After passing through the crowd of children, even the sack on his back was taken away by someone who didn't know who, Lu Yao finally arrived at the hall of his second uncle's house.
To be honest, the house of his second uncle's house is much larger than that of their Lu Mansion, mainly because of the location, one in the outer city and one in the inner city cannot compare.
After entering the hall, I saw my second uncle and Lu Xu sitting on the main seat. Mrs. Lu was on the side where Lu Xu was sitting, followed by Lu Hao and his sister-in-law Xu.
Only a few days later, he felt that his sister-in-law's belly was getting bigger again. Could it be twins? The more he thought about it, the more likely it was.
There was an empty seat next to Xu, presumably reserved for him.
Just when Lu Yao was about to sit on it, he heard his second uncle Lu Zhuo say: "Yao'er, you are a great hero of our Lu family. How can you sit in that position and come and sit here?"
Lu Zhuo pointed to the first place where he started, which was opposite his mother.
When he was still hesitating whether to sit down, an old voice sounded.
"Yao'er, you have earned honor for my Lu family. No one can sit in that position except you, and the same goes for me."
Lu Yao turned around and saw an old man about sixty years old walking in from the gate.
When Lu Xu and Lu Zhuo saw the person coming, they immediately stood up and saluted, "I didn't expect my second uncle to come so early today."
If Lu Xu calls him his second uncle, shouldn't I call him his second uncle?
Lu Yao respectfully shouted: "Second uncle."
The second uncle looked at Lu Yao with a smile, nodded and said, "Yes, yes, Yao'er is indeed the Qilin son of my Lu family. Lu Xu, you have given birth to a good son!"
Lu Yao helped his second uncle to move forward. Lu Zhuo made way for his second uncle and sat down next to Lu Yao.
Seeing that everyone in the room had arrived, the second uncle said openly: "Today is the Lu family's annual gathering. It's time to talk about the direction of the family this year."
The second uncle did not look at Lu Xu, who was the head of the family at this time, but at Lu Yao, because he knew that Lu Yao had made a lot of money in the past month, so that other people in the Lu family were a little jealous, so
It would be great if the money was theirs.
In this way, many people came to the second uncle, who was the most senior, and said that they hoped that the second uncle could come forward to talk to Lu Yao about helping them make a fortune together. The second uncle was also very troubled. Otherwise, he would not have come so early.
Lu Zhuo's family came in a hurry just because he heard that Lu Yao had arrived.
"I wonder if Yao'er has any plans for the development of the Lu family this year?" the second uncle asked with a smile.
Lu Xu was not angry either, and looked at Lu Yao with the same interest. He was just a Minister of Household Affairs. Although he was the head of the family in name, he didn't have much control over the affairs of the family. Most of them were decided by his second uncle.
"I wonder how much land our family has? How much food can we produce in a year?"
When his second uncle asked this question, it reminded Lu Yao of the later crops placed in his yard. The grain output in the Northern Song Dynasty must have been very small per acre. It would be better to plant the potatoes, corn and tomatoes he brought. Just potatoes per acre.
In later generations, the output can reach about two to three thousand kilograms. Although there was no such thing as fertilizer in the Northern Song Dynasty, it was easy to produce one thousand and one hundred kilograms per mu. Since growing grain does not make money, it is better to grow these. The Lu family
Your income will definitely increase several times.
As for how much real estate the family has, the eldest member of the family said, "The entire Lu family does not have a lot of land, about 400 acres. When the harvest is good, we can harvest two buckets of grain per acre, so the total harvest in a year is
Two hundred dan, excluding the ration of 50 dan, the annual income is about 75 gu."
"Only seventy-five dollars?" Lu Yao was a little surprised. Didn't he mean that the New Year's money he just gave out was higher than the Lu family's annual income from land? No wonder his brothers and sisters-in-law were all filled with happy smiles.
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Later generations said that the grain output per mu in the Song Dynasty was about two hundred kilograms. In fact, this is wrong. The grain yield per mu in the Ming Dynasty was only one stone, while in the Song Dynasty it was even less. It was almost sixty or seventy kilograms under no disaster conditions. If there was heavy rain, it would be almost
There was no harvest. In the Song Dynasty, due to the problem of diversion of the Yellow River, its banks would burst almost every few years. The people living by the Yellow River were in dire straits.
Lu Yao had already thought that the grain output was very small, but he didn't expect it to be so little. What is the concept of sixty or seventy kilograms of grain? A person's annual ration is about two hundred and twenty kilograms, and three acres of land can feed one person. No wonder he is old
I heard that in ancient times, a family of three needed more than ten acres of land to barely have enough to eat. Moreover, the family had no money at all, so it was hard to find new clothes for several years.
Although the Song Dynasty was prosperous, the people were still the most miserable.
And with so many people in the Lu family, seventy-five guan is not enough to spend. Most of them are subsidized by Lu Xu, an official. This is why the Lu family has always been so poor.
The second uncle smiled and said: "Yao'er! Seventy-five pounds is already a lot. Our Lu family has been allocated some good fields because of our ancestors. If it were replaced by other poor fields, one acre could produce fifty pounds of grain."
Not bad.”
Lu Yao shook his head. He must not farm the way he did before. Four hundred acres of land was wasted.
Since he had so much land at home, he had to make good use of it.
