Planning the farmland mainly meant determining the locations of the Water Channels. Since growing rice required keeping the paddies covered with water for long periods, the only option was flood irrigation. At the same time, they had to make rational use of the available land, and that raised another crucial question.
How much rice did the Han Tribe need to grow? How much farmland would they need?
The Wild Rice Luo Chong had brought back from the marsh originally weighed more than sixty jin, but that had all been fresh Paddy Rice. After being brought back and dried, its weight had fallen to about seventy percent. Now, only a little over forty jin remained.
This Wild Rice was slightly larger than the rice Luo Chong had eaten in his previous life—roughly twice the size. A jin of ordinary rice in his previous life contained around twenty-six thousand grains, while a jin of the Wild Rice in his hands held only about twelve thousand.
However, Luo Chong did not plan to plant all the seeds. In his previous life, he had no experience growing grain at all. At most, he had fed pigs for two days and planted vegetables for a few days in the army—and those had been punishments for making mistakes. There was no way he could scatter all the seeds at once. What if none of them grew? Wouldn't he cry himself to death?
So he only planned to use half of the Rice Seed—about twenty-two jin, or 264,000 seeds. And that raised the question: how many rice plants could be grown on one mu of land? How much farmland did the Han Tribe need?
Judging from the Wild Rice's parent plants in the marsh, these rice plants grew tall and sturdy, reaching nearly two meters. Each plant