On the day of the harvest, the East Lake was crowded with people, and the places where people could stand were full of people, so they simply climbed the trees on a hillside next to them.

All the people in the surrounding area who were not far from their homes and had nothing to do came here to wait for the Huang family to harvest the rice.

Some people saw the rise and simply rolled up their sleeves to help, as long as they helped, the Huang family would not stop them, who didn't like free labor, and there were people in the fields for a while.

There are people from the government faction of Xiangyang Mansion and officials from Nanshan Town watching here, and no one dares to make trouble.

Several children also took the opportunity to slip down and began to fish in troubled waters in the ditch at the edge of the Huang family's rice field. The rice planted in the ditch was harvested early, leaving only the straw above the water. After a while, some children touched the fish and threw it up, and it was still very fat, and more children rolled up their trouser legs and walked down.

The rice fields are full of busy adults, and the rice fields are frolicking and playing children, and the laughter and laughter are ringing, and the people on the shore who are watching are also feeling happy.

In this year of great famine, the lack of a good harvest makes people more hopeful.

The rice of the first acre of field was harvested, and it was immediately transported to the drying field at the door of Huang's house, and it was hand-picked out, and the first number was quickly weighed, 416 catties.

Originally, the rice was to be beaten out, but the Huang family's hundreds of acres of land were not good, they had to be all planted, and they could only be made by hand, and this huge project was more tiring than harvesting.

Because the weather is dry and the rice is fully ripe, even after exposure to the sun, this figure is basically not much loss. That is to say, the yield of artificially planted rice seedlings per mu is nearly 400 catties, which is about 150 catties more than the original yield per mu of fertile land.

150 catties in the current yield of one or two thousand catties per mu, but the fertilizer has not kept up, the transplanting is not symmetrical enough, or the insect treatment is not timely, it is normal to have one or two hundred catties less.

For the villagers around Nanshan Town, this is equivalent to a miracle. Isn't it a miracle that there are about 150 catties of rice on the land with a yield of more than 200 catties per mu? What's more, it was a drought year with almost no harvest.

Soybeans know that this number is not the final number for this paddy field, and this year is dry, and if there is a good year, the yield will be higher.

Because it is a beach land and the land is fertile, the ten acres of land of Uncle Soybean and the twenty acres of land of the second uncle's family have received a high yield of nearly 280 catties.

You must know that 250 catties was already a very satisfactory figure in the past, so the eldest uncle and the second uncle were also heartbroken, and they did not listen to the words of soybeans, and lost nearly 100 catties of rice per acre.

The output was reported to Xiangyang Mansion, and the government government directly issued an official document, and all the rice was kept for good seeds. Collect it as soon as possible and send it to Xiangyang Mansion to store it.

Except for the Huang family, who kept 1,200 catties of rice as a growing grain, other rice was not allowed to be bought and sold, and was directly purchased by the government at twice the market price of rice.

This price is not high, last year's flood, this year's drought, grain prices exploded and fell slowly and then exploded, the Huang family's batch of rice is golden and full of grains, it is completely a high-quality rice that can be used as a good seed.

The price of seeds has always been higher than the price of rice itself, but since ancient times, the people did not fight with the officials, and it was already very good for the government to buy rice at a price higher than the market price.

As for why this is done, the first is high yield, and the second is of course against the Huang family's self-created rice planting method.

Huang Laohan very generously handed over the rice planting method to Xiangyang Mansion in writing, so that they could record it so that it could be promoted. The Huang family was designated to send four people, and Xiangyang Mansion needed to be retained for five years, and they went to various parts of Xiangyang Mansion to help plant seedlings.

These four people are simply modern agricultural technicians. In the end, it was discussed, and Huang Laosan and Huang Laosi went with Huang Deguang and Huang Deming. Huang Lao Da and Huang Lao Er take care of the family's fields and mountains and forests at home.

In the winter of that year, the Huang family built 10 warehouses in the open space of the river embankment, which was reserved for the next year's rice. Only the Huang family knows that this is a preliminary preparation for the smooth parking of the ship at the Huangjia Wharf in the future.

Before the rice harvest, more than a dozen people from the Huang family, young and old, went down to the rice field, searching for the rice seeds required by soybeans.

Before the harvest, the Huang family found more than 100 catties of good seeds with the thickest straw and the fullest rice grains in the field, which were dried and dried by Huang Laohan as a treasure and fell on the roof beam of the room, and he had to look at it three times a day.

This is proposed by soybeans, every year in 100 acres of fertile land to select rice seeds, reserved for the second year of cultivation, every year is preferred, so that every year is the best seedling, the yield will naturally go up.

This time, the whole family did not have a single voice of opposition, and unanimously approved the soybean proposal, after all, this year's harvest is the best example. Moreover, the selection of high-quality rice seeds is also a must for every family every year, but this is the first time that the selection has been carried out in the field.

During the Dragon Boat Festival in the second year, none of the twenty women hired by the Huang family came to the Huang family to plant seedlings. These women were all hired by the government to go to various places to prepare for the trial of seedling planting methods. The government paid them a spring seed, three taels of silver per person, and hired them for three years.

After the Dragon Boat Festival, it is only ten or twenty days before the rice seedling planting can be completed, and it will not be more than a month to drag on for a long time. Some of these women are old neighbors in Huangjiawan, and some are new immigrants, and they have never earned so much money.

