Flowers in full bloom

Chapter 341 You figure me out, I figure you out

As long as we send over 500 live ducks, take back 500 cured ducks, and pay a processing fee, we'll be done. It's the end of the year again, so the cured goods and sausage business is very good.

Because the quality of preserved food will be better only when it is made when the weather is cold.

The sales of goose down blankets and wool sweaters were so great that they even cleared out the stock. These are also seasonal, and goose down blankets and wool sweaters are relatively popular when the weather is cold.

Therefore, the inventory that was piled up in the warehouse in the first half of the year soon became empty due to Liang Xiangyi's several purchases.

As for goose down quilts, they were too expensive and goose down was not abundant, so Hualei did not provide them to the military camps in Mobei. They were only sold in Shangjing City and some prefectures in Jiangnan Prefecture in the south.

The production of wool sweaters takes too long, and the shearing season is limited, so they can only be produced slowly according to the season. Therefore, sometimes the production cannot keep up with the sales. Except for the first batch sent to the Mobei military camp, there is really no other quantity.

However, there was no other way. Impatient people cannot eat hot tofu. Hualei could only allocate a lot of people from the soap group and the toothbrush group to help make the sweaters.

However, when Hualei saw that the warehouse, which was originally filled with wool sweaters, was emptied in just twenty days, he couldn't help but feel anxious.

Fortunately, Hualei had made preparations in advance and stockpiled a large number of relatively non-seasonal things that could be stored for a long time, such as toothbrushes and soaps.

So during this period, Hualei has pulled out people from the toothbrush group and soap group to help with other things. Now that the business is getting bigger and bigger, Hualei has no other choice but to go all out.

Although I could do less, I couldn't help but reach out to get the money when I saw it flying in front of me. Besides, compared with other powerful families in Shangjing City, I was just a small witch, and my strength was still too weak.

Fortunately, she bought a group of literate slaves from Sifangyuan half a year ago. After more than half a year of getting familiar with the situation, Hualei had already assigned the people out.

The Hua Qianbian Shop now finally has a fixed shopkeeper and clerk. The other flower buds have also been placed in various workshops.

However, this could only meet the needs of a few of his own farms. It seemed impossible to mobilize a large number of people to reclaim the wasteland in the mountains, so Hua Lei could only keep his troops on hold for the time being.

However, even though Emperor Shengwu had only met Hua Lei once, he still had a very accurate grasp of Hua Lei's thoughts.

Hualei couldn't leave the barren mountain empty. No matter what, she wanted to flutter, and she was also trying to figure out Emperor Shengwu's thoughts.

This piece of barren mountain has an area of ​​nearly tens of thousands of acres. Emperor Shengwu did not reward him with other good things, but only gave him a barren mountain. Does he want him to make a splash and then the surrounding barren mountains will follow?

Just like the puddles in her own southern city area, after all, these tens of thousands of acres of barren mountains have been left barren. She felt that Emperor Shengwu, as the owner of these barren mountains, would not want to see this.

It can only be said that she guessed the Emperor Shengwu's thoughts almost exactly. If Hua Lei could be a close minister to Emperor Shengwu, they would definitely be a very harmonious pair of monarch and minister.

So, recently, Hua Lei didn't make any big moves on the surface, but privately, she had already read through more than twenty books.

Especially the regional gazetteer of Shangjing City, the official reports from the past seven or eight years, as well as the topographic map of this barren mountain and the surrounding conditions.

In particular, Hua Lei flipped through the topographic maps of several barren mountains and the regional chronicles of the surrounding conditions that she was awarded, read them again and again, and even made several notebooks of them.

Of course, I have some plans in my mind, but I still need to go to the barren mountain to take a closer look at the specific situation. I haven't figured out what to do specifically yet.

The most important thing is to adapt to local conditions. As long as it can make money, Hualei doesn't mind planting anything. But the biggest problem now is the problem of manpower and material resources.

You know, if you want to open up new land, you will definitely need a lot of young and strong people. If Hua Lei is generous enough to buy nearly a hundred slaves, not to mention the money from selling their bodies, it will also be stressful to feed these people every day.

It takes several years to see results in land reclamation, and the time to generate income may take longer than that of wool sweaters, and the flower buds are very hesitant.

And not to mention whether to buy manpower or not, even if you really make up your mind to buy manpower, you will still need a large number of handy iron farm tools. Without the large-scale machinery like in the previous life to help with land reclamation, iron tools are now essential tools for land reclamation.

It is impossible for an ordinary sixth-rank official like her to customize such a large number of iron farm tools for no reason.

You know, in the Great Sheng Dynasty, the control of iron was still very strict. Even if it was approved in the name of land reclamation, the cost of the iron farm tools would be very high, and Hualei also felt pressured.

In addition to these, Hua Lei also carefully visited the barren mountain two or three times, and had a very clear understanding of the terrain of the barren mountain and the surrounding environment.

The barren mountain is about 150 feet away from the largest river nearby, so it is difficult to rely on the river for irrigation.

Fortunately, these barren mountains all have water sources, and the highest mountain in the north has several water sources.

And it seems that the water source is also very large. It's just more concentrated. So it may be troublesome to water it directly.

However, since the barren hills are to be reclaimed, it is necessary to irrigate the crops. If the reclaimed hills are not to be dry, the biggest problem is to solve the problem of irrigation water, and the amount of water used will not be small. So the only way is to divert the original water source on the hills. It may be more convenient.

How to divert the existing water source, make reasonable use of it, and store it is an urgent task. To solve this problem, professional talents are also needed.

However, there seems to be no one around me who is proficient in these things. Although I can dig ponds to store water, it is impossible to do it casually. I still have to go to the mountains to look for springs.

There were too many problems to solve, so Hua Lei was at a loss for a moment. When Hua Lei was struggling for manpower, Rong Jin, who was now on duty at the Ministry of Justice, came to find Hua Lei and brought her good news. Lord Pei had helped her ask Emperor Shengwu for an oral order.