The county magistrate's daughter only wants to farm

During the spring ploughing season, the county government held a planting competition, in which three villages with the highest average per-acre yield were selected from the ten villages under the management of Ning County. In addition, three households with the highest per-acre yield of rice and sweet potatoes were selected separately.

So, in the end, six villages and six households will be selected!

There was a crowd surging in front of the city gate, and it was very lively. There was still a high platform with Gu Huaiyi standing on it. Several yamen runners stood around the platform, protecting him while maintaining order at the scene.

"Fellow villagers, please be quiet and listen to me!" Gu Huaiyi held the loudspeaker in one hand and raised and pressed down the other hand to signal the villagers to be quiet.

After a while, the noisy scene gradually quieted down, and everyone looked towards the podium, waiting for Gu Huaiyi to speak.

"Fellow villagers, the rice for the first half of this year has been harvested and dried, and the sweet potatoes have been dug up. After weighing and counting in each village over the past few days, the weight of the rice and sweet potatoes harvested by 1200 households in the ten villages of Ning County has been registered."

The lawyer at the side handed over the registration book with great tact. Gu Huaiyi took it and waved it to the villagers.

"The results of our Ning County's first planting competition are already in my hands!"

"Fellow villagers, why don't you guess which village won the first prize?"

The villagers suddenly became excited and shouted one after another.

"Needless to say, it must be our Jixiang Village!"

"Forget it! The rice grown in your village is all dry and shriveled. How can we possibly win? It must be us, Shangling Village!"

"We in Gutian Village have the best chance!"

"The second and third ones are yours to grab, but the first one must belong to our Lingshui Village!"

"Don't forget, there is one first place for rice and one for sweet potatoes. We in Taohua Village are not greedy, so just take one!"

"Our Ruyi Village..."

"Yuxi Village..."

"Xiejia Village..."

"Anping Village..."

"Fengshui Village..."

Gu Huaiyi listened very patiently to the villagers from different villages talking to each other and enjoyed it.

The villagers work in the fields all year round, leaving home early and returning late, and they are mentally numb from working so hard to support their families. They have never been so excited.

The villagers' high morale was deeply imprinted in Gu Huaiyi's mind.

As a local official, how can I remain indifferent when I see the people under my management being so active?

When the villagers had almost finished arguing, Gu Huaiyi said cheerfully, "Since everyone is so confident in their village, then let's maintain this confidence first!"

"what?"

What does this mean? Hearing this, the villagers looked at each other in bewilderment.

Gu Huaiyi continued to smile and said, "Let's take a look at which families won the top three individual rankings?"

After these words were spoken, some villagers looked regretful, while others rubbed their hands with a nervous look on their faces.

Gu Huaiyi didn't keep the secret any longer and announced it directly.

"The third place winners of the rice planting project are Ding Hongfa and his family from Lingshui Village! The rice they planted has reached an output of 496 kilograms per mu! They will receive a bonus of one or two taels of silver! Let us congratulate them!"

The yamen runners who were arranged in advance invited Ding Hongfa and his family, who had not yet fully reacted, to the bottom of the high platform to be baptized by the villagers' gazes.

Gu Huaiyi then announced, "The second place winner of the rice planting project is Wang Deming's family from Taohua Village! The rice they planted reached a yield of 500 kilograms per mu! They will receive a bonus of three times two silver coins!"

The yamen runners also brought Wang Deming and his family to the foot of the platform.

“Finally, the winner of our rice planting project is here. I believe many villagers already know who it is!”

"Yes, it's Gu Chengwen's family from Gutian Village! The yield of rice they grow is as high as 523 kilograms per mu!"

The villagers, who heard for the first time that rice yields could be so high, opened their eyes wide and said in disbelief, "How is this possible?"

Gu Huaiyi could probably guess what these villagers were thinking. After all, the current rice yield per mu is generally between 200 and 400 kilograms, and very few can reach 500 kilograms per mu.

Gu Chengwen's family was also invited to the stage. The middle-aged man in the lead was wearing coarse cloth clothes full of patches. He was suddenly brought up by the yamen runners with a nervous look on his face.

"Do you folks think that it is almost impossible to grow rice to a yield of 523 kilograms per mu?" Gu Huaiyi asked.

A villager echoed, "Yes, in previous years, the rice harvest could reach 450 kilograms per mu, which was already very remarkable. 523 kilograms, I would never dare to dream of it!"

"In that case, do you want to know how they did it?"

"Think!" the shout shook the sky.

"Then please ask Gu Chengwen to come up and share the secret of growing rice with the villagers!" Gu Huaiyi said loudly.

Gu Chengwen had never expected this to happen. His whole body was shaking with nervousness. He didn't know where to put his hands and feet and looked at a loss.

Gu Huaiyi had already walked down from the platform by this time. Noticing his nervousness, he walked up to him and patted him on the shoulder.

He comforted her, "Don't be nervous, just go up and tell us about your planting experience! If you are afraid of too many people, just treat them as ants. Can you be nervous when facing ants?"

Gu Chengwen's body gradually relaxed and he stopped shaking, but he was still very reserved and didn't dare to look him in the eye.

Gu Huaiyi immediately used his ultimate move, "If you speak well, the county government will reward you with fifty taels of silver!"

Gu Chengwen looked up suddenly, "Really?"

"Can the county magistrate's words be false?" said the lawyer on the side.

Gu Huaiyi smiled and nodded, his face full of encouragement.

Gu Chengwen's family was scratching their heads, wishing they could go up and give the speech on his behalf.

Fifty taels!

That’s fifty taels!

Enough for their family to use for three or four years!

Of course Gu Chengwen did not disappoint them and stepped onto the platform resolutely.

It was a little bit uncomfortable to speak into a loudspeaker for the first time, but under the stimulation of the huge sum of money, Gu Chengwen seemed to have become a different person, looking at the villagers in the audience and speaking loudly.

"When we planted rice, we did the same thing as everyone else at the beginning. We planted the seedlings, added water, removed weeds and pests, and other than that, we didn't pay much attention to it."

"But later we accidentally discovered that when we put fermented farmyard manure in the rice fields when the rice seedlings were growing, the seedlings not only had more tillers, but also grew stronger."

"But when the rice is heading, you can't put too much farmyard manure, but should replace it with wood ash."

Gu Chengwen mentioned a few other points of attention, and then smiled and said, "In fact, we are just ordinary farmers. We just manage rice as if it were our own child, and slowly discovered these methods."

Gu Huaiyi nodded with satisfaction in the audience. Her daughter was right. The masters were mostly among the people.

After hearing the method shared by Gu Chengwen, Gu Yin exclaimed, "No wonder they can grow such high-yield rice. This is because they use nitrogen fertilizer and potassium fertilizer at the critical period..."