Aunt Lei's husband nodded: "I haven't finished planting the rice seedlings yet. If I don't plant them during the Grain in Ear season, there's no point in planting more! Let's hire someone! I'm too busy! I'm exhausted!"
"Please, please hire a few more people. I can't bear it any longer! I'm too tired to work anymore!"
... ...
Village chief Gu's words were echoed by hundreds.
Originally, everyone thought that since the weather was good these few days, they would harvest the wheat first, dry it and store it in the warehouse, and then do other things.
After all, summer rains come at any time, and it is impossible to predict when the next rain will come or how many days it will last. If the wheat gets moldy or sprouts, it will be a big loss!
But this year's wheat harvest is great, and every household has a lot more land, and the workshops are also bustling with activity!
After holding out for several days, this group of men who were not afraid of fatigue or hardship realized that they really couldn't do it any longer!
In recent days, they are busy with workshop work during the day, and then go to the fields to help harvest after finishing the work in the workshop. They usually work in the fields until dark before they finish their work. After finishing their work, they rush to the threshing ground to harvest the wheat that has been drying all day, and then spread out the newly harvested wheat.
Now they are spreading out the new wheat that came in today.
The sky is full of twinkling stars tonight. It usually doesn't rain on nights like this. Although there will be some morning dew near dawn, it is not heavy. In addition, there is residual heat on the ground in the threshing yard, and there will be wind at night, which can still make the newly harvested wheat drier.
In this way, they won't have to spread the wheat out to dry tomorrow morning. They can get up early and go directly to the workshop, and also gain more time to harvest the wheat.
Near midnight, a group of men finished their work and leaned against the half-dried wheat in sacks, eating and chatting.
Village Chief Gu: "The wheat harvested on the first day will be completely dry tomorrow after another day of drying. Then we can weigh it and report it to Lord Ren. Everyone should come back from the workshop early every day and do this first!"
Gu Yuxia: "I feel like a thousand pounds!"
One thousand and one acres of land can harvest four sacks of wheat, and they are not too full, about three hundred pounds.
Now I have harvested twelve sacks from one acre of land, and each sack is full. Although it is not completely dry yet, it is 90% dry!
"One thousand three hundred pounds can't walk!"
"If not 1,300, then at least 1,200!"
"I guess there are fifteen hundred!"
"One thousand five hundred is too much of an exaggeration! At most, it's over one thousand three hundred! It's definitely not one thousand five hundred!"
"How about we make a bet?"
"Hit me if you want! If you don't have fifteen hundred, can you fill it up for me?"
"Fuck you!"
"With Xing Nong here, sooner or later I'll be able to grow 1,500 kilograms of wheat. I never thought that one acre of land could grow more than 1,000 kilograms of wheat!"
... ...
That night, the villagers slept in the threshing ground with their dogs to prevent anyone from stealing the wheat. They were so tired that they soon began to snore. The fragrance of wheat mixed with the scent of the sun filled the air. In their dreams, they were busy calculating the yield of wheat per mu!
The sun rose and set. In the threshing ground, two villagers worked in a group, carrying long scales, and weighed bags of wheat.
Ren Zilin personally came to Taohua Village to see the average per-acre yield of the villagers in Taohua Village.
Not only did Ren Zilin come himself, but he was also brought with him by more than a dozen county magistrates from neighboring counties.
The county magistrates had heard that Futai County had a bumper wheat harvest, with the wheat being fuller than that grown in Zhao State, so they came to see if it was true. Even the prefect came!
In addition, Ren Zilin also brought two yamen runners and a legal advisor to help with the registration, and the prefect also brought some people to help.
The people from the government office are responsible for weighing the yield per mu of Xingnong's family. They are weighing the wheat harvested from one mu of field, and they have already weighed the last bag!
Ren Zilin glanced at the mark on the long scale and asked, "How much is this?"
The yamen runner was so excited that his voice trembled: "One hundred and thirty-two pounds! Sir, one hundred and thirty-two pounds!"
The master in charge of registration was counting on his abacus: "One thousand, one hundred and sixty-nine catties, plus one hundred and thirty-two catties! The total is one thousand, three hundred and one catties! One thousand, three hundred and one catties per mu!"
The master's voice was shaking!
Although they had guessed it a long time ago, the villagers were pleasantly surprised when it really exceeded 1,300 kilograms!
"It's over 1,300! Haha! God has pity on us!"
"That's 600 to 700 kilograms more than Zhao's wheat! Haha, 600 to 700 kilograms more than Zhao's wheat, that's almost double!"
"The yield per mu is 1,300 kilograms! Haha, I won't have to go hungry anymore! When the baby in my wife's belly is born, I will call him Qiansan!"
"That's a great name! I'm going to name my grandson Qianwu!"
... ...
The prefect said excitedly: "Quick, calculate the other villagers'!"
This time, there is no escape from promotion and salary increase.
Soon, the per-acre yields of other villagers also came out one after another: 1,190, 1,176, 1,180, 1,230, ... ...
Although not as high as Xingnong's, it is not less than 1,150. This output is enough to make everyone excited!
How can we not be excited when we harvest in just one season as much grain as we used to harvest in a year and a half
There was a villager who was so poor that his whole family, except for him and his sister, starved to death during a famine. At this moment, he was both happy and sad, with tears coming out. He knelt down and said, "Dad! Did you see? God has opened his eyes! We will never go hungry again! Thank God, thank the emperor, thank the prince and princess!
Thank you! Thank you! ... ..”
He knocked his forehead to the ground, kept shouting thank you, and his hot tears dripped onto
When he knelt, he was heading towards the capital. The prefect and officials such as Ren Zilin also knelt down. Seeing this, other villagers also knelt down.
The prefect said in a loud voice: "Your Majesty's grace is great! The Crown Prince and the Crown Princess have brought blessings to the people! Our dynasty has finally grown its own high-yield grain! The people of Chu will never have to go hungry again! Long live Chu! Long live the Crown Prince and the Crown Princess! Long live our emperor! Long live the high-yield grain!"
Other county magistrates also followed suit and shouted!
The people in Taohua Village kept shouting "Thousand live the emperor" and "Long live the emperor" louder and louder, and soon these shouts were heard from other villages as well.
Today's sun sets amidst the shouts of "Long live your life!"
Jin
During the morning court session today, representatives of envoys from various countries also attended. They came to bid farewell to the King of Jin.
Chu Tiankuo received the news of a bumper wheat harvest. The well-informed King of Jin was naturally not slower than him. This was a high-yield grain variety researched by his beloved princess, which was a bargain for the Chu State! But it did not stop him from showing off.
So he specifically asked Chu Tiankuo in front of the envoys: "Prince of Chu, I heard that the wheat you planted yourself had a bumper harvest today?"
Upon hearing this, the Zhao envoy immediately looked over.
The ministers of Jin and the envoys of Yan all looked over.
Food is the foundation of the people!
There is no official who does not know the importance of this.