After his parents left, how to support himself and his three-year-old sister became the most realistic problem in front of Zhou Ming. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

As the son of a farmer, being a farmer who makes a living from farming is Zhou Ming's only choice.

It just so happened that after the plague, the population of the Gran Territory had decreased by half, and the vacant land had increased, and the butler Bunod could not bear Zhou Ming's repeated pleas, so the other party agreed, and let him choose ten acres of fertile land not far from the river side of the town as his cultivation land.

With ten acres of land, Zhou Ming has his own set of plans for how to plant these ten acres.

Unlike the Eastern agricultural planting model, which mainly combines agriculture and mulberry, Western agricultural civilization uses a combination of agriculture and animal husbandry to carry out farming.

That is, about half of the land is used to grow barley, wheat, rye, oats and other food crops, and about half of the land is used to grow peas, pasture, cattle, sheep, horses and other livestock.

The West has a small population and more idle land, and its farming and animal husbandry mode can produce staple food for people on the one hand, and a large number of cattle, sheep and horses and other livestock on the other hand.

These livestock, not only provide sufficient animal power, but also provide a large amount of meat, milk and fur, to meet most of the people's needs in terms of food and clothing.

Not only that, the pasture that has been eaten by livestock and the manure left by livestock is also a good source of fertilizer for the land, which has a good fertilizer effect.

From these aspects, the planting mode of combining agriculture and animal husbandry in the West is much more time-saving and labor-saving than the planting mode of combining agriculture and mulberry in the East, which requires intensive cultivation and consumes a lot of manpower and time.

After all, in the ancient agricultural civilization of a cow, the more livestock there was, the more trouble and effort it was to farm the land.

What's more, these animals can also provide a lot of meat, and even in bad weather and poor crops, there will be no large number of starvation deaths (of course, these people mainly refer to the owners of the livestock - the lords).

However, the Oriental agricultural mulberry combined planting model is not without its advantages.

For example, by relying on intensive cultivation and rational application of manure, the average yield per mu of Eastern agriculture can reach two to four times the average yield per mu of Western agriculture, and the average seed return rate can reach 10-20.

Zhou Ming calculated in his mind, after paying sixty percent of the rent, he would probably need to plant 5-6 acres of land to support himself and his sister.

The premise is that the average yield per mu of these lands can reach about 500 catties.

This is an astronomical number in the average barley yield of less than 180 catties per mu......

Zhou Ming is very confident!

Because in the copy of "Zhang Ergou", he has planted land for hundreds of years, and there are at least a dozen ways to increase the yield of crops here.

For example, how to plough, how to intercrop, how to keep crops apart, how to observe the weather, how to retain water and keep warm, how to control pests and diseases, how to quickly weed, etc.

The most important thing is how to apply fertilizer reasonably.

Fertilizer is one of the most important links in the three treasures of agriculture (water, fertilizer and seed), and any farmer who has planted the land knows what fertilizer means for food production.

Base!

Or rather, the basis of high grain yields!

With little change in water and seeds, 90 percent of the increase in agricultural production is achieved by fertilizers.

In this world, although people have a vague understanding of the importance of livestock manure, they have not yet paid attention to the practice of digging manure tanks, systematically collecting human and animal manure, fermenting it without oxygen, and then returning it to the field.

In daily life, people in this era defecated everywhere, and human and animal feces could be seen everywhere in front of and behind the house, and the stench became a hotbed for plague.

Even the lords and knights who live in tall castles, and the kings and princesses who live in gorgeous royal cities, when it is convenient, they are all pulling around like this.

Zhou Ming plans to collect these manures that can be picked up everywhere and put them in the dung pit to ferment them, and plans to send them to great use when farming!

……

For the next half a month.

The men, women, and children of Rose Town have discovered something very funny.

Derek's son, Ryan, carried a wooden bucket and searched all over the town for the filthy and unpleasant feces, happily collected them, and then buried them in a big pit in front of his house like a treasure, and enjoyed it every day.

There is a lot of discussion in the town about whether Derek's son Ryan was magically cast by a witch, or if he was eaten by the devil to do such a ridiculous and bizarre thing.

"This poor child, whose parents have gone to the arms of the Father, and who, when no one cares, has become interested in this kind of thing......" Aunt Susan of the neighborhood could not help but wipe away her tears.

"yes, but we can't help them, I already have Tom and Jerek two kids, two more...... Hey......" The kind-hearted Uncle O'Neill sighed helplessly.

"Lane, Lane, shoveled the and buried it in a big pit, and fell into the pit next year, his name is Lane!" The mischievous little boys in the town sang their own songs around Zhou Ming.

"Go away, you crazy boy, don't bring this kind of thing to me in the future!" When Zhou Ming came to the tax office with a large bucket of dung to pay his taxes, the tax officer, Dirac, angrily kicked him out amid the laughter of the onlookers.

"You're not uncommon, I'm afraid that others will rush to ask for it in the future. Zhou Ming struggled to carry the bucket of dung and hummed a little song and went home.

……

After the manure from all over the town was almost collected and allowed to ferment in the manure pit, Zhou Ming began preparations for spring sowing.

He enlisted the help of the kind Uncle O'Neill, and at his request, with the help of a heavy plough drawn by six oxen, helped him plow six acres of land in the morning.

Then it was to select, sow seeds, and level the land, because he was small and weak, he was busy with these six acres of land for a full week.

The other four acres of land, because it was originally fallow land, did not need to be sown to grow pasture.

After the seeds were planted, the next two months became his busiest days.

He dug up the excrement in the pit in front of his house and left it on the ground for a few days until it turned into a black powdery solid.

Then he went to the forest outside the town, and dug up some humus under the roots of some old trees, which had a lot of humus bacteria in them, which could speed up the decomposition of organic matter.

In addition, because human and animal manure will still have a certain acidity after fermentation and drying, which is not conducive to the growth of barley suitable for planting in a neutral soil environment, he also dug some river mud from the river to neutralize it.

Human and animal manure solid powder + humus + alkaline river mud, after Zhou Ming mixed it according to a certain proportion, in this way, the organic fertilizer with strong fertility, easy to absorb by crops and strong timeliness was completed.

This kind of organic fertilizer is the ultimate fertilizer that Zhou Ming has used hundreds of years of exploration to prepare, and in the ancient agricultural civilization society, it is made into the ultimate fertilizer with the widest source of raw materials and the most significant fertilizer effect!

Even on an extremely barren piece of land, under normal circumstances, as long as this fertilizer is applied, a good harvest can be guaranteed!

"It's a pity, if I can get out of this town, go outside to find a few ores containing rare elements and come back, grind these ores into powder, and add them to this fertilizer to make the 'Rare Mineral Powder Ultimate Compound Fertilizer', this fertilizer, the fertility level will be upgraded to a new level, and the yield per mu is not a myth......

However, even if there is no rare mineral powder, it is not too easy to achieve the goal of 500 catties per mu by relying on this complete version of the ultimate organic fertilizer.

The next day, after Zhou Ming spread the "strongest manure" he prepared into the farmland, within a few days, he saw that the wheat seedlings in his field were obviously half a centimeter higher than the wheat seedlings in the next field, and his heart was full of confidence and confidence!