As for the hillside where there were only small crooked jujube trees at the beginning, it is now green, with bamboos and some peach trees planted on the hillside. Ji Qingyao had someone build a stone ladder from the foot of the mountain to the pavilion on the top of the hillside. The hillside was forced out of the paradise beauty by her.
The land that was originally reserved for cultivating potatoes is now planted with Panax notoginseng and Codonopsis pilosula. Anyway, not a single penny of soil is wasted.
Ji Qingyao looked at Eunuch Zhao who was smiling blindly in front of her, and felt irritated for no reason. After the potatoes and sweet potatoes were purchased by the government, Hong Gu had reminded her several times, overtly and secretly, that her achievements had been known to the government, and she might be punished. She received some rewards.
She received the reward, which included a thousand taels of silver, a pile of fine silks and satins, and a pair of Ruyi jade. She was also named the Lord of Hele Township by the current Saint.
Pei Ningyuan's excited hands didn't know where to place them. He never thought that one day he would be able to see the beauty of heaven because of the crops in the soil, nor did he expect that all this would be because of Ji Qingyao's arrival.
Ji Qingyao was awarded not only for the potatoes and sweet potatoes, but also for the Quyuan pear drawing she contributed, which she purchased in the mall for fifty taels.
Before spring plowing, she had a detailed understanding of the farm tools for spring plowing through Jiang. Originally, when the wasteland was opened, the quantity was small and there were many people helping. She did not notice these details. Later, because of the benefits brought by sweet potatoes, the villagers When she was discussing how much wasteland to open, she listened for a while. After hearing this, she remembered that the farming tools of this era were too backward. There was no need to think about mechanization in later generations, but it was possible to change the farming tools.
Because her father was a juren, the Ji family had fields in Dahe Village, but they were all rented out to villagers. There was a vegetable patch in the backyard, but it wasn't very big. Before Ji Qingyao was sold, she plowed the land with a hoe every year. When she came to Xiaoxi Village, she didn't buy any land, so she forgot about Jian Xin who cultivated the land.
She bought the drawings from the mall and asked an old carpenter in the village to make the main support poles. The ironwork was made by the best blacksmith in the county.
When she brought this thing to the villagers and put it on the head of the cow to plow the ground, it immediately caused a sensation. Livestock these days are very valuable. There are only three cattle in Xiaoxi Village. Every year during the busy farming season, there is no such thing. Can't take care of it.
With the new farm tools provided by Ji Qingyao, even if there are no cattle, a family of five can plow half an acre of pear fields in a day. After obtaining Ji Qingyao's consent, Pei Ningyuan directly took a Quyuan pear and sent it to the county government. Also included were the drawings presented by Ji Qingyao.
Ji Qingyao gave the remaining two Quyuan Lis to the village on the spot, saying that they would be used as public assets of the village.
After watching Pei Ningyuan's operation, County Magistrate Shen also started to practice it. He said that the masters are among the people. With these, his political performance this year will not only be stable, but his promotion in the coming year will not be lost.
Magistrate Shen immediately ordered the craftsmen to make a few frames according to the drawings, and then arranged for reliable people to send them to the capital, where the prefect would report them to the court.
Since Ji Qingyao first provided methods for growing potatoes and sweet potatoes, and then created new agricultural tools for reclaiming land, Situ Yuan could no longer pretend to be deaf and dumb, not to mention that this was a good thing that benefited the country and the people.
Although the reward this time is not as big as that of Xiaoxi Village, the emergence of a county prince in the village is also a major event that will bring glory to the family, not to mention that they will all be able to enjoy Ji Qingyao's protection in the future.
The villagers didn't know how big the county magistrate was, but they saw that the magistrates of Lanzhou County were respectful to Ji Qingyao.
Ji Qingyao did not take advantage of the title of county monarch, and treated the county magistrate and his entourage with courtesy as juniors. This made Eunuch Zhao and County Magistrate Shen not only think highly of Ji Qingyao, but also think highly of her. , neither shocked by honor or disgrace, neither arrogant nor impetuous.
The father-in-law Pei Ningyuan who came to announce the decree had already recognized him as the person who had come to Xiaoxi Village six months ago to accompany the noble man, who called himself Butler Zhao. Eunuch Zhao said that in a few months, the rice yield tested in their village would only be as high as per day. If you harvest an extra hundred catties per mu, you will be rewarded by the court.
Pei Ningyuan did not dare to think about the imperial court's reward. He only hoped that with Ji Qingyao as the county king, the people in the yamen would take more care of Xiaoxi Village.
Due to the heavy snowfall in Xiaoxi Village two years ago, the drought situation has eased, but drought is still happening in other places, the disaster is still serious, and the number of refugees is increasing.
Pei Ningyuan just hopes that everything will go smoothly now. As for the increase in rice production mentioned by Yue Eunuch, he does not dare to vouch for Ji Qingyao now. After all, rice is not potatoes and sweet potatoes do not require much water. If it does not rain in the next few months, People will be happy if production is not reduced.
