The sun is shining, the wheat in the fields has turned golden, and before you know it, it is already half of August, and the wheat in the fields has reached the time of harvest.

Zhao Yan also withdrew from the artillery battalion, and after two months of training, basically everything he knew or didn't know was poured out, and there was really no stock in his mind.

In the future, the artillery battalion can only explore the training itself, and the results of the training are still quite remarkable. After two months of continuous firing of trainer shells, the clearance value has been reduced to 1/26, and the artillery has also initially mastered the firing of grenades, and the grenades that explode in a few seconds at any distance are memorized by rote.

More than 15,000 soldiers listened to the training at hand and went to the fields to help buy spring wheat, and some to help the newly recruited refugees for autumn sowing.

"Originally, it was planned to recruit 100,000 young people, but now there is still a shortage of more than 10,000, and the total population has reached 320,000." Tang Zhengze reported on the recruitment of displaced people.

Originally, it was planned to recruit 100,000 young men before the autumn sowing, but so far only 90,000 have been recruited.

"What is the actual number of people in Tuntian?" Zhao Yan asked.

"The actual number of people in Tuntian is 210,000, and there are more than 50,000 women, more than 20,000 children, and 40,000 elderly people among the remaining 110,000 people." Tang Zhengze opened the ledger and reported.

Those who were not assigned to the fields were women with broken families, orphans, and elderly people who had no one to support them.

"Find matchmakers and marry off those 50,000 women."

"It's already arranged." Tang Zhengze nodded and said, this procedure is still relatively on track.

"Those old people, let them usually raise some chickens, ducks, pigs and sheep, arrange some work that is not too heavy, and raise those who can't do it. Those orphans, well! How many orphans have we taken in? Zhao Yan asked.

"There were 32,000 of them, 20,300 boys and 11,700 girls."

When a famine strikes, children are the first to be abandoned. If the damage is severe, the child may be killed and eaten.

"Wenlong, you go and publicize it, and let people adopt these children." Zhao Yan said to Zhang Buyun, and Zhang Buyun nodded in response: "Understood." ”

"It seems that the education problems of these children should be solved as soon as possible!" Zhao Yan sighed, the teachers are not enough. Yuan'er is also studying very seriously at present, and it is estimated that there is no problem to be a teacher, and she can run a girls' school for her to teach.

"It's better to set up a academy to train teachers first, and then slowly expand the scale of the academy." Liu Heng suggested.

"Hmmm! After a while, Zhongping will implement it. ”

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Zhao Yan led the people to the ground and asked people to dig up a sweet potato field. He is still concerned about the yield of this sweet potato, as long as there are enough sweet potatoes, he can produce people in the wasted troubled times here, so as not to lose too much vitality.

Dig a small piece of land, take it to the scale, and calculate it, the yield of one mu is about more than 2,000 catties, which is far from the yield of 10,000 catties per mu in later generations.

A few more pieces of land were dug up, and the highest yield per mu was only 5,000 catties, but very little. The lowest is only 1500 pounds.

Now there is still a period of time before the frost falls, and the output can still be raised, but the top day will be longer for more than a month, and the output will be two or three hundred catties higher at most.

The average is about 3,000 catties.

Obviously, it is still a matter of variety, and sweet potatoes are also divided into varieties. However, it is already good to have this yield, even if it is the lowest 1500 catties, it is four or five times higher than the yield of wheat, and it seems that those farm fertilizers are not in vain.

About 100,000 acres of sweet potatoes were planted in the spring, and according to the average value of 3,000 catties, there were also 150,000 tons of sweet potatoes harvested, which may be a little different, but generally not bad, enough to feed more than 500,000 people for a year. With so much sweet potato output, Zhao Yan hurriedly asked people to expand the cellar in order to store these sweet potatoes.

The yield of spring wheat per mu is more than a stone, between 200 catties and 300 catties, and there will be almost no wheat lodging phenomenon in such a low yield.

Such a yield can be regarded as a bumper harvest in contemporary times, and the yield of wheat per mu in the north is about one stone.

Tang Xianming took the main book of the county government and more than a dozen officials to count the acres, and after the statistics, he reported to Zhao Yan a tax of 5,000 taels.

Zhao Yan handed over the silver very happily, and Tang Zhengze saw that Zhao Yan had handed over the silver, and asked Zhao Yan: "My lord, should these expenses be spread over to the ground rent?" ”

"No, the ground rent will be collected according to the ratio of three wheat and nine potatoes!" Zhao Yan said, "In addition, those who want to sell grain will be collected at a fair price." ”

"Justice...... Uh...... "Tang Zhengze didn't know how much was a fair price for a while."

