Planting an acre of sweet potato land is actually quite time-consuming, Xue Shanjing has done experiments before, if a young and middle-aged laborer is allowed to plant a person from cutting seedlings to planting a person, he can only plant more than half an acre a day.

The best way to plant is to let one person do only one, such as watering all the time, so as to maximize the efficiency of planting.

After nearly a month of cuttings in advance, there are still more than 100,000 acres of land that have not yet been planted, and these more than 30,000 laborers need to plant all of them within five days.

Fortunately, there is no need to raise seedlings for early winter potatoes in advance, otherwise a lot of labor will be consumed.

It was previously said that the Xue family planned to plant spring potatoes, autumn potatoes, and early winter potatoes for three consecutive seasons.

But in this way, the time between the two seasons must be extremely fine, and all tasks must be completed within this given time difference, otherwise it is likely that the next season will not be able to catch up, and in the end the gains outweigh the losses.

Autumn potatoes are to be planted these days, and this August is just the season for early winter potato seedlings. Digging spring potatoes, cutting autumn potatoes, and raising seedlings for early winter potatoes all came together.

But coincidentally, the autumn potatoes will mature in the future, and the digging season coincides with the time of potato cuttings in early winter.

There are a few days of overlapping time between the two, as long as the Xue family summons enough manpower at that time, they can use these days to replace the seedlings with the vine seedlings of the previous season, and directly cut the cuttings.

This not only saves a lot of breeding time, but also makes the best use of the sweet potato vines left over from the previous season, saving a lot of sweet potato seeds.

By that time, more than 100,000 acres of sweet potatoes had been planted this season, and naturally there were not enough seedlings.

It's just that at that time, it is necessary to cut seedlings, dig sweet potatoes, and plant more than 100,000 acres of sweet potato fields, and the task is extremely heavy, but the time that can be carried out is less than ten days.

And you can't cut the seedlings in advance as this time, otherwise the cut out seedlings will not be planted, after all, there are still immature sweet potatoes in the field, and the labor required is more than doubled.

This time, only a few thousand acres of sweet potatoes need to be dug up, which is basically negligible compared to more than 100,000 acres and more than 30,000 laborers.

At that time, it may be necessary to pull in the labor of several towns.

Although I went to several towns this time, it was mainly the villagers in my own town.

The other towns are only some villagers who are closer to Xinwen Town, and the total is not as much labor as Xinwen Town's own labor.

Of course, this is the next season, but it is not something that the Xue family has to consider now.

They now need to plant the sweet potatoes for this season.

During the planting period in the past few days, Tang and others were afraid that something would happen, so they basically stayed in the field.

After all, these hundreds of thousands of acres of sweet potato land are too important to them, and they have invested at least 100,000 taels of silver, and this is even more related to the future of their Xue family, and it is difficult not to pay attention to it.

Everyone simply stopped their classes for a few days and stayed here.

But God favored their Xue family, and after a few days, everything went well.

More than 100,000 acres of land, under the hard work of more than 30,000 people, lasted for several days, and finally finished planting.

The hearts of Tang and the others finally fell to the ground.

However, the completion of cuttings does not mean that the cultivation is over, it is just the beginning.

Although sweet potatoes are easy to stock, if you want to increase the yield of sweet potatoes, you have to water, fertilize and weed frequently.

Just like this autumn potato, from cuttings to maturity, it is only three or four months, but it has to be fertilized six times.

As for watering, the requirements are even more frequent.

Especially for freshly planted sweet potatoes, the survival rate is also a big problem.

In order to improve the survival rate of sweet potato seedlings, they must be watered every day for at least four or five days. During this period, for those who cannot survive, they must be replenished in time.

After that, it should be watered every few days, and then slowly decreased, until the watering is stopped one month before maturity.

It's August and the weather is hot, which is the most water-scarce time for sweet potatoes, and watering is essential if you want to maintain the yield.

Therefore, after all the sweet potato seedlings were planted, the villagers did not leave immediately, but continued to stay here and water for several days.

In the future, there is no need to water it every day, it is enough to water it every few days, and naturally there is no need for so many people, so only a part of the villagers needs to be hired to work here for a long time.

Then the villagers will be stationed here, and the most suitable ones will be the villagers of several villages near this mountainous area.

If all these laborers are counted, it will take at least several days to water more than 100,000 acres of land.

After a few days, the next round will be carried out, and after a few rounds, it will be the turn of fertilization.

It's equivalent to everyone having to work continuously, so don't you have to stay here permanently?

After the sweet potato seedlings were watered every day for four or five days, although they could be watered every few days, even so, the daily labor cost alone cost more than 200 taels of silver.

After that, it gradually dropped to more than 100 taels or dozens of taels, and the labor costs of fertilization and weeding were also added, and the expenses were also a lot.

Almost all the money earned by the Xue family during this period of time had to be invested in this sweet potato field.

This is still earned when the overall strength of the hunting team has been greatly improved, and even the income from orchards and ponds has to be added.

Don't look at the Xue family's high daily income now, but the consumption is also huge, at least now everything they earn has to be fed to sweet potatoes.

The busiest moment is finally over.

Next, the Xue family's key task is to deal with the nearly 20 million catties of sweet potatoes produced by the 4,000 acres of land.

The ability to have such a large output naturally depends on the labor and fertilizer invested by the Xue family. Not only is the land served well, but the fertility of letting it eat is also sufficient.

The yield is entirely eaten by eating silver.

20 million catties of sweet potatoes have to be made into finished grains such as sweet potato noodles and sweet potato flour, and a lot of labor is required.

They have basically recruited villagers from several nearby villages who have a little labor and are willing to work, including those children and the elderly, although they can't do anything else, but they can still help their own laborers wash sweet potatoes and scoop water.

Of course, this does not include the villagers who live in the sweet potato fields.

And the villagers not only had to come with people, but also had to bring their own tools, such as threshing buckets, wooden barrels, wooden basins, grain ladders, water tanks and other objects that could hold water.

For the Xue family, the more such tools there are, the better.

It can be said that in order to deal with this batch of sweet potatoes, the water storage tools of several villages near Zhaojia Village have been gathered on the Xue family's side, except for their own water tanks for water to eat.

Especially the threshing barrel and the barrels that are similar to it.

There is basically only one threshing bucket in every household, and the number is small, and there are only so many sweet potato flour that can be washed in a bucket, and a bucket will take up a whole day.

Even if these barrels are used continuously, because their quantities are limited, they cannot wash too many sweet potatoes per day, and the daily yield of sweet potato flour is not very high.