Great Tang Dynasty

Chapter 2561 Growing Food

Planting trees is relatively hard work, much harder than putting up fences.

Therefore, at the beginning, everyone's energy and interest were very high, but after a day's work, they were all exhausted, and couldn't help but want to take a rest the next day.

Relatively speaking, Qin Tian is much better. Such a job is nothing to him, even less to Hu Shiba.

However, they thought it was nothing, but those female relatives couldn't bear it, so they rested for half a day the next day.

In this way, while resting, they planted trees. After about seven or eight days, they finally planted all the fruit trees.

At this time, the fruit trees have not yet germinated, and they will not germinate until next spring. Even if the temperature here does not change much, the four seasons still follow the rules.

Winter and spring are actually the most suitable for planting trees.

After these fruit trees were planted, everyone's enthusiasm was not as high as before.

Because too tired.

In comparison, everyone's enthusiasm can keep up with doing some interesting things, but if it's doing some hard farm work or something, everyone doesn't think much about it.

After all, farming is hard work.

Qin Tian seldom did farm work before, and only after he did it did he realize the hardships of farm work.

And it is precisely because they know that farm work is hard, so they should consider the common people and make their lives easier. In this way, if the common people are willing to do farm work, the Yunhai Kingdom will naturally have long-term peace and stability.

"Your Majesty, this fruit tree has been planted, and we have almost rested, what should we do next?"

They planted hundreds of acres of fruit trees, which seems to be a lot, but compared with their tens of thousands of acres of gardens, it is just the tip of the iceberg. Now they still have a lot of land that has not been cultivated.

And thinking that there is still so much land that has not been reclaimed, everyone is a little scared. How can they reclaim so many things? It's too scary. They haven't even made one tenth of it.

But they can't help it.

Qin Tian pointed to a place and said, "Here I will reclaim [-] mu of land to grow wheat, and here I will reclaim [-] mu of land to grow rice. People depend on food, and our royal palace also needs food. , We used to buy our food, but now we have to eat what we grow ourselves.”

Four thousand mu of grain is not a small amount. With the help of Qin Tian, ​​the yield per mu in this era has increased a lot. The yield per mu of land is about [-] catties.

In this case, with 320 mu of grain, the final income would be as much as [-] million catties.

320 million catties of grain, this is a very scary figure.

You know, a person's annual rations are at most about three or four hundred catties. If some people are not so willing to eat on weekdays, it is only about one or two hundred catties a year. That is to say, these grains are enough for 8000 people or One year's rations for 1 people.

1 or 200 people doesn't sound like a lot, but it's actually quite a lot. There are only more than [-] people in Qin Tian's harem, and the front guards have [-] mad demon troops. The people in the whole palace have enough to eat for a year, basically there is no problem, just this, there may be a lot of food left over.

These grains can be stored in the granary in case of a rainy day.

When they heard that they wanted to grow food, Princess Nine and Tang Rong were very supportive. When they were in Datang, Tang Rong was in charge of their Qin family's land and planted food. Tang Rong was much more familiar with it than others, although he used to be He didn't plant it himself, but he knows how to plant it.

The ninth princess understands the importance of food, so he feels that it is necessary to grow food.

In their Sea of ​​Clouds country, there is basically not much food stored in the granary. This is because there is no famine in their Sea of ​​Clouds country. If there is a famine, it will be a bad thing.

He felt that it would be no problem to grow grain by another [-] mu.

"Farming the land is not something that can be done slowly. Your Majesty, if we really want to grow the land, I think we should hire some people to help and plant these grains as soon as possible."

According to Tang Rong's understanding, it may take a month to plant grain on thousands of acres of land with their staff, but do they dare to plant grain within a month?

For things like food, there is a big difference between one or two days away, so it is best to shorten the time between them.

Tang Rong made this suggestion, and Qin Tian is not a pedantic person. Although they want to do it themselves, they still have to ask for help. If other ordinary people have a lot of land, don't they also invite help?

Of course, if you ask for help, you will be planting rice, because rice needs to be transplanted, and rice transplanting can only be planted by humans. As for wheat, Qin Tian has a very powerful invention, the wheat cultivator, which can grow wheat at a speed of It is very fast, and the sowing is very even. It only needs a cow to pull it, and people need to support it later. A row of wheat can be planted very quickly.

Otherwise, they would need someone to dig a hole, then plant the seeds, and then bury it. This kind of efficiency is very slow, so even if they invite people to come, they don't need many people.

After saying this, they quickly sent people to prepare. Three days later, everything was ready and they started planting.

These seeds are all high-yield plantings researched before the Tang Dynasty. They are much better than those planted by the common people here. Nowadays, most of the common seeds planted by the common people here can produce four to five hundred catties of grain per mu of land. , because many of the technologies from Datang had not been passed on before, and this place is relatively far away.

Qin Tian has already started to promote these grains, but it may take a year or two to fully promote them.

There are many things in this world that cannot be rushed, such as women's pregnancy, such as the promotion of crop planting, these cannot be accomplished overnight, and they all have to be left to time.

The [-] mu of land can't be reached at a glance. The weeds here have been removed and all have been plowed. Now they only need to plant the seeds.

However, although Qin Tian has improved the planting techniques, it still took them about ten days to plant all the 4000 mu of land.

After ten days or so, everyone was so tired that many people were a little reluctant to let them continue to cultivate the land. At this time, even the nine princesses did not have the excitement of doing it by themselves. .

Farming is very tiring. Qin Tian glanced at the crowd and said, "The people are suffering, so we should think about them. Let's talk about the remaining several thousand acres of land after we have had enough rest."

(End of this chapter)