The sturdy peasant daughter's belly black Xianggong comes to farm

Chapter 1001 Conspiracy Part 14
The land on the field has been plowed and filled with water, but there is no vegetation on it. It should be planted with rice when the weather is warmer.

Su Limo and the others finally reached the door of a family, knocked on the door, and a middle-aged man came to open the door. "Who are you? What are you doing here?"

When the man saw Su Limo and the others appear, he was a little puzzled.

Su Limo didn't expect Ling Moxuan to talk to strangers, so he took the lead and said, "Hi, we are from a nearby village. Our family just bought some fields this year and wanted to plant some rice. There are no more rice seeds, so I want to come over and ask if you have any extra rice in your family that you can sell to us?"

Generally, people in the village will keep some rice in their homes, some of which are kept for planting by themselves, and some are kept for eating.

These grain seeds will be better than those sold.

After all, the rice sold in the seed shop outside is recovered from various places, and the quality will be somewhat uneven, not as pure as the ones stored by the farmers themselves.

This is similar to some modern merchants. In order to earn greater profits, the quality of this product can be arbitrary.

Generally, the rice used as seeds is more expensive than the rice sold alone. For this reason, when the farmers heard that others came to buy rice seeds, they would happily sell them. Su Lilai felt that this person in front of him would be very happy too. Happy to sell some of them.

.Unexpectedly, the man in front of him shook his head when he heard that they were here to buy grain seeds: "It's gone, you can go.

"Master, there are hundreds of catties of rice in this house."

Xiaobai said in the space that they can see the situation within a radius of ten meters.

How many catties of rice?
How many rice fields is this enough? They even said that there was no rice for sale, but Su Limo couldn't force others to sell rice to her, so she had to go to the next family's house to ask.

It was a middle-aged woman who opened the door. When she heard that Su Limo and the others were here to buy rice, she immediately shook her head, "We don't have enough to grow ourselves, so we won't sell you, we won't sell you."

"Master, this man also has hundreds of catties of rice in his house.

Xiaobai said again.

Su Limo discussed with Xiaobai in the space: "A few hundred catties of rice is not enough to plant? How many acres of land does she want to plant?
According to normal calculations, if one mu of land needs eight catties of grain seeds, it should be counted as ten catties. These hundreds of catties of rice can be used to plant tens of mu of land. Are the farmers in Beiming Kingdom all landlords? ?The family has at least tens of acres of land?
Su Limo was shocked. You must know that the richest people in their village used to have only twenty or thirty mu of land, while the others generally had two or three mu of land, and some poorer ones didn't have even one mu of land.

Since other people are landlords, she needs so many grain seeds. Su Limo has no choice but to go to the next family with Ling Moxuan, which has more grain seeds.

There are two to three thousand catties of rice in total.

Su Limo thought that she should be able to sell some rice this time, but she didn't expect that she would be rejected again as soon as she opened her mouth. The other party's remarks were similar to those of the previous two people, they both said that there was no more, and they didn't have enough.

Su Limo didn't expect it to be so simple this time.

"The people in this village are all local tyrants? Everyone has so much land in their homes? Why do I find it so strange?
Su Licai frowned.

She told Xiaobai how many catties of rice and Ling Moxuan there were in the households she had just asked.

Ling Moxuan was silent for a while, and said, "Do you still remember what the land we saw after we left the city just now?"

Su Limo really didn't pay special attention to these things, but she has the ability of photographic memory, so when Ling Moxuan mentioned it, she immediately thought of the place she passed by just now. After leaving Hanyang City, she came all the way. Terraced fields have been dug even on the mountain.

The total number of those paddy fields is nearly [-] mu, and nothing is planted on them, which means that it is very likely that all of them are used to grow rice.

Beiming Kingdom has not heard of how much the rice yield has increased. It is probably about 1000 catties, and if the nearly ten thousand mu of land near a town is planted with rice, that is to say, this town alone Nearly [-] to [-] million catties of grain can be produced in a quarter around the area.

The common people are old and young. These people don’t eat much every day. On average, they can only eat about half a catty of rice per person a day, and there are only about 10 people in Hanyang City. This 1000 to [-] million catties of grain is enough They eat the whole town for eight months?
It is said that the rice here is harvested twice a year, that is, the rice produced in one year is enough for the people in Hanyang City to eat for about a year and a half?
And the fields near Hanyang City should be the least, and there will be more fields in other places. If they are all planted with rice, they will produce more. Even if the common people eat rice every day, they may not be able to finish it. .

And it's a bit strange to only grow rice and not grow anything else, not even vegetables.

"Let's go look elsewhere."

Just the fact that some rice has grown around a town doesn't mean much.

Ling Moxuan took Su Limo on horseback to the county closest to Hanyang City.

They didn't go into the city, they still went around the countryside.

This place is different from Zhuangzi on the outskirts of Hanyang. Rice is planted near Zhuangzi on the outskirts of Hanyang. Here, all of them are planted with sweet potatoes, and the sweet potatoes have already grown. Visually, the fields here total about [-] mu. All planted red.

The normal yield of sweet potatoes is 8000 catties per mu. This [-] mu of land can produce [-] million catties of sweet potatoes.

The entire country of Beiming has a population of 200 million, and these sweet potatoes can feed the entire population of Beiming for [-] days.

"They're hoarding food!"

After doing the calculations in her heart, Su Limo said firmly.

The purpose of storing food at this time is obvious. The people of Beiming Kingdom are preparing to launch a big war, so they have to prepare a lot of food for the soldiers.

In the fields, only rice and sweet potatoes that can fill the stomach are grown.

"Master, if we tamper with their fields so that they can't stock up on food, then this war won't be able to start."

Xiaobai suggested in the space.

As soon as it opened its mouth, Su Limo rejected its proposal: "No, if the food cannot be grown, it will be the common people who will suffer."

That would really be in line with what the original owner of the space said.

Now under the call of the imperial court, the common people only grow rice and sweet potatoes, which are all they have. If these things cannot be grown, the common people will end up starving and suffering.

(End of this chapter)