Chapter 509: Keep it a secret as much as possible
Shen Qingqian was well aware of the significance of sweet potatoes to the Hubei Northern Army, so she entrusted this matter to the most stable people in the family.
The Wu family, the Lin family, the Liang family, Mr. Shen, and Shen Qingqian herself.
There were only a few hundred people learning farming in the early stages, so it was not tiring for Shen Qingqian and the others to teach them.
The only bad thing is that the people in the military settlement, like the fugitives in Huanxiyuan, need to finish their own work before they can come to study.
And because Liang Cheng issued a gag order, these people only knew that Shen Qingqian and the others were there to teach them how to grow new crops, but they didn't know information such as the sweet potato yield.
The people in Huanxiyuan can only be happy in secret now. No one dares to tell anyone about the sweet potato production. Even Wu Laoliu and his family's yard were beaten by Chief Xing Lu and his men.
In other words, so far, the only people who know the specific sweet potato production are Huanxiyuan, Jiang Goudan and others, as well as the people in Wu Laoliu's yard.
As for the sweet potatoes harvested by Shen Qingqian and his team this time, except for a small amount kept by each family as food, the rest were purchased by the Hubei Northern Army and used for seeds.
More than 10,000 kilograms of sweet potatoes. Based on the assumption that one mu of land requires 100 kilograms of seed potatoes for seedling cultivation, the sweet potatoes purchased this time can be used to plant more than 120 mu of land.
Northern Hubei is located in the northwest, and spring potatoes are being planted now using single-row ridges. The density of sweet potatoes is not high. Shen Qingqian estimates that he can eventually plant about 140 acres.
If we calculate based on this year's yield of 3,000 kilograms per mu, these fields will yield 420,000 kilograms of sweet potatoes in the autumn harvest!
If 100,000 soldiers in northern Hubei only eat sweet potatoes, and calculate it at one pound per day, these sweet potatoes are far from enough.
But if you mix sweet potatoes with other whole grains and save as much as possible, you should be able to eat them for half a year.
This is only for one season a year, and only 140 acres of land are planted. Once this batch of sweet potatoes is harvested and the planting area is expanded, the military food supply for the Hubei North Army will no longer be a problem.
After some calculations in his mind, Shen Qingqian looked at the people burying the seed potatoes in the ground and murmured, "No wonder Liang Cheng wanted to hide the sweet potato production."
It is indeed necessary to keep it secret as much as possible. If other forces get to know about it, the Hubei Northern Army will clearly have the advantage, and in the end, who knows who will benefit.
It seems that she still hasn't adapted to this world. She still has modern peace-loving ideas in her bones and always wants to ensure that everyone has enough food to eat.
But it’s okay. As long as Shengze and the others can win, she believes that at least the people of Dajin will not go hungry.
In early February, when spring plowing was underway, people all over the land of Dajin picked up their farm tools and hurried to plant all kinds of crops.
"Aruda, why can't we Jun people farm well?"
On the only way to Beijing, Rong Shaomin looked at the people around him who were diligently farming, slowed down his horse's gallop, and his eyes were full of confusion.
The Jun people were originally a nomadic people, but the mountains and rivers have undergone tremendous changes, and the topography changed a hundred years ago, forcing them to settle down.
But for a nation that is used to galloping on horseback, suddenly asking them to become an agricultural nation is really a big challenge.
This was one of the reasons why the Jun tribe attacked Dajin in the first place. They wanted to learn Dajin’s planting techniques.
People who are used to robbing will not be able to change this bad habit in a short time. The Khan of the Jun tribe at that time directly sent troops to attack Linzhou of the Jin Dynasty, but was beaten back by the Jin army at that time.
However, the Jun people are good at fighting and love war. Failure did not make them change their strategy. Over the years, they still only knew how to rob.
It was the first time for Rong Shaomin to go to the heartland of Dajin, and also the first time to see with his own eyes how the people of Dajin planted crops. On the surface, it seemed that they were no different from them.
"That's all for today. I had enteritis last night and was so restless that I didn't recover the entire day. I only wrote a little after taking care of the kids that night. I edited the saved draft and put it up here. I'm so reluctant to put it down. At this rate, I'll be out of drafts soon~"
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