I'M THE FARMGIRL YOU CAN'T MESS WITH

Chapter 206: Yield Per Acre

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Mu Yangling stayed in the military camp to learn about the various characteristics of corn from the villagers of Four Tray Village.

She had only seen others plant corn and knew the steps roughly, but she was not as familiar with the details as the villagers of Four Tray Village. Since Qi Xiuyuan had already decided that the entire military district would mainly farm corn in the future, she naturally had to learn more in depth.

After the corn was dried, everyone rubbed the corn kernels with their hands. As the sun was strong enough, in less than half a month, Zhuang Dawei announced, “This corn can be used as seeds now. We can store them away and there’s no need to dry them further.”

Qi Haoran brought someone over to weigh them.

The villagers of Four Tray Village gathered around and occupied the innermost floor. They looked at the weighing scale eagerly. As the numbers were reported one by one, many villagers wiped their tears.

Only the farmers who had been recruited to learn were still a little confused. They did not understand why the villagers of Four Tray Village were so emotional about it.

The accountant used a brush to record the individual weights before adding the numbers up using the abacus. When he was done weighing the last bag of corn, he worked the abacus and obtained the total. At the same time, Mu Yangling also had the total in her heart. There was a total of 16,016 catties, and the yield per acre was 572 catties.

To modern people, this was a very low yield. But to the people here, it was a record high.

A few older villagers of Four Tray Village sat on the ground and wailed, “Ancestor, look, we’ve successfully planted the corn! It’s high-yielding! The emperor didn’t lie to us, and the county magistrate didn’t lie to us either. We were merely incompetent and used the wrong method!”

Zhuang Dawei also wiped his tears as he said, “Corn is grains. We thought that rice, millet, and so on should be directly planted and the level of moisture maintained. But who knew that corn should be planted like this? I’ve never seen such a big corn cob in my life. The ones planted in the village were all small with only a dozen or so corn kernels on each one…”

Qi Haoran walked to Mu Yangling’s side and said, “You’re right. Only the villagers of Four Tray Village deserve this merit.”

Mu Yangling wondered if this world would have been different if Emperor Shizong had foreseen this back then and left behind the method of planting corn before he died. Perhaps then the villagers of Four Tray Village would not have been isolated from the world for nearly a hundred years for such a goal.

Qi Haoran was not as sad as Mu Yangling. He only felt sentimental for a moment before turning around to get someone to report to Qi Xiuyuan.

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