"Boss, two more bowls of freshly squeezed sugar cane water."
After helping the fellow villagers rescue the foxes, there were already twenty foxes in the tea shed. Most of them were red foxes and black foxes that were homologous mutations of red foxes. They usually lived among the fields in the flower area, relying on They make a living by preying on voles, bamboo rats, and frogs in the fields.
Without the iron rule of the Red King, the status of foxes in the flower area is quite high. At least they can be equal to the old oxen who plow the fields, the five red dogs and the five black dogs who guard the homes and courtyards, and the cats who guard the granaries. However, After the Red King stepped in, the foxes all became plague gods.
"Okay! Two bowls of freshly squeezed sugar cane water."
The tea shed owner who specializes in business with fellow villagers took out two bamboo canes from the iron barrels cooked with firewood, put them into two solid metal iron pillars and squeezed them. The clarified sugar cane water flowed along the iron walls to the box placed below. In the bowl.
The sugar cane water is placed on the square table, and wisps of hot steam are wafting along with the fragrance of fructose.
"Ha~"
Su Yan picked up the sugar cane water and drank half of it in one gulp. With a happy face, he fed the remaining sugar cane water to the other little foxes.
These little foxes are the heroes. Su Yan recently went to the mountains and countryside. Thanks to them, they opened the way, allowing himself and Zhou You to travel unimpeded in the city and the countryside. Whoever dared to block or expel him, Su Yan raised his hand and directed a dozen foxes at him. Throw it into a fellow villager's house.
A large number of foxes ran into the landlord's house. The landlord and his family were so frightened that they almost peed.
The landlord is not like Su Yan, who knows how to communicate with foxes in the Ya language and knows their physical condition. The landlords were afraid that the fox would die suddenly at home, so they quickly agreed to Su Yan and Zhou You's visit, only asking them to quickly put away the magical power of the fox flying around in the sky.
The landlord told everything he knew, including how many chickens he had given to the tenant farmers.
Su Yan didn't know about other areas, but after visiting the flower area in the past few days, the relationship between the landlords and the tenant farmers who owned a large amount of land should be regarded as a relatively primitive cooperative relationship. The landlords rented the land to tenant farmers for management. After deducting the taxes collected by the Red King, the landlords took the big part and the tenant farmers took the small part.
The more common sharecropping is 70% to 30%, and some super hard-working tenant farmers can even get 60% to 40%.
If the sharecropping ratio is too low and the tenants refuse to work, then whoever’s land they farm next year will not be farmed. Who do you think they are?
Just sit down and take the big shot, and say something long-winded, your farmer grandfather quits!
There are more food crops in the north of the flower area, but in the south there are all kinds of fruits and flowers. Some safe areas near the Red Prince's Mansion grow high-value products, such as artificial spiritual plants and breeding meat livestock and monsters. The excrement of meat livestock can be processed. Compost nourishes spiritual plants.
The Flower City where Su Yan settled was in the south. The main crops were fruits, vegetables and flowers, as well as some artificial spiritual plants controlled by clan forces.
After a few days of visits and on-site inspections, Su Yan had some less-than-mature ideas on how to improve Flower City's finances.
First of all, as the Flower County Magistrate, the biggest resource I can use is: sugar!
The sugarcane area here is measured in tens of thousands of acres. Except for part of it being sold, most of it is processed into rock sugar, granulated sugar, and icing sugar and sold to caravans.
The price of sugar in Xia Yu was about the same as that of salt, and they were both relatively high-profit businesses.
But these things that already exist cannot be counted as his financial achievements. Therefore, Su Yan plans to increase the value of sugar through deep processing and open up a new track for Flower City's revenue.
Things that can be mass-produced, such as all kinds of exquisite pastries, jams, canned fruits, etc.
Well, there are also fig trees here, and some gum can be collected to make chewing gum, which can be used to replace the chicken tongue fragrance that is commonly used by the people of Xia Yu to eliminate bad breath. Although the chicken tongue thing is great for removing bad breath, it tastes like chewing raw pepper, which is a very exciting experience.
These are all things that Su Yan could come up with to increase the value of sugar after visiting and observing local crops in the past few days.
Like the white flour in his previous life, Su Yan probably knew how to make high, medium and low-gluten flour through the ratio of wheat flour and corn starch. Knowing the recipe, Su Yan had a lot of time to let people prepare it slowly.
Su Yan was not worried about failure to generate income. Anyway, the losses due to failure to generate income would be attributed to the Flower Office. Now he only needed to think boldly and go to the merchant with the Flower County Magistrate's Seal to get the goods on credit.
It was the Red King who filled the hole that was messed up. After sorting out the logical sequence, Su Yan's fox gallbladder expanded into gentian.
If you are brave enough, Red King will take maternity leave!
"Brother Zhou, didn't I win an award recently? You said you would use my name to advertise crops, and Princess Wuxi brought the goods to us. Did you get any results?"
Su Yan turned his back to Zhou You to admire the farmland and water conservancy, and gradually perfected his financial income development plan in his head. Then, as if something had occurred to him, he turned around and asked the old Xia Yuren if he had any clues about his identity.
How can I say it? He also won the first place in the fox tasting event and received the Wusheng Emperor's award. He is the most handsome and iconic fox among Xia Yu's millions of foxes this year. He should be famous for being used to carry goods for his own sweets. ?
"When the time comes, we will label our products as products certified by Wusheng Emperor and Xia Yu's No. 1 Junhu."
"Um"
After Zhou You pondered for a while, he thought of a piece of white paper affixed to the bundles of sugar cane. On the white paper was a scene of Su Yan using his body to show his thumb. The brow at the corner of his eye could not help but twitch slightly: "It's not impossible to do it. It’s okay, but your name will only be circulated among the upper echelons of Xia Yu, I don’t think any wives will go to the market to buy vegetables, right?”
"Putting up a portrait of you will cost you a few taels, but those women who are very budget-conscious won't buy it."
What Su Yan said did make a difference, so Zhou You did not question what Su Yan said. The first place in the fox tasting event would indeed set off a trend in Xia Yu.
But we don’t have any products to sell! Agricultural products with your name on them won’t sell for much!
"Who said there is no product? In fact, I have been thinking about this matter in the past few days. Think about it, Xia Yu's freight is transported through storage rings, I"
Su Yan looked at Zhou You with a smile on his face, and was about to tell him what he had in mind, but at this moment, a loud shout came from the distance:
"The boss is bad! Something bad is going to happen!"
A government official came running from far away, shouting some bad words in his mouth.
"What's wrong with the boss? Your boss is just sitting here drinking sugar cane water." Su Yan looked at the person who came and rolled his eyes and said, "What's the matter?"
"Invitation. The Hua family is planning to invite the city's families to the house for a dinner tonight. The servants of the Hua family have just sent invitations to our official office, so that our official office can also have a banquet tonight."
The yamen servant was panting while running, but he still explained the purpose of his visit very concisely: "That's why Boss Jun asked me to come to the fields to find the boss."
"I just sent the invitation today. Are you going to have a banquet tonight?" Su Yan asked the Yamen servant in reply.
"That's right! Boss, hurry up! Time is running out."
(End of chapter)
