As for peppercorns and star anise, when she and Shao Yunyun went to see the land that day, she discovered that there were wild ones in the surrounding mountains and forests, and they looked pretty good.

At that moment, I had this thought in my mind.

Otherwise, how could she buy so many 50,000 mu of mountain farms in one go?

There are supernatural powers that can be blessed, and she is not worried about the growth of medicinal materials, peppercorns, star anise, etc. After harvesting, she will dry it, and then find a buyer, even if the transportation in the mountainous area is not very convenient, there is no need to worry.

She also wanted to grow some lychees, longan, mango, dragon fruit, etc., but after weighing it, she reluctantly gave up.

These tropical fruit trees are not suitable to appear here, let's talk about it in two years.

This place is not too far from the provincial capital of Yuzhang. If you really want to eat it, it is also very easy to deliver it quickly.

After determining what to plant, the next step is to open up wasteland.

The time is a bit rushed, but Qiao Xuan is willing to pay the money.

One thousand mu of land is ready-made, and medicinal materials can be grown. The three thousand mu of wasteland is connected to this one thousand mu of land, and the terrain is relatively flat compared to the mountains. There are also few trees, mostly shrubs and weeds.

But even this kind of land is not easy to open up wasteland. The shrubs are clumps, and many stems have thorns. It's definitely not a small project.

As for the mountains, there are many trees. The mountains that Qiao Xuan purchased were already selected, and most of them were overgrown with weeds and there were few trees. For this reason, cleaning is also a big project.

Now it is just in time for the spring ploughing, and in about half a month, it is time to plant the seeds. It is the busiest time for farmers, and the wages for hiring people to open up wasteland are much higher.

Moreover, we have to hurry, the herbs, potatoes, peppercorns and star anise all have to be planted before mid-May.

When Qiao Xuan told Song Shi, Mianmian, etc., everyone became a little nervous.

Song Shi was soon recruiting workers in the city. He paid thirty-five yuan a day and included a lunch.

This salary is considered to be a good job on the upper side, and many people have signed up, but not many people have hoes, sickles, hatchets, axes and other wasteland tools at home. Iron farm tools are not cheap. Not all iron, not so complete, not to mention urbanites who have no land or only a little vegetable land. The wasteland can only be made of iron.

Song Shi can only regret giving up.

After all, they don't have these tools at home. There are blacksmith shops in the city, but iron farm tools are not so easy to buy, and there are not many. I bought all of them, and there are only forty pieces of all kinds of farm implements together.

In the end, only 80 people were hired, and only half of these 80 people could bring their own farming tools.

If people from the village were hired during the slack farming period, there would not be such a problem.

These 80 people are divided into two groups, working on the flat land and the mountain at the same time.

On the mountain side, Song Shi led a few people to watch in person, and on the flat side, Lu Qian, Liu Fu, Mo Li and other people helped to watch.

Qiao Xuan instructed them one by one, and asked them to arrange the division of labor for everyone, try to be orderly, and don't want the firewood to open up wasteland.

The reason why they were not allowed to take them away every day was because they were afraid that some trivial things like who took more and who took less would affect the progress.

Don't look at this as just a little bit of interest, there will be people fighting for it.