of vegetables taste good with meat! But then I tasted the chicken nuggets cooked with potatoes, the pork belly stewed with potatoes, and the ribs stewed with potatoes and tomatoes. It was delicious.
It’s really different from other delicious ones!
Everyone's horizons were opened, and the door to a new world suddenly opened. They drew analogies, drew inferences from one example, and came up with countless ways to do it.
When everyone discovered that it could really replace food to satisfy their hunger, they became even more enthusiastic about it.
Potatoes became all the rage and quickly developed in the Lingnan area.
Everyone has not forgotten the Zhao family. When it comes to potatoes, everyone is grateful to the Zhao family. There are even many legends and interesting stories about the Zhao family and potatoes. If Miss Zhao hadn’t told everyone, everyone would have just regarded potatoes as ordinary crops. Where would they have been?
Discover so many benefits?
I have 20,000 kilograms of potatoes left at home, so I can really enjoy it.
They cook it in a variety of ways, and their family is very willing to buy meat. The potatoes they make are even more delicious, and you won't get tired of eating them.
Zhao Liya told Yancun again that if any family wanted potatoes to be used as seeds for next year, they could come to their home to buy them, and they would sell them to everyone for five cents per catty, and each family could only buy up to fifty catties.
Zhao Liya did this after careful consideration. Not a single household in Yancun grew potatoes. Potatoes only appeared in Gaolian County in the past three or four years. It can be seen that in the past few years, Yancun has had almost no contact with people from other villages.
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There is no reason why other villages have such good things but not this village. Since their family has purchased so many, why not give the village a little convenience?
She didn't just want to earn two cents per catty. It wouldn't be a bad idea to sell it to everyone for two cents per catty. It's just that things that are obtained without paying any cost may not be cherished by others.
I have made a little profit, but everyone has no objection, but thinks it should be the same. If the price for buying and selling is the same, it is like giving it away for free, but some people may not be satisfied, and think it should be like this.
If we don't do this in the future, we will cause people to complain.
At this point, Sister-in-law Gu and the others did not miss the opportunity to complain and provoke in the village: "Is the Zhao family just trying to get money? This calculation is really loud. You can buy it back for two cents a pound and resell it to everyone and make a profit."
Half of them! They are all from this village, and they are so embarrassed! Don’t even buy it, why should they be allowed to take advantage of it!”
Everyone vaguely followed her wishes, but they had already thought about it in their hearts.
Why not buy it? I heard that these potatoes are good, so of course I will buy them.
Five cents for two catties is really not expensive. You have to know that some people in other villages want to buy it back as seeds, but they are too late. They may not be able to buy it for three cents per catty.
The Zhao family is so kind.
So sure enough, many people came to buy it, and they could afford it at ten or twenty pounds. They kept it to make seeds. They will tend to it more carefully next year. They can mix it with grain and eat it together, which can also improve their lives.
In less than three days, nearly one thousand kilograms were sold.
Second Sister-in-law Gu found out and was so angry that she cursed behind his back.
However, despite the scolding, Sister-in-law Gu took her two sisters-in-law to Zhao's house and expressed her intention to buy it.
Not only do you want to buy, but you also want to buy more.
"Our family wants to buy more. After you have collected so much, it is not difficult to sell it to us for hundreds or even thousands of jins, right? We will give you cash in cash and we will not take advantage of you."
If you say you don't take advantage of them, it's like you're giving them a huge amount of face!
How could Zhao Liya sell them hundreds or even thousands of kilograms? Just dream.
"I'm really sorry, Sister-in-law of the Gu family. We agreed before that a family in the village can only sell fifty pounds at most, so we all follow the rules. Besides, we can't supply any more. Although we bought a lot, it's all
It’s meant to be kept as seeds.”
No matter what the Gu family's sister-in-law says, fifty catties is fifty catties, and one more catty won't do.
If it were another family, Zhao Liya might be able to make an exception, but if the Gu family didn't target them and deliberately refused to sell, it would be considered kind. This kindness was also shown to the people in the village, so that everyone knew that the Zhao family was a generous family.
The Gu family is so self-righteous that they come to the door and try to gain further advantage. Who could spoil them?
Second Sister-in-law Gu was so anxious that she couldn't help but say something: "Am I saying you are too stingy? You have all the nice things to say, but you still refuse to help even though you are so busy?"
Widow Qu couldn't help but interrupt and said with a smile: "Sister, that's what's wrong with you. The Zhao family can't keep their word! You don't say that you are making things difficult for others, but instead you say that they are stingy?"