The Big Farmer of Time Traveling

Chapter 124 Selling Potatoes

Seeing that Lin Xiazhi was interested in this, Cheng Wenliu said vaguely: "Brother Xia, these refugees came to the south because the locusts ate the crops. After this winter, they will go back to spring plowing again in spring. You don't have to worry too much about it." Worry about them."

Cheng Wenliu meant that the life of the refugees was not as bad as he thought, hoping to dispel Lin Xiazhi's bold ideas.

"You also said that they won't go back until after winter. It's so cold in winter, what should these people do?" Lin Xiazhi asked him back.

Seeing that Cheng Wenliu couldn't be fooled, his eyebrows were knotted with worry: "My brother Xia, I know you are kind, but with so many refugees, you can't solve their problems."

"I can't solve everyone, but I want to do my part, and I need your help for what I want to do," Lin Xiazhi insisted.

After listening to what Cheng Wenliu said, Lin Xiazhi already had a rough idea in his mind based on his previous plans, but he didn't know if it could be realized.

"Then you tell me first, if I think it's not good, then you should give up these thoughts." Cheng Wenliu saw that he couldn't persuade Lin Xiazhi, so he had to listen first to see what he was going to do.

Lin Xiazhi's plan was to let those refugees accept the beans grown by his family, and use the money earned from working to buy the potatoes in his hands.

So far, the Cheng family's caravan has brought three things to Lin Xiazhi, one is chili peppers, which have replaced dogwood in Lin's and Cheng's families, the other is potatoes, and the third is tomatoes.

The previously planted peppers have already been harvested for a round, and the newly planted ones are still growing. The growth cycle of tomatoes is longer, and the harvest has just started recently.

The potatoes had already been harvested, and Cheng Wenliu was so familiar with the taste of potatoes.

Tomatoes and potatoes are both very productive, but tomatoes have a long growth cycle and are suitable for planting in summer. Potatoes have a short growth cycle. Even if they are sown in September, they can be harvested before winter. They can be used as a staple food, which is more suitable for these refugees than tomatoes.

Lin Xiazhi told Cheng Wenliu all his thoughts. He didn't help those refugees for free, but asked them to exchange their labor for money and then for seeds. In this way, those refugees who are willing to return to their hometowns will go back with seeds at the end of August and September. If you plant potatoes, you can harvest them in November. At least you can survive this winter, and you will be better off next spring.

Cheng Wenliu hadn't heard the specifics from the Lin family about the yield of potatoes before, but just now he heard Lin Xiazhi say that the yield per mu had reached [-] catties, and he was taken aback by the value of potatoes.

The Cheng family also trades in grain, and Cheng Wenliu naturally knows the yield of common crops. If it is really as high as Lin Xiazhi said, then with the help of potatoes, these people can really go back to their hometown to grow potatoes to support themselves.

"Master Cheng, are you satisfied with my plan?" Lin Xiazhi deliberately used honorific words to express his dissatisfaction.

Cheng Wenliu didn't dare to say anything, so he could only nod: "Xia Ge'er's ideas are always unexpected, but every time they are very good, I think it is feasible."

Only then was Lin Xiazhi satisfied: "I came to you just to ask, how can I use those refugees to work with confidence?"

Cheng Wenliu could only explain his family's method of recruiting refugees: "In fact, they have household registration certificates issued by the government. Without household registration, they cannot enter Jiangning County. In addition to confirming household registration, you can let them form a group of five people. If the group is from the same village, five people guarantee each other, and if one person has an accident, the five will deduct wages together or be fired directly."

In this way, people with unknown origins can be prevented from coming in to work, and mutual guarantees can also prevent them from doing bad things.

In addition to the refugee problem, Lin Xiazhi had another idea. The Lin family's strength was limited, and the government had to rely on the government to really help those disaster-stricken places.

The potatoes were brought back by the Cheng family's caravan. The Cheng family had a close relationship with the county magistrate, so they could ask the Cheng family to bring the potatoes to the county magistrate and tell the county magistrate the production of potatoes.

The county magistrate of Jiangning County is a good and pragmatic official. After knowing the potato production, I believe he will know how to make good use of potatoes.

Afterwards, Lin Xiazhi and Cheng Wenliu talked about this in detail all morning. Cheng Wenliu told Lin Xiazhi everything in detail until Lin Chengzu came to pick Lin Xiazhi home for dinner.

After returning home and having dinner, Lin Xiazhi told his family the result of his discussion with Cheng Wenliu, and the first person to object was naturally Lin Chengzu.

Anyway, the reason is similar to that of Cheng Wenliu, but Li Xiu and Li Huzi didn't know what happened before. After hearing about the current situation of the refugees, they also learned that Lin Xiazhi's idea had been discussed with Cheng Wenliu, and both of them supported Lin Xiazhi. I can't talk about the past in the middle, and I feel as uncomfortable as a cat scratching.

"Brother, if you think what I said is wrong, you can ask Brother Wen Liu and let him explain to you." Seeing that Lin Chengzu really disagreed, Lin Xiazhi said a lot in the morning and now he is too lazy to open his mouth, so he kicked this burden to him. Cheng Wenliu, let him explain.

