Chapter 806: Yield per Mu
Ezhou has been experiencing drought for some time this year, but there are high-yield grain varieties in northern Hubei, and the entire Ezhou is now using the sacred spring water for irrigation, so the planting of crops looks similar to previous years.
Autumn harvest is the busiest and most important time of the year. Because a lot of new land had been reclaimed this year, the army had made corresponding harvest arrangements. Shen Yong, Ling Yun, Ma Laosi, Sheng Ze, and others were all on the list of those who would rush to harvest.
Of course, Shengze is one of those who joined voluntarily.
Hearing everyone talking about the autumn harvest, Sheng Ze suddenly looked at Shen Qingqian and asked, "Aren't you worried?"
"What?" Shen Qingqian stared at him strangely. Who knew what he was asking?
Sheng Ze pursed his lips and said, "Autumn harvest, if this year's harvest is good..."
Ezhou’s current grain reserves will not last until next year. If this harvest does not produce the expected output, the coming year will be extremely difficult for them.
Shen Qingqian raised her eyebrows when she heard this, "Isn't this something you should be worried about?"
Sheng Ze choked, then reacted and looked at Shen Qingqian again. Sure enough, there was a smile on the corner of his mouth. "I don't believe you are not worried."
"There's no point in me worrying," Shen Qingqian spread her hands and said innocently, "If the harvest isn't good, I can't change it. Instead of worrying about it all day, I might as well let nature take its course."
She is not a savior. She has tried her best to solve the technical problems. If the production reduction is caused by the environment of this world itself, she can do nothing about it.
However, even if the autumn harvest is not ideal, she will not let her loved ones go hungry.
Sheng Ze nodded, "You are right."
Besides, he and Zheng Shicheng had already prepared for this. Even if the harvest was not ideal this time, they had ways to deal with it, at least to prevent people from starving to death to the greatest extent possible.
On the ninth day of July, northern Hubei was the first to start the autumn harvest.
In order to know the harvest situation as soon as possible, Liang Cheng sent all the captives to the battlefield of autumn harvest.
As a result, the problem of insufficient manpower that the people in Huanxiyuan had worried about did not arise. On the contrary, they even had time to chat and enjoy the cool air under the trees.
"Tsk tsk tsk, these foreigners are really something. They look tall and strong, but they can't do anything as well as us." Jiang Goudan sighed.
Wu Laoliu glanced at the field and said, "It doesn't matter if we can't compare. There are many of them. Even if each of them can only do a little, it will give us a break."
"That's right, it would be great if it could be like this every year." Wang Hao supported his head with a silly smile on his face.
Mrs. Lu punctured his fantasy, "Didn't Chief Justice Lu say he would only help us this year? We'll have to rely on ourselves from now on."
"Okay, okay, stop sitting there. Look at what has happened to the wheat they have harvested. Don't make things worse." Jiang Goudan picked up the sickle and stood up quickly, rushing to the field.
Others followed quickly. Although they did not want to be burdened, they could not trust their own land and their own food to outsiders.
Shen Qingqian and the others are in the small valley today, and their situation is similar to that of Jiang Goudan and the others. However, there is a piece of land outside the valley that belongs to the Shen family. The land is planted with high-yield crops such as potatoes and sweet potatoes, and each type of crop is allocated at least three acres of land.
Without saying anything, Shengze took Lingyun to take over the twenty acres of land.
The scales were brought to the field early in the morning. After the five acres of sweet potatoes were harvested, Shen Jun and Shen Shan, who were responsible for weighing, also calculated the yield per acre.
"How much?" Sheng Ze strode over and asked.
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