Time passed like water. Li Yan asked Xia Yan to complete the seedlings prepared by Xia Yan. It was time to do spring plowing. After contacting Xia Yan, Li Yan had been busy for a few days and transported the seedlings to the warehouse. At the same time, he taught the method of planting these seedlings to the slaves, so that they could plant them strictly according to the planting methods.

At this time, in addition to the 20,000 mu of land in each county, Li Yan himself still had 80,000 mu of vacant land. He had to speed up the harvest. After the season, the harvest would be affected.

For this reason, Li Yan did not go to the research institute these days, but instead calmed down to prepare for the spring plowing work. In addition to his vacant land, each county also had 20,000 acres of model land. Many people expressed their displeasure to the imperial court for requisition of these lands, because it was the time to plant rice. If this was done, they were worried that it would affect their harvest this year.

After Shangguan Yi and Li Yan talked about this situation, Li Yan thought about it for a moment, and he was unwilling to force them to do anything, so he decided to take another method, which was to regard these land as rented by the Shu Palace, and each acre of land would be given to each farmer according to the harvest subsidy money of that year. Only after the news was released did the people feel at ease.

Land is the fate of the people. Only then did Li Yan realize that he often took it for granted. Although he wanted to do something that would benefit the people, his rush to do it would only backfire.

But this is good. The output on these lands is from the Shu Palace. When the people see the real harvest with their own eyes, they will believe it.

Of course, not all villages are skeptical. For example, Yangshu Village. Since Wei Tieniu saw wheat all over the land, he made up his mind to believe Li Yan. Now the model fields in Longquan County come from Yangshu Village, which is indispensable for Wei Tieniu's contribution.

In the Nanhe Warehouse, the slaves were transporting boxes of seedlings. For this spring plow, Li Yan mobilized almost all the slaves, and even dropped the official slaves. He gathered five or six thousand people to start planting seedlings on a large scale. Li Yan's 80,000 mu of land has been planted and is now beginning to transfer to other county towns.

"Your Highness, can this potato really produce more than 20 stones per mu?" Shangguan Yi, Wang Yinlong and Dou Xiande were also busy with Li Yan these days, assisting in dispatching slaves and coordinating the land of various counties. Now he finally felt a little relaxed. Looking at the boxes of seedlings being transported away, Shangguan Yi asked.

The Tang Dynasty's one stone was converted into about 120 kilograms today, and twenty stones were about 2,400 kilograms. Of course, Li Yan said less to Shangguan Yi. In modern times, the average yield of potatoes per mu is four or five thousand kilograms, and better even tens of thousands of kilograms. Li Yan did not expect the per mu yield here to be the same as now, so for Shangguan Yi, it was less to say less.

Before Li Yan could speak, Wang Yinlong was also joining in the fun: "And sweet potatoes are also produced in this way?"

"It's useless to tell you now. After you get these things, you will know naturally!" Li Yan said. No wonder they were surprised. The yield of crops in the Tang Dynasty was extremely low, and basically one acre could harvest one to two stones. This was the case of fertile land and sufficient labor, otherwise it would be even lower.

"Then can sugarcane and peanuts be made as His Highness said?" Dou Xiande was well-read in poetry, but he didn't understand the same things Li Yan said. Now he is becoming increasingly unable to see through the King of Shu.

Li Yan shook his head, but now he can't explain it. After all, this is something completely unfamiliar to them. They just need to accept this matter now.

As the few people were talking, Wei Tieniu came over with a few people. When he saw everyone, he walked around and said, "Your Highness, our village's seedlings have been transported. Tieniu is going back now."

Li Yan said: "Remember the planting method you teach you, don't do it nonsense. Your village is the only village that has not been rented, and you will be responsible for your own profits and losses."

Wei Tieniu wiped his sweat and said, "Don't worry, your highness, I won't do anything wrong. The whole village has been betting on the land. If there is no harvest, the villagers will not eat me Wei Tieniu."

"That's good. Remember to take good care of yourself after you go back. As long as you take good care of it and wait for the harvest, I promise that your Yangshu Village will become the richest village among the fourteen counties in Yizhou City." Li Yan encouraged.

When Wei Tieniu mentioned this, he smiled, "Just fight for this!" The reason why Wei Tieniu now has such a high appeal is that he led the strong men in the village to Yizhou to build underground pipelines. At that time, half of the labor service in Yizhou City came from Yangshu Village, which made Yangshu Village really rich, with extra money in his hands. Every family praised Wei Tieniu. Now he is the chief of the village, the village chief, so there is no need to mention his image. Last time, Li Yan took him to inspect the winter wheat. After he went back, he talked about this matter with the people in the village and said that there would be new crops in the spring. The people in the village didn't say anything else, and they all said that Wei Tieniu was the leader, obviously he regarded him as the leader.

Looking at the hundreds of people pushing small cars to transport the last batch of seedlings away, Dou Xiande said: "Does Your Highness still have seedlings?"

Li Yan said: "Yes, do you want it too?"

"The Dou family also has more than 10,000 acres of land. I want to try it, but I have to go back and discuss it with my grandfather. So I will ask first!" Dou Xiande said.

Li Yan pondered for a moment and said, "There is, there is, but this seedling requires money. Even if Wei Tieniu just now has a harvest in the future, he will have to use the harvest to pay for the seedlings. You big family is even more unexceptional." This time, the seedlings came out of Li Yan's own field, and everyone else wanted money. The free gift can't be opened, otherwise it would become a habit. If you suddenly charge a fee that day, it will cause resentment.

"Of course." Dou Xiandedao.

"Then which kind do you want to plant? I'm ready."

"Sugarcane and peanuts!" Dou Xiande spoke.

Shangguan Yi and Wang Yinlong looked at each other. When they were together just now, they discussed what to plant in their own fields. Unexpectedly, this kid coincided with their ideas.

"Where are you!" Li Yan turned to Shangguan Yi and Wang Yinlong, who also made up their minds to plant new crops.

Shangguan Yi said: "We are the same as Dou Sima thought."

"You see, most of the land in Shu Wang Mansion planted these two things!" Most of Li Yan's 80,000 mu of land and more than 200,000 mu of land were planted with sugarcane and peanuts. Only 80,000 mu of potatoes and sweet potatoes were planted, each of which was 40,000 mu. Li Yan had his own reasons for doing this. He had the technology of making sugar and oil, which could turn the sugarcane and peanuts into white sugar and edible oil. Potatoes and sweet potatoes were high in yield, but there were no processed products to make. In terms of economic value, of course, the price of white sugar and edible oil was expensive. Li Yan laughed secretly. In his heart, the three of them were thinking that they would eat meat when they followed Shu Wang.

These guys are smart.
Chapter completed!