In fact, the hunter is not necessarily more powerful than the general labor force, after all, hunting mainly depends on skill, the skill of drawing a bow and archery, etc., and strength is not the most important.

The burden that ordinary hunters can carry is probably not as good as the ordinary labor that has been trained by working in the fields for a long time, and they are just invited to improve their overall strength just in case.

As for inviting young and middle-aged laborers, it is more cost-effective and better to invite, and if you pay a few dozen dollars a day, you are not afraid of not being able to hire people.

At that time, he and his team members will be on the outermost periphery, while the hired hunters will walk in the middle, and then protect the young adults who are only responsible for carrying the burden in the innermost.

With such layers of protection, the safety of Zhongrao is also more guaranteed.

Some of the formations they've been practicing for a while are also usable.

In fact, to shorten the picking time, it is not only to save that time, but the time for the sunflower to ripen is too short, and they must shorten the time, otherwise the quality and quantity of the sunflower seeds will be greatly reduced, which will seriously affect the harvest.

Of course, this is Li Hong'e's.

This 'sunflower field' is really too big, I'm afraid that there are 500 acres, half the size of the Xue family's fruit forest, and the sunflower growth is still very good, according to Li Hong'e's estimate, even the flower plate with seeds, there will be hundreds of thousands of catties of harvest.

At this point, Li Hong'e also introduced to everyone the process of the formation of such a large sunflower field.

Growing sunflowers, it has the advantage of fertilizing the field.

Originally, there were probably only a few sunflowers, and the seeds of the first sunflower were probably brought by birds.

When it is ripe, the seeds will fall when no one picks them, and one seed can grow a sunflower, and its rhizomes are excellent fertilizer when they rot, making the land more fertile.

This natural reproduction of the season leads to more and more fertile land, and more and more sunflowers grow on it, and finally this large sunflower field is formed.

So, if you want to fertilize the field in the future, planting sunflowers is also a good choice.

In fact, growing many fruits and vegetables is more fruitful than growing food.

It's just that in such an era, food is the lifeblood of the people, and it is something that can survive.

In their eyes, growing anything is less secure than growing food, so not many people will use their fields to grow other crops unless there is absolutely enough food.

Well, back to the point.

Even if each of them has one or two loads, and one can pick up 20,000 catties, it will take one or twenty to clean it up.

Twenty years is too long for the ripening cycle of sunflowers.

If it is harvested too early, due to the poor maturity of the seeds, the particles are not full, the moisture is large, and the oil content is low, which will affect the yield and quality, then the sunflower seeds harvested in the early stage will not be very satisfactory.

However, if the time is up to harvest again, the final batch will be planted in the ground for too long, and the grains will lose too much water and fall off, which will still affect the harvest and quality.

Therefore, it is necessary to shorten the harvest time.

How to deal with these sunflowers, she will discuss with the team members later.

Let's get down to business for now.

And according to Li Hong'e, it's not the time to pick, but she doesn't know exactly how long it will take.

It just so happens that the experts sent by the Zheng family are still there, so it couldn't be more convenient to consult them.

The amount of sunflower seeds, how to fry them, and the current market price, etc., people must have some understanding.

No matter how bad it is, she can still ask Lin Chu, this guy must know, especially melon seeds, which are more common than pecans, she can't be unclear.

If you want to do this business, you still have to contact her, without her to receive this batch of goods, the sales of melon seeds are also a problem.

With a plan in mind, Xue Langjing asked them to cut a few plates of sunflowers and go back for the connoisseurs to see.

The next thing is to mark it here and go hunting elsewhere.

After all, hunting is their main task.

After everyone carried the prey down the mountain, when handing over the goods to Gu Rongxuan, Xue Langjing told him about the situation of the sunflower field and asked him to bring a few sunflowers to Zheng Linchu.

That night, Xue Langjing told the team members of her plan, and after asking for their opinions, she discussed it with her family.

To increase income, everyone in the Xue family is naturally a hundred willing, and they began to plan how to recruit people that night.

According to the strength of their hunting team, they plan to recruit about a hundred people.

Of course, if the hunters account for a large proportion of them, you can also consider charging more.

If there are too many of them, with their current strength, it will be difficult to protect them.

But this number of people is probably not even in their Zhaojia Village.

No matter how safe you promise to be protected by a hunting team, for ordinary people, going into the wild forest is a risk, especially if their hunting team is obviously not going to these slightly safer places on the periphery.

Therefore, no matter how high the salary is, people who take their own safety as their first priority will not take such a job.

But in the same way, there are many people who can't resist the temptation of high wages.

Since there are not enough people in the village, the Xue family plans to recruit people in their own village, but also count the two neighboring villages, namely Lijia Village and Muqiu Village.

In three villages, it is relatively easy to recruit hundreds of young and middle-aged laborers and hunters.

As for wages, it was finally agreed that the average labourer would be paid fifty cents a day, including three meals a day.

The wages of the hunters are determined by their respective strengths, but they are definitely no less than their participation in a five-day group hunt, which is also a package of three meals.

After deciding on the recruitment plan, the hunting team continued to hunt and waited for the sunflower seeds to ripen.

And everyone in the Xue family was busy again, picked up the gong placed in Lizheng's house, and began to publicize it everywhere, almost all over the three villages.

Sure enough, just as they thought, there were some rights, as soon as they heard that they would go to the wild forest, no matter how much money they paid, they would not go, and some people came to the Xue family to sign up with a daily salary of fifty yuan.

Two days before the sunflower suitable for picking predicted by the connoisseurs and Zheng Linchu, the hunting team went to the sunflower field again to confirm that the situation was almost the same as theirs, most of the back of the flower disc had turned yellow, and the petals on the front were about to dry up, which was a sign that it could be picked.

For this reason, they also specially picked a few flowers and brought them back to the connoisseurs for verification, confirming that they could pick them the day after tomorrow.

The time has been determined, and on the second day, the Xue family will notify those who have come to sign up and have passed the inspection door to door, so that they can come to the Xue family early in the morning after tomorrow, and if they do not come after the specified time, they will be deemed to have given up this mission.

Those who are purely laborers have to carry their own baskets, and the hunters naturally have to bring hunting tools.

For the wild forest, the reverence of the hunters is not as great as that of ordinary people, so this time the Xue family recruited more hunters, a total of forty people.

Since there are more hunters, the labor force can also be appropriately increased, and the Xue family chose eighty people.

There were a hundred and twenty people in all, and the daily wages were fourteen or fifteen taels of silver.

With so many hired personnel, plus the twenty or so people in Xue Langjing's hunting team, there are more than 140 people in total, and all of them have good strength, two trips a day, and they can basically take 60,000 or 70,000 catties.

But even so, it will take about six or seven days to pick all the 500 acres of sunflowers.

In this way, the sunflower seeds picked in the next few days may be a little old, not suitable for fried melon seeds, how to deal with this?