Three days later.
Han Xi exchanged 300 kilograms of cabbage seeds of various types, as well as cucumbers and radishes. He also exchanged some potatoes from the system and used the potatoes to turn them into sweet potatoes.
It also lights up European-style planters and artificial fertilizers.
There are also crafts such as waterwheels, steelmaking, and canal digging. These crafts only cost one thousand imperial coins. At this time, Han Xi only had 2,500 imperial coins left.
First of all, tools made of steel are needed to make planters, waterwheels, and trench digging.
So Han Xi exchanged the remaining 2,500 imperial coins for wood and iron ore.
In the empire system, gold, silver, copper, and iron ore can be exchanged for gold, silver, copper, and iron ore. The price of all four is fifty imperial coins for one hundred catties, so Han Xiping exchanged two thousand catties of copper ore, and two thousand catties of iron ore, plus On fifteen hundred logs.
All imperial coins have been spent.
There was a simple blacksmith shop in Chenjiagou, which had been demolished by hundreds of people and was ready to be rebuilt.
The original blacksmith shop was too small, with only one room and a simple stove, which could not meet Han Xi's needs for making ironware.
At this time, Han Xi transformed into a contractor, wandering in front of the expanded blacksmith shop.
The blacksmith shop covers an area of three acres and is divided into a large courtyard with three rooms and four rooms.
There is a ditch dug on the left side for steelmaking, the middle is for workers to rest, and the right side is for storing iron blocks.
Because materials were limited, we built an adobe house.
A total of fifty people are now busy building the blacksmith shop.
"How long will it take for the blacksmith shop to start construction?" Han Xi asked a farmer in blue. This farmer was promoted to a civil engineering craftsman by Han Xi. He was the real contractor. His name was Liang Si, a name automatically matched by the system.
"It will take about a month!" Liang Si always had a smile on his face. The initial personality of the farmers was serious, but it could be changed. Liang Si was set by Han Xi to have a cheerful personality, and the rest were randomly matched by the system.
So Liang Si always smiled, even if others scolded him.
When Han Xi heard that it was still a month, his face was filled with black questions. After one month, building hundreds of tools would take another half a month?
It’s almost November, and winter is about to begin in November. Should I still plant this vegetable?
"How many people will it take to get it done within half a month?" Han Xi asked.
"If it is completed in half a month, it will probably take about two hundred people." Liang Si gave a number, because none of them were skilled bricklayers, so they were slow.
Two hundred people?
Han Xi scratched his head. At this time, more than 20 children were helping to raise sheep and cut grass.
More than fifty women were responsible for cooking and feeding the horses, more than thirty old men were working outside to plow the land with existing tools, and one hundred strong laborers arranged for fifty to build blacksmiths and fifty to build textile factories.
More than 20 township party members were assigned to inquire about the surrounding situation.
Of the two hundred and sixty imperial soldiers, one hundred were on guard everywhere, sixty were guarding Han Xi's safety, and one hundred were on standby to deal with unexpected situations.
The other ten farmers are all skilled workers and cannot be recruited to do manual labor.
Han Xi touched his chin and pondered, is this the rhythm of recruiting people? He just wants to make some farm tools and vegetables for winter before winter comes. Why is it so difficult!
At this moment, more than thirty old men working in the fields came back, and the thirty or so people were divided into two groups. The villagers of Chenjiagou formed a small circle, and the same was true for the Hui people.
These people came back for lunch. Han Xi was very proud and changed his two meals a day to three while working.
Han Xi waved to the two leading system farmers, Chen Si and Xu Wu: "How many acres have been sown today?"
"Two acres!"
"Three acres!"
After hearing this, Han Xi felt that it was okay. Counting in the afternoon, more than thirty people could plant ten acres of land in one day. The sowing should be completed before October, and the land would be 300 acres in one month.
One acre of cabbage seedlings can be transplanted into five acres. After a month of busy work, these thirty old men can probably plant five hundred acres of land.
Because there are twenty or thirty cows plowing the land, they can plow thirty or forty acres of land in one day, but manual sowing is a bit slow.
However, maintenance, irrigation, and fertilization all require people.
The larger the area of cultivated land, the more people there are. It will take half an hour to walk to the farthest cultivated land.
It is estimated that a hundred people will be mobilized to help cultivate the land.
Including the 150 people missing from the blacksmith shop, there are still 250 people missing.
Han Xi paced back and forth. It was a lot to bring more than two hundred people out!
You must know that imperial soldiers and peasants eat twice as much as villagers.
I'm afraid that more than five hundred stones of food is not enough for two months. It seems that I have to do some business without capital.
"You two make arrangements to cultivate at least five acres of land a day. If you cultivate more than six acres, you will have broth to drink." Han Xi instructed.
An old man in his thirties immediately became energetic when he heard that there was broth to drink, thinking that he would have to work harder in the afternoon.
After giving instructions, Han Xi turned around and went to the stable. He was going to go out for some activities and see what kind of business he could encounter without capital.
After a while, more than a hundred cavalrymen came out of the canyon where they were.
Not long after leaving the canyon, I met a group of government officials, about twenty people, who seemed to be going to Chenjiagou.
I guess they came here to collect taxes.
Although the last wave of tax collectors were killed by Han Xi, this cannot change the fact that no taxes were paid in the Chenjiagou area.
At this time, more than twenty government officials were standing back to back, nervously looking at the hundreds of cavalry who were surrounding them: "Brothers, I wonder where I'm going when I'm surrounded?"
"Hahaha! I just want to go to the county to drink and have no money, so I want to borrow some money from the yamen brothers." Han Xi stepped forward and said.
When all the government officials heard this, they all looked at each other and said in their hearts, what a good guy. They are the only ones who usually ask others for money, but they didn't expect that they were robbed on the head today.
The head catcher looked at the more than a hundred tall cavalry, and he could only surrender. He took out a piece of broken silver from his arms and threw it to the ground.
Seeing this, more than twenty government officials around him took out pieces of silver from their waists and threw them to the ground.
Han Xi looked at the more than twenty thumb-sized silver lumps on the ground, with an unhappy expression on his face: "Just this little money? I'm afraid it's not enough for each of the brothers to drink a glass of wine? Are you sending beggars away?"
"This!" The catcher looked a little embarrassed. The total amount of broken silver on the ground was only three or four taels.
The head catcher took out an egg-sized ingot from his arms with some pain. Seeing this, the others squeezed out a little more.
At this time, the scattered pieces of silver on the ground were estimated to be about twenty taels in total.
At this time, Han Xi nodded with satisfaction. In the past, twenty taels for a copycat village was considered a big deal.
Unfortunately, in Han Xi's eyes now, they are just some inedible stones. He was going to defraud these people again.
But at this moment, a cavalryman quickly approached from a distance. They were spies sent out early in the morning to guard the surrounding areas.
The spy approached Han Xi and whispered a few words.
Han Xi's eyes flickered, and finally he pointed at a group of government officials in front of him and said, "Hand over all their knives, wooden sticks and belts."
As soon as these words came out, all the government officials were frightened and took up weapons and pointed them at Han Xi and his party. They handed over their weapons. They were not letting others slaughter them.
"If you dare to resist, I'll kill you!" Han Xi moved his horse's head and drew out his sword.
"Shuashua" sounded the sound of drawing swords.
The catcher's back was already soaked: "Wait! Let's hand it over! Don't do anything!"
As he said this, the policeman took the lead in throwing away the knife in his hand. Seeing this, the rest of the government officials could only throw away the sticks and knives and take off their belts at the same time.
Han Xi asked people to collect the things and left without killing the government officials.
