Medicine Fragrance Pastoral: Nongmen Pretty Lady

Chapter 349 Planting Drought Resistant Crops

After the season of spring plowing and planting passed, Bai Xuening started to take care of her own fields. In addition to 10,000+ acres of wasteland and mountain forest land, she also purchased [-] acres of high-quality fertile land from the entire Qingshan County.

It's not that she wants to buy these good fields on purpose, but she just buys them along the way when buying wasteland and forest land. Naturally, many people sold it to her for two silver coins, and they bought [-] mu of fertile land without knowing it.

She bought these high-quality fertile fields for the development of upland rice. Everyone in this place grows rice. Bai Xuening purchased a large amount of seeds that can grow rice even in dry conditions from other places, especially from the poor mountainous areas.

Ancient times are no better than now, you can just buy the seeds you want.

Bai Xuening needed many inquiries and invested a lot of manpower and material resources to search for those food crops that are not afraid of drought and pests from the whole world, that is, within the Three Kingdoms.

When she collected these seeds, just as others had finished farming, Bai Xuening began to recruit a large number of workers to find someone to plant crops for her.

Her wages are relatively high, the premise is that you have to work hard and work diligently. Ordinary villagers only pay [-] to [-] Wen a day when they go out to work, but Bai Xuening pays [-] Wen a day. That kind of work is special. The good one is [-] Wen a day.

So, after this spring, there are not many people going out to work in dozens of villages in Qingshan County. More than half of the people in each village are working for Bai Xuening. At the door of the house, the wages are high, and everyone regards Bai Xuening as a Bodhisattva. come to worship.

The seeds she collected from all over the world include upland rice seeds, sweet potato seeds, peanuts and corn.

In Qingshan Town, most of the people still mainly grow rice, but there are also those who are very poor and have no fertile land, and they grow a small amount of corn for food, and few people grow peanuts and sweet potatoes.

Bai Xuening allocated it in this way. Nearly [-] mu of sandy land and mountainous land were planted with sweet potatoes. Originally, Bai Xuening planned to plant [-] mu of sweet potatoes, because sweet potatoes not only have high yields, but are also resistant to drought and insects. Its fruit grows in Under the ground, you are not afraid of pests passing through the border.

However, sweet potatoes were not available in the Jin Dynasty, and they had to go to the Yu Empire to buy and transplant in large quantities, which increased the cost. Bai Xuening was able to get enough [-] mu of sweet potatoes to plant with the help of Shangguanyin's influence.

In other places, Bai Xuening didn't know the yield of the drought-resistant rice seeds she bought, and she also bought more than a dozen bags of potato seeds, so the potatoes and upland rice planted a total of [-] mu of fertile land.

For the rest of the barren land, she planted [-] mu of corn and [-] mu of peanut.

For the remaining several acres of land, Bai Xuening planted watermelons and tomatoes. She bought them from foreign merchants. Watermelons are not afraid of drought, the more dry they are, the sweeter they are!
But tomatoes still need some water, so the places where tomatoes are selected are all near the water source.For example, small rivers, streams, in short, Bai Xuening's calculation is that even if there is a drought, there will still be water, or a greenhouse will be built.

Bai Xuening didn't know when the drought and pests would come. In short, she had made the best plan for her planting.

What Bai Xuening didn't know was that while she was busy with planting, Shangguan Yin had already guessed that a severe drought was about to come, and he used his power to stockpile food in the whole world.

(End of this chapter)