Chapter 635: The Change of Nature and Human Nature
At dawn, the people got up and drank two bowls of porridge with pickles, ran home to change clothes, get tools, and rushed into the fields to work.
Two harvesters assembled in the middle of the night have already joined the work, and the other is a rotary cultivator hung with a steam engine.
The rotary tiller itself has no power and relies on the transmission shaft on the steam engine for power. This requires high strength of the bearings and crankshaft.
For small-type rotary tillers, they must also have a certain structural strength, otherwise they will be deformed first.
The rotary tiller is more powerful than a normal plow. It can plow and harrow the ground in one go.
Of course, you can also just make ridges and furrows without raking them. If you want to plant wheat
"Li Chang, we will plant ridges and furrows for winter wheat in our village this year. Let’s try it and see if it works. After it is put into use, we will promote it and set aside dozens of acres of ridges and furrows for interplanting winter wheat with sorghum.”
Zhu Wentian is thinking about interplanting and rotation all day long. Interplanting and rotation are different in each place.
He just wanted to try each one, and then make arrangements according to the specific situation. In some places, there was insufficient manpower and animal power, and if people had to ask people to do that kind of farming, they would be exhausted and unable to do it.
Just like the Xiaqiu Village in the farthest place, there are no big livestock, and they want to rotate crops but there is no supply of fertilizer, so interplanting
The village leader actually thought and shook his head, "Hey, how can sorghum survive the winter?"
"If sorghum doesn't survive the winter, make ridges first and plant winter wheat on the ridges. Next spring, plant sorghum in the furrows. You can plant the sorghum a little denser.
When the weather gets warmer, the ridges in the furrows will grow. Once the sorghum has grown, pull out the seedlings and transplant them to other places.
Use winter wheat to help the sorghum resist sorghum aphids. If they are interplanted, there will be very few sorghum aphids.
After harvesting the winter wheat, plant soybeans in the place of the winter wheat, and let the sorghum help the soybeans withstand the sun."
Zhu Wentian explained the steps, which were all summarized by others after failure.
The people are the least willing to change the original farming mode. Some people are used to it, and some are afraid that they will lose their harvest after the change.
If there is no harvest in one season, a family may starve to death. Year after year, the food of the first year is exhausted, and they are waiting for the new food to come.
If there is a drought, then everyone will have to flee and there will be no food.
Some people tell people like this, you can change the method of planting. The people ask, if I change the method, I will starve to death.
There is also a special situation. There is an experienced person in a place. Whenever there is a problem in the fields, everyone will ask this person.
In this way, he has authority. If someone comes up with a new method, it will obviously lower his status. He will give many reasons to incite others not to accept it.
Xiaqiu Village did not take the initiative to teach others at first, but instead increased production and income on its own. When others saw it, it was considered a success.
I learned from it later and watched people in Xiaqiu Village eat it every day.Meat, I really envy it.
Now Zhu Wentian wants to try it. If it succeeds, the imperial court can promote it in suitable places. At the worst, it can promise a reduction in production compensation and a guarantee of full payment for all harvests.
The head of the village thought about it and nodded, "We have found that farming is getting more and more difficult. It is up to you to succeed in Xiaqiu Village."
So the rotary tillage was left here. The team headed to Xiaqiu Village.
Tell the people that you will pass by when you come back, and the people will stop crying and kneel to see you off.
After entering Danyang Lake, we followed the current at a fast speed and arrived at the village. The pier in the village was built last time and was just in use.
The main officials of Ningguo Mansion's Yamen, the main officials of other counties and the chiefs of twenty-one villages were all present in the village.
They didn’t know that Zhu Yuanzhang came over. They wanted to see the harvest in Xiaqiu Village. They came last year and Xiaqiu Village increased production again.
This year we will see if the yield has increased compared to last year, and book the seeds by the way.
The food in the twenty-one villages is all seeds, which are exchanged with the court. Then they don’t plant their own, but want the crops from Xiaqiu Village.
After the road was built, each village had a group of large animals. They would arrange for people to come over every ten days to have a look, even if it was possible to increase production by half.
As a result, they waited for a special team, and His Majesty brought the entire harem to play.
Everyone knelt down first to welcome His Majesty, the Prince and others.
"We're home, where did we stay last time?" Zhu Yuanzhang asked people to get up and look for a place.
The decoration here has also been completed, mainly the electric wiring, water supply, and twelve hours of hot water for bathing.
Now if Zhu Yuanzhang is asked to use the clean bucket, he will feel very uncomfortable, but it’s not that he can’t persist.
The same goes for the palace maids and eunuchs who clean the bathroom. They don't want to have a clean bucket. Those who make mistakes in cleaning the room are punished to work.
Nanjing does not allow excrement to be put directly into the river. The river water is drinking water.
Seven or eight hundred thousand people in Nanjing all lined up into the river. Thinking about it, it feels like the Ganges River
Others went to resettle, and Zhu Yuanzhang summoned him at the place where he had the last meeting with people. officials.
The magistrates of the six counties of Ningguo Prefecture and the other five counties first collected data and answered questions, and every magistrate answered fluently.
They know how the officials of Xuancheng County responded last time. Anything that involves the people's livelihood of the county must be understood. His Majesty means to be promoted in the future.
They studied hard, and sure enough, they used it today. Otherwise, it would not be a matter of promotion or not, and it would be fatal.
After asking the five counties, Li Zhixian, Chief Zheng, Guanxian Cheng, and Wang Dianshi looked at Zhu Yuanzhang with expectant expressions on their faces.
"No need for you, we can trust you, and you, I haven't asked these five counties before, they are all very good." Zhu Yuanzhang was not willing to waste time.
Li Zhixian and others ""
Zhu Yuanzhang turned to look at Li Xin and Li Yan, who were in charge of sorting the general data at the Xiaqiu Village Department Store, "You two are okay."
"Your Majesty, we are fine. "Your Majesty, okay" they both replied together.
"Have a rest and drink some tea." What to eat for lunch? It’s hot, let’s drink mutton soup. When it’s cold, let’s eat pig meat. Do you want to change the name of the pig meat?
Forget it, we are used to it. When we were young, we also looked forward to eating pig meat every day. We only ate once, and someone else gave us the leftovers after eating. "Hehe"
When Zhu Yuanzhang ordered food, you were welcome to go to Xiaqiu Village. There were many livestock and poultry, as well as bamboo rats and rabbits.
The people who were hired to work, in the end, every Everyone has learned a lot of skills, including the previous group, who have been dispersed to work in various livestock transfer farms and are learning to raise rabbits. This is a shortcoming and needs to be made up for.
According to normal terms. They provide food, shelter, clothing, and also teach skills. They are apprentices and are not paid. They have to work hard for a few years before they are taught skills.
After learning the skills, they must work for a few more years. The master will make compensation and then leave.
The master will at least keep a hand.
Not in Xiaqiu Village. You will be paid and taught. Once you have learned it, you can leave as long as you want without stopping. It doesn’t matter what skills you have, and you even want to be accepted.
No one who is hired thinks they will leave after learning. They continue to learn and even think of better ways.
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