According to the method of the General Banner Church, Kong Jie and his children (who worked in a textile factory and had no time to take care of farming) first cultivated sweet potatoes. These sweet potatoes made from seedlings are all top-quality sweet potatoes with large sizes, neat appearance and no wounds.

According to what the general flag taught him, Kong Jie specially opened a small field in the place where there was no sunshine behind his house. After loosening the land with his children, he buried the sweet potatoes underground. About ten days later, the sweet potatoes buried underground grew tender buds. Kong Jie and his children dug up the sweet potatoes and found that more than twenty to thirty buds grew on each sweet potato.

Cut the sweet potato into small pieces, and there is a bud on each piece. Then bury these small pieces in the barren land on the hillside, with the buds facing upwards, and water them regularly, and harvest them in about four to five months.

The sweet potatoes grown in the south in later generations can be harvested in just three and a half months to four months. However, in this era, the varieties of sweet potatoes are not as good as those in later generations. Moreover, the weather was colder in the Little Ice Age in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties and the crop growth period was a little longer, so the growth time was longer than that of the sweet potatoes in later generations.

The sweet potatoes are planted in February and will be harvested in about July.

According to the guidance of the general flag, Kong Jie planted sweet potatoes in terraced fields on the hillside, rapeseed in relatively flat fields, and tea in the gaps between terraced fields and terraced fields.

The weather is getting warmer day by day, and the general flag brought a large carton of chickens to Kong Jie's house: "Old Kong, the village has not assigned a good land for your family. In order to compensate your family, I will send chickens to you. You can put them in the mountains. Build a chicken coop in your own yard, drive the chicken back to the chicken coop every night, and let them in the mountains during the day, and the chickens will eat insects by themselves."

"Thank you, sir." Kong Jie hurriedly knelt on the ground and thanked him a lot.

The general flag helped Kong Jie up: "Old Confucius, you don't have to thank me for this. If you want to thank me, you should thank our uncle and Your Majesty. I was just an ordinary military householder, and it was my uncle who let me live a good life."

There were about fifty little chickens in this nest. The general flag also brought Kong Jie a bag of mixed grains, wheat bran and rice bran to feed the chickens. Before leaving, he told Kong Jie that there were mixed grains, rice bran and wheat bran in the imperial village, and that they could be bought to feed the chickens. The mixed grains and scraps were very cheap.

A few days later, the general flag sent a black puppy to Kong Jie's house: "Old Kong, this is my newborn puppy. With it, your chickens don't have to be afraid of being stolen by yellow skin (weasel)."

The growth of the chicken requires food. Before the grain harvest, the imperial village had a certain amount of silver subsidy for the military households. In addition to the income from working in the Kong Jie and his wife during this period, they could still afford food. In addition to buying the rice and flour they ate, the couple also bought some rice bran and wheat bran, which were specially used for the chickens to eat.

Kong Jie's daughter and son both liked this puppy very much. In addition to feeding it every day, they also trained the puppy. After a period of time, the chicken gradually grew up, and the puppy also grew up.

Every morning, the trained puppy drives the chicken out of the chicken coop at home, and at night, he drives the chicken back to the chicken coop. After the sub-adult chicken goes up the mountain, he will go to find insects to eat it.

Kong Jie stood on his hillside and looked at the farmlands of other military households at the foot of the mountain. He saw the rice fields at the foot of the mountain, mulberry forests and fish ponds intersected with each other. The buckets of the fish pond are connected by ditches, and the ditches are connected to the river. In this way, the water of the fish pond is the flowing living water. There is a net blocking it at the connection between the fish pond and the ditches to ensure that the fish will not escape from the fish pond.

In addition to raising fish, ducks are also raised in the fish pond. Although ducks eat some small fish, the fish have a strong reproductive ability. If the duck eats a small amount of small fish, it does not affect the output of the fish pond.

