In the third year, the Yang family's fruit trees bore even fewer fruits, with each tree selling for about eight catties, earning a total of One thousand taels that not only covered the cost but also made a profit. The main reason was that the price of fruit trees that were three years old and those that were five years old differed greatly. Three-year-old fruit trees cost three Silver Coins each, and the Yang family purchased two thousand two hundred plots. They even gave away over a hundred trees. Coupled with the high survival rate of the trees, two thousand of them survived. With an investment of over eight hundred Silver, they made a profit of more than one hundred taels.
Following the trend in Lizhou City to plant apple trees, some made profits while others didn't break even, yet all saw the potential for gain and were happy regardless.
