Seeing that the sun was high in the sky and it was getting late, Qiao Xin signaled Li Zhong to end the meeting as soon as possible. Li Zhong glanced at Cao, who knocked the gong in his hand, and heard someone shouting not far away: "Make way, everyone make way!"
A path was automatically separated from the crowd. Jiang Dahai was seen holding a small branch, busying himself with pushing the fourth and second brothers from the northern path to the wheat field.
The second brother came over trotting with a big red flower tied around his neck, twisting his fat butt, and humming.
It was the first time for everyone to see such a fat, strong, and sleek domestic pig. Their eyes sparkled: "Fuck, this is a domestic pig, how come it is so fat?"
"Look at the fur on his body, it's shiny black, without a speck of dirt. The flesh on his butt is so firm."
"It looks like it weighs about 200 to 300 kilograms. I don't know what it was fed, but how did it grow so fat? It must be worth at least 300 to 400 taels of silver..."
Qiao Xin signaled Jiang Dahai to drive the big fat pig for a stroll along the periphery, and then rush to the front of the stage and stand still.
Then he said to everyone, "Thanks to your majesty's great blessing, the Qiao family set up a small pig farm in the early spring, and the pigs are almost ready for sale. Today I will make an exception and select four to reward all the villagers who participated in the autumn harvest.
During the days of rushing to harvest, my Qiao family will provide three meals a day for anyone who comes to help, one meat, one vegetable and one soup for each meal. There will be enough food. And all employees will be paid twice the normal salary. "
The people below, especially the outsiders who came to Laohu Town for the first time, were stunned by Qiao Xin's words.
As far as they knew, those who participated in the autumn harvest were either servants and slaves of the Qiao family, or villagers of Laohu Town, people from other villages who came to make a living, and even some soldiers and criminal slaves.
This person is originally supported by the Qiao family, why do they give him such generous extra compensation?
Some people think that Qiao Xin is being generous despite being poor. She doesn't have a rich family background, but she treats her servants so well. Even if she wants to win people's hearts in a short period of time, this method is not a long-term solution.
Human nature is greedy and desires are insatiable. If you cannot maintain such standards, you will suffer backlash in the future.
Women are women, they like to act on impulse. I don’t know why the young masters of the Qiao family let their old mother go through so much trouble. Aren’t they afraid of losing the family property that they have worked so hard to accumulate?
However, the King of Qi knew that Qiao Xin was not acting rashly, and said with emotion: "This old lady Qiao is really generous. Even if she doesn't have her sons to support her, no one can replace the Qiao family's position in Laohu Town."
Xiaoyao Hou also said: "Be willing to give up, be willing to give up, only by giving up can you gain, everyone understands the principle. But when it comes to really doing it, how many people can have the vision and neatness of the old lady. Anyway, I am ashamed of myself."
With Qiao Xin's promise, as soon as the meeting was over, the young wives and old women rushed to the rice fields with sickles in their hands, fearing that they would fall behind others and not be recognized as advanced.
The strong young men and men used ox carts to move all the large farm tools to the fixed production roads. All the heavy physical work involving moving, lifting, carrying and carrying would have to be done by these men!
The children were divided into two teams. The younger ones held small bamboo baskets and followed the adults to pick up rice ears that fell in the rice fields. The older children were early in the morning waiting at the water pestle and water mill next to the mill.
When the adults brought the first cart of rice, they were responsible for looking after the water mill in the mill and husking all the millet to turn it into new rice.
The old lady said that the first bucket of millet today will be distributed to everyone for them to taste.
Even the old man who had a hard time walking came to the threshing floor with a cane to help wash vegetables, light the fire, and lend a hand to the best of his ability.
I have to say that Qiao Xin's appeal is really high. Without anyone's supervision, everyone can consciously find what they want to do! No one wants to be seen as a freeloader and be expelled from Laohu Town.
Qiao Xin, her mother and her two sons were responsible for His Majesty's safety, so they did not take the lead in working in the fields as usual.
A group of people sat at a stone table under a big tree in the backyard of the Qiao family, looking at the two rice ears with obvious differences. They were speechless for a long time.
It was the first time that Qiao Xin saw the primitive rice of this era, and Bena was stunned by the poor grains of rice.
Emperor Wu's people were indeed stunned by the full, drooping ears of grain of the Qiao family.
Xiaoyao Hou hid the shock in his eyes and carefully compared the two different rice ears. It was obvious that the ears planted by the Qiao family had thick stems, many full grains, and almost no shriveled ones.
The grains from the top-quality farmland that she brought from the south were thin-stalked, small, and 30% empty.
"The difference is too obvious. Madam, are you a bastard? How come you look so good? Hurry up and block this news. If it gets out, the noble families in Nanliang will go crazy."
Qiao Xin said calmly: "I have never been to the south, so how could I know the difference is so big? Besides, some of the items have been stolen, so it is too late to block the news now.
In fact, this is still planted on wasteland. If it is planted on good farmland, the yield should be higher. The minimum yield per mu should be 6 to 7 denarii.”
After Qiao Xin said this, everyone remembered that all the land of Qiao Xin's family seemed to have been reclaimed from wasteland.
The high-yield crops in front of them made them subconsciously ignore this objective premise.
Yes, this is newly reclaimed wasteland. What if it is good farmland? Would the yield be doubled?
Emperor Wu suppressed his turbulent emotions and did not dare to ask about this idea out loud.
Qiao Xin's words broke their fantasy: "Don't dream. This kind of crop is just stealing food from the mouth of God. How can the result of one plus one be greater than two? If it is a top-quality farmland, the yield can only increase by 10% or 20% at most. That is only possible under the premise of good weather and no insect pests and diseases. If there is any change, it will be impossible to have a high yield."
"If it is promoted nationwide next year, how confident are we?"
Qiao Xin shook her head and said, "There is not a cent left. The people will not change their minds about what crops they grow just because of a few words from others. If our government enforces it, it will be counterproductive. It would be better to choose a few counties in Weizhou Prefecture with Laohu Town as the center and arrange a separate experimental field so that the local people can see with their own eyes that the local rice can have a bumper harvest. Seeing is believing, and the people are not stupid."
Qiao Xin doesn't mean to discourage everyone's enthusiasm. Agricultural cultivation is not something that can be done on a whim. Various local environments must be taken into consideration.
What's more important is that a large number of professional guidance talents are needed, but there are only thirty to fifty people in Dajing's Sinongjian, and half of them are just here to get by. It's just wishful thinking to expect such a group of people to be responsible for such an important matter.
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