Peasant Woman’s Decreed Life as a Wife-Chapter 1102 - 1099: Settling Accounts

Chapter 1102: Chapter 1099: Settling Accounts

Chu Heng stood beside her, holding the umbrella, while Lu Chuan arranged for the carriage to be taken away.

“Is everything going smoothly on Xie Yu’s side?” Ye Muyu asked.

“Hmm, it’s deep winter now, and spring is just over a month away. All sorts of grains are starting to be planted. He is probably very busy. There’s also a need to plant trees, but there aren’t many trees left, so they can only start with saplings. I’m afraid it might be too late.”

“If it’s too late, then we can only start stockpiling grain.” Ye Muyu frowned, knowing the terrain issues in the counties below, which were usually affected by river water. This year, it had also snowed, and once the snow melted, there would probably still be impacts.

“Stockpiling grain isn’t such an easy task,” Chu Heng sighed softly, not wanting to spoil Ye Muyu’s good mood, and decided not to bring it up again.

Ye Muyu reached out and patted the back of his hand: “Ah Heng, have you forgotten about the high-yield rice species?”

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“I feel like if all those that were sent up are planted, the excess grains harvested would be enough to initially aid Yuzhou’s losses. Then, if the crops harvested the year after next are completely promoted, the common folks could also get high-yield grain seeds, and life would gradually improve.”

“The choices here all depend on the Emperor, but if the court’s situation is as complicated as you say, I’m afraid it might be difficult for you to use next year’s harvested grains.”

“However, this is also assuming that Yuzhou’s snowfall this year is too much and affects production, which would necessitate further consideration.”

“For now, let’s manage the water disasters according to your ideas. It should be somewhat useful.” Ye Muyu reached out and patted his hand again: “Don’t worry, we must do what we can.”

Chu Heng looked at the top of her head, his gaze tender, but unable to dispel the shadows in his heart. Wasn’t the reason he acted so swiftly against the Lin family because the situation for next year looked grim?

Yet, he couldn’t speak of this and had to think of other solutions.

Ye Muyu hadn’t expected Chu Heng to continue being busy over the New Year, running around everywhere, busy with affairs in the yamen.

She was also reviewing the ledger of all the manors on hand.

Her family’s seven manors were all cultivating grains, fruit trees on the mountains, and some medicinal herbs. Wheat and rice harvested throughout the year were not sold; the high-yield rice alone was almost 600,000 jin, of which nearly 600,000 jin was offered to the court, leaving only a few thousand jin of seeds. Wheat production was lower, at 300,000 jin. This was still the yield from 2,000 mu of land combined.

No wonder wealthy families are rich, buying jewelry as though it’s nothing, and dozens of taels can buy several thousand jin of grain.

For ordinary families, having ten or so mu of land counts as being wealthy. This includes both dry and paddy fields. Calculating this, six mu of dry land can produce eight to nine hundred jin of wheat, and six mu of paddy fields can produce about one thousand jin of rice. If high-yield rice were planted instead, it could be close to eight hundred jin, essentially doubling it.

The rice must still be hulled to convert to rice, reducing the quantity further.

Even so, it would just be enough for a family to live on, and that’s already for the wealthy.”

She could sell her 300,000 jin of wheat for approximately 3,000 taels of silver at normal prices, which wasn’t much.

If the 300,000 jin of wheat were ground into flour, assuming an adult consumes about one and a half jin of flour daily for three meals of noodles, and one jin of wheat can be ground into seven taels of flour.

Thus calculated, her stock of wheat could be ground into 210,000 jin of flour, barely enough for 1,500 people over three months.

It seemed a lot, but it was completely insufficient.

Having calculated this, Ye Muyu rubbed her forehead and planned to continue buying more manors.