freenovelworld Chapter 927: Food Arrived
Chapter 927: Food Arrived
A young man like Zhou Guo is so young that he doesn't even take farming seriously. But he didn't know that there are people who are better at farming than this old man, who know everything, even those who can't explain it.
The old guy has admired Zhou Guo since then. He was so young and had read so many books, even books about farming. They couldn't even compare with him in farming, so it was normal that they couldn't compare with him in other things.
Everyone agreed, they also learned a lot from Zhou Guo.
Zhou Guo said: "Don't say that, I don't know if what I said is right or not, let's talk about it together, if the discussion goes well, we can learn more methods and harvest more food from our own fields, right?"
Everyone agreed that they had learned a lot from her in the past two years.
A white-haired old man sighed, "I never thought that after farming my whole life, I still have to learn this from a kid. If you don't know, you would think you were born knowing how to farm."
Everyone laughed.
Zhou Guo also laughed, but there was a hint of guilt in her smile. Don’t say it, she was really born with the ability to do this in this life.
Last year, every household in those villages planted new wheat seeds, and the fields were full of this kind of wheat.
Many nearby villages that did not buy seeds have also switched some, and the villagers have also planted a lot. Every household plans to switch seeds next year and regrets why they did not switch more seeds in the spring.
She saw that the harvests in these villages were pretty good.
The news spread quickly and the entire county heard it. Last year, every village that bought new seeds heard the news.
This year's new village is even more amazing because it has the help of government officials.
In those big and slightly wealthier villages, every household has at least two acres of land.
She went down to take a look and found that every household said that they had paid back the money for fertilizer this year and would not sell the remaining grain. Instead, they would give the rest of the grain to their relatives and friends, and they had already made arrangements.
With careful management and plenty of fertilizer, one acre of land might even yield four stones and two dou!
Such a high yield per mu is not only envied by people from other villages, but also by many families in the village. They use the same batch of seeds, so why can the yield from other people's fields be so high?
Zhou Guo could hear such sounds almost every time he arrived at a village.
Most of those who are willing to spend money to buy new grain seeds at the grain store are those whose families have no shortage of money. Relatively speaking, there are few people who are willing to make the decision to buy seeds even though they do not have the money at home.
There are quite a few villages like this, and there are many in several prefectures.
Zhou Guo spent a month traveling around the villages under several prefecture capitals. Although she didn't know the exact situation, she had a general idea. After the wheat was harvested this year, she planned to distribute some to each large household. By the beginning of next spring, nearly one-tenth of the households in the north would be able to grow new grain seeds.
In another four or five years, almost every household will be able to grow it.
A month passed, and it was only half a month away from the autumn harvest. She called Hu Zi and said, "The autumn harvest is about to begin. Send a letter to Wu Jiang to ask the livestock and workers who went to Nanhe to come back first. This year's autumn harvest will be busier and more tiring than in previous years. We need enough workers and livestock. This matter cannot be delayed."
Especially in the hundreds of hectares of land in Song County, although the harvest was not good, even if one acre of land could only yield two shi, it could still yield 80,000 to 90,000 shi.
There are several other counties, which, although not as big as Song County, are not small either.
Adding them together, there are more than 1,000 hectares. The crops from these lands are the first batch grown in the salty and bitter land. All the seeds for next year must come from here, and we cannot be careless.
There are many more people.
There are still not many people on the South River side, so both manpower and animal labor have to be transferred from the north. She thinks this is not a big deal, but she doesn't know when the people who were conscripted to transport grain will be able to return.
Among these hundreds of thousands of people, at least half are from Nanhe, and the remaining small half are refugees and beggars, who will also be able to move to Nanhe in the future.
Although there are not many of these people, it is better than nothing.
Hu Zi also knew that this matter could not be delayed, so he immediately wrote a letter to Wu Jiang.
By the time Wu Jiang received the letter, his men were already halfway on the way. He had been the chief steward for so many years and it wasn't for nothing. How could he not know such a thing?
When Zhou Guo saw the people that Big Fatty brought back, he said happily, "You guys are so thoughtful. I almost forgot that if it weren't for you, this year's autumn harvest might have been delayed."
Big Fatty laughed and said, "Chief Steward Jiang said that the master hasn't written to us yet, and he might have forgotten about it because he was busy. He asked me to bring people back quickly. We have planted so much land this year. If the crops go bad in the fields, all our work this year will be in vain."
Wheat is harvested at this time, and rice is harvested about twenty days later than wheat.
Just after harvesting the wheat, we can harvest the rice on our own farm, and some manpower can be freed up.
Seven or eight days later, on a sunny day, the autumn harvest in the north began in full swing.
At this time, at the front line, a food transport team of hundreds of thousands composed of beggar refugee army logistics finally arrived at the front line after going through numerous hardships.
Zhou Dacang is in the army now.
When he heard that the food had arrived, he could no longer sit still. He stood up and walked towards the main account.
Before they reached the main tent, the general came out. Seeing Zhou Dacang, he said with a smile, "Let's go and take a look at the gift my daughter has prepared for us."
Zhou Dacang smiled and said, "Yes."
Thinking of the letter Zhou Guo sent with only one word written on it, he broke out in a cold sweat. The general, however, laughed out loud after reading it, extremely pleased, and said frankly that this child was really to his liking and looked like someone from his Xu family.
I felt a pang in my heart. I wondered if the girl knew that she was the general's daughter. I hoped she would look down on her uncle, right?
General Xu patted Zhou Dacang on the shoulder and said with emotion: "Dacang, this time it's all thanks to you, otherwise..."
Zhou Dacang looked at the general's thin face and said, "General, I did all this willingly. I can't just watch so many brothers starve to death. If I go back now, wouldn't the blood of so many brothers have been shed in vain?
My Zhou family has nothing else but these grains. My family has no other skills but farming. My niece is especially good at it and is better than many old masters.”
The journey of the food delivery team was not peaceful, because half of the recruits had no experience at all, and many were refugee beggars. These people had not had enough food all year round and had little strength.
In order not to disturb the tranquility of the North, the grain transport team was actually understaffed. Fortunately, the North was not that far away from the front line, and they gritted their teeth and managed to transport the grain there with the help of these people and animals.
However, they encountered several heavy rains along the way, and the mountain roads were covered with thorns. The hair of the two lords turned almost white with worry, and several big wrinkles appeared on their foreheads. In just a few months, they looked like they had aged twenty years. Now that the food had finally arrived, they were so happy that they cried and hugged each other and cried bitterly.