Chapter 419: It’s Only Part of It

Chapter 419

In ordinary people's families, those who could have an ox for plowing, or raise one or two fat pigs, would definitely be considered a wealthy family.

When the Cui family in Xilin Village was so wealthy, there were only oxen raised in Ligui's family for plowing.

It was used to plow the fields during the busy farming seasons, and earned quite some silver pulling the cart during other times.

But what did they see now?

The Mo family actually drove hundreds of cattle into the village, with only a dozen or so of the yellow cattle that they were familiar with, the rest were black and white mottled, completely different from what plow oxen should look like in their mind, plus hundreds of sheep, and hundreds of fat pigs...

In fact, the villagers didn't know that the black and white mottled ones were dairy cows.

This was because the Da Shun Dynasty had very strict control over cattle. For any peasant family that had plow oxen, they must be registered with the government, in other words, plow oxen had household registration in Da Shun, slaughtering them randomly was like murdering people.

He Zhiran didn't want to challenge national policies for money, it wasn't that she was timid, but she felt it wasn't worth violating the law for that bit of not so much money.

Therefore, the cows raised on the Mo family farm were mainly dairy cows.

The dairy cows produced in her space had much higher milk yields than normal dairy cows, and milk was also very valuable at this time. Plus it could also be further processed into other delicious foods.

Calculated this way, the profits from raising dairy cows would be no less than beef cattle.

The herds of cattle, sheep and pigs had just been driven towards the foot of the mountain, followed by dozens of ox carts, loaded with chickens, ducks and geese.

The villagers had never seen such a spectacular scene before, and they all gathered around Mo Jiuye.

Zhao Ligui walked at the forefront of the crowd.

"Old Nine, you got rich? Bought so many livestock."

The village was on Mo Jiuye’s way home, he had anticipated that passing by would surely cause a sensation with the villagers.

After all, they didn't intend to hide these poultry and livestock, let alone the necessity.

The farm was built at the foot of the mountain, adjacent to their home fields.

What’s more, people like Tao Ran all had backbone, and were unwilling to accept the Mo family's relief in vain.

Now in Xilin Village they were not as simple as ordinary villagers. The incident of the invasion by the barbarians that happened before reminded the Mo family not to let their guard down, and to always be prepared.

People like Tao Ran now assumed this responsibility. In addition to helping their own families with some work every day, they had already taken on the task of patrolling and guarding.

For this reason, Mo Jiuye intended to give them monthly allowances as before when they were at the frontier, but Tao Ran and the others refused to accept it anyway.

In Tao Ran's words, their lives were given by Young Master Nine, and they would not have any complaints even if they worked like oxen and horses for the Mo family in this life, how could they possibly let Young Master Nine pay them allowances from his own pocket?

No matter how Mo Jiuye tried to reason with them, saying that their families also needed a good life, they refused to accept it.

With Tao Ran at the lead, those old subordinates said that the Mo family had provided them with places to live, and gave them farmland, which was already a lot.

Especially now the situation of the Mo family was not very good, they had been ordered by Emperor Shunwu to be exiled, how much better could their life be than them?

They were willing to follow the Mo family because of the comradeship back then between life and death, and did not want to do things that would drag down the Mo family.

But this matter had a different meaning to Mo Jiuye.

Tao Ran and the others were loyal to him and his elders, especially after the experience of escaping death as human medicine, Mo Jiuye cherished the friendship between them even more.

Forget about giving them houses and farmland, even if he had to support their younger generation for life, he would be more than willing.

Mo Jiuye's behavior was not showing off, the treasuries of the Da Shun Dynasty and the Southern Frontier were all in his wife's space, let alone supporting them for life, even supporting the people of a city would be nothing.

It’s just that he couldn’t say this kind of thing clearly, and could only find other ways to aid them.

Mo Jiuye and He Zhiran agreed that raising these poultry and livestock was the best way to help them.

Tao Ran and the others all had martial arts skills and would surely join the secret army in the future, but they had many family members.

Raising livestock was not difficult, half-grown children could herd cattle and sheep, women could also raise chickens, ducks and geese, and older people with good health were no exception.

Therefore, regarding the farm, Mo Jiuye and He Zhiran discussed and decided to have it handled by the families of those old subordinates like Tao Ran.