Chapter 260: The rice harvest is approaching, and winter wheat begins to sow!

At the end of September, the autumn wind brings joy and the rice ears are fragrant. The rice planted in spring is about to be harvested. Looking at the waves of golden rice ears, which are constantly undulating in the breeze, Zhang Zhun's mood is naturally very good. Of course, the mood of other people in Fushan City is also very good. Everyone's faces are filled with the joy of a harvest coming soon.

On September 23, early in the morning, Zhang Zhun took Lao Tiantou, the manager of the Agricultural Science Department, and several other farming experts from the Agricultural Science Department to inspect the surrounding area. The full name of the Agricultural Science Department is the Agricultural Science Department of Development. As the name suggests, the task is naturally to develop agricultural science and technology and increase grain output. Lao Tiantou is the most famous farming expert in the Fushan Institute and is well-known far and wide, so Zhang Zhun nominated him as the manager of the Agricultural Science Department. In fact, according to Zhang Zhun's original meaning, Song Yingxing should be the most suitable manager of the Agricultural Science Department. Unfortunately, Song Yingxing has not arrived in Fushan City yet, so others can only take over.

When sowing in spring, Fushan Station had a total of more than 50,000 mu of rice fields. Among them, the original fields were 30,000 mu and the newly reclaimed fields were 20,000 mu. The fields that were later reclaimed were temporarily unable to sow due to missing the season. Now, all the 50,000 mu of rice fields are about to be harvested. According to the estimates of the old fields, the average yield per mu should be about 350 kilograms. According to the yield per mu, Fushan Station will obtain more than 17 million kilograms of rice during the harvest. It is converted into stones, which is about 90,000 kilograms.

This grain output has never been seen in Fushan District before. Before Fushan, when the grain output was the highest, it was only about 40,000 stones. This fully shows that after dividing the land and land to everyone, the enthusiasm for labor has been greatly improved. Everyone should do their own fields as well as possible and strive for the highest possible grain output. After all, the tax rate is fixed, and the higher the grain output, the greater the commission.

Of course, Zhang Zhun invested a lot of money, built a large number of water conservancy facilities, dug a large number of deep wells, actively promoted scientific farming, and organized everyone to use farm fertilizer rationally. In the future, as more wastelands were reclaimed into fields, the sowing area continued to expand, and the grain yield per mu continued to increase, the grain output will continue to be refreshed.

I have food in my hands, so I feel unhappy.

Zhang Zhun felt very happy all the way.

The tax of 40 kilograms per mu is about 2 million kilograms. Save a little bit of use and can be used for a long time. The guard's food consumes about 1,500 kilograms a day. Now I must often pay attention to whether the supply of food is sufficient. I must often pay attention to where I can buy a large amount of relatively cheap food. As a result, a large amount of silver is used to buy food. Perhaps three or four years later, I will no longer have to worry about food.

With sufficient food in the hands of the people, there are many benefits. Excess food can be sold for money and fed livestock, greatly strengthening the supply of various meats in Fushan District. In the era when there is not enough food, raising livestock is impossible to promote. At most, raising chickens and raising pigs is very food-consuming. Without food, the growth rate of livestock is also very slow, which is far from meeting the needs of the market. Nowadays, pork costs fifty cents per catty, which is really too expensive.

Of course, the tax revenue of Fushan Institute is not a big end. The tax of 40 kilograms per mu can only be barely enough to maintain food and clothing. The income of Lingshanwei’s farm is the real big end. Thinking about Lingshanwei’s farm, Zhang Zhun immediately came to Lingshanwei after inspecting the fields around Fushan City.

Speaking of which, Lingshanwei is really a freak. Lingshanwei and Aoshanwei are actually separated by Mawan, and the people's psychology is completely different. The military households here dare not divide the land and land into their own hands, for fear of revenge from the court. However, working in the farm under Zhang Zhun's name was very active. Zhang Zhun's large farm plan was very smooth in the implementation of Lingshanwei. Most of the local people were successfully transformed into Tunding.

According to Fang Yu and Dou Shanbai's report, the development momentum of each farm is quite strong in twenty large farms. Thinking of the year-end rewards, Tun Ding's motivation is unprecedented. If you want to talk about the relaxed people among the managers of each farm, it is naturally the supervisors. There are basically no Tun Ding who needs to be driven away to work.

The military households of Lingshanwei were not very interested in growing rice, and they still planted traditional winter wheat. September is the sowing period for winter wheat. After the winter wheat is sown, it will not be harvested until next summer. Therefore, there is no grain in Lingshanwei in September. As for the winter wheat harvested before, Wang Jian was dealt with. Zhang Zhun took the Lingshanwei and seized not much grain.

