The first snow fell before winter started, and it was quite heavy. Fortunately, the crops in the fields had been recovered and winter wheat had been planted.
Li Liang is planning to open a small sweet potato vermicelli workshop.
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There are no sweet potato workshops in Shengjing. Li Qiao’s original 700 acres of farmland were planted with corn, millet and other miscellaneous grains.
There are also some cash crops such as watermelons.
But the big village that Sheng Hong rewarded had fifty acres of sweet potatoes and fifty acres of corn.
This year's harvest is average. One acre of sweet potatoes weighs 1,300 to 400 kilograms, and 50 acres weighs more than 60,000 kilograms.
Another sweet potato mountain.
Li Liang plans to open a small sweet potato workshop to consume these sweet potatoes.
Of course, the most important thing when opening a sweet potato workshop is keeping it secret, making money is secondary. If you want to keep the recipe, you can only buy people.
Tao Zhu called Ren Yazi over and bought more than ten people. Now is the slack period, and Li Liang, Wang Guihua and Wang Guihua are restless people. They don't like doing business and they always feel that they are tied up and uncomfortable when working in the shop.
The two of them want to make sweet potato vermicelli, so let's open a workshop. It must make them feel as comfortable as they did in Sanliu Village.
Otherwise, it would be better to let the two of them return to the village. Although Shengjing's family business needs someone to take care of it, the most important thing is that the two of them can live a comfortable life.
It was the first time that Li Liang Wang Guihua bought someone, and both of them attached great importance to them. First, they named each of them: Li Su Yi, Li Su Er... Li Su Fourteen.
Then comes training.
The sweet potato vermicelli workshop is planned to be opened in the north of the city. The land in the east of the city is very valuable, so it is not suitable to open a workshop.
In order to open the sweet potato vermicelli workshop as soon as possible, the couple paid great attention to training.
Tao Zhu asked Li Xiaolan, Li Yuning and Li Yuan to watch. The three of them had reached the age of marriage and should learn how to manage their servants.
The two courtyards on the east side have been repaired. Both courtyards have four entrances. Except for the back room where the servants live, there are greenhouses in the three front courtyards.
It happened to snow, and the whole family moved into the greenhouse.
Li Liang Wang, Osmanthus Li Shu and others lived in a greenhouse for the first time. Although they felt sorry for the huge amount of firewood they consumed every day, they couldn't help praising Li Qiao for his cleverness.
Although a lot of dry firewood is burned, the comfort level is greatly improved, and it is a hundred times more comfortable than just burning a fire kang.
In the middle of winter, just wear spring clothes inside the house, you don't have to be wrapped up in three layers so that you can't even stretch your arms.
Moreover, this kind of greenhouse is very suitable for babies. Zheng Qianqian and Li Dashan’s newly born second son are named Erbao. Li Xia and Zhao Shen’s little brother is named Zhao Ju, Brother Ju.
The two babies only need to wear a thin cotton-padded jacket in the greenhouse, and their white and tender arms and plump calves can be exposed. It is very convenient to feed them or bathe them.
In the past, when I was in the village, in winter, every baby was covered with only a small face exposed, and the adults did not dare to take the baby out of the house.
But now in the greenhouse, each of the four or five spacious rooms is warm. Not only Li Xiaorui, Li Changfeng and Li Yunfan, the three little guys who can run and jump, can read and play freely, but also the two babies.
The banker on the other side has also moved into the greenhouse. The three spacious greenhouses are not enough for one person, but the whole family can stay in the greenhouse and spend their time comfortably during the day.
Li Ping worked in Li's shop, and Zhuangquan Manor also worked in Li's shop intermittently.
Later, Zhou Yun became pregnant and gave birth to a child, and the manor was busy with blind dates, so the brothers had less time to work in Li's shop.
Now that Zhuang Fengshou and his wife are here, the two brothers go to work in Li's shop again.