"Even if we sell it, we can still make a price by selling it, and the profit per stone of wheat can be controlled at one or two silver, and sweet potatoes can be charged two dollars of silver per stone." Zhao Yan said.

Zhao Yan set the way to collect the land rent, and the tun people were happy when they heard it.

Each household was given 50 acres of land, half of which was wheat. This year, the wheat output of each household is about 30 stones, and 30% of it is handed over, and there are about 20 stones left.

Ninety percent of the sweet potatoes were handed over, and according to the average value given by Tang Zhengze, there were still 40 stones. In one year, 60 stone of grain was harvested.

In previous years, as a tenant, it would be good to have more than ten stones of grain in a year. I sold 40 stone sweet potatoes, although each stone was only two taels of silver, but there were also 8 taels of silver! And he kept the wheat for himself.

In addition to the silver reward received at the time of this year's Xiangyong Competition, there is also an income of more than ten taels a year. Such an income is nothing for people in the upper echelons of society. But if it can be distributed to each tenant, it is the only one in the world, mainly because the grain production has increased many times.

If we hadn't planted sweet potatoes last year, we wouldn't have been able to harvest so much grain this year.

Tenants earn a lot, and this year will definitely be a fertile year.

Zhao Yan is more concerned about grain production, but he also earns a lot, 150,000 tons of sweet potatoes, in this era of disasters everywhere, at least 500,000 taels are recorded if they operate well, but Zhao Yan does not plan to earn these silver.

The bumper harvest of the tundi in the three areas of Zhaojiabao, Anminbao and Pingkoubao, as well as the news of the yield of 3,000 catties of sweet potatoes per mu spread to the tundi outside the mountain, and the displaced people who were sowing seeds suddenly glowed with great enthusiasm.

The displaced people in the tundi outside were given 50 acres of land, and they were originally a little unhappy to grow half of the wheat and half of the sweet potatoes, because people didn't know what sweet potatoes were.

After visiting the sweet potatoes grown in Zhaojiabao, their enthusiasm for growing sweet potatoes is very high. Because most of the land rent is calculated into sweet potatoes, and the remaining sweet potatoes are sold for a lot of money.

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Zhao Yan's group of people went back and counted for a long time, leaving 80,000 tons of sweet potatoes is enough, Zhao Yan's people, craftsmen, and army together, there are only 400,000 people, 400,000 people eat more than half a year, there are 100,000 tons of sweet potatoes in the sky, in addition to sweet potatoes, there are more than 3,000 tons of wheat in storage, plus the 100,000 stone rice wheat in stock, that is, nearly 9,400 tons, Dingtian will eat these.

"What is Childe going to do with these extra sweet potatoes?" Zhao Quan asked Zhao Yan.

"When will our grain store open?" Zhao Yan thought for a while and asked.

Zhao Quan estimated: "It can be rolled out at the end of the year!" The old slave had already sent people to the south to collect grain. ”

"Since our Jimin Commercial Bank is called Jimin, we have to do some facts. When grain prices are low, they raise prices and buy them in large quantities, and when they encounter high prices, they sell them at low prices to stabilize grain prices. Overall, it's good to make ends meet with some effort. Zhao Yan explained that he adopted one of the policies listed in the reform of Wang Anshi in the Song Dynasty in this way, which was very good, but Wang Anshi's reform was not successful.

"So many sweet potatoes can be stored for two years at most, and there is no rice grain to store, so let's take them to soup porridge! It's not a problem to live three or four hundred thousand people. ”

In agriculture, it is enough to make ends meet, and there is no need to earn money in this area, which is also the difference between Zhao Yan and the landlords of this era.

"Childe, I'm afraid it's ......" Zhao Quan wanted to speak and stopped.

"What's wrong?" Zhao Yan asked strangely. Zhao Quan rubbed his hands and said: "If we do this, then we can't get along with the grain merchants in the world!" They all buy low and sell high, but we buy high and sell low, isn't this cutting off people's money? ”

"Those grain merchants have been cut off from their financial routes, and they will inevitably use some means, and it will be difficult to do business at that time." Zhao Quan said embarrassedly, Zhao Quan understands those grain merchants best, why are there so many landlords in the world! No, because there is a lot of profit in grain, countless merchants are eating this meal. If such a thing is stirred, it will inevitably provoke hostility.

Seeing that Zhao Yan was pondering, Zhao Quan continued: "Childe, even if you are a guerrilla in Denglai now, you can't suppress them!" If they swagger to find trouble, so many elite soldiers and horses under Gongzi don't have to be afraid of them, but it's easy to dodge open guns and difficult to defend against dark arrows! ”

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The second shift, almost 6000, and the third shift of this bird...... Hoohoo,,,, tickets!

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