The Big Farmer of Time Traveling

Chapter 164

Lin Xiazhi was not angry, he calmly asked the three dogs in Old Qin's head: "Tell me how many acres of corn and sweet potatoes you planted?"

San Gouzi was yelled at by the head of Qin, and his excitement was instantly poked like a hole in a full balloon, and the leak was gone, and he answered Lin Xiazhi's words anxiously: "25 acres of corn, [-] acres of sweet potatoes. "

"How much corn is produced? How much sweet potato is produced?" Lin Xiazhi continued to ask.

Seeing that Lin Xiazhi was not angry, San Gouzi swallowed his saliva: "One mu of corn can yield 700 to [-] catties of corn cobs, and one mu of sweet potatoes can yield more than [-] catties."

"Hmm—the harvest isn't too bad." Lin Xiazhi recalled, based on Jingguo's production, San Gouzi said the production was within the normal range.

In the next second, he changed his subject: "Leave the sweet potatoes aside, let's just look at the corn. How much can there be after drying three hundred catties of corn? You have to remove the corncobs. Have you ever done the math?"

When Lin Xiazhi asked such a question, the tenant farmers were stunned. They had never thought about it this way, and they would only record how much fresh grain they harvested each time and estimate the harvest of the year.

"Is it true that your family can have enough food just by growing rice, corn, and sweet potatoes?" Seeing that they were silent, Lin Xiazhi sneered, "Most of the rice planted is harvested by the landlord, and I will see what is left. You are also reluctant to eat it, and would rather sell it for money, and the whole family will live on corn and sweet potatoes?"

"If you ask me, it's fine for adults to live like this. Children who are still growing will eat these. How can they grow strong, let alone save money to buy land, send children to study in the future, and change their status as tenant farmers." Lin Xiazhi One sentence is more urgent than one sentence.

"Master Lin, there is nothing we can do about it." A man next to Sangouzi burst into tears. He really had no choice. If he had land, how could he come out to be a tenant farmer.

Lin Xiazhi looked at the group of them. The men were downcast, their honest faces were full of confusion, and the husbands were crying louder than the other, and they sat on the sidelines and watched coldly without saying a word.

After these tenant farmers vented their emotions, Lin Xiazhi stood up.

Only now did Old Qin recall what Lin Xiazhi said before, that he would make everyone live a better life, and he stood up and looked at him beggingly: "Master Lin, we tenant farmers are all up to you. [-]% of the rented food, we people will listen to your orders, pull out the corn seedlings and plant soybeans."

The other tenant farmers lowered their heads and refused to speak after hearing what Old Qintou said, only San Gouzi still frowned.

Lin Xiazhi scanned them, seeing their expressions one by one.

"Master Lin, please don't blame Sangouzi, he is just worried that there is no ration for the children." Old Qintou looked at Lin Xiazhi still silent, and explained anxiously.

Generally, landlords collect rice for rent. The leftover rice in the hands of these tenants is just like Lin Xiazhi said. They are reluctant to eat it. They sell it for money to buy necessities. They live on sweet potatoes and corn on weekdays. They eat a lot of sweet potatoes. It will be flatulent, and it will be better after being mixed with corn.

If Lin Xiazhi asked them to pull out all the corn and plant soybeans, the soybeans would be easy to bloat after eating, and they couldn't eat them as a staple food all the time, what would they do with so many people.

"Since I let you grow soybeans, I won't harm you." Seeing that they were really anxious, Lin Xiazhi finally said, "Xiangbo, please tell me."

Xiang Bo got Lin Xiazhi's order to stand up and explain Lin Xiazhi's rules to the tenant farmers.

First of all, Lin Xiazhi does not collect rice as rent grain like other landlords. His rent grain this year is soybeans.

Secondly, the soybean seeds that Lin Xiazhi provided to them free of charge are high-yield seeds. Using these seeds to cultivate the land, one mu of land can produce more than [-] catties. They don't have to worry about not paying the rent.

Finally, after harvesting the rented grain in autumn, Lin Xiazhi would provide them, the children of sharecroppers, with a chance to study.

The school in Linjiacun has now found a talented teacher who teaches the children to take the children's exam, and has found another teacher to enlighten the children. As long as they are children in Linjiacun, they can go to the school to study.

The Lin family has three places in the school, allowing the children of these sharecroppers to study.

If the first and second rules that Lin Xiazhi set for these tenant farmers made them feel lucky that they did not encounter any black-hearted landlords who oppressed the tenant farmers, then the last chance for their children to read and write was absolutely beyond their imagination. Kneeling down again to be grateful to Lin Xiazhi, no matter whose child has the opportunity to study, it is a great opportunity.

Lin Xiazhi could see that these tenants were not sneaky and sneaky, so he simply told them that he was going to buy them a cow in two days, so that the cow could help with farming, which would save time and effort.

After having cattle, these tenants have more free time after planting the land, and he has already figured out how to arrange their next affairs.

With Lin Xiazhi's promise, the tenant farmers dispelled their worries, actively pulled out the corn seedlings planted in the soil, and loosened the soil with hoes.

While pulling out seedlings and loosening the soil, he raised soybean seedlings according to Lin Xiazhi's instructions.

The method of raising seedlings has not been spread from Linjia Village. Only a few farmers who bought the Linjia seeds have seen it from the instructions that Lin Xiazhi worked on, and not many people believe it and practice it.

