A Husband Who Traveled Through the Famine and Developed a Chronicle

211 Three Years
The cloth shop opened smoothly.

Bai Xia holds the transformation pool in her hand and is not worried about sales. There are people in Dou'er Village and surrounding villages.

Within a few months of her arrival in Douer Village, everyone had enough to eat.

Can wear tops.

This is the poorest village. Women from surrounding villages are not even willing to marry here. But in just a few months, their lives have changed dramatically.

When the cloth workshop opened, everyone went to work in the cloth workshop when they were not busy, because in addition to the fixed workers who were paid three hundred coins a month, there was also a separate weaving workshop, and the money was calculated based on the cloth weaved, and there were also No rent required.

As a result, many people who were dissatisfied with the high rent and could not afford to buy looms returned their machines and simply went to work in cloth workshops.

Free time, no delay in farm work at home.

The only bad thing is that you can't take the extra cloth with you, it's all from the factory.

The salary of [-] cash per month is almost the same as working as a long-term worker in a wealthy family.

When you go to work in a wealthy family, you can't easily go back home, unlike Bufang, which is in the village and you can go back at any time.

In this way, while farming and working, the family's money accumulated more and more.

The thatched houses in the village gradually disappeared, and mud houses were built, which were large and spacious. Some families even had many people and went up to the mountains to dig stones and build large bluestone tile houses.

Everyone's life is getting better and better. They can eat not only dry rice but also meat three meals a day.

It was under such circumstances that in the summer of the second year after arriving in the village, Bai Xia built a new tofu workshop.

She was 11 years old at the time, but she already looked like an adult, with a height of nearly 1.7 meters.

There is no girl in the village who is taller than her.

Walking on the path in the mountain village.

For the sake of convenience, each family contributed money to repair the roads in the village. They were paved with stones dug from the back hill. It was not possible to get dirty feet on rainy days, but it was possible to avoid dirtying trousers.

The stones are pieced together in the middle of the soil, which seems quite artistic at first glance.

The paddy fields at the east end of the village are ablaze with yellow and orange. The ears of rice are swaying in the wind, and the fragrance of rice comes to people's noses in the wind.

"Miss Xia, the food in this field grows really well."

"No, the radishes in the fields at that time were just like this grain and grew very well."

"I heard from Sister-in-law Chunhua that the pig manure in Miss Xia's house is dried in the sun to make it fertile."

"Really? Then let's try raising two pigs later."

The woman's low-pitched conversation reached Bai Xia's ears. Now that everyone has money, they have slowly begun to raise livestock. There are also many families raising pigs in the village.

They all thought that Bai Xia's three hundred acres of land was fertile due to pig manure. In fact, it was because of the improved seeds Bai Xia used and the fertilizer in the transformation tank.

However, the dried pig manure itself can be used to fertilize, which is not wrong.

Bai Xia had a good harvest in his first year of growing grain. Both the court and God were very considerate of him. Nothing happened and everyone spent the year peacefully.

Every year, everyone selects the best-growing grain for sowing. This year, no matter which family’s grain is grown, it will not grow as well as the grain in Baixia Field.

So the village chief came forward to find Bai Xia and wanted to buy the grain from her field for sowing.

Bai Xia naturally would not refuse.

Everyone had improved seeds and fertilized them with dried pig manure. The harvest in the second year was indeed much better than the previous year.

There are also very few bad seeds.

It is worth mentioning that due to the rapid changes in Dou'er Village, life has improved, and villagers from nearby villages also come to Dou'er Village to find work.

Bai Xia was dissatisfied with the lack of people. Seeing this, of course he welcomed it.

Not all the cloth in her cloth workshop was collected into the transformation pool. She also arranged for Yu Dahai and others to take it to the town and county to sell it.

The village had few people and not much cloth before. In addition, Bai Xia collected most of it into the transformation pool, and only a small part would be sold by Yu Dahai and others, so it did not attract anyone's attention.As the situation in Dou'er Village improved, it attracted many people from other villages. Bai Xia recruited people regardless of their status. Anyone with good character could come.

The cloth mill expanded and expanded, and more and more cloths were produced.

If this continues, it will soon attract the attention of the government.

Although the products produced are all cotton, not silk or brocade, the large quantities will attract others' attention. Nowadays, many of the raw materials for making cloth are taken out of the transformation tank.

The finished product is also sent to the transformation tank.

But after attracting people's attention, someone will definitely check the source of her raw materials and the sales of her finished products.

So Bai Xia began to ask Yu Dahai to purchase large quantities of cotton and sell finished cloth to divert other people's attention.

The ones that couldn't be sold were piled in the warehouse and locked, but she secretly put them into the transformation pool.

They sell cloth openly, but secretly they sell grain.

Use the cover of the cloth workshop to sell food to the villagers who come to work.

The villages further away only saw that the ten miles and eight villages around Dou'er Village were getting better and better, and the roads were getting wider and wider, but they didn't know why this happened.

Three years passed in a hurry.

Bai Xia is also 13 years old, and Li Xiuyuan has also grown from a six-year-old little boy to a teenager.

The wheels of the small blue cloth carriage turned and pressed on the stone paved road, which was smoother than anywhere else.

"Miss Bai is really amazing. I came here once three years ago, and it didn't look like this at that time."

Qishan was filled with emotion as he opened the curtain and took a look at the straight stone avenue outside.

Liu Yunzhai assigned ten people to Bai Xia, but no one was sent later.

Three years later, the number of personnel has not increased, but Qi Shan came here once to deliver news from outside to Bai Xia.

In recent years, the emperor has been diligent and caring for the people, and has managed the country well. With the support of important officials in the court, the royal family's political power has been very stable.

Only one thing has not changed: she is so beautiful. In the past three years, there have been thirty more beauties added to the palace.

But it was the imperial concubine who was the most favored.

Li Xiuyuan got the news that the emperor had decided to ban land sales, the imperial edict was written, and he sent people to Jiazhou.

It’s just that people haven’t arrived yet. After they arrive, private sales of land and forests will be prohibited throughout Jiazhou.

If you want to buy Liu Yunzhai and the surrounding mountains, it must be completed before the imperial edict arrives.

Otherwise, all unowned land will be reverted to the imperial court, and if the land is to be sold, it can only be sold to the imperial court.

As long as you buy it, the emperor will not be able to take it back within a short period of time.

Even if he wanted to, the aristocratic family would not agree.

Li Xiuyuan opened the car curtain and looked outside. Along the way, the Jiazhou official road and even the Jizhou official road were not as well built as the road in front of him.

On the one hand, Bai Xia was sent outside to earn money, and on the other hand, she did not want her to participate too much in Liu Yunzhai.

So in the past three years, except for occasional correspondence, the two have not seen each other again.

Now it seems that Bai Xia's life is not bad, no, it should be that she is living a particularly good life.

On the fields and stems along the way, there are clumps of green castor beans.

The road paved with stone slabs is smooth and flat. When you enter the village, what you see are bluestone and blue-tiled houses, located on the ground, spacious and bright.

Among the scattered houses, there are a few blue brick and large tile houses mixed in, which are more impressive than the bluestone houses.

(End of this chapter)