Chapter 385: Manpower Pulling the Plow

This news made those people all cheer.

Because these people found that their families could not eat enough food in a day of labor in exchange for their work.

In that case, there is no need to exchange so much food.

Now, many people receive food and wages in rotation.

The people of Yizhou and nearby counties are no longer worried about food shortages.

And now, they have one more choice.

That is to directly change the fish.

Two catties of rice for one catty of salted fish, this price can be said to be very cheap.

For those who can't afford to eat meat, changing to some cheap salted fish can improve their family's life, so why not?

Therefore, as soon as the salted fish was delivered, there were hundreds of people who couldn't wait to exchange it.

As a result, although there were many salted fish transported, it was not enough for the people to grab for a while.

Fortunately, there is a steady stream of salted fish delivered every day.

And the people who have exchanged it once are not allowed to exchange for the second round until the first round of exchange is completed.

In this way, everyone can be guaranteed to have fish to eat.

And just one Lugu Lake can produce at least one million catties of fish.

Of course, this is also because in the past, the fishermen's fishing capacity was low, which led to the abundant storage of fish resources in Lugu Lake.

If you fight again next year, you won't be able to catch so many fish.

After fishing the fish in Lugu Lake, there are still several large lakes in Jiannan Road.

Small and medium-sized lakes are thousands of small and medium-sized lakes.

Because there are so many fish every day, they are constantly being delivered.

As a direct result, the people of the entire Jiannan Province are not worried about food.

Even those people in those counties who did not work in Yizhou believe that Yizhou's grain and fish caught alone will be enough to solve this year's famine.

Not only those ordinary people, but even the five surnames and Qiwang families, as well as the civil and military officials in the court, all hold this view.

Only Li Yu knew that in fact, the fish in Jiannan Dao was definitely not enough to change the food shortage this time.

Unless, being able to go out to sea to fish.

But at the moment they simply don't have the kind of big ships that go to sea.

And Li Su's current loser value is simply not enough to buy any big ships.

But this is not a problem, as long as the people of the five surnames and seven families believe that with so many fish, they can solve this year's famine, it will be enough.

Because, in the hands of the five surnamed Qiwang families, a large amount of grain is hidden.

As long as this grain is released, it will be more than enough to solve the problem of famine.

And because the people are sure that there will be no shortage of food in their hearts, as long as there is still a mouthful of food at home, no one in the entire Jiannan Province will spend money to buy food.

It seems that the entire Jiannan Dao does not need the relief of the imperial court at all.

Without this gap, it directly makes the people in other parts of Datang feel at ease.

And the large amount of grain hoarded in the hands of the five surnames and seven wangs is now unsalable.

Once they wait until next year, if they can't sell all this grain, they will inevitably have to smash it in their hands.

Therefore, people from families such as the five surnames and Qiwang had to sell grain at a reduced price.

And the mentality of the people has always been to buy up rather than down.

The more the price is reduced, the more no one buys it.

The angry people of the five surnamed Qiwang and other families are itching at all.

But in order not to let the grain fall into their own hands, they also had to continue to reduce the price.

It was not until the grain price was reduced to parity, or even slightly lower than the parity, that grain sales returned to normal.

And when the price of grain really dropped, Li Su really put his mind at ease.

Because only Li Su knows that fishing is actually just a gimmick.

Indeed, it can improve the lives of the people and fill some gaps in food shortage.

However, it is not enough.

Fortunately, the five surnames and Qiwang and other families couldn't stand it, so they lowered the price of grain in advance.

In this way, there will be enough food to survive this food crisis.

It is not clear how much of the food shortage can be solved by fishing.

As long as we wait until May or June next year, we will not be afraid of food shortages.

Because, at this time, Li Su had already organized those people and began to plant winter wheat.

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Just after the autumn harvest, a heavy rain finally fell.

Around the time the frost falls, winter wheat can be planted.

However, because of this rain, it is difficult to cultivate all these fields.

Fortunately, Li Su had already prepared.

A batch of curved ploughs has been built in advance, and there is also a batch of manpower ploughs.

At the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, the straight plough was still used.

Compared with the curved plow, the straight plough is too clumsy and can only be pulled by an ox.

If the ground is too wet, it will take two cows.

And the curved plow can even be pulled by manpower.

As for the man-pulled plow, it is the plow used in modern rural areas.

Generally, it is not too hard ground, one person controls the direction in the back, and one person in front can pull it.

It's easy and easy to plow with a small couple of bites.

And the efficiency is at least four or five times faster than plowing.

With this batch of ploughs, the defect of insufficient ploughing cattle was alleviated.

As a result, the land, which used to take about a month to prepare, is now ploughed in only seven or eight days.

And then it's time to sow winter wheat.

In Datang, whether it is wheat or rice, it is one season a year, and there is no such thing as two crops a year, or winter wheat.

Therefore, when the farmers heard that winter wheat was to be planted, they discouraged it.

It is claimed that the current solar term is not right, and if you sow winter wheat, you will not be able to plant it at all.

In fact, the cultivation of winter wheat is not only due to technology and reasons that they have never tried.

There are also reasons to grow grain.

And this time, Li Yu selected varieties that are dwarf and cold-tolerant.

At present, these lands are the land of the government.

Those farmers were just hired to do so.

Li Su ordered them to plant only the crops, and although the people felt that this was a waste of growing grain, they still sowed the winter wheat according to the instructions of the governor.

When the winter wheat grows, these people feel sorry.

This wheat has just grown and is not very tall, and it is almost winter.

In winter, the wheat has to freeze to death.

What a shame for these wheat seeds!

At this time, sweet potatoes, corn and peanuts, the three new crops in Yizhou, have been reported to the imperial court.

When Li Shimin and the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty heard that the yield of sweet potatoes per mu could reach more than 2,200 catties per mu, they did not believe it.

This is just too much of an exaggeration.

I heard that this sweet potato is still delicious, and the yield per mu is so high.

Why had they never found such a good crop before?

And this matter, once it is true, then it is related to the rise and fall of the entire Tang Dynasty!

Once it is true, then there will be no famine in the entire Datang!