Transmigrated into a female county magistrate during a famine, leading her country to prosperity

Zhu Kongjia sighed and said weakly, "Xiao Fang, I know that in your mind I must be extremely majestic, but sometimes we have to face reality."

"Reality?"

Zhu Kongjia was busy cutting rice, his hands moving non-stop, "The reality is that we are now standing in the rice fields of Tongan County, cutting the rice of Tongan County, and we may have to buy the rice back to Lushan County in the future. How much silver we can use to buy it back depends entirely on the mind of that Lord Shen, do you understand?"

The follower was still a little confused, but he knew that he could not help his master harvest rice today.

While the county officials were still working hard, the land belonging to Shen Zheng had already been harvested. Several people sat on the ground under the shade of the trees, drinking tea and eating snacks.

Zhao Xiu asked curiously, "Master Zhubu, how do you know that Master Yu will allow us to help him harvest rice?"

Xu Zhubu looked at the county officials who were still harvesting in the fields, "Because in Lord Yu's mind, our Lord is different from those county magistrates."

Zhao Xiu nodded, not quite understanding, "Of course they are different. They are not worthy of being compared with us adults."

Shen Zheng couldn't bear to listen any longer and spoke up to stop the two of them.

"You can brag if you want, but don't bring me into it. If other adults hear it, they will think I look down on them all the time."

Everyone laughed. Wang Guangjin looked at the people harvesting in the fields with a smile on his face and said, "After the harvest is finished in the next few days, I will dry the rice in the dam for two days, and then I can calculate the yield per mu."

Shen Zheng nodded. The rice yield per mu is not calculated directly by knocking the rice grains off the rice ears, but it has to be exposed to the sun for one to two days, and the calculation can be made after the moisture on the rice husks has almost evaporated.

Although every household in the county grows rice, the farmland is distributed over a wide area and the soil conditions are not exactly the same.

So after the millet is dried, the village heads are asked to count the per-acre yield of different villages under different planting conditions.

Wangjiazhuangzi will then calculate the per-acre yield of intensive plantings and take an average, which will be the approximate per-acre yield of this high-yield rice.

I don’t know how much the current specific per-acre yield will differ from the system data.

Wang Guangjin breathed a sigh of relief. He had never thought that he would be where he is today. It seemed that his life had been getting better and better since he met Lord Shen that day.

Lord Shen has helped him a lot. Now that he has some ability, he should also lend a helping hand to Lord Shen.

He had an idea in his mind.

He also knew the purpose of these county officials coming to the county today. After the villagers finished the autumn harvest, they would pay tax grain to the county government. The county government would then select rice seeds and sell them to county governments in various places, and even the prefectural government.

But Tongan County is so small that every household has only planted one or two acres of rice this year. Villagers also have to save the seeds themselves. If properly stored, the rice seeds can be stored for about three years.

But now this first batch of rice is hard to come by, so if you can save more seeds, you should of course save more. Even though the adults have said that as long as the rice seeds are selected well, the per-acre rice yield will not drop significantly, but this is the first time for the villagers to grow this rice, so they should save more rice seeds for themselves, as a way to leave some retreat.

But there are actually some tricks involved in selecting rice seeds. If you are strict, you have to go through several selection procedures.

The first is screening, using a winnowing basket with sieve holes to grade the rice seeds and select plump, full and strong seeds.

The second step is grain selection, which involves checking the screened rice seeds grain by grain to see if they meet the requirements for seed retention.

The third is wind selection, which is to prevent the rice seeds from being hollow. Air is blown by human power. If the rice seeds are easily blown, they are inferior seeds.

Only rice that meets these requirements can be used as high-quality grain, while villagers can keep rice that does not meet the requirements as their own food.

Therefore, it was not how much rice the villagers harvested that determined how many rice seeds they had. Wang Guangjin estimated that even if there was no extra silver, it should not be a problem for each household to earn one or two hundred taels.

However, everything depends on how Lord Shen will let them keep the rice seeds. If the requirements are not too strict, every household can earn more.

But Wang Guangjin felt that, based on Lord Shen's temperament, the rice that could be saved for seeds must have been strictly screened.

Moreover, Lord Shen should also prohibit villagers from selling rice seeds that have not passed the screening. So, by this calculation, there should not be too many rice seeds in the county government.

Wang Guangjin lowered his head in thought. When the county government sold rice seeds to local government offices, the selling price would certainly be lower than that of the grain shops, and the situation at that time would certainly be that there would be more people than porridge.

But this time, it is a good opportunity for Lord Shen to become famous...

Wang Guangjin gritted his teeth and made up his mind. Now that there were no outsiders around, he said directly to Shen Zheng: "My lord, I have something to discuss with you."

Several people looked at him, and Shen Zheng asked in confusion, "What's the matter?"

Wang Guangjin stood up and bowed to Shen Zheng. "Except for the rice seeds kept for next year, all the rice seeds selected by my Wang family farm will be sold to the county government. As for the price, it is up to you, my Lord."

Everyone present took a deep breath when they heard this. Even Wang Wanying stared at Wang Guangjin with wide eyes. How could her brother be so sensible today?

Shen Zheng was also a little shocked. She had clearly agreed with Wang Guangjin before that he should sell the rice seeds to Hu’s Grain Shop.

She said with some disapproval: "You can say this, so you know how much more money you can earn if you sell the rice seeds to Hu's grain store."

Wang Guangjin nodded and said, "I know that if Manager Hu can sell it at a good price, the profit will be about one pound of rice seeds, close to one ounce of silver."

When Wang Guangjin said this, the hearts of the others all trembled. The Wang family farm had dozens of acres of rice planted, and the rice seeds screened out must be tens of thousands of kilograms. For Wang Guangjin, this was tens of thousands of taels of profit. Now he actually said he didn't want it? !

That’s ten thousand taels of silver!

Ten thousand taels of silver... Shen Zheng felt that if she were Wang Guangjin, she would not be willing to give away the silver in her pocket.

This is really too much. How many people in this world have ever seen ten thousand taels of silver? But at this moment, Wang Guangjin said it so easily, as if what he handed over was just a few copper coins.

Shen Zheng probably understood his intention, but still couldn't help asking him, "Why do you have to do this?"

Wang Guangjin looked determined and spoke in a resounding voice: "Your Excellency has given me a second life. It is not an exaggeration to say that you are my second parent. Although I do not understand officialdom, I also know that your sale of rice seeds to local governments is closely related to the future of Tong'an County and your future career. Those governments that bought rice seeds from our county will be grateful to you in the future!"