Chapter 227 New Grain
Grain planting, since March, has been busy, in the spare time, fruit tree seedlings are also planted, as well as poultry, vegetables, especially Youzhou, Bingzhou, these two places are now not long in hand, but belong to a relatively safe place. At least the enemies around will not be able to enter for a while.
These two states belong to the key promotion of grain planting bases, and the breeding industry is also carried out on a large scale here. Of course, the fish pond is indispensable! There is no way, who makes the best fish to raise! All you have to do is keep fishing from the river and then put the fish in the pond.
There are many natural enemies of fish in nature, and Zou Yu requires breeding, which must be single, so that it grows naturally and reproduces very quickly.
The most important thing is that the fish pond basically does not need to be taken care of too much, and can also be used as a local water store, and when the field needs water the most, it can be put some for irrigation with restrictions, which can save a lot of labor.
Livestock save labor, and a large number of agricultural tools made of iron tools make work easier, such as hoes! Plough! Rake! In the past, it was basically wood-based, and it was very hard to farm, and the use of iron tools saved a lot of effort.
Advanced farm tools, Zou Yu didn't know at all, but when he was a child, he still remembered those things at home. The iron plough has a pointed front head, low in the front and high in the back, with a spine in the middle, slanting down to both sides.
After Zou Yu's description, Yan Liben led people to modify the production, and finally found that such a plow is much more convenient than a straight plow, and the ploughing is faster and more convenient, and the soil pulled is also deeper.
The front is pointed, easy to eat into the field, the plough back is like a pointed bottom of the boat, making it easier for the livestock to drag, and the slope to the sides allows the soil to slide to the side automatically.
According to the people's trial, it was found that the speed of such a plow was at least twice as fast as before.
And flat rakes! Originally, it was just a nail made of wood, but now it has been changed to a triangular steel nail, and it is easy to smooth the turned soil into small pieces, small pieces.
Like more convenient seeders, Zou Yu just put forward a concept, let them slowly explore, in order to reward invention and creation, Zou Yu deliberately set up an award.
Titles, official positions, money, never stingy, including the current treatment of the craftsman's supervisor, which has been greatly improved, the house, the monthly salary, and the women from the Turks, make everyone smile and be full of passion for their work.
Fruit planting is not a year to see results, so the key is to plant vegetables, hand melons, cucumbers, winter melons, and these things with large yields are directly planted in large quantities.
You must know that these things are not picky, just reclaim a piece of wasteland, especially the hand melon, planted on the edge of the field, wrapped around the tree, Zou Yu's goal is a village, no matter adults and children, an average of one per person.
This thing has a fruiting period of more than half a year, even if people can't eat it, they can feed pigs, chickens, fish, and after autumn, the rattan can be torn off and fed to cattle and sheep.
Beans are a staple food in the north, especially for nomadic peoples, and are not only a coarse grain for people to eat, but also the best refined food for raising livestock. The most important thing is bean planting, which also has a certain fertile effect on the soil, and is an optimal intercropping food crop.
Beans are drought-tolerant, planted in the reclaimed barren mountains, the most suitable, and increase the fertility of the land, so that the fruit trees grow better, it takes up space, so that the hillside fruit land, less easy to grow weeds, can be described as a multiplicity.
Tofu is a favorite food of the people, and the bean sprouts are very simple to make, and the beans are very easy to preserve and not easy to spoil, so they are planted on a large scale.
Especially the garrisons, all the garrisons, all of them, were planted with beans on the wasteland that they had cultivated themselves. Zou Yu's mind was to plant all the land with grain.
Even in the mining area, the soldiers stationed in the garrison will reclaim the land and grow vegetables and fruits, so as to enrich their daily life and eat fresh vegetables.
Compared with most of the people in the Central Plains before, the people under Zou Yu's rule now have much richer food variety. Because he explored food in advance, there were two high-yield foods that were promoted by Zou Yu.
Yam! High yield, drought tolerance, good taste; There is also konjac, which also has a very high yield, does not have high land requirements, and is easy to manage.
If the beans want to have a high yield, they need to be like the broken tips of a fruit tree, and after fruiting, they need to remove some leaves for it, so that the beans are fuller, relatively speaking, they still need to be cared for.
Yam is much simpler, just build a shelf for it in time.
Yam has long been known to be eaten, but it is only used as a medicinal herb, or as a medicinal diet, and the people have not thought about planting, because they do not know how to build a shelf, and if they do not build a shelf in time, the yam rattan will wither.
The most important point is that as mentioned earlier, in order to eat three meals a day, the people can't even grow and take care of their own food, where do they have the leisure to pay attention to other things, and at most collect wild food.
You must know that the yam of later generations, the yield per mu is two or three thousand catties, which is a very common thing, even if the fertility can't keep up now, Zou Yu estimates that a thousand catties are indispensable, and the most important thing is that this only needs newly reclaimed wasteland to be planted.
Let's talk about konjac, this yield is higher, three or five thousand catties per mu, that is a common thing, this thing was accidentally discovered by Zou Yu, it was originally just an ornamental plant in Jinyang Palace.
The main reason why konjac is not eaten is that it has not found the right way to eat it. If you just eat it like this, it will definitely not work, not only will it taste very bad, but it will also be very numb.
Konjac must be like making tofu, first grinding it into juice, drying it into powder, and then using the powder to make it into the form of cold powder, which is the best way to eat it.
Because the number is not much, the yam is okay, so people plant it outside the city and take care of it carefully, as for the konjac Zou Yu, all of them are planted in their own backyards and carved out of the place.
"Husband, can you eat this?" Watching Zou Yu carefully plant konjac and let the queen fertilize it, Bai Suhua asked with her nose covered.
Looking at Bai Suhua's disgusted look, Zou Yu smiled and said: "Of course you can eat it, and it tastes good, the key is that the yield is high!" ”
"How high is the yield?" Seeing that Zou Yu was so cautious, Bai