"What if the land at home is handed over to my grandnephew next year?" Lu Yao asked.
The second uncle nodded and said: "Since Yao'er has a way, it's the best. Anyway, the output of the land this year is not enough for you to sell wine in a day."
The second uncle naturally hopes that Lu Yao will toss these lands. Even if Lu Yao leaves his lands uncultivated, once Lu Yao takes over the order, it means that the whole Lu family needs Lu Yao to support them.
A little money is just a drop in the bucket for Lu Yao.
Lu Yao nodded and did not tell him his plan. Anyway, his second uncle would not believe him if he told him.
In an era when the yield per mu was sixty or seventy kilograms, if you said that one mu could grow two thousand kilograms of grain, they would never believe it. In their impression, even gods could not do it. In this case, when the time comes, let the facts prove it.
Just prove it.
Regarding the planning of the four hundred acres of land, this is what Lu Yao thinks. If potatoes are cut into pieces and planted, about four acres of land can be planted. Corn seeds can be grown on ten acres. Tomatoes can be grown on two acres. Lu Yao also brings peppers.
It’s quite a lot, and it can cover almost four acres.
If calculated this way, it would be twenty acres of land.
Of the remaining 380 acres, Lu Yao plans to use 100 acres for compound planting.
It means digging several deep vertical and horizontal ditches in the fields, stocking some fish in them, planting rice in other places, and stocking some ducks in the fields. In this way, the droppings of the ducks and fish can be used to fertilize the fields, and the ducks can eat them.
Pests, the annual rice yield can definitely exceed the yield of 200 kilograms per mu.
There is still land left, and Lu Yao plans to use 200 acres to transplant some mulberry trees.
Mulberry leaves can raise silkworms. As a scientific research team leader in his previous life, it is very easy to improve the current loom into hydraulic weaving. There is no labor cost and weaving is done 24 hours a day.
He can keep the cost of the cloth to a minimum, and the profit from the cloth will be considerable.
The mulberries made from mulberry trees can be used to make wine. This sweet and sour low-alcohol wine can open up the drinking market for women. Besides, this sweet taste is very suitable for the Song Dynasty.
Luyao plans to use the remaining 180 acres to grow sugar cane. The sugar cane can be used to make white sugar, and the residue after sugar cane juice can be used to make paper. It has multiple uses and ensures that nothing is wasted.
When necessary, Lu Yao will also make a greenhouse out of plain cloth. Agricultural products can be harvested twice a year, and some vegetables can be grown in the greenhouse as winter approaches.
Winter green vegetables can be sold at sky-high prices, which is a very profitable business.
After Lu Yao's planning, the output value of the original 400 acres of land can be increased by at least hundreds of times.
He also wants to build a pig farm next to the brewery in Su County.
At this time, the pigs are not castrated, and the pork will have a fishy smell. The rich people will not eat meat except lard. Pork is eaten by poor people, and uncastrated pigs grow very slowly.
, a hundred pounds can be considered a fat pig. This kind of lean meat has a lot of lean meat and very little fat meat, and a pig can produce very little lard.
Although pork nowadays is cheap, it is still very expensive.
Lu Yao wanted to produce the kind of fat pigs for future generations, lower the price of pork so that everyone could afford cheap meat, and he also needed lard to make his own candles and soaps, so he could be self-sufficient.
This saves a lot of costs.
The Lu family happily decided to hand over the land to Lu Yao to take care of it, so that they could do other things to save some money.
"I wonder how many literate people in my family may give me?" Lu Yao asked.
"Yao'er can just tell you how much you want. Most of the family are literate. Anyway, they won't have to worry about the fields in the coming year. You can choose whatever you want." The second uncle said with a smile, stroking his white beard.
"Give me six and it will be done. You don't need many." He has not visited the factories in Su County yet. Uncle Cao Guo is even more anxious than him. He will definitely build them on time. By then, there will be a brewery, a paper making and printing factory, and finally a maintenance plant.
Pig factory, after these three large factories are completed, Lu Yao cannot stay there all the time, and someone needs to manage them.
Cao Yi will definitely send people, so as the current owner of these factories, he will definitely send people. After thinking about it, his family is the most reliable. After all, his father is the head of the family, and his future is bright. The future of these Lu family members
If you rely on their family, you will definitely not betray the Lu family.
Regarding the leakage of brewing and papermaking technology, Lu Yao would be very relieved.
The second uncle took the opportunity to call out six names, probably for selfish reasons. Four of them were his grandsons, and two were the sons of Lu Yao's third and fourth uncles. The six of them came to the hall together.
The second uncle smiled and said: "You six are all Yao'er's cousins. You will work hard behind Yao'er from now on. Yao'er can make money like this and he will definitely make you rich in the future."
The faces of the six people instantly showed joy, who doesn’t want to make a lot of money!
Lu Yao told them to go to the Lu Mansion after the Lantern Festival and discuss the details in detail then.
The second uncle saw Lu Yao ordering things in an orderly manner with a smile on his face. He saw that the position of head of the Lu family would be handed over to Lu Yao in the future.
Lu Xu only knows how to be an official and does not earn much money. He can only be regarded as a qualified family head, not an outstanding family head.
Whether the Lu family can take off or not, the second uncle puts all his hopes on Lu Yao.