MTL - Fight the Giants-Chapter 873 harvest
In June, Huo Xi was seven months pregnant, and the weather was so hot that he couldn't bear it, so he and Mu Yan went to Deyuan to escape the coolness.
It happened that the winter wheat was being harvested, and she was going to see the yield of winter wheat.
The sickle has been opened for several days, but not all harvests have been completed. Mu Yan supported her to stand under the shade of the tree and looked at the harvesters in the field, and called the head of the farm to ask about the situation.
Zhuangtou looked excited: "Hui Shizi, Hui madam, the little one roughly weighed, one acre can be four and a half stones! And the grains are full! There are not many flat and empty grains."
Four and a half stone? so much? Huo Xi was also a little surprised, this has caught up with the production of fertile fields in the south of the Yangtze River. "Is this a wet scale?"
"Yes. The small ones can't wait to be weighed. I'll wait for the ones from the previous few days to dry out at noon today. I'll take the small ones to weigh them again."
Mu Yan didn't understand very well, so she asked Huo Xi, "What's the difference between being famous for being wet and being famous for being dry?"
"One catty can make a difference of 20%."
The head of the village looked at Huo Xi in surprise. He didn't expect his wife to be so familiar with farming, and nodded: "Yes, the wheat can be weighed after drying, and it can be shortened by about two taels."
Mu Yan nodded, and secretly calculated. If this is the case, the yield of fertile land would be four stones. Coupled with the fact that the late rice is planted immediately after the harvest, it can be calculated that one mu of land can harvest about seven stones a year. Very good.
"Not bad. You take good care of it. When all the harvest is over, everyone will be rewarded for waiting."
"Thank you, my son, thank you, madam!" Zhuangtou was overjoyed and thanked him directly.
After Zhuangtou left, Huo Xi refused to go back to the house, so Mu Yan asked Xiangcao and others to lay out mats under the tree, and brought some cold drinks and melons and fruits. The husband and wife hid in the shade of the tree and watched the servants working The fields are harvested.
"It looks like a good harvest, which makes people happy."
Under the shade of the tree, there was a breeze blowing by, bringing a bit of coolness, Huo Xi raised the corners of his mouth and narrowed his eyes.
"That's not it. It makes people happy just looking at it. Ma'am, I didn't expect that the output of Yunnan is not much different from that of our Zhuangzi in the south of the Yangtze River."
Vanilla peeled nuts for Huo Xi to eat, and said while looking at the busy crowd in the field. Keeping her hand, Madam said eat more nuts, the child will be smarter in the future, she wished Madam would eat more, so as to give birth to a smart and sensible young master.
Huo Xi took the nuts and put them in his mouth, "Dian has plenty of water and good weather, so it's normal for the fields to have high yields."
Because it is a border area, many places where the Yi people live are still slash-and-burn farming, grazing, hunting and primitive collection, no more willing to study in the fields than the people in the south of the Yangtze River.
Mu Yan looked at her quietly, only to feel that the world is vast and the years are peaceful. Seeing her drinking cold drink after a while, he grabbed her hand and said, "Drink less."
"Hot." Huo Xi refused.
It's too hot and my stomach is big. If I don't drink something cold, I always feel chest tightness and dryness. Seeing her uncomfortable, Mu Yan felt distressed and wanted to cling to her, but was also afraid that she would feel even worse after a bad stomach.
Seeing that the prince couldn't stop her, Nanny Ma advised softly: "Madam, drink less, or the baby in your stomach will feel uncomfortable."
Huo Xi paused, looked down at his stomach, sighed, and handed the cold drink to Vanilla, "Okay, I won't drink it."
Xiangcao couldn't help laughing when she saw Mama Mama persuaded Madam, "It has to be Ma Mama. If Ma Mama misses you, Madam has no taboos."
Mu Yan couldn't see her suffering, so she fanned her with a fan, and ordered Xiang Cao, "Let the kitchen make some cold dishes for the lady at night, don't overcook the oil and don't make such a big pot."
