When I went back this time, I brought several times more goods than what I had brought several times before.
Because there were Qingfeng guards secretly guarding them, along the way, some of the short-sighted ones were killed before they even appeared in front of the Ning family caravan.
The previous reputation of the Ning family caravan was considered familiar to everyone on the North and South Roads.
Now, it's like thunder.
After all, no one wants to have the entire village destroyed after going against a caravan.
After careful consideration, it is natural to hide as far away as possible.
Those on the road didn't know that the water bandits in Baishuidu, Pei County, were also wiped out with the help of the Ning brothers.
Otherwise, there will probably be more and more people who are afraid.
However, Ning Laosan does not want this kind of prestige.
His mother had repeatedly told him to keep a low profile and keep a low profile, only by covering your head can you make a fortune.
If you are too high-profile, you will easily be regarded as a prominent bird on the wall and be shot down the wall with one arrow.
By the time Ning Laosan and Ning Laosi arrive home, the second season's rice will be harvested.
Potatoes have been harvested for the second time, and sweet potatoes and corn were harvested a month ago.
This time, the yield of sweet potatoes from one acre of land was as high as two thousand kilograms.
This time I planted about 40 acres of land, which is equivalent to a harvest of more than 80,000 sweet potatoes.
Of course, Ning Pengpeng cannot use all of the more than 80,000 sweet potatoes to make sweet potato flour. She still has to keep the seeds and prepare to expand the planting next year!
Therefore, at most half of the sweet potatoes, which is about 60,000, are left to make sweet potato flour.
Five kilograms of sweet potatoes can produce about one kilogram of sweet potato flour, which is equivalent to one acre of land producing four hundred kilograms of sweet potato flour.
In other words, one thousand kilograms of sweet potatoes can produce two hundred kilograms of sweet potato flour, and sixty thousand kilograms of sweet potato flour can produce twelve thousand kilograms of sweet potato flour.
One acre of sweet potato seeds requires about fifty kilograms, which is equivalent to three thousand sweet potato seedlings.
Therefore, the remaining 20,000 kilograms of sweet potatoes can be planted on approximately 400 acres of land.
Although Ning Pengpeng's farm has hundreds of acres of farmland, Ning Pengpeng does not want to give up planting two crops of rice.
Therefore, she plans to buy more fields in other places specifically for growing sweet potatoes.
Anyway, even if someone steals these sweet potatoes, if they don’t know how to grow them, the yield won’t be very high.
Moreover, precisely because of the high output, Ning Pengpeng is not afraid of the loss of this bit of theft.
The yield of corn is less than that of sweet potatoes, about 1,200 kilograms per acre.
This time we only planted about 13 acres of corn, so we only had a harvest of 15,000 kilograms.
Corn requires about five kilograms of seeds per acre, so Ning Pengpeng only left one thousand kilograms, which can be planted on about two hundred acres of land, and the remaining fourteen thousand kilograms were ready to be ground into cornmeal.
Potatoes had already been harvested once before, and this time they were planted again. Although they planted six acres of land, the harvest from each acre was about 1,800 kilograms.
In this way, six acres of land yielded about 10,000 kilograms.
One acre of land requires about 500 kilograms of potato seeds, which is equivalent to 4,000 potato seedlings.
Ning Pengpeng planted all the more than 10,000 kilograms of potatoes, covering a total of about twenty acres of land.
It is estimated that when this harvest is completed, the output will be around 36,000.
Ning Pengpeng made some calculations and suddenly felt that he was really short of land.
It is a pity that the fertile fields in these villages are used to grow these coarse grains.
However, these sweet potatoes, potatoes, and corn are not like rice.
Therefore, it can also be planted in dry lands.
Good farmland is hard to buy, but dry land is plentiful.
After all, the government has issued a notice that as long as someone is willing to open up wasteland and reclaim dry land, the first three years will be tax-free.
Wait until the land is matured before you start collecting taxes.
Moreover, even if the tax collected after three years on dry land obtained from reclaiming wasteland is different from the tax on fertile land.
Therefore, Ning Pengpeng decided to pay people to open up wasteland and reclaim dry land.
After she only bought about 300 acres of fertile land from Zhongren, it became difficult to buy a large piece of fertile land.
But she said she wanted to buy dry land, and within a few days, she bought at least a thousand acres of dry land.
In this regard, Ning Pengpeng still felt a little lacking.
Therefore, she specially bought almost 3,000 acres of wasteland from Li Weishan, and then hired people to cultivate it.
After Ning Pengpeng finished doing this, Li Weishan came to ask her about her intention of buying so much wasteland.
In this regard, Ning Pengpeng did not hide Li Weishan's plans.
As for whether Li Weishan should report it to the court, that is his business.
Anyway, if she was disloyal once and disloyal a hundred times, she would not believe that the court would give her any reward!
Li Weishan couldn't believe it when Ning Pengpeng said that this lump of earth had such a high yield.
But Ning Pengpeng bought so much wasteland and let it be reclaimed. Unless she had too much money to burn out, why did she buy so much wasteland?
Li Weishan really wanted to report this matter to the court again, but the last two-crop rice incident had just slapped him in the face!
This time, he never praised Haikou to Ning Pengpeng and said that the imperial court would reward him.
It was just that in the booklet that was handed over, it was said that a peasant woman in An Town had discovered a crop that could produce a thousand kilograms per acre.
It's a pity that this folding letter, just like the last one, was scoffed by others after being read, thinking that Li Weishan was exaggerating, like a clown who wanted to take the opportunity to return to Beijing!
Therefore, it was still suppressed and was not presented to the emperor.
After Li Weishan handed over the paper, when he wanted to call on the farmers under his jurisdiction to plant these coarse grains, he was stopped by Master An.
"Sir, the people here are not willing to plant the two crops of rice, let alone this kind of crop that has never been seen before?
It's better to prepare the two crops of rice in advance.
When the common people taste the benefits of the two crops of rice, they will naturally be willing to believe what the adults say.
In that case, if we talk about growing such coarse grains, we will get twice the result with half the effort!"
When Li Weishan heard what Master An said, it really made sense.
Although it is a pity that the common people have to lose more food for another year, they also know that you cannot become fat by eating in one go.
Ning Pengpeng, on the other hand, directly used money to open the way. She provided the seeds, and after they were planted, she recovered them with one penny per pound.
If there is no harvest, one tael of silver per acre will be considered as the fee for leasing the dry land of the other party.
The villagers in Dahuaishu Village have planted two crops of rice.
But in the villages around Dahuaishu Village, they feel that they can just farm according to the rules passed down from their ancestors.
However, the temptation given by Ning Pengpeng was too great.
In addition, growing these coarse grains only requires dry land.
Anyway, you don’t have to spend money on seeds. If you can’t plant them, you will be compensated on a per-acre basis.
Even if they grow beans, they can't sell them for a tael of silver!
Therefore, many people nodded and agreed without hesitation.
Even the Shi brothers are unable to buy dry land in their own village.
Because the money earned from running a business in the past few years has been used by the Shi family's parents to buy fertile land and use it to grow two crops of rice.