Sweet potatoes are of great significance. During the famine period, sweet potatoes are the lifeline. It’s not that Ying Yi doesn’t understand this principle.

In this era, sweet potatoes were introduced to China through the red barbarians. The imperial court had not thought about promoting them, but the so-called oranges grew in Huainan and oranges grew in Huainan and tangerines grew in Huainan. The sweet potatoes that had just taken root on the land of China were in the process of adapting to the environment and were far from reaching the subsequent yield.

Sweet potatoes are vigorous and adaptable, and they are not the same as oranges and citrus, but after all, they require an adaptation process.

In the original history, the Qing Dynasty could feed hundreds of millions of people, not how powerful the Qing Dynasty was, but how high-yield foreign crops were, which shone with their brilliance during the Qing Dynasty after the adaptation period in the late Ming Dynasty.

If the Ming Dynasty could survive this disaster, Ying Yi had reason to believe that there would be more people who could support the Ming Dynasty.

This is the significance of a batch of foreign high-yield crops such as sweet potatoes.

However, compared with traditional grains, sweet potato crops are not comparable to other crops except for higher yields after adapting to the environment.

If you eat too much sweet potato, you will become yellow-skinned and thin, which is far inferior to traditional grains in terms of nutrition.

Furthermore, the breeding of sweet potatoes is different from rice and wheat. It is bred through root germination.

Ying Yi’s Yuanqi scheme’s civilian corpus and plant breeding and transformation of corpus are Ying Yi’s reliance on it. Although it is not the time to sow wheat in the traditional sense, he can transform the corpus to shorten the growth cycle of the wheat, etc.

A breeding and transformation element, and one-time transformation of breeding must be more than sweet potatoes.

This is the main reason why Ying Yi chose wheat.

In addition, there is another reason. That is, wheat has been tested for a long time, and sweet potatoes have just taken root. If Ying Yi asked all 600,000 mu of land to plant sweet potatoes, the people would probably not be so happy and would be resistant.

Although Zheng Yunzhi and Sun Xiucai were inexplicably confident because of the many magical things brought by Ying Yi, the difficulties were still very big.

Sun Xiucai said: "Lord, if you plant sweet potatoes, you only need to take seedlings and cuttings. If you plant wheat, 600,000 mu of land, there are many seeds needed."

Zheng Yunzhi nodded and agreed.

Ying Yi nodded with a smile. It is very simple to plant sweet potatoes at this time. For example, the sweet potato field outside Xiaowang Village only needs to pick seedlings from it and then cut them. It is convenient and can greatly reduce costs. But this is also a factor that was denied by Ying Yi.

He wants to transform the crops, and it is best to start with the seeds. Sweet potatoes do not meet the requirements at this time.

He understood the idea of ​​Sun Xiucai and Zheng Yunzhi very well - growing sweet potatoes in July is not a suitable time. But as long as they can be planted and survived, the stems and leaves are food that can fill the stomach. The survival rate of sweet potatoes is higher than that of wheat, especially in the current climate.

As for another concern, Ying Yi also understood.

For 600,000 mu of land, all wheat is planted. According to the practice, ten kilograms of seeds are counted as per mu of land, and all seeds are worth 6 million kilograms.

Six million kilograms! One hundred and twenty kilograms per stone is 50,000 kilograms.

This is not a small number.

"Fifty thousand stones of wheat can be sold for ten taels of silver per stone now. It costs 500,000 taels of silver." Zheng Yunzhi said seriously.

Ying Yi said: "Silver is not a problem. If you can't eat it, what's the use of putting it there? My father-in-law and scholar, as long as the seeds arrive, everything is not a problem."

He paused and said, "How many wheat varieties can we squeeze out now?"

Sun Xiucai immediately said: "It's about 30,000 stones. The others are another grain."

At present, Ying Yi still has a lot of food in his hands. The 200,000 stones stored in Ye County still have 150,000 stones. The killing of Zuo Liangyu, Liu Zongmin and Hao Yaoqi, etc., plus the reserves and seizures of Yuzhou, there are more than 100,000 stones.

But there are not many wheats, only 30,000 stones, and the rest are rice, beans, sorghum and other types of grains.

"Thirty thousand stones...there is still 20,000 stones left." Ying Yi said: "Can Zheng's trading company buy it within ten days?"

Zheng Yunzhi thought for a while: "The time is too short, and it is a bit difficult. From Nanyang to the south, the private planting is mainly rice. The wheat area in Huguang is not large."

Ying Yi frowned: "You can buy it at a high price."

He had thought that some rice seeds were mixed with ginseng, but today, wheat was a dry crop, but rice was not.

Although it can be transformed, Ying Yi has not used plant transformation components yet. I don’t know if he can transform rice into crops that adapt to a drought environment as he wishes.

However, he thought for a while: "To be careful, prepare another 20,000 stone of rice seeds. Let's take a two-pronged approach and purchase wheat seeds is one of them. If there are not enough, we have to replace rice seeds."

Both Sun Xiucai and Zheng Yunzhi nodded.

Then Ying Yi said: "Sow seeds in early July, less than half a month is left. First, transport 30,000 stones of wheat seeds to Crescent Valley. The remaining 20,000 stones must be prepared within ten days. If not, use rice seeds. Be sure to ensure that there are enough seeds to sow in early July."

Farming is the foundation of the country. Paying attention to farming is the focus of the people in power in any era. The three counties occupied by Ying Yi are really waiting to be renovated. Farming in July is the prerequisite for all industries to flourish.

Ying Yi attached no less importance to this matter than military operations against treacherous thieves. He even paid more attention to it.

"Don't worry about those land tigers for the time being." Then, when talking about the landlords in the three counties, Ying Yi waved his hand and said, "They will naturally ask for a visit at that time."

Nanyang was raging by the thieves. Although there were thousands of miles of land, there were still landlords who survived. These landlords had their own ways to save their lives if they were not doing well every year, and they had their own ways to save their lives.

The most common method is to build a fort to defend itself.

Landlords are often local tyrants, occupying large tracts of land and accumulating a lot of food. They build forts, gather the people, and form servants and militias. Even the thieves can't do anything to them for a while.

Small thieves can't beat them, and large thieves think it's not worth it.

In order to protect their own property, these landlords often dare to fight to the death when they encounter thieves, but in fact they are even more afraid of the thieves than the official army. Therefore, many landlords survived.

But many of these land tigers are not good things. With their forts as the center, the best land has been embezzled by these land tigers. It is difficult for Ying Yi to take back these land.

Zheng Yunzhi and Sun Xiucai did not have an advantage in fighting these overlords. Unless they sent troops to attack, they would not enter.

But Ying Yi believed that the crops he transformed must be the key to solving this problem.

So he is not in a hurry.

"Let's just plant our own land, just don't come and disturb us." Ying Yi said: "If there are any messes, will my knife be unfavorable?"

Sun Xiucai and Zheng Yunzhi nodded slightly.
Chapter completed!