flstandardbreds Chapter 146 Harvesting Grain
Chapter 146 Harvesting Grain
Looking at Shen Yougen's family, Shen Tang had already guessed that they had already weighed themselves.
In fact, not only Shen Yougen's family, but other families had also secretly weighed it a long time ago.
I heard that some people haven't achieved this yet and are using a small scale to weigh the food bit by bit.
"how?"
Shen Tang asked.
"One bag weighs five hundred and sixty-three kilograms, and the other weighs six hundred and twenty-five kilograms."
"One thousand one hundred and eighty-eight kilograms."
Shen Dan beside him was counting on the abacus.
Shen Li listened to her sister say the numbers and recorded them in the notebook:
Shen Yougen: 1,188 kilograms
When Shen Lizheng heard that Shen Yougen's family had more than 1,800 kilograms, he felt a little proud in his heart, because their family had harvested 1,200 kilograms!
Luzhu took out a seal from the bag behind him and stuck it on the opening of the bag.
Shen Tang also brought it from the yamen overnight.
After all, it is safest to seal the weighed rice.
In this way, many families would not dare to tamper with the sealed rice, and it would also be convenient for County Magistrate Lin to come and weigh and collect the grain in a few days.
Sure enough, as soon as the seal came out, everyone present looked stern.
This is the seal from the government.
The next family is Shen Mancang’s.
When Shen Mancang saw Shen Tang and others coming in, he spoke directly:
"Boss, one thousand one hundred and sixty or seventy kilograms! There's no mistake. I've already weighed it."
Shen Tang smiled and said,
"Of course I believe it, but the rice has been handed over and still needs to be weighed."
Shen Mancang nodded, he was just happy.
"Boss, a total of 1,160 kilograms!"
Shen Tang smiled and nodded, praised a few more times, and also put the seal on the grain bag.
In one morning, Shen Tang visited hundreds of households in the village.
There are also many families secretly competing to see who can produce the highest yield per mu of 1,000 kilograms of rice.
I heard that some families achieved a high yield of 1,300 kilograms.
This family was none other than Shen Fugui's.
"Uncle Fugui, I heard your family grew 1,300 kilograms!"
Shen Tang saw Shen Fugui waiting for him at the door and spoke with a smile.
"Hey, to be honest with you, it's over 1,360 kilograms!"
Shen Fugui didn't expect that his family could grow so much!
Shen Fugui's family is a butcher and is wealthier than other farmers, so their fields are the most fertile in the village.
No wonder it can produce such a high yield.
Moreover, the yield per mu of the slightly more fertile land in the village is more than 1,200 kilograms.
For three days, Shen Tang had almost no rest. He weighed all the rice and recorded it in a book.
Shen Tang's more than 2,000 kilograms of rice produced a total of more than 1.968 million kilograms of grain!
After Shen Li finished the calculation, her jaw dropped!
This is just the harvest from more than a thousand acres of land in their village!
Shen Tang calculated in his mind that the average yield per mu of this batch of rice was more than 1,200 kilograms!
Look, the hybrid rice seeds provided by the system have a stable yield of 1,200 kilograms per mu!
Early the next morning, County Magistrate Lin's carriage arrived at Shenjia Village.
Behind him were soldiers, horses and grain carts.
Everyone in Shenjia Village, including several managers of the workshop, were waiting at the school gate.
There are several large scales placed on the side.
"County Marquis."
"Master Lin."
Shen Tang and County Magistrate Lin greeted each other.
"Master Lin, I weighed this grain a few days ago, and it weighs over 1,598,000 kilograms!"
As he spoke, Shen Tang handed the record book to County Magistrate Lin.
County Magistrate Lin looked through the record book, which recorded everything very clearly.
One thing is that almost every household has an output of about 1,200 kilograms per mu!
"County Magistrate Lin can pick a few to weigh."
"I naturally trust the Marquis to do the job, so I don't need to weigh it."
County Magistrate Lin looked at the seal on the grain bag and couldn't help but sigh at Shen Tang's meticulousness.
"I believe the county lord has already told you fellow villagers that this rice, when it is handed over to the court, will be taxed at twenty wen per catty.
Everyone, please come forward and receive your money according to the name called."
County Magistrate Lin spoke to the people behind Shen Tang.
As he said this, he ordered his men to take the box containing silver and copper coins down from the carriage.
The legal advisor and the chief clerk were responsible for distributing silver and money.
County Magistrate Lin was discussing with Shen Tang the matter of sending grain to the capital.
"Marquis, when will you depart for the capital with this batch of grain? I have already ordered the official ship to be prepared and it can depart at any time."
At the beginning, Emperor Jing issued an order that after the grain was collected, they should send the grain directly from Qingshan Town to the capital.
Shen Tang is the one who grows the crops, so it should be her who sends them to the capital.
Shen Tang shook her head. She still had cotton matters to deal with.
If we send grain to the capital this time, it will take more than a month to go back and forth.
She was worried and didn't dare go at least until the cotton was ripe.
"Speaking of this, I was just about to trouble you, sir, to deliver the grain to the capital. Please go, sir.
I'm sure you all know that I'm busy with cotton right now and I really can't do without someone."
County Magistrate Lin knew that Shen Tang was dealing with cotton.
After hearing what Shen Tang said, County Magistrate Lin couldn't help but sigh that Shen Tang was truly a monster.
There is no news about this cotton yet. If it gets out, it will probably cause a stir in the court again.
But Shen Tang didn't go, so letting him go would be a huge credit to him.
County Magistrate Lin bowed and Shen Tang accepted the gesture.
On the other side, the legal advisor and the chief clerk were counting the money while one was calling out the names.
"Dad, this is a banknote!"
"Our family now has some money!"
Many people in Shenjia Village have only seen silver, and few have seen silver notes, and some even own silver notes.
More than 1,200 kilograms of grain can be exchanged for more than 60 taels of silver.
Da Qi had fifty-liang silver notes. In order to make it easier to carry, County Magistrate Lin brought a lot of fifty-liang silver notes.
Therefore, everyone was curious and cautious when they received the banknotes.
The families who received the silver had their grain loaded onto grain carts and taken away.
From early morning to afternoon, every household in Shenjia Village went home with silver bills.
Even the entire Shenjia Village was filled with the aroma of meat.
County Magistrate Lin took his men and rode fast back to the county government office.
Qingshan Town has official ships that are used exclusively by the government.
This batch of grain arrived at the government granary for only one night, and the grain bags and seals of the villagers of Shenjia Village were not changed at all before they were all loaded onto the official ship.
County Magistrate Lin also packed his luggage overnight and boarded the ship the next day.
Before boarding the ship, he had already written the letter and, along with Shen Tang's letter, sent them to the capital as soon as possible.
Shen Tang was entrusted by County Magistrate Lin to look after the yamen.
After the thousand-jin rice was harvested, Shenjia Village and the surrounding villages began to prepare to harvest ordinary rice.
But the fish prices in Qingshan Town are in chaos.
It’s just because many families raise fish, and when they can’t finish eating them, they take them to the town to sell.
But I found that I couldn’t sell the fish, and the money I spent on buying the fry wasn’t even enough!