Chapter 38 10,000 catties per mu
Entering the ninth month of the lunar calendar, most of the stems and leaves of the potato "tiger head" began to wither and yellow, Wu Wei asked Qiuqiu, which is a sign of potato maturity, so he summoned Luo Rucai, Yang Chengzu, Wang Long and several people to prepare to arrange the harvest. In fact, Luo Rucai and they soak in the fields every day, and they have long known the growth of potatoes, in Luo Rucai's words, this thing is enough to eat for several years, and they can harvest it when they hear it, and they are all ecstatic. Although theoretically the young men are just hired laborers, and the land belongs to the landlord, Wu Wei's generosity will definitely give everyone a rich return.
But Wu Wei has more things to consider, he has already seen the growth of potatoes, it is worthy of being a high-yield and good seed, and the yield is not low, and now he has to think about what happens after the harvest.
Wu Wei looked at the three of them with excited faces, and said, "Although the potatoes can be harvested, don't be too happy, there is still a difficult task, and the three of you must not take it lightly." ”
The three of them should say in unison, Luo Rucai thought more, and muttered: "Isn't my lord worried about those homeless people? ”
When Yang Chengzu heard this, he clenched his fists and said viciously: "If they dare to come over and rob it, more than 1,000 of us are not vegetarians, and the Sprinkle family wants to see how they are better than Gao Yingxiang?" ”
Wang Lung also echoed loudly. In the past few months, under the training of the three people, the team has become quite impressive, although there are many homeless, everyone is not afraid.
Wu Wei shook his head again and again, and said, "Wrong, wrong, I don't want you to guard against the homeless, but to ask you to make a charter on how to distribute food to them." ”
The three of them were stunned, and Luo Rucai said: "My lord is a bodhisattva, and my subordinates are ashamed, but there are 50,000 people in this homeless people!"
Wu Wei said with a smile: "It's okay, even 500,000 people are enough." "The people of the three prefectures and 19 counties of Yan'an Prefecture in northern Shaanxi have a total of more than 500,000 mouths, and he is so angry that he wants to solve the food ration problem in the entire northern Shaanxi by himself. Although the three of them admired his courage, they couldn't believe what they said.
Wu Wei saw that the three of them were silent, and said with a smile: "You don't believe it now, you will know when the time comes." ”
So Wu Wei and the three of them made a charter to distribute food in the name of the government's disaster relief. The victims were distributed according to the number of people, each adult man was 50 pounds of potatoes, adult women were 30 pounds, children were 20 pounds, and the multi-collar and looters were beaten with 20 sticks and driven out of the camp. At the same time, it is stipulated that the poor people in Ansai County can also receive the same treatment as the disaster victims. Qingzhuang is based on households, each household is allocated 5 stone potatoes, which can be described as extremely rich, you must know that this is only a season of grain, and there are sweet potatoes at the end of the year, and the family's annual ration is only three or five stones on weekdays. Luo Rucai and the three of them were puzzled by Wu Wei's practice of using his own strength to relieve disasters without seeking fame and fortune, but they also secretly admired it, but they didn't know that Wu Wei had good intentions, and knew that this thing would attract the attention of the government and the opposition, and he only wanted to solve the problem of food shortage at the end of the Ming Dynasty, and he didn't want to become the focus of everyone's attention.
The plan was decided, and Wu Wei ordered Li Bantou and Liu Dianzhi to be responsible for drafting and posting notices so that everyone would know about it.
The news spread, and the whole Ansai boiled. Countless victims knelt on the ground and kowtowed, praising in unison, the small people in the market also ran to tell each other, excited, and the gentry also breathed a sigh of relief, these days the homeless people outside the city have brought them too much psychological pressure, and many people have expressed dissatisfaction with the practices of Wu Wei and Li County. The only frustration was a few rice shops in the county, and the price of rice plummeted by 80% overnight.
At the time of harvest, Wu Wei went to the ground to watch, and the surrounding area was also crowded with people like the last time the water was diverted, and the people and squires in the middle were all following Wu Wei to see. These days, the rumors of Wu Dianshi's cultivation of immortal potatoes have spread all over Ansai, which has aroused everyone's strong curiosity.
I saw that in the selected two-acre square field, more than 20 young people were ready, Luo Rucai gave an order, and all the young people hoeed like rain, and put the dug potatoes into the bamboo basket in front of them. It is worthy of being known as the "tiger head" of the good seed with a yield of 10,000 catties per mu, each potato is huge and has no friends, and it seems that it is unprecedented to see Wu Wei in the eyes of his previous life, the small one has more than one catty, and the big one has three or four catties, and a famous young man has dug out a more than six catties, which caused the spectators to exclaim. Look at it for a while, everyone is already tongue-in-cheek, it turns out that there are people on both sides of the field to weigh and count the potatoes dug up at any time, there are good things to watch are still helping on the side, seeing that the harvest of two acres of land is not more than half, there are more than 5,000 catties, and it is a foregone conclusion that the entire harvest is more than 10,000 catties!
The two acres of land are not large, and more than 20 young people dig together, but the harvest has been completed in a moment. At this time, the final statistics came out, and they were calculated by Liu Dian, the official of the workshop. I saw him announce loudly: "Two acres of land, a total of 11,320 catties of immortal potatoes!" After that, his face was flushed with excitement.
This yield even Wu Wei did not expect, with the production conditions at the end of the Ming Dynasty, the yield was more than 2 percent higher than the yield claimed by the original seedling sellers, this is not scientific, is it a mutation after the light gate?
What is this concept? At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the yield of one mu of good fertile land in the Guanzhong Plain was only more than 300 catties per mu even in a bumper year, and it was much lower in northern Shaanxi. And this immortal potato yields more than 5,000 catties per mu in one season, and it is said that it can be planted in two to three seasons a year, and the annual output is not more than 10,000 catties! This is still in such a year of great drought, and still in such barren fields! If this is planted all over the world, where will there be hunger in the world!
Everyone was stunned by this number, this is no longer a human power, but it really happened in front of everyone's eyes. Even Luo Rucai and others who were mentally prepared, the best estimate before was less than half of this number!
The people still attribute it to the imperial court, the gods and Buddhas of all walks of life, and the lord of the blue sky, and there are many kneeling and kowtowing, which Wu Wei is the most unaccustomed to, and the common people in feudal society like to kowtow at every turn, alas, the literacy rate is outrageously low, feudal superstition is prevalent, and the fear of officials and soldiers is afraid of showing talents, which is the status quo of the countryside at the end of the Ming Dynasty.
The gentry have seen much more than the common people, and some of them are already thinking about what kind of shock this thing will bring to Yan'an Mansion, the provincial capital Xi'an, and even Jingshi.
Wu Wei did not forget to personally report the results to Li County, and ordered someone to carry a basket of potatoes. Li Xianling had already heard the return of the long follower who was sent, but now he saw the real thing, and he heard Wu Wei's personal introduction, and he felt different. He picked up a potato, and saw that it weighed 2 catties, listening to Wu Weiming's detailed situation, his face was complicated, he was a scholar, adhering to the teachings of the saints, and he had never believed in the words of the gods. For the first time, I went to the starting point of the history class to recommend, and I asked for a click to ask for a collection and a variety of recommendations, and Wuchang Fish thanked me!