Chapter 286 Fushan Shop! A bumper harvest of food!

In Fushan City in October, the first bumper grain harvest was raised.

The main harvest this time was rice, and other miscellaneous grains did not count.

When the rice started to be harvested, Zhang Zhun came to Lao Tiantou's house. His main purpose was to get first-hand information. It is better to see the truth with your own eyes than to listen to reports. Those who are superior must understand the situation at the grassroots level in order to make corresponding decisions.

As the manager of the Agricultural Science Department, Lao Tiantou is a well-known farming expert in Fushan. His uncles and brothers had seven people in total, plus their children and grandchildren, and the entire family had a total of forty-eight people. Each of them was assigned five acres of paddy fields, a total of two hundred and forty acres of paddy fields. In addition to his own pioneering, the entire family's land had more than four hundred acres.

However, the pioneering fields were unable to sow rice because they missed the season, so they could only plant some miscellaneous grains for the time being, and the yield was not large. The winter wheat planted in September would not be harvested until June next year. Because there were a lot of fields and the harvesting task was heavy, the entire family, except for two grandsons who joined the army, were busy.

"I won't bother you." Zhang Zhun came to the field and said with a smile.

"What are you saying? You can come and see it yourself. It's Lao Tiantou's glory! Working more vigorously!" Lao Tiantou was in a very happy mood, and his words were a bit official.

"With so much land, can your whole family be busy?" Zhang Zhun asked straightforwardly without the intention of polite greetings.

A bumper grain harvest is also a key link. Only those that fall into your pocket are considered their own, and those that grow in the ground are not completely counted. Especially in such an unstable environment, harvesting the grain as soon as possible and drying and storing it is the first priority.

When it comes to October's harvest, who is the most nervous? Of course, they are the soldiers of the Hu Ben Army. In the war years, food was more important than gold and silver. The bumper grain harvest in Fushan Institute did arouse the coveting of many people. If the Hu Ben Army had just cleaned up the Tartars on Tianheng Island and were so powerful that they might have some sluts who wanted to make the food in Fushan City.

According to Zhang Zhun's order, throughout October, the Hu Ben Army was in combat readiness, especially on the front line of Xiongya Institute and Aoshan City. At the same time, the only warship of the navy also strengthened patrols in the coastal waters. The Intelligence Department and Maoyan Department were also closely monitoring the movements of all parties.

"Thank you a little harder for the whole family, and you should be able to harvest it in six days." Lao Tiantou was fully prepared for this.

"I'll wait for your good news." Zhang Zhun also said happily.

The so-called good news is how much yield per mu is.

Due to the severe drought in Shandong and the turbulent situation, the cultivation of rice has been severely affected. Rice rice, without water, there is no rice. Compared with wheat, the growth and development of rice requires several times the water resources that are consumed than wheat. Therefore, not all regions in Shandong can grow rice. In the Aoshanwei and Lingshanwei areas currently controlled by Zhang Zhun, only Fushan can grow rice, and other places are planted with winter wheat.

In order to provide the necessary water resources for rice production, Zhang Zhun invested thousands of taels of silver to build water conservancy and ensure water supply. Basically, it can be said that the water sources from Laoshan were fully utilized by Zhang Zhun. Many main canals, even built with cement, were quite high, and they were absolutely impossible to replicate in other places. The investment was so huge that if there was no good harvest, Zhang Zhun would be disappointed.

Zhang Zhun wanted to see in person how much grain can Laotiantou grow on the best fields? Then compare it with other fields, even if the most basic raw data is found. To be honest, the rice yield these days is indeed not very optimistic. According to relevant data, even in the best paddy fields in Jiangnan, the yield per mu of rice is only 500 or 600 kilograms. In Shandong, there are about 400 kilograms, which is very good.

Lao Tiantou naturally understood Zhang Zhun's thoughts and specially picked a field. This field was in the middle of a large field, which was basically the best. Zhang Zhun went around the field and found that the rice grew normally and the spacing between the seedlings was basically the same as his later understanding, and there were no strange things from the Great Leap Forward.

