"If you don't want to tell the truth, then just don't tell it. If you tell it so falsely, others won't believe it." Ye Yuran changed the subject after speaking pointedly, "Our family will not hide the planting skills.

People, when the time comes, we will take everyone to plant winter sweet potatoes, and plant millet in spring next year. If anyone is willing to follow, we will give it to them for free... You can rest assured, as long as they taste the sweetness, it will only take three to five years for the new plant to grow.

The planting method should be spread throughout this area. At that time, you only need to find a reason and give a little guidance, and the technology will be spread..."

She directly stated that she had no intention of "concealing" the planting technology.

She also hopes that more people will learn new planting methods and be able to harvest more food.

Because according to her experience in her previous life, people will only consider dressing and eating well when their stomachs are full.

At that time, the Zhu family's business can really start.

Ye Yuran also mentioned, intentionally or unintentionally, that Zhu Qi was going to take part in the imperial examination next year.

She didn't expect Gan Yixian to be able to help much, she simply hoped that he would "take care of" him and not let Zhu Qi suffer too much.

If others don't know about Zhu Qi's situation, how can she not?

Although she said "Zhu Qi is not a fool", the fact that Zhu Qi's IQ was different from ordinary people's and that he was completely incapable of dealing with the world still made her a little worried.

If such a person has a background and a backer, he can still be a "great scholar"; if not, he will only be bullied to death.

Gan Yixian didn't think much and followed Ye Yuran's words and praised Zhu Qi for being smart and wanting to please someone.

Ye Yuran accepted his words and naturally thought he meant "acceptance" and breathed a sigh of relief.

The Zhu family's land was the first to be prepared. It was plowed deeply with a curved shaft plow to break up the soil, remove stones and other debris, and then carefully cultivate it to ensure that the soil was fine and level before sowing.

If sweet potatoes want to produce high yields, they must have sufficient base fertilizer.

In this era, there was no such thing as urea or superphosphate, so I came up with some old-fashioned methods - using cow dung, chicken dung and other ingredients, and retting them in advance.

It's hard to find cow dung these days. Any cattle farmer who finds the cow dung outside will try to get it back. This is the most natural "golden pimple" and no one wants to part with it.

Chicken manure is readily available at home.

Ever since they discovered that breaking up snails and feeding them to chickens and pigs mixed with vegetables, and then cooking them and feeding them better, none of the Zhu family's daughters-in-law was lazy and kept doing these things every day.

In addition to using it for themselves, they also secretly told their wives. Because not many people knew about it, no "robbery" happened for a while, but if you pass it on to me, I will pass it on to you, that day should not be far away.

Ye Yuran emphasized: "When fertilizing, trenches should be dug and covered with soil to prevent nutrient loss and not burn the roots of sweet potato seedlings."

After everything is ready, it’s time to cut the sweet potato seedlings.

Because he wanted to teach everyone how to do it, Ye Yuran directed Zhu Da, Zhu Er, Zhu Si, and Zhu Wu to do it. He also notified Li Zheng and the clan leader to see if they could spare some people to go to the fields to learn.

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In addition, when the time comes for a family to plant, their sons and daughters-in-law will also be asked to come forward to "guide" and help out.

Since you are here to study in the fields, you can help the Zhu family pull a string and plant some sweet potato seedlings, that's for sure. Otherwise, while others are busy, you just stand at the edge of the field and watch?

That's a bit outrageous.

What's more, Ye Yuran is still on the side, so even if it's just a map display, he still has to help out.

Because sweet potato seedlings are limited, the amount planted this time is not as good as before, and the work is completed in just a day or two.

Of course, it does not rule out that "more people are more powerful" and the movement will be faster.

The skills of pulling strings, the skills of digging holes, and the skills of burying soil are all different. Everyone feels very serious about it, for fear that they will miss something and the harvest will not be good.

After the autumn harvest, sweet potatoes are planted, and the whole Zhujia Village is busy.

In the meantime, Zhu Qi, who had finished his busy autumn vacation, came back with Dabao and Erbao, who also asked for leave.

In Ye Yuran's words: "As a farmer, how can I not know how to farm? When the family is busy with planting, then when is the time to come back and learn the work on the farm?"

She didn't know how far they could go, so she naturally wanted them to read more and learn more, so that they might be able to use it one day.

Mr. Cen doesn't have much objection to the Zhu family's frequent requests for leave. After all, Zhu Qi, Dabao, and Erbao are very honest. As long as it is an assigned study task, even if they go home, they will complete it on time and according to the amount.

Moreover, Zhu Qi's learning is not mainly in the classroom. It is true to spend time in private to memorize and do more.

"Mom, do you still have the sweet potato noodles?" Zhu San, who also came back with him, specifically found Ye Yuran and asked.

"Yes, what's wrong?"

"Mom, didn't I bring some sweet potato starch and give it to Lao Qi's classmates? After they ate it, they all said it was delicious and wanted to take some home to give their family a taste."

As soon as he heard about this, Ye Yuran asked: "Have you said hello to Aunt Cen? You are going to accompany her to study. Don't do business in other people's schools. You will make them unhappy."

"I was about to tell you this," Zhu San said, "I told Aunt Cen that Lao Qi's classmates seem to like eating sweet potato noodles. It's not good for me to give it to them in private. How about giving it to them in the cafeteria?"

Buy some goods and sell them to the students in the cafeteria. Aunt Cen agreed and said that she was also thinking of telling our family about this. Not only did the students want to eat it, but their family members also wanted to eat it occasionally. For breakfast or in the afternoon.

It’s pretty good to fill your stomach.”

"Okay, as long as Aunt Cen agrees, that's fine."

Zhu San seemed to have seen some kind of business opportunity. He continued: "Mom, have you ever thought about selling sweet potato flour in the town? I looked at this business. There is no such thing in the town. If you sell it, the business should be good.

Not bad.”

"I'm thinking about this too," Ye Yuran said, "I just haven't figured out how to do it yet. The seventh child wants to study, and our family must not have anything to do with businessmen. I need to think of something that can avoid the connection between our family and businessmen.

This way of getting involved can make money without affecting the fame of the Zhu family's descendants."

"That's true," Zhu San also hesitated, "It's completely different to do this business in your own home and to do it in the town. At home, the four younger siblings don't have to go out, but when they go outside, they have to be followed by a man...

Is it like before, if we leave the business to others and we only get the money from wholesale? We don’t make money from wholesale, but we don’t make money from selling in the town."

"So I was thinking about finding a partner."

"What's the meaning?"

Ye Yuran expressed his thoughts.

It turned out that she had already figured out that if she only did wholesale business, she would definitely not be able to make money from the subsequent retail business.

But she couldn't just nod and let the sons of the Zhu family go out to do business. Once the Zhu family was tainted with the word "merchant", they would no longer be able to take the imperial examination within a few generations.

She had already sent Zhu Qi, Dabao, and Erbao to school, so it was naturally impossible for her to let this happen.
Chapter completed!