kingnovel Chapter 703 The County Magistrate Knows
Chapter 703 The County Magistrate Knows
Li smiled and said, "Sir, you see, although they all added some, it wasn't too much. They have been farming for a lifetime, and no one knows their own land better than they do. Farmers don't have any other skills, but they know how much fertilizer the land needs."
The old man nodded, "That's good."
After seven or eight days, people from other distant villages also came to buy fertilizer.
When Zhou Guo heard that it was a village he had never heard of, he sat up straight and said with a smile: "How did you find this place? As far as I know, your village is far away from ours."
This is the farthest village from them in the county. It takes five hours to drive there. How did they find it from such a long distance?
The old man was dusty and frosted, his hands were covered with scars and calluses, and his face was full of sorrow. He said, "...I also heard from others that your village sells fertilizer and the harvest is very good during the autumn harvest. After the grain is harvested, you only take the excess grain and don't ask for money. I want to ask this... young master, is this true?"
The last question was asked cautiously, his wrinkled face was full of hope and there was a hint of fear in his eyes.
Zhou Guo smiled and nodded, "Yes, that's right. Did you come here alone?"
The old man couldn't help but look back, and finally a smile appeared on his face. "No, we came here together, and I just wanted to buy it and carry it back now."
With a wave of his hand, the people behind him came out.
It was really a big family, with two sons, two daughters-in-law, and five grandchildren, carrying baskets, backpacks, and even baskets, but there was not even a cart.
These people immediately surrounded Zhou Guo and looked at her expectantly.
Zhou Guo: "...No, old man, let me tell you, it's too far for you to carry it back by yourself. We have a bullock cart on our farm. No matter how much you buy, we can use the cart to transport it to your home. You don't have to carry it by yourself."
When they heard this, they were overjoyed, "Really? Are you going to pull it back?"
Zhou Guo smiled and said, "Of course, all the people who come to our house to buy fertilizer are brought back by us."
The two daughters-in-law slapped their thighs and said happily: "Oh, then we really came at the right time today. I didn't expect that not only would we have fat to buy, but you would also take it back. Doesn't that mean we just need to open our mouths? There is such a good thing?"
Zhou Guo asked, "I wonder how much the old man wants?"
The old man glanced at his family, gritted his teeth and said, "Ten stones, ten stones!"
The two men exclaimed, "Dad, didn't we agree on six stones?"
"Can we handle so many?"
The old man asked, "How could I not know?"
He said firmly to Zhou Guo: "Just ten stones."
Zhou Guo nodded without asking how much land they had. The old man had been farming all his life and knew better than her how much fertilizer his land needed.
After writing the information, he asked someone to put his fingerprints on the account book. The old man signed it without any hesitation.
The two men were still a little worried.
Zhou Guo smiled and said, "When the autumn harvest comes, we will also come to your door to get the food. You don't need to deliver it here. We will come to your door when the time comes."
When they heard that they didn't have to return the food themselves, they were very happy. It was still a bit tiring to carry so much food from such a long distance.
Since this family started it, more and more other villages followed.
She didn't know how many villages there were in the county, but now there were twenty-five villages, including the sixteen villages last year.
Needless to say, there was not a single family left out in the sixteen villages last year. There were at least twenty families in other villages, and more than half in the most, and the number of households is still slowly increasing.
With so many people coming, the fertilizer fermented last autumn is naturally not enough.
The night-blooming incense ashes collected in autumn were even less than enough. Fortunately, some were collected after the spring, but due to limited vehicles, the amount transported back every day was not enough.
There was no other choice, so Zhou Guo had to buy ten more cows and rent ten more cars from a car dealership in the county town.
It took twenty ox carts, with four or five trips a day, to barely plug the hole.
During this period of time, Hua Pozi and her group made a lot of money. As they sold more fertilizer, Ye Xiang needed more.
They transported the night incense out of the city every day, but were told that it was not enough. They used to transport one trip a day, and later two or three trips a day in the morning, but they were still told that it was not enough.
While smacking my lips, I wished I could collect the goods from morning to night and transport them out four or five times a day.
Originally, there were not many people collecting night-blooming incense in the city, and there were not enough of them before, so the city residents complained all the time.
Now more and more people are following the lead of pouring night incense, and the complaints have decreased significantly.
The pit where ash is stored has also become much cleaner, and the government office transports it out once a day.
The streets in the county town are cleaner, and even the smell in the valley where the ash was dumped before is less.
I didn’t know about it before, but at least in the past few months, less and less water has been dumped into the valley, or even none at all, and what is dumped has been shoveled away by people sent by Zhou Guo.
A lot of the dirt that had been poured out before had been dug up by someone. At a glance, it looks much cleaner than before. With time, maybe this land will really be clean.
Naturally, people in the county government noticed this change and reported it.
This county magistrate has been in this place for more than ten years. Originally, he would be promoted or transferred after three terms. However, this place is in the north, where the emperor is far away and the court forgets about him after using him for a while.
Later, the world became uneasy and wars broke out everywhere. Only the north was relatively stable.
The county magistrate gave up and thought it would be nice to stay here until he died, without any trouble.
It's just that this place is poor and we can't collect enough taxes every year.
It wasn’t until last year that things changed, and we finally harvested more than in previous years.
As soon as he looked at the account book, he found something wrong. These households were almost all from the same place. He was wondering why the harvests of these villages suddenly became so high, and not just in one village, but for all villages?
I heard that the streets in the county town were much cleaner, and there were many more people collecting night-blooming incense. After collecting the night-blooming incense, these people pushed them to Dongcheng every day to sell them to a car team. The car team would transport the night-blooming incense back to the countryside, and the dust on the streets was also taken back by this group of people.
The county magistrate became interested when he heard this. "It's understandable that these people collect night incense, but why collect these ashes? They can also be used as fertilizer in the fields."
I asked my attendants, but they had no idea because they were not farmers.
The county magistrate slammed the table and said, "Investigate!"
The investigation led to Cangshan Village and Zhou Guo's farm, and naturally to Zhou Guo.
"Sir, many people go to their farm every day. Six out of ten villages in our county have gone there. The Zhou family is responsible for buying the fat and taking it back."
The county magistrate was very surprised. "I have been here for so many years, but I never knew there were such capable people in Cangshan Village. Everyone in Cangshan Village is now rich because of pine mushrooms? I have to go and see. It can't be that just because one village is rich, the people in other villages have to follow suit!"
The subordinate said, "My Lord, it is said that the Zhou family has a younger uncle who is only in his early twenties and has only been in the army for a few years. When he came back the year before last, he was already a centurion."
The county magistrate quickly asked, "Where did you join the army?"
"The North."