The mulberry forest is right next to the fish pond. The fallen leaves of mulberry trees and the silkworm manure of farm silkworms happen to be the food for fish. The military households also regularly dig the silt at the bottom of the fish pond, and the dug silt is just used as fertilizer for rice fields. This is a biological ecosystem circulation system, which circulates between mulberry trees, silkworms, fish, ducks and rice, and various nutrients are reasonably utilized.

The rapeseed grown by Kong Jie's house has bloomed. Some of the fresh rapeseed hearts were picked and sold by them. The rest of the rapeseed is left in the field to prepare for fruiting. The rapeseed produced can be used to squeeze oil and produce rapeseed oil.

Kong Jie doesn’t need to worry about selling vegetables at all. The hundreds of households in the Royal Farm work part-time.

In the new royal farm created by Zhao Peng, officers above the general flag did not allocate farmland. More than a thousand households received military pay. Their task was to manage the royal farm, count the annual income of the military households, and collect tenant rent from the royal farm based on the income. At the same time, militias were trained from time to time.

The officers of the hundred households are actually merchants in the royal farm. They are responsible for purchasing agricultural products from militias and sending them to the city for sale; the general flag is a specialized in guiding the military households to farm, responsible for custodying seeds, chickens, piglets, etc., and allocating them according to the fields assigned by each farmer and their skills.

The officers of Xiaoqi are professional pig farmers in the Royal Farm. They do not do anything else and are specifically responsible for pig farming.

Four months later, Kong Jie's domestic chickens gradually grew up, fifty chicks grew into forty-two, and eight chickens died. The remaining forty-two chickens, including thirty-nine hens and three roosters.

The hens have started laying eggs. There are thirty-nine hens, and they can lay about thirty eggs every day. Except for a few of these eggs left by Kong Jie’s family to eat, the rest are sold to shops opened by hundreds of households in the village. One egg costs one cent, and the income from selling eggs every day is thirty cents.

However, Kong Jie was told by the officers of the hundred households that all the money could not be used up because all the income must be included in the account book. When the tenant rent is paid at the end of the year, the tenant officers will count the income and costs of the military households, and then collect 40% of the tenant rent and pay it to the state treasury.

The tenant rent of the royal farm income was not turned over to the Ministry of Revenue, but was directly transferred to Zhu Cilang's internal treasury, which reduced the exploitation in the middle link, not only increased the royal income, but also increased the income of military households.

In fact, Zhao Peng asked hundreds of officers to work part-time as merchants in the military household office, which also reduced the expenditures in the circulation link and ensured that the interests of the royal family and military households were maximized.

In a blink of an eye, it was July of the first year of Shaowu, and the sweet potatoes at Kong Jie's house were harvesting. When Kong Jie took his son and daughter to the field to dig out sweet potatoes, they were shocked by the high yield of sweet potatoes.

The sweet potatoes dug out were piled up like mountains. The family rented ten acres of land in the imperial village, and the sweet potatoes harvested were as high as tens of thousands of pounds! Seeing the sweet potatoes dug out of the fields piled up into a hill, Kong Jie was happy: "I didn't expect that the yield of this kind of thing was so high!"

According to the way the general flag taught them how to eat, Kong Jie dug a soil pit on the ground, buried the sweet potatoes in the soil pit, and then piled up firewood on it and lit it. When the fire was extinguished, he dug out the sweet potatoes.

Put the roasted sweet potatoes in the palm of your hand and peel them off. The skin is covered with bright red and sweet sweet potato meat. Put them in your mouth and take a bite. I just feel that the taste is sweet and delicious. Especially for children, I like this food very much.

Eating too much sweet potatoes will definitely make your stomach uncomfortable, so most of the sweet potatoes are sold to the officers of the village. The officers of the hundred households then make some of the sweet potatoes into starch. In addition to being sold directly, starch can also be used to make sweet potato vermicelli. Most of the sweet potatoes are directly purchased by Zhao Peng.
Chapter completed!