Xu Wei was reminded by Zhen An and thought of outsourcing looms, so he issued an announcement in Mayi that anyone who brought a loom to Mayi could get a share of 5 pieces of woolen cloth.
This news caused a sensation among the merchants in Mayi, and everyone was thinking of bringing looms to Mayi!
It is difficult to transport sensitive materials such as grain to Mayi, but the loom is just a few pieces of wood, so it is too easy to get it out of the customs. And five pieces of woolen cloth are worth at least tens of thousands of dollars, which is a great deal.
June of the third year of Zhongping (186).
By June, the winter wheat has matured, and this year's summer harvest in Mayi has begun.
Old Man Niu made a large number of Bailian Sickles, which were both sharp and strong. Every time he cut the wheat, it would fall to pieces.
Xu Wei also made a large number of plunderers, the blades of which were sharper than sickles. Xu Wei made a modern lawnmower style, "brushing" an arc-shaped wheat and then cutting it aside, just twisting
There is no need to bend down at all. The acquisition efficiency of the plunder is 2-3 times faster than that of the sickle. Xu Wei made everyone exclaim when he used it.
However, Xu Wei just remembered it, and it is more complicated to make than the sickle, so it is only equipped in small quantities.
Xu Wei and others harvested hundreds of acres of wheat, and the average yield per mu reached 2 shi, which meant that the output of winter wheat from these millions of acres reached the figure of 2 million acres. Old Wang and the others were so happy that they couldn't open their mouths from ear to ear.
"Mayi is really a treasure land. It is generally difficult to get even one stone of grain in newly cultivated fields, but in Mayi the amount has doubled. These 2 million stone of grain are enough for us to eat for more than half a year!"
No wonder Old Man Wang and the others are so happy. In the Han Dynasty, the lower fields generally produced about 1 stone per mu, the middle fields only produced more than 2 stones, and the upper fields only produced 3-4 stones. However, the newly cultivated land generally did not even produce one stone per mu. But now
The yield of the newly cultivated land in Mayi has reached 2 dan per mu, which is a level only achieved by Zhongtian. It is no wonder that Old Man Wang and the others were overjoyed.
"Yes, this is the first time I have seen such a yield in a new field. After we have cultivated the land for a year, it will not become an upper field." Old Man Niu also said cheerfully.
The top management of Mayi all know that food is the most important thing in Mayi. After the wheat matures, everyone comes to help. Wang Lei and others have entered the fields to continuously harvest wheat.
"We will naturally produce such a yield if we cultivate intensively, otherwise our hard work will be in vain."
Xu Wei did not feel that there was a bumper harvest. He used soil and fertilizers, obtained high-yield seeds, and mobilized hundreds of thousands of people to build elevated water canals. After doing so many things, the food supply was only doubled.
A yield of 2 shi is equivalent to a modern yield of more than 100 kilograms per mu, which in Xu Wei's opinion is equivalent to a complete harvest.
In this day and age, how can the yield be less than 1 stone per mu? Usually, the weeds in the fields are dried first with a fire, and then the family with oxen and plows plows the fields. Because straight plows are used, even those who have no money can only use human power.
When plowing, the field is usually turned over no more than 10 centimeters, and then the seeds are sprinkled. Water conservancy facilities only include two buckets to see if there is a good harvest. In many places, the land is not even plowed, but a fire is set and the seeds are buried.
, slash-and-burn cultivation is a common phenomenon in this era. In addition, because there is no chemical fertilizer and it has to be left fallow, the yield is naturally not high.
That's why there are a lot of sayings in the books of this era that "one man can take care of five people and cultivate a hundred acres of land", because farming in this era is so rough, and cultivating 100 acres of land can only barely reach the level of the middle class of the Han Dynasty.
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If farming is carried out intensively and without the assistance of large livestock, a family that wants to plant a hundred acres of land will be exhausted and unable to do so.
Xu Wei originally thought that after doing so many things, the yield per mu could be increased to 3 shi, but apparently these winter wheat disappointed Xu Wei. When he saw the sparse wheat in the fields, all he could think of were images of the disaster-stricken fields.
Nowadays, people have to go online to complain about this.
"This is nothing. After the soil is fully cultivated, it will be easy to produce 3 or 4 shi per mu in the future!" He knew that this was new land and the fertility was not high. He would wait until he planted soybeans in the previous season and get some soil fertilizer.
, water conservancy has also kept up, and it is easy for the yield per mu to reach the so-called farmland in this world.
In modern times, there are no such things as lower fields, middle fields, and upper fields. Why do these terms disappear in modern times? It relies on modern chemical fertilizers, high-yielding seeds, and water conservancy facilities. This set can make all fields equally fertile.
There are hundreds of thousands of cattle and sheep in Mayi, which can provide a large amount of soil fertilizers, especially cow dung, which seems to be the best raw material for soil fertilizers. There are millions of producers of such raw materials around Mayi. The Hu people originally used cattle
The dung is used as fuel, but now the Hu people have Xu Wei’s briquette stoves and briquettes as fuel. The strong-smelling fuels such as cow dung are basically not used in the tribes near Mayi. Xu Wei feels that if he uses a penny
Come to buy a bunch of money, I think these barbarians will not refuse such a windfall!
Moreover, there is a sea in Youzhou, with a large number of islands and a large number of birds living on them. It is expected that there will be a lot of struvite. If it is mined in large quantities, it should be possible to only supply one Mayi. Guano is the most important thing.
Good natural fertilizer.
High-yielding seeds are also very simple. Just select the plumpest seeds and optimize the breeding. After a few generations, they will naturally become high-yielding seeds. Needless to say, water conservancy facilities are the most important to Xu Wei. Elevated plants can be seen everywhere in Mayi.
In the shadow of the canal, the fields are not lacking in irrigation.
With all these planting techniques in place, not only will all the fields in Mayi be cultivated, but they will not need to be left fallow.
With all kinds of highly refined five-star farm tools, millions of acres of fields can be harvested very quickly, and the pedal thresher is dozens of times faster than the traditional photographed method. Blower, water conservancy millstone, these are the farming artifacts of the feudal era.
Let Mayi's summer harvest and planting be over in less than a month.
The entire Mayi harvested 2.1 million shi of grain, and the tribesmen handed over 30% of the grain, which was 630,000 shi. This means that the 140,000 farmers in Mayi can receive 1.47 million shi of grain, and on average each farmer in Mayi can receive 10 and a half shi.
According to the purchase price of 1 stone and 100 yuan of grain, each farmer can get 1050 yuan for summer harvest, which is equivalent to half a month's income of a female textile worker in Mayi.
When Xu Wei got this data, he could only sigh: "No wonder farmers are said to be the most miserable. It is the same everywhere!"
Even with the income from the autumn harvest and soybeans and vegetables, farmers in Mayi only earn between 3,000 and 4,000 yuan a year, and their monthly income is only about 300 yuan. Although this is much higher than their original income in Jizhou, after all, it can
I see money, but it is basically the lowest income in Mayi.