Song Dynasty Iron Armored Army

Chapter 356 Spring Mass Production

Zhang Xiaosi is a tenant in West Village, renting [-] acres of sandy land in Chaijiazhuang, which happens to be all planned as good potato land this year.

The horses of Zhang Xiaosi's family were about to give birth to foals. Zhang Xiaosi was worried at first, but unexpectedly, the village organized hundreds of mules to plow all the land.

Early this morning, Zhang Xiaosi took his wife and two children to plant potatoes in the field. He has been trained in planting techniques more than a dozen times, and he has already memorized them.

Zhang Xiaosi dug a hole, his wife put potato seeds, one child watered it, and the other buried the soil.Rural children at the age of fifteen or sixteen are the main force in work.

While working, my wife said, "As the head of the family, why do I feel that I have no idea how to grow these potatoes? If we don't harvest them, will the four of us drink northwest wind? It's safe to grow some sorghum and millet."

Zhang Xiaosi said: "You woman, what are you thinking. Do you think I am smart or the officials are smart?"

"Aren't you just asking nonsense, if you have a senior official or someone who is smart, you still use it as a tenant?" the wife asked back.

"That's enough. The land plowed by the high official is useless for our horses, right? The high official gave us the seeds on credit, and didn't let us pay a penny. If we don't accept it, we will pay it. Compensation from the officials. Besides, you have listened to so many days of technical training for nothing. Today is just the first day of February. The potatoes can be harvested in only three months. They will be ripe at the end of April, and the potatoes will be harvested at the beginning of May. After finishing, you can plant summer grain, what's the delay?"

The wife suddenly realized: "In this way, won't the planting of millet and sorghum be delayed at all?"

"I'm confused, what kind of millet to plant. When the millet is harvested, the sparrows will overwhelm the sky, and the yield per mu will be 800 catties, and the straw horse doesn't like to eat it. Our iron-hoofed horse is about to give birth to a foal, and the pony grows fast, and it will be winter That’s two big horses, and we have to grow corn. The yield of corn is more than [-] catties per mu, and horses love to eat straw.” Zhang Xiaosi said.

The wife was speechless for a while, and Zhang Xiaosi went on to say, "Don't say that the corn is unsafe and unstable. I saw it with my own eyes when the corn was harvested. The corn cobs were thicker than my arm, and the yellow-orange corn kernels were very pleasing."

One mu is eight hundred catties, and ten mu is eight thousand catties. My wife seems to have seen the grain piled up like mountains and seas.

"This year has been like a dream. I used to think that it would be good to be able to eat and drink enough. Who would have thought that last year there would be horses, and this year they would become two ends." The wife sighed.

The couple were chatting, and the child said, "Father, the high officials are here."

Chai Lin brought a few people over to check. When he came to the farmland, Chai Lin was wearing coarse clothes, a pair of ordinary leather shoes, and the clothes and trousers were covered with dirt.

Zhang Xiaosi and his wife quickly put down their work and said, "Master, you are here."

Chai Lin said: "Don't stop, keep going, I'm just here to take a look. Potatoes, this has been verified by the elders in the village. It can easily produce four to five thousand catties per mu, and they are planted with confidence. The village is responsible for purchasing and selling. Don't worry about sales."

Zhang Xiaosi said: "Don't worry, the owner. We trust the owner very much. We will definitely complete the task according to the arrangement of the owner. The family of four came to the field early in the morning. After breakfast, my father and mother also came. Today No matter how you can plant two acres of land.”

"Okay, the canals have been built to the edge of the land, so don't worry about the drought, just work hard, and you will understand what a good harvest is in May." Chailin said with a smile.

Zhang Xiaosi asked: "Owner, there are few plants now, so they can be sold outside. If all the plants in the ten miles and eight villages are planted in the future, wouldn't it be difficult to sell?"

"That's the reason. If you grow too much, it will definitely not be easy to sell. At that time, everyone can grow less appropriately, eat some at home, raise some pigs, and sell some. Every household raises five or six pigs, and the potatoes and corn are completely harvested. It can be used to feed pigs. In the past few years, there was not enough to eat and not to wear warmly, but this winter, they have enough to eat and wear warmly, and every household has endless meat.”

