SFS Chapter 145 Harvest
Chapter 145 Harvest
Thinking that Shen Tang also gave him 20% interest, Emperor Jing couldn't help but feel moved.
The ministers in the court often came to him to cry poor and took a lot of silver from his private treasury.
Emperor Jing calculated that if he continued to be complained by those Zhou Ba Pi in the Ministry of Revenue for a few more years, he might not even be able to reward his concubines!
Look how thoughtful Shen Tang is!
Not only does he benefit the people, but he also keeps him in mind when doing business!
Emperor Jing even began to wonder what reward he would give to Shen Tang when the cotton was really grown.
Shen Tang was far away in Jiangnan, so of course he didn't know what Emperor Jing was thinking.
She is now in Boss Tao's tea garden, no, it should be said that she is in the cotton garden, checking the growth of cotton.
Growing cotton is not as easy as growing rice.
Ordinary people all have experience with rice, the only difference is the different seeds.
But cotton was indeed grown for the first time.
Shen Tang followed the planting methods provided by the system step by step, and no diseases have occurred so far.
When the cotton plants grew a little bigger, Shen Tang began to teach the tenant farmers how to build supports to support their growth.
The cotton is growing well and a workshop is under construction.
It's also time to find a carpenter to make some tools for after the cotton harvest.
The first thing to consider is the deseeder.
As the name suggests, it is to remove the cotton seeds inside the cotton.
Cotton seeds grow inside the cotton plant. If they are removed manually, the efficiency will be greatly reduced.
Therefore, the first step is to make a seed remover.
Shen Tang had considered that before cotton was fully circulated in Da Qi, it would be better to keep the production technology of cotton textiles in his own hands.
The drawings provided by the system are very comprehensive and detailed.
To this end, Shen Tang separated the parts in the drawings and sent them to different carpenters for customization.
She even didn't have it custom-made in Qingshan Town, but went to several towns far away to find carpenters to do it.
When the cotton flowers bloomed, Shen Tang's seed remover was already completed and was now quietly hidden in the system.
By the time the cotton bolls formed, the cotton fluffers and spinning wheels had already been invented.
Since there weren't many cotton seeds in the first year, Shen Tang decided to wait until the cotton matured and use most of it to make quilts and a small part to make cotton cloth.
Next year, when cotton opens up the market, there will surely be quite a few people planting cotton.
The late spring breeze already carries a hint of summer heat, and the green of the wheat fields extends all the way to the foot of the mountain, connecting with the emerald green mountains.
The fishermen are the ones doing the best business in Qingshan Town this year. Since early summer, their business has never stopped.
Most of them came to buy fish fry, and the people in Shenjia Village also wanted to buy some more fish fry to stock the paddy fields.
However, Shen Tang persuaded him and told him that if he wanted to eat the fish, then it was fine to raise some, but if he wanted to make a profit by raising fish in rice fields, he should stop.
After all, raising fish in rice fields is no longer a secret, and I believe many people will raise them this year.
The law of the market has always been that if supply exceeds demand, prices will definitely fall.
The people in Shenjia Village now follow Shen Tang's words in everything.
And, if you think about it carefully, it seems to be true.
Therefore, there is no large-scale fish farming in Shenjia Village.
In June, Shen Tang rented a quiet little courtyard in the town and brought Master Li over.
The provincial examination will be held in two months, and the rice will be harvested soon, so I will definitely be distracted in the village.
Master Li's family also attached great importance to Master Li's provincial examination, so they all understood Shen Tang's intentions.
Liu also respected Master Li very much, so the cook would often have food delivered to her.
Due to the success of late rice planting last year, Shenjia Village and several surrounding villages also plan to plant late rice.
Therefore, the sowing time in Shenjia Village is much earlier than in other places.
The purpose is to take care of the paddy fields and continue planting after the rice is harvested.
By the end of July, the rice in Shenjia Village and several surrounding villages had matured.
The rice fields in Shenjia Village are even more unique.
The rice field that produced a thousand kilograms of rice was much darker in color than the other rice fields.
Long before the rice began to ear, Shen Dashan had already sent a message to Shen Tang.
A few days before the harvest, Shen Tang returned to Shenjia Village.
The thousand-jin rice has entered the maturity period. After careful observation, the experienced farmers in the village feel that it is almost time to harvest.
Moreover, Qianjin rice obviously matures ten days to half a month earlier than Da Qi's native rice.
The homeland of Da Qi is not yet fully mature.
Shen Tang sent a message to County Magistrate Lin, deciding to harvest the rice three days later.
Ask County Magistrate Lin to send someone to transport grain in seven days.
This batch of rice was to be sent to the capital, so after harvesting, it was dried and sent directly to the county government's granary, and then soldiers were sent to escort it to the capital.
The weather in the south is still extremely hot during the harvest time.
Two days before the harvest, every household cleaned their yard exceptionally clean.
Many families turned out the straw mats in their homes so that they could dry the rice quickly after harvesting.
On the day of rice harvest, Shen Tang was stationed in Shenjia Village and brought a lot of soldiers with him.
Before daybreak, smoke was already rising from the kitchens of Shenjia Village, as people prepared breakfast for the men who were about to go to the fields.
It was no different in Shen Tang's family. Mrs. Liu got up early in the morning to prepare things.
Shen Dashan, with a sickle on his waist and a straw hat on his back, went to the field in high spirits.
Almost everyone went to watch.
After all, their Shenjia Village was the first to grow thousands of kilograms of rice.
Each household only had one acre of land, and there was more than one person harvesting rice in each household's field, so the rice was harvested in just one morning.
All that remains is to thresh the rice and let the grains fall from the ears.
The entire Shenjia Village was immersed in the joy of harvest.
With this rice, it means that the family’s food supply can increase several times next year.
Of course Shen Tang understood what they were thinking. This acre of land could yield more than a thousand kilograms of harvest, so it wouldn't be a big deal if they secretly kept some.
It was only four days later that everyone finished drying the rice.
Shen Tang was the first to weigh the harvest from his own fields. Two acres of land yielded a total of 2,428 kilograms!
Then, Shen Tang took Shen Dan and Shen Li to each household, followed by Shen Lizheng and several strong men, holding several large scales in their hands.
The first place they went to was Shen Yougen's house, simply because his house was at the entrance of the village.
In order to facilitate the calculation of the total amount, Shen Tang and his team started counting from the first household at the east end of the village.
Shen Yougen's family was also very excited when they saw the people waiting.
In the middle of the yard, there were two large cloth bags.
"Boss, weigh it quickly!"
Shen Yougen urged excitedly, Shen Tang smiled and nodded, and asked the two strong men behind him to take the big scale to weigh.
Shen Yougen stretched his neck, trying to see the scale clearly.
In fact, they had already secretly weighed it long before Shen Tang came, and this time they collected a total of more than 1,100 kilograms!
If it weren't for the real grain in front of us, who would believe that this was an acre of rice grown by ourselves?
What's more, he secretly kept twenty kilograms of it and hid it in the cellar at home!