Meng Yue's father and mother are also people who can't sit idle. The Meng family now rents a small courtyard, which can be kept neat and clean by just relying on the Meng family's eldest brother and sister-in-law. Seeing that Meng Yue's father and mother have nothing to do, He also wanted to work in Li's shop.
How could Meng Yue agree? The old couple came to Shengjing to enjoy themselves, not to work.
After some argument, Meng Yue's father and mother finally stayed at home to take care of the housework, while Meng Yue's elder brother and sister-in-law went to work in Li's shop.
The holiday soon came.
It's winter now, and although it didn't snow today, it's dry and cold outside.
A group of fellow villagers from Hexi Prefecture gathered at Li Qiao's house again.
However, Shen Hua is missing this time.
Shen Hua gave birth to a brother, who is still in confinement at the moment.
Xu Ying rarely took a break, so she stayed at home with him.
This time Li Qiao repaired the yard and specially built a very spacious multi-functional leisure room in the front yard. There are three rooms, one for men, one for dining room, and one for women and husband.
Li Qiao's family is not restricted by gambling houses and can play mahjong and fight landlords freely.
The charm of Mahjong and Landlords is so great that even people like Li Liang Wang Guihua who have almost never played in the fields are attracted.
The same goes for Zhuang Fengshou and Meng Yue's father and mother, but Meng Yue's father and mother are reluctant to part with the coins. They only want to sit on the sidelines and watch, rather than go out and rub a few coins themselves.
On the mahjong table, there was naturally chatter from all over the world. Li Qiao brought up old things again and talked about the land over the dock.
If the Zhuang family and the Meng family need it, he can sell the land there to them at the price of Weiqing County.
Zhuang Wen and Meng Yue are currently unable to open a shop in the capital and buy land, but both families need money, so they have to work in his shop.
Just like today, the eldest brother and sister-in-law of the Meng family, Li Ping, and Zhuangquan Manor are not here, and several people are busy in the shop.
In this case, it is better to buy a piece of land in Weiqing County.
"When the wharf is repaired, I will definitely open a duck shop, dim sum shop, and fried chicken shop there. I am confident that the Weiqing County wharf will develop prosperously. If you buy the land now, it will not matter whether it is opened by then. If the shop is still rented out, we can make a guaranteed income of several hundred taels of silver every year."
At Li Qiao's words, Zhuang Fengshou put down the mahjong in his hand, and said to Li Qiao with a serious and somewhat embarrassed look: "I was just about to tell you about this. Xiao Wen mentioned this to me in a letter before, and when he came to Beijing this time, Xiaowen mentioned it again. This matter is for you to give in, and it will benefit us without any harm. "
"Originally I didn't want to take advantage of you, but the house in Shengjing is too expensive."
"Li Qiao, I have to take advantage of you this time."
"Based on our relationship, saying this would be disrespectful. I'm not giving you the land for free. Besides, when the store really opens, people from our village will definitely have to go there. Then I'll have to ask the village chief to arrange this." thing."
Li Qiao said with a smile.
There are not enough members of his Li family to stay in Kyoto, let alone a few more to stay in Weiqing County.
He was not familiar with Weiqing County. When a new store opened, people from the village must go there first to take care of it.
Wait until time passes and then recruit local people.
Hearing this, Zhuang Fengshou patted his heart and said, "Don't worry, the people in our village are all experienced now, and there are many who can do business alone."
"Besides, almost all the boys of the right age in our village are studying in private schools. Not many of these boys can actually be admitted as scholars. Their parents' expectations for them are not to gain fame, but to know a few words, so that they can Go to your house and work.”
"If you don't want to use the elderly villagers at that time, you can use these boys. They are young, bright-minded, and willing to leave the village and work hard in other places."
What Li Qiao wanted was the guarantee of Zhuang Fengshou. Now that Zhuang Fengshou was given to him, he felt relieved.
From now on, there is no need to worry about the manpower in Weiqing County.