Lin Chengzu was thinking about something, but he didn't notice that Lin Xiazhi's name for Cheng Wenliu had changed, but Li Xiu, who was at the side, noticed it and began to pay attention to the two of them.

I don't know what Cheng Wenliu told Lin Chengzu, but Lin Chengzu finally agreed.

Although Zhao Da and Zhao Dong were in charge of the tofu house, Lin Chengzu always liked to do it himself. Since he was busy with the refugees this time, he could only hand over the matter to Zhao Da and Zhao Dong and go to the county seat in person. .

The Lin family's recruitment notice was posted at the gate of the city, and two children were hired to help publicize it, and a long queue soon formed. Looking at the ragged refugees, Lin Chengzu felt less resistance to this matter in his heart.

The Cheng family also sent a few people over to help, and a hundred refugees were quickly found. The agreed wage was 50 Wen a day, and each person would be given four steamed buns of miscellaneous grains.

The wages given by the Lin family are similar to those of other families, so it doesn't seem out of the ordinary.

It takes less than a day for one hundred people to harvest beans from twelve acres of land. After the beans are harvested, the Lin family asks the villagers to borrow hoes and ask them to plow the fields.

In addition to the [-] acres of land for beans, the Lin family also had [-] acres of land for potatoes, one of which was planted with peppers, leaving [-] acres of land.The [-] mu of vacant land was completely turned over twice, and the fertilizer was fully applied, and then [-] mu of sweet potatoes and [-] mu of potatoes were planted.

The Lin family worked for a total of five days, and each of them got 260 coins. The extra ten coins was because they were not lazy at all, which was considered a reward.

Seeing the way these refugees were working, the people in Linjiacun had some thoughts in their hearts.

The rice planted in spring should be harvested now. There are men in the family who work in the bean factory, or people who have to go out to sell tofu every day, so they think about whether to recruit these refugees to help them harvest rice.

It is only fifty cash a day to hire refugees, and you only need to pay four steamed buns of miscellaneous grains, which is much more cost-effective than harvesting rice by yourself. If you ask for a day off at the workshop, you will lose a day's wages, let alone selling tofu.

These one hundred refugees were hired away by other families before they left the Lin Family Village, and worked in the Lin Family Village for a few days, feeling extremely grateful to the Lin Family.

After finishing the work in the village, Lin Xiazhi asked Lin Chengzu to gather the refugees and tell them about Tudou.

When these refugees collected beans for the Lin family, they found that the yield of the Lin family's beans was particularly high. They also heard from people in the Lin family village that the Lin family could plant two rounds of rice. I believe it, but after seeing the rice in the paddy fields of the Lin family, I think it may be true. After all, other people's rice is about to be harvested, and the Lin family's rice has just begun to bear ears.

These refugees are old-fashioned farmers, so it can be seen at a glance that the Lin family's paddy field will have to wait until October to harvest, and it cannot be caused by late spring plowing.

Now the Lin family has thrown another blockbuster at them: potatoes.

Lin Xiazhi asked someone to cook ten catties of potatoes without adding any seasoning except salt, and asked these people to taste a little bit each.

Lin Xiazhi told them that growing potatoes is easy, the yield can reach [-] catties per mu, and it only takes two months to harvest. If they go back to their hometown and plant them on the ninth day of September, they can harvest them in November. Can continue to plant, earlier than planting rice, potatoes can be eaten as a staple food, and there is no need to worry about bloating.

If these refugees are willing to grow potatoes, they will come to the Lin family to buy potato seeds and return home as soon as possible.

The price of potatoes is not high, three Wen a catty, one mu of land needs two hundred catties of potato seeds, which is six hundred Wen, the price is very conscientious.

The Lin family still has about 150 catties of potatoes left in the empty room over the tofu house, which is definitely not enough for each of these refugees to buy one mu of land, so Lin Xiazhi only plans to sell them [-] catties each.Fifty catties of potatoes cost only [-] Wen. The refugees earned more than that by working in Linjia Village for the past ten days, and they could buy them as long as they wanted to.

Fifty catties can plant a quarter of an acre of land, and with good care, more than 400 catties of potatoes can be harvested, enough for a family of four to eat for two months.

If they were not forced to do so, how could these honest farmers who value the land more than anything else be willing to leave their homes?

When they learned that they could go home and grow potatoes for a living, those homesick people were moved.

They have already learned how to grow potatoes when they helped the Lin family grow potatoes. It is indeed very simple, except that it takes time to loosen the soil when plowing the land. After the potatoes are planted, they only need to water once or twice a week, which is easier than others. too much.

Of course, not everyone believed the Lin family's words. They might have been deceived by others and always felt that the Lin family had a conspiracy.

The two kinds of opinions are constantly arguing among the refugees. Lin Xiazhi actually did not expect such a situation, and he can't tell what it feels like.

After all, the Lin family is doing good deeds, not charity. He has already told all the benefits of potatoes, and they just don't want to believe it. There will always be times when they regret it.

In the end, only more than 50 people were willing to buy potatoes and go back to plant them. Lin Xiazhi didn't say much, but each person sold [-] catties more potatoes and gave away [-] catties of soybeans they had harvested during the past few days.