Chai Lin inspected it again, and found that the planting in this family was not bad, and there was nothing wrong with it, so he led him away with a smile.

What does Chailin do with this [-] mu of potatoes with high standards and strict requirements?Of course, it is used for sale. Large pieces of potatoes are used as vegetables, and they are sold to people in big cities for cooking, such as fried peppers with potatoes, eggplant stewed with potatoes, mashed potatoes, and French fries.The slightly smaller ones are sold as seed potatoes. No matter what kind, the profit is three or four times.

Other villages around Chaijiazhuang, especially military families, also planted it, but the area they planted was very small. A family planted half an mu and three cents, but for their own food.

In Dongping Prefecture, in the northern mountainous area, under Cheng Wanli's personal promotion, there is also a village that has planted more than [-] mu of potatoes.The people here don't recognize Chaijiazhuang. Cheng Wanli repeatedly emphasized the high yield, so everyone planted it.Cheng Wanli himself was a little hesitant, and didn't dare to spread more, and only promoted more than [-] acres.

In the northern mountainous area of ​​Yizhou, Baiyanji.

Xiaoliugou Village, in the valley.Liu Zhuang's wife is leading the invited people to plant potatoes.

Liu Zhuang was not at home, but he did not delay work.

Liu Zhuang's daughter-in-law, eldest son, grandfather, grandmother, and two invited elder sisters from the same family, a total of six people.

The aunt said: "Oh, my family, why is the land plowed so finely, there is not a single piece of dirt, and there are no people walking on it."

Liu Zhuang's father is very proud, this old man is actually not very old, he is only in his 50s, and his hair has just started to turn gray.

"Plowing well. In previous years, plowing the land would make people worry to death. Digging with one shovel by one shovel took ten days to dig an acre of land. It's good this year. First plow it with a big mule, and then use a small donkey to rake it. , that's a beauty, three acres of land easily in one day."

The aunt was so envious, she said: "This is incomparable. Not everyone has a mule. My little donkey is too small to plow the land."

"Don't worry, ma'am, you plant potatoes for my family for a few days, and then ask my father to plow the land for your family, and we will help each other," Liu Zhuang's wife said.

"That's a good feeling, thank you very much."

Just as we were talking, the two elder brothers of Liu Zhuang's daughter-in-law's family came.

"Brother, why are you two here?" Liu Zhuang's wife asked.

The eldest brother said: "Look at what you said, my brother came to my sister's house to help with work, but I can't come anymore, the two of us will help with work."

The second elder brother said: "The main reason is that I heard that these potatoes are delicious. Come here and learn how to grow them. Give us some seeds next year, and we will grow them too."

"Okay, hurry up and help. There will be potatoes to eat in May. My family has planted five acres, and I have received five camels for all the potatoes." Liu Zhuang's wife said.

Three hundred catties of potato seeds for one mu of land, and five mu of land is [-] catties.It was mainly shipped from a long distance in the first year of this year. The cost was too high, and it was basically not profitable at this price.

Fu has distant relatives in the mountains. This is not for nothing. Now that Liu Zhuang is well-off, his salary of three taels of silver a month has only been there for more than a month, and at the end of the year he was given a bonus of thirty catties of pork.

The county magistrate Chen and Zhu Wu did not dare to slack off in the slightest. Taking the military family as the center of the breakthrough, they promoted and planted more than [-] mu of potatoes in February.Potatoes require land that can be irrigated with water, so they generally choose the foot of the mountain, a place close to the water source.

Zhu Wu didn't dare to stay in the yamen to look at the data, and Chen Jia, Deng Fei, and Bing divided into three ways to communicate with the firm that provided potato seeds, and went down to check.

If you don't check, you don't know. After checking, there are really things that don't grow.

There was a lazy man in Tongshiji, who declared two acres of potatoes and [-] catties of potato seeds at home, and even ate some of them.

Chen frame was so angry that his hands were shaking.

(End of this chapter)