The Gu family didn't believe this at all, and the Lu family was also doubtful. They always felt that they had secretly gone somewhere else, otherwise they had never seen anyone go into the mountains for such a long time before.
But without evidence, nothing can be done.
The Lu family members were willing to serve as vanguards and asked them with a smile on their face whether they had found anything valuable in the mountains. Why don't they take it out to open the eyes of everyone! Let everyone see it too.
Zhao Liya, Hu Ling and others will naturally ignore such people.
Are you kidding? Don't worry about what you find when you go into the mountains. What does it have to do with you? Why should I take it out to open your eyes?
Aunt Lu then said with a smile: "Oh, it's not like you didn't go into the mountains at all, but you followed some big boss to do business elsewhere to make money? There's nothing bad to say about this. They are all from the same village, and we won't say it.
Go out. We are still counting on you to bring everyone together to make money."
Aunt Lu's words actually aroused some resonance. Some people may be fishing in troubled waters to watch the excitement and not mind the big deal, but more people should really think so.
It’s great to make money, and everyone’s life will be easier.
I made money growing vegetables last winter, and everyone enjoyed the benefits.
Zhao Liya was about to say this, but Aunt Lu spoke up, and it hit her mark. She even skipped the preamble.
"Why go somewhere else? It's nothing! We are all prisoners. Don't talk nonsense about going elsewhere. You will be punished! When it comes to making money, my father told the big boss two years ago.
A letter came from heaven, no, it has been agreed, and our village can also make money."
One stone stirs up a thousand waves.
Everyone was excited instantly.
"Really? Haha, great!"
"I know that Mr. Zhao is kind and if he does any good things, he will definitely not forget all of us."
"That's right, Xiaoya, tell everyone, what's the point of making money?"
"That's right, what did the big boss say? Tell us quickly!"
Aunt Lu saw that Zhao Liya had turned the building upside down with just one word. How could anyone remember the topic she raised? She felt anxious and blurted out: "Don't think too much, don't forget that we are prisoners, how can we do any business?"
Yeah! Don’t let the government know about it and punish people!”
Zhao Liya smiled and said: "What are you talking about? Who said it's a business? Are the profits from the land not allowed to be sold, and people are not allowed to help farm the land? If this is not allowed, how can everyone make money? You have to eat oil and salt sauce.
You have to make vinegar by yourself, you have to make clothes by yourself, and if you get sick, you have to be a doctor to prescribe medicine? If your family doesn't like it, just don't do it, but don't blame the big guys.
Hats off!"
Everyone glanced at Aunt Lu displeasedly.
"That is, we farm the land and sell the profits from it, or earn some hard-earned money from farming the land, but the government has not said that this is not allowed!"
"Amitabha, it's a good thing you are not a government official, otherwise would you all have a way to survive?"
"Just don't do it if you don't want to, but don't say that to me guys."
Aunt Lu knew that she had accidentally said the wrong thing and was overtaken by Zhao Liya. She held back her anger and sneered: "I'm just worried. Please remind me, don't misinterpret my meaning."
Zhao Liya smiled and said: "Did you know that the big boss wants to grow potatoes and sweet potatoes in Bajiao Village? He promised to buy some land near our village to grow sweet potatoes. Everyone can be hired to work, and the wages are the same as those paid to those two villages.
It’s the same, it won’t hurt us. Can you guys tell me, is this a good thing?”
Sweet potato flour and potato flour are both good things. They can be used to make hot and sour noodles. Zhao Liya plans to open a shop in the provincial capital to sell this. It can also be ground into starch and sold to various restaurants and ordinary people's homes. This is another one.
The path of money.
After hearing this, everyone became happy and expressed that they would go to work and do a good job.
Those who were impatient quickly asked Zhao Liya, when will the big boss recruit workers?
Zhao Liya said with a smile, "Isn't it time for everyone to start spring plowing and planting the fields soon? It will be almost done by the time everyone finishes the work in their own fields."
Everyone said, "This is great, it won't delay your own work!", "That's right!", "The big boss is really kind-hearted!"
Zhao Liya said: "The big boss is not doing it for kindness, he is doing it to make money. If you all work hard, we will make small money, and the big boss will make big money."
"Hey! That's right." Everyone laughed.
Being able to make a small amount of money is already a rare good thing for everyone, and they are very satisfying. Making big money is something I never thought about.
They don't have this fate, and they don't dare to think about it.
While the families were busy doing spring plowing, Hu Ling invited Li Zheng from Zaihu Village and Bajiao Village to accompany him, and went to the county government again to buy land.
Last year's bumper harvest of sugar cane caused quite a stir in the county. Not a penny of the taxes that should be paid was lost. The county government officials and others all smiled when they saw Hu Ling.
The big boss buys land and continues to expand, which is a good thing.
With the 150,000 taels of silver in hand, I could buy whatever land I wanted. So I bought 5,000 acres in Zaihu Village and 5,400 acres in Bajiao Village. I spent a total of 52,000 taels.
.Both villages own 6,000 acres of land each.
I bought a thousand acres around Yancun and spent 5,000 taels.
This time the yamen did not give any more discounts, so I spent a bit too much. Perhaps the county magistrate felt that the big boss had made so much money growing sugar cane and it was not for nothing.
Zhao Liya had no objection.
Even after spending so much money to buy the land, she still had one hundred thousand taels left in her hand.
The cost of cultivating all this land and expanding the scale of the workshop will only be around two thousand taels at most.
With so much land, she plans to cultivate it all this year. She will plant as much sugar cane, sweet potato, and potatoes as she can. If there is time, she will plant soybeans, peanuts, sesames, corn, cotton, peppers and other crops on the other land.
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These are all good things and can make money.
Zhao Liya was thinking in her mind that if she made a lot of money this year, plus the share of huanghuali wood, she should have a net profit of 300,000 taels, right?
She planned to ask Brother Zhou and Zhong Jing to help run the operation, and first atone for the sins of Lin Mo and a pair of younger brothers and sisters.
Brother Zhou said that Lin Mo's kung fu was much higher than what he showed. Of course, he was not as good as him, but he was probably better than Zhong Jing.
We have been together for so long, Zhao Liya is willing to believe Lin Mo, not to mention, to put it bluntly, Sister Shu Yan's contract of sale is still in her hands.
Lin Mo and his younger siblings have all atoned for their sins. If anything happens, Lin Mo can protect them and no one else can do anything.
Brother Zhou will not stay in Lingnan for a long time. Zhong Jing is an official and he has a criminal record. There are some things that he cannot directly intervene in. He can only intervene if he is free from the criminal record. With Lin Mo, it is safer.