During the Great Leap Forward, dozens of rice in fields were crowded into a field, which was airtight and layered, thus fabricating satellite numbers with a yield of several thousand kilograms per mu, or even tens of thousands of kilograms. This bloody lesson was very profound. Zhang Zhun did not want the people of the Ming Dynasty to come up with such a wrong way in order to get rewards.

"Go on!"

After confirming that all they saw were real, Zhang Zhun waved his hand and ordered the harvest to begin.

A dozen people from Laotian's family worked together, and all the acres of land were harvested in half an hour. All the rice was piled together, with a total of nine baskets. Finally, they weighed one by one, and the total weight was 633 kilograms. After drying, it was about 443 kilograms. This number is of course not comparable to later generations, but it was very good at that time. It must be known that this is the ground in Shandong, not the rich Jiangnan.

Generally speaking, every 100 kilograms of rice can be milled with 68 kilograms of rice. 443 kilograms of dried rice can be milled with 301 kilograms of rice. In other words, the best fields can harvest about 300 kilograms of rice per mu. Forty kilograms of dried rice can be used as taxes, and 403 kilograms of dried rice can be milled with 274 kilograms of rice. These rice are completely dominated by the old family.

"It's OK." Lao Tiantou was very modest.

"That's good." Zhang Zhun was very satisfied with the result.

The best fields can make 300 kilograms of rice per mu. If only two acres of land are available, they can definitely support one person after paying taxes. In other words, the other three acres of land can also be used for other purposes. Even for a lesser field, three acres of land can support one person. The cost of farming these days is mainly labor costs, taxes, and seeds. Fertilizers are all farm fertilizers. The cost is not high.

Zhang Zhun helped the old Tiantou family to do some rough calculations. Based on the average yield per mu of 400 kilograms, 96,000 kilograms of dry rice can be harvested in 240 acres of fields. Each person's annual consumption is about 700 kilograms. Forty-eight people are more than 33,000 kilograms. In addition, the taxes that need to be paid need to be paid are deducted, and more than 50,000 kilograms of dry rice can be processed freely. If it is sold, it can be sold at one tael of silver per stone (about 188.8 kilograms).

In addition to the busy farming season, in other times, Lao Tiantou's family's labor force also often went out to help with work and earn wages. In addition, Lao Tiantou had wages in the Agricultural Science Department, and his two grandsons joined the army, and each had food and salary. Those who work odd jobs also had about six or seven cents of silver every month. In a year, the extra income of the entire family exceeded one hundred taels of silver. The income from selling rice was four hundred taels of silver. At that time, more than four hundred taels of silver could do a lot of things.

No wonder Lao Tiantou smiled so hard that he couldn't stop smiling. If the income of 400 taels of silver was put before, the entire family would not be able to earn 50 years. Maybe a few people would have to starve to death in the middle. Because there was not enough food, the military households who were starved to death had been numb in the past few decades. As long as they thought that their family had 80,000 kilograms of grain stored in it, Lao Tiantou was full of energy.

With enough food, working will naturally be more vigorous and production efficiency will be higher. At the same time, in addition to farming fields, farmers will also raise more poultry and livestock. Chicken, duck, cattle and sheep alone cannot meet the needs of the market. In daily feeding, a certain amount of grain must be added to allow domestic animals to grow as soon as possible.

Selling these poultry and livestock will bring more money and can do more things. They can purchase better production tools, learn more advanced farming techniques, and breed more poultry and livestock. This is a virtuous cycle. As long as the food is done, Zhang Zhun will not need to worry about other downstream links. I believe that smart farmers will make their own decisions. A hundred flowers bloom and a hundred schools of thought contend, which is also applicable in agricultural production.

