Li Jin straightened up, his brows furrowing. "Judging from this, it will take another seven or eight days to harvest."
Are you afraid of the rain?
Li Xiangdong knew that Li Jin had taken his great-grandfather's words to heart.
Just keep it to yourself; it will set the stage for you to talk about the rain later.
"It's better to be safe than sorry."
Li Jin walked slowly along the ridge of the field, watching some of his team members diligently pulling up the wheat stalks, while others were just dawdling.
"Dad, look at Liu Baobao, he's lying in the drainage ditch sunbathing with a blade of grass in his mouth!"
Li Xiangdong had sharper eyes and spotted Liu Baobao lying in the grass in the drainage ditch at a glance.
"Hmph! There's not much work to do right now, let him be for now!"
Li Jin silently made a mental note of this young man in his twenties who was not doing anything productive.
"Dad, how much land does our village have in total? What is the yield per mu?"
“Our village has a total of over 1,400 mu of good farmland and 700 people. Each person has a little over two mu of land. In a good year, the yield per mu can reach 200 jin,” Li Jin turned around and gestured two with his hand to Li Xiangdong. “We harvest wheat in summer and corn in autumn. Corn yields more than wheat, reaching 400 to 500 jin per mu.”
Li Xiangdong clicked his tongue in amazement. Later, the wheat yield was easily over a thousand catties per mu!
Needless to say, hybrid corn can yield two to three thousand catties per mu (unit of land area)!
“In good years, our village can harvest 280,000 catties of wheat and 700,000 catties of corn. After paying the public grain and irrigation grain twice a year, a portion of the remaining grain is sold as state-controlled grain, and the rest is distributed to the people.”
"Thirty percent of the grain for public purposes and water conservancy projects must be handed over?"
Li Xiangdong also farmed after he grew up, but in 2006, the state abolished agricultural taxes such as public grain and water conservancy grain, and instead provided subsidies based on the number of acres of land.
"About right," Li Jin counted on the ground with his toes. "280,000 catties of wheat. After delivering the grain to the state, there will be 190,000 catties left. Then, we will sell another 120,000 catties of grain under unified distribution. In the end, each person can get 100 catties of wheat, and the team can get about 12,000 yuan."
According to his father's calculation, "700,000 catties of corn, 210,000 catties of public grain were delivered, and 300,000 catties of state-controlled grain were sold. In the end, each person received 270 catties of corn, and the team earned 30,000 yuan."
“Corn and wheat, one person gets one pound of grain a day, and that's in good times. If God doesn't grant us any food, we won't even get half a pound. Forty-two thousand yuan sounds like a lot. Our village has seven hundred people, more than two hundred of whom are strong laborers and can earn ninety to ten work points a day. The remaining four hundred people, excluding the children who can't work, each earn five work points. You do the math, how much is one work point worth?”
Li Xiangdong did some mental calculations for a moment, "One part of the work will earn you 12 cents."
"Not that many, at most eight-tenths."
Li Jin sighed, "There's also the 'three levies and five unified taxes' system. A grown man can earn at most one pound of grain and eight mao (0.8 yuan) a day. The village only has one hundred yuan left in a year."
"This is all the wealth our village has!"
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