Wishing You Eternal Happiness Chapter 539: ：Hope of survival

Grandma Yue thought about the eldest madam and her worries about the young lady's future before she died, and secretly lowered her eyes. She would look for an opportunity to talk to Madam Yu about this someday.

Although she is just a slave, she can still say some words as long as the lady entrusts her with her on her deathbed.

Yu Youyao smiled and nodded, and did not mention this sad topic: "Mommy took the time to come here today, but what is the important matter?"

Grandma Yue helps take care of most of the dowry business in her name.

In the past few years, she has made many rectifications on her industries, and it was only because of the support of Grandma Yue that she was able to proceed smoothly. She also encountered many problems, all thanks to Grandma Yue's many years of experience. and methods to help solve them one by one.

Nowadays, most of the properties under her name are growing bigger and bigger, and almost all of them are profitable, because she is linked to the **** agency and cooperated with her cousin in the Zhejiang maritime trade business.

For all this, Grandma Yue is indispensable.

Of course, there are also the loyal servants my mother chose from thousands of places, all of whom contributed a lot.

Grandma Yue took the handkerchief, pressed the corners of her eyes, and then said: "It's about the trial planting of sweet potatoes. The lady attaches great importance to the cultivation of sweet potatoes. People in Zhuangzi don't dare to neglect them and use different soils to cultivate them. After two years of cultivation, the sweet potatoes are indeed not picky about the soil quality, and the harvest is guaranteed by droughts and floods. As long as you put more care and attention, the yields are also good, but the fruits produced are still a little smaller."

After finishing speaking, she ordered the person who brought it to open a small box.

There are more than a dozen sweet potatoes inside, grown from different soils, and the soil quality is also marked on them.

Yu Youyao took a quick look and saw that there was not much difference in size. She wrapped her hands in a silk handkerchief and picked up the sweet potatoes produced in various soils one by one to look at them: "They are similar in size, which means they can adapt to various environments. ."

Grandma Yue nodded: "Soil that is soft and sandy, or salty soil, will have a higher yield. A plant can bear up to five fruits, but most of them will have three or four fruits, and they will be taller." If the fruit is larger and the soil is harder, the yield will be reduced. A maximum of 3 fruits can be produced on one plant, and the size will be smaller. The wet soil and fertilizer are not conducive to growth."

Able to adapt to sandy soil and salty soil, Yu Youyao's eyes lit up: "What about the taste? Is there any difference?"

Grandma Yue said: "The softer soil will taste sweeter and juicier. The rest of the soil is not bad either. It tastes good whether eaten raw or cooked. The most important thing is that it can withstand hunger."

Because of this, Grandma Yue was very interested in the experimental planting of sweet potatoes, and even personally took over the experimental planting field on Zhuangzi.

The past few years have been bad, and this year is another spring drought year. There is no hope for a winter wheat harvest. After two years of cultivation, the habits of sweet potatoes have also become clear, so they can be planted in large areas.

The yield of this thing is not very good, but the biggest advantage is that it does not pick up the soil, and the harvest is guaranteed despite droughts and floods, and the fruits are still very hungry!

Grandma Yue saw the stakes in this, so she came to find the young lady.

Yu Youyao was really excited now. The dozen sweet potatoes were not big, even smaller than potatoes. Although the yield was not low, it was not too high.

The biggest advantage is that it can adapt to various types of land.

Yu Youyao thought for a while and said: "This year is the Spring Drought Year again. It's already the end of February and there hasn't been a drop of rain yet. I guess the winter wheat harvest will not be harvested, and the early rice harvest will also be greatly reduced. Without winter wheat From April to July, the harvest was very slow, and the people could only eat wild vegetables and swallow chaff. I don’t know how many people were hungry. Even in July and August, the rice harvest was done, but this harvest was probably not enough. The whole family chews it, but when the weather gets cold in the second half of the year, we can’t even eat wild vegetables. I don’t know how many people will starve to death!”

This was originally what Grandma Yue wanted to say, but unexpectedly the young lady said it.

If the young lady can say this, she is not the kind of charming young lady who is raised in a boudoir, ignorant of common affairs, and unaware of the sufferings of the people.

The lady has a kind heart and is even more virtuous.

So, Grandma Yue simply stopped talking about what she was thinking about, and decided to listen to what the young lady had to say first.

Sure enough!

Yu Youyao changed the topic and asked: "How many sweet potatoes are there in Zhuangzi?"

Grandma Yue smiled: "I tried planting a lot last year, dried the skins, put them in a ventilated cellar, and kept them carefully. I sent someone to clean up the broken ones every day to prevent them from breaking. One piece, a cellar full of rot, weighs about five thousand kilograms."

After planting sweet potatoes, I also knew that they were good things. The lady attached great importance to them, so naturally she wanted to grow more.

Yu Youyao nodded: "If we plant a large area, how many acres can we plant?"

Grandma Yue thought about it briefly and said: "The best cultivation method at present is to cut the part of the sweet potato that has sprouts into pieces, then soak it in warm water, and wrap a layer of plant ash on the cut area. , to prevent insect pests, and then bury the buds into the neat rows of fields. The fields should be sprinkled with plant ash to prevent pests in the soil. In this way, one sweet potato can be cut into about one to three pieces, which costs 5,000 yuan. A pound of sweet potatoes can be used to plant at least 10,000 acres of land."

This is a conservation estimate. If it is actually planted, it will definitely be more than this.

The farm under the lady's name is at least tens of thousands of acres. This is just some good fertile farmland, and the sandy land is even more than tens of thousands of acres. ~IndoMTL.com~ Yu Youyao felt confident: "Didn't I arrange for my cousin's old servant to be responsible for the trial planting of new species in Zhuangzi? Give them three thousand kilograms of these five thousand kilograms of sweet potatoes, and they will handle it themselves. , and the other two thousand catties were planted in a suitable village in my name."

They are responsible for the trial planting of new species, so they must know how to plant them.

The past two years have been bad, and life in the north has become increasingly difficult. The promotion and planting of sweet potatoes are urgent. Three thousand kilograms of sweet potatoes is nothing, but it is also a hope for survival.

Nanny Yue just assumed that these three thousand kilograms of sweet potatoes were to be planted on the farm owned by Master Zhou Biao for trial planting, and she said nothing more.

Yu Youyao looked at the sweet potato cubes in her hand with a frown: "Foreign species were somewhat acclimated to the soil and climate in the Zhou Dynasty. Most of them could not be planted, and a small number of them could be planted, but they were half-dead and not very effective. The sweet potato is the biggest exception. It can survive on the land of Dazhou and still bear fruit. It has no water and soil problems and can adapt to various climates and soils. This shows that the vitality of the sweet potato is very tenacious."

Looking at it this way, this sweet potato really has a lot to offer.

The fruit is too small, and the yield is not bad, nor high. If we can increase the yield without picking the soil quality, we can promote it on a large scale in China...

More trials are needed for trial planting of sweet potatoes.

It just takes time.

The top priority now is to expand the planting scale as much as possible on these limited 5,000 kilograms of sweet potatoes.

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