The third update of Chapter 456: There are more soil classifications in Qiandi
Zhu Yuanzhang and Queen Ma were talking and eating.
The braised sparrow meat has no bones. Remove the meat and discard the small pieces. Put it together with the bones and give it to Xiaqiu Village.
Xiaqiu Village simmered these in high-pressure barrels, then turned them into jelly and sent them to the library as snacks for the health workers and children.
The bones are pressed into a crispy state, which makes it delicious when you eat it.
"Sparrows are so annoying. When the autumn harvest comes, they will wander around in groups in the fields. They even dare to go to our experimental field, just in time to catch them and eat them."
Zhu Yuanzhang poured some down. The braised sparrow soup was put on the rice plate, and he said something about hating sparrows.
"You can't catch them too hard. This thing requires a balance. When the crops are immature, the pests need sparrows to eat them."
Empress Ma said she learned from Xiaqiu Village. We must not kill all the sparrows, otherwise food production will be reduced.
"The sparrow meat is made like this, and it feels more delicious than chicken." Zhu Yuanzhang didn't know the situation of other things, so he just took two bites and praised it for now.
"Xiaqiu Village specializes in using pressure cookers. What we eat is secondary processing. I heard that northern sparrows do not fly to our south like wild geese in winter. How do they survive it's so cold?"
Empress Ma had never been to the north, so she couldn’t understand. Sparrows are found all over the world. Where are they when the water drips and freezes in winter? People passing by eat soy sparrows, how do they survive the winter?"
Zhu Chong also asked the same question. He knew that there were migratory birds, the most common ones being wild geese.
“In nests in hay, or in abandoned nests of other birds in trees.
Sparrows will make their own nests, but they prefer to take advantage of existing conditions.< /p>
They, like swallows, will make nests under the eaves of ordinary people. Most swallows want to move south, so sparrows can occupy other people's nests.
In the south of the Yangtze River. The weather is not very cold, so the situation of sparrows building nests under the eaves of others is not as good as in the north.
People in the north will never catch swallows and sparrows building nests under the eaves of their homes, nor will they allow them. The child dug out bird eggs."
The village chief told Zhu Xi what he heard from Hanhan. He had never been to the north.
"Why is that?" Zhu Biao was also interested.
“Sparrows are afraid of too much noise and are afraid of cold in winter. When building their nests, they will choose a location with good insulation, preferably facing the sun and without much movement.
The house sits The main house faces north and south, and there is no big noise, indicating that the family is harmonious and there are no quarrels.
So others will say that this family has a good family, with swallows and sparrows making nests.
In addition, where the sparrows make their nests, there will be a vegetable patch in front of the house, where they can grow cucumbers, eggplants and other vegetables, so that when there are insects, there will be food. ”
Li Chang analyzed it from another perspective, using the sparrows. In terms of living habits.
"Indeed, with a main house, no quarrels, and a vegetable patch, the life of such a family will not be too bad."
Zhu Biao agreed with the mayor's statement. The main house must have a wing room, which proves that the family's financial conditions are adequate.
"In three days, we will arrive in Baofeng County. There is everything there." Zhu Fang also wanted to prepare for get out of class first. < /p>
According to different soil conditions, the court cannot collect rent according to the previous method of collecting land taxes, otherwise people will still grow wheat in their homes and the yield will be seriously reduced.
Some land is not fertile. For easy extraction, you need to plant purple-flowered perennial plants.
Some places are dry and can only grow things for a certain period of time each year.
But it is better to grow wheat. Plant oil crops such as soybeans and sesame, or plant cotton if watering is possible.”
When going to Baofeng, you need to see coal mines, bitter salt mines, and normal salt mines. The li leader paid the most attention to me and memorized many things.
"Let's take a look after we go there. It should be time to plant winter wheat. It will be harder when the fields are growing, so we need to travel to more places."
Zhu Biao knew that it was not easy to change the land tax collection. The imperial court did not know the situation of each piece of land in the local area. The land that was supposed to harvest grain also needed to harvest hemp and cotton. In some places, mulberry trees had to be planted to raise silkworms.
Whatever the people do not sow, they will be punished and must hand it over.
Xiaqiu Village does not plant mulberry trees because raising silkworms is troublesome, but they plant cotton because cotton is needed to make clothes.
The special hemp fields were changed to cotton fields, and the rice fields were used to plant two kinds of hemp in rotation.
Let’s wait and see at the place first. If that’s the case, we will have to arrange for people to go to other places to record the soil conditions in the future.
It rains a lot and is suitable for growing rice. If we have to let the people grow cotton, wouldn’t it be a deception?
Three days passed by and the team finally arrived at Ruzhou. Prefectures and counties, so Ruzhou magistrates and other officials ran from Ruzhou County to Baofeng County.
Today is August 14th, and tomorrow is the Mid-Autumn Festival.
The team will set up camp and stay for a few days. What vegetables, fruits, and furs are available in the people's homes can be brought and sold.
Just like they did along the way, the team spread out sticky bird nets to catch sparrows.
There is no need to kill them all, as long as there are fewer people, it will make the people feel more relaxed.
If you don’t dig out the bird’s nest, you won’t keep shouting and beating gongs and drums to scare the sparrows from flying. They will die from exhaustion if they don’t dare to fall down.
It is even more impossible to smoke or poison.
The people who grew beans and rice led the sparrow-catching team to their own fields, saying sad things such as how the sparrows harmed the food.
The children came to wash their hands and faces and were given popcorn sticks and fried sparrows.
After frying too many times, there is half a pot of oil left, so replace it., don’t continue to add oil, because it needs to be used to make soap.
There is also a sizzling sparrow. This one still produces oil, so we won’t cook anymore, but we will make soap together.
Ruzhou’s magistrate, tongzhi, and magistrate came. The officials from Ruzhou County did not come, but the magistrate, county magistrate, chief administrator, and dianshi from Baofeng County had to come.
In addition, Zhao Li came over with all the people in his Zhaojia Village. He was the boldest one who sold bitter salt.
He bribed county officials, bought a salt guide, and sent the village's bitter salt to the market in Dangtu County for sale.
After that, he sold it three times and made a lot of money. The well that produced bitter salt was expropriated by the court, and they helped boil the brine.
At the same time, he also used the money from selling bitter salt to bring a lot of livestock back to the village. Everyone worked hard to farm and raise pigs and poultry.
Life is good now, and people in the village wear beautiful new clothes and come to see their benefactor.
"Kowtow to His Highness the Crown Prince and His Highness King Qin." Zhao Li greeted more than 700 villagers to kneel down.
"Stop kneeling, there are still pregnant women here." Zhu Xi saw an old man and a pregnant woman. Who is to blame if there is a problem with kneeling?
Guards In the past to stop them, Zhu Biao looked at the people in the village, mainly looking at their faces and whether their clothes were of no use, and they could be used at any time.
Everyone looks good, at least they don’t look disheveled. It’s normal for their skin to be rough due to boiling salt.
Zhao Li knelt down and kowtowed. When he got up, he looked at the chief: "Yichang, we followed the idea you helped us come up with last time, and now life is indeed getting better." Please remember to bookmark, The latest and fastest website, no anti-theft, free to find books and add books, you can join the qq group 952868558