Chapter 375 – A Busy Half-Month

Rice, sweet potatoes, and the new taro planted by Wei Ruo in the back had a bumper harvest, and Wei Ruo had to arrange for the storage and distribution of these grains.

Among them, rice is definitely collected in large quantities and stored in warehouses, and sweet potatoes are still the same as before, partly to be made into dried sweet potatoes and sweet potato flakes, which are both more convenient for storage and easier to transport and sell.

As for taro, in addition to storing a portion of it, Wei Ruo also intends to sell a portion of it, the same as sweet potatoes, in order to pave the way for promotion afterward.

And taro is already a familiar crop, the difference is that the yield and quality of the batch of taro she grows will be a bit higher.

Then there was the matter of purchasing the fields over in the provincial city, Nurse and Uncle Xu had already departed, and Zhao Hai and the ten villagers selected from Stone Village were also already in place.

In addition to the already scheduled victims of Daho village, it may be necessary to hire some more hands afterward, and then start preparing for the planting of her new rice variety, perennial rice.

Provincial city side of the store Wei Ruo temporarily intends to open two, a four treasure Zhai, a halal store.

Four Treasures Zhai words need to pick a suitable shopkeeper, the candidate Wei Ruo also want to pick again to see.

The marinade store could just let Chen Aqing go over there, and now that Chen Aqing had already brought another fellow in the marinade store in the Taizhou province very well, and her own ability and boldness had been improved, Wei Ruo felt that she could take on the role on her own.

Also the fabrics promised to several ladies at the Mid-Autumn Banquet should be arranged.

Since they hadn’t seen any other colors, several of the ladies asked for purple and blue material because they thought those two colors were rare and pretty.

These two colors are really special, because in this world the original dyeing process is to use natural dyes, purple is generally used is the purple grass, blue is generally used is polygonum blue, these dyes are more complex dyeing process, the color on the relatively also relatively single.

Wei Ruo, on the other hand, chose to use chemical synthesis to produce some colors that seem relatively new at the moment.

For example, in the production of blue color, Wei Ruo mixes grass ash and cow’s blood, and then roasts them to precipitate yellow crystals, which are then put into a solution of iron salts (ferric acetate) made from vinegar and iron ore (iron oxide), and a blue dye is obtained.

This type of dye production method does not have a high success rate under current conditions, so the amount produced will not be very large. Sometimes the ore needed depends on luck as well, so it’s true that the yield is not high.

Therefore, Wei Ruo does not intend to do expansion in terms of fabrics and garments for the time being, and first only publicizes and sells them in Taizhou Province.

As with Thyme, production of this special color-textured fabric will be tightly controlled, continuing the starvation marketing model.

On the second day, Wei Ruo went out dressed as a man to go to his own manor to make a round to watch the people inside the manor harvesting in full bloom.

Afterwards, he went to the surrounding farmland in passing, because many people in the neighborhood have borrowed Wei Ruo’s rice seeds, and when the harvest is good, they have to pay the grain to Wei Ruo according to the agreement at the beginning.

However, this part of the rice planted a little later, now not yet ripe, just look at the growth should be able to have a good income.

The farmers saw Wei Ruo and greeted him.

“Good day, Mr. Xu!”

“Mr. Xu come have some tea!”

“Why is Mr. Xu free to come to the fields today? Come and sit in our home!”

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Each one of them showed their enthusiasm for Wei Ruo, all because it was thanks to Wei Ruo’s blessing that the rice in their fields grows so well nowadays.

Although Wei Ruo is with the attitude of doing business will be lent to them, but long in the paddy field that heavy rice ears is real, see the sweetness, also realized that they and Wei Ruo deal is very cost-effective, which is the attitude of Wei Ruo naturally also good.

Finally Wei Ruo went to the stone village, first went to see the sandy land that he contracted to the stone village, the sweet potatoes on the top have already been harvested, but there are still many villagers doing the aftermath work.

Because Wei Ruo said that he would also contract this place to them next year, and Wei Ruo is paying them according to the proportion, they naturally pay special attention, and only when the production comes up, they can get more.

So they treat Wei Ruo’s sandy land with the same care as they do their own.

And when they saw Wei Ruo, the villagers of Stone Village reacted with exceptional enthusiasm.

One by one, they took the food and drink to Wei Ruo, one by one, Xu Gongzi, fearing that Wei Ruo was hungry and thirsty.

It was hard to escape from amongst the enthusiastic Stone Village villagers, Wei Ruo arrived at the Brewery.

Although the production of the brewery was not high, but the profit was high, Wei Ruo gave these few selected brewers a good welfare package, in addition to the initially agreed upon wages, there were additional rewards at the end of each month.

That’s why these brewers were all full of joy and enthusiasm when they saw Wei Ruo, more so than the villagers of Stone Village ever were.

Wei Ruo inspected the brewery and made sure there were no problems, then had ten jars of Thyme taken out of the warehouse and transported to her carriage.

Although Wei Ruo externally claimed that the production of Thyme was scarce, with only two or three jars per day, in reality, the daily production could still be a little more than this amount.

The extra Wei Ruo usually do not sell, it exists in the warehouse, when there is a need to take it to use.

This time, the ten altars were taken out to send over to Xu Zhengyong, and when the news of his promotion was finalized, a celebration banquet would be held for him.

Before leaving, Wei Ruo remembered something, then took Xiu Mei back to get two more jars.

After returning to the mansion, Wei Ruo asked Xiu Mei to send the two extra jars of Thyme that she had brought back to Wei Mingting.

Wei Mingting had fought the good fight this time and was able to rest at home for a few days, and the rare relaxation time was a good time for wine tasting.

Received Wei Ruo sent Thyme Wei Ming Ting smiled from ear to ear, I do not know because this wine is really fragrant and mellow to his joy or because this is the daughter sent more than elsewhere to get more intoxicated.

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Wei Ruo this busy work is half a month, from the middle of August has been busy to the beginning of September, during the period of daily morning and evening, almost no contact with other people at home, and Yun’s is a few days can not see a side.

In the meantime, the grain on Wei Ruo’s various estates was almost harvested, and the rice seeds that had been lent out before were also recovered in the shares that had been agreed upon at the beginning.

This time all the grain silos are filled, and even has been closed for some days in the Xingshan County Xu Ji grain store also reopened for business.

And it wasn’t just Wei Ruo’s fields that saw a bumper harvest in this half-month, but also the fields of other farmers in Taizhou Prefecture.

Because of the effective implementation of various measures, about 40% of the fields in Taizhou Prefecture have now received a good harvest one after another.

That is why the entire Taizhou Prefecture was immersed in joy, no matter whether it was the farmers who worked hard to cultivate their fields or the powerful and noble people in high positions, they were all incomparably happy.