Chapter 440: Harvest

"I look at the Daitian method you mentioned, it has a very good flavor of the Mu method, but it is even more clever than it. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info

Sow in the seeds, seedlings above the leaves, slightly rake the ridge grass, because of the soil, in order to attach the seedling roots...... Each rake is slightly attached to the roots, than the middle of the summer, the ridge is exhausted and the roots are deep, and it can be ...... with wind and drought

Wonderful. It's wonderful. ”

It is a ditch, mu is a ridge, and the mu method is also a ridge method.

The so-called mu method is a farming method that prevailed during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period.

Its content can be summarized in one sentence: abandon the acres in the field, and abandon the land in the field.

Abandoning acres in the field means that in the high field, the crop species should be planted in the ditch instead of on the ridge, which is conducive to drought resistance and moisture conservation.

It means that in the low fields, planting crops on the ridges is conducive to drainage and flood prevention, and is conducive to ventilation and light.

The Daitian method proposed by Zhao Guo was born from this, but it is obviously much more advanced and intelligent.

He proposed to make three furrows and three ridges in one acre of land, and the positions of the furrows and ridges were exchanged every year.

Sow the seeds in a furrow, protected from the wind, to preserve moisture.

After the seedlings germinate and grow leaves, the ridge soil will be squeezed into the seedlings in combination with cultivating and weeding, and its role is to prevent wind and lodging and moisture and drought.

The position of the ridge and ditch is rotated year by year, with the original Zhen as the wall, and the original Zhen as the Zhen, so that the land of the same plot is rotated along the Zhen Zhen to restore the soil fertility.

The field method should prepare the land every year to open the ditch and ridge, and after the seedlings emerge, it is necessary to level the ridge through cultivating and weeding, and fill the soil on the ridge back to the ditch, which plays the role of drought resistance, moisture protection and lodging resistance.

In this way, partial land use and recreation can alternate.

It can also make the soil fertility naturally restored and improved in the case of insufficient fertilizer.

When Zhao Guo heard His Majesty talk about his Daitian method being so respected, his heart was excited, and his face turned red.

"There is little rainfall in Guanzhong, and the spring drought is windy, which is extremely unfavorable for the growth of crops.

The furrow can maintain a certain temperature and moisture, and the seeds are sown inside, which is conducive to the emergence of seedlings.

After the seedlings are unearthed, the foliar evaporation can also be reduced in the furrow, so that the growth is robust.

When cultivating and weeding, the soil on the ridge is cultivated at the roots of the crops until the ridges are flat, so that the roots of the crops are deep and can absorb more water, and they can withstand wind, drought and lodging. ”

Speaking of this, he said proudly: "The grass people implement this method in Wuzhuang Village, Guanzhong, and the yield of one mu will increase by at least one stone, and the good one can reach two stones." ”

Liu Che was shocked, he could naturally imagine that more advanced farming methods could increase yields, but he didn't expect that they could almost double.

If it is popularized in the world, it can be kept warm in a disaster year.

Zhao Guo saw that there was still doubt in the eyes of the Son of Heaven, so he said: "If Your Majesty doesn't believe it, the grass people can test it for Your Majesty." ”

He is full of confidence in his Daida method, very conceited, and the indomitable spirit of the young man is fully revealed.

Liu Che was sure to do so, and asked him to test in the open space in front of the outer hall of the Xuanshu Palace.

However, half a month later, Zhao Guo got the improved farm tools he needed—coupling ploughs and cocoon ploughs—and began to plow.

Gillian was very curious and led the two children to see it.

When he came back, he said to Liu Che with great admiration: "You didn't go to see, Zhao Guo led people to plow the land so fast that it was terrifying."

The piece of land you gave him must have been more than four hectares, and it would have been ploughed in half a day.

Just saving time and effort is a blessing for the world's agriculture. ”

Liu Che also came to be interested, and went to see the sowing in person the next day.

Seeding Zhao Guo used his own improved three-legged cocoon that could sow three rows at the same time, one person in front of the ox pulling the cocoon, and one person in the back of the hand cocoon cart to sow seeds.