He smiled and said: "Village Chief, I have a small Li family, and there are many areas where I need help from the villagers. I am able to get to where I am now because of the villagers."
When he first started the dim sum business, the villagers followed his expectations and stopped Tao Shu, Li Shu, and Han Xiaoyan and lived in peace with him. This was already good.
The villagers did not try their best to make things difficult for him, but instead worked with him to make a fortune together for mutual benefit. He would naturally think of the good things of the villagers.
Back then, the villagers were careful with him and tried their best to make friends with him, just to let him lead their family.
Now that he has established a firm foothold in Shengjing, he doesn't mind giving everyone a try.
"I don't know what else I can do for the villagers. If there is any need, please feel free to ask."
"Now every household is rich, and there is nothing difficult. The roads have been repaired a long time ago, and many wells have been drilled in the village. It is convenient for every household to irrigate. The private school has also hired two more teachers, which is enough to teach the children in the village. .”
Zhuang Fengshou's usually serious face now had a smile on his face.
As long as he talks about the current life in Sanliu Village, he can't help laughing. Which village chief can hold back his laughter?
Anyway, he was grinning from ear to ear.
"Now the villagers are satisfied with their current life and don't need you to do anything else."
Previously, people in the village were trying to please Li Qiao, fearing that Li Qiao would fly too far and be out of their reach, so that they would not be able to enjoy Li Qiao's glory.
But now if they were really asked to leave Sanliu Village and go to the unfamiliar Shengjing, half of the ten people would not agree.
Didn't look at Li Liang and Wang Guihua who really wanted to come to the capital before.
For those people in Sanliu Village who have been working on the land for half their lives, life at this time has never been better. Relying on the sweet potato and sweet potato workshops, raising some livestock at home, or working in the duck shop, the village Every household has a guaranteed annual income of one hundred taels of silver—except, of course, Tao Shu's family.
If the family has many strong people and a lot of labor, they can earn two to three hundred taels of silver a year.
This income is enough for the whole family to eat white flour steamed buns and half a catty of meat and half a catty of wine.
Such a good life was something I had never dreamed of before.
Moreover, now the villagers are not only rich, but also very proud. Their village has a Li Qiao, a Zhuang Wen, and a sweet potato and duck shop. People from other villages are trying their best to marry into their village and marry into their village. Get involved.
It can be said that the people in the village have also been greatly satisfied spiritually.
Materially, they have wine and meat, and spiritually, they are envied and flattered by other villages every day. This kind of good life is satisfying and addictive.
Life in the village is so comfortable, why go to a strange place to earn a future?
Even with Li Qiao, a third-grade official, as a backer, many people in the village were unwilling to come to Shengjing.
In the years since Li Qiao left Sanliu Village and went to Shengjing, many people always asked him and Li Liang and Li Gu in a joking tone at first, wondering when Li Qiao and Zhuang Wen would take them away.
But as the days go by, everyone's life is getting better and better, and the number of people asking this question gradually decreases.
Now the life of everyone in Sanliu Village has been flying.
Therefore, there are quite a number of people in Sanliu Village who are unwilling to leave the village, and there is no need for Li Qiao to do anything.
However, there are also a group of people who are willing to leave the village.
People walk to higher places. People in Sanliu Village know how big and exciting the outside world is from outsiders. In addition, Li Qiao and Zhuang Wen are here. If Li Qiao and Zhuang Wen are willing to give them a hand, then they I am definitely willing to leave Sanliu Village and go to other places.
However, Li Qiao specifically pointed out the place of Weiqing County today, so Li Qiao didn't need to do anything extra.
Weiqing County is very good. When the Grand Canal is opened in the future and the plaster road is repaired, it will be very convenient whether you go back to the village or go north to Beijing.
Li Qiao did not need to bring the villagers to Shengjing.
With the prosperity and prices of things in Shengjing, if the villagers really come here, they will definitely feel discouraged.
It's better to stay in Weiqing County, where you can be close to home and earn a lot of money.
