Chapter 482 I Was a Farmer in the Northern Song Dynasty

"Master Daoist, the bachelor has already given orders, and the villain has already made an appointment with a middleman, so you can go outside the city to see today." When he woke up the next day, just after lunch, Wang Anshi's housekeeper came to find him.

"It's so good, let's go and have a look together!" Shen Long came out, got into the carriage, and went out of the city with the officials and the middlemen. Along the way, the middlemen kept introducing the situation of these places to Shen Long .

"The land in the world is the most expensive in Kaifeng City. It has been priced at the same price as gold for a long time; the cultivated land outside the city is divided into several grades according to water, drought, fat and thinness. The price varies, the second-class flowery land costs two to two pens per mu, and the lowest-class thin land only costs three to five hundred yuan! If it is a contiguous piece of land, the price will be even more expensive."

"The villain heard that the Taoist priest wanted to buy land, but he took out all the best red silt land, a large piece of land about two hectares, and brought this Zhuangzi. If the Taoist priest is tired of living in the city, come outside the city to enjoy it. It would be nice to have some pastoral scenery." The middleman said courteously, this was all for the prestige of Wang Anshi's family, otherwise he wouldn't have offered the best land as soon as he came up.

"Don't fool me. The Taoist priest is a distinguished guest of a bachelor. How can you get a mere two hectares of land?" In the Song Dynasty, one hectare of land was almost 100 mu, and this sale would be 200 mu. I got 200 mu of land next to me, and I don't know how much I will earn if I engage in real estate development.

"Don't worry, Daoist, the bachelor has some savings over the years, just a few hectares of land." After reprimanding the middle-aged man, the housekeeper said to Shen Long that he had already prepared the money for buying the land.

"I don't need such a large area, and I don't need such a good land. No matter how much food I use to grow more food, I can't show my ability. Just buy some of the most inferior land!" Shen Long said. This season is the most suitable for planting corn, sweet potatoes, and peanuts. These high-yielding crops that are not available in the Song Dynasty have different land requirements from the popular rice and wheat.

"How can this be done!" The housekeeper became anxious when he heard it. These days, Shen Long lived in Wang Anshi's house. Wang Anshi and his son respected him in every possible way. Now that he was asked to buy land, Shen Long only wanted inferior land. Not being laughed at?

"That's it. The food that a certain family wants to grow now is the worse the land, the better; choose a few remote spots, where the tenants are honest and honest, and show me to see. If there is not much, three to five mu of land is fine. " Shen Long said.

The middleman and the butler looked at each other in blank dismay, how could there be such a reason in the world? If this is the case, how can Chiyu land be sold for a high price of three pens, while some inferior lands only cost three to five hundred yuan? There are several times the difference here.

"Here, if today's business is done well, this will be yours." Shen Long took out a pearl from his sleeve and threw it to the middleman. He bought this pearl at the wholesale market and it was not worth much. Money, but it is a treasure in Song Dynasty.

"Little things,

Don't dare to accept the generous gift from the Taoist priest. "The middleman has seen a little bit of the world. Seeing such a big pearl, he might be able to sell a large piece of high-quality red mud, so he dared to accept it, so he swallowed his saliva and refused.

"There is no reason to take back the things that are sent out. Just take them as you please, just help me find a suitable place." Shen Long put his hands back into his sleeves and ignored them.

The middleman thanked him again and again and accepted it. Looking back carefully, he really found a suitable place. There is a place called Wujia Village not far ahead. There is a simple and honest farmer named Wu Xiaoyi in the village, who guards a few acres outside the village. Di and his widowed mother depend on each other for life. Recently, his mother was seriously ill and had to buy land for medical treatment.

This place is not far from the city gate of Kaifeng, but it is covered by a small hill. Only Wu Xiaoyi's family lives there, which just meets Shen Long's needs. Shen Long went to have a look and was very satisfied. I went to see Wu Xiaoyi's mother, and said to Wu Xiaoyi, "This disease is not difficult to cure. I will prescribe a prescription later, and you can take the medicine according to the prescription. From now on, your mother and son will still live here, so you can help me plant the land." Bar."

"Why don't you hurry up and thank you, the son of the bachelor's family is only good after taking the Taoist priest's magic medicine, and being able to receive the Taoist priest's diagnosis and treatment is a blessing you have cultivated in several lifetimes." Seeing that Wu Xiaoyi was still in a daze, the housekeeper quickly glared at him. Said.

Only then did Wu Xiaoyi come to his senses, and quickly thanked him. Shen Long helped him up, "After going to the city tomorrow to grab the medicine, come back first and clean up all the crops in the field. I want to plant some new crops."

Now that seedlings have just emerged in the ground, how can farmers be willing to dig them up? But now the land is already owned by others, and Shen Long is still helping his mother to see a doctor, so Wu Xiaoyi had no choice but to respond in a muffled voice, but he was worried in his heart, if there is no food to grow, how will he live in the second half of the year?

Entering the city and signing a contract, he asked a servant of the Wang family to take Wu Xiaoyi to grab the medicine. Shen Long asked the housekeeper to take him to the blacksmith shop in the city, and handed over a few blueprints to the blacksmith, and asked them to make it quickly. Shen Long found out the patterns of farming tools from the agricultural books of later generations, and the efficiency of farming was far better than the farming tools used in Song Dynasty.

Then he asked the housekeeper to find some masons, and went to the cultivated land in Wujia Village to build a small courtyard for himself to rest in. He divided it into two entrances, the front one used bricks and tiles to build the laboratory, and the back room was vacated for his own villa. .

Shen Long also gave the blueprints. The Song Dynasty already had blue bricks, and Shen Long's small courtyard was also planned to be built with blue bricks, so that it would be more comfortable to live in and convenient for various experiments.

Building farm tools and building houses, all of these are more expensive than buying land. The housekeeper shook his head, and quickly followed Shen Long's instructions to find someone.

After a few days, the blacksmith shop finished making farm tools, Wu Xiaoyi cleaned up all the crops in the field, and the masons began to build courtyards nearby. Shen Long had enough wandering in Kaifeng City, and planned to stay outside the city for a while.

At this time, Wang Yu also came back from Xiangzhou. He received some tortoise shells with writing and planned to stay up all night with Wang Anshi to study, but Shen Long asked him to ask for leave to follow him outside the city.

"Well, you've done a good job. Come and work with me today. Send out all the newly made farm tools. Let's dig the ground first." Shen Long changed his bunt today and took a piece of wood from the carriage. Pick up the hoe and get to work.

"Master Dao, how can this be done? Let them do the rough work." This frightened Wang Yu quite a bit.

Is there anything I can’t do? I planted fields in northern Shaanxi for a few years. Not only did Shen Long not rest, but he also stuffed Wang Yu with a hoe. The problem of scholars who only use their mouths but don’t use their hands has to be corrected. You too Let's hoe together!

Shen Long started to do it first, and Wang Yu stayed for a while, remembering his father's order, gritted his teeth and followed.