Su Tiancheng's statement was carefully considered.

The time for the purchase of winter wheat is in April of the next year, when the time comes, just sowing corn and sweet potato, corn seeds, Pingyang Fucheng has, can be purchased directly, but the method of sowing must be changed, they can hand in hand with the tenants of the Su family, I believe that they will be able to get a bumper harvest, sweet potato seeds, must be purchased in Fujian, from Shanxi to Fujian, the distance is far away, according to today's traffic conditions, back and forth is at least two months, the purchase of sweet potato seeds, at least more than 100,000 catties, counting the time delayed in transportation, It may be more than three months old.

Sweet potato is cut into pieces and sprouted, a pound of seed potatoes, can grow about 70 seedlings, an acre can plant 3,000 seedlings, so calculated, an acre needs at least 40 catties of sweet potatoes, 100,000 catties of sweet potatoes, can supply about 3,000 acres of fields.

The yield per mu of sweet potato is very high, at least it can reach more than 2,000 catties, and the yield of these 3,000 mu of sweet potatoes can reach 6 million catties, that is, more than 30,000 stones.

The remaining 4,500 acres of land can be sown corn, the yield of corn is poor, according to today's level, each mu can reach more than 500 catties, it is very good, it is also a conservative calculation, 4,500 acres of corn, the yield can reach more than two million catties, that is, more than 10,000 stones of corn.

If this plan can be realized, in less than a year, the tenants of the Su family will be able to turn over, and the grain stock of the Su Mansion can be greatly increased, and there will be no problem in coping with the great famine in a few years.

Of course, there is a premise here, the preliminary work needs to cost money.

Simply calculate the account, the three hundred and fifty tenants of the Su family, to maintain until May next year, need at least 1,200 stone of wheat noodles, this expenditure is 360 taels of silver, winter wheat seeds, for the time being, can not be counted as money, 100,000 catties of seed potatoes, Su Tiancheng does not know the specific price of Lu Dao, sweet potatoes have not been promoted in Shanxi, and the planting time in Fujian is not long, I believe that the price will not be very high, converted, that is, more than 500 stones, according to the price of rice per stone of four dollars of silver, it needs 200 taels of silver, The transportation cost on the road is at least more than fifty taels of silver, a total of two hundred and fifty taels of silver, and corn, one acre of land needs 5 catties of seeds, and it takes 22,500 catties of seeds, which is equivalent to about 110 stones, and the estimated price is about the same as that of wheat flour, which requires thirty-three taels of silver, and all of them add up, and the silver required is six hundred and fifty taels.

This does not include the silver required to dig ditches and wells for water.

Su Tiancheng now has a total of about eight hundred taels of silver, which is enough on the surface, but there is one biggest problem here, that is, if he falls out with the eldest wife, he has to think of finding a way out on his own, that is to say, when there is no thirty taels of silver per month, he will have to live.

To do anything, you must have the worst plan, this is the reason why Su Tiancheng was able to succeed in his previous life, and he traveled to the Ming Dynasty, and he still had to maintain such advantages.

But if these things are not done, it will definitely not work, in the next few years, food will become the biggest problem, especially the great famine in Shanxi in the ninth year of Chongzhen recorded in history, I don't know how many people starved to death in Ludao, and the peasants even ate human flesh, and now we must take precautions.

After going to the tenants' homes to see them, Su Tiancheng had the most direct feeling that if these tenants continued to develop according to the current situation, they would be potential peasant rebels, and they were about to starve to death, what could they do if they didn't rebel.

Back in the house, Su Pingyang was very anxious, how many taels of silver the young master had, he was clear, there were only two hundred and forty-five taels of silver on the books, and by May next year, seven months would be two hundred and ten taels of silver, a total of about four hundred and fifty taels of silver, including living expenses.

"Young master, there are so many expenses you said, and there are not so many silver expenses in the house."

Su Tiancheng took out the bag, the fifty taels of gold in it were obtained by selling the war horse last time, and it was already at this time, and he had to take it out.

