Traveling through ancient times.

Chapter 57: Wheat Harvesting Army

Zhang Ni, Zhang Danniu and Zhang Baosheng divided the people who needed to operate the thresher into three groups and explained to them in detail how to feed, how to collect wheat grains and so on.

As for transporting and drying the fruits, Yunxin had already planned out a hillside and laid bamboo drying mats on it.

The dryness of the wheat grains is quite good, and one or two suns are enough in the current weather.

Jiang Yizhou watched it for a while and felt that it was like a machine. She only needed to give it a push and it would start running automatically.

Everyone is a part of this machine, running like crazy.

So she, as a promoter, cannot sit idle.

Jiang Yizhou returned to the kitchen and started cooking mung bean soup in the largest pot.

The sun is very strong today, which is very suitable for harvesting wheat, but it is very easy to get heatstroke.

As for the food for lunch and dinner, Jiang Yizhou has already thought about it.

With so many people here and it’s harvest time, we definitely can’t sit there and eat leisurely like we usually do.

So she asked Tao Er to buy several hundred baked cakes and more than 100 kilograms of braised meat in Fusong Town yesterday.

The meals for lunch and dinner are a bowl of mung bean soup, two flatbreads and a piece of braised meat per person.

Convenient.

Jiang Yizhou was boiling water in the kitchen when he occasionally heard cheers coming from the wheat fields in the distance.

"It's out. The wheat is really out."

“This wheat is so clean.”

"Hurry, I'm out of straw. Bring me the stone..."

"The wheat here is full, hurry up and pack it up..."

After half a day, half of the large golden wheat field was gone.

This is the time taken up in the morning to explain the use of the thresher. Everyone estimated that they would be able to harvest more in the afternoon, even...

People were full of confidence and wanted to harvest the wheat as soon as possible so that they could buy wheat seeds from Miss Jiang.

They have even calculated in their minds how much wheat seeds they should buy for their land.

At noon, Jiang Yizhou asked everyone to go to the temporary shed nearby to rest, drink soup and eat.

Everyone reluctantly put down their sickles and became excited again when they saw the scones and meat.

Normally, it is rare to see meat at home all year round, but when working for Miss Jiang, I can eat a piece of meat as big as a fist.

Some even secretly hid the meat in their pockets, intending to take it back for their families to taste.

While eating, people excitedly discussed the morning's achievements.

They all lamented that the speed of harvesting wheat could not keep up with the speed of threshing.

People automatically adjusted the personnel structure, with both male and female main laborers going to harvest wheat, leaving only the threshing work.

…By the time it was completely dark, two-thirds of the area was still left unharvested.

Jiang Yizhou knew that she had planted about 120 acres of wheat this time. These people were so fast in harvesting and threshing the wheat.

If she hadn't stopped everyone by force, they would have continued to do it in the dark.

Jiang Yizhou firmly refused to allow it: it was dark and he couldn't see and it would be easy to hurt his hands.

The next morning, as soon as it was light, people gathered at the farm again. Without even Yunxin's arrangement, they formed teams according to yesterday's arrangements, each found their own group, and started working.

Jiang Yizhou thought that since they came so early, they must not have had breakfast. Plus with such high-intensity labor, what if two of them fainted from exhaustion in the field?

So he quickly asked someone to make soup and took the food to share among everyone.

We worked all day on the second day, and by noon on the third day, all the wheat had been harvested. It took more than an hour to thresh the rest and pack it into sacks.

People gathered together on the empty dam outside the village, looking towards the gate with burning eyes.

Jiang Yizhou knew that they were waiting for wheat seeds.

Hey, I originally wanted to eat and take a break before doing it, but everyone is looking at me so eagerly, how can I have the nerve to eat slowly?

So she distributed the mung bean soup and the pancakes with meat to everyone. Jiang Yizhou also took one portion for himself. Everyone ate while listening to her instructions:

Anyone who comes to the farm to help can buy 20 kilograms of wheat seeds at the market price of three cents per kilogram.

Twenty kilograms? But some families have several acres of land, and some even have more than ten acres.

Only twenty kilograms, not enough.

Jiang Yizhou explained that it is not necessary to plant so many of this wheat variety. One seed of ordinary wheat variety can produce two or three plants, but this one can produce four or five plants, so it does not need to be sown too densely.

According to the fertility of the soil here, about 8 kilograms per acre will be enough.

People thought that they could only plant two or three mu of wheat. But when they saw that the wheat yield was so high, they thought about planting all the land.

Then Jiang Yizhou explained: "This wheat needs more fertile land to grow better. If it is some relatively barren mountain land, I suggest that you can plant cassava..."

Cassava again?

People suddenly realized that they had almost forgotten that Miss Jiang had planted more than 100 acres of cassava at the beginning.

Now it has become one piece and is growing very well.

If everyone was not optimistic about cassava at the beginning, now with the example of wheat, Miss Jiang said that cassava is edible, so it must be edible.

Jiang Yizhou continued, "In the next two months, you can take some suitable fruit and vegetable seeds from me. They are all improved and can help make use of the land during this period."

Jiang Yizhou and the others had eaten and were almost done with rest, so he asked someone to bring out the measuring tools, which were the kind made of wood.

One dou is about ten jin, and the maximum amount that each registered household can purchase is twenty jin, which is two dou.

The market price of a pound of ordinary oats is three cents. Jiang Yizhou knows that his wheat is much better than that one, at least four or five cents, but he still sells it to farmers here for three cents.

Everyone bought the maximum amount, so each household paid 600 wen.

According to the ten cents per day they earn for working here, most people work for a total of twenty to thirty days, which means they are paid two to three hundred cents.

So in the end Jiang Yizhou not only didn't have to give them money, but he also got back dozens of taels of silver.

As for the farmers who did not come to help, the price was still three cents, but they only had a share of ten kilograms.

When Jiang Yizhou sold the first bucket of wheat seeds, a "ding" sound suddenly came from her system.

[You successfully promote high-quality wheat once, and are rewarded with 2 merits/time]

Jiang Yizhou paused in scooping wheat and a brighter smile appeared on his face.

This system is so cute.

She hadn't heard the pleasant ding-ding sound for a long time, but now, with every sale, it would ring in her sea of ​​consciousness.

Although each transaction only gives 2 points of merit, the people in this yard...will earn at least a few hundred today.

She was worried that she didn't have enough merit to exchange for radishes, cabbages, high-yield rice, and high-quality corn.

I didn't expect to have hundreds of merit points all of a sudden, but with more merit points, I have more choices.

Jiang Yizhou looked at the names of crops on the exchange list and felt confused: What should I exchange next?

Cabbage, radish, rapeseed, corn, rice, or sweet potato? Sugarcane?

I want everything.

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