Chapter 468: Harvesting Medicinal Herbs
The yield per mu after one year of growth is calculated as 700 to 800 jin, and 210 wen per jin.
Shuiqing quickly calculated that the yield per mu is more than 140 liang!
This is not just a little higher than rice and wheat, but it is directly sky-high!
And this is only the yield after one year of growth. As the years go by, the yield per mu can increase...
The old village chief weighed the black lumps on his palm, "It is estimated to be half a jin. Big brother, second brother, third brother, you go to the field together and dig out all this acre to see how much the yield per mu can reach!"
The old village chief only gave instructions to his three sons, but after hearing it, the men in the village went to the field together.
There is no need to rush to harvest medicinal herbs. Everyone is not as urgent as in the past autumn harvest. They took hoes and prepared to see Shuiqing's per mu harvest and then dig their own for comparison.
After hearing the words of the old village chief, they jumped off the ridge and started digging!
Hundreds of men worked at the same time, each responsible for a few square meters. After a while, an acre of land was dug, and all the Polygonum multiflorum was put into the bamboo baskets.
Hu Wenhua stepped forward and weighed the bamboo baskets one by one, and estimated: "About 1,700 kilograms."
The scene was silent at first, and then it went into the hot oil pan with water and exploded!
"1,700 kilograms, it's strange that I can't calculate it, how much silver is that?"
"Uncle Ding said that the long-term ones are more than 400 coins, and the short-term ones are more than 200 coins. According to the short-term ones, there are more than 200 coins per kilogram. I, I can't calculate it either!"
"Is the estimate wrong? How can there be so much per acre? This is almost the same as the output of potatoes."
"How can it be wrong? Wenhua's hands are like scales, not completely accurate, and it can't be much different! Besides, look at these big baskets, there must be more than a thousand kilograms, how much silver will it sell for?"
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Aunt Zhang kept swallowing her saliva and was so shocked that she couldn't speak.
She looked at her son and daughter beside her and opened her mouth: "How much?"
Jinniu Xiaocao shook her head at the same time: "I, I'm afraid I calculated it wrong."
They had learned arithmetic with the school and had already calculated it, but the amount was too huge, and they were afraid of calculating it wrong, so they didn't dare to say it out.
The old village chief Fan Qiye also calculated it, and his hand shaking more violently on the crutches.
They planted with Shuiqing. They didn't ferment as much fertilizer as Shuiqing, and the fertilizer was not enough. The yield per mu was not as good as Shuiqing's, but the difference should not be too big;
Even if the difference is big, there will be a thousand catties, which is more than 200 taels of silver!
In the past, you would never dare to think that one mu of land can earn more than 200 taels.
Several of the elderly were helped back to lie on the spot, and the young people were responsible for collecting the medicinal materials.
Everyone moved to Grandma Xu's field again.
This was planted this year, and more than a hundred men dug together, and soon all the materials were put into bamboo baskets and carried over.
This time, it was obviously much smaller than a fist. The largest one was only the size of a chicken egg, and most of them were larger than bird eggs.
Hu Wenhua stepped forward to weigh it again and reported a number: "A total of 650 kilograms."
With the previous comparison, the people present immediately summed up their experience: "This year's is obviously much smaller. It seems that it can still grow. From one year to two years, it grows from the size of a bird egg and a chicken egg to the size of a fist."
"Can the two to three years grow bigger? If we let it continue to grow in the field, can it still grow bigger?"
"Yes, didn't Uncle Ding say it? The price doubled with a longer year!"
"But there are risks. What if there is a flood in the summer? Or what if it keeps raining and rots? Wouldn't the current one be gone?"
Hearing this, everyone fell into deep thought.
Someone else said, "Besides, we only know about the two-year harvest now, and we don't know what the three, four, and five-year harvests will be like. If we don't harvest them, what if they don't grow or rot in the field?"
Shuiqing knew that the benefits of artificial planting are generally maximized in three years, and they basically don't grow after five years, so if we only consider the weight, it is at most five years, and if we control the risk, it is best to harvest them in three years.
She said, "It's very simple. I will only harvest half of my land this year, and the rest will be three years next year. I will dig half of the remaining acres next year, and compare it with this year to know how much higher the yield per acre is;
I will dig half of the remaining acres every next year, and I should know it by comparing it this way. At the same time, I will continue to plant after harvesting every year, and repeat the cycle. I can know the yield per acre in each year, and I can control the risk and make a profit every year."
After listening, Aunt Zhang was the first to raise her hand and agreed loudly, "This is a good idea! Shuiqing, I will do the same with you!"
This time, her family followed Shuiqing in planting medicinal herbs, and they were the first to plant them! And all the land was used to plant medicinal herbs.
Even if she only harvested half of the acres, she didn't know how much money she could earn from more than ten acres of Polygonum multiflorum, but it must be a lot! With so much money, she didn't have to worry about her sons' houses and marriages
Shuiqing was really her benefactor. She was the first to follow Shuiqing to plant potatoes, which solved the food and clothing problems for the whole family and earned dozens of acres of land;
She was also the first to follow Shuiqing to raise rabbits. Not only did she stock up on everything she needed after the flood, but the whole family had no worries about food and clothing, and she also saved a lot of money;
Now she follows Shuiqing to plant medicinal herbs, and it's even more incalculable.
Aunt Zhang started it, and immediately aroused responses one after another.
They didn't look at anything else, just the poorest family in Shanshui Village, just because they firmly followed Shuiqing, now they have jumped to the top four!
And the Ding family in the top two and the old village chief's family in the top three are also because of Shuiqing.
They are not smart people, nor can they be smart people, but they can follow Shuiqing!
At present, each household has divided the number of acres of their own land in their minds: which acres will be harvested this year and sold for silver; which acres will be kept for next year, the year after, and the year after...
The place where toothbrushes are made was originally built for the preparation of medicinal materials. The distribution inside is mainly for the preparation of medicinal materials. Since the early processes of toothbrush making are outsourced, it is relatively simple to make them in the workshop. It is more appropriate to remove the toothbrush.
After Hu Wenhua got married, Shuiqing recruited dozens of men and built a workshop with five main rooms and three side rooms next to the medicinal material workshop, and moved the toothbrush production there.
After the medicinal materials began to be harvested, they were transported to the medicinal material workshop for preparation.
Each household was not in a hurry to harvest, because one more day left in the land would make one more day. They got up early to dig a few acres of land and sent them to the medicinal material workshop to change into silver, and then went back to make toothbrush handles and feed livestock. Their days were arranged in an orderly manner.
There was no large batch of medicinal materials delivered. The medicinal materials delivered daily were processed while they were fresh. The workers were busy while the medicinal materials were ready.
The medicinal materials and toothbrushes were being made. When October came, Bai Manshan arrived, exhausted.