Chapter 597: Food and grass are easy to handle. The first update of an acquaintance
"We have discovered that the more people work, the faster they consume food, and they will not be able to eat."
On the way to Peking, Zhu Ping chose to forget the scene of people saying goodbye, otherwise his eye circles would become red.
"The key lies in building roads. The local people still eat local salt. Let's help refine it and get saltpeter by the way."
Zhu Biao then said, this time we are helping This has greatly contributed to the local people’s troubles.
The people here boil earth salt themselves in the saline-alkali land, which is small salt, salt containing nitrate and other impurities, and also brine.
Eating too much salt is bad for the body, and the people have nothing to do. It is expensive to transport salt from other places, and there are coal mines left in Datong from the previous dynasty, so the people naturally boil the salt themselves to eat.
Now they are asked to help refine the nitrate. When the time comes, other salts will be exchanged for the nitrate, and the people will be able to eat salt with less impurities.
At the same time, manpower is left to take care of greenhouses and raising livestock. This place is regarded as a transit yard for feedlots.
People will harvest soybeans in three months, sorghum in another two months, and immediately plow the fields to plant winter wheat.
It is a dream to expect the people to eat greenhouse vegetables and pay high prices. The people would rather not eat them because they have no property at all.
Li Chang smiled and said from the side, "I think many local people will get married this year, so we gave a lot of things to the people."
"Yes, they have houses. ." Zhu Xi laughed.
"It's worth it" Zhu Biao nodded.
They thought that they had dug so many cave dwellings for the common people and specially reinforced them. The difficulty for the common people to find wives was that they had no place to live.
Several members of a family are crowded into a cave dwelling. If anyone wants to get married, the neighbors will help dig. It takes a long time to dig a cave dwelling.
There are always earthquakes in the local area. There are not many major earthquakes, but there are many small earthquakes. If the cave dwellings are not strong enough, there is no need to prepare coffins.
The team has many people, including craftsmen, and there are 157 people in the family. The couple has five children, four boys and one girl. The girl is waiting to get married, and the man is looking for a wife.
So eight large cave dwellings were dug for their family, with two bedrooms and one living room.
The original cave dwellings were all small and uncomfortable to live in. They were kept as warehouses and the couple moved out.
For four boys to take wives, four cave dwellings are enough. When the girls get married in the future, they must have their own cave dwellings when they return to their parents’ families.
The extra two allow the couple to continue having children, or for temporary accommodation when guests come.
The whole of Datong is not like a small village. Everything is the same. When both parties look at it, you have a new hole and so does my family, so let’s get married
This year We can still harvest soybeans and sorghum, so we have no problem eating, and our days will be easy in the future.
As for the betrothal gift, just give it a symbolic amount. Everyone is poor. If you want more, don’t marry. If you want to marry, you can get a guide a hundred miles away.
When Zhu Biao’s team was helping the people of Datong,At that time, Yangqu County finally got the news. Officials estimated the distance and chose to give up. They stopped going and left again when they reached a local house.
As for Beiping, the wheat harvest is later than that of Datong, and it has all been harvested now. At the same time, it helps to plant soybeans and sorghum.
Xu Da brought some personnel from the Prince's Mansion and Prince Qin's Mansion to sit here. When he heard that some places were always flooded by water and no one was willing to grow food, the people from the Prince's Mansion proposed to change the situation. Plant rice.
While others were harvesting wheat, the land was plowed and seedlings were raised here. The seedlings were raised with rice from the team.
Teams generally do not bring rice and flour directly, as they have a short shelf life and are susceptible to moisture. This was true for the marches of the Tang, Song, and Yuan dynasties.
These rice plants are planted and seedlings are intensively cultivated, and the other fields are plowed, harrowed, ridged, fertilized, and irrigated.
When the wheat harvest is finished and the soybeans and sorghum are planted, the rice seedlings can finally be used for transplanting.
At the same time, Zhu Biao's team arrived and learned that a large paddy field had been planted. He asked the chief, "Is this suitable for growing rice?"
"It has been planted before. The place where rice is grown is Shunyi County, next to it is a big river. There are three rivers in the upper reaches: Tanghe, Nanhe, Chaohe, and finally Baihe.
Then part of it enters the Triangle Lake, and part of it enters the Bohai Bay from the canal. The river is very big, and if you don’t plant rice, it will always be flooded.
When there is no other way, others plant wheat, and then plant rice there, so that there will be a harvest.”
Introduce the local situation and make up for the lessons. You must study before going to a place.
"In this way, Zhu Taiyi is indeed good. He is courageous, smart, and dares to make decisions." Zhu Biao was happy. He didn't go there to see it. He only heard people say that there are a lot of paddy fields there.
It was Zhu Taiyi who came up with the idea. He was from the Prince's Mansion. He used to hang out in Xiaqiu Village. He was smart and decisive.
"We don't have enough food to eat." Zhu Xi was worried about food now. When he was in Datong, he only exchanged a little food. The people had to keep the food to survive.
When you get to Peiping, you can only exchange a little food for a hundred thousand troops, which ordinary places cannot afford.
Li Chang looked indifferent and said, "Send people to Peiping, Hejian, Shandong and other places to tell them that there is no need to transport the summer grain, just leave it and we will eat it."
"Yes. Oh, if we intercept it, we can't starve to death. Oops, I forgot to harvest the wheat. They have to use part of it to pay the land tax.
And there was an extra crop of soybeans in Shandong last year. They still have fish, and the Ming Navy has come here to catch the fish.
We will intercept the fish in Peiping first, and then look at the fish in other places. Then we will use the canal instead of transporting grain. We will use the water transport boats. ”
When Zhu Xi heard what the chief said, he realized that after harvesting the grain, he had to hand over the grain. Ordinary people paid one-thirtieth, and official fields paid much more.
Beiping was the capital of the Yuan Dynasty. Xu Da fought it. After the battle, there was more official land and more grain was handed over, which was enough to support the army.
"Let's go and see the fourth brother's place." Zhu Biao wanted to see the buildings of the Yuan Dynasty before Peiping and build a palace for his fourth brother.
Just like building a palace for your second brother in Xi'an Mansion, build it slowly. Such a place is open and there is room to set up camp.
After Xu Da’s people were busy with other planting, they divided their hands to transplant the rice seedlings. With more people, the speed is faster, and they can all be planted by tomorrow night at most.
The people are all afraid of Xu Da. Xu Da once attacked and took away the place, and now he is back with a large army.
But this time is different from last time. After the last fight, some manpower was left and left to help with the work now.
The more people there are, the faster the wheat harvest will be. People also bring many animals, which are responsible for transporting the wheat fields, plowing the land, and planting soybeans and sorghum together.
Later I heard that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince and His Royal Highness the King of Qin were also coming, so that’s right. I would like to thank the Crown Prince and the King of Qin for sending someone to remind Du Chunhan.
Otherwise, no matter what we eat this year, everyone will starve to death.
They were not wrong. There are records in historical materials that people here, in Henan, Shandong, Shaanxi and other places, suffered from drought, locust plague, and then starvation.
I didn’t mention the cold spring. It is estimated that after the drought and locust plague passed by then, everyone would stop planting. It didn’t matter if it was cold in spring, they were hungry anyway.
At noon, Zhu Biao came to the outer area where the palace was being built. There was a group of people kneeling here, a group of people who could be noticed at first glance to be different from ordinary people.
"Hui Wu, you said you didn't say hello when you left the village." The village chief saw an acquaintance and smiled and waved his hand. Please remember to collect it, the latest and fastest website without anti-theft, free to find books and add books, you can join the qq group 952868558