Chapter 23 Li Cunyi was so angry that he vomited blood
Didn’t it say that it can only be increased by 30%?
Where is this 30%?
This is doubled, one hundred percent!
It's actually normal.
The 30% increase in yield compared to normal wheat that Wu Siyuan mentioned is based on the wheat standards of modern society.
Nowadays, scientific breeding of wheat seeds has not continued, and the yield per mu is much lower than that of actual wheat.
That’s why this situation occurs!
As the saying goes [If you are one step ahead, you are a genius; if you are a few steps ahead, you are a madman]!
In the same way, under Wang Hongyi's rule, if the wheat yield is more than ten or twenty percent, it can be said to be a good omen.
But if the yield is doubled, it would be a monster!
This situation will be attacked by a group of people.
Maybe, Changding Town, Hongze Mansion and several Shu forces will abandon their old grudges and attack Wang Hongyi together.
Wang Hongyi is currently developing well, but he does not have the strength to resist so many forces at the same time.
He made a prompt decision and told Lai Tongyu, "Stop the news and don't let this news get out."
"Don't worry, my lord, I have blocked the news!" Lai Tongyu is also a knowledgeable person and has taken protective measures. However, he looked at the heavy wheat sea, frowned and said, "However, this harvest..."
What Lai Tongyu said is that after the wheat harvest is fully harvested, it will be difficult to block the news.
Wang Hongyi pondered for a moment and then said, "Let the army come in to assist in harvesting! The final yield per mu will be reported to the outside world at 2 shi."
"In addition, keep the wheat seeds and continue planting!" Wang Hongyi was still reluctant to part with the wheat seeds with such an amazing yield. After all, in this era, oh, no, in which era, food is the most important strategic food.
With enough food, Wang Hongyi can easily raise more soldiers and expand his strength.
So Wang Hongyi couldn't give up.
Besides, Wu Siyuan said that this wheat seed will degrade from generation to generation. Maybe the next time it is planted, the yield will not be so exaggerated!
"Yes, lord!" Lai Tongyu took the order and went down to make some preparations.
Wang Hongyi then began to mobilize troops to harvest wheat.
Of course, there was too much wheat, and Wang Hongyi's army alone was not enough, so farmers were also mobilized for harvesting.
All harvested wheat is shipped away without being weighed.
It took three consecutive days of harvesting to finish harvesting more than 100,000 acres of wheat.
Because it was agreed before.
In this round of reclaiming and planting wasteland, all the harvest belongs to Wang Hongyi.
So the people are very cooperative.
The final measurements were taken in the privacy of the granary.
There are a total of 130,000 acres of wheat fields, and 490,000 shi of wheat are harvested. On average, one mu has more than 3 shi, which is close to the yield of 4 shi per mu.
This is because some wheat fields are planted with ordinary wheat seeds.
490,000 shi of wheat produced 370,000 shi of flour.
This amount has exceeded the conventional 70% powder extraction rate.
The civil servants and generals under Wang Hongyi who knew about this had excited expressions on their faces.
Even the most reckless general knows that this matter is not simple.
Xue Yuan's face flushed with excitement and he said, "Lord, this is the foundation of eternity!"
Wang Hongyi is calm as usual. This small amount of land per mu makes you so excited. You are so small. If you have never seen the land per land in modern society, you will be scared to death!
However, these 370,000 stones of flour can indeed alleviate Wang Hongyi's tight financial situation at this time.
Because of Wu Siyuan, Wang Hongyi has always had a sense of crisis, so he acted much more aggressively in developing his strength.
He continued to recruit refugees and expanded his army.
Now there are 5,000 households in Jishui County, which has almost reached the standard of a county.
Taisu County is a little closer, but it still has 3,000 households, which meets the standards of Zhong County.
There are 8,000 households in the two counties combined, more than two-thirds of them were recruited by Wang Hongyi to sweep away the mountain people.
These people had no surplus food and had to rely on Wang Hongyi for temporary support.
A household's monthly ration requires at least two stones.
For one thousand households, it is two thousand stones.
Wang Hongyi has more than 5,000 households that he needs to support first, which requires 10,000 dan every month.
This does not include Wang Hongyi's army.
Wang Hongyi captured Taisu County, and Wang Zunzhi allowed him to build the capital of Polu and control 1,500 people.
But in fact, Wang Hongyi went militarily and built a capital on the surface, but secretly the number of troops was seriously exceeded. The real strength of the army was 2,500, which was almost close to the soldiers of the two capitals.
Of course, Wang Hongyi reported this situation to Wang Zunzhi.
Wang Zunzhi just glanced at him, beat him up, and then rewarded him with weapons, supplies and food to train and raise his troops.
In fact, it means tacit consent.
Wang Hongyi is his illegitimate son, Wang Hongyi is so outstanding, Wang Zunzhi can only be happy, especially now that his life is not long, the more outstanding Wang Hongyi is, the more relieved he will be.
Otherwise, he would be worried that after his death, Wang Hongyi would not be able to suppress the proud soldiers of Wenyang Town!
However, despite Wang Zunzhi's support, Wang Hongyi spent a lot of money raising these two thousand and five hundred soldiers.
People eat what horses chew, especially since Wang Hongyi is constantly training his troops, the consumption is almost equivalent to that of five thousand households.
This puts great pressure on Wang Hongyi.
That is to say, with the support of Wu Siyuan.
Wu Siyuan sold the Li family and said in front of Wang Zunzhi that he admired Wang Hongyi's achievements and was willing to donate food and silver on behalf of the Li family to show support.
Li Cunyi was also present at the time, and when he heard this, he was completely stunned.
The money accumulated by three generations of the Li family was intended to be used for the rebellion, but now it's been donated by you [being a good person]?
What a prodigal!
spendthrift!
After Wang Zunzhi heard this, he specifically asked Li Cunyi if it was true.
In front of so many civil servants and generals, can Li Cunyi be said to be fake?
I could only shed tears in my heart and say calmly on the surface, this is the duty of a minister.
Wang Zunzhi was overjoyed and praised the Li family. Then he asked Wu Siyuan if he was willing to serve as an official?
Or serve as an official in Wenyang County, or serve as the magistrate of Taisu County?
Li Cunyi thought that although he had donated a large amount of money and food, it would be good for Wu Siyuan to get a chance to serve as an official.
Especially the position of Magistrate of Taisu County.
It is a certainty that Wang Hongyi will become the heir to the commander-in-chief.
Sooner or later he will leave Taisu County.
At that time, wasn't Wu Siyuan, who was the magistrate of Taisu County, the most likely person to inherit the position of magistrate of Taisu County?
Hasn’t the opportunity for the Li family’s Qianlong to take off just come?
Then... Wu Siyuan refused.
Wu Siyuan said that he has limited talents and knowledge, and thinks that he is not yet capable of taking this position, and he still needs to study with Wang Hongyi for a while.
Wang Zunzhi was also surprised when he heard this. Is there anyone who doesn't want to be an official these days?
But when Li Cunyi heard this, he couldn't catch his breath and he vomited blood and passed out.
In chaos.
The matter passed in a blur.
On the contrary, the Li family has become the laughing stock of Wenyang Town.
After Li Cunyi found out, he just recovered a little bit, but was so angry that he completely gave up on Wu Siyuan.