Chapter 117: Harvest
When it was late, Hu Yi'er came back from outside and carried back a basket of corn for the forest to see.
Hu Yier has been concentrating on farming for half a year, and has made rapid progress in these aspects. Now Lin Miaoer is in charge of the logistics of the entire construction site, and Lin Ji is so busy that she basically takes over the entire agricultural cultivation and helps Lin Ji a lot.
Aside from the harvest and storage that she had not touched, she was now no less experienced in farming than the forest trails.
Lin Jidao said hard, after seeing these corns, he decided to start the autumn harvest in two days.
Hu Yi'er's face was tanned a lot, and she smiled brightly, she had been waiting for this day for a long time.
When the autumn harvest was carried out, the forest trails put the entire construction site, except for a few people who built the city and scouted it, everyone else was thrown in.
For several days, everyone began the autumn harvest from behind the defensive line, and then carried the corn cobs back to the city. Finally, harvest the corn, sweet potatoes and other things in the city. The whole scene was more lively and joyful than hunting.
A few days later, the grain entered the warehouse, and Lin Ji counted the total output, and he couldn't help but be a little excited.
In the spring, about 75,000 acres of corn were planted. However, some of the later cities were built and eradicated, and the population has increased recently, and some of them have been eaten in advance, and the final autumn harvest of corn is about 60,000 acres. The total output is about 10 million catties.
This form of slash-and-burn cultivation does not turn the soil, and it also depends on the weather to eat in the later stage, and there is no watering and fertilization, so it is normal that the yield cannot be compared with deep ploughing. However, because the land is already fertile except for several grasses during the planting process, the yield is still a little higher than expected.
In addition to corn, sweet potato yields here are not low. Only a few hundred acres of sweet potatoes were planted here, and millions of catties of sweet potatoes were harvested.
The autumn harvest here has just ended, and Ji Lin's autumn harvest output has also been reported.
Ji Lin won nearly 5,000 acres of corn this year and harvested nearly 3 million catties. More than 1,000 acres of sweet potatoes have been harvested for 2 million catties. In addition, the 500 acres of spring wheat planted are similar to that of corn per mu, with a total of nearly 300,000 catties. Beet...... It is a biennial crop that has not yet produced. Kudzu yam and other things are too fragmentary to be counted.
In this way, the available grain reserves in Lin Ji's hands reached 16 million catties. Although you still have to pay 200,000 catties of food here, this figure is not even a fraction here, and Lin Ji directly ignored it.
Except for a few people, many people don't know what it represents. Hu Aman and the others were already a little dizzy when they looked at the granary isolated by the high wall. Listening to Lin Ji say these numbers again, it almost became like a dog looking at the stars.
Lin Ji had no choice but to explain to them: "If we use a big basket and fill it, it will be about 100 catties." A person can eat about five baskets of food in a year. 16 million catties can feed 32,000 people for a year. That is, enough for all the tigers to eat for a year. ”
If you combine fishing and hunting and the current spring and autumn hunting of migratory beasts, with the current scale of more than 10,000 people in the lake, it is no problem to eat these grains for four or five years.
When Hu Aman and Eminem heard this, they almost jumped up. There is so much food in such a simple planting, so what are you afraid of? Next year, they will all give me farmland, all of them will be given to me to absorb the population around, and women will work hard to have children, and in a few years, they will drown the whole deer and people!
Hu Yi'er also smiled proudly. She worked hard for half a year, and finally it was not in vain, and she could almost feed the entire tiger man. This sense of accomplishment is no less than when she caught up with the ghost eagle.
Thinking like this, Hu Yi'er called the ghost eagle down from the sky and rubbed it excitedly.
After the bumper harvest, Lin Ji was arrogant again, and made a bunch of construction plans for next year, and thought of something else.
"Why don't we discuss and pay you a salary?" At the leader's meeting, Lin Ji said.
Now that there is a surplus of materials, it is possible to carry out the social division of labor. After the social division of labor, everyone must have wealth in their hands to be able to exchange goods. Paying everyone is the best way to move forward with this.
The leaders thought it was all kinds of beer, drinks, clocks and sunglasses, and shouted one by one: "Okay, good." This time I want two ** wines. ”
"I want a helmet. It's snowing almost, and I wore it for a winter last year, so it's warm. ”
"I want a block table. Or you keep saying I'm slow. ”
The conference room burst into a clamour.
"What do you think? These are only available during the Chinese New Year. Look at your performance. I'm talking about giving you food. Lin Ji said.
"What do we do with the food?" The leaders are gone. Everyone can eat in the canteen every day, and they are so busy that they don't have time to cook themselves, so what do you want food for?
Lin Ji said: "You can take back the food for your children and women." It is used to exchange things with those who can't eat big pot rice. You can also make wine. What do you say you are doing with food? ”
Hearing that grain can be used to make wine, these people finally did not calm down, nodded in agreement, and asked for a little more. It's best to drink directly. Because they won't brew.
In the end, I didn't want to send the forest traces. Now there are too many people eating big pots of rice, and there are too few other materials, even if they distribute food, they can't drive anything for a while.
It's too much to do, so let's plan it carefully. Saving these people from getting the food back and feeding it to the mice.
And now is not the time to think about this, the next step is to hunt for migratory herds. This matter is handled well, and it is also of great significance.
I won't be hunting this year, and I have enough food, but I still don't want to let go of those beasts.
The captive mammoths that Lin Xi had thought about in the spring will also try it out at this time.
After the autumn harvest was completed, the forest trails strengthened the defensive line. At the same time, a lot of corn stalks were cut down and transported to the avenue where the hunting passage was specially reserved for the beasts to walk.
The project was huge, and no less than 3,000 people were employed. And no one seems to understand what Lin Ji is doing.
These days, bronze curved ploughs have also been developed. Lin Ji also led people to experiment in the fields in the city. This ploughshare was a little narrower than the iron ploughshares of later generations, because bronze was always brittler than steel, and it was too wide to break.
But a little narrower is nothing, it is much better than a hoe and shovel. As long as a cow pulls it, it can turn over an acre of land in an hour or two, which is much faster than a hoe and shovel.
Slash-and-burn farming does not make use of deeper soil forces. Later, inspired by the fangs of wild boars, people invented the ploughing of the earth. Ji Lin has a hoe and shovel here, so naturally he skips this kind of thing directly. Now that the plough comes out, combined with the good grain seeds, Lin Ji feels that the population with agricultural inputs can still produce more output if it is maintained at this scale.
Thinking of this, Lin Ji asked the eagle to try again to see if there was any problem with the quality. If you don't have one, just hurry up and cast some out and send them to Ji Lin, Tiger Lynn and Killer Whale and other places.
When Lin Ji was testing the plowshare, someone reported that Xu Yu had come and was outside the city.