The Cai family is located in the center of Jiangdu City, not far from Zhennan Palace.
Although the gate of the mansion is not as gorgeous as Zhennan Palace, it gives people a sense of antiquity and grandeur. It is a century-old mansion.
After Cai Heng received the notice, he personally greeted him at the door of the house and said with a smile: "I didn't expect that I just met Zhang Qianhu and the two village owners in the morning, and the three of them came to visit in the afternoon. It really makes my house look brighter!"
Qin Lingsi put her hands on her hips and hummed: "We're not here to gossip with you. I'm just here to ask you, did Xu Yimao sell you the land?"
Cai Heng looked at her for a while, but he was not angry and said with a smile: "That's exactly it."
Qin Ling thought: "He has eight thousand acres of land in the northern suburbs. How many acres will he sell to you?"
Cai Hengqi said: "Of course, all eight thousand acres have been sold to me!"
Qin Lingsi suddenly changed her color and asked anxiously: "Does three thousand acres of it have land deeds?"
Cai Heng also realized that something was wrong and said solemnly: "He said that the land deeds were lost, so he invited Lu Taigong as a notary and made a new white deed in front of him!"
Qin Lingsi said angrily: "You were deceived by him. He has sold these fields to us. This is the field deed. Look!" He handed over the field deed.
Cai Heng took it and took a look, with an angry look on his face, and said: "What a bold thief, thank you for telling me, I will settle the score with him right now!"
Zhang Yangquan suddenly said: "He has disappeared. I am sending people to look for him everywhere, but we may not be able to find him!"
Cai Heng was stunned for a moment and said: "That's okay. A monk who can escape can't escape from the temple. If he doesn't show up and make it clear, you can use his property to pay off the debt!"
Qin Lingjun said coldly: "Master Cai is joking, we bought the land first, it's you who have to use the family property to pay off the debt. Moreover, all his properties have been sold!"
Cai Hengqiang laughed and said: "We might as well discuss this later. We'd better mobilize our manpower first to find this traitor!"
The Cai family immediately sent out a large number of people to search and arrest him throughout the city.
Cai Heng also went to find Huang Boyan. The North Gate Army and the South Gate Army searched the whole city together, but not even a single figure was found. No one even saw Xu Yimao leaving the city.
In the lobby of Qianhusuo, Qin Lingsi was dazed for a while holding a cup of tea, and suddenly said: "Military advisor, if Xu Yimao disappears like this, what will the Cai family do?"
Zhang Yangquan leaned back in his chair and said slowly: "They will never give up these fields to us easily, I'm afraid there will be some disputes!"
Qin Lingsi lowered her head and blamed herself: "It's all my fault. If someone had been left to keep an eye on Xu Yimao, the current situation wouldn't have happened!"
Qin Lingjun frowned and said: "Where did this person escape to? If he left the city, why didn't anyone see him? I don't believe that a living person can disappear out of thin air!"
Zhang Yangquan had a flash in his mind and said: "Unless he hides his head and tail when he leaves the city, so no one sees him!"
"How is that possible? If he is dressed in a suspicious manner, and the city gate guard is not blind, he will definitely stop him and ask for details!" Qin Lingsi muttered.
Zhang Yangquan stood up, squinted his eyes and said, "What if the city gate guards helped him cover his hiding place?"
Qin Lingjun said with emotion: "It's possible that except for our north gate, the other three gates and even the guards at the dock may be bribed by him!"
Zhang Yangquan muttered: "The east of the city is the territory of the Xue family. I believe he dare not go there! The dock is personally responsible for the general manager's office, and the inspection is very strict. He doesn't have the courage, so only the south gate and the west gate are left!" <
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"The Nanmen Army is helping to search for him. It's impossible. It can only be Ximen!" Qin Lingsi jumped up from the chair.
Zhang Yangquan said word for word: "He must have asked him to speak to Zhang Mingjian through Zheng Yongen and let him leave through Ximen."
Qin Lingsi said anxiously: "Commander, let me lead people to chase him, and I promise to catch him back!"
"Okay, Second Village Master, be careful all the way!"
Qin Lingsi immediately took a few people, left the city from the north gate, went around the official road to the west, and chased them at night.
Zhang Yangquan and Qin Lingjun asked the soldiers to get ready and wait in the lobby. They also sent sentries to watch the west gate to prevent Zhang Mingjian from intervening in the matter.
Around the third watch, Qin Lingsi finally came back, with some blood on her face and an angry look on her face. She dragged a person with her tied up beside her, and it was Xu Yimao.
"Sister, military advisor, I'm back!" Qin Lingsi threw Xu Yimao to the ground, walked to the table, took a sip of tea, and said, "I'm so angry!"
Zhang Yangquan walked to Xu Yimao and saw that he was unconscious, and asked doubtfully: "What's wrong with him?"
Qin Lingsi curled her lips and said: "This idiot joined a shady shop and almost had people make meat buns. Fortunately, I arrived in time and saved his life!"
