Chapter 809: Prices drop again and subsidies increased
After the Lantern Festival, the temperature in Jiangnan suddenly rose. People who grew vegetables began to pick up the fertilized fertilizer into the ground and prepared to turn it over. Plant vegetables after plowing.
Xiaqiu Village used steam-powered tillers to create furrows in a field, and then hired workers to help plant the fields.
Xiaqiu Village started raising seedlings in greenhouses a month ago, and now the seedlings can be transplanted and planted.
It is planted more than a month earlier than other normal ones. Since the seedlings are raised in a greenhouse and the fertilizer is well controlled, the seedlings grow quickly.
The advantage is that cucumbers, cowpeas, and eggplants are on the market early. According to this planting method, you can eat them one and a half months in advance.
The disadvantage is that it requires manual labor. For normal planting, just make a small hole on the ridge platform, scatter the seeds in and cover it with soil.
When the seedlings are raised and then transplanted, the pit will become larger, and then they are planted one by one, which consumes a lot of manpower and ordinary people cannot afford it.
In addition, the root system of transplanted seedlings is not as good as that of direct planting. For example, if there is heavy rain, the transplanted seedlings will fall first, or if there is a drought, the transplanted seedlings will die first.
Advantages and disadvantages coexist, so this year only Xiaqiu Village grows vegetables, and then rents some people's land and asks them to help manage it. The rent is the people's normal annual income from growing vegetables.
People don’t need to provide seeds and fertilizers, they just take care of it, water it when it’s time to water it, and spray it when it’s time to spray it.
Then the other 21 villages in Xuancheng County will also get seedlings from the greenhouses in Xiaqiu Village over there. They will free up half of the land for planting, and the other half will naturally be sown according to the original method.
They wanted to see which one was better and then choose next year, so they didn’t take any money from them. They were allowed to help try it out and they borne the risk themselves.
In the evening, Zhu Yuanzhang wandered over again and went to the village land. The rented land was not safe there.
“We don’t raise seedlings in our greenhouse, but plant them alternately. Vegetables now cost an average of five cents per catty, and they won’t be sold at high prices after the Lantern Festival.”
Zhu Yuanzhang stood at the edge of the field and talked while looking at the cowpeas and cucumber seedlings that people from the Prince's Palace, Prince Qin's Palace, Prince Jin's Palace, Prince Yan's Palace, and Prince Wu's Palace helped transplant.
Because I am worried about a sudden late spring cold, I don’t use furrows to drain water now. I transplant seedlings one by one and pour some water on that one.
When there is a late spring cold, fertilizer and water need to be supplemented when the temperature cools down. Using furrows to irrigate can suddenly warm up and supplement fertilizer at the same time.
If you do this now, the water in the soil will be saturated, and fertilizer will not be able to follow it.
In addition, there are seedlings in the greenhouse, ready to be replanted at any time. If they freeze to death, they are quickly pulled out and thrown away, and new ones are planted.
There are no seedlings in the greenhouse in the palace, and they are always selling vegetables. The price dropped from twenty cents before the New Year to ten cents after the New Year, and from ten cents to five cents after the Shangyuan Festival.
I can earn even five cents. The construction cost of the greenhouse vegetables has been recouped, and now I earn more every time I sell more.
etc.Cucumbers grow from the earth, and a penny can buy several kilograms. Vegetable farmers have a hard time.
The key is that vegetable farmers do not have any means of fertilizing or spraying pesticides. They rely on what was recorded in the agricultural books of the previous dynasty and will take some measures, such as water soaked in plant ash to kill insects, or lime water.
The fertilizer is farm manure, or rotten tree leaves, etc., retting together. This is the limit of what the common people can do, and some people can't even do this.
"Your Majesty, watermelons and cantaloupes make money, and people eat them all the time."
The mayor knows that the price of vegetables has dropped, and watermelons have also dropped at the same time. Watermelons will still be valuable if they drop further, but
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"We still have to give it to Huimin Pharmacy. Your village grows less watermelons and you don't sell them. Oh, sell some to Fuhua Building."
