Water Margin farming to become powerful

Chapter 23

Early the next morning, Li Zhi, Zou Yuan and Zou Run brought their men to Shili Pai.

Sun Xin brought both parties to his own field, explained to them the method of harvesting peanuts, and then let the two parties start working by themselves.

Li Zhi came to the field with a hoe and his five helpers. He took a look at the horizontal and vertical fields, and nodded inwardly: this young field is quite neatly planted.

Li Zhi is also a well-known old farmer. He has worked in many farms. Some farm owners will give him a very favorable field tax to invite him to farm the land on the farm. The picture is his farming ability. Well, the production of the land is guaranteed, and it is also guaranteed that the grain and tax can be paid.

It's just that there was no suitable Zhuangzi to go to in the past two years, so Li Zhi brought a group of his brothers out to do some idle work for others, and the income was not low.

As an old farmer, Li Zhi appreciates Sun Xin's farming skills, but he is very disapproving of Sun Xin's choice of planting peanuts.

He has never seen this kind of crop before, and it must have never been planted in Dengzhou area. Li Zhi felt that if he were Sun Xin, he would not have planted an area as large as [-] mu from the beginning. Fortunately, it's okay to say that if the growth is not good, most of the work for half a year will be in vain, which is too unsafe.

And thinking that Zou Yuan and Zou Run agreed to Sun Xin's suggestion to calculate wages according to the weight of the harvested grain after listening to Sun Xin's words, Li Zhi only felt it was funny.

He has already calculated that the salary of one hundred Wen for one mu of land is not low, and the income is very guaranteed. If Sun Xin, Zou Yuan and Zou Run agreed to pay fifty Wen for the temporary production , This mu of land has to produce two shi of grain to earn one hundred wen.

One mu of field yields two stones. It is not uncommon for such high-yield fields to exist, but Li Zhi would not believe that even [-] mu of fields could have such a yield, no matter how good the flowers Sun Xin planted in front of him.

The brothers around him were chatting while digging the ground.

"These peanuts look really good, maybe next year we can ask for some seeds to grow."

"It's just that the first few plants look like this, who knows what will happen later?"

"Didn't Sun Xinguan say that? Peanut seeds are not easy to ask for. He only has them in Mandengzhou, and we have never grown them before. Without his guidance, we may not be able to grow them rashly. of."

Listening to everyone's conversation, Li Zhi remembered that he had also peeled the peanut pods and eaten the peanut kernels inside when Sun Xin introduced him.

This crop produces such large grains, and once he eats the peanut kernels, he knows that the oil content of this thing is not low, and may even be higher than soybeans. He subconsciously understands that this is definitely a good crop, but it is so good Why haven't the oil crops been popularized?

Thinking that each peanut seed is so rich in oil, the travel rate must not be low, Li Zhi felt that maybe he should ask for these peanut seeds to plant next year.

But this kind of seed is only available in Sun Xin's Zhuangzi. If you want to plant it, you have to become Sun Xin's Zhuangzi as Sun Xin said that day, so Li Zhi is still a little unwilling.

Because Sun Xin's fields are really too small, and the lack of fields means that the owner's strength is weak.The weak farm owner has no power and no way to evade taxes. On average, the court collects [-]% more food tax every year. This cost has to be added to the farmer's head, which is equivalent to an extra charge. food class.

What's more, the water conservancy facilities and other supporting facilities in the fields of small landlords are naturally incomparable with those of big landlords whose fields are connected by fields. After all, unless Sun Xinshou's peanut production can be [-] to [-]% higher than other crops, otherwise it is really unattractive. Li Zhizhi's men came down to be tenants.

According to the method Sun Xin taught before, Li Zhi waved the hoe and dug the peanut's root a little forward, and then dragged it up lightly. Sure enough, just as Sun Xin taught before, the peanut The soil after wetting was very soft, and he turned over a peanut seedling lightly.

Li Zhi glanced at the roots of the peanut seedlings, and couldn't help nodding when he saw the fruitful scene, "Sun Xin's land is really not bad, and it's another high-yielding peanut seedling."

Under the peanut seedling that Sun Xin planed open during the demonstration, there were many fruits under it. Li Zhi was surprised when he saw it, but he felt that this must be a special case. If there were so many peanuts on each peanut seedling , how many peanuts should this acre of land produce?
While he was thinking, he dug another hoe into the ground, dragged it back, and turned out another high-yielding peanut seedling.

Li Zhi frowned slightly, could it be that the production of peanuts is so high?

Li Zhi dug his hoe along the ridges of the field all the way, and every tree he dug was a peanut seedling full of fruits. When he dug one-third of the field, Li Zhi finally stopped.

He looked at his brothers who were also surprised, and then couldn't help looking behind him.

The peanut seedlings they dug out along the way have already piled up in a large pile on the ground, and each of those peanut seedlings is as fruitful as the one shown by Sun Xin. Only then did Li Zhi suddenly realize Could it be that the peanut seedling thrown by Sun Xin just now was not a special case dug up by good luck, but that every peanut seedling on this field grew so many peanuts?

But how is this possible!

Li Zhi glanced at the huge pile of peanuts, and then at the land in front of him that hadn't been dug up. This is only one third, and how many peanuts are there in that huge pile?

The land of Shili Pai was squarely planned, and there was a large open space next to it. Sun Xin directly set up a drying field for drying peanuts on an open space next to the [-]-acre field.

On the drying yard, Xie Zhen and Xie Bao were stomping on a pedal peanut picker.

This is a fruit-picking method that Sun Xin saw before the popularization of agricultural machinery in his previous life. He directly puts down a bicycle, steps on the pedals of the bicycle to make the wheels spin, and then puts the root of the peanuts against the wheels, and the wheels turn instantly. Then all the peanuts will be twisted off, and then the stalks of the peanuts will be thrown away, and the peanut picking will be completed.

In this era, it is too troublesome to make a complicated fruit picking machine, so Sun Xin simply restored this thing.

So the so-called fruit picking machine that Xie Zhen and Xie Bao are using now is actually a simple mechanism made of a simple wooden wheel with a suede belt and pedals, but the efficiency of picking peanuts is not low.

Li Zhi glanced at the peanuts that were picked off quickly in the rim, and then stared blankly at the peanuts that had already covered half of the field. Finally, he couldn't help but ran to Sun Xin who was drying the peanuts and asked: " Little officer, how many peanuts have you picked?"

Sun Xin, who was flattening the peanuts with a rake, straightened up and took a breath, looked at the densely packed peanuts in front of him and said, "Half an acre of land has just been picked here, about three or four stones."

Hearing this, Li Zhi's eyes popped out. Half an acre of land is only three or four stones. Even if these peanuts shrink severely after being dried, the yield of this mu of land is still more than five stones. There is actually such a yield in this world. tall crops?
(End of this chapter)