Traveling through the Three Kingdoms: She brings unlimited supplies to build infrastructure

Chapter 116: Crops
The night Zhang Ze went to Lingzhi City.

Lady Xuan, the most beloved daughter of the head of the Gongsun family, received a gift.

After opening it on the spot, I was so frightened that I fainted. After that, I had convulsions every night and called the doctor countless times.

When these anecdotes reached Guzhu, Gongsun Yan did not take the time to enjoy them.

She never thought that she would have to work overtime continuously for a day in the Han Dynasty.

As April passes day by day, the cold Northland welcomes several spring rains.

Perhaps because it is close to Rushui and located in the mountains, the entire Lone Bamboo Manor is shrouded in a layer of damp and cold air.

For the land and plants, this layer of moisture and these drops of rain and dew are the most thirst-quenching nectar. The dry mud is full of water and becomes soft.

Gongsun Yan sat at the conference table.

A small hot stove was placed at her feet, emitting dense heat.

At this time, she was discussing this year's spring plowing with several village stewards.

It is not quite accurate to say that it was a discussion. In fact, she was insisting on her own opinion and resisting the manager of the village, who was dominated by Zhou Xing.

On the conference table were several rhizome-like plants with red skins still stained with soil.

This plant will be very familiar to future generations.

But for people of this era, it is simply ridiculous to plant such unknown and completely unfamiliar evil crops on a large scale in the village instead of planting the familiar beans, wheat, millet and millet.

“This kind of sweet potato is really, really, really high-yielding!”

Gongsun Yan once again emphasized this to several old stewards responsible for farm production in the village.

“The maximum yield per mu is over 6000 kilograms, and even a thin field can produce 4000 kilograms per mu!”

In fact, Gongsun Yan's statement was already very restrained.

This variety is written in black and white on the trading device. It is an improved variety. When the fields are fertile, intensive cultivation, and scientific fertilization are carried out, the yield per mu can reach more than 10000 kilograms.

And sweet potatoes can be harvested in 4 months.

In this era when the yield per mu is 180 to 200 kilograms, it is enough to change the pattern of the entire world.

In order to encourage Gongsun Yan to promote it on a large scale, the system directly placed sweet potatoes, potatoes, and corn at the top when she searched for high-yielding crops.

In order to get Gongsun Yan to speed up, an advertisement offering a [-]% discount on growing grains popped up, and a sweet potato planting manual was given as a gift for Zhao Xi to load.

Naturally, Gongsun Yan would not let down the system's good intentions.

As an old dieter before time travel, Gongsun Yan didn't know much about farming, but she was still familiar with the nutritional value of these staple foods.

Compared with wheat, corn, and rice, sweet potatoes are not considered a high-quality staple food. The dietary protein of sweet potatoes is much lower than other types.

It also contains too much potassium, and excessive consumption can cause arrhythmia and chest tightness.There are also disadvantages such as high sugar content.

However, those shortcomings are all for modern people. For people in this era, having a full stomach is the king!
Such a terrifying yield per acre is enough to ignore all the weaknesses of sweet potatoes.

What's more, sweet potatoes can also be used to make sugar and make wine, and the residue can be used to feed livestock.

However, Gongsun Yan's reform order was resisted by almost all the manor stewards.

For this era, nothing is more important than farming. Farming is related to everyone’s survival.

Therefore, as soon as Gongsun Yan issued the order to replace the spring plowing crops, Zhou Xing first knelt down to remonstrate, and then the village's agricultural stewards came collectively and knelt down in the verandah to remonstrate.

For them, the cost of trial and error over a year of farming is too high.In recent years, things have not been going well, with major disasters happening from time to time. Taking such risks is risking your own survival.

Even if the manor is still supported by the government's grain reserves, it is really child's play to use the precious grain reserves as the price of trial and error.

The manor is not only their job but also their place of residence. They must not sit back and watch the manor be destroyed.

The manager of the village is so resistant, not to mention the tenant farmer who rents the land in the village.

The livelihood of these shady households depends on the fields throughout the year. If they change crops rashly, they will lose their harvest and be unable to feed their families. They will also have to pay rent to their owners.You will be in a desperate situation.

For them, fields are the greatest and final guarantee.

Therefore, even though Gongsun Yan promised that as long as he grows sweet potatoes, he will be free of rent for one year, and if there is no harvest, he will open a warehouse and receive subsidies, there are still very few people who responded.

When it comes to life or death, few people will place their hopes on a vague promise.

For three days, people came and went in the main house, and the supervisor and the elders elected from the shelter kept coming to beg.

For them, they do not feel that disobeying the master's order in this matter is disobedience. On the contrary, they truly feel that it is being loyal!
Even though Gongsun Yan had very implicitly only said that the yield per mu was 4000 kilograms, the several stewards sitting behind the conference table still had different expressions.

"Little lady, don't mess with the spring plowing." A middle-aged man with a bronze face full of gullies advised earnestly.

To them, a yield of 4000 per mu is a myth and impossible!

It was precisely because of the yield mentioned by Gongsun Yan that they couldn't believe that there could be such high-yielding crops in the world.

Gongsun Yan lowered his head weakly and pressed his forehead.

She never thought that the first important policy she implemented would encounter such great resistance.

Except for Zhao Xi, who was naturally on her side, and Zhao Yun, who had no objection for the time being due to his trust in her, almost everyone in the village was resisting.

Even Tian Kai, who was guarding the Xishan camp and taking care of the prisoners, rode back to persuade them regardless of fatigue.

At this moment, facing these stewards whose eyes were as red and swollen as walnuts from crying, Gongsun Yan let out a long sigh.
Finally, concessions had to be made.

It is no longer a one-time large-scale promotion in the village. Only one-third of the farmland in the village is required to plant this new crop according to the guidance of the housekeeper Zhao Xi.

As a price for promoting new crops, [-]% of the rent will be waived this year.

If the new crop yields poorly, another [-]% will be waived!
In other words, if something happens that no one wants to see happen, there will be no harvest of new crops.

Then each shade household still has the remaining two-thirds of the field output, and only pays [-]% of the tax.

After Gongsun Yan made such a big concession, several elders representing Yinhu thought about it, and their expressions suddenly became relaxed and even showed joy.

On the contrary, Zhou Xing and several stewards rebounded even more.

In the opinion of the stewards, this undoubtedly harmed the interests of the manor and was too tolerant of these tenants.

But what Gongsun Yan wanted to see was never the harvest of these acres of fields.

Everything is just to promote this high-yielding crop that can survive countless people.

What she wants is to liberate the productivity and labor force in the village, so that more people can divert their attention from the fields with peace of mind and invest in the subsequent various constructions.

The currently planned warehouses, wall defense systems, roads, wineries, etc. all require a large amount of labor.

After sending away the Yinhu representative and several mournful stewards, Zhou Xing was the only one in the conference hall who looked like he had swallowed Coptis chinensis alive.

(End of this chapter)