Water Margin farming to become powerful

Chapter 24

When all the peanuts in the [-] mu of land were harvested, not only Li Zhi, but all the people involved in the harvest were stunned.

For four days, the helpers worked desperately on the field to collect peanuts, while Sun Xin and Xie Zhen Jiebao worked hard on the drying yard.

When all the peanuts in front were finished, and the first half of the peanuts had dried up to [-]% dry under the sun, Sun Xin began to put them all into sacks, and sent them one by one to the valley that he had prepared long ago. In the warehouse.

At this time, the output can basically be counted.

Half of the peanuts that were exposed earlier were finally put into the warehouse at 85 stones, with an average yield of five and a half stones per mu.

Sun Xin himself was a little surprised by this output. Unexpectedly, the output of Dengzhou peanuts in this time and space is almost the same as the peanut output per mu in his own cooperative in later generations.

Sun Xin speculates that this is because the peanut seeds he used are high-yielding varieties, the weather this year is relatively hot, and the selected land has not been cultivated and the fertility is quite good. It was a surprise, maybe it will be difficult to reproduce next year.

And this harvest is an unimaginable figure in the eyes of others.

One mu of land can produce five and a half stones of grain, and such a thing has never been heard since the beginning of the world!Even when Sun Li heard the production number, he hurried to Shili Pai. When he saw the peanut beans in the warehouse, he couldn't help but smile from ear to ear.

A few days later, when the wages were paid, Li Zhi was so regretful that his intestines were green. They collected peanuts from 88 acres of land, and the total wages were one or two or four. In a few days, they earned more than one or two. The six people were very satisfied, but in contrast, Zou Run and Zou Yuan, who accepted Sun Xin's suggestion of paying wages according to the weight of peanuts, collected peanuts from [-] mu of land, and when they entered the warehouse, the weight reached [-] stones. For the agreement of fifty coins, Sun Xin directly paid the six people four taels of silver, more than three times the income of Li Zhi and the others.

Zou Run, Zou Yuan and the others were overjoyed. When they heard that Sun Xin wanted to extract oil by himself and needed manpower, the six of them patted their chests and said they would take the job.

Sun Xin then proposed to build a Zhuangzi. This time, all the people involved in harvesting peanuts said that as long as Sun Xin could let them grow the peanuts, they would all be willing to stay on top of Sun Xin’s Zhuangzi as farmers, and they all asked if Sun Xin could bring them More people come to farm together.

Naturally, Sun Xin hoped that the more farmers under him, the better, so he quickly took out the contract and signed a one-year contract with them, and assigned all the land to them.

He took in more than 30 bankers in one breath.

In the following time, Sun Xin set aside more than 300 mu of land and began to assign people to cultivate, some of them planted corn and winter wheat, and some of them went to the field to dig wells under the guidance of Xie Zhen and Xie Bao.

When they saw Xie Zhen Jiebao's ability to drill pressure wells, everyone was even more convinced. They had never seen such a convenient way to dig a well.

Zou Run and Zou Yuan joined Sun Xin's oil workshop.

Sun Xin has long known the sales of edible oil these years. With the development of agricultural technology, oil crops have been widely planted in Song Dynasty, and the people of Song Dynasty have long been accustomed to using edible oil.

Edible oil these days is dominated by flax oil in the north, while rapeseed oil is popular in the south.

Sun Xin was even more overjoyed when he learned that the price of oil in Dengzhou City at this time was [-] Wen per catty of vegetable oil.

It is certainly possible to store peanuts as miscellaneous grains, but how can it compare to the value of peanuts as oil crops?
In the steam-filled oil workshop, Zou Run and Zou Yuan put peanuts crushed with stones on the cage.Heating the fire on the stove quickly steamed the crushed peanuts until they became transparent.

Sun Xin opened the drawer and grabbed a handful of crushed peanuts in his hands. After lightly crushing them, his hands were covered with oil. He nodded quickly and told Zou Run to steam to this extent.

Under the guidance of Sun Xin, Zou Run and Zou Yuan wrapped the peanut kernels out of the cage into cakes with straw and put them in a circle made of willow sticks. Quickly turn the peanut embryo compacted color flat into a slightly higher pile in the middle.

They put the stacks one by one into a human-powered hammer press made of large logs.

Another wedge was inserted into the peanut cake, and then several men pushed up the hammer together. In the rhythmic sound of labor chants, the wooden wedge penetrated inch by inch into the gap between the peanut cakes, and began to squeeze the pieces of peanut piles continuously. .

Peanut oil began to flow out of the squeezed peanut pile soon.

When the speed of oil production slowly slowed down, it was estimated that the peanut kernels had been pressed to [-]% dry before Sun Xin stopped the pressing step.

Unsqueeze, remove the cake, scrape off the edge of the cake, several men crush and sieve the peanut cake after the first squeeze, then add it to the crushed peanuts and steam, and then squeeze, a peanut kernel needs to be squeezed three times in this way Only then will it become peanut cakes, and then those peanut cakes will be smashed and dragged to make fertilizer for farming.

Repeating the process of pressing the peanut oil, everyone gradually became familiar with it, and Sun Xin's oil workshop also entered the formal production stage.

Peanuts are indeed excellent oil crops. A few days later, Sun Xin came up with calculation results, and the oil yield of peanuts in his own oil workshop can reach 40.00%, which is close to the limit of manual pressing.

The yield per mu of peanuts is calculated based on the shelled peanut kernels, so one stone of peanuts in Sun Xin’s granary can be used to squeeze out more than 40 catties of peanut oil.

Sun Li released the news in the city that Sun Xin's Zhuangzi had oil for sale, and within two days, a merchant came to Shili Pai to buy oil.

After trying the fragrant peanut oil, several merchants did not raise any objection to Sun Xin's request that the price of peanut oil be the same as that of linseed oil.

However, several businessmen said unanimously that one hundred yuan per catty of vegetable oil was the market price, and the price they bought peanut oil was only sixty yuan per catty no matter what.

Sun Xin knew that these businessmen must have gained huge profits from this, but now he only has such a little peanut in his hands. Although the price will be higher if he sells oil by himself, the time wasted is not very cost-effective. Can accept the price offered by several merchants.

Several nearby states and cities have a population of nearly 10, and it is not a problem to consume Sun Xin's peanut oil.

Sun Xin left 120 shi of peanuts as the seeds for the coming year, and the remaining 5000 shi of peanuts were squeezed out of more than 330 catties of peanut oil under the overnight rush of Zou Run and others. Sun Xin delivered it in one go and sold it directly for [-] two.

Going to the farmer's wages, he made a net profit of 300 taels. When he saw so much money, Sun Li took a deep breath again.

The economy was finally affluent. Sun Xin allocated 100 taels of silver non-stop and asked Sun Li to help hire craftsmen in Dengzhou City.

On the one hand, large-scale construction of houses for farmers and the purchase of cattle, horses and livestock began on the land. On the other hand, Sun Xin began to enclose the land around Shili Pai with wooden fences for several miles.

Regardless of whether it can be cultivated or not, anyway, circle it first, and this will be the scope of Sunjiazhuang in the future. After this operation, there are more than 100 taels of money left, to win the fees needed by Hu Sanniang, Sun Xin secretly found Sun Li and asked him Help yourself to order a batch of knives and guns.

(End of this chapter)