Chapter 268: Temptation

When I went back this time, I brought several times more goods than I had brought on the previous occasions.

Because there was Qingfeng Wei guarding in secret, along the way, there was the one who was not long-eyed, and he was killed before he appeared in front of the Ning family's caravan.

The previous fame of the Ning family's caravan, which was on the north and south roads, was familiar.

Now, it's thunderous.

After all, no one wants to go against a caravan and the entire stockade will be destroyed.

After thinking about it again, it is natural to hide as far as you can.

Those people on the road didn't know that the water bandits in Baishuidu in Pei County were also destroyed with the help of the Ning brothers.

Otherwise, it is estimated that there are more and more people who are afraid.

However, for this kind of prestige, Ning Laosan didn't want it.

My mother told him again and again that he should be low-key and low-key, and only by covering his head can he make a fortune.

If it is too high-profile, it is easy to be regarded as a bird on the wall, and an arrow will be shot down the wall.

When Ning Laosan and Ning Laosi arrive home, the second crop of rice can also be harvested.

And the potatoes have been harvested for the second time, and the sweet potatoes and corn were harvested a month earlier.

This time, the yield of sweet potatoes per acre of land is as high as 2,000 catties.

This time, about 40 acres of land were planted, which is equivalent to more than 80,000 sweet potatoes alone.

Of course, Ning Pengpeng can't use all of these more than 80,000 sweet potatoes to make sweet potato flour, she has to keep the seeds, and prepare to continue to expand the seeds next year!

Therefore, at most, a large half, that is, about 60,000 sweet potatoes, is left to make sweet potato flour.

Five catties of sweet potatoes can produce about one pound of sweet potato flour, which is equivalent to four hundred catties of sweet potato flour per acre.

In other words, 1,000 catties of sweet potatoes can produce 200 catties of sweet potato flour, and 60,000 catties of sweet potato flour is 12,000 catties.

Sweet potato seeds need about 50 catties per acre of land, which is 3,000 sweet potato seedlings.

Therefore, the remaining 20,000 catties of sweet potatoes can be planted on about 400 acres of land.

Although Ning Pengpeng has hundreds of acres of land in her Zhuangzi, Ning Pengpeng does not want to give up planting two crops of rice.

So, she plans to buy more land in other places to grow sweet potatoes.

Anyway, even if someone steals this sweet potato, if it can't be planted, the yield will not be very high.

Moreover, it is precisely because of the high output that Ning Pengpeng is not afraid of the loss of being stolen.

The output of corn is less than that of sweet potatoes, and one acre of land is about 1,200 catties.

This time, only about thirteen acres of corn were planted, so there was only 15,000 catties of harvest.

And corn needs about five catties of seeds per mu, so Ning Pengpeng only left 1,000 catties, which is about 200 acres of land, and the remaining 14,000 catties are ready to be ground into cornmeal.

The potatoes had been harvested before, and this was planted again, although six acres of land were planted, but the harvest per mu was also 1,800 catties.

In this way, more than 10,000 catties of six acres of land were collected.

One acre of land needs about 500 catties of potato seeds, that is, 4,000 potato seedlings.

Ning Pengpeng planted all the more than 10,000 catties of potatoes, and planted a total of about 20 acres of land.

It is estimated that when the harvest comes up this time, it is estimated that it will be able to harvest about 36,000 output.

Ning Pengpeng calculated for a while, and suddenly felt that he was too short of land.

And it's a pity that the fertile fields in these villages are used to grow these coarse grains.

However, these sweet potatoes, potatoes, and corn are not as picky as rice.

So, those drylands can also be planted.

Fertile land is hard to buy, but dry land is abundant.

After all, the government has issued a notice that as long as someone is willing to open up the land and reclaim the dry land, the first three years are exempt from taxes.

Wait until the land is ripe, and then start collecting taxes.

Moreover, even if the tax collected after three years is collected on the dry land obtained from the reclamation, it is not the same as the tax on the fertile land.

Therefore, Ning Pengpeng decided to pay someone to open up the wasteland and reclaim the dry land.

On the Chinese side, after only buying about 300 acres of fertile land, it is difficult to buy patches of fertile land together.

But she said that she wanted to buy dry land, but in just a few days, she bought at least 1,000 acres of dry land.

That's it, Ning Pengpeng still feels a little little.

Therefore, she specially bought about 3,000 acres of wasteland from Li Weishan, and then invited someone to reclaim it.

After Ning Pengpeng finished doing this, Li Weishan came to ask her about her intention to buy so much wasteland.

In this regard, Ning Pengpeng did not hide Li Weishan's own plans.

As for whether Li Weishan wants to report to the imperial court, that is his business.

Anyway, once disloyal, a hundred times not to use, she doesn't believe that the court will give her any reward!

Hearing Ning Pengpeng say that this lump of soil actually has such a high yield, Li Weishan couldn't believe it at all.

But Ning Pengpeng bought so much wasteland for people to reclaim, unless she burned it with a lot of silver, otherwise, why did she buy so much wasteland?

Li Weishan really wanted to report this matter to the imperial court again, but the matter of the last two crops of rice had just slapped him in the face!

This time, he never boasted to Ning Pengpeng about going to Haikou again, saying that the court would reward him.

It's just that in the fold handed over, it was said that a peasant woman in Anzhen had found a crop that could yield 1,000 catties per mu.

It's a pity that this excerpt, just like the previous one, was read by someone, and they scoffed, thinking that Li Weishan was exaggerating, like the clown who jumped off the beam, and wanted to take the opportunity to return to Beijing!

Therefore, it was still suppressed and not presented to the emperor.

After Li Weishan handed over the fold, he wanted to call on the farmers under his jurisdiction to plant these coarse grains, but was stopped by Master An.

"My lord, the people here are unwilling to plant the two crops of rice, let alone this kind of crop that has never been seen before?

It's better to do the two crops of rice in advance.

When the common people taste the sweetness from the two crops of rice, they will naturally be willing to believe what the adults say.

In that case, if you mention the cultivation of this kind of coarse grain, you will naturally get twice the result with half the effort! ”

When Li Weishan heard Master An's words, it really made sense.

Although it is a pity that the common people have to get more than a year less food, they also know that they can't become fat by eating in one go.

Ning Pengpeng directly used silver to open the way, she provided the seeds, and after planting them, she recycled them with a penny and a catty.

If there is no harvest, according to one or two taels of silver per acre of land, it is regarded as the cost of renting the other party's dry land.

The villagers of Dahuaishu Village have planted two crops of rice.

But in the villages around Dahuashu Village, they feel that they still follow the rules and regulations of farming that has been passed down from generation to generation.

It's just that the temptation given by Ning Pengpeng is too great.

In addition, to grow these coarse grains, you only need dry land.

Anyway, you don't have to spend money on the seeds yourself, and if you can't plant them, you will be compensated according to each acre of land.

Even if they grow beans, they won't be able to sell them for a tael or two!

Therefore, many people nodded and agreed without hesitation.

Even the Shi brothers are in their own village and can't buy dry land.

Because the silver obtained from running a business in the past few years has been bought by the Shi family's parents and used to plant two crops of rice.