Don't panic when fleeing the famine, the peasant girl is busy farming

Chapter 171 The System Predicts Again
Jiang Erya finished her sweet potato porridge slowly, and then told the group of gentry and wealthy households about her purpose.

By June at the latest, she needs to try to plant sweet potatoes in a field of [-] mu.The fields in her hands are not enough, so she needs to borrow from them.

"The winter wheat in the field can be harvested at the end of April in the lunar calendar, and after harvesting, it is time to try to plant a crop of summer sweet potatoes.

I only have more than 500 mu of land in my hands. After discussing it, you can get me another [-] mu of land.

Sweet potatoes don't pick land, and you don't have to pick top-quality land.

Give the low-level ones first, and if the low-level ones are not enough, then take the middle-level ones to make up for it.

I grow seedlings, you grow out of the field, we will split the sweet potatoes in half, how about it?

If you don't want sweet potatoes, you can also rent the land to me directly, I will pay you the rent, and all the sweet potatoes grown will be mine..."

All the gentry and wealthy households were shocked.

What joke is this little aunt playing?
Trial planting, trial planting, who tried to plant [-] mu of land at once when trying to plant new species?

Has she ever calculated how much manpower and material resources will be invested in two thousand acres of land?
If there is any problem in any link, it will be lost!

With those two thousand acres of land, wouldn't it be good to grow soybeans?

Although the yield per mu of soybean is low, it can extract oil.The soybean meal left over from oil extraction can also be fed to pigs, and pig fat can also be refined into oil.

Soybean oil and lard can be sent to soap factories as raw materials.

Everyone knows how profitable it is to sell soap.

Can sweet potatoes make so much money for everyone?

The point is, can she really grow sweet potatoes?

Chen Yuanwai kindly persuaded Jiang Erya, "You only stayed on Duoduo Island for a day, and you heard about the sweet potato from those pirates, right?

Although we have eaten sweet potatoes now and know that they are not poisonous and that they can fill our stomachs, we are still not sure whether they are really easy to grow and whether they can really produce high yields.

How about this, let's plant a little less this year, and start with [-] to [-] acres.

After planting this time, we have figured out the growth habits of sweet potatoes and confirmed that it can produce high yields, and then we will expand the scale of planting.

Ok? "

Hearing Yuanwai Chen's persuasion, Jiang Erya sat there quietly without saying a word.

Chen Yuanwai and the others couldn't figure out her thoughts, and gradually, they didn't dare to speak anymore.

On the surface, Jiang Erya was unmoved, but in fact she has been using her thoughts to communicate systematically with her dog.

She complained about the dog system, "Look, I'm not the only one who said that about you, Chen Yuan and others also think so.

The trial planting task you posted is simply unreasonable.

Qingjiang County is not big, and all the fields add up to only more than 7000 mu, and the rest are uncultivated wasteland.

The people here have never seen sweet potatoes before, never heard of sweet potatoes, let alone eaten sweet potatoes, how dare they try to plant two thousand acres of land at once?
Even if I can "convince people with reason" and convince these landlords in front of me, I can't convince the tenants under these landlords.

The thousands of tenants under their hands are the real farmers of the fields.

These tenants suffered from a drought last year, and finally survived the famine. They will only value food and fields more.

If I force them to hand over the fields to try to grow sweet potatoes, they will fight me desperately.

I thought about it, and only by making up for their loss this season in advance, can they have no worries and follow me to try to grow sweet potatoes.

Giving money may not be enough to make up for their words.

After experiencing the sharp rise in food prices in the past year, silver can no longer bring them a sense of security.

I have to buy a large amount of grain to cover the rent of those fields.

At the same time, I have to work hard to raise the seedlings to ensure that the sweet potato vine you gave can grow the seedlings needed for the two thousand acres of fields.

Just growing seedlings in the portable manor is not enough. In order to explain the origin of the seedlings, I have to set aside dozens of acres of my 500-mu field for breeding seedlings.

In this way, I am really busy.

By the way, don't you have the authority to adjust the task time limit?

Help me move the mission time limit back by one year?

This year we are planting in my more than 500 mu of field.

When the sweet potatoes are ripe, I will dig out three to five thousand catties of sweet potatoes in front of everyone.

The facts are right in front of everyone, next year everyone will rush to grow sweet potatoes without my persuasion.

The promotion of new grains has never been done overnight, why should we be in a hurry? "

The system was silent for a while before saying, "No hurry.

According to the forecast of the main system, Qingjiang County will still be very dry in summer and autumn this year.

Although the drought is far less severe than last year, Qingjiang County will usher in a plague of locusts in late September.

When locusts cross the border, not a single blade of grass grows.

Except for the two thousand acres of sweet potatoes that you are about to plant, Qingjiang County will have no harvest...

Sweet potatoes are planted in May of the lunar calendar and can be harvested in late September.

At that time, even if the upper leaves are eaten by locusts, photosynthesis can no longer be carried out, and the sweet potato roots underground will not be affected much.

After the locusts passed, dig up these sweet potatoes, and no one in Qingjiang County would starve to death. "

Jiang Erya frowned involuntarily after hearing what the system said.

Why are the people in Qingjiang County suffering so many disasters?I have just struggled from the drought, and the locust plague is about to usher in it again!
Since the task issued by the dog system was not unreasonable, she had no choice but to go all out.

It would be exhausting to rely on one person alone, so she planned to find a helper for herself.

Using the cover of her cuffs, Jiang Erya took out 2 taels of silver notes from the system backpack and handed them to Yuanwai Chen.

"Old Chen, you have the most fields in your hands, set aside a thousand acres for me.

Others will give me another five hundred acres.

Before October, I will definitely return the fields to you.

Lao Chen will help me calculate again, how much loss will be incurred if your [-] mu of land is delayed for five months.

After the statistics are completed, you can help me go door-to-door to get the compensation in place.

Those who are willing to ask for money will give the money directly, and those who are willing to ask for food compensation, you can help me run errands, buy a batch of food, and distribute it.

If the 2 taels is not enough, you can ask me again.

If there's any left—"

Chen Yuanwai immediately said: "If there is any surplus, I will definitely return it to you."

Jiang Erya shook her head and said, "Don't quit, I need a lot of labor to plant so many acres of sweet potatoes. If there is any money left, you can use it to help me hire some part-time workers..."

Jiang Erya ordered one sentence after another, and Chen Yuanwai nodded repeatedly...

After the sweet potato feast, the gentry and wealthy households bid farewell to Jiang Erya's father and daughter, and went home to draw land for Jiang Erya.

Jiang Erniu asked Jiang Erya worriedly, "Why do you plant so many sweet potatoes all at once?"

If the yield per mu is really 2000 to [-] catties, then at least several million catties of sweet potatoes can be grown in more than [-] mu of land.

So many sweet potatoes, what to do with them?How should it be stored?

(End of this chapter)