Lady of the Lord From the East

Chapter 148

The bumper sweet potato harvest caused another tornado in Sardinson.

Just as Wei Wei expected, nearly 20 million catties, or 10,000 tons of sweet potatoes, were harvested from more than 500 acres of land. This yield is enough for everyone in Sardinson County to eat for half a year.

And if all those sweet potatoes were exchanged for money, that would be an astronomical sum for most.

Today's grain prices, taking wheat as an example, the price of a pound of unhusked wheat is 4 large copper coins, and if it is replaced with a good seed, the price of the same weight is doubled, and a silver coin per pound is not an exaggeration. higher.

The price of sweet potatoes is calculated according to the price of good seeds, and it is three times the price of wheat seeds, that is to say, a pound of sweet potatoes can be sold for three silver coins.

That is to say, if the 20 million catties of sweet potatoes are sold, they will get 5 million gold coins.

Five million gold coins, this is a huge sum of money that will be tempted by anyone who hears it, I am afraid it is the king, excluding others, the field tax that can be obtained in a year is only so much.

Even Wei Wei, who had already regarded money as a number, had an urge to sell all the sweet potatoes for money when she first calculated this number.

With this amount of money, let alone just repairing part of the new city, even if they built the new city in one go, they wouldn't have to worry about running out of money.

Although they were not worried about money in the first place, just from the various industries they operated, after deducting taxes every year, the rest was no less than these.

Moreover, as a lord, it is a crop grown on his plot. Felix doesn't need to pay taxes to anyone, so even the king just obediently sends someone to buy seeds from him. This income can be said to be completely owned by them. of.

Of course, she just thought about it for a moment. In fact, of course, it is impossible to sell all of them, but it is almost the same as selling all.

Wei Wei and Felix decided early on that after harvesting this batch of sweet potatoes, half of them could be sold to the nobles and merchants, and the remaining half, except for the part they kept, was reserved for those interested in Purchasing by the natives.

And they only plan to keep about 100,000 catties of sweet potatoes this year.

In fact, in the planting plan of the manor next year, the proportion of sweet potatoes is only 100 acres, because more fields need to be used for other new crops that already have a certain scale, such as peanuts and sesame.

With so many seeds Wei Wei brought, there may not be many that will eventually become common varieties of Sardinson, but at least in the past few years, she will plant as much as possible to ensure that these plants can reproduce smoothly before they degenerate. Enrich everyone's life.

Only 60,000 catties of sweet potatoes are needed for planting 100 acres of land, leaving 100,000 catties. In addition to preventing possible losses of seed potatoes due to improper storage, a portion is also prepared to be eaten.

They have been planting sweet potatoes for three years, and this year's production is enough. Naturally, they want to eat happily. Wei Wei has prepared a series of menus to show off her cooking skills.

In the same way, they won't leave too much corn, about 10,000 catties are enough.

So in the end, most of these sweet potatoes will still be exchanged for money. If there are no five million gold coins, there are still four million.