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Even if he was dismissed from office, the Zhang family on the first day of the Lunar New Year is still lively and unparalleled.

There were many people coming to Zhang’s family to pay New Year’s greetings, including villagers, neighbors, workshop workers, and college students. On the first day of the Lunar New Year, they all rushed to Zhang’s family to pay New Year’s greetings to Zhang Chao.

This is Zhang San’s popularity in Bashang.

In the past six months, Zhang Chao has not only made the Zhang family richer, but also has not forgotten to help the neighbors. The Zhang family opened a workshop to do business and made money, invited villagers and neighbors to work, and also provided everyone with the opportunity to make money. Moreover, Zhang Chao usually collects grain with his neighbors, buys everyone's game delicacies, vegetables in the field, pigs and chickens, etc., and the prices are a little higher than the market price.

The money was paid in time every time. Before the Chinese New Year, all the wages, buying pigs and vegetables were settled, and there was a lot of money, and there was no discount.

Many children of neighbors have now entered Bailu Academy, which is almost free.

The Zhang family even paid for the construction of bridges and paving roads. Before the New Year, they specially sent some food and cloth to many widows in the village.

Zhang Sanlang's reputation is now famous for his good reputation in Bashang. The Zhang family even responded to the response in Bashang. This reputation was not only obtained by Zhang Chao as an official or had money, but was obtained by his deliberate management.

In the morning, Zhang Chao and his father met many villagers who came to pay New Year's greetings.

The courtyard was crowded with people, and everyone was wearing new clothes and smiling. Some villagers even came over twenty or thirty miles in the morning just to say a few festive words to the Zhang family to wish the New Year.

The people who came here did not have any empty handed down, and the gifts may not be heavy, and some local products such as eggs.

Zhang Chao accepted all the things that came and asked the housekeeper to give them a gift, each of which was rewarded with five feet of cloth. Each piece of cloth was forty feet, less than two hundred coins, and it was rewarded with five feet of cloth, and only thirty or forty cents were allowed.

But this is not a matter of money or low money, it is etiquette.

The villagers sent some eggs to greet the New Year, and the Zhang family returned a few feet of cloth and returned the gifts, and exchanged gifts.

Zhang Chao also gave eight-person New Year’s money to each child.

"Xie Sanlang."

Sitting there, watching every adult who received the reward come to thank him, especially the children who received the New Year's money kowtowed, Zhang Chao was very happy.

Isn’t this my original dream? There are many fields, groups of mules and horses, wives, concubines, slaves and maids. They are respected by the villagers on acre of land in the countryside.

"This child is pretty solid and smart. How old is this year?"

"It's five years old after the age of 1990," the villager replied.

"Well, when it's time next year, you can prepare a schoolbag for him and then send him to the academy." Zhang Chao said with a smile.

The villagers were excited to thank each other again.

The landlord feels very good, and Zhang Chao likes this feeling.

The kitchen also specially prepared tea and snacks. Today, the snow was sunny, so many tables and stools were placed directly inside and outside the yard, Shuanzi and others were greeting people who came to drink tea.

"We will have to work hard after the New Year. On the eighth day of the New Year, the workshop will start and the work in the ditch will begin." Manager Zheng greeted the villagers from time to time in the courtyard.

Now Zhang Chao has divided the work for the two housekeepers. Zhang is responsible for the daily management of the yard, and Manager Zheng is responsible for the workshops, farmland and other affairs outside the Zhang family. Both of them also report to Cui Yingying. Cui Yingying is equivalent to being a general manager, and Zhang Chao is enough to be the chairman.

The villagers have no objection to the start of work in the eighth day of the lunar month. It is better to start work early, so you can make money. Before the spring plowing, you can make a lot of money.

Zhang Chao planned to be the landlord to the end and continue to hold high the banner of making money and buying land.

There are several projects this year, and the development of the bathtub will continue. After the spring starts, water storage will be required when the dam is completed, and terraces will continue to be developed. When the spring rain falls, you will have to start planting trees, fruit trees, and mulberry trees on the slopes. Now you need to start preparing for these and searching for good seedlings everywhere.

There are also special nurseries in Chang'an. Mulberry seedlings are easy to buy, but you also need to book them. However, there are fewer seedlings such as vines, cherries, and vines. If you want to plant them on a large scale, you can only buy a small part. Zhang Chao also has to find someone to find seeds and breed them by himself.

In addition, the Zhang family’s fields in Bashang were collected. In addition to the fields in Lantian and Hebei, the Zhang family had to hire long-term workers and short-term workers to cultivate these more than 2,000 acres of land in Bashang this year. About half of the land was officially handed over to the Zhang family after the summer harvest, but many of the land now have no crops in the fields and will be plowed after spring.

It is not easy to cultivate more than 2,000 acres of land in a concentrated manner. Many people have to be hired, and they also have to be specially led by the team and arranged the plan. The more than 2,000 acres of land need to be drilled, well-built, and ditches.

There is also a lot of investment, and you need to hurry up.

Ma Zhou, who came back to become the Zhang family's big accountant, did some calculations and wanted to develop bath ditches at the same time, and to build more than 2,000 acres of land on derricks and water trucks, and repair the ditches, which was a lot of investment.

