Chapter 500: Planing for Silver 9/10]
Zhang Wanxun glanced at Liu Renli. All the complaints just now were gone. The main owner had no objection to what he could do. Although that basket was not enough for him to eat, so bear it!
Liu Renli was happy and quickly asked someone to prepare the items. Zhang Huaiyuan called several farmers and came over with several stoves.
One is a special barbecue stove in Beishan, and the other is a large pot on the stove. Looking at the hot air on it, it was obviously burning for a while.
At this time, Fang Jizhong had sent someone to arrange the tables and chairs. The old emperor sat down and chatted with Zhang Fuling with teacup, and glanced at the stove here from time to time.
"Parent Fang asked the guards to work with him. If you come today, you can't just watch it. Come and help!"
Fang Jizhong's facial features were already wrinkled together, so he quickly got closer.
"How come this is true? Isn't it because there is no one to protect you..."
"Looking at me, hurry up and go on a tour in a covert outing today. There are so many things to do? There are Zhang Aiqing and who else do you want here? Do you have to let people know that our identity is extraordinary?"
Fang Jizhong instantly lost the rules and waved to the guards behind him.
"Don't just stand it, follow Liu Zhizhou's arrangements and go to work with him!"
The guards were a little stunned, but whoever did not obey the emperor's order was that they were uncomfortable. They quickly put down their weapons, followed by jumping over the canal, and came to Liu Renli.
Liu Renli was not uncomfortable, it was not good to have free labor, so he patted Lai Fu on the shoulder.
"You assign them a ditch and a task, and let someone take them with you, and now start to get golden potatoes."
Lai Fu said that, and walked over and gave instructions, then raised a flag, drew circles and shook the flags towards everyone, and ordered:
"Start the golden potatoes, clean them up and send them to the weighing place, put them in the bucket of your own group number, and start!"
With this order, these farmers were like hungry wolves, their eyes lit up towards the ditch, not walking slowly but running, for fear that someone would fall behind.
He held up the small iron claws in his hand and pulled them up hard. He was careful and cautious. He pulled out the seedlings and rolled down a bunch of golden potatoes. The two people following him quickly knelt on the ground, digging them with bare hands, and pounced them on the clean sand and soil into the basket.
Looking at their rare appearance, the old emperor stood up and stared at the fields with his hand in a shed. The peasant's piety towards the land was undoubtedly revealed to these people, and he was afraid of all the food given by God. This awe can deeply understand even if he was the emperor.
After a while, the old emperor took off his shirt and rolled up his sleeves.
Fang Jizhong was a person who had served the old emperor for decades. He didn't know what he meant with just such an action, so he rushed forward in horror.
"Your Majesty can't do it!"
The old emperor spat, "Go, if you dodge, call this again, go to the Shenzheng Department to punish him or her own punishment."
Fang Jizhong stomped his feet in a hurry and looked at Zhang Fuling, hoping that Lord Zhang could persuade him, but he was depressed at the sight, because Zhang Fuling took off his outer shirt, took out a strap from somewhere, and tied his wide sleeves to his back.
"I feel itchy when I look at it, why don't the master be with me?"
The old emperor raised his head and laughed, "It's still Zhang Qing's family who understands me, let's go!"
As he said that, the two of them walked directly towards the unmanaged land without waiting for Fang Jizhong. Fang Jizhong stomped his feet and quickly followed him happily. Seeing that Lai Fu had the iron hook in his hand, he snatched two of them and walked forward hummingly.
After walking for a few steps, Fang Jizhong turned around and glared at Lai Fu.
"I'm not here to teach you, this thing is not something I can do if I look at it."
The old emperor turned around and looked at Fang Jizhong with warning. Fang Jizhong shrank his neck and lost his turtle spirit just now.
"This is not a fear of exhausting you!"
The old emperor was angry and funny, and waved his hand at Lai Fu.