In order to teach these tenant farmers how to raise seedlings, Lin Xiazhi specially found a servant from the Lin family who could raise seedlings.

Others don't have Lin Xiazhi's golden finger, so they can't tell the difference in the seeds when they grow seedlings, but they can observe the state of the soybean seedlings and remove those that are short. The remaining ones that are growing well are basically fine. Yield will not be too low.

Two days later, Xiangbo personally sent a prime-aged bull to Beishan Village, and told the tenant farmers to take good care of it.

With the Lin family’s proprietary method of raising seedlings, and the help of cattle to plow the land, and Lin Xiazhi’s delivery of a cart of bean dregs fertilizer the next day, the 25 mu of fields that are about to be planted with soybeans have been turned over and over again by tenant farmers. I hope these Soybeans can really yield as high as Lin Xiazhi said, so they can accumulate some savings this year.

While the tenant farmers in Beishan Village were busy growing soybeans, the villagers in Linjia Village were also busy growing potatoes they bought from the Lin family.

Potatoes are easy to grow and have high yields. They can be eaten as a staple food or cooked in vegetables. As long as there is a plot of land, the hardworking villagers of Linjia Village loosened the soil early and waited for the Lin family to start selling potato seeds.

The Lin family only sold potatoes to the villagers, and the Lin family still held the peppers.Because chili is the key to the seasoning of Piaoxiang Shili, Lin Huzi dare not be sloppy, and he is more caring than Lin Xiazhi.

In addition to peppers, the Lin family also grows soybeans.The soybeans grown by the Lin family are the fine-bred soybeans selected by Lin Xiazhi. These soybeans are used to make fermented bean curd. Ordinary tofu cannot be made from fine-bred soybeans yet.

The Lin family has limited land in Linjia Village. All the empty dry land has been planted with peppers and soybeans, and only two acres of land are still surrounded by greenhouses, which grow tomatoes.

After a month of growth, these tomatoes are not bad in terms of growth. They are not as wilted as those grown in greenhouses in winter. It seems that temperature is very important for tomato growth.

When the people in the Lin family village were busy with their livelihoods, a distinguished guest came to the Lin family. This guest was brought to the Lin family by the county magistrate himself.

Lin Xiazhi had heard from Cheng Wenliu before that the county magistrate and sheriff’s memorial had been received in Beijing years ago. At the end of February, the county magistrate received a secret commendation letter. It was written by Shangshu Hubu himself. We don't know what it contains, but from the mood of the county magistrate during that time, we can see that what was written in this letter could not be a bad thing.

Cheng Wenliu said an important message. Now the county magistrate has one more year left in his term of office in Jiangning County. Potatoes and twice-cropped rice a year are both counted as the county magistrate’s achievements. The capital will definitely send someone to verify.

From then on, Lin Xiazhi made the family prepare for the visit of nobles in the future at any time, and Lin Xiazhi's attitude was more serious than when the county magistrate made an unannounced visit.

No matter who came, they all lived at the feet of the emperor, and anyone who came here could crush these foreign officials to death with a single finger.

Most of the Lin family only knew that the county magistrate had been here, so when Lin Xiazhi said that the nobleman came to visit, they were all a little nervous. Could it be that the county magistrate came to Linjiacun again in a low-key manner?

Lin Xiaoqiu came from the capital, and he was more familiar with the affairs of the capital. Lin Xiazhi asked him to carefully check if there was anything unreasonable in the Lin family, and if there was any problem, correct it as soon as possible, so as not to offend the nobleman.

From then on, Lin Xiaoqiu knew that the noble person Lin Xiazhi was talking about probably came from the capital.

Fortunately, Lin Xiazhi was well prepared, and when the people from the capital came, the Lin family didn't panic.

Both the county magistrate and the guests were dressed in ordinary clothes when they came. The guest was in his thirties and claimed to be the county magistrate's nephew. He wanted to come to the Lin family to learn how to grow rice and potatoes twice a year.

People in the know knew his identity, and it was not easy to see the county magistrate's attitude towards him.Since he didn't wear an official uniform and fabricated a false identity, Lin Xiazhi and others accompanied him pretending not to know, and greeted him according to ordinary hospitality etiquette.

It was too late for him to learn how to grow rice twice a year, and the rice had grown to the height of Lin Xiazhi's knees, so he might as well come over two months later to see how the second round of rice was planted.

The adult probably also knew that he came at the wrong time. He only stayed at the Lin family for three days, learned the methods of raising seedlings, and learned about the Lin family village and the Lin family before leaving.

From what he said before he left, it is not difficult to guess that he will come again when the rice in Linjia Village is harvested and the second round of rice is planted.

After seeing off the adults and returning home, Lin Xiazhi collapsed on the recliner in the main room, as if he had lost half his life.

He was afraid that what he did not do well would make that adult unhappy, so he said something bad about the Lin family in front of the emperor after returning to Beijing.

When Lin Chengzu entered the door and saw Lin Xiazhi like this, he smiled and said to him: "Brother Xia, you are a brother, at least be careful in the main room."

"I don't care. I've been exhausted these two days. I really envy my father who doesn't know anything, so he doesn't have to worry about it."

Lin Xiazhi slumped on the recliner and didn't want to move, so he ordered Lin Xiaoqiu to find some snacks for him. He was suffocated to death these days.