In fact, after the land is divided into households, the harvest of each family will not be much different. After the land belongs to their own fields, no one will do their best to get up early and fiddle with their own one-third acre of land. With such good conditions, if you are still lazy, even if you starve to death in vain, no one will feel pitiful. Besides, the "Junior Land Order" also clearly stipulates that the fields cannot be abandoned. Otherwise, they will have to be taken back. Therefore, in the areas around Fushan, there is absolutely no wasteland.

The most typical example is Yang Yinghan's mother Huang. In fact, the Yang family's income is enough to buy rice and there is no need to farm. However, she doesn't want to. She just wants to go to the fields to work, and she is busy every day. On the day when Yang Ruifeng got married, Huang only took a long rest. Because of insufficient manpower, she also captured two children, Yang Gansheng and Yang Lingxue, who were not young.

The harvest of Huang's fields is also good. On average, there are definitely 350 kilograms of dry rice per mu. The Yang family also has a lot of fields, and Zhang Zhun's previous dozens of acres were also here. The total of the fields is also hundreds of acres. Therefore, the harvest of Huang's annual harvest is also quite good. There are definitely 30,000 kilograms of rice, which can fill the small granary built by Yang Kaide.

Maybe it was because I was so hungry that after the villagers harvested, all the rice was hidden except for paying taxes. Zhang Zhun originally thought that after the bumper grain harvest, many people would definitely sell grain. As a result, several days passed and there was no one selling grain. It seemed that everyone was too deep about the days when they were hungry before. With food, they would rather put it in a cellar or granary than sell it.

In October, the busiest people, besides the farmers who harvest rice, should be the workers who build granaries. The granaries of public families need to be repaired, and private granaries also need to be repaired. Because there are too many jobs, these craftsmen are too busy and their wages have also increased. In the past, it was thirty cents a day, but now it has to rise to forty cents. Some families who are eager to build granaries even offer high prices of fifty cents a day.

At the same time, the sales of cement were also unexpectedly popular. The villagers accidentally discovered that the safety and waterproof function of using cement to build a cellar are much better than ordinary materials. In addition, the sales of coal tiles, red tiles and blue tiles were also driven. Since there were not enough stones, these bricks were used to mix with cement and became the main materials for building cellars. Some smart craftsmen also invented ceramic tiles to lay the floor of the cellars, and it is said that the waterproof performance is very good.

In short, with the bumper harvest of food in Fushan, all kinds of businesses here have been driven. In addition to grain merchants coming from door to door, hoping to receive food, other vendors also sell all kinds of goods from door to door. During this period, even in the most remote corner of Fushan, there were peddlers hawking. The people who were most happy about the arrival of peddlers were naturally the children of each household.

The adults have enough food, so they naturally have a lot of generous demands on children. New clothes and toys are very popular. Snacks such as maltose, lollipops, four-color dried fruits, persimmon cakes, and sponge cakes are also very popular. For example, Yang Kaide bought a lot of novel toys in advance, preparing to give them to his grandson when his grandson was born. Yang Ruifeng has only been married for more than a month, and his wife's belly has not moved yet, and the old man can't wait.

There are many elderly people like Yang Kaide in Fushan. You can even see many elderly people holding children's toys and chewing snacks that children only eat, and having fun playing alone. There is no way. When I was young, I had no conditions and never played. Now that I am old and have the conditions, I have to hurry up and make up for it. This is worthwhile in my life.

On October 28, the harvesting of rice in Fushancheng has come to an end. More than 90% of the rice has been harvested. Some of the rice has been dried and put into the warehouse. Zhang Zhun appeared in the Qianhuguan Office in Fushancheng to listen to the overall report on agricultural harvest.

Like Zhang Zhun, in the past few days, Wang Mingyu, Liu Hang, Liu Baoyu, Hou Shanping, Yang Liren and other internal affairs have all gone to the fields to supervise the harvest work. What they have is first-hand information. There is no doubt that they are full of excitement about the bumper harvest in October.
Chapter completed!