"When I come closer, I really have to teach you how to use this thing. It seems that they are very easy to operate, but it is not easy to get started."
Lai Fu was young and fast. He rushed to the front of the old emperor and Zhang Fuling in three or two steps. He took out two iron claws from his waist and squatted in front of the golden potato seedlings. He grabbed the seedlings with one hand and hooked them on the ground with the other.
"This is something we invented in Beishan. It is very useful and it is not easy to damage golden potatoes. After all, this thing is delicate and it will be damaged if it is pierced from the hole.
In this way, grab the seedlings with one hand and pull them horizontally and forcefully, then hook the soil at the roots of the seedlings. When you pull them back, the root system will come out. I deliberately didn’t water them for a few days, so the sand and soil are relatively dry and easy to rise."
The old emperor nodded, imitating Lai Fu's appearance, squatted in front of the ditch, grabbing the iron claws and seedlings, and pulled them back hard. Seeing such a simple action, when he arrived at the old emperor, the seedlings seemed to have been sucked from the land and could not be pulled down.
After the last force, he sat on the ground with only a few leaves in his hand. Fang Jizhong wanted to come over to help someone, but was pushed away by the old emperor. He stood up stubbornly, thought about Lai Fu's actions, and pulled them horizontally again.
This time, it seemed that I had mastered the method. A bunch of golden potatoes followed the seedlings. The old emperor couldn't hide his smile on his face. He looked at the dozen huge golden potatoes behind him and kept nodding at Lai Fu.
"This method is good, I didn't expect that one can produce so much."
Zhang Fuling was quick and squatted on the ground, putting all the golden potatoes in a basket.
"Sixteen, so many?"
Lai Fu smiled, with a row of white teeth on his dark face. He looked a little scared when he looked at it, but now he doesn't seem that scary if he sees too much.
"The harder the seedlings are, the more golden potatoes there may be. Besides, we just dug out the top ones, and there may be very small ones underneath, but there is no need to rush to make these. After harvesting this land, many children and women will come to pick them up and leave them to fill their hunger."
The old emperor suddenly realized and glanced at Liu Renli and obviously knew about this. However, although the output was less, these people would not go hungry, which was touching.
The old emperor squatted down and slashed it in the soil. Sure enough, there were still some below that were not pulled out, but the head was much smaller, and the largest one was the size of an egg.
He didn't say anything, took a step forward and started to pull out another seedling. It seemed that he had found the trick, but this time it went very smoothly.
Fang Jizhong walked to Liu Renli and poked him with his fingers.
"Your Majesty just need to get a few trees. He is old and probably he will feel sore in his waist and back when he returns."
Liu Renli shook his head, "Eunuch Fang doesn't understand. Your Majesty is so happy now, because there will be fewer people who starve to death this year. Let Your Majesty go and experience it yourself."
Fang Jizhong looked at Liu Renli with a slight understanding. Although he didn't understand it very well, it seemed to make sense and he immediately lost his words.
With a sigh, he ran over to help the old emperor pick up the golden potatoes on the ground. Liu Renli called Zhang Huaiyuan beside him.
"Cook more corn in a large pot. Take out the first cooked pot first, then cook one. Put more potato chips on the oven. This one tastes very good when roasted."
Zhang Huaiyuan quickly moved, greeted people, found a huge basin, took out the freshly cooked corn, and then filled it with a pot.
After such a toss, the rich smell spread out. The old emperor turned around and took a look, pounded his waist and threw the iron claws to Zhang Fuling.
"You can do it for a while, this job is not easy. Looking at the farmers who seem to be relaxed, I really don't know how tired they are."
After all, Zhang Fuling was younger, and his hands were moving quickly, and he smiled at the old emperor.
"For the local farmers, the land here was cultivated by them. There was no gentry to take care of it and there was no need to pay the land tax. Every time one was produced, it was grain and silver. Today was the day to collect cash, so they naturally worked hard."
Chapter completed!