"Yes, the servant has recorded it."
A group of people enjoyed the cool in Zhuangzi, and it was much quieter. In a few days, the wheat in the field was harvested. After a calculation, the average yield per mu is as much as four stones! Half of the garden is occupied by Nakata and Shimoda. I did not expect the yield per mu to be so high.
"Thank you for your hard work. It is the Zhuangtou who took everyone's careful care to achieve such a high output. In addition to rewarding silver, my son and I will give each of us a piece of cloth and twenty catties of meat as encouragement."
"Thank you, son, thank you, madam!" All the servants were overjoyed.
"Everyone has to work hard for a few more days to level the ground and then plant the rice seedlings."
The servants of the village answered in unison. "No hard work! We will definitely do a good job and take good care of the crops in the field."
Mrs. Shizi said that two seasons of grain will be planted. Everyone is dubious, for fear that the ground will lose nutrients and cause a decrease in grain production. I have never planted winter wheat, and I don't know if the wheat seedlings can survive after a winter.
I didn’t expect not only to be alive, but also to grow better. The ears of wheat are heavy, and the yield per mu has reached four stones! Harvest another crop of late rice, even if the yield per mu is poor, as long as they take care of it well, will there be no two stones?
One mu of land can have six stones of grain, and still be hungry?
Everyone was full of enthusiasm. After harvesting the wheat, they didn’t even bother to rest. They buried their heads in the ground again, flattening the ground, fertilizing, watering, and planting rice seedlings... In just a few days, the ground was green and lush, with the sound of the breeze. The waves of green waves are like the water of Dianchi Lake gently lapping the shore.
The head of the farm and a group of servants like to stand by the stalks and look at the crops in the field sooner or later, and the more they look at them, the happier they feel.
Mu Yan was also happy, and discussed with Huo Xi to promote the cultivation of double-season grain in all the guards.
"This is very important, you have to be cautious. Well done, the 300,000 soldiers in Yunnan will not be short of food. It is your credit, and your name will be left in history. But once the production cuts make the soldiers not full, and the morale of the army is unstable, you will have trouble. He is the sinner of all ages."
At that time, it may also affect his status and smooth attack on the noble.
"I know." Mu Yan said with a serious expression, "now that the imperial court is in arrears with the frontier army's rations every year, playing every month, no matter how low the posture is, the people in the military department and the household department are pushing each other and crying for poverty. I can't wait for the imperial court to show favor .”
The soldiers didn’t have enough to eat, and they didn’t have enough time to lead the army. As time passed, the accumulated resentment became more and more serious, and no one could tell what the consequences would be. At that time, it will only be a change of leader, and the Mu family will be reprimanded and dismissed, so what influence will others have?
He still has to figure it out on his own.
"Now the guards in various places have increased the amount of hoarded fields, and the conflicts with the chieftains and the local government are also increasing." If the current amount of hoarded fields can increase production, these conflicts can be avoided.
Huo Xi nodded, she understood what he said. When the imperial court defaulted on food, the frontier army could only find a way to be self-sufficient.
Hundreds of thousands of troops and their dependents need to eat and drink, as well as horses to eat and drink, as well as all kinds of military equipment, soldiers' clothes, quilts, etc., and weapons have to be depreciated and replaced every year, all of which cost money.
The current hoarding and production of the guards in various states and counties cannot meet the needs, so they can only continue to hoard the land and increase the amount of land reclamation. However, the increase in the number of land hoarded by the army will inevitably occupy land resources in various places, which will cause dissatisfaction among local governments and the chieftains of various prefectures and counties.
Once the contradictions intensify, they will fight each other.
Huo Xi thought for a while, and suggested: "You can make preparations first, and let the health offices in various places make some preparations first. But the specifics, we still have to wait until autumn, when the late rice is harvested to see the production situation."
