"Do you really not suck blood or bite people?" Chen Qingjiang asked.

"Seriously." The herbal medicine merchant moved the leech in his palm, "Look, if I put it in my hand for a long time, is there even half a hole?

The golden-threaded leech is not a blood-sucking leech. It likes to eat snails, clams and rotten food. The merchant gangs going south all call it "snail leech".

It's especially cold. If there's light snow in the first two days, it won't eat or drink. If there's heavy snow in the next two days, it won't move much and will fall into hibernation."

That’s it for now.

Chen Qingjiang and Liang Qu each reached out and grabbed a handful.

Creamy and cool.

Because it is too cold, the leech's vitality is not very high, and it seems to be dead if it is left to its own devices.

Very weird feel.

Put it back in the bucket.

Washing hands by the river.

“How much surplus can we get from one acre of land this year?”

"To be used as medicine, leeches need to be dried into dried products, so the sales are mostly based on dry weight. Nowadays, a pound of high-quality dried products on the market costs more than 660 yuan, and the medium quality ones...

After deducting farmers' planting, acreage tax, commercial tax... there are all kinds of things. Based on previous years' accounts, I have calculated that one acre of rice leech land can generate an average net profit income of 5 to 6 taels.

The value of the black-spotted frog is slightly worse than that of the leech, and the price is slightly lower, so the price of the rice frog is about five taels."

Strange.

Net profit income of five to sixty taels!

Chen Qingjiang clicked his tongue.

Growing medicinal materials is more profitable than growing rice.

One acre of land can last a person a year without food or water!

My own ten acres of land were divided among three families, so I earned dozens of taels for nothing.

A new house should be built years ago.

Last year we built a straw shed and raised a big donkey. The house always smelled like livestock. This year we have to build a big yard to separate it, and then send Shunzi to the academy...

"What about before?"

"In the past?" the herbal medicine merchant said with a smile, "In the past we didn't dare to use money to calculate. A profit of two thousand yuan per acre of land was a happy event, and three thousand yuan was a bumper harvest from God."

It's very effective.

Liang Qu was very happy.

“Will the price of medicinal materials drop due to large-scale planting in the future?”

The herbal medicine merchant looked at each other and bowed to reply.

"It stands to reason."

"What is reasonable?"

"As your Excellency predicted in September, after a bumper harvest in November this year, the Weng family sent people to cooperate. We fully negotiated according to Your Majesty's requirements and decided to temporarily increase it to 5,000 acres next year, and the shipment volume will definitely increase.

However, the two of us have noticed that the number of warriors in Pingyang Prefecture has been increasing, and the prices of various medicinal materials are more than 10% higher than those in other prefectures.

The prices of golden-threaded leeches and black-spotted frogs from other places mostly fluctuate around 600 and 500 yuan by dry weight. If you don’t believe me, you can ask shopkeeper Xiao Chen.”

Shopkeeper Xiao Chen nodded.

"In Pingyang Town, there were only a few warriors who often came to buy medicinal materials, and they could all be called by their names. Today, there are new faces every day, and many regular customers don't speak much, so it's hard to remember them all at once."

Liang Qu nodded.

The herbal medicine merchant continued.

"With the size of the martial arts masters in Pingyang Mansion and the increase in demand, the number of five thousand acres will not have much impact for the time being, and the impact on price fluctuations will be very limited.

If the price really wants to drop, it will have to wait a few years, and with the Weng family in control, it won't drop too much. If the two phases are balanced, there will be no natural disasters or man-made disasters, and there will be a harvest of 50 taels per acre."

Liang Qu didn't feel strange.

The effect of golden thread leech is to break blood and stimulate menstruation, remove blood stasis and eliminate diseases. It is mainly used to treat blood stasis, amenorrhea, bruises and injuries. If taken without injury, it can activate blood and Qi.

Simply put.

Taking it at ordinary times can strengthen the blood, and taking it when you are injured can cure trauma. It can even be combined with some herbs, such as centipede. Mixing the two can have the effect of "revitalizing yang". It cannot aphrodisiac, but it can treat related lesions to a certain extent and restore prosperity.

Similar to the black-spotted frog, the gallbladder, liver, brain, and skin of the adult body can be used for medicinal purposes and to strengthen the body.

All these are hard currencies in short supply within the borders of the Four Passes and even among galloping horse warriors.

Therefore, there is almost a linear relationship between the growth in the number of warriors and the demand for golden-threaded leeches and black-spotted frogs.

"Thank you for your hard work for a year."

"I don't dare to take credit." The herbal medicine dealer hurriedly backed away, "It's all up to you, sir, to study heaven and earth and come up with such a wonderful method, so that we can take advantage of it."

"You two will sort out this year's planting process and precautions. The more detailed the better, and send it back to my home. There will also be a reward."

"Thank you so much, sir."

Not all the land in a county can be used to grow medicinal materials, as medicinal materials will not fill the stomach, so there needs to be a balance between medicinal fields and rice fields.

After hybridization, the balance value will undoubtedly be changed. Rice fields can grow medicine, and medicine fields can grow rice, which greatly increases production capacity and can be regarded as a kind of protection for land fertility.

The water flows slowly.

Good thing.

Simple inspection.

Make arrangements for relevant matters for next year.

It won't take three days.

The two herbal medicine dealers wrote the pages of the album and submitted them to the study desk.

at the same time.

In the Daze of the Yangtze River and Huaihe River, the water island with the word "chuan" is gradually taking shape. In the canyon separated by hundreds of miles, the sharks are also working hard to build their new home.

Different from the past gathering of nomadic tents, Quan Linghan used the resettlement funds provided by Liangqu and the income from selling shark's wool to purchase a large amount of basic materials from the Tianbo Chamber of Commerce, and officially ordered the construction of a complex of buildings for permanent settlement.

Thousands of miles further north.

Fat catfish devoured fish meat.

Back in Pingyang, it went to the Frog Clan every day as usual, eating and drinking while always paying attention to the movements of ocean caravans.

The first scout under the command of the gods!

…

December 20th.

An ordinary day.

Liangzhai Pond.

The old clam returned from a trip to Pengze, opened its shell and dried it in the sun.

[Water Essence +4]

[Mizuru Essence: Twenty Thousand and One]

Waves of light flow.

Liang Qu sits cross-legged in the water.

It is surrounded by vast blue gold and sparkles with azure light.

In just twenty days, I can get more than one hundred water essences a day, and I can get no less than two thousand from just soaking in water!

An immersive spiritual practice experience.

Liang Qu also had feelings secretly.

It's not far away from the blending of soul and qi and blood.

Jianghuai Daze.

The land of the frog clan.

A few salamanders peeking out of the algae broke the calm atmosphere of the frog clan, and the patrolling frogs landed one after another and rushed home.

Something's wrong!

The fat catfish held the fish meat in his mouth and approached the big fat man to ask about the situation.

Big Fatty tore open the fish skin and looked at it: "Oh, the ocean caravan is coming, and that's their pathfinding salamander."

The water grass is lush and fluttering.

The salamander turned its head and moved its limbs to flatten its surroundings.
To be continued...