Qin Lingjun checked Xu Yimao's condition, nodded and said: "Yes, he was hit by Mongolian sweat medicine."
Zhang Yangquan smiled and said: "Just capture him and send him to the Cai family."
Qin Lingsi walked up to Xu Yimao, kicked him, and said, "All the money this guy had was stolen by those thieves. I chased him for a while, but they escaped. This guy has no money at all!"
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Zhang Yangquan said lightly: "He must still have property in Hangzhou. We don't need to worry about these anymore. Let the Cai family find a way to get back the money they defrauded! Shanzhu, send someone to send him to the Cai family!"
At noon the next day, the three returned to the village. After discussing with Guo Niansheng, they decided to let 1,300 villagers settle in the villages to the west, and more than 700 villagers to settle in the villages to the east.
Among the villagers who migrated this time, the largest number were people with the surname Yang, so the two villages were named Xiyangzhuang and Dongyangzhuang respectively, with a team of 100 people stationed in each village.
It is already January, and early rice can be planted in March.
Since the introduction of Champa rice in the Song Dynasty, there have been more and more varieties of early rice. A double-cropping rice planting system has been implemented in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and people in Yangzhou are also planting double-cropping rice.
In fact, before the Song Dynasty, there were also early rice varieties, but the planting area was not large and they were not promoted nationwide.
During the Song Dynasty, it was also because of the large-scale spring drought in the south of the Yangtze River that the original rice seeds could not be planted, so the drought-tolerant Champa rice was planted.
Since then, Champa rice has been widely popularized in Jiangnan, forming a two-crop rice system and increasing grain output.
Zhang Yangquan has more than a dozen varieties of early rice in his hands, most of which are hybrid rice. Because hybrid early rice has a high yield, it sells more expensively and makes greater profits.
However, the offspring of hybrid varieties will continue to reduce their productivity and are not worth breeding in large quantities. He does not have the seeds of male-sterile strains in his hands, so he cannot cultivate new hybrid rice in large quantities.
So, he chose a conventional early rice with higher yield - KeXian 12. This early rice was not used to sell to farmers, but as a negative teaching material to set off the high yield and advantages of other super hybrid early rice.
However, compared with Champa rice, the yield of Kexiang 12 is much higher and can be used as a substitute.
There are many choices for late rice. Zhang Yangquan chose a conventional rice variety called "Lvyinzhan" based on the planting time of the two rice varieties, and paired it with Kexiang 12.
The early rice planting time is in mid-to-late March, and there are still more than two months left, which is enough time to complete the work of building the village and preparing for farming.
The most indispensable thing for Longtan Village is manpower. It does not take much time to repair the village. However, when Zhang Yangquan went to Xiyangzhuang Tiandi to look around, he discovered a problem.
The terrain here is higher than the nearby rivers. In the past, this field area was planted with rice, which did not require much water. Therefore, farmers dug wells around the field area and used well trucks or orange trees to obtain water.
If you want to plant Kexian No. 12, the water from the wells is completely insufficient, and the direct diversion canals cannot irrigate the paddy fields due to the terrain. A water tanker must be built to introduce water into the fields.
With the labor force in Longtanzhai, this is not difficult.
However, the farmland here is huge, with more than 10,000 acres in total. The two thousand acres they bought are all in the west, but the river is in the east.
If you dig canals to divert river water to your own fields, you must pass through other fields.
They are planting field-occupying rice, which is planted earlier than Kexi12. If water from canals accidentally seeps into other people's fields, it may destroy their rice, which is unjustifiable.
After Zhang Yangquan thought about it, the best way was to buy another field and connect it to the east. The canal he dug would not need to pass through other people's fields and would not damage other people's rice!
However, this piece of land requires at least two thousand acres to be purchased. With the current financial resources of the village, if he buys it all, there will be no surplus, and it is difficult for him to make a decision at the moment.
"How about we use the same method we used to deal with Xu Yimao and buy it at a low price?" In the meeting hall, Qin Lingsi suggested, seeing Zhang Yangquan's frown.
Qin Lingjun dismissed: "If we use this method too many times, what will others think of us?"
Qin Lingsi shrugged and said: "Then just buy it. Anyway, there is still food in the village, but we can't make enough money. I'll sell some food to help in emergencies!"
"What you said is indeed a good idea, but there is no need to sell grain. You can sell horses first."
"Sister, why do you always have trouble with my horse?"
"You can buy horses again after they are sold, and the price will not increase. Food prices will increase every few days!"
"That won't work either. Do you know how difficult it is to sell it once and then re-cure it?"
While the two sisters were arguing, Monkey suddenly entered the meeting hall and said: "Master of the big village, master of the second village, military advisor, there is a Grand Duke He in the village who wants to see you."
Zhang Yangquan was stunned for a moment and asked strangely: "He Taigong? When did we have such a person in our village?"
The monkey said: "He is from Shangshui Village."
Zhang Yangquan remembered that there was such an old man, and he had a pretty daughter, and said: "Please come in, old man."