HLnovel Chapter 246: Reward from the Court 1
Chapter 246: Reward from the Court 1
Since it is used as firewood, the first choice is dead trees and fallen branches. The second choice is those with some problems or not in good shape.
If the total of these two types is not enough for everyone to cut down, then they will remember how many they have cut down in total. Next year, Gu Wenxuan and Bai Jingzhou will hire people to go to the mountains to plant more saplings.
Bai Lizheng was dumbfounded. He agreed to chop down the weakest ones first. Even if Gu Wenxuan and Bai Jingzhou didn't say it, he would have told the patrol team members. But these two people were actually willing to pay for it themselves and hire people to go into the mountains to replant the saplings. This was really beyond Bai Lizheng's expectations.
Gu Wenxuan and Bai Jingzhou did not try to explain to him the importance of trees to the environment. They chose a statement that Bai Lizheng could understand and accept better.
"When the world is peaceful, fewer people die and more are born, will there be fewer people building new houses in our village?"
"Do you need good wood to build a new house? Where does good wood come from?"
"We can't just cut down trees indiscriminately because the winter is tough this year. We can't use the trees that the new generation, or even the next generation's generation, will need to build houses and get married in the future."
Ancient people may not understand what it means to protect the environment or to pursue sustainable development, but they were very aware of leaving some room for future generations.
After Bai Jingzhou and Gu Wenxuan reminded him one after another, Bai Lizheng immediately took the matter seriously.
He said, "You don't have to pay to hire people. Next year I will organize everyone to go up the mountain to plant trees together."
Gu Wenxuan and Bai Jingzhou smiled at each other, then said to Bai Lizheng, "Thank you for your concern."
After Bai Lizheng left, Bai Jingzhou asked Gu Wenxuan, "I want to teach the method of growing off-season vegetables to people who are close to us. What do you think?"
Gu Wenxuan didn't care. She said, "If you want to teach, just teach. You don't have to ask me if I can teach you."
They don't expect to make money this way anymore, but just think of it as an additional way to make money for their close friends who have suffered losses to varying degrees.
Of course, this way of making money can only allow them to make more money this year while the goods are in short supply. When more people grow these things, the prices of these off-season vegetables will definitely drop.
By then, those who know the method can only earn a little money every year to supplement their family income.
Seeing that she had no objection, Bai Jingzhou told this plan to Bai Lizheng of Baijia Village, the head of the Jia family of Jiajia Village, and some relatives of their two families who lived in other villages.
He personally taught several young people he had selected to promote off-season vegetables. Only after he was sure that they had memorized the key points of the technology did Bai Jingzhou send them away from his home.
"This thing is a rare commodity. Depending on the variety, it is not a problem to sell it for twenty or thirty cents per pound. Since few people know about it this year, you can send it to restaurants and hotels in the county and town, as well as to wealthy families who are not short of money after you grow it."
Several people nodded repeatedly and went home excitedly to try it out.
Bai Chong couldn't help but sigh after seeing this, "When they make money, others will be jealous of them."
Bai Jingzhou glanced at him and said, "I told them that they are responsible for teaching other villagers in Baijia Village and Jiajia Village, and they can also teach their own relatives. Bai Lizheng and the head of the Jia family will also supervise them."
As for other people from other villages, they may indeed be jealous of the people in Baijia Village and Jiajia Village, but fortunately, due to the strict control of the government, the price of grain has dropped a lot and is now affordable for the people.
Although there is a purchase limit policy, the quantity within the limit is enough for ordinary people to consume at home. For them, it has no effect on whether there is a purchase limit or not. The only ones affected are those who want to hoard and sell grain at high prices.
As long as the vast majority of people can have enough food to eat and make ends meet, they will not take risks.
Once the method of growing off-season vegetables is passed on to relatives by those who have already learned it, and relatives pass it on to their relatives' relatives, it will spread day by day. People will have normal channels to learn the techniques and experience they want to know, and naturally they will not have any crooked ideas out of jealousy of others.
On the ninth day after Bai Jingzhou and his friends returned to the village, Mu Hanzhi, whom Mu Jingzhi and his mother had been missing for a long time, finally arrived.
He did not come alone, nor did he come just to pick up his stepmother and younger brother.
Mu Hanzhi, who had returned home in glory and had become a famous figure in front of the emperor, brought Bai Jingzhou and Gu Wenxuan the emperor's imperial edict commending them, as well as a large amount of rewards from the emperor.
The prefect, the assistant prefect and others also asked Mu Hanzhi to bring rewards. Of course, these people spent all their money just to show the emperor, in order to secretly show him that they also valued talents.
Officials of all ranks in Qingshan County came to Baijia Village in person. One reason was to respond to the emperor and send a gift to the young man under their jurisdiction who had received the emperor's reward. The other reason was to get a close look at what abilities this lucky country boy had and whether he was worth winning over or making friends with.
Of course, Qingshan County's magistrate Peng did not have this second purpose. He had already become acquainted with Gu Wenxuan and Bai Jingzhou because of a series of things that happened to his own children.
Bai Jingzhou, who had received the message from Mu Hanzhi the night before, had already done nothing but prepare to receive the order under the full authority of Mu's servants.
The red carpet was rolled out, the incense table was set up, and everyone in the village was called upon by the head of the village to change into their most respectable clothes and come early to wait.
Fortunately, the official who delivered the imperial edict was Mu Hanzhi, and Mu Hanzhi never liked to put on airs.
After going through the normal procedures and strictly observing all etiquettes so as not to give anyone a ready-made handle, Mu Hanzhi handed over the imperial edict, the list of items rewarded by the emperor, and the relevant deeds to Bai Jingzhou.
The reward from the emperor was beyond Gu Wenxuan and Bai Jingzhou's expectations:
The house is in the provincial capital, and it is a three-story mansion with an excellent location. Since it was chosen by Mu Hanzhi himself, Gu Wenxuan and the others went to see it later and found that it was really to their liking in every aspect.
In addition to the house, the emperor also rewarded them with a shop, which was a two-story building on the most prosperous main street in the state capital, with a large backyard.
These two rewards were the most envied by the villagers of Baijia Village, but what Gu Wenxuan and Bai Jingzhou liked more was the large box of precious books from the imperial palace library.
According to Mu Hanzhi, these books are not available on the market, and ordinary people have never even heard of them. The collections of ordinary officials and gentry may not be as complete as those in the box.
Gu Wenxuan glanced at the list of books and found that the first one was "The complete set of Four Books and Five Classics used by His Royal Highness the Crown Prince". Wow, this title is really scary.