northernbook Chapter 129 Rice Seedling Cultivation
Chapter 129 Rice Seedling Cultivation
Lu Tao breathed a sigh of relief, but then became furious.
For his elder brother's sake, his father was willing to threaten suicide.
"Father and Mother, please go back! Don't come again." Lu Tao hardened her heart. "From now on, I will send you a gift every year. If you appear at Baishi Teahouse again, then the gift... will be waived."
"Peach!" Lu Hai and Lu Jiangshi exclaimed in unison.
But...
They've used even their last resort; it seems they have no other options left.
"Fine, fine!" Lu Hai acted as if Lu Tao had wronged him. "You've grown up and don't listen to your parents anymore."
"Let's go, we're leaving now."
Lu Hai, holding Lu Jiangshi's hand, turned and left...
The two men passed by Tian Tian, their eyes fixed on her sharply.
But Lady Lu Jiang's expression suddenly changed.
The two stood outside the teahouse, and Lu Hai sighed, "This girl... she's completely unyielding, what are we going to do?"
Such a big shop, and it just... went to that Liu San Niang for such a good deal?
Lady Lu tugged at his sleeve and whispered something in his ear.
Lu Hai frowned. "Will it work?"
Lady Lu thought for a moment and nodded, "It can be done, absolutely."
"In a few days, around the baby's 100th day, we'll invite their family back for the celebration..."
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After Lu Hai and Lu Jiangshi left, they did not appear for more than a month.
Everyone forgot about the Lu family.
That day, Li Huaiyu sent someone to deliver a list of people willing to plant the new rice varieties with the county government.
There are only about 30 households, each with two or three mu of land, totaling about 100 mu.
"Is Your Excellency very busy lately?" Tian Tian asked the yamen runner who delivered the goods.
Based on her understanding of Li Huaiyu, regarding the new rice seeds... he should have come to her in person, but today he sent someone instead.
The constable sighed, "It's that cousin from the adult race again. He was supposed to arrive in Baishi County before the New Year, but it's been so long and he still hasn't arrived."
"Neither his family nor the adults here know where he went..."
"The master said that we would appreciate it if you could take good care of the rice seeds, young lady."
Tian Tian nodded, "I will cultivate the rice seeds in the next few days and arrange for transplanting in a month."
"Tell these families to properly till their fields and irrigate them, just like before."
"Don't worry, young lady, I've already notified them," the constable said with a smile.
Among these thirty people's homes were his family and the homes of several of his relatives.
The common people didn't trust the county government's new rice varieties, fearing they wouldn't grow well.
But those who work as yamen runners are different.
They absolutely believed in Miss Tian!
Tian Er said that the yield could reach 400 kilograms per mu, and it would definitely be more than that.
The yamen runner grinned foolishly. His father and older brother managed parking spaces outside the city gate, earning more money each month than before.
Now we can grow high-yield rice again...
"Alright, once the seedlings are ready, I'll send someone to the county government to inform you."
Her own vegetable garden has been prepared, and seedlings will be grown there.
One pound of rice contains approximately 20,000 grains, which can be used to cultivate 20,000 rice seedlings.
One mu (approximately 0.16 acres) can be planted with about 12,000 seedlings, with three seedlings per seedling, for a total of 36,000 seedlings.
In the seedling nursery, 300,000 seedlings can be grown per mu (approximately 0.16 acres), requiring 15 jin (approximately 7.5 catties) of rice seeds, enough for eight mu of land.
To cultivate 100 mu of rice paddies, 13 mu of seedbed is needed, requiring 195 jin of rice seeds.
Tian Tian directly bought 200 jin of rice seeds from the system, choosing high-quality and high-yield varieties.
These rice varieties are high-yielding, disease- and pest-resistant, high-quality varieties that have been cultivated, and cost ten coins per kilogram.
It cost a total of two taels of silver.
This high-yield rice variety can produce more than 400 kilograms per mu (a Chinese unit of area, approximately 0.165 acres). According to the system's description, the yield is 600 to 800 kilograms per mu.
Tian Tian brought 200 jin of rice seeds to a vegetable field on the outskirts of Beijing. Sunlight shone through the thin mist onto the ground, and the air was filled with the fresh scent of soil and growing plants.
Her vegetable garden covers seven or eight hundred acres, which is the foundation of her booming business this year.
Tian Tian squatted down and gently brushed away the soil in the field.
After clearing the land, the weeds were crushed and buried in the soil. Over the winter, much of the weeds decomposed, increasing the soil's fertility.
"Second Miss, the water has been brought." Zhang Fusheng, accompanied by the men he had hired, carried wooden buckets and fetched water from the distant river.
"Water."
At her command, the men thoroughly irrigated a field of seedlings.
Next, the rice seeds were carefully sown on the moist seedbed.
This process must be very careful; the seeds must be sown evenly and not piled up.
Fortunately, the men we hired were all skilled farmers and knew their limits.
After sowing the rice seeds, cover them with a thin layer of soil, and then lightly sprinkle a layer of water with a spray bottle.
The weather is still quite cool, so we'll lay another layer of straw on top of the thin layer of soil.
Next, water the rice seedlings as needed and wait for them to sprout.
After dismissing the hired men, Zhang Fusheng led the oxcart to Tian Tian's side.
"Second Miss, those workers have left first, let's go too."
Tian Tian jumped onto the oxcart and reached out to touch the ox.
"Have you finished tilling your fields?" she asked Zhang Fusheng.
Zhang Fusheng nodded, "Everything has been turned over."
"Don't rush to plant rice. Once the seedlings here are grown and distributed, there will be plenty left over. You can take some back with you then."
“My rice variety is very high-yielding, equivalent to three or four times the yield of what you used to grow.”
Zhang Fusheng was overjoyed upon hearing this, "Thank you, Second Miss."
Although he and his wife both worked for the second daughter, they no longer worried about money.
But farmers, after all, still live in the fields.
Lately, no matter how late he gets home, he still makes sure to tend to his two acres of land so as not to delay spring planting.
Tian Tian sat on the oxcart, her brows furrowed.
Shen Zhian found a hill in Xishan Village, Baishi County, and bought it from Li Huaiyuan, renaming it Lancang Tea Mountain.
He has been busy in the tea plantation lately and hasn't been to Baishi Tea House for several days.
A few days ago, he hired a large number of tea farmers in the county town.
These people who become tea farmers live in the tea mountains for a long time, so they can't take care of their own fields and have been selling their land one after another.
However, these lands were scattered in various places, making them very inconvenient to manage, so Tian Tian did not buy them.
As for the estate twenty miles west of the city that Tian Tian and Qian Fulai had been keeping an eye on, there has been no indication that it is for sale.
Zhang Fusheng escorted Tian Tian to the city gate. After getting out of the car, Tian Tian instructed, "Uncle Zhang, go to the village twenty miles west of the city now and check on the situation there."
"Ask the people over there..."
"Does their owner intend to sell the estate?"
“I understand, Second Miss.” Zhang Fusheng knew she wanted to buy land. “Then I’ll go.”