Cui Zhiti had insomnia.

I couldn't sleep for several nights in a row.

Mrs. Wang asked him to count the money if he couldn't sleep. He always counted it. As a result, every time he counted ten thousand yuan, he couldn't sleep.

"Madam, do you really want to give 10,000 yuan to Li Xiao?"

Wang was also very energetic. Her eyes shone in the dark bedroom, "It would be better if Li Xiao really dared to collect it. We wouldn't lose if we changed the printing technology to ten thousand yuan."

It is worth ten thousand guan, so you can buy a few considerable farms in Gyeonggi. However, compared to printing, this is really nothing.

"I'm just afraid that Li Xiao is not kind-hearted. The printing technique is so powerful, how could he give it to our Cui family easily?"

Wang snorted. Last time Li Xiao scolded her wet nurse, and later beat the Cui family's manager. Although it hurt the Cui family's face, it was just two servants after all. How dare Li Xiao be tough with the Cui family?

"Then Li Xiao was holding the printing technique in his hand and couldn't keep it. If he was smart, he would know that he would have to sell it to us and he would have to get ten thousand chunks of money. Wouldn't that be great?"

Wang made sure that Li Xiao didn't dare to play with the Cui family, and hitting two servants was just a thigh.

"But Li Xiao also asked us to promise his second mother."

"That's a delusion. How could Er Niang marry him? How could he marry him? I don't know anything about it? Seeing that Li Xiao made this request, it was just a huge price."

Cui Zhiti finally made up his mind to do this deal.

"It's worth buying printing technology for ten thousand yuan, but we don't have that much money." He couldn't help but sigh. Nowadays, families like the Cui family have a wealth of money. After hundreds of years, they have sufficient wealth. However, no matter how rich a family is, no one will save tens of thousands of dollars in cash at home.

The Cui family's property, like most gentry, was mainly to buy land and buy land, as well as many shops and houses, and they would also spend a lot of money to lend.

"Take out the gold and silver hidden in the house, and then take out some of the silk from the warehouse. If it is not enough, take two more farms to make up. We have to seize the opportunity to start. If Li Xiao finds someone else, it will be too late."

Ten thousand coins are a lot, but if the printing technology is changed, it will definitely be worth it. If the Cui family doesn’t take action, there will definitely be others willing to take action.

If you don’t have enough cash, then you can make up the money first. You can use the gold and silver stored in your home and the farm to charge the amount.

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Chang'an, Beiyuan.

After Li Xiao came back from a short holiday, he first came to his Beiyuan Experimental Field for inspection. This summer, Beiyuan planted a total of 600 acres of cornfield.

The land is flat and straight, flat and neat.

The dark Kunlun slave worked hard under the supervision of the corn supervisor. Green corn buds had already emerged from the flat ground. Kunlun slaves were loosening the soil, pulling weeds and sewedlings.

The seedlings that have been dropped in a while cannot be wasted, and they have to be taken to the open space on the other side for transplanting. When the seeds are enough in the future, you don’t have to be so careful. Then you can plant them a little roughly and just scatter the corn seeds into the field. There is no need to be so fine. Even if the seeds are intermittent, the seedlings that have emerged in a while will be thrown away like weeds. You don’t have to take them to another open space for planting.

There are seedlings on earth, some loosen the soil, some pull out weeds, and some water them.

A leisurely pastoral view.

Li Xiao walked in the middle with his hands behind his back, looking at this large corn field, and was very satisfied. This was the change he brought. He sowed 600 acres of corn this summer, and there would be hundreds of thousands of kilograms of corn in the autumn harvest. By next spring, he would be able to plant more corn.

The emperor set aside another thousand acres of land in Beiyuan to the corn prison, which were all official fields.

The corn supervisor planted only 600 acres of corn in Beiyuan, 300 acres of corn in Lanxi, 100 acres of sand garden, and 22 counties in the capital. In addition, there were 10 acres of corn experimental fields in various 22 counties in Beijing.

The number of corn test fields has been expanded and the planting scope has also been expanded. According to what Li Xiao and Li Zhisou discussed, corn planting will be fully promoted in Guanlong, Hezhong, Hedong, Heshuo and other places next spring. By then, more than 100,000 acres of corn will be planted in these roads, and the corn planting scope will cover every county of these roads. In addition, corn prisons will also set up new corn test fields in Hebei, Huainan, Shannan, Jiannan, Jiangnan and other roads to test the corn in various places.

The imperial court planned to replace the original millet with corn and half of the sorghum planting area in three years.

During this period, Li Yuanfang, deputy supervisor, was slept in the experimental fields every day, and kept running between the experimental fields of Beiyuan, Shayuan, Lanxi and other counties in the capital. The people were tanned and almost as dark as those Kunlun slaves.

"Yuan Fang, you are the deputy supervisor, and you are responsible for the chief executive. The specific affairs should be left to the officials below."

The corn prison planted 1,000 acres of land this year, and the previous summer harvest was harvested. Now the imperial court attaches great importance to it. Some time ago, Li Xiao gave many official positions. Now, the three experimental areas of Beiyuan, Shayuan and Lanxi have been upgraded to seventh-grade prisons, each with a seventh-grade prison. Each of them is responsible for the twenty-two counties in the capital. Each of them has an eighth-grade prison chief to be responsible for the site.

It turned out that there were only a few officials in the Corn Prison, more than a dozen officials, and more than a hundred Kunlun slaves. Now, there are more than 30 officials above the ninth rank, and there are as many as two hundred foreign officials. In addition to the original more than a hundred Kunlun slaves, the court has specially assigned more than a thousand households to the Corn Prison.

The Corn Supervision even had a special order to be promoted to the fifth-rank yamen. Li Xiao, the supervisor, is naturally the fifth-rank rank, and Li Yuanfang, the deputy supervisor, has now been promoted to the fifth-rank rank. Following Li Xiao, he has risen to the highest level, but the achievements of the Corn Supervision are beyond doubt.

Li Yuanfang smiled loudly, and when she put on the silverfish in the red clothes, she became more and more afraid to relax.

"It's not tiring to run more. The corn grows very well, better than what we sow in spring." After all, we have already harvested a season, and now we have planted it in the second season, and everyone has some experience.

And the weather is much better now than last season.

"We now have a total of 100 hectares of experimental fields approved by the imperial court. There are 1,200 acres of corn planted, and there are still remaining land. According to Sanlang's request, I have someone planted peppers and sorghum."

Li Xiao nodded. With a reliable deputy like Li Yuanfang, he, as the top leader, would be quite relaxed. If he made a request, he would naturally be responsible for implementing it in place.

"Sanlang, I understand how to grow chili peppers. After all, chili peppers are quite valuable now, but why are sorghum? Sorghum isn't worth much?"

The imperial court allocated 4,000 acres of land to corn prison in 22 counties in the capital, and 6,000 acres of land from the original three bases of Beiyuan, Lanxi and Shayuan, with a total of 10,000 acres of land, and basically all of them are relatively high-quality fertile land.

He really doesn't understand how to use such good fertile fields to grow sorghum. After all, although sorghum was once one of the staple foods, its value was far less than that of millet and sorghum, let alone as valuable as wheat and rice. Unless it is in a famine year, sorghum is just used as feed for livestock.

Li Xiao smiled but said nothing. He would not tell Li Yuanfang that sorghum can make wine. Buying wine lees from other wineries is not a long-term plan. After all, if you buy too much, people will increase the price. Another thing is that although the quality of wine sweat is good, the yield is too low. If the wine shop wants to develop in the long term, it is better to brew sorghum wine directly. Sorghum brewing white wine is an excellent raw material.
Chapter completed!