Travel through the famine years with your space, and become the richest man in five countries with your children Chapter 122: All the People Plant Chili Peppers
The dragon guard brought ten men over to pick pickles.
By the time everything is delivered to the Refugee Valley, it will be lunch time.
Everyone received bowls of multigrain and wild vegetable porridge, and each person was given a spoonful of pickled vegetables.
When everyone was enjoying the porridge with grains and wild vegetables, the sophomore high school student shouted: "Captains, listen to the order! Gather in the center of the square after dinner! A new mission has been announced!"
There are more than 10,000 refugees, with ten people in a team, ten teams in a team, and ten teams in a regiment. The captains and regiment leaders all select dragon guards to serve as guards.
The refugees are divided into ten regiments, a hundred teams, and a thousand teams, and are managed at different levels. Everyone is responsible for their superior leader.
Not long after, one hundred captains gathered from the sheds in all directions.
"Line up!"
As soon as the sophomore shouted, the captains below started lining up, and soon there were ten people in a line, forming a square.
"Please speak to Mr. Shen!" the second-year high school student said like thunder, something he is used to shouting in the military.
Shen Qingyu came out from behind Qi Yunxiao and stood at the front.
The person who didn't say anything laughed first. Shen Qingyu looked at the people in the square below, then at the homeless people watching behind, and asked loudly: "Is everyone still getting used to it these days?"
The refugees sparsely answered: "...adaptation."
The captain of the Dragon Guard, the group leaders shouted in unison: "Adapt!"
"Do you want to live here and survive? Or do you want to continue to be a refugee?"
Everyone below looked at each other: Of course they want to survive, it would be better if they can stay and survive.
But right now, there are no fields here!
Even if we have to open up wasteland, what will we eat in the past six months until food is grown?
Can this thick porridge still be guaranteed?
Liu Xiangwu, a team leader outside the team, couldn't help but raise his hands high.
Shen Qingyu raised her hand and said, "Say."
"Dr. Shen's family, we definitely want to survive, otherwise we wouldn't have become refugees in the first place. We would be done with just a rope at home."
Everyone nodded, these words touched the hearts of the refugees.
"If we can live here, have food to eat and not starve to death, of course we want to stay here."
Everyone nodded again.
"But now... we have no land and no money. In the next six months, can you and Mr. Qi take care of our livelihood?"
Everyone nodded wildly and looked at Shen Qingyu with burning eyes.
Shen Qingyu smiled: "That's why I'm here today."
"As long as you listen to the arrangements and do it in a down-to-earth manner, I will provide you with two meals a day of thick porridge and pickled vegetables for the next six months."
This will really make you hungry!
The faces of the refugees suddenly showed joy, and the buzz of discussion immediately started.
Shen Qingyu raised her hand and pressed it down: "But I don't give this meal for free. I paid it to you in advance! You have to pay it back!"
The discussion stopped instantly, and the refugees looked frightened.
"Because it is a famine year, the price of miscellaneous grains is already 40 cents per catty. The daily consumption of grain for each person is set at 8 cents a day. Let's keep accounts first and I will assign work to you. After the harvest is harvested, we will pay according to the price. Pay back the money!"
The refugees are rioting again.
During the famine years, many people sold their sons and daughters, and some sold themselves into slavery, transforming themselves from good citizens into untouchables.
In order to have a chance for future generations, they did not want to become a lowly citizen, so they insisted on becoming refugees.
The team leader Liu Xiangwu raised his hand again and said: "What if I still can't make it?"
Shen Qingyu smiled again: "I know what you are worried about. Let me tell you the situation first. Let's see if this thing will work. If you think it won't work, you can leave immediately."
"You will leave immediately after hearing this. I won't keep you here, and I won't charge you a penny for the food you ate before."
"Dr. Shen, please tell me."
After the leader spoke, everyone became quiet again and stared at Shen Qingyu again.
Shen Qingyu picked up a bamboo basket at his feet: "My basket is full of pepper seeds. Are you familiar with these things?"
Everyone nodded.
Chili pepper, what’s new about it?
When there is no food at home, a bowl of fried chili can make several meals!
"There are no fields now, only barren mountains and wasteland. You have also cultivated a lot of wasteland these days. Your next task is to plant peppers."
"Every group of ten people will receive ten kilograms of pepper seeds and go back. One acre of land will be planted with one kilogram of pepper seeds. Ten kilograms of pepper seeds will equal ten acres of land."
"Do you know how many peppers can be grown in one acre of land?"
An old farmer familiar with planting answered loudly: "Generally speaking, one acre of land can produce 500 kilograms of fresh red peppers."
In modern society, those who specialize in growing peppers can produce two thousand kilograms of peppers from one acre of land!
It's just that there are no chemical fertilizers and pesticides here, so the yield is naturally much less.
Shen Qingyu used these words to continue: "Yes, once planted, there will be 500 kilograms of fresh red peppers in one acre of land. How many red peppers can be produced in ten acres of land?"
Someone in the group of captains who knew how to count shouted: "Five thousand catties!"
"Yes, I will buy red peppers for five cents per catty. As long as there are no pests, fresh red peppers will be purchased for five cents per catty! If it is five thousand catties, how much money can I get?"
The number was too big, so the people below didn't say anything for a while. Some people didn't have enough fingers, so they started to break off their toes and pull straw sticks.
Someone in the captain group responded: "Twenty-five taels of silver!"
"Hiss..."
The people below immediately gasped for air!
A group of ten people can collect twenty-five taels of silver?!
If it were replaced with cereals...
Shen Qingyu knew that they had never learned the multiplication table, so he directly told them the answer: "There are six hundred and twenty-five kilograms of grain!"
Everyone: "!!!"
"What if we plant peppers in spring and autumn?"
"Growing two crops of peppers on ten acres of land can produce 1,250 kilograms of miscellaneous grains a year as long as you grow them well."
"If we distribute it to each person, one person can have more than 120 kilograms of food a year! Will he still starve to death?"
More than 100 kilograms a year?
Can't one person eat more than three taels of food a day?
I’m sure I won’t die of hunger after cooking porridge!
Everyone's hearts warmed up, and their eyes looked at Shen Qingyu with gleaming eyes.
Shen Qingyu picked up another basket: "After everyone has finished working on the ten acres of land, if you still have some spare time, you can plant more peppers or soybeans. I will also harvest the soybeans. I will harvest whatever you plant...
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"What's the price of soybeans?" Someone immediately asked below.
"The current price of soybeans at the grain store is 40 cents per catty. If you grow them and they look like what the grain store sells, I will charge them according to the price of the grain store that day!"
"Of course, you have to spend money to buy soybean seeds. The price is also calculated according to the current price at the grain store. A pound of soybean seeds is forty cents."
There was another uproar immediately below.
A group of ten people, if they go all out to do it, can cultivate twenty acres of land, and there will be busy and slack periods of farming!
After all, let alone starving to death, maybe I can still have enough to eat?!
At this time, farmers may not be able to have a few full meals at home. If they leave their hometown and come here, they will be able to have a full meal...