Another bumper year.

Thanks to a group of cattle and horses traded from the nomadic tribe last year and a large number of servants, the dragon tribe was able to cultivate more land during farming this spring, and the grain harvested last year alone was almost half of the dragon tribe's annual food needs, not to mention the grain harvested this year. (Both oxen and horses can be used to pull plows)

As the Dragons continued to acquire large numbers of cattle and horses from the nomadic tribes, it would not be long before the Dragons were able to meet their food needs with their own crops and domesticated animals.

The more food the better, and if you can't finish it, you can store it, and tall granaries have been built in each city of the dragon tribe to place food, and once there is any natural or man-made disaster in the future, you can use the reserve food.

The increase in cultivated land is only one reason for the increase in grain output, and the other reason is the increase in grain output per acre, and this is mainly due to the Ministry of Agriculture.

At present, the main crops cultivated by the dragon tribe are millet, soybeans, hemp and wheat.

The average yield per mu of millet has reached about 123 catties, and the average yield per mu of the new varieties cultivated and selected by the Ministry of Agriculture has exceeded 140 catties.

However, it will take about two years to change the millet planted to new varieties.

Although the yield per mu of the new varieties of millet has increased a lot, this is far from the limit of millet, there are no modern conditions, just the yield of millet per mu in the Warring States period can reach 216 catties, and in the Han Dynasty it reached 281 catties, Su Yan did not want to have the level of the Han Dynasty, at least to break through 200 catties.

With 200 catties of millet per mu of land, the rice yield is between 70 and 75 percent, and a family of five can meet the food needs of a year by cultivating about 20 acres of land.

Millet is the crop with the highest yield per mu, followed by soybeans, the average yield per mu of soybeans has reached about 112 catties, the average yield per mu of the new varieties cultivated and selected by the Ministry of Agriculture is just over 130 catties, and the upper limit of soybeans is only a little worse than millet, and there is a great improvement.

There are two kinds of hemp fiber and hemp seeds, the average yield of hemp seeds per mu has reached eighty-five catties, considering that the dragon tribe needs mainly hemp fiber is not hemp seeds, so the yield of hemp seeds per mu of the new variety of hemp of the Ministry of Agriculture has dropped to less than seventy-five catties, and the yield of hemp fiber has increased by more than one percent.

Wheat appeared in the dragon tribe last year, but it is Su Yan's most important crop, and the planting area will continue to expand, if the yield is high enough, the planting area may expand to more than millet.

Last year, wheat was planted a little late, and the average yield per mu was only 92 catties, but this year's normal planting, the average yield per mu has reached 105 catties, which is a very good result, and the Ministry of Agriculture will also take out manpower to cultivate and select high-yield varieties from wheat.

The crops grown by the dragon tribe are not only millet, soybeans, hemp, and wheat, but also cabbage, radish, green onions, ginger, fennel, and various fruit trees.

It is worth mentioning the fruit trees planted, now the fruit trees will not be planted around the city, that will affect the protection of the city wall to the city, once the enemy touches it, there are fruit trees to cover it, the tribe is likely not to be able to find the enemy.

The fruit trees planted in each city are placed in the area 100 zhang away from the city, densely forming one orchard after another, and the planting is no longer limited to the fruit trees whose fruits are resistant to storage, apricot trees, plum trees, peach trees, etc. are planted, and you can enjoy the taste of various fruits in summer, and only a few fruits such as apples that are resistant to storage will be picked and placed well, and then eaten in winter.

The dragon tribesmen were busy harvesting crops together, and the harvest of grain made the tribesmen happy to close their mouths.

Older clansmen or those who joined the Dragon Tribe later all recalled the difficult life they had had, they never thought they could really live such a happy life as they do now, and now everything made them feel as if they were in a dream, waking up from the dream, but the dream did not dissipate.

The entire Dragon Tribe fell into the busy autumn harvest, but Su Yan did not forget that the Yan tribe was about to join the Dragon Tribe, and during the busy autumn harvest, the Dragon Tribe was also preparing for the Yan tribe to move, just waiting for the autumn harvest to end, everything would be carried out immediately.

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The busy autumn harvest is over, but the dragon tribe has become even busier, except for the three A-type ships that were taken out for emergency information, the remaining fifteen A-type ships were placed in five batches in the five cities of Chicheng, Yuancheng, Zhucheng, Yangcheng, and Bincheng, which were used to transport the clansmen who needed to move these five cities to Zhoucheng.

Chicheng, Yuancheng, Zhucheng these three groups of A-type ships can only transport a group of tribesmen to Zhoucheng, from Zhoucheng is relatively close to Chicheng and Bincheng to transport two groups of tribesmen over, and finally fifteen A-type ships converged on the bank of the Yellow River opposite Zhoucheng, and the huge fleet is about to set off for the Yan tribe to move the Yan tribe back to Zhoucheng.

"Let's go!" Su Yan gave an order, the head boat set sail, watching the movements of the head boat, the ships behind followed the movements, and the huge fleet sailed west along the Yellow River.

The Yan tribe joined the Dragon Tribe, which is a very important event for the Dragon Tribe, not to mention that Su Yan married coriander, and the leader of Yan is equivalent to Su Yan's father-in-law, as the king of the Dragon Tribe, Su Yan decided to personally lead the fleet to the Yan Tribe.

It takes about ten days to travel from Zhoucheng to the Yan tribe, Su Yan, Lu Yuan, and Hu Biao stood on the deck and chatted for a while before returning to the cabin, with no one else around, Coriander leaned directly on Su Yan and chatted with Su Yan in his unskilled dragon language.

On the other side, the Yan tribe ended the autumn harvest early, preparing to move the entire Yan tribe to the dragon tribe's Zhoucheng, the previous time the first trade fleet came to the Yan tribe, Lu Yuan personally told the Yan leader and Yan Wu about the Yan tribe's moving plan formulated by Su Yan, and now the Yan tribe is preparing according to the plan formulated by Su Yan.

Su Yan's plan is very simple, that is, let the Yan tribe pack up the things to take away after the autumn harvest, and when the fleet comes, board the ship directly, the only thing that needs to be paid attention to is what the Yan tribe can and can't carry.

The pottery, wood, stoneware, etc. produced by the Yan tribe do not need to be carried, the dragon tribe has better, the things that can be carried are mainly animal skins, ornaments and some souvenirs, the dragon tribe trades and gives weapons and equipment to the Yan tribe to carry, if the fleet still has space, you can take away a batch of wheat harvested by the Yan tribe.

A huge fleet of fifteen A-type boats, which can carry up to 1,500 adults at a time, is not a problem to take away all the people of the Yan tribe at one time, but it is impossible to take away all the belongings of the Yan tribe.