Chapter 127 Spring Ploughing

The first lunar month is the busiest time of the year for farmers.

Shanshui Village is located in the south. Although it is not possible to farm in the winter due to the cold weather in the north, the fertility of the land is limited. Planting more crops every year will make people tired, and without fertility, the harvest will be poor.

Two seasons of hard work yielded less food than one, but the farm work doubled.

Of course, there are also hard-working people who work diligently on fertilizing, fertilizing, and farming, and can harvest two crops a year.

However, whether it is one season or two seasons, the first lunar month is a slack season for farming.

Shanshui Village grows early rice in March and April, and harvests it in July and August. The diligent people plant an additional season of wheat.

Shuiqing did not plant wheat after the separation of her family, and she is now glad that she did not!

"Does the book say potatoes can be planted in January or February?" Fan Jin asked Shui Qing softly, sitting in an armchair by the window sill, reading a book and studying.

The book was a planting book, and Shui Qing bought it at the mall. He could barely recognize some of the words on it, but not many in general.

But Shui Qing must be the chosen one and owns the mall, so she can understand all the items purchased from the mall.

Shuiqing nodded solemnly, and was extremely happy at the same time: "Fortunately, I bought a book to read, otherwise I wouldn't have known how to plant potatoes!"

It was still too busy during the first month. They didn't have to visit relatives and friends, and they didn't have many relatives or friends coming to their home, so their days were leisurely and leisurely.

She thought she had nothing to do and just read a book.

She originally planned to buy a novel and read it, but suddenly she thought that spring was about to begin, and she needed to understand what was needed for spring plowing and prepare it in advance.

After all, food is so important to farmers!

Crops are the foundation of life, and land must not be wasted.

So I bought a book on agricultural planting instead. After reading it, I realized that potatoes are grown for a long time in the north and south!

She roughly summarized what the book said and told Fan Jin: "The book says that potatoes are planted in January and February in the south, and harvest can be done in early summer!

You can plant them in the field, but potatoes need soft and breathable soil. If you plant them in the field, you must plow several times to make the soil soft and breathable. "

Fan Jin listened carefully and breathed a sigh of relief: "The rainy season is mostly in summer, so it is best to harvest in early summer. Besides, potatoes are no better than rice and wheat. They are only smaller if they are dug out in advance."

Rice and wheat were harvested ahead of schedule, and the ears of rice and wheat were not fully filled, and most of them had only husks left.

Moreover, rice is planted in the village in March and April, and summer is the critical period for grain filling. If the floods are severe, the harvest may be greatly affected.

Shuiqing pointed to another book on growing sugar cane and continued: "Sugar cane is planted in our place in August and September and harvested around mid-December;

I thought that the floods in August and September would probably be over, and it would be time to plant sugar cane. "

Fan Jin hummed obediently.

They decided to plant sugar cane after checking the price of brown sugar in Fucheng last time.

They don't have much farmland, but they have a lot of land. They can grow soybeans, mung beans, red beans, millet, etc. to eat, and the extra ones can't be sold at a high price.

Five or six cents per pound is not a good deal.

Sugarcane is different, it can be grown in any field without taking up time for other crops, and brown sugar is expensive!

The money earned from one acre of sugar cane can be exchanged for several or even ten acres of rice and wheat. This is equivalent to planting ten acres of sugar cane and planting dozens or even hundreds of acres of rice fields or wheat fields.

"If the vassal king really rebels against the vassal, the prices of food and other items will inevitably rise. The prices of potatoes and brown sugar will also rise." Shui Qing pondered.

Potatoes are food. She has not experienced the pain of war, but she has understood it.

At that time, having food and being able to buy food was a very lucky thing.

Sugar has always been one of the strategic reserve materials, precious and important.

Fan Jin didn't know if the vassal king would rebel, so he only prepared for the worst. He went over the situation of people and livestock at home in his mind, and said, "The wasteland connecting the nine acres of fields and the top of the mountain has been reclaimed for cultivation. The wasteland is about twenty or thirty acres.

Plant these first, and then continue to open up wasteland later when farming is slack.

The family has one cow and one donkey. The cow can plow five acres of land in one day, while the donkey can plow three acres of land, and eight acres of land can be plowed in five days at most. "

At this point, Fan Jin suddenly paused, thinking that he had to transport rice wine to Fucheng every day, and the oxen would not be able to plow the fields all morning.

Shui Qing also thought of it.

Rice wine can earn two or three taels of silver a day. This is pure profit. How many potatoes and brown sugar are needed to earn two or three taels of silver?

Moreover, we don’t know how long the rice wine business can last. Of course, we can’t stop it until we can no longer sell it.

Fan Jin quickly adjusted the calculation and continued: "It doesn't matter. Just count the oxen plowing two acres of land in one afternoon. That's five acres of land in one day. It can be plowed in about eight days."

There is still more than enough time.

"From now on, I will go to Fucheng alone to deliver rice wine, and Ling Ran will leave the work of feeding the livestock to He'er and Hu'er. He will be in charge of the morning. After I come back, I will plow the fields with him in the afternoon.

Let Jiang'er follow behind and start planting. After Ling Ran and I have plowed the land, we can plant potatoes with him. There should be enough time. "

Shui Qing thought for a moment and said, "I can do that too."

Yan Qiu and Xing Hui mostly cooked the morning meal, and she only had to cook lunch and dinner.

Among the women in the village, which one is not doing both farming and cooking during the busy farming season? After all, the season waits for no one, so planting crops early is the most important thing.

Fan Jin shook his head without thinking: "No, with cows and donkeys, it will save a lot of effort, and there is still time, don't work too hard."

Cooking meals for a whole family is a very hard job. He can't help Shuiqing cook, but Shuiqing doesn't need to do the work in the fields.

Shuiqing was about to say something else, but Fan Jin changed the subject and asked: "You need a plow to plow the land. If you order it from the blacksmith in Fucheng, it won't take too long;

Shuiqing, why don't you take a look at the mall? Maybe there are good ones."

If you go to the fields to plow the land tomorrow, this is a very important matter.

Shuiqing immediately opened the mall to check.

Don't mention it, there are really plows!

The price is not expensive-it doesn't matter if it's expensive, the balance is now more than 1.3 million, she is a local tyrant!

And it saves effort and is easy to use.

Fan Jin sighed again, the products of the mall must be fine products.

"Just buy two?"

"Okay."

"And there are sowing tools, how about buying two and trying?"

"Okay."

In front of the window sill, next to the table, one stood and one sat, the sitting man made decisions from time to time, and the standing slender man was obedient and only occasionally added a few words.

The picture was surprisingly harmonious.

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On the thirteenth day of the first lunar month, when Fan Jin led Ling Ran to drive the cows and donkeys to plow the fields, many people in Shanshui Village came to watch the fun.

Rice is not planted until March or April, and the soil can be turned in February or March. Everyone is very idle in the first month of the year.

Suddenly seeing that Fan Jin's family had already started turning the soil, everyone came forward to ask a few questions.