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Generally speaking, for sweet potato cultivation, one acre of land requires fifty kilograms of sprouted sweet potato root pieces.
¡° But it was his first time to plant. Liu Mingqi was not an agriculturist, so of course he didn¡¯t know how to measure. He could remember the approximate spacing and sowing density, so he didn¡¯t lose face as a child from the countryside.
More than two hundred kilograms of sweet potatoes that came from afar, including germination and so on, totaled more than three hundred kilograms, which Liu Mingqi divided into a total of ten acres of land for sowing.
Liu Mingqi planted this small ten acres of land scattered in the four directions of the imperial capital in the southeast, northwest and northwest.
He was worried that if the feng shui of any place became a problem and caused problems in sweet potato planting, he would burst into tears.
A dignified engineering dog and experimental dog is actually worried to the point of having superstitious ideas!
This shows how nervous the boy is.
No wonder Liu Mingqi.
Anyone who knows the functions of sweet potatoes will treat them like a treasure.
"Originally, he used 20 people to take care of it. After recruiting 707 and a half-year-old teenagers from the briquette workshop, he sent an additional 20 people to handle it.
In fact, it doesn¡¯t take that many people to take care of ten acres of land.
But on the one hand, Liu Mingqi was too nervous, and on the other hand, he wanted more people to be familiar with the process of planting and maintaining sweet potatoes from the beginning and to train professional talents, so he sent so many people to take care of it.
Today Liu Mingqi came to the sweet potato experimental field in the east of the city.
This experimental field is the largest in the southeast and northwest, covering three acres.
The location is inside the Sugar Workshop, next to the wall.
The sugar workshop covers an area of ??more than 300 acres, and it is still expanding. It is easy to divide several acres.
Although everyone finds it strange and wonders what the young prince is up to, it can be seen that everyone in Prince Yu's palace has recognized Liu Mingqi's magic and never doubted his ability.
Even though they could see that they were growing crops, they felt that they must be unusual crops.
Liu Mingqi felt very happy when she saw a piece of green sweet potato leaves covering the entire land, with lush branches and leaves.
"Is it ready to be harvested?" Liu Mingqi asked the young supervisor standing by.
The name of the young supervisor is Yu Zheng. He was originally a son of Prince Yu¡¯s family. Although he was not very smart, he was very down-to-earth and serious about his work, so Manager Tian chose him to plant sweet potatoes for Liu Mingqi.
Hearing this, Yu Zheng nodded and shook his head: "The sweet potatoes growing in some places are already very big, but in some places they are still not ready. The old farmer means to wait a little longer, and there will be no shortage of time."
In order to grow sweet potatoes well, Prince Yu¡¯s Mansion specially hired many old farmers to provide guidance on planting.
Although they may not be uneducated, they have been dealing with farming for a lifetime, and their experiences and lessons are very important.
Yu Zheng did not treat them badly. The monthly salary of five taels per person was more than that of most farmers, and it was much more cost-effective than farming by themselves.
So this group of old farmers simply handed over their land to their children to take care of it, and they took the people from Prince Yu's Mansion to soak in the fields all day long.
The vigorously growing sweet potato fields that Liu Mingqi sees now are largely due to them.
There are specialties in the technical industry. Although ordinary people in the new era, no matter how good they are in planting fields, they are not as good as those in the financial industry. But in this ancient time, experienced old farmers have always been treasures!
It¡¯s just that the rulers pay little attention to it.
Not to mention ancient times, but also modern times, aren¡¯t there those big grain farmers who have owned thousands or tens of thousands of acres of land to grow food?
The money they give to ordinary workers is 30,000 yuan a year, but experienced and capable old farmers can get more than 100,000 yuan a year.
This is how people rely on their ability to make a living!
So the old farmers in ancient times can do the same.
They are more honest by nature. After taking so much money, of course they work desperately for your employer. They cannot be lazy.
The boy grew up in a rural area, but because he was focused on studying, he didn¡¯t know the details of planting. But he knew that the sweet potatoes must have been harvested before winter.
Why?
Because every year at the end of autumn, villagers dig cellars to store sweet potatoes.
It is already September, and in another month at most, the sweet potatoes will be harvested.
But the young man¡¯s current heart is alsoI don¡¯t like the shortcomings of spanking and so on, but what else did ancient people choose?
Food that can make you feel full, food that can keep your family from going hungry, this is a gift from God!
Isn¡¯t it because of the emergence of sweet potatoes, potatoes and corn in the Qing Dynasty, especially after sweet potatoes were introduced, that the population suddenly increased from 40 million in the late Ming Dynasty to 500 million?
If it were not for the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, the Nian Army and other rebellions, which reduced the population south of the Yangtze River by more than 100 million, by the time of the fall of the Qing Dynasty, our country's population would have skyrocketed to 670 million.
The Qing Dynasty was not wealthy. They did not know how to do business at all. They had a large number of bannermen to support, and overseas trade was also very poor. It was far worse than the Ming Dynasty, let alone compared with the Song Dynasty.
Why do they feed so many people?
Isn¡¯t it because of the support of these high-yielding crops?
During the Qing Dynasty, Gansu, Shaanxi, Sichuan, Guizhou, Yunnan, Guangxi and other places gradually became more populous because of the cultivation of sweet potatoes.
Otherwise, in many periods of history, the combined population of these provinces was not as large as the three Jiangnan provinces.
The secret of the true yield of sweet potatoes is currently known only to Liu Mingqi.
He resisted the urge to wake Yu Zheng up.
This kind of horror should not be used on them, but on the emperor and the court officials.
Liu Mingqi is looking forward to it. What will their expressions be like after they see the sweet potato harvest?
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Note: "Hanshu Shihuo Zhi" quotes Li Kui's original words from the Warring States Period: "Today one man can manage a hundred acres of farmland with five people in his arms, and the (acre) annual harvest is one and a half stones." The conversion between the number of acres and the grain yield is roughly equivalent to today's The yield per mu is about 126 pounds.
During the reign of Emperor Renzong of the Song Dynasty, Fan Zhongyan said in his "Ten Matters in Reply to the Imperial Edict": "I know that in Suzhou, the taxable land is 34,000 hectares. Zhongmin's profit is two to three stones per mu." When converted into grain yield, it is roughly equivalent to today's yield per mu of about 360 kilograms.
Some books say that the rice yield per mu in the Qing Dynasty reached nearly 900 kilograms. That was because they counted two seasons of planting per year, added together. However, the yield of 450 kilograms per mu in the Qing Dynasty was still good. (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com - Didn't finish reading? Add this book to your favoritesI'm a member and bookmarked this chapterCopy the address of this book and recommend it to your friends for pointsChapter error? Click here to report
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