Chapter 122: Growing Chili Peppers for All
The dragon guard led ten men to pick up sour vegetables.
When all the things were delivered to the Valley of the Displaced People, it was just the time to put food at noon.
Everyone took a bowl of multigrain and wild vegetable porridge, and each person was given a spoonful of sour vegetables.
Everyone ate happily with multigrain and wild vegetable porridge, and the second senior shouted: "The captains listen to the order!" Meet in the middle of the square after dinner! A new mission has been announced! ”
More than 10,000 homeless people, ten people are a team, ten teams are a team, ten teams are a regiment, and the captain and the head of the regiment all pick the dragon guards to serve.
The displaced people were divided into 10 regiments, 100 teams, and 1,000 troops, and they were managed at different levels, and everyone was responsible for their own leaders at the next level.
In a short time, a hundred captains gathered from the sheds on all sides.
"Line up!"
As soon as the sophomore shouted, the captains below began to line up, and soon a team of ten people formed a square.
"Please Shen Dongjia speak!" The second year of high school spoke like thunder, which was used to shouting in the army.
Shen Qingyu came out from behind Qi Yunxiao and stood at the front.
Shen Qingyu looked at the people in the square below, and then at the homeless people who were watching, and asked loudly: "Have you still adapted to it these days?" ”
The homeless people replied, "...... Adapt. ”
The captains and regimental commanders of the dragon guards shouted in unison: "Adapt! ”
"Do you want to live here and survive? Or do you want to continue to be an outcast? ”
The people below looked at each other: of course they wanted to survive, and it was better to live and survive.
But now, there is no field here!
Even if you want to open up the wasteland, what will you eat in the past six months before the grain is planted?
Can this thick porridge be guaranteed all the time?
Liu Xiangwu, a captain outside the team, couldn't help but raise his hand high.
Shen Qingyu raised his hand and signaled: "You say." ”
"Shen Dongjia, we must want to survive, otherwise we wouldn't have been homeless at the beginning, and we would have been done with a rope at home."
Everyone nodded their heads, and the words reached the hearts of the homeless.
"If you can stay, you can eat, and you don't starve, of course you want to stay here."
The crowd nodded again.
"But now...... We have no land, and we have no money, can you and Lord Qi take care of our food for the next half a year? ”
Everyone nodded frantically and looked at Shen Qingyu with burning eyes.
Shen Qingyu smiled: "I'm here for this today." ”
"As long as you listen to the arrangement and do it steadfastly, I will take care of you two meals of thick porridge and salted vegetables a day in the past six months."
You really can't starve to death!
The homeless people suddenly looked happy, and the buzzing discussion suddenly rose.
Shen Qingyu raised his hand and pressed down: "But I won't give this meal for nothing, I'll advance it to you first!" You have to pay it back! ”
The discussion went down in an instant, and the homeless people looked terrified.
"Because it is a famine year, the price of miscellaneous grains has been forty yuan a catty, and the daily consumption of grain for each person is set at eight yuan a day.
The homeless people rioted again.
During the famine, many people sold their sons and daughters, and some sold themselves into slavery, turning from good citizens to lowly people.
In order for future generations to have a chance, they don't want to be untouchable, so they insist on being exiles.
The Wu Commander Liu Xiangwu raised his hand again and spoke: "What if you can't do it yet?" ”
Shen Qingyu smiled again: "I know what you are worried about, let me talk about the situation first, everyone will see if this thing will work, if you think it will not work, you will leave immediately." ”
"I'm going to leave immediately after hearing this, I won't keep you, and I don't want you to pay a penny for what you have eaten before."
"Shen Dongjia, please speak."
After the head of the regiment spoke, everyone quieted down again and stared at Shen Qingyu again.
Shen Qingyu lifted a bamboo basket at his feet: "My basket is full of chili seeds, you are no stranger to this thing, right?" ”
Everyone nodded.
Chili peppers, what's so unfamiliar?
When there is no food to eat at home, a bowl of fried chili peppers can serve several meals!
"Now there is no field, only barren mountains and wasteland, and you have opened up a lot of barren land these days, and your next task is to grow chili peppers."
"For every ten people, take ten catties of chili seeds back, plant one catty of chili seeds on one acre of land, and ten catties of chili seeds are ten acres of land."
"How many chili peppers can be planted in an acre of land, do you know in your hearts?"
An old farmer who is familiar with planting replied: "Generally speaking, one acre of land can have 500 catties of fresh red peppers." ”
In modern society, those who specialize in growing chili peppers produce 2,000 catties of chili peppers per acre!
It's just that there are no chemical fertilizers and pesticides here, and the output is naturally much less.
Shen Qingyu borrowed this sentence and said: "Yes, if it is planted, there can be five hundred catties of fresh red peppers in one acre of land, and how many red peppers can there be in ten acres of land?" ”
Some of the captains shouted in the group who knew how to count: "Five thousand catties!" ”
"Yes, I will buy red peppers for five pennies a pound. As long as there are no pests and fresh red peppers, they are all purchased at a pound of five pennies! If it's 5,000 catties, how much money can you have? ”
The numbers were too big, and they didn't speak for a while, and some people didn't have enough fingers, so they began to break their toes and pull straw sticks.
Someone in the captain's group responded: "Twenty-five taels of silver!" ”
"Hiss......"
The people below immediately inhaled cool air!
Ten people in a team, can you receive twenty-five taels of silver?!
What if you change it to grains......
Shen Qingyu knew that they had never learned the ninety-nine multiplication table, so he directly told them the answer: "There can be six hundred and twenty-five catties of grain!" ”
Everyone: "!! ”
"What if you grow peppers in spring and autumn?"
"Ten acres of land to plant two peppers, as long as you plant them well, you can exchange 1,250 catties of miscellaneous grains a year."
"Distributed to everyone, one person can have more than 120 catties of grain a year! Will they still starve to death? ”
More than 100 pounds a year?
Wouldn't that person be able to eat more than three taels of grain a day?
You won't be starving to death if you boil porridge and drink it!
Everyone's hearts were warm, and their eyes were shining as they looked at Shen Qingyu.
Shen Qingyu picked up another basket: "Everyone is busy with the work of the ten acres of land, if you still have the energy to spare, you can also grow more peppers, or plant soybeans, I will also harvest soybeans, I will harvest as many as you plant......
"What is the price of soybeans?" Someone immediately asked.
"The current price of soybeans in the grain shop is 40 wen per catty, if you grow it and sell it in the same way as the grain shop, I will collect it according to the price of the grain shop that day!"
"Of course, you also have to spend money to buy soybean seeds. The price is also calculated according to the price of the current grain store. Forty pounds of soybean seeds. ”
There was an immediate uproar below.
A family of ten people, if they go all out to do it, it is not a problem to plant 20 acres of land, and there are busy and idle farming times!
So do that...... Don't say you can't starve to death, maybe you can still have enough to eat?!
At this time, the peasants may not be able to eat a few full meals when they are at home, but if they leave their hometown and come here, they can eat a full meal......
Everyone was instantly enthusiastic.