In Gillian's words, it's amazingly fast.

He went to see the coupling plough that Zhao Guo brought to plough the land the day, and after asking someone to demonstrate it, he immediately realized the key.

Coupling tillage is a kind of plough that is pulled by two oxen and operated by three people, one person leads the ox, and one person holds the plough to adjust the depth of the cultivated land, and one person supports the plow.

The ploughshare is larger, the plough wall is increased, the deep ploughing and turning of the soil, and the ridge is carried out at one time, which can plow a furrow one foot deep and one foot wide.

The ploughing speed is quite fast, and if it is a spring rain, it will not miss the agricultural time.

In this way, it is really as Jiaojiao said, that is, it is also a blessing for farmers all over the world to not be able to increase income.

It's just that we won't see the results until the autumn harvest, so we can only wait patiently for now.

When the last glimmer of spring is gone, early summer comes with a high palace.

The leaves of the pines and cypresses in the courtyard reflect the green light, which makes people feel cold.

The flowers are still blooming, but in the end, the main theme has become green, and the flowers are naturally much dimmer.

After entering the summer, something happened that made Liu Che extremely happy.

The internal strife of the Xiongnu finally had a result, and Yizhi, the king of Zuogu Li, broke through the military minister Shan Yu, the prince Yu Dan, and became the new Shan Yu.

Yu Shan led the remnants to flee, and Liu Che thought about the relationship between Zhang Qian's Xiongnu wife Efuya and Yu Dan, so he sent the couple to persuade them to surrender.

After Yu Shan weighed it again and again, he listened to the assurances of the Han envoy and finally surrendered to the Han.

Liu Che was very happy and sealed Yu Shan as the Marquis of An.

But he didn't be happy for long, and Yu Shan died of a violent illness, just in autumn.

Yu Shan was too young, and before he even had time to leave his bloodline, the Hou State sealed by the imperial court had to be taken back.

Liu Che was furious at this, and he repeatedly emphasized the importance of being too single.

Yu Shan was the most noble among the Huns who surrendered to Han, and he intended to set him up as a model so that more Huns could see what the treatment of the Han was like.

But now it's only been a few months, and Yu Dan is dead, how can Liu Che not be angry.

However, after investigating layer by layer, there was no trace of man-made clues, and in the end I had to announce it to the outside world.

The Son of Heaven was unhappy, and the palace was naturally cloudy and the atmosphere was tense.

Fortunately, after the autumn harvest, the income from more than four hectares in front of the Xuanmur Hall is really gratifying, almost several times the land cultivated by the usual law.

The Son of Heaven immediately dissipated his anger, rewarded Zhao Guo, and appointed him as the commander of Sosu.

He also ordered demonstrations to be carried out in Gongtian and Mingjiatian, and after that, the border cities, Hedong, Sanfu, and Taichang people all practiced the Daitian method.

Zhao Guo finally implemented the agricultural reform decades ahead of schedule, and he ordered a large number of coupling plows and ploughs to be made, and also ordered the county magistrates, the three elders, and the elders of Litian and Li under the county governor to learn the use of new agricultural tools, and to learn the farming and seedling raising methods of the Daitian method, so as to popularize them.

In the process of promotion, it was found that some farmers could not take advantage of the rain to cultivate in time due to a lack of cattle, so Zhao Guo accepted the suggestion of Lingguang of Qianpingdu, and asked the farmers to organize themselves to pull the plough by manpower by means of au pair or pay for work.

By adopting this method, the group with a large number of people can cultivate 30 mu a day, and the group with fewer people can plough 13 mu a day.

The Daida method was gradually extended from the Sanfu area to Hedong, Hongnong, and the northwestern border counties, and all of them had the effect of improving labor productivity and increasing production.

In particular, new agricultural tools such as coupling plows and cocoon carts, which complement the field method, have been popularized, and ox ploughing has been truly popularized in the direction of the Yellow River Valley, which has brought the development of agricultural productivity to a new level.