Chapter 434: Corn and Potatoes

Mrs. Wang, who approached the hall, picked up the purse again, even a woman of her age couldn't put it down.

She thought of Zhu Cuixiang with red cheeks, and shook her head secretly, if it might be a good thing to be dismissed, that child is too weak and timid, if she really marries, she is bound to take her twin siblings, then her life will definitely not be easy.

And I heard that because of the treatment of the shopkeeper of the Zhu family, the family is almost destitute, and it seems that when Changsheng comes back in the evening, he must talk about it and sell the purse for a good price.

Such a good girl who is ingenious and has to support a pair of younger siblings is worth pulling.

Just like the hand that the young lady Gu Xinyu stretched out to their mother and son

After a spring breeze and a spring rain, the spring ploughing in the north is basically coming to an end.

This year, Gu Xinyu needs to plant a hundred times more land than last year, which makes her so busy that she can't even go home.

Except for Zhou Muhan's triumphant return, after the two met once.

The rest of the time, the two men were busy like spinning tops on the ice.

At this time, Du Saburo was busy with Master Li in various cities and counties, and a large number of new farm tools, Quyuan plows, had been distributed to villages in advance, so that the villagers could build according to this.

Rice seeds were provided by the imperial court, but they were not free, after all, the treasury was now empty, and the amount of seeds needed was also large.

In this way, about 3 million of the 9 million acres of fields in the north have been planted with rice, and another million acres of fields have been established as rice fields and fish farming.

Although this seed is different from the one Gu Xinyu soaked with Linglu last year, if the field management in the later stage keeps up, there will definitely be a bumper harvest in the autumn.

In this way, rice, a rare crop, is basically popular.

Moreover, under the management of Sinong Yamen, according to Gu Xinyu's set of methods, the average yield per mu can reach 280 catties, which is a conservative figure calculated by Gu Xinyu.

Because it was the first year of planting, even if someone taught it, the experience was still different from other crops, and there were not enough people to pay attention to each acre of land.

However, even so, more than 800 million catties of grain will be harvested in the fall.

Importantly, rice is no longer a food that many poor people in the north will not be able to eat for a lifetime.

Not to mention how much additional income these farmers will bring to raising fish in the rice fields.

Gu Xinyu was standing in the potato test field of Taoyuan Villa at this time, and on the third day of potato planting, it rained a spring rain that was not small.

Because the number of potatoes is not much, it is worth planting an acre of land.

This acre of land is now one of Gu Xinyu's big treasures, and the land she chose is the most suitable for growing potatoes.

Ditching and furrowing, applying foot fertilizer, when planting, Gu Xinyu tracked the whole process, no way, this hundred catties of potato seeds is too precious.

After the potatoes are cut into chunks, they are germinated and have sprouts on them.

Then these sprouts were planted with their eyes facing up, and Gu Xinyu used water diluted with Linglu to sprout these potato seeds for the sake of safety.

In this way, the survival rate and high yield are guaranteed to the greatest extent.

If there is no accident, I believe that in autumn, this acre of potatoes will be harvested nearly 5,000 catties.

It's not that Gu Xinyu is exaggerating, even if there is no cheating artifact of Linglu, if the soil is good and the field management is good, the yield of 3,000 catties per mu is not unattainable.

What's more, Gu Xinyu's potatoes are added.

Looking down, the ground is calm now, but it will soon arch out the green seedlings of hope.

"Xiaotian, you go and bring my horse." Gu Xinyu tilted her head and instructed Xiao Tian that this potato test field was not far from the villa, less than three hundred meters, but she still had to go and see the corn.

It's not far from here, but there is no bluestone road, and it's just rained and a little muddy.

Xiao Tian moved quickly and led Gu Xinyu's little white horse, Gu Xinyu turned over and walked towards the cornfield to the west.

Looking up, the sky was blue and clear, with wisps of white clouds drifting, and the autumn birds also flew back as promised, and their favorite thing to do was to fly around with Gu Xinyu.

The call of its autumn bird is very pleasant to the ear, and when you listen closely, it seems to have some kind of indescribable rhythm.

As a result, Gu Xinyu felt as if he had brought an MP3 with him.

The horses' hooves clattered on a section of bluestone road, and after this section, it was a sandy road that could pass through a carriage.

Gu Xinyu was secretly thinking in his heart while greeting the hired workers on the side of the road.

Perhaps because it is a parallel time and space, there is still a big difference between this place and the trajectory that should have been in history.

However, Gu Xinyu's history is not very good, she is a little embarrassed, she even calculates which dynasty does not appear in another time and space.

Probably the Song Dynasty?

Gu Xinyu quickly put aside this question, no matter which dynasty he is, what she is thinking about now is whether she should let her caravan go abroad.

After all, crops like potatoes, sweet potatoes, tomatoes and other crops are imported from abroad.

Soon, before Gu Xinyu could think of one, two, or three, the cornfield arrived.

Now this place is still treated according to the specifications of the experimental field, and it is another treasure of Gu Xinyu.

Gu Xinyu originally promised to give Zhou Muhan 800 catties, but she didn't say anything and regretted it.

Only 200 catties were given to the barracks, and 800 catties were left for himself.

Because Gu Xinyu's own land is more than ten times more, there is also a consideration that Gu Xinyu feels that the corn that was planted this year still needs to be used as seeds, so it is better to put it in one place and manage it in a unified manner.

The 200 catties given to the military camp can be planted about 80 acres, and Gu Xinyu also wants to see how many catties of grain will be harvested in the autumn.

After all, it's not you who manages it, there's always a nuance.

Moreover, since it was reserved for seeds, Gu Xinyu still added a little spiritual dew when it germinated.

In this way, Gu Xinyu's corn planting area this year is 300 mu, if there is no accident, according to last year's output, 330,000 catties of corn can be harvested this autumn!

Gu Xinyu was excited when he thought about it, 330,000 catties, not only is it enough to make seeds, but it can also be used as a staple food.

Of course, the seeds mentioned by Gu Xinyu do not include all the land of the Zhou Dynasty.

This is a long-term project, and it is not something that Gu Xinyu can complete alone.

Therefore, she will provide half of the seeds to the imperial court, as for planting and promotion, let the officials of the imperial court worry about it, and she Gu Xinyu doesn't have that much energy to worry about the affairs of the whole country

Thinking of this, she stuck out her tongue, well, she felt like she had a bit of a big breath.

Except for these, the rest is at your disposal.

However, even so, I believe that in three years, the people of this Zhou Dynasty will definitely live a life of food and clothing.

What's more, I have more and more land now.

Correspondingly, there will be more and more seeds.

She wants to make this north a seed base, but there is a lot of luck to do, so let's let those poor people eat first. (To be continued.) )