The Prodigal Son of Zhenguan

"Don't talk about others. Even our Xiao family is the same, isn't it?" Xiao Yu smiled and said, "There are many farms, but the owners will not invest too much in them. Just like before, they take the harvest from the farms every year."

All the wealthy families and farms are like this. Farmers grow crops and pay rent. The owners send managers to manage all the big and small things on the farms. Every year, they have to prepare the account books and send the paid grain to the owner's warehouse.

No owner will pay out of his own pocket to build a school or repair a canal for the farmers on the farm.

Even if they need to repair it, the people on the farm will do it themselves, and there is no salary to speak of.

As for the workshops, the owners will not be as generous as in Jingyang County. The workshops use their own slaves, and the money they pay is pitifully small, but they also provide food and accommodation.

"It's mainly because of King Jingyang, who knows how to make money." Lu Deming said with a smile: "For ordinary people, even if they spend so much money on the farm and build a workshop, how can they do business so easily? Just look at the three workshops on the farm. Which one is not unique? They are all unique.

Things are precious because they are rare. If there is something here and not elsewhere, and the things are good, then it must be able to make money."

Xiao Yu nodded in agreement, and it was indeed the case.

In the afternoon, Li Fu went to the workshop to see how Yan Lide was doing.

In the morning, Lao Zhou made a lot of arrangements on the farm. Together with Zhang Huan, he explained to the farmers that the new workshop on the farm was going to start construction, and people participated enthusiastically.

Of course, who wouldn't be happy to do a job that makes money?

Last year, we made money and finally had a good year. The whole family was happy. We had good food during the New Year and made new clothes to wear.

The whole village was in a festive mood. Everyone was happy when they went out to pay New Year's greetings. They sat together and talked about last year's events, saying that if they continued to work on the village this year, they would earn more money.

From now on, life will be more promising.

In the morning, Lao Zhou and Zhang Huan gathered people, and in the afternoon, the people on the village gathered and went to work under Yan Lide.

Jiang Que was still taking people to stroll in Jingyang County to check the terrain. His work would take a few days to get on track.

At the new house construction site, Yan Lide led people to count the materials left over from last year, and moved some ordinary usable wood and stone materials to the workshop area. After a while, some new materials will be transported over to make up for it.

The house was temporarily suspended. The plot of land had been marked out in the workshop, and people were cleaning up the things on the land, drawing lines, and digging foundations.

According to the layout of the original workshop, a new workshop was designed. The internal layout of different workshops is also different. The newly built workshop is mainly used for brewing wine, so the internal planning is different from other workshops.

In this afternoon, all the materials will be transported over, and the workshop can start construction directly tomorrow.

There is strength in numbers. There are many people in the village. So many people are all involved in building a workshop, so the speed is naturally quite fast.

A small number of people move materials, and a large number of people clean the land and dig the foundation.

In just one afternoon, the foundation has been dug halfway, and tomorrow morning, the foundation work will be completed.

Li Fu looked at the new house that he had built less than a quarter of, and sighed in his heart. He didn't know when he could move in.

According to last year's plan, at least one-third of the house should be completed. After all, more than 400 people are busy on the construction site. Although the amount of work on the house is large, they also use a lot of people. If each is responsible for a part of the project, the construction speed should be fast.

But plans can't keep up with changes. A heavy rain in autumn forced Li Fu and Yan Lide to put aside their work here and go to Linying County for disaster relief. The workers were temporarily dismissed, and the work here stopped. Otherwise, a whole autumn, plus a short period of time in early winter, could still do a lot of things.

At this time, Yan Lide came to Li Fu's side.

"At this speed, the workshop will be built very quickly. Before summer, your new house will definitely be started." Yan Lide comforted Li Fu: "Anyway, you just need to prepare money and food. If the workers have wages, they can get as much as they want."

Yan Lide patted Li Fu on the shoulder while speaking.

"Yes, the workshop is very fast." Li Fu smiled: "If there was no flood last year, I might have moved in at the beginning of next year. Now, the time to move into the new house will be delayed..”

“I didn’t expect something like that to happen. Besides, you have a lot of things to do on your farm.” Yan Lide laughed and said, “I’m even busier here than when I was the supervisor of craftsmanship.”

“Hahahaha, the supervisor of craftsmanship is mostly small jobs, but it’s different on the farm. There’s a lot of work to be done.” Li Fu said, “I don’t know how long it will take Jiang Que to work on his side.”

“The water conservancy on the farm is also related to the water conservancy project of the entire Jingyang County. It requires cooperation from many parties, and the progress will definitely be slower. Moreover, the entire water conservancy project is also a big plan. After Jiang Que has run through the entire Jingyang County, he will have to produce a blueprint. At that time, we will start the work according to the plan of the blueprint. We can’t be careless.”

“If we are not careful, if it happens like last year, it will cost us our lives. "

Yan Lide sighed.

Last year, there were several autumn rains, and Zhuangzi had a thrilling day. If Zhuangzi had not had some water conservancy infrastructure, I am afraid the outcome would not be much better than other places.

"That's right. Jiang Que's work, once started, will not be completed in one or two years." Li Fu responded: "Okay, everything goes well here. "

"Then let's go to the workshop area to see the prototype of your wine-making workshop." Yan Lide invited Li Fu to go with him.

"Let's go. "

The two walked towards the workshop area.

In the warehouse of the original workshop, there was a warehouse of Wude wine, all of which were brewed last year. During the New Year before the Lunar New Year, Li Fu only took out a small part of it and sent it to Chang'an City.

There is still a warehouse in the warehouse now. As for telling others that there is very little newly brewed Wude wine, it is not a lie.

What was brewed last year was brewed last year, and what was brewed this year is "newly brewed".

Half of the wine workshop is still brewing new wine continuously.