MTL - Studying Science in the Alternate World-Chapter 46 The cost of growing wheat

  Chapter 46 Wheat Planting Cost

   Soon Sally brought Levin over.

  After seeing Duke, Levin was very happy, but a little embarrassed, scratching the back of his head and not knowing what to say.

   "You got fired, didn't you?"

   "Yes, boss."

   "Then come and work for me. The salary is still the same as in the store. The monthly salary is 6 silver dragons. If you perform well at the end of the year, there will be a bonus."

   "Yeah!" Levin nodded vigorously.

  Duke smiled and asked, "I heard from Sally, you don't live at home now, do you?"

   "They rented out my room." Levine replied that his parents were not good to him and had been trying to kick him out since he was an adult.

  Now that all the rooms are rented out, Levin can't go back, he was fired again, and he doesn't even have a place to live.

   Fortunately, Aunt Abby took him in and let him stay at home for a few days.

   "Go to Aunt Abby's house, move all your things here, and live here from now on. There is a utility room next door, so you can clean it yourself."

"Um!"

  After Levin packed his things, Duke took him out for lunch.

  With some money in his hand, Duke didn’t want to treat himself harshly, so he went to the restaurant when he should. After all, he only got a few dollars to eat—mainly to buy spirit beast meat in private to practice blood refining, which would cost a lot of money.

   After lunch.

   Then took Levin to Little Duke Farm.

  The civilian construction team hired with money did not have any puppet assistance, and relied entirely on the workers' own hands and feet to work.

   But the construction speed is not slow.

  In a few days, the foundation has been dug, the wall frame has been set up, and the reinforced concrete has been poured. Of course, they are all ordinary steel bars, and no spiritual gold has been added. The main reason is that spirit gold is too expensive. The parts used to cast Sand Eagles cost a few golden dragon spirit gold, which is sky-high for building a house.

   "Boss, what am I going to do on the farm?"

   "You are a resident worker on the farm, and you have to do all kinds of chores, but our priority now is to hire a group of farmers to complete the autumn sowing of this hundred acres of land."

   "What do we grow?"

   "Wheat."

  Duke took Levin to supervise the construction team for a while, and then went to hire farmers without stopping. There are a large number of farms on the outskirts of Sheshou Town, and there are many fixed farming teams, who can be hired at any time as long as they spend money.

   Negotiated the price of 50 silver dragons, and contracted all the 100 acres of Little Duke Farm to a farming team.

  The captain is called Old Joseph, with a big beard and a pipe everywhere he goes.

   "Leave it to us, my old Cerf's reputation is as reliable as this big crab!" Old Cerf patted the giant crab-shaped puppet behind him, and said loudly to Duke.

   This farming team has three dilapidated "crab-shaped puppets", which are civilian puppets specially developed by Erudite Tower for farms, integrating plowing, sowing, fertilizing, and harvesting. Relying on three crab-shaped puppets, the farming team can sow 50 mu of land a day.

   It only takes two days to complete the 100-acre farm of Little Duke.

   "Then when are you going to my farm?" Duke asked.

  Old Joseph took a puff from his pipe and exhaled a big puff of smoke: "A week later, it will be exhausted in the past few days. You specialize in planting wheat, right? Don't worry, you will have time in a week... You have to buy wheat seeds now, and you get 20 catties of wheat seeds per acre of land!"

   One mu of land contains 20 catties of wheat seeds, and one hundred mu of land equals two thousand catties.

  Duke wrote it down, and asked again: "I want to mix Lingzhi wheat, how much Lingzhi wheat is suitable?"

   "In this case, you'd better ask a spiritual plant envoy to help you arrange it. However, we grow wheat on other farms, and most of them are ten acres of land mixed with one catty of spiritual plant wheat seeds. You can buy ten catties. If it is less, five catties will do. It will have no effect if it is lower."

   "I see." Duke nodded.

   "We also need to buy fertilizer. I have seen the land on the Xiaohewan side. The soil fertility is not enough, so we need a lot of fertilizer."

   "How much to buy?"

   "For sowing and fertilizing an acre of land, you need about 20 catties of special fertilizer, and you have to add fertilizer twice later, so you can apply at least 50 catties of fertilizer per mu of land."

  Spiritual plants can not only resonate with the air sea of ​​the spiritual planter, but also resonate with the same plant.

  So most of the farms grow Lingzhi wheat, not all the land is sown with Lingzhi wheat seeds, that would be too expensive. In the market, one catty of Lingzhi wheat seeds costs 30 silver dragons, and one mu of land requires twenty catties of seeds, which no farmer can afford.

  Relying on Lingzhi's breathing resonance ability, it is completely possible to mix the seeds, and mix a little Lingzhi wheat with ordinary wheat.

  Lingzhi envoys can then use the breathing method to guide, which can improve the quality of ordinary wheat, and even have a chance to evolve into a new Lingzhi.

   Negotiated cooperation with the farming team and paid a deposit of 20 silver dragons.

  Duke went to the seed shop in town.

  Only ordinary seeds are sold here, and there are about four or five copper dragons for a catty of wheat seeds. He bought two thousand catties of wheat seeds at a time, and the boss finally sold them at the price of 4 copper dragons, a total of 80 silver dragons.

   Then go to the fertilizer store.

  Fertilizer is not much cheaper than seeds, and two catties of special fertilizer cost a copper dragon. Duke did the math, and he was not willing to buy all the 50 catties of special fertilizer for one mu of land. He first bought 10,000 catties of fertilizer needed for sowing. The total price was 50 silver dragons.

  After that, Duke went to Shenjiao City again, and went to a Lingzhi shop that he had visited before.

   "Let's take a look." The boss is still enthusiastic.

   "I'm here to buy Lingzhi wheat seeds, five catties."

   "Chenghui 150 silver dragons."

   "Let's make it cheaper, boss, I have my own farm, and I will definitely come to your store to buy seeds, boss."

   "Oh, small business... The young man is a farmer at a young age, and he will take care of my business in the future. This small bag of aerobic fertilizer will be considered as a gift from me." The boss bought a pack of 3 silver dragon spirit plant aerobic fertilizers, which is considered a discount.

   Wait until all requirements are ready.

  Duke settled the score.

   Fertilizer cost 50 silver dragons, followed by 2 gold dragons; wheat seeds cost 80 silver dragons, spiritual wheat planting cost 150 silver dragons; farming team to sow seeds cost 50 silver dragons.

   "I have to hire someone to take care of the wheat seedlings in the middle, and I have to hire a farming team to harvest them later... Add up the seven, seven, and eighty-eight, and the cost of this crop of wheat is at least 7 gold dragons!"

  If the ten-year rent of 20 gold dragons is spread, based on the calculation of planting two crops of wheat a year, the cost of one crop of wheat will increase by 1 gold dragon.

   "The cost of 8 gold dragons, I don't know if they can be sold for 20 gold dragons after the harvest next year... If they can be sold, it's okay to say, I can make a net profit of 12 gold dragons in half a year, which is equivalent to the income of 2 gold dragons in a month. This is no less profitable than Little Sam's card repair shop."

   It's just that 20 golden dragons is an ideal income. The planting industry is greatly affected by the climate. If it is a disaster year, you may have to pay for it.

   "Don't think about making money first, just keep your capital."

  Duke doesn’t have to rely on the farm to make money. He is a card repairer, and refurbishing second-hand cards is his main income right now.

in this way.

   At the beginning of October, the old Joseph brought the farming team to sow the seeds, and the house on the Little Duke Farm was also covered, waiting for the interior decoration.

  (end of this chapter)