PDLP Chapter 251: Watershed Farming Officer
Chapter 251: Watershed Farming Officer
Madam Pei thought for a moment and asked, "Are you worried that Mr. Bai will steal your credit? How will he tell his superiors that we can't control it? If you take the initiative to go to the Ministry of Revenue to find Mr. Bai, everyone will see your attitude and behavior. Wouldn't that be more beneficial to you?"
"But it's the end of the year now, and the officials in the Ministry of Revenue should be very busy. I heard that they have to go out on errands most of the time. If I go directly to the Ministry of Revenue, will I be able to see Mr. Bai?
What if Mr. Bai is not here? Should I come back? Or should I find someone else to talk to? Wouldn't it be inappropriate to find someone else? "Hua Lei also had some concerns.
Madam Pei stroked the teacup, pondered for a moment, and said, "How about this, you ask Uncle Fu to pass a message to Lord Bai, asking him when Yuanwailang Bai will be confirmed to be in the Ministry of Revenue, and then you can go there.
Then, I will ask Butler Pei to go to the Ministry of Revenue in the next two days to take care of those errand boys. If both parties are interested, we should be able to meet Mr. Bai at the Ministry of Revenue. What do you think?"
Hua Lei thought about it and accepted Mrs. Pei's advice. So she asked Uncle Fu to pass a message to Lord Bai, and she sat in the study for several days to write a plan for transforming the puddle.
It is not difficult to write a plan. I have already done it in Yuanying Manor. I just need to write down the similar steps and precautions and organize them.
A few days later, Hua Lei successfully met Mr. Bai at the Ministry of Revenue with her written plan. She handed over her plan for the transformation of the puddles and expressed her willingness to help with the transformation of the surrounding puddles free of charge.
Mr. Bai was actually a little surprised. He mentioned this in front of his father because he knew that his father had been purchasing supplies from Yuanying Manor and sending them to Western Xinjiang, so he sighed a few words and thought that there might be more options in the future.
But two days ago, when his father asked him about his duty hours at the office and said Hualei might come to talk to him, he was still a little confused. Now, when he took the puddle renovation book made by Hualei, he finally realized that he was hit on the head by a pie in the sky.
So, he submitted the plan very quickly. Of course, after Hualei's reminder, he also wrote his opinions, suggestions and signature at the end of the renovation plan.
Soon, the Ministry of Agriculture sent someone to talk to Hua Lei about renovating the puddle. After the Chinese New Year, the government would bring the owner of the puddle with them to contribute money and manpower to slowly renovate the puddle according to Hua Lei's plan. If there were any problems, they would come to Hua Lei at any time to consult.
As for the derivative products produced on the manor in the future, Hualei is not required to provide a recipe. The owner of the manor can decide how to operate it by himself, and Hualei will not be responsible. This leaves a great business opportunity for Hualei. Hualei can also purchase items from them for secondary processing. Of course, Hualei must also have sales channels. It can also do OEM business, which is also a good choice.
However, transforming the puddles is not a short-term thing. To make it easier for Hualei to do things, she was given a position as a non-staff member of the Agriculture Bureau, a "Puddle Farming Officer". This was mainly to allow Hualei to do the work of a temporary staff member who would do the hard work of transforming the puddles. When the puddles were transformed, Hualei's tenure as the Puddle Farming Officer would end.
Hua Lei couldn't help but laugh when she saw the document. Although she didn't have any big ideas, if you really counted it, this document wouldn't even be considered a contract worker who was not on the establishment list of the public institution in her previous life. It could be considered just a temporary worker.
However, there are benefits as well, three taels of silver per month, but Hua Lei didn't take it seriously at all. Now his monthly income from the farm is generally in the thousands, and he really doesn't care about the three taels of silver per month.
In addition to the three taels of monthly silver, there is also a wooden plaque with the words "farming" and "official" engraved on both sides. With this wooden plaque, you can get a 20% discount on any purchase from institutions such as the Dumu Cao and the Agricultural Science Bureau under the Ministry of Households.
That means that when I work as a temporary worker, I can get a 20% discount on chickens, ducks, geese, piglets, oxen, and various crop seeds and vegetable seeds from the farm. This is quite affordable.
Although I did buy a lot of crop seeds and vegetable seeds in the first year, now there are already a lot of seeds on the farm, and I rarely buy them. This wooden sign is of little use. As for the oxen, there are enough on the farm, and they are of no use to Hualei. But chickens, ducks, geese, and pigs are needed. After a year, I should be able to save a lot of money.
Although it's not much, there's nothing you can do about it. It seems that these benefits were obtained with the help of Mr. Bai, otherwise there would only be a wooden sign and three taels of silver every month.
The Ministry of Revenue is really stingy. Well, anyway, the people can't resist the government, so just think of it as a good thing, and my original intention was to do it anyway.
However, the wool that should be sheared still needs to be sheared, so Hua Lei went to catch a lot of chickens, ducks and geese and put them in Yuanying Manor. Now that the down group and the soap group have moved away, there is some vacant space, so she decided to catch some more chickens, ducks and geese and raise them.
You can also raise more chickens, ducks and other things in Baihua Manor and Huaying Manor. If Qingyun Lane wasn't too smelly, Hualei would have wanted to pick a few chicks to raise.
Hua Lei was still thinking whether she should sell the remaining rice and vegetable seeds on the farm and then buy a batch from the agricultural science room. However, she realized that she couldn't make any money. The rice seeds after the discount were only a few cents different from the rice seeds she sold herself, so she decided not to bother anymore.
Hua Lei is essentially a businessman. She even thought of buying a batch of chickens, ducks, geese and piglets, and then reselling them to make a 20% profit. Of course, it was just a thought in the end and she didn't have the courage to do it.
When she went back and told Mrs. Pei about these things, she smiled, patted Hua Lei's arm and said nothing. However, she knew that Hua Lei's vision was actually a little short-sighted and that many benefits could not be measured directly with money.
The three ounces of monthly silver that she looked down upon might be enough for an ordinary farmer to live on for half a year or even a year. She thought a wooden plaque was of little use, but this wooden plaque was a symbol of status, and many people wanted it but might not be able to get it.
There are many children of aristocratic families in the officialdom. Even with the protection of their family, only a few can become officials directly, unless they have outstanding abilities. Many of them still have to climb up step by step from the bottom.