The sun shines brightly, the wheat in the farmland has turned golden. Before we know it, it has been half past August, and the wheat in the field has reached its harvest.

Zhao Yan also pulled out of the artillery battalion. After two months of training, basically everything he knew or didn't know was poured out, and there was no stock in his mind.

In the future, the artillery battalion can only explore the artillery battalion itself, and the training results are still quite significant. In two months, the coach's ammunition was continuously fired, and the play value had been reduced to 1/26. The artillery also had initially mastered the launch of grenades. He memorized the grenades that exploded in a few seconds at any distance.

More than 15,000 soldiers followed the training and went to the fields to help buy spring wheat, and some of them helped those newly recruited refugees.

"It was originally planned to recruit 100,000 young and strong people, but now there is still more than 10,000 in vacancies, and the total population reaches 320,000." Tang Zhengze reported on the recruitment of refugees.

It was originally planned to recruit 100,000 young and strong people before the autumn sowing, but so far, only 90,000 were recruited.

"How many people are there in actual farming?" Zhao Yan asked.

"The actual number of people who farmed in the country is 210,000, and there are more than 50,000 women, more than 20,000 children, and 40,000 elderly people." Tang Zhengze opened the account book and reported.

Those who were not assigned to the land for farming were women with broken families, orphans and elderly people who were unsupported.

"Let some matchmakers marry the 50,000 women out."

"It's already arranged." Tang Zhengze nodded. This program is still relatively up-to-date.

"Those old people asked them to raise some chickens, ducks, pigs and sheep, arrange some not-so-heavy work, and raise those who really can't do it. Well! How many orphans have we collected?" Zhao Yan asked.

"There are already 32,000 people, 20,300 boys, and 11,700 girls."

When a famine comes, the first thing that is abandoned is the child. If the disaster is severe, the child may be killed and eaten.

"Wenlong, go and promote it and let someone adopt these children." Zhao Yan said to Zhang Buyun, and Zhang Buyun nodded and responded: "I understand."

"It seems that the education problems of these children should be solved as soon as possible!" Zhao Yan sighed. The teaching staff is not enough. Yuan'er is currently studying very seriously. It is probably no problem to be a teacher. She can run a girls' school for her to teach.

"It is better to set up a college first to train teachers and then slowly expand the scale of the school." Liu Heng suggested.

"Well! Zhongping, you go and implement it later."

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Zhao Yan took people to the field and asked someone to dig up a sweet potato field. What he cared about was the production of the sweet potato. As long as there were enough sweet potatoes, they could produce deserted and troubled times and not lose too much vitality.

I dug a small piece of land, took it to the scale, and calculated it again. The yield per mu was about 2,000 kilograms, which was far from the yield per mu of tens of thousands of kilograms in later generations.

A few more pieces of land were dug, and the highest yield per mu was only 5,000 kilograms, but very little. The lowest was only 1,500 kilograms.

There is still some time to get rid of frost and the output can be increased, but the maximum output will be more than a month longer, and the maximum output will be two or three hundred kilograms higher.

The average value is about 3,000 kilograms.

Obviously, it is still a variety problem, and sweet potatoes are also divided into varieties. However, the yield is already good. Even the lowest 1,500 kilograms is four or five times higher than the wheat yield. It seems that the farm fertilizer has not been wasted.

About 100,000 acres of sweet potatoes were planted in spring. Based on the average value of 3,000 kilograms, 150,000 tons of sweet potatoes were harvested. This value may be somewhat different, but it is generally not that bad, and it is enough to feed more than 500,000 people in a year. With so many sweet potatoes produced, Zhao Yan hurriedly expanded his cellar to store these sweet potatoes.

The yield per mu of wheat in spring is only one stone, between 200 kilograms and 300 kilograms. Such a low yield will hardly cause wheat to fall.

Such yields can be considered a bumper harvest in contemporary times, and the wheat yield per mu in the north is about one stone.

Tang Xianming, the chief clerk of the county yamen and more than a dozen yamen runners, had already come to count the land, and after counting, he reported a tax of 5,000 taels of tax.

Zhao Yan readily handed over the money. When Tang Zhengze saw that Zhao Yan had paid the money, he asked Zhao Yan: "Sir, should you spread these fees into the land rent?"

"No, just collect the land rent according to the ratio of three wheat and nine potatoes!" Zhao Yan said, "In addition, those who want to sell grain will be charged at a fair price."

"Just..." Tang Zhengze didn't know how much the price was just.