In fact, the entire Lingshanwei is currently in short supply. The grain distributed by the farms is paid in advance every day. No wonder they choose to be the grain. After becoming a town, the pressure on the grain is on Zhang Zhun. As long as the towns are working, they will have grain income and do not need to wait until the harvest season. If the land is divided into individuals, the grain pressure will be transferred to themselves. If they want to obtain grain, they have to wait until June next year when the winter wheat harvest is bumper. When it is not in the blue sky, it is still very difficult to obtain sufficient grain.

In other words, before June next year, the grain pressure on Zhang Zhun's shoulder will be very heavy. There are almost 30,000 people around Lingshan City. A considerable number of people are farms. The number of people in the number of people is about 20,000. According to the calculation that each person consumes two kilograms of grain per day, the grain that people in the every day needs to be distributed by the people alone is about 40,000 kilograms.

Fortunately, the grain output around Fushan City can still last for a period of time. Zhang Zhun can seize some of the grain from time to time to fill the huge deficit. At the same time, he can also transport grain from Jiangnan and continuously distribute it around Lingshan City. Basically, every three days, grain merchants transport grain ship by ship with large ships.

Although Shen Lingfei's business was blocked, she also went to Shuiyue Temple in Laoshan to do rituals for her mother and temporarily put down the business at hand. However, Huang Silang and Guo Mingtai took the initiative to take over some grain trading affairs. They purchased some grain from Huai'an Prefecture, transported it to Xiahezhai by land, and then transferred it to Lingshan City. In addition, they sent their own deli subordinates to Jiangnan to actively contact grain merchants and asked them to transport the grain to Mawan by sea, and then unload the goods here.

Chen Lingfei's fleet was temporarily under their name and used to carry the purchased grain. Yang Guohua's two pig-bearded ships also joined the army of transporting grain. The total carrying capacity of the five ships was about 4,000 stones. In other words, they could carry nearly 800,000 kilograms of grain at a time. Continuous transportation could basically meet daily grain needs.

In fact, the grain output of Huaian Prefecture is also quite good. On both sides of the canal, there are basically fertile rice fields. To the south of Huaian Prefecture is Yangzhou Prefecture. The surrounding areas around Yangzhou Prefecture have always been a world-famous fish and rice town. The canal passes through here and has unique conditions that have allowed Yangzhou to gather a large number of salt merchants and grain merchants. The grain transported from Jiangnan to the capital is also concentrated here. As long as you have money, you can buy grain. The grain price in the seventh year of Chongzhen has not yet begun to soar, and the price of each stone is about one or two or three cents, far from reaching the sky-high price of four or three taels of silver per stone.

The only drawback is that the grain sent by Huang Silang and others from Jiangnan was at least one cent higher than that sent by Chen Lingfei. There was no way. They rarely entered the Jiangnan market before and had no background or relationship in Jiangnan. For such a Kaizi, Jiangnan grain merchants must have to slaughter them. Zhang Zhun was unable to reach the Jiangnan market for the time being, so he could only endure the pain and be slaughtered.

At the same time, Guo Mingtai and Huang Silang also took over the glass business. Through their own sales channels, they sold glass to Huai'an Prefecture in Nanzhili, as well as Yanzhou Prefecture, Jinan Prefecture, Dongchang Prefecture in Shandong Province, Guide Prefecture in Henan Province, Daming Prefecture in Hebei Province and other places. There are still quite a lot of wealthy families in these areas. Their pursuit of glass is also quite strong. Therefore, there is basically no backlog of glass produced by Zhang Zhun. As soon as it is released, it will be sold.

Due to technical and confidentiality reasons, Zhang Zhun's current glass production is not very large. The monthly shipment volume is about twenty boxes, half of which are of each size. The total revenue of selling glass every month is about 85,000 taels of silver, which is just used to buy about 6,000 shi of grain. In fact, within Zhang Zhun's jurisdiction, only 2,000 shi of grain is enough. Therefore, only 30% of the income from glass can meet the needs of purchasing grain. As for the other 70%, there are fine salt and other incomes, which can be used to do other things.

Of course, if the food can be self-sufficient, Zhang Zhun can free up a considerable amount of financial resources to speed up the construction of other facilities. For example, shipbuilding, such as researching cannons, are very expensive. Especially shipbuilding. The navy basically uses money to build a navy with certain combat capabilities as soon as possible, it is absolutely impossible to have money without money.

"Shanbai, how is the sowing of winter wheat?"

After Zhang Zhun arrived at Lingshanwei, he asked Dou Shanbai straight to the point.
Chapter completed!