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Chapter 1586 The Enthusiasm Aroused by Food

Seeing this request, Qi Ke immediately wrote back to propose a new idea, and within a few days he received a reply from Bai Qing agreeing.

The news was sent back to Siliu Village, most of it was Bai Qing's original request, but Qi Ke added an order that this year's wheat will be sent to Liangshui Town except for the compensation that the villagers deserve, and the wheat will be allocated in the second half of the year After planting it back, the rest will be used for planting in Liangshui Town.

As for the military rations to be handed over, Qi can use the summer harvest rice from Liangshui Town to pay for it.

That is to say, with an alternative staple food, it is feasible to keep most of the wheat for planting.

It was only after seeing this that Bai Qing agreed to Qi Ke's idea, but he didn't ask for rice to make up for it, he still recorded the wheat in the military ration account, the only difference was that he ate it in the past, and this winter he had to plant it back on the ground inside.

As a thousand households in this county, Baiqing can directly decide on such a big matter as food. The main reason is that Liangshui Town has food this year, and the arable land for land reclamation is twice as large as that of Siliu Village, and it will continue in the next few years. Opening up wasteland, with so much food, there is room for moving around.

The villagers got the news from the village head, and they had no objection. What they deserved was not less than a penny. The extra food that was supposed to be taken away from the army was eaten or used for something. The military household is too lazy to be curious, anyway, it is right to follow Qi Kegan.

Qi Ke took a walk in the farmland of Liangshui Town, and asked the maid of Siliu Village to release another message, asking the villagers if they would like to exchange wheat for millet, regardless of the prices of the two kinds of grain, it was just a one-for-one exchange, one for one. A catty of wheat is exchanged for a catty of millet. If you want to eat rice and cook porridge, you don't need to buy extra rice.

However, because the new rice has not been harvested, it cannot be cashed on the spot. It will only be available after the new rice is harvested, and the time will be about two months later. Buy rice temporarily when you want to eat and drink porridge.

The wheat used to exchange for millet is the villagers’ remuneration, and their remuneration is divided into two types: money and grain. Qi Ke knows that farmers can only feel safe if they store grain, so they pay copper coins for settlement wages in normal months, and grain remuneration accounts for the majority during the harvest season.

The villagers eat very little rice throughout the year. It’s not that they can’t buy rice, but that they don’t have this eating habit. They used to eat rice with mixed grains the most. Foods that are rich in starch and can fill their stomachs, such as pig shavings, they all eat as food. The staple food, roasted in the kitchen, or peeled and cut into pieces to cook a chowder with vegetables or seafood, and then mixed with flour to make multigrain steamed buns, whole wheat noodles are reluctant to eat every day, let alone rice meal.

This new news from Qizhuang moved the villagers quite a bit. The wheat had not been harvested, and they had enough time for the whole family to discuss whether to exchange the millet and how much to exchange.

In Siliu Village, chatting about the harvest was lively, and the Baihusuo of Erma Town also began to announce the new policies of the Qianhusuo. Winter wheat is a brand-new planting technique. People who want to grow winter wheat should go to Liangshui Town this winter to do a good job. Study, and you will grow your own wheat next year.

As soon as the news came out, people who wanted to get good wheat seeds and fantasized that they could grow so much grain calmed down. There was still half a year left, and the family had to discuss carefully whether they wanted to go to Liangshui Town to learn how to grow winter wheat for a season. Bian will definitely not want too many people, only those who are good at serving the fields are likely to be selected.

(End of this chapter)