Chapter 230: Reclamation and Seedling Cultivation...

Rong Ting nodded. "I have a farm near the capital. How about planting some there?"

"Okay. It's almost done. Let's go to Jinyang Prefecture to plant it."

As Shen Yunyue spoke, she listed several watermelon planting locations.

Rong Ting ordered someone to bring the paper.

Draw the place Shen Yunyue mentioned.

After Shen Yunyue finished talking about watermelon, she looked at Uncle Yun Ba and Uncle Yun Jiu.

"Yunjiazhuang also grows some watermelons. We can sell them or eat them ourselves."

After a pause, Shen Yunyue continued:

"I have another idea for growing potatoes."

"Growing potatoes? The yield is acceptable, but potatoes are cheap and not easy to store." Rong Ting has several farms under his name, and Young Master Rong also has several farms entrusted to him to manage.

He naturally knows what to plant most cost-effectively.

Shen Yunyue whispered:

"The price is cheap, but the yield is high. Potatoes can be processed into potato flour, vermicelli... and a small food workshop can be formed."

"High output." Uncle Yun muttered to himself:

"The potato yield is about 600 to 700 kilograms per mu of land."

"Uncle Eighth, the yield of the potatoes I have planted will be at least two to three thousand kilograms as long as they are properly taken care of." Shen Yunyue was understating the matter. After all, grain production was low in ancient times, and she was afraid of scaring them.

"puff……."

Both Uncle Yun and Rong Ting squirted.

Li Weiyang didn’t understand these things, she had no idea.

Uncle Yun Jiu almost vomited.

Fortunately he held back.

"Yun Yue, are you telling the truth?" Uncle Yun asked excitedly.

Food was a big problem. The people of Yunjiazhuang lived deep in the mountains. Every year they would store a lot of dried wild vegetables and some animal meat to barely get through the lean season.

What if it’s two or three thousand kilograms?

All the land in his Yunjiazhuang was planted with potatoes.

Rong Ting also calculated the output of his farm in his mind. If the potatoes he planted really produced more than 2,000 kilograms per mu.

His farm was renamed Potato Farm.

Shen Yunyue glanced at them nonchalantly and used the lid of the teacup to remove the tea foam.

He teased Rong Ting and said:

"I've never seen the world."

"That's a lot. There are only two things I'm worried about right now, besides potatoes, and the other is cotton."

"Shen Yunyue, do you understand what you mean?" Rong Ting calmed down. "If this is true, it will benefit all people in the world."

“It’s best not to promote it yet.”

“We need to show everyone there is a real precedent.”

Shen Yunyue knew what Rong Ting was worried about. "I told the people in Baijia Village who wanted to plant to come and buy seeds from me."

"They won't buy it." Rong Ting insisted.

Shen Yunyue knew they wouldn’t buy it, but she just wanted to say hello first.

"That's fine. Potatoes are ready for harvest in just three or four months, so we should plant at least two crops a year."

"If I don't tell them, the people of Baijia Village will think I'm a traitor. But if I tell them, they'll naturally beg me to plant potatoes next season."

Seeing Shen Yunyue's serious face.

Everyone else was also thinking seriously, especially Fu Xuanheng, who didn't say a word from beginning to end.

Everyone understood that Fu Xuanheng believed in Shen Yunyue.

"I support you. I'll take them to Yunjiazhuang to plant."

Uncle Yun was the first to express his support, saying that those who know how to farm don’t necessarily have to be experienced farmers.

Rong Ting thought for a while and then raised his head.

"I have a farm in Shihanzhou, and I'll use it all to grow potatoes."

Shen Yunyue chuckled:

"I don't have that many potato seedlings for you. Plant the rest in cotton."

"Cotton? Do you know how low the yield is?"

"Cotton has always been used by the rich. Ordinary people use hemp for warmth. At most, they use rabbit skin..."

Rong Ting said several sentences in a row.

"The yield of what I want to grow will definitely not be low." Shen Yunyue interrupted Rong Ting.

"I think these places are good for growing cotton. But we don't have land there?" Shen Yunyue pointed out several places on the map of Da Zhou.

"There's one more thing. I don't want Prince Li and the others to know that this was done by me." After a pause, Shen Yunyue looked up at the sky in the distance. "At least, I won't let them know for the next two years."

Fu Xuanheng reached out and held Shen Yunyue's left hand tightly.

"Yunyue, I have a farm in Jiangnan and Jinyang Prefecture. But they are not under my name." Fu Xuanheng actually didn't remember how many properties he had.

When he was very young, his father gave him a group of people and several shops and farms to manage on his own.

Tossing and turning.

He expanded those industries into a empire.

Fu Xuanheng knew very well that his property must not be discovered by the royal family, so he always secretly let Ling Moxuan handle his money.

"I'm currently lacking a few managers who know how to farm. It would be best if I could study and do what I want to do myself." Shen Yunyue looked at Fu Xuanheng.