As expected, Zhu Yuanzhang mentioned this matter. It's valuable, but it has to be given to people for free. It's medicine.
Some use watermelon pulp, some use watermelon rind, and some use watermelon seeds. Watermelon seeds are easy to say. They have always been available. There are many summers, and even watermelon seeds that are not specially used to extract seeds can be used. .
Those who specialize in extracting seeds cannot eat the flesh. The seeds are large and numerous. These are eaten as snacks and are classified as nuts.
Huimin Pharmacy knows that there are watermelons and cantaloupes. Once they find that people who come to see a doctor need them, they will prescribe them, and then the people can eat watermelons.
Even those who need to eat the melon rind will eat the flesh and receive the fruit for free. Otherwise, other medicines will have to be prescribed. If the reserve of other medicines is small, there may not be enough raw medicines in the library.
"Your Majesty loves the people like his own son. Today's technology is better applied. The coal residue after burning is also a good fertilizer when put in the vegetable field.
There are no conditions. Just crush the big ones a little, crush them more thoroughly if possible, and speed up the decomposition.
It has been ground in the village. In the process of smelting steel, there must be a lot of burnt coke ash. This can be subsidized to the people."
The mayor was unwilling to mention the things that made His Majesty sad, so he quickly changed the topic. The ashes from the stove can be used as fertilizer, as long as it is not excessive.
Similarly, coke ash has many uses, one of which is fertilizing farmland. It would be a pity to throw it away. It is best to subsidize it to the people. If you ask for money, the people have no money and will not buy it.
Zhu Yuanzhang had already seen the ashes in the vegetable fields and considered "how to subsidize according to the region or who is poorer"
"According to the crop planting methods and varieties, such as We ask the people to plant whatever crops they want, and we give them something.
Especially for some new varieties, the people usually want stability, and they are not willing to plant them if we give them seeds.
< p>We use subsidies to get people interested. Once people are willing to try it and get subsidies, the new crops will be sold for more money.In the future, as long as the seeds are provided by the court, we will get used to it. The people can rest assured that they will not accept it on the surface, but actually do it contrary to the truth. "
The village chief will tell you how to do it, and it will not work if you directly give it to you for free. The quantity of the things is limited, and then the people will put it into the ground as hard as they can.Later, the land was laid waste.
Zhu Yuanzhang nodded, "It will take a while before the vegetables from the earth are ready, but there are a lot of wild vegetables. Some of the wild vegetables that grow quickly can be eaten as sprouts."
" There are wild vegetables in our greenhouse, including dandelions, garnets, garlic and other vegetables used for making medicine."
The manager asked doubtfully, "If your majesty wants to eat it, just stuff it."
"We are talking about whether people will still buy vegetables from greenhouses, or else the prices will continue to drop."
Zhu Yuanzhang knew what Li Chang meant and shook his head.
It’s not that you want to eat it, of course you can eat it, but there are too many wild vegetables. When the people see the green vegetables, who will buy the expensive greenhouse vegetables
“That Jubiqi sauce It’s easy to sell. It’s delicious when dipped in sauce, or you can use some oil residue and fat meat to make stuffing.
However, wild vegetables can’t replace normal vegetables. Cucumber does have a wild vegetable taste that feels like cucumber, but it doesn’t. It tastes like cucumber.
There are also eggplants. Last year’s dried eggplants are still available, why not eat them in fried eggplant boxes or lotus root boxes?”
When the director talked about vegetables, he was also greedy. I have to eat tonight, and I don’t know what to eat yet.
“Well, let’s fry the eggplant box. It needs lean meat, but the fat is greasy. It has been fried. Let’s go back. There are still lights here. Save some electricity."
Zhu Yuanzhang said as he walked back with his hands behind his back. There were lights in the field so he could observe the growth of the crops. 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