"Just sell it, we can still make a profit if we sell it. The profit per stone of wheat is controlled at one tael of silver, and the sweet potatoes are charged two cents of silver per stone." Zhao Yan said.

Zhao Yan set a way to collect land rent, and the villagers were very happy when they heard it.

Each household was assigned 50 acres of land, half of which were captured by wheat. This year, each household produced about 30 shi of wheat, and 30% were paid, and there were still about 20 shi left.

Ninety percent of the sweet potatoes were handed over. According to the average value given by Tang Zhengze, there were still 40 stones. In a year, 60 stones of grain were collected.

In previous years, when I was a tenant, it would be nice to have more than ten stones of grain in a year. I sold 40 stones of sweet potatoes. Although each stone was only 2 cents of silver, I also had 8 taels of silver! I kept the wheat for myself to eat.

In addition, the rewards received by the Township Yong during this year's Grand Competition also earn more than ten taels a year. Such income is nothing to people in the upper class of society. But if they can be distributed to each tenant, it is the only one in the world, mainly because the grain output has increased many times.

If I had not applied enough base fertilizer when growing sweet potatoes last year, I would not have been able to harvest so much food this year.

If tenants make a lot of money, they will definitely be able to have a good New Year this year.

Zhao Yan was more concerned about grain production, but he earned a lot, 150,000 tons of sweet potatoes. In this era of disasters everywhere, if it operates well, it will be at least 500,000 taels. However, Zhao Yan did not intend to make these money.

The harvest of the villages in the three areas of Zhaojiabao, Anminbao and Pingkobao, as well as the yield of 3,000 kilograms of sweet potatoes per mu, was spread to the villages outside the mountain. The refugees who were sowing immediately showed great enthusiasm.

The refugee households who were garrisoned outside all received 50 acres of land. They were originally asked to plant half of the wheat and half of the sweet potatoes, because people didn't understand what sweet potatoes were.

After visiting the sweet potatoes grown in Zhaojiabao, their positive attitude towards growing sweet potatoes is very high. Because most of the land rent is counted as sweet potatoes, and the remaining sweet potatoes are sold very generously.

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After Zhao Yan and his group returned, they left 80,000 tons of sweet potatoes. The total number of villagers, craftsmen and troops under Zhao Yan was only 400,000. The 400,000 people ate 100,000 tons of sweet potatoes for half a year. In addition to sweet potatoes, there are more than 3,000 tons of wheat in storage. In addition to the 100,000 stone of rice and wheat in stock, which is nearly 9,400 tons, they can only eat these at the end.

"What do you plan to deal with these extra sweet potatoes?" Zhao Quan asked Zhao Yan.

"When will our food store be opened?" Zhao Yan thought for a while and asked.

Zhao Quan estimated: "It can be spread out at the end of the year! The old slave has sent people to the south to collect grain."

"Since our Jimin Commercial Bank is called Jimin, we have to do some facts. When the food price is low, the food store raises the price and purchases it in large quantities, and when the price is high, it sells it at a low price to stabilize the price of grain. In general, it is good to spend some effort and achieve balance of income and expenditure." Zhao Yan explained that he adopted one of the listed items listed in the Song Dynasty when Wang Anshi reformed. This policy is very good, but Wang Anshi's reform was not successful.

"So many sweet potatoes will be stored for at most for two years. If there is no rice or grain to store, you can use them to serve porridge! It is not a problem to live for 300,000 or 400,000 people."

In agriculture, you can achieve balance between income and expenditure, and you don’t need to make money in this regard. This is also the difference between Zhao Yan and the landlords of this era.

"Young Master, I'm afraid..." Zhao Quan stopped talking.

"What's wrong?" Zhao Yan asked strangely. Zhao Quan rubbed his hands and said, "If we do this, we will not be able to compete with grain merchants all over the world! They buy low and sell high, but we buy high and sell low. Isn't this a way out of wealth?"

"If those grain merchants are cut off from their financial path, they will inevitably use some means, and business will be difficult to do at that time." Zhao Quan said in embarrassment. Zhao Quan understood the best of those grain merchants. Why are there so many landlords in the world? It is because of the huge profits of grain, countless merchants are eating this bite of food. If this is the case, it will inevitably lead to hostility.

Seeing Zhao Yan thinking, Zhao Quan continued, "Young Master, even if you are a guerrilla in Denglai, you can't suppress them! If they come to make trouble with a swagger, you don't have to worry about them, but it's easy to avoid hidden arrows and arrows!"

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