Flowers in full bloom

Chapter 745 Routine

However, when she went to the government office to apply for the land deed, Hualei asked herself in surprise, how could fifty acres of land be enough? When the sorghum exchanged with the government office was finally completed, would a warehouse be needed to store it?

The brewed liquor needs to be stored in a warehouse, right? Also, the empty wine jars need to be prepared in advance, and they need to be placed somewhere, right?

Winemaking takes a long time, so the big pottery jar should take up a lot of space, right? After all, this big pottery jar is different from other storages, and it cannot be stacked, right?

Also, the brewery staff would need a room to stay, right? They would also need a fixed place to live, right? The place would need to be at least a house with three or five entrances, right?

Besides, since you have opened a winery, you should also plant three or four hundred acres of sorghum on the farm as a raw material reserve, right?

Anyway, he has a brewing order in his hand, and the amount of brewing he can brew is a huge amount. If he doesn't brew to the maximum, it will be wasted every year. What a pity!

So, Mr. Peng, who originally wanted to buy only 50 acres of land, suddenly got excited and directly bought 300 acres of land to build a winery.

If he hadn't had enough silver notes, he would have probably bought 500 acres. When he finished processing the land deed and walked out of the household room, Peng Dongjia felt as if he had been tricked by Hua Lei.

However, after thinking about the tax benefits given by Hualei, Peng Dongjia still felt that the money he spent on buying the land was worth it. After all, even if he lost money, the land could be resold.

At this time, Peng Dongjia was supervising the construction of the winery. Now, the general structure of the winery has been completed. Now they are laying blue bricks on the ground and installing some wooden doors.

When Hualei came over, she saw that the brewery was busy with people helping to lay bricks on the floor of the room.

Maybe Peng Dongjia was also a very pragmatic person, and he did not have the wealth and generosity of an imperial merchant. Therefore, the blue bricks laid on the ground were basically the broken bricks left over from building the walls.

Some were even leftover blue bricks that had been broken into several pieces. Peng Dongjia also had people use these bricks and lay them in every corner of the room.

The ones that were not really needed were laid on the passage outside, which was really not wasted at all. Hua Lei looked at the uneven ground and admired Peng Dongjia's character.

Some of the bricklayers and carpenters who helped build the brewery have already gone back. I heard that Mr. Peng was very generous and paid them the agreed wages before letting them go.

As an imperial merchant, Peng Dongjia was frugal when he should be frugal and generous when he should be generous. This was something Hualei admired very much.

Hua Lei walked forward, greeted Peng Dongjia, and then, under the guidance of Peng Dongjia, looked around the manor.

Mr. Peng should have referred to the layout of his family's winery in Jiangnan Prefecture. Therefore, the configuration of the winery here is very reasonable and very professional at first glance.

After Hualei looked around carefully, she gave Peng Dongjia a thumbs up in her heart. Then she asked carefully if Peng Dongjia needed any help.

After expressing his intention to do his best to cooperate if Mr. Peng needed help from himself or the government office, he left the winery with satisfaction.

Of course, before leaving, Hua Lei politely asked Mr. Peng whether he wanted to buy a few shops in the downtown area of ​​the city first so that he could sell the sorghum wine brewed by the winery.

The shop's title deeds and house deeds are all in the government office's courtesy room. If Mr. Peng needs it, he can first contact the courtesy room and come first before Mr. Peng.

Regarding the situation that the sorghum was still growing in the field and it would take several months to harvest, Peng Dongjia smiled helplessly and shook his head.

However, he also said that as long as there was a need, he would definitely go to the government office's gift room to buy a few shops and then give Hua Lei away.

After coming out of the winery, Hualei went directly east to the academy located at the end of Dongcheng Street, east of Changlanzhou.

The terrain here is open. Not far behind the church building is a hill with a very gentle slope. The hillside is now covered with sedge, making it look lush and green.

About twenty or thirty feet to the west, there is a river about three or four feet wide running from north to south, which separates the academy from the shops on East City Street.

On the river, there is a not very high stone arch bridge for pedestrians to travel, and the environment is quite good. The foundation of the academy has been dug. Now many bricklayers are building the wall.

At that time, when various state governments were producing blueprints for their academies, Hua Lei also referred to the construction model of the Imperial College's Ding Class and gave a lot of suggestions.

Therefore, even though the terrain is slightly different, the general layout of the academy is still similar to the T-shaped class of the Imperial College.

At this time, there were still many craftsmen on the construction site. Many bricklayers were building walls seriously, and many people were mixing glutinous rice adhesive for building walls.

There were also many carpenters, who were making doors, windows, beams, etc. for the academy. Everything looked very orderly, and Hualei carefully checked everywhere and was very satisfied.

Next, Hualei went north to the neighboring Changtong Prefecture. The construction of the academy here was slower than that of Changlan Prefecture, and it was still in the foundation construction stage.

However, at the construction site of the academy, Hua Lei saw Zhao Zhizhou, the governor of Changtong Prefecture, and several officials from the workshop below.

While checking the construction of the academy with sweat on her forehead, Hua Lei felt that there should be no problems with the college in Changtong Prefecture.

After all, she did not inform the people in the provincial capital before she came, so it was a surprise visit. Therefore, Hua Lei was very satisfied with the behavior of Zhao Zhizhou and others who voluntarily participated in supervising the construction.

There was no problem with the academy, so Hualei wanted to go and see how the sugarcane planted in Changtong Prefecture was growing. Some time ago, when Changtong was planting sugarcane, she didn't have time to come.

This time, while checking out the academy, I decided to go and have a look. Under the leadership of Zhao Zhizhou, Hualei went to the field where sugarcane was planted.

The sugarcane seeds had been planted for more than a month, so the sugarcane fields had already sprouted. They were about the same length as an adult's palm, with three or four tender leaves.

However, after a careful inspection, Hualei found that many sugarcane seedlings in the sugarcane field showed signs of being gnawed, and many of the seedlings had many holes on their leaves.

In some cases, the entire stalk of the sugarcane seedlings was bitten off, resulting in missing seedlings. This was probably caused by cutworms. Cutworms are also called "earth silkworms" or "big-mouthed insects". They are the main disaster in the sugarcane seedling stage.

If the stems of newly emerged seedlings are bitten by cutworms, there will be serious seedling shortages and broken ridges in the field, which is very harmful.

So, Hualei asked Zhao Zhizhou to cut some of the well-growing sedge on the barren hills and pile them in the fields.