That's a difference of more than 20 times.

After seeing the more than 500,000 catties of sweet potatoes with his own eyes, Xue Langjing finally deeply realized why Zheng Linchu had to trade with himself and wanted to monopolize the sweet potato.

It's just too good a deal and too tempting.

If it is really allowed to spread sweet potatoes to the entire Chu State, then in a few years, it will have to be reduced to 120 or 20 catties per penny?

Then she is afraid that she can only pay a thousand taels of silver a year for her 4,000 acres of land.

It's better for her to go hunting for a month, and I don't know how many years it will take to return to the capital.

With a little calculation, it can be clearly calculated how terrifying the income that this monopoly business can bring to the Xue family.

And if it is promoted, the Xue family will have a memorial arch at most.

But if it is monopolized, the income of tens of thousands of taels or even tens of thousands of taels of silver a year, why not buy the next archway.

I'm afraid that dozens of 'torii' can be bought.

Thinking about it like this, the balance in Xue Langjing's heart completely fell to Zheng Linchu, this temptation was too great, and it was worthy of making people like Zheng Linchu not hesitate to give up other schemes just for it.

If I could have thought of this, I am afraid that I would have been eager to cooperate with others, right?

It's a pity that at that time, I was only thinking about reprimanding this person's profiteer's behavior, and I didn't think about it deeply.

Now that I think about it, I just feel that I was too naïve at the beginning.

Maybe it's also because they have been talking about the archway, and they need this, so they are in love for a while, and they only think about the archway.

The predecessors have a good saying, people don't kill for themselves, if it's something that benefits others and herself, she doesn't mind doing some, but if she is asked to do things that harm herself and benefit others, then she really can't do it.

Thinking of this, Xue Langjing only felt that he was actually quite hypocritical, and he reprimanded Zheng Linchu for being selfish at the beginning, but now he was glad that others were selfish at the beginning.

Back to business.

These benefits are just counted as ordinary grains for these hundreds of thousands of catties of sweet potatoes.

But now, they plan to use it as sweet potato seeds to breed the next batch of sweet potatoes.

According to last year's planting experience, these more than 550,000 catties of sweet potatoes have removed those defective products that are not suitable for breeding, and if nothing else, it is estimated that they can breed sweet potato seedlings that can be planted on about 6,000 acres of land.

What is the concept of planting 6,000 mu of grain with a yield of several thousand catties per mu?

In terms of a pound and a penny, the income of half a year is more than the silver she earns in a year of hunting.

And that's just the 6,000 acres, and the 4,000 acres they've started planting today.

At that time, the total will be tens of thousands of acres, and the output of one year will be enough to be worth the harvest of several of her hunting teams.

Just thinking about it was enough to make Xue Langjing's heart beat faster.

Not only her, but also the rest of the Xue family, they could almost imagine the scene of the white flowers and silver rolling towards their homes in the future.

Therefore, when the 4,000 acres of land had not yet been planted with sweet potatoes, the Xue family couldn't wait to consider buying the next batch of land.

This is probably the first time that the Tang clan has been so persistent in buying land.

After all, this land represents the silver of white flowers.

If you want to plant all these sweet potato seeds as soon as possible, you need to raise seedlings in June at the latest.

This means that there is enough land to breed in June.

Cuttings should be made in July and August, and by this time, all 6,000 acres of land should be disposed of and ready for planting.

Time is still quite rushed, and it seems that there is not much time left for them.

Moreover, it will take a long time to buy land and reclaim mountains and forests.

However, the most important thing is not time, but silver!

The silver in their hands can only buy 2,000 acres of mountains and forests at most.

The distance is 6,000 acres, and there is a shortage of about 2,800 taels of silver.

According to Xue Linjing's prediction, as the bookkeeper, it will take at least a month and a half for his family to scrape together this silver.

In other words, it will be mid-June at the earliest to buy enough land.

In addition to the money for buying land, a large number of laborers will be hired to reclaim the mountains and forests.

If nothing else, it will probably be barely able to be reclaimed when the cuttings are planted in July and August, which will be in a hurry.

And in the next few months, the Xue family will not be able to have more extra expenses in terms of money, and it is estimated that they will only be able to live tightly.

This is already a bit reluctant, and with the current progress of the hunting team to collect people, some silver has to be reserved for the hunting team.

To sum it up, it's one word, but the Xue family is silver.

But now they have no other source of income than hunting.

Speaking of which, their Xue family's heritage is not deep enough, and it is in the development stage.

In this case, it is basically as much money as you can put in, and if it is not enough, you have to postpone it a little longer.

So is it better to take some time, or wait until you have enough money to buy land and plant?

Then you have to consider the gap between the two.

If you don't take advantage of the seedlings to plant autumn potatoes in June, you have to wait until August to start seedlings and plant early winter potatoes.

The difference between the two may seem like only two months, but the end result is very different.

It is because of this difference of two months is almost the fastest growing day of sweet potatoes, the growth cycle of autumn potatoes is the shortest, it only takes more than 100 days from cuttings to harvesting, and cuttings in July and August can be harvested in November.

The early winter potatoes have the longest growth cycle and need to survive the winter, while winter is the slowest time for all things to grow, and they can not be harvested until April and May of the following year.

Although the difference between the two breeding is only two months, the harvest date is directly half a year apart, which is a waste of a whole season in terms of the growth cycle of sweet potatoes.

Anyway, sooner or later, this land will have to be bought.

If the Xue family is willing to give it a go, then as long as there is no accident, it is still very likely to plant autumn potatoes, even if only a small part can be planted.

But if you don't want to try it because there is a shortage of silver, then there is definitely no hope of planting it early, and you can only wait for the next season.

You must know that now is the stage when the Xue family is about to develop vigorously, and if you don't fight, you will delay the golden development period for half a year.

With such a comparison, even people who don't have brains will know how to choose, right?

Therefore, Xue Langjing decided to take a risk.

However, this year, especially in this small half year, not only is the family tight, but their hunting team also has to work harder.

No one in the Xue family objected, because they also thought the same way in their hearts, but it was Xue Langjing who was most affected by this matter, and they didn't take the initiative to bring it up.

Since it was unanimously approved, it was decided to buy 2,000 acres of mountains and forests first, and wait for the rest to be in place.

Now Jiang Qianyue and Xue Kejing are responsible for buying land.

On the night of the decision to buy land, the two discussed it in the room.

On the second day, Xue Yuhe and several other men in the family were called to explore the terrain of the mountains and forests.

This expedition was explored for several days.

And when they investigated, they took into account all the 6,000 acres of land they wanted to buy.

Later, I went to find a few people to understand the situation of the mountains and forests, and finally decided on the location of 6,000 acres of land.