In order to make it easier for them to walk in the unfamiliar fields, they can bring the men or children and grandchildren of the family and ask the young and strong to go together to help with spring planting, and the salary is 20 days and 2 taels of silver.

Upon receiving this news, none of the twenty rice planting women hesitated, and immediately began to prepare their bags for the long journey. Twenty days, five taels of silver, this is unimaginable good luck, all brought to them by the Huang family.

Such a neighbor with fortune is enough to have the Huang family.

Because of the preferential rice varieties every year, the more than 100 tidal lands on the Huang family's side have become the most fertile fertile fields, and the yield has increased year by year. The rice produced each year is reserved for improved seeds, and the price is twice as high as that of rice.

In this way, the supply is still in short supply, and the Huang family did not choose the beach land to change into fertile land. Instead, when they meet a suitable fertile land, they will buy it, and the requirements are contiguous and the water source is good.

However, such fields are difficult to come by, and in the end, Xiangyang Mansion allocated a beach of nearly 200 acres between Xiangyang Mansion and Nanshan Town to the Huang family for free, asking them to do their best to cultivate better rice seeds and cultivation methods.

In the past three or four years, the wind and rain have been smooth, and the yield per mu has almost stabilized between 450 and 500, with little fluctuation. Huang Dou knew that this was almost the limit, unless she could breed hybrid rice, and she knew she wasn't that material.

Because the high yield of rice in the Huang family has caused a sensation, the open waters of the Huang family have also entered the eyes of people with hearts. The Qian family, the Song family, and several big families in Xiangyang Mansion in Nanshan Town came to negotiate with Huang Laohan and wanted to buy the wasteland near East Lake.

They have various excuses, such as seeing that the Huang family has a good prospect of planting rice, and they want to buy a piece of land here to keep it for the daughter of the family to dowry.

There is no need to scrutinize this kind of excuse to marry their daughter, but they don't feel embarrassed, for them, it's just an excuse, and having an excuse is already a lot of face for the Huang family.

The more reliable excuse is that the Huang family just put some chickens and ducks here on this land, which is too wasteful, so it is better to sell them for large-scale breeding.

Huang Laohan politely refused all kinds of excuses, saying that his family had already started large-scale breeding in the mountains and forests, and that in the future, the family was going to buy a boat and transport his family's rice seeds and poultry to various places, so this land could not be sold, and a warehouse should be built to prepare for the storage of rice seeds.

As soon as he said this, the people who came to negotiate understood that not only did they see that this vacant land could be used as a new wharf, but Huang Laohan also knew. Then the Huang family settled down here, and there is a better explanation for building a village and paving roads, they are aiming for this piece of land to build a wharf.

The big families in Nanshan Town and Xiangyang Mansion who made their fortunes on the wharf were eyeing the land of the Huang family for a while. They really want to reach out and crush the Huang family to death like pinching an ant to death, and directly take this land for themselves.

However, they didn't dare, the Huang family had already registered in Xiangyang Mansion and Dongyang County, and his family's rice seeds were now not only supplied to Xiangyang Mansion, but also some were forcibly purchased from Xiangyang Mansion by Dongyang County.

Even the emperor who was far away in the capital knew that the rice production in Xiangyang Mansion was rising year by year, and now it has reached an average yield of more than 300 or 400.

At present, the average rice yield of Xiangyang Prefecture cannot be compared with the Huang family, but it has been far ahead of the rice output of all parts of the country, and has become a famous fish and rice town in southern Jiangsu.

More places across the country are waiting for the Huang family's rice planting and the Huang family's technology.

Such a family, even if he is just a farmer, has no background, no foundation, and is not just anyone who wants to move. In this era, it is no longer possible for a few wealthy households to create high-quality and high-yield grains.

Since you can't move, then let's get married, and you can always get a piece of the pie. Each family has found out the unfavored children from the family, or the kind of gentlemen who are not valued by the family.

They all want to marry the Huang family, but they are reluctant to have excellent children in the family, they still dislike the identity of the Huang family, they may sit on a mountain of gold, but they are still a mud leg.

Marrying with such a family is to reduce the status, and if you don't marry, you are afraid that you won't get a piece of the pie at that time. can only be married with such children, and it is not easy to handle it in the future.

The Huang family was overwhelmed and made a mess, even so, they didn't dare to set a family affair for the boys in the family casually, let alone set a family for the three girls.

Huang Dou regards the family affairs of her brothers and sisters, including her uncle, more important than her 100 acres of land.

In her words, land can be bought and opened, but it is just money and time. But marriage is not good, it is a major event related to a person's life.

As the old saying goes: Men are afraid of getting into the wrong business, and women are afraid of marrying the wrong man.

The old saying also says: gather a good daughter-in-law and prosper three generations.

The eldest granddaughter of the Huang family dragged it out again and again until she was eighteen years old, and then she decided on Tu Huasheng, the eldest grandson of the Tu family's grocery store.

The second granddaughter also almost booked someone's house, and it was Zhang Huzi, the youngest son of Zhang's butcher shop in Nanshan Town.

Now only the third granddaughter who is fourteen years old and the fourth granddaughter who is just ten years old are left.