Farmers' group pet: the blessings of powerful ministers are soft and deceitful

Chapter 102 Fertilizer method
I didn't notice it before, but now I look at Jiang Shi again, and I see that he has smiled so much that his eyes have disappeared.

The village chief was immediately happy: "What, look at you, tell me quickly."

Jiang Shi then said: "Didn't many people in the village see me spreading fertilizer in the fields a few days ago, so they used that method, and this early rice can only harvest so much."

He stretched out his palm and said, "This time I only spread five acres of land. If I sprinkle the rest with fertilizer, there might be more rice in September than now."

This is a big deal!

The mayor was startled.

Now their households rely on farming for a living. Although they plant a lot, they will naturally reap a lot.

But if only five acres of land can be cultivated to produce ten acres of grain, then who would be so stupid to plant ten acres of land?

Although it is an exaggeration to say that five acres of land can grow ten acres of grain.

But this is the reason!
After all, each family distributes the land according to the head of the family. If you don’t have enough people in your family, if you want to grow more, you have to rent others who share more, and you don’t want to plant.

But your family has a small number of people, and you have been exhausted just farming your own fields. If you want to rent other people's fields, you must be exhausted.

We farmers rely on the fields to live, and this body is not prone to illness.

So when the village chief heard about the fertilizer, he suddenly regained his energy, and asked in a low voice, "Can you tell me about this fertilizer?"

"I can say it." Jiang Shi said calmly, "Someone asked me earlier, so I said it, but no one believed it. This time the rice has been harvested, and the village chief has seen it, so I should believe it."

The village head had some doubts in his heart. Even if he reported the matter, the food tax officer might praise him for his good supervision and supervision, which allowed the farmers in the village to grow so much grain.

But the Jiang family figured out this method by themselves, if they don't want to talk about it, it's understandable.

He just didn't expect Jiang's house to be so open and bright, and he didn't even think about hiding it.

This is a way to grow more food!

What can we do with more grain? We can sell it for more money!
Now every household pays grain tax according to the number of acres they cultivate, and pays the grain tax according to the [-]th tax. After paying the tax, the remaining grain is their own.

As long as you keep enough for your own food, you can sell the excess in the town.

The top-grade rice can be sold for fifteen coins a bucket, the middle-grade rice can be sold for nine coins, and the second-grade rice can also be sold for eight coins.

Occasionally, if a family wants to eat meat, they will take advantage of the rush to the fair and carry the rice to the town to sell. With the money from selling the rice, they can cut some meat and eat it.

However, according to past experience, most families in the village paid the food tax and kept some for their own food, but they couldn't sell much.

The family has a lot of expenses, and oil, salt, and clothes don't cost money. After a year, there is basically nothing left.

So the village chief hurriedly asked: "If that's the case, then I won't be polite, Lao Jiang, tell me the truth, did you go to the mountain to pick up wild boar manure and scatter it in the field? Otherwise, how can this fertilizer be so powerful?"

Jiang Shi laughed and said, "How can I pick so much wild boar dung on the mountain? The main thing is to use plant ash and slaked lime fertilizer. Plant ash doesn't cost money, but slaked lime costs some money."

When the village chief heard this, his eyes lit up immediately, and he said, "Plant ash is easy to make. There are so many rice seedlings in the field. Wouldn't it turn into plant ash after burning it?"

Jiang Shi thought about the steps in making fertilizer, and said: "That's not enough. In the past, some people burned the unwanted rice seedlings in the field, and just used it in the field. It's not very useful, and it has to be fermented... ..."

(End of this chapter)