Nanming: I can build wonders

Chapter 65 The Great Harvest



Chapter 65 The Great Harvest

In mid-July, accompanied by the hot sea breeze, it is the harvest season of early rice in Yizhou Island, and the whole Yizhou Island has entered the busiest period of the year.

The blue clear sky, the scorching sun, the golden rice fields set off layer after layer of waves with the hot wind, the people of Dongning Prefecture are busy in full swing, the air is filled with the fragrance of rice, and at a glance, it is full A thriving scene.

"The head of the family, this year has a bumper harvest of grain! Last year, there were 350 catties of rice per mu, but this year there are actually 500 catties of rice!" A dark-looking peasant woman said to the man.

"Thanks to His Highness Jian Guo's guano, otherwise how could we produce so much food!" the man sighed.

This year's Yizhou Island has indeed had a bumper harvest. Thanks to the sea guano that is full of nitrogen and phosphorus fertilizers, the common people are very happy. Unfortunately, the cultivated land on Yizhou Island is mainly concentrated in the southern area, and there are still many undeveloped lands. .

This bumper harvest is enough to feed and drink 40 people for a year, and it is rare for ordinary people to have surplus food. The food problem in Yizhou Island has finally been solved.

In addition to the bumper rice harvest, the people of Dongning Mansion had one more thing to talk about.

That is sweet potatoes and potatoes are ripe too!

"It is rumored that the new food comes from the distant Yinzhou, where there are survivors of the Shang Dynasty!"

"Indeed, when the seeds were planted, Dongning Daily reported several times!"

"I don't know how the output will be." Food is the most important thing for the people, and this is what these people are most concerned about.

"It must be much higher than the ordinary grains we grow. Didn't the Dongning Daily say that when the seeds were sown, the Jian Guo made a decree that we are willing to plant new grains in the future, and we will pay two taels of silver per mu for guaranteed purchases." A commoner said after analyzing for a while.

"The price of two taels of silver per mu is guaranteed to buy, then go to the government to sign up to grow new grain!" A commoner sighed.

Around Dongning Mansion, the people who were curious about how the new crops were harvested could not wait to watch the excitement, because the "Dongning Daily" said that today is the day to harvest new crops, and the general public is kindly invited to visit.

For harvesting sweet potatoes and potatoes, Zheng Kezang has long been prepared, and when the time comes, he will publish the method of harvesting new grains in "Dongning Daily".

And in order to protect the output of new grain, Zheng Kezang urged Zhu Tiangui to send his men to guard the sweet potato and potato fields to prevent someone from secretly hiding the new grain.

This is also a last resort. Zheng Kezang doesn't want to waste his brilliant points on exchanging sweet potato seedlings. He also wants to promote it to Quanyizhou Island on a large scale, but he doesn't want to be stolen by crazy people as soon as he collects it.

It's not that Zheng Kezang doesn't believe the common people, but that he is too aware of the production of sweet potatoes and potatoes, two new grains. When the output of new grain comes out, the people will inevitably go crazy for it, which will cause unnecessary confusion.

"It turns out that sweet potatoes and potatoes grow in the ground!" A commoner said in surprise after seeing the new grain harvesting method in Dongning Daily.

Speaking of harvesting, sweet potatoes and potatoes that grow in the soil need hoes to dig, or oxen to plow.

As a yellow ox pulled a wooden plow and plowed through a sweet potato field, the first harvest of new grain officially started.

This is the beginning of a complete change in Mingzheng's grain output, and Mingzheng is likely to start a new era.

Let’s start with the sweet potato fields. It doesn’t take long. After just a while, the sweet potatoes are dug up and placed on the field ridges. In a short time, a large number of sweet potatoes can be seen in the entire field.

"Start weighing!"

Some people packed sweet potatoes in baskets, while others carried large scales and notebooks.

Baskets of sweet potatoes were constantly weighed, and soon exceeded a thousand catties.

And this is not enough for one mu of land!
Zheng Kezang looked at the sweet potatoes that had been weighed, and then at the remaining sweet potatoes in the field, and he couldn't stop laughing from ear to ear.

"Come on, bring me a hoe, I want to dig some sweet potatoes for myself."

Zheng Kezang was in a good mood, and even wanted to dig sweet potatoes himself.

"Qinshe, leave me a hoe too." Chen Yonghua couldn't help but join the army of digging sweet potatoes.

Soon someone came over here with some hoes. Zheng Kezang, Chen Yonghua, Yang Ying and others each had a hoe, and each of them found a place to dig up sweet potatoes with great interest.

Zheng Kezang waved his hoe high, and went down with one hoe.

Um?The digging was a little bit off, but it still dug up a piece of soil.

The sweet potato fields are lined with rows of soil, the soil is very loose, and it is not difficult to dig.

Soon, Zheng Kezang dug up some of the soil around the sweet potato roots, revealing the sweet potatoes one by one.

"Haha, father-in-law, Lord Yang, I dug it!"

Seeing the sweet potatoes, Zheng Kezang became very playful, and he didn't care whether it was dirty or not. He just used his hands to remove the soil, and immediately the sweet potatoes were picked out one by one.

These sweet potatoes are very big, there are several small ones, and the big sweet potatoes even weigh two or three catties, and there are several sweet potatoes under one plant like young ones.

At this time, the potatoes also began to harvest.

Over time, sweet potatoes and potatoes piled up like a hill, and at the same time, the numbers were reported.

"Come out, come out, [-] catties of ten mu of sweet potatoes, [-] catties of ten mu of potatoes!" After weighing, the grain official shouted excitedly.

"Congratulations to Jian Guo, auspiciousness descended from heaven, and there will be no more famine on Yizhou Island." Household officer Yang Ying took the lead in congratulating Zheng Kezang.

What is the concept of four thousand catties per mu?

In this era, the annual yield of wheat in the north was only about [-] catties per mu, and the yield of rice in the south would not exceed [-] catties per mu, unless, like Zheng Kezang, there was a steady stream of guano.

Now the output of sweet potatoes and potatoes is ten times that of wheat and rice. How terrible is this output.

The people around were also crazy.

"Oh my God!"

"So many, incredible!"

"If there were such sweet potatoes a few years ago, my poor child would not have starved to death." At this time, a peasant woman couldn't help but knelt down in the ground, crying all over.

She thought of her children, and remembered the experience of her children being starved to death when there was a famine during the San Francisco Rebellion a few years ago.

Zheng Kezang, Yang Ying and others all looked over one after another, and when they heard the bitter cry, they all fell silent.

The prosperity of the people is suffering, and the death of the people is suffering.

The joy of harvesting still dilutes the sad atmosphere. Faced with such a huge number, people are asking how to get sweet potatoes and potato seeds.

Zheng Kezang, who was at the scene, noticed that the situation was a bit chaotic, so he stood up and shouted: "Don't worry, the Dongning Daily in the afternoon will write about how to get sweet potato seedlings and potato seedlings. Please be safe and don't be impatient."

"Everyone wait patiently!" Chen Yonghua also spoke up.

"The good seeds are for everyone, and everything will wait for the Dongning Daily in the afternoon!" Household officer Yang Ying made the final decision.

(End of this chapter)


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