Cultivation Starts From Planting Sweet Potatoes

The tenants in this world are very industrious, and they are not very demanding. As long as they can fill their stomachs, they are satisfied.

It's just that the crops in the field are still not ripe yet, so even if they work hard to make a flower, it's useless, and the crops in the field won't ripen one day earlier.

There is no additional source of income, but at this time of year, the price of grain will rise sharply. The corn has risen to eight cents a pound, and the cheapest acorns have also risen to two cents a pound.

Naturally, Wanjia Rice Store took the opportunity to drive up the price, smashed the tenants' bones and sucked the marrow, and tried their best to squeeze them.

Now I heard that you can get two meals by working as a coolie, and there will be wages in addition, such a good thing, where can I find it?

For a time, almost everyone gathered around Zhang He to sign up to be a coolie.

These applicants, Zhang Hedu is not far behind, and all of them are accepted.

When Zhang He led more than 100 people out of the market, the eyes of the children of the Wan family behind him were full of resentment, as if the flesh to his mouth was robbed.

At the foot of Qifeng Mountain, when old man Zhang saw that Zhang He led a large group of people back, he was really startled.

"He'er, why are you doing this? How much food do you have to eat every day for so many people?"

Old Man Zhang pulled Zhang He aside and asked quietly, and he was so anxious that he was about to stamp his feet.

"He'er, the population is cheap now. Even if you pick some little girls back to be your daughter-in-law, it's more cost-effective than bringing back such a group of big men."

"Father, you see that Qifeng Mountain is so big, and it has only been cultivated so far. If you open it up earlier, you can plant crops earlier, and we are not at a loss."

Anyway, everyone was brought back by Zhang He. Old man Zhang could do anything, but he made up his mind secretly that he would never let Zhang He go to the next market, he had to go in person.

The five sheep that Zhang He bought this time are exactly one male and four females, and three of them are still pregnant.

The reproductive capacity of sheep is very strong. Newborn lambs can be sexually mature in half a year. The gestation time is about 140 days. There are one to three lambs per litter, two per year.

If they are fed properly, only these five breeding sheep can breed a large flock next year.

When Fat Hu saw the five sheep he bought, he held a sheep with flowers on its head and seemed to like it very much. Zhang He simply gave him the task of herding the sheep.

Apart from the wave of bandits around Qifeng Mountain, there was no one inhabited. Because of the remote location, it was difficult for Wanjia to control it. This kind of environment was suitable for raising sheep.

And for now, the weeds on Qifeng Mountain alone are enough to raise dozens of sheep.

These newly recruited coolies are also arranged to reclaim wasteland, but their treatment is much worse than that of the guards.

Twice a day, corn and sweet potato vines are cooked together, and you can also receive a copper plate.

With the participation of more than 100 people, the speed of land reclamation has been much faster. In more than half a month, 40 acres of new land have been reclaimed.

Now there are nearly 100 mu of wasteland that has been reclaimed on Qifeng Mountain.

But so far only 40 acres have been planted with soybeans, and it is a bit late to plant soybeans in the newly reclaimed wasteland.

In the past few days, a batch of sweet potatoes has just been harvested in the space. Zhang He cut these sweet potato vines into small sections with two knots and a leaf in the space.

Then every day when he went out for a walk, he would bring back a large basket of sweet potato vines. As for the excuse, don't ask, it must have been given by the immortal master behind him.

Zhang Heneng was favored by the Immortal Master, so that his guards and coolies greatly admired and worshipped him.

These sweet potato vines are arranged for cuttings into the newly cultivated fields.

Zhang He's control of sweet potato vines is extremely strict. The number of vines sent out must be equal to the number inserted in the ground, and there can be no less than one.

The main crops are sweet potatoes, which are too easy to grow. As long as a section of sweet potato vines flows out, it may no longer be unique to him.

If the surrounding tenant farmers plant such high-yielding sweet potatoes, their income may increase in a short time, but the tenants have no land in their hands, and then the rent will definitely rise, and the tenant farmers will eventually return to a state of barely subsistence.

Zhang He didn't want to take out the things that were unique to him, and in the end he would only take advantage of those greedy landlords of the Wan family.

More than 100 people were divided into two halves. One part was responsible for cuttings, and the other half needed to fetch water from the creek at the foot of the mountain to water the sweet potato vines that had just been cut.

This water flow was too small, and everyone drank the water in it several times. As a result, the progress of sweet potato vine cuttings could only be temporarily slowed down.

Because the weather is very hot now and there has been no rain for many days, the sweet potato cuttings will have a very low survival rate without watering.

In fact, although sweet potatoes are relatively drought tolerant, if the drought is too severe, it will still affect the yield.

"Young master, sweet potato vines have been planted in the newly reclaimed vacant land, and all the sweet potato vines are missing. I wonder what your plan is next?"

At this time, Wei Peng was holding a piece of torn paper with some accounts he had recorded on it, looking like a big housekeeper.

Now the coolies and the guards call him Old Master Zhang and Zhang He as Young Master.

In this regard, the old man is still very satisfied. He never thought that he would be today in his lifetime. In his impression, only the great people of the Wan family will be called masters.

Therefore, UU reading www. uukanshu.com was the first coolie to call him Master, and Old Man Zhang gave a sweet potato in a rare and bold manner.

Zhang He didn't care too much about this title, he felt that their father and son should be the most humble master and son.

Their father and son still live in a thatched hut, and their clothes are also very ordinary linen clothes, with patches adorned on top of each other.

"In the future, there may be more and more people here, and the entire Qifeng Mountain will be reclaimed. The water source of this stream alone is obviously not enough.

Starting tomorrow, let everyone surround the foot of the mountain, deepen the middle, and build a pond that can hold water. "

Zhang He pointed to a spot at the foot of the mountain. The terrain is not high, the soil is soft, and the total area is about one or two acres of land.

"Ah? Do you need to dig this big?"

Wei Peng was very surprised when he heard this. With the existing manpower on the mountain, even if he worked hard for a year, he might not be able to dig it well.

It is equivalent to employing more than 100 people to work for a year, during which the expenditure consumes countless money and food, but there is no income.

This is not something that ordinary people can afford. Even thousands of families rarely build water ponds on their own initiative, and they can only rely on natural water sources for farming.

In terms of consumption, Zhang He has long calculated that with the current income from sweet potato production in the space, it should be enough to feed more than 100 people.

After all, the labor force is cheap. As long as they can eat a bite, there are a lot of people willing to come and work here.

He recruited a group of people from the market last time to come back, and now the news has spread. In the past few days, several people have found Qifeng Mountain to seek refuge, and all of them have been accepted by Zhang He as coolies.

There is still some time before the summer grain harvest, and there should be tenants who can't survive.