"An acre of wheat produces an average of 752 jin of grain. The first batch of plantations covers a little over 26,000 mu in total."
"An acre of rice produces an average of 591 jin of grain. The second batch of plantations covers around 19,000 mu."
"Leaving aside the odd amounts, we can harvest roughly 19.55 million jin of wheat and 11.2 million jin of rice. Let's calculate with 31 million jin."
"The territory now has 11,200 residents. At one and a half jin per person per day, that's 16,800 jin a day."
"Thirty-one million jin is enough to last 1,845 days—five whole years!"
"Five years."
Su Mo pondered in silence.
All right.
This simple and crude calculation did have some margin of error.
For example, wheat had to be processed into flour, which would result in at least a thirty percent loss. Roughly one jin of wheat yielded 0.6 to 0.7 jin of flour.
The same went for rice. Under normal circumstances, the brown rice yield from paddy was around eighty percent, and further processing would reduce it even more.
Even after applying those reductions to thirty-one million jin of grain, being able to store twenty million jin would already be more than satisfactory.
No matter how he calculated it, there would be enough to let everyone eat their fill until the next harvest came in.
Moreover, this was only the first crop. Once another four months passed, the territory's grain stores would only grow fuller.
Over the next two years, the territory's residents wouldn't be eating only these things every day, either.
For example, the emergency vegetables produced each day already amounted to around six hundred jin, which could completely replace a large portion of their dried-food consumption.
If the Red Spider Merchant Group—or any other foundation's merchant