This traveler only wants to choose the lowest difficulty

Chapter 248

As for the cigarettes produced on my 1000 mu of land, can Datang raise the first batch of smokers?
Wang Dong was still a little confused at first, but after getting the fine-bred exchange coupon and inquiring about the yield per mu of cigarettes, Wang Dong's doubts were basically eliminated.

In later generations, one mu of land can produce more than 150 kilograms of flue-cured tobacco even if the best tobacco leaf varieties are not used. If the field management is good and the germplasm is good, one mu of land can produce two to three hundred kilograms of flue-cured tobacco. The problem.

Now the Wang family’s land outside the city is [-] to [-] mu. No matter how poor the field management ability in the Tang Dynasty was, Wang Dong felt that he had good seeds to support the tobacco leaves with a yield of [-] kilograms per mu. .

And a cigarette is calculated based on the weight of one gram, and if the flue-cured tobacco produced on a thousand acres of land is processed into cigarettes, it will be a full 80 million sticks.This amount shocked Wang Dong, but this number is not too much in later generations. The annual output of cigarettes in Huaguo in later generations is two trillion. Wang Dong’s cigarette output is basically a township cigarette factory in later generations. The scale is not a big factory, but the output of a small factory run by the Street Office in the [-]s that is about to close down at any time.

Moreover, it is obviously unrealistic for him to make all these tobacco leaves into cigarettes. Most of the tobacco leaves will be processed into shredded tobacco and sold directly. As long as he calculates the amount of consumption a person needs to go from smoking to addiction, Wang Dong finds that he is At least 30 million cigarettes can make [-] to [-] consumers in Datang become smokers.

As for the last sugar beet, this is also a local specialty crop that Wang Dong discovered during his research in the Northwest. In the Napoleon era, because France was blocked by neighboring countries, he developed the technology of using beets to make sugar. After many generations of breeding, although The sucrose of Huaguo in later generations was mainly produced from sugar cane, but sugar beets were also produced on a large scale in the Northwest.

The economic benefits of planting sugar beets to produce sucrose may not be high in later generations, but considering the production and value of sucrose in the Tang Dynasty in this time and space, Wang Dong found that this is definitely a business that will not lose money, and after thinking about it, Wang Dong found that There is no need for him to sell sugar directly. He now has white sugar and white fungus in his hands. Adding the 30 yuan for the purchase of the machine, Wang Dong decided to set up a cannery by himself and directly produce canned white fungus. Wang Dong knew that in the Republic of China era After the Chinese mastered the canning technology for the first time, because canned food was still a high-priced industrial product at that time, the earliest canned food that became popular all over the country was canned bird’s nest with nourishing effect. How much, this light luxury consumer product is easy to attract Chinese people who have loved health preservation since ancient times, and it is definitely a marketable product in Datang.

Yang looked at the tobacco beets and white fungus that Wang Dong put on the table, and was very moved to tell the truth, so she said to Wang Dong: "That's it, we use half of the land to grow these things, and the other half to grow food."

Wang Dong shook his head when he heard the words: "No, all the land is used to grow these things."

Yang was a little hesitant. Although the three crops on the table seemed to have great economic value, she was always afraid that it would be difficult to pay back the cost if she planted them on a large scale for the first time.

But Wang Dong was very determined.

Thinking that Wang Dong is nominally in charge of her Wang family now, and he is also the head of the Wang family in name, Yang suddenly realized that if Wang Dong didn't want them to help farm the land, they wouldn't be able to say anything. , Yang had no choice but to agree when he found that he disagreed.

Forget it, Yang thought, even if this layer of land is left uncultivated this year, the land will still fall into his own home anyway, and he can just plant other crops next year.

"But we have more than 1000 mu of land here. Do you have so many seeds?"

Wang Dong smiled: "Master and I have cultivated many good seeds, and now spring is about to germinate. I will go and get these things from Kunlun Mountain right away, and they will be there in two days."

Yang looked puzzled, she couldn't imagine how Wang Dong transported things across the Tuyuhun territory, from the distant Kunlun Mountains to Shanzhou Zenglai, but seeing Wang Dong's swearing, she couldn't take it easy for him. She just thought that if Wang Dong didn't have seeds coming after two days, she still asked Wang Ji to reclaim those lands, so that she could grow food honestly to be safe.

"Ok."

"Then I will take people to cultivate."

"This won't work, the land reclamation should be left to Wang Ji."

"I can farm too...you don't believe me?"

Yang smiled and shook his head decisively.

Wang Dong couldn't help being speechless.

Although Yang believes that Wang Dong may have some skills and has learned some strange planting techniques in Kunlun Mountains, large-scale land reclamation is not an easy task. Managed system work.

Even if Wang Dongzhen and his master have planted land on Kunlun Mountain, it is impossible for them to have a big farmer who manages tens or hundreds of tenants to play with them on Kunlun Mountain. Yang does not believe that there is no professional Wang Dong. She is competent to manage a lot of labor. She said directly: "If you want to grow tobacco, you can grow it, but these fields are the foundation of the Wang family. If you want to cultivate them, you can only let Wang Ji do it. I will leave the land empty."

In Yang's view, the thousand mu of land that Wang Dong acquired is indeed the Wang family's century-old plan. Even if Wang Dong wants to grow any tobacco, even if he loses money this year, he can grow other things next year, but the land will be reclaimed and repaired. Tian Long, digging ditches, these things are done with a very high investment, if they are messed up by Wang Dong, it will directly affect the future livelihood of the family.

Yang insisted so much that Wang Dong had no choice but to give in.

Since the other party gave in and agreed to plant tobacco, he could only take a step back in this matter.I thought that although Wang Ji didn't have as high an agricultural skill point as himself, he probably had a way of arranging civilian husbands to do things.

They went to call Wang Ji to let him manage the land reclamation, but Wang Ji was very excited when he heard the words.

After coming to the Wang family for so many years, he has only seen the Wang family decline step by step under Wang Hui's hands, but now he is suddenly given the opportunity to take charge of a large farm. For him, it seems that he suddenly has the motivation to move forward.

In the afternoon of that day, Wang Dong took Wang Ji, Yang Shi and a dozen people to the land of his family outside the city. It is obviously not possible for the dozens of servants of the Wang family to cultivate such a large amount of land. Things, so before this, Wang Ji had already contacted several armored heads in Shanzhou City. These people are a bit like later generations of wheat or cotton pickers. They will go to some remote areas to work as temporary workers. During the peak season of labor demand To earn a wage, and in a place like Shanzhou City, there are obviously many floating farmers. Wang Ji went out in the morning and ran around, and directly contacted more than 80 people. According to his calculations, all of these 80 people If it is used for ridges and ditches, it can barely rehabilitate the more than 1000 mu of land.

The Yang family was also full of hope for the people Wang Ji went to find, so a dozen people stood in the wilderness outside Shanzhou City in the cold early spring and waited for a long time, but until the sun was about to pass in the evening, no one was there. Come, Yang couldn't help being a little puzzled.

At this moment, everyone saw that He La, who was sent to pick up those dealers, finally came here on horseback, but Wang Dong took a closer look, and there were not more than 80 dealers behind him, but There were only two or three men on mules and horses.

(End of this chapter)