In fact, the old man still doesn't completely believe them.
The reason why I used my own land for the experiment was to prevent other villagers from suffering losses.
Xia Tian was squatting on the ground checking the soil when one of the villagers following him shouted, "The village chief is here."
The crowd dispersed, and a middle-aged man in his forties or fifties walked in. Seeing the old man, he greeted him first, "Uncle Jiu."
The old man nodded without saying anything.
This old man is of a relatively high generation in the village, and is a relative of the village chief, so he was quite casual when meeting the village chief.
The villager who asked the village chief to come over had already explained the whole story, so when he saw Shen Nian and the others, he bowed and saluted, "Sir, I am the village chief of Ma'an Village, and my surname is Ma."
"Village Chief Ma!" Shen Nian nodded slightly as a greeting.
"Uncle Jiu, I just heard them say that you want to rent land to this gentleman?" Village Chief Ma first confirmed the news with the old man.
When a villager called him just now, he didn't believe it at all and hurried over, just wanting the villagers to not be cheated.
"Yes." The old man nodded. "This gentleman said there is a better way to grow potatoes that can double the yield."
"The output doubled?" Village Chief Ma asked in surprise.
"That's right, Village Chief Ma." Xia Tian smiled and took over the conversation, "But if you want to double the yield, you must follow my method completely."
Village Chief Ma saw Xia Tian talking to him, thinking that this lady was probably the wife of this gentleman, so he also asked seriously, "Madam, how do you plan to farm the land you rented?"
Xia Tian had just thought about this problem. They rented land here and it was impossible for them to farm it themselves. They didn't have the time or energy.
If you hire someone, you're afraid they won't be dedicated, and it's impossible to keep an eye on them all the time.
The best way is to hire people directly in the village and let them participate in the planting directly, so that when the harvest is harvested later, the difference between the two methods can be known.
"It's like this, Village Chief Ma." Xia Tian cleared his throat. "After we rent the land, we plan to continue to hire this old man or his family to help cultivate the land. We will pay them, and when the harvest comes, no matter how many potatoes we produce, they will all belong to him."
She doesn't want a certain amount of potatoes now, but wants to experiment to see which of the two planting methods is better.
When Village Chief Ma heard this, he thought that not only would the harvest from the fields not be damaged, but he could also earn extra wages, which was more cost-effective than working in the city.
So he didn't stop him anymore.
When the other villagers heard about this good news and saw that the village chief had no objection, they also became active and said, "Sir, we can rent you a piece of my land."
"My house is fine too."
"And mine."
The villagers began to talk about their own land.
"Stop arguing! Listen to the adults." Village chief Ma shouted.
The chattering villagers around were instantly silenced!
Xia Tian spoke to Shen Nian for a few words, discussed it, and then said.
“Fellow villagers, if every family rents a piece of land, we cannot use it, but in addition to this old man’s, we plan to rent two more plots of land.
But I have a requirement, the soil must be different from this land."
"What do you mean? I don't understand!" The villagers didn't quite understand what she said.
Xia Tian explained, "I just looked at this old man's land, it's quite fertile.
Then the other two plots of land, which are worse than this one, should be used to grow potatoes. In this way, we can plant potatoes on three different plots and see the differences."
Village Chief Ma understood, "Madam, do you mean the three types of land, upper, middle and lower?"
"Yes." Xia Tian nodded. "Then we can see which land has the highest yield."
"Madam, please rent my house. I have a piece of land that has just been reclaimed. It is low-quality land."
"My family has a piece of land that's better than the wasteland."
"I have one at home, too."
The villagers began to argue again about choosing their own land.
It was not easy for Xia Tian to decide this matter directly, so he asked Village Chief Ma to make the decision.
Village chief Ma did not hide his selfish motives and chose two of the poorer families in the village.
It can be considered as helping them in disguise.
Xia Tian learned about the situations of these three families. Although they were poor, they had no shortage of labor.
Then she can hire someone with confidence.
Otherwise, it won’t work without labor.
A group of people followed them to look at the two pieces of land. Xia Tian took a look around and found that they met her requirements.
So he told Shen Nian that he was going to rent these three plots of land.
These three plots of land are about one acre each, which is easy to calculate.
After making up his mind, Shen Nian spoke directly to Village Chief Ma.
"Village Chief Ma, we should sign an agreement for these three plots of land. The planting methods must be in accordance with what we said. If the hired people don't plant according to our agreement, I will punish them."
Shen Nian said with both kindness and force, fearing that these villagers would pretend to obey but actually disobey after they left.
Village Chief Ma quickly agreed with a smile, "Don't worry, sir. I'm watching over this and will definitely not let anything go wrong."
After it was settled, several people went to the village chief's house to sign the agreement, and Shen Nian paid the land rent.
The money for the potatoes will be paid after they are planted and grown.
The wages are paid when the potatoes are harvested.
Xia Tian wrote down the planting method in detail, clearly describing every step from seed selection, germination, cutting, bunching, planting, and plant spacing.
He copied a copy, gave it to Village Chief Ma, and kept a copy for himself.
Now is the planting time, and the potatoes in many villagers' homes have already sprouted, so there is no need to germinate them separately.
In order to ensure the implementation, Chen Nian and his group simply settled down in Ma'an Village.
Village chief Ma vacated a few rooms for them, and they bought some rice and flour from the village chief's house to cook their own meals.
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