delicious little cook

Chapter 1055 Who Knows
Bai Kou estimated that it would take three days to collect the [-] acres of land, because the lunch break was mandatory during the hottest hours around noon, and it would cost more medical expenses to get people suffering from heatstroke. This is not worthwhile, but Bai Kou underestimated Everyone is enthusiastic about working, people are tired and replaced, cows and horses are replaced when they are tired, and the farmland is still busy with torches after dark. It takes less than two days to harvest all the harvest, and they are piled up in the sun-drying field waiting for threshing and harvesting. After drying, the threshed straw can be left for cattle as silage.

Women and children carried baskets and cleared the field several times like a sieve to ensure that no grain of rice was missed. The cattle and horses unloaded the harvester and replaced it with a cultivator and seeder. The land preparation and sowing were all pulled by huge cast iron guys. It was done after the cattle and horses. Every household in the village had to store the ashes left by burning firewood in the large stoves in the ash warehouse every day. After saving for so long, it also came in handy at this time and was applied to the fields as base fertilizer.

When the two hundred acres of land were all sown, God, who had been sweltering for several days, suddenly changed his face. After people hurriedly cleaned up the drying field, it rained heavily all day and all night, and the tributaries swelled. The men were divided into several groups. Facing the heavy rain, they took turns guarding the embankment with windproof and rainproof glass lamps. Fortunately, there was no danger in the end. The water level did not exceed the embankment. The good drainage and irrigation facilities in the farmland also prevented the field from stagnant water. Maybe after the rainstorm It also promotes seed germination.

There is nothing serious on the farm side. Because of the rain and flooding in the outer waterway, the ships are all docked at the Shazhou Wharf. After the rain, the waterway becomes busy again, but the other shareholders other than Bai Kou have a bit of a bad face. Well, such a rain will delay the harvesting of many crops, and their own farms will definitely suffer disasters, and they don't know how much they will reduce production.

Bai Kou is also worried. The price of food will probably increase by [-]% this year. The output of the [-] acres of land on the farm is not enough to feed the current population. The food that is in short supply has to be purchased from outside. In the second half of the year, we may have to eat miscellaneous grains Life is over.

Improved seeds and pesticides and fertilizers, without these three things, it is a big joke to increase the grain yield per mu.

Bai Kou scratched her face, she is not a chemist, she really can't do anything about it.

The heavy rain also quenched everyone's enthusiasm for these new machines on the farm, and they hurriedly packed their bags and went home.

Double grabbing, rushing to harvest and rush to plant, and competing with God for time, because you don’t know when it will rain, the plants will fall, it will be difficult to harvest, and the yield will be reduced if the grains fall off. So many agricultural machinery is also to fight for time. She won this year and will continue next year.

Back in the capital, Gu Yun and the others learned from the Imperial Academy that the Ministry of Household Affairs had already counted the production reduction losses after the heavy rain. They only hoped that they could save as much as possible while the weather was fine. Their own village was also in a mess, with countless plots The water-logged plants are falling down, and it is not known how much can be saved. Now we can only try our best to save them, and then clear the land and plant seeds quickly, so as to strive for a bumper harvest in autumn.

Gu Yun called his buddies to discuss it. Those who have money will contribute money, and those who have no money will have their families contribute money. In the name of shareholders, Lao Sha will rush to manufacture a set of agricultural machinery for each family, which will be used in their own family fields and villages. , and strive to use it during the autumn harvest, and during the slack period this year, the land must be well organized and the drainage and irrigation capacity enhanced. It is really distressing to ruin the crops just because of poor drainage in the farmland.

Because it was the scene that their own children saw with their own eyes on the farm, each family readily paid in the name of the public. They are an old-fashioned family, and the family farm alone covers an area of ​​​​a thousand acres. Several large cast-iron guys It can greatly shorten the time required for double grabbing, and it can be used for many years. They are willing to spend this money.

Lao Sha got the order and was preparing materials to start work. The sage called Gu Yun into the palace. Balidu Guanzhuang suffered heavy losses in this rainstorm. All in good order.

Seeing that the saint's face was not good, Gu Yun didn't dare to ask in detail what happened to Balidu Guanzhuang. He only asked what machines and quantities he wanted, and he agreed to them all. He sent someone to deliver a message to Bai Kou after he left the palace. , and then inform Lao Sha to make the list of Guanzhuang first.

The losses have already been caused. After the initial turmoil, each family has its own person to clean up the aftermath. After returning from the farm for a few days, these princes and grandchildren slowly returned to their usual rhythm of life, but they are hoarding various grains in private and transporting them to On the farm, the rations of thousands of people over there are still waiting for shareholders like them to solve it.

Bai Kou also sent someone to the yamen to check the fish scale map to see how much land around the farm is suitable for annexation. She will do everything possible to expand the cultivated land. In this busy farming season, a strong laborer can eat a catty of rice a day, and a catty of 16 taels , This still guarantees the premise of non-staple food such as meat, eggs and milk. If there is no such non-staple food, a meal of at least half a catty of rice, the grain output of one mu of land is only enough to feed one person.

Bai Kou didn't know if Gu Yun could feel this hunger, but she knew it very well, and she couldn't find many happy memories in those years in Yachifang.

Just at this time, Hua Qingyu sent her information about the two county heads of Prince Yu's Mansion. They really wanted to come out to do business to revitalize their family business, and they even ran to the university because of Shi Tianmin's refusal to bring them into the gang. There was a commotion at the Princess Mansion. It is said that Shi Tianmin asked some common business questions on the spot. The pair of sisters knew nothing about dyes, and they didn’t know how to deal with interpersonal communication smoothly in the business field. There was a conflict when asked. What to do is to show the signboard of Prince Yu's Mansion. In the end, Shi Tianmin resolutely refused their joining. Now there is a conflict between Prince Yu's Mansion and the Princess's Mansion.

After reading this gossip, Bai Kou imagined whether King Yu and the eldest princess would turn their backs completely, and at the same time forwarded this information to Gu Yun, asking him to comfort Shi Tianmin, after all, he is the grandson of a saint, proud and honorable The descendants of the Tian family still have to hypocritically maintain an intimate relationship. In case Shi Tianmin is named on the gold list in the future and embarks on an official career, who can say what will happen in the future.

Gu Yun was a little excited when he received Bai Kou's letter. When he opened the letter, he found that it was information from Prince Yu's Mansion asking him to comfort Shi Tianmin, and he immediately looked disappointed. After returning from the farm, he was busy with Xia Harvest in the Imperial Academy every day. , food is the foundation of the country, and this is the top priority of the imperial court during the double-grab season. Every day when I am on duty, I can’t rest when I get home. I still have to think about every big and small thing, and I can only hug the pillow every time I go to sleep.

Who can understand the coldness and loneliness of sleeping alone in a big bed?
Gu Yun was speechless and asked the sky!
Ugh!
(End of this chapter)