"Uncle, there are fifty taels of gold in here, you take it first, and calculate the expenses together."

Su Pingyang trembled and took the bag, fifty taels of gold, for him, it is a huge amount of money, not to mention the exchange price of gold, in Pingyang Fucheng, it is also a little strange, gold can rarely be seen on the market, there is not much silver, most of them are copper coins, one tael of gold, can be exchanged for eleven taels to twelve taels of silver.

"Uncle, there are a few things that come to mind, but I need to entrust a trustworthy person to handle them, the first thing is to buy 110 stone corn seeds, and keep these seeds well, and the second thing, to buy 500 stone seed potatoes, I need to send someone to Fuzhou in Fujian Province to buy them, how to keep them fresh, the farmers there must be clear, these two things need to spend more than three hundred taels of silver, these two things must be done, in addition, when distributing wheat noodles, tell all the tenants to store a large amount of straw and straw, It must be stored. ”

Su Pingyang gasped again, originally thought that with these fifty taels of gold, there was nothing to worry about, but the young master still had so many things to do, all of which needed silver, especially to go to Fuzhou, Fujian to buy sweet potato seeds, not to mention how much to buy, just transportation, it would be terrible.

"Young master, it's a long way to go to Fuzhou, Fujian, so I'll handle this matter directly."

"No, my uncle has to take care of the affairs of the house, as well as many things of the tenants, and he must not leave the Pingyang Mansion City, my consideration is whether to let Su Jun handle this matter."

"Let Su Jun go, is the young master thinking about it, otherwise, I'll tell Ertong and tell him to go to Fujian."

"Ertong is too young, not to go far away, not to mention the purchase of seed potatoes such a big thing, my consideration, now is about to set off, it is best to transport back the seed potatoes during the Spring Festival, along the road is relatively safe, these seed potatoes, must be transported back, there must be no mistakes."

Su Jun was very excited.

I didn't expect the young master to arrange such a big thing for him, go to Fuzhou, Fujian, to purchase sweet potato seeds, and he had to bring twenty-five taels of gold, which is a huge amount of money, the young master trusted himself so much, Su Jun instantly had a sacred feeling, this little injury on his body is nothing, and it is estimated that when he can't get to Fujian, it will be almost fine.

Looking at Su Jun, Su Tiancheng was still a little worried, not that Su Jun couldn't do things well, it wasn't very peaceful outside, Su Jun was just the son of the Su family, and he hadn't seen too much of the world, if he was in trouble on the road, I don't know if he could handle it.

"Su Jun, this time I went to Fuzhou, Fujian Province to buy sweet potato seeds, the stakes are very high, and we must do our best to do it, but it is not very peaceful outside, if your life is threatened, don't take care of the seeds, it would be good if people could come back."

"Young master, the little one must protect the sweet potato seeds with his life."

"I'm just worried that you have such thoughts, the world is difficult, you have lost your wife and broken the army, don't do it, if your life can't be saved, can the seed potatoes be transported back, be clever along the way, the situation is not right, so decisively abandon the seeds, and save your life."

Although Su Tiancheng said this, in Su Jun's heart, sweet potato seeds were more important than his life, and as for the difficulties that might be encountered, he didn't think so much.

"Okay, you get ready, set off in five days, and try to come back in the first month of next year. This Spring Festival, you can't spend it in the house, go back and talk to Yuhuan. ”

After Su Jun left, Su Tiancheng fell into deep thought, he faced too many difficulties, the silver two is not the biggest problem, the big deal is to sell a few horses first, you can also get together with the silver two, the eldest lady, there is no need to worry too much, this is a typical internal contradiction, let it go for the time being.

The encounter outside Pingyang Mansion and the horse market made him realize that in this turbulent era, if you want to get things done, you must have your own armed strength, otherwise you will be constrained from doing anything, and the power will come out of the barrel of a gun.

But in today's situation, it is tantamount to a fantasy to have your own armed power.