I was the best old lady in ancient times

Chapter 268 Temptation
Going back this time, the goods I brought were several times more than the previous few times.

Because Qingfeng Guards were secretly guarding them, along the way, there were those who had no eyesight and were killed before they appeared in front of the Ning family's caravan.

The previous reputation of the Ning family caravan is familiar to those on the North-South Road.

Now, it's like thunder.

After all, no one wants to fight against a caravan, and the whole village will be wiped out.

After thinking about it again and again, it is natural to hide as far as you can.

Those on the road don't know that the water bandits at Baishuidu in Pei County were also wiped out with the help of the Ning brothers.

Otherwise, it is estimated that there will be more and more people who are afraid.

However, Ning Lao San didn't want this kind of prestige.

My mother had told him repeatedly, keep a low profile and keep a low profile, only by covering your head can you make a fortune.

If it is too high-profile, it is easy to be regarded as a bird on the wall and shot down the wall with an arrow.

By the time Ning Lao San and Ning Lao Si arrive home, the rice of the second season can also be harvested.

And potatoes are harvested for the second time, and sweet potatoes and corn were harvested a month ago.

This time, the yield of sweet potatoes on one mu of land was as high as two thousand catties.

This time, more than 40 mu of land was planted, which is equivalent to harvesting more than 8 sweet potatoes alone.

Of course, it is impossible for Ning Pengpeng to use all of these 8 sweet potatoes to make sweet potato flour. She has to keep the seeds and plan to continue to expand the planting next year!

Therefore, at most half of the sweet potatoes, that is, about [-] sweet potatoes, are left to make sweet potato flour.

Five catties of sweet potatoes can produce about one catty of sweet potato flour, which is equivalent to one mu of land can produce four hundred catties of sweet potato flour.

That is to say, 1 catties of sweet potatoes can produce [-] catties of sweet potato flour, and [-] catties, that is [-] catties of sweet potato flour.

One mu of sweet potato seeds needs about fifty catties, that is, three thousand sweet potato seedlings.

Therefore, the remaining [-] catties of sweet potatoes can be planted on about [-] mu of land.

Although Ning Pengpeng's village has hundreds of acres of fields, Ning Pengpeng does not want to give up planting two crops of rice.

Therefore, she plans to buy some more fields in other places, dedicated to growing sweet potatoes.

Anyway, even if someone stole the sweet potatoes, if they didn't know how to grow them, the yield would not be very high.

Moreover, because of the high output, Ning Pengpeng is not afraid of the loss of being stolen.

The output of corn is less than that of sweet potatoes, about [-] catties per mu of land.

This time, only about [-] acres of corn were planted, so there was only a harvest of [-] jin.

Corn needs about five catties of seeds per mu, so Ning Pengpeng only left one thousand catties, which can plant about two hundred acres of land, and the remaining fourteen thousand catties were all ready to be ground into cornmeal.

Potatoes had already been harvested before, and this was planted again. Although six mu of land was planted, the harvest per mu was about [-] catties.

In this way, more than 1 catties were harvested from six acres of land.

One mu of land needs about [-] catties of potato seeds, that is, [-] potato seedlings.

Ning Pengpeng planted more than 1 catties of potatoes, and planted a total of about [-] acres of land.

It is estimated that when the harvest comes up this time, it is estimated that the output will be about [-].

Ning Pengpeng made some calculations, and suddenly felt that he was really short of land.

It's a pity that the fertile land in these villages is used to grow these coarse grains.

However, sweet potatoes, potatoes, and corn are not as picky as rice.

So, those dry lands can also be planted.

Good land is hard to buy, but dry land is abundant.

After all, the government has announced that as long as someone is willing to open up wasteland and reclaim dry land, the first three years will be tax-free.

Wait until the land is matured before starting to collect taxes.

Moreover, the tax on the dry land obtained from land reclamation is different from the tax on fertile land even after three years.

Therefore, Ning Pengpeng decided to pay someone to reclaim the dry land.

She was at Zhongren's side. After buying only about [-] mu of fertile land, it was difficult to buy a whole piece of fertile land.

But she said she wanted to buy dry land, and within a few days, she bought at least a thousand acres of dry land.

For this, Ning Pengpeng still felt a little lacking.

Therefore, she specially bought another [-] mu of wasteland from Li Weishan, and then hired someone to reclaim it.

After Ning Pengpeng finished these, Li Weishan came to ask her why she bought so much wasteland.

Regarding this, Ning Pengpeng did not hide Li Weishan's own plan.

As for whether Li Weishan should report to the imperial court, that is his business.

Anyway, if she was unfaithful once, she would not use it a hundred times. She didn't believe that the imperial court would give her any rewards!

Li Weishan couldn't believe it when he heard Ning Pengpeng say that the soil pimples had such a high yield.

But Ning Pengpeng bought so much wasteland and asked people to reclaim it, unless she had too much money to burn, otherwise, why did she buy so much wasteland?
Li Weishan really wanted to report this matter to the court again, but he had just been slapped in the face by the incident of the two seasons of rice last time!
This time, he never boasted to Ning Pengpeng that the imperial court would reward him.

It's just that in the brochure handed over, it was said that a farmer in Anzhen found that he could produce a thousand catties of crops per mu.

It's a pity that this note, just like the last one, was read by others, and they sneered, thinking that Li Weishan was exaggerating, like that clown who wanted to take the opportunity to return to Beijing!

Therefore, it was still suppressed and was not presented to the emperor.

After Li Weishan handed over the booklet, he wanted to call on the farmers under his jurisdiction to plant these coarse grains, but was stopped by Mr. An.

"My lord, the common people here are not willing to grow the two seasons of rice, let alone this kind of crop that has never been seen before?
It's better to prepare the two seasons of rice in advance.

When the common people have tasted the sweetness from the two crops of rice, they will naturally be willing to believe what the adults say.

In that case, mentioning the matter of planting this kind of coarse grain will naturally get twice the result with half the effort! "

When Li Weishan heard Master An's words, it really made sense.

Although it is a pity that the common people will lose more than a year of food, but they also know that they cannot become fat if they eat in one sitting.

Ning Pengpeng directly used money to open the way. She provided the seeds, and after they were planted, she would recycle them for a penny a catty.

If there is no harvest, one tael of silver per mu of land can be regarded as the cost of renting the other party's dry land.

The villagers in Dahuaishu Village have planted rice for two seasons.

But in the surrounding villages of Dahuaishu Village, they felt that it was better to follow the rules of farming that had been passed down from generation to generation.

However, the temptation given by Ning Pengpeng was too great.

In addition to planting these coarse grains, only dry land is needed.

Anyway, the seeds do not need to be paid by themselves, and if they cannot be planted, they will be compensated per mu of land.

Even if they grow beans, they can't sell them for a tael of silver!

Therefore, many people nodded and agreed without hesitation.

Even the Shi family brothers, in their own village, could not buy dry land.

Because the money earned from running a business in the past few years has been bought by the Shi family's parents to grow good land for two crops of rice.

(End of this chapter)