Therefore, he suggested that Zhang Chao divide these two pieces into several batches first, and then complete them in several years.

"In three years, more than 2,000 acres of land were drilled into water wells, mounted water trucks, and repaired all the ditches. The bathing ditch was divided into ten years, and terraces, vegetable gardens, and fruit trees were planted."

The time span is quite long, but Ma Zhou’s plan is not just a random thing, but has specific numbers as a basis. He has budgeted how much money it is expected to be invested and how much return it will be. The return on the field is still good. After reclaiming the land, it will have higher returns after hiring someone to cultivate it.

However, on the bathing ditch, there are a total of twenty miles of ditch slopes, more than 16,000 acres. Even though Zhang Chao made two phases of planning, he only developed 10,000 acres in the first phase. However, it is very difficult to make a huge investment in repairing dams and digging ponds to plant trees, but it is difficult to achieve short-term results, especially since the terraces cannot be reclaimed a lot in a year, and the fields must be ripe. The fruit trees will be even slower to take effect. Even if Zhang Chao still plans to plant some tung trees, oil tea trees, and tea trees, it still takes a long time to reach the harvest period. Before that, he has been investing all the time.

"What you said makes sense."

Zhang Chao and Ma Zhou sat in the yard basking in the sun and drinking afternoon tea. The neighbors who came to pay New Year greetings said goodbye one after another. Zhang Chao picked up the tea and took a sip, then looked at the other Zhang family executives at the same table.

Manager Zhang, Manager Zheng, President Cui Yingying, President Assistant Hong Shi, and many others with titles of Manager.

"The bathtub is a long-term development process, and the investment is definitely very large. But we can't just invest money in it. We have to be more flexible and make it generate profits in advance. I have a few plans, so you can listen to it and give some advice."

"For example, after the dam is stored, we can raise fish in it. What are the benefits of raising fish in the reservoir? It is that we can raise some popular fish. Moreover, we can raise fish in this way, and we can provide fresh fish at any time in the future. We can provide fresh fish to various restaurants and hotels in Chang'an, and even wealthy people's homes. This has a great advantage over the fishermen who fish in the river. Raising fish is a feasible project for us to recover the bonus and take effect quickly."

Live fish are valuable. The fishermen don’t have high preservation rate of live fish when fishing, especially the fish they are fishing, which vary in size. If Zhang Chao raises fish in the reservoir, he can even get a few cages and catch the fish to be sold in advance to keep them in the cage to ensure that they are fresh when sent to Chang'an, and even control the species and size.

Fish farming works quickly, and you can see profits in at most half a year.

"In addition, we have a reservoir, we can raise ducks and geese, and raise more. Ducks and geese are usually foraging in water and on the slopes. We feed some food, and we can lay eggs and sell male ducks and geese, which is also a benefit. With such a big place, it would be too waste not to do some breeding. Chicken can be raised on the slopes, and some pig houses are built to raise pigs in a semi-free manner."

"The manure of these chickens, ducks and pigs can be collected and can be used as fertilizer. Even the fermentation pond fermented by the fermentation pond can be fed fish and planted trees in a fat field."

The terraces on the slope and orchards are unlikely to achieve results in the short term, but you can do breeding first. With these large places, both slope and water, it is appropriate to do breeding.

The money earned from breeding can be invested in the development of bath ditches.

After all, Bashang relies solely on Chang'an, and breeding is not a problem with sales. There are so many people in the capital, especially so many wealthy bureaucratic and noble families, as well as the army and students, they have great needs for meat and vegetables such as poultry, eggs, and other meats and vegetables.

Thirty miles away, there will be no transportation trouble.

It is wrong to just invest money, and there must be output. Cultivation is the better way to get profits in the short term that Zhang Chao thought of. In addition, it is necessary to grow rice in the developed terraces, grow vegetables in newly opened vegetable fields, and even plant some short-term herbs. In short, you cannot rely solely on investing money to develop.

Zhang Chao also plans to plant some flowers.

The perfume workshop is not big and the output will be relatively small, but this is a high-end route and will be a project that the Zhang family focuses on this year. In addition, there are also wineries, which have been laid out at present, so we will definitely do it this year.

There is also a book seal shop. The first set of carved versions of the Three Character Classic have been prepared. Currently, there are 200 apprentices. Zhang Chao is also planning to recruit two and three periods, and another four or five hundred. The book shop will be officially opened this year.

Zhang Chao didn't think much about the rest. It turned out that the two catering and engineering projects that Zhang's family started were not so important now, and their profits were limited, but Zhang Chao did not intend to re-sell and cancel them. After all, although it didn't make much money, it provided many villagers with an opportunity to make money.

As long as these two businesses are not losing money, Zhang Chao will continue to do it. However, the industry may be upgraded in the future. For example, in catering, specializing in restaurants, and opening chain deli restaurants, and the workshops in Zhangjiagou will still be retained. In engineering, they will also transform when they have the opportunity.

But at present, these two areas will not be the main focus of this year.

Liquor, perfume, and printing books are the three money-making projects that the Zhang family will focus on this year. Whether Zhangjiagou can be developed at a faster pace is counting on the profits of these projects.

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