Shen Qingqian knew very well the significance of sweet potatoes to the Northern Hubei Army, so this matter was left to the most stable people in the family.
Wu family, Lin family, Liang family and Shen Jun, plus Shen Qingqian herself.
There were only a few hundred people learning farming in the early stage, and Shen Qingqian and the others were not tired of teaching.
The only bad thing is that the people in Juntun, like the prisoners in Huanxiyuan, need to finish their own work before they can study.
And because Liang Cheng had issued a gag order, these people only knew that Shen Qingqian and the others were here to teach them how to grow new grains, but they did not know the yield of sweet potatoes and other information.
The Huanxi Courtyard can only have fun now. No one dares to tell the outside world about the yield of sweet potatoes. Even Wu Laoliu and his yard were beaten by Chief Lu and his men.
In other words, so far, the only people who know the specific yield of sweet potatoes are Huanxiyuan, Jiang Goudan and others, as well as people from Wu Laoliu and his yard.
As for the sweet potatoes that Shen Qingqian and the others harvested this time, except for a small amount kept by each family as food, the rest were purchased by the Northern Hubei Army and used for seed production.
There are more than 10,000 kilograms of sweet potatoes. Based on the cost of 100 kilograms of seed potatoes to raise seedlings per acre of land, the sweet potatoes purchased this time can be planted on more than 120 acres of land.
Northern Hubei is located in the northwest, and spring potatoes are now grown in single rows. The density of sweet potatoes is not high. Shen Qingqian estimates that he should eventually be able to plant about 140 acres.
If calculated based on the current yield of 3,000 jins per mu, these fields can harvest 420,000 jins of sweet potatoes during the autumn harvest!
If one hundred thousand soldiers in northern Hubei only eat sweet potatoes, calculated as one pound per day, these sweet potatoes will not be enough.
But if you mix sweet potatoes with other whole grains, you should be able to eat them for half a year with extreme savings.
This is only one season a year, and only 140 acres of land are planted. Once this batch of sweet potatoes is harvested and the planting area is expanded, the military rations of the Northern Hubei Army will no longer be a problem.
After making some calculations in her mind, Shen Qingqian looked at the people burying seed potatoes in the ground and murmured: "No wonder Liang Cheng wants people to hide the yield of sweet potatoes..."
It is indeed necessary to hide it as much as possible. If other forces know about it, it will obviously be the advantage of the Northern Hubei Army, but in the end it is not clear who will get the advantage.
It seems that she still hasn't adapted to this world. She still has modern thoughts of peace in her bones, always thinking that everyone should have enough to eat.
But it's okay. As long as Shengze and the others can win, she believes that at least the people of Jin Dynasty will not go hungry.
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In early February, when spring plowing was in progress, people across the Jin Dynasty picked up farm tools and hurriedly planted various grains.
"Aruda, why can't we Jun tribe people cultivate land well?"
On the only way to Beijing, Rong Shaomin looked at the people around him who were working hard on the fields. His horse speed slowed down, his eyes full of confusion.
The Jun tribe was originally a nomadic people, but the mountains, rivers, and land changed, and the topography changed a hundred years ago, forcing them to settle down.
But for a nation that is used to galloping horses, it is really a big test to suddenly turn them into a farming nation.
This is one of the reasons why the Jun tribe first attacked Da Jin. They wanted to learn Da Jin's planting technology.
People who are used to robbing cannot change this bad habit for a while. The Great Khan of the Jun tribe at that time directly sent troops to attack Linzhou of the Jin Dynasty, but was beaten back by the Jin army at the time.
However, the Jun people are good at fighting and warlike. Failure did not make them change their strategies. After all these years, they still only know how to rob.
This was the first time for Rong Shaomin to go to the hinterland of Jin Dynasty, and it was also the first time that he saw with his own eyes how the people of Jin Dynasty cultivated crops. On the surface, it seemed no different from them.
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