"Okay. I'll have Jiang Chong send a few over."

Rong Ting also looked up and asked, "Shall I go buy a few for you?"

Fu Xuanheng pondered for a moment and said:

"Let's go to Shihan County in a few days and then look for a dental clinic."

"Whatever. Just tell me if you need me."

Shen Yunyue smiled and said, "There really is a place where I need you."

Rong Ting touched his nose and knew that the couple was used to ordering people around.

Shen Yunyue picked a few places near Baijia Village, not far from the foot of the mountain.

"Buy these pieces of land for me."

"It's also a wasteland, so I can reclaim it. If you spend a few dozen taels of silver, you can buy this large piece of wasteland directly."

Rong Ting glanced at the location on the map and agreed immediately.

"It's a small matter. Leave it to me."

Shen Yunyue asked Fu Xuanheng to find a few people to level a two-acre square piece of land south of the Fu family.

"The land needs to be fenced off. I'm going to use it as a test field for growing rice seedlings."

Fu Xuanheng nodded and asked someone to call Ah Si over.

Ah Si came over in a hurry.

The more Shen Yunyue spoke, the more surprised she became.

"I'll get someone to level the land right now. I guarantee the job will be done within two days." Ah Si couldn't suppress his excitement. "It's just that we don't have any paddy fields."

These days, he has found a group of women and older people in the village to reclaim wasteland.

He used Ah Si's own money.

He was concerned about the future of the Shen family. Ah Si had long regarded this family as his own.

"Uncle Si, Rong Ting will buy dozens of acres of paddy fields."

"Okay, I'll go find someone now." Ah Si said and walked out.

Rong Ting looked at Ah Si and smiled, "Ah Si is truly loyal. I saw him the other day looking for someone to reclaim the wasteland."

Shen Yunyue smiled proudly, "Uncle Si is our family."

"The abundance of wild animals in Taiping Mountain may not be a bad thing for us. The land at the foot of the mountain is fertile and suitable for growing a variety of crops.

Besides, there is plenty of rain. It wouldn't be difficult to level a few paddy fields near the stream."

Uncle Yun is concerned about the people in Yunjiazhuang.

Hearing this, he looked up and said, "There's also a river running through Yunjiazhuang. Can we grow rice there?"

"Sure. I'll teach you how to grow seedlings?"

Uncle Yun shook his head when he heard this, "It would be better if you grow the seedlings here and we can transport some back."

He knows how to kill people, so how can he know how to grow seedlings?

As for letting those people in Yunjiazhuang cultivate the seedlings? Uncle Yun knew very well that this was Shen Yunyue's secret recipe and he couldn't let others study it.

Seeing this, Shen Yunyue didn't say much.

The next few days were busy.

The potatoes were cut into small pieces and mixed with wood ash. The Shen family led the hired laborers to plant potatoes in the fields.

Shen Yunyue had unknowingly reclaimed a large piece of land.

No one dared to ask how this land was reclaimed.

ask?

Fu Xuanheng would give her a cold look and say something cold. "My people reclaimed the land. Let them come find you?"

Everybody shut up.

Shen Yunyue planned to plant watermelons behind the Shen and Fu families' houses, in the area between the stream and the foot of the mountain.

She also grabbed a handful of watermelon seeds for the Lu family.

Shen Yunyue took advantage of the space and bought various farming machines. In the middle of the night, when no one was around, she would unleash the machines and dig trenches about six feet apart.

The next day, I told Mr. Shen to plant the watermelon seeds in the ditch using the snow sowing method.

Put two seeds in each hole and cover with a thin layer of soil.

Just irrigate once.

Shen Yunyue gave some watermelon seeds and potato seedlings to Uncle Yun to take back.

Uncle Yun Ba and Uncle Yun Jiu carried the large sacks and walked back and forth twice before they finally transported all the potatoes back.

You don't need many watermelon seeds, just a small cloth bag.

The Lu family came over and bought some potato sprouts.

Shen Yunyue asked Ou Ruoyang and the others if they planned to work for the Shen family forever?

Or do you want to go back to farming?

After discussing it, they decided to stay in the Shen family and work.

Shen Yunyue nodded. Asking them, a group of women, to cultivate the land wasn't entirely realistic. "That's fine. Your salaries and year-end bonuses will be adjusted when the time comes."

Ou Ruoyang, Tang Yun and others agreed immediately.

As expected, no one from Baijia Village came to Shen Yunyue to buy potatoes to plant. Everyone thought that the young lady of the Fu family could be unreliable at times.

When did they, who made a living from the land, need to ask a young girl for advice?

What surprised Shen Yunyue was that the Qing Gang members did not attack immediately.

It seemed as if nothing had happened.

She didn't think this was a good thing, but she didn't have time to think about it now.

Spring is the season for sowing.

After the two mu of paddy field was leveled, Shen Yunyue used a shovel to dig a hole in the paddy field near the stream. She watched the water from the stream flow into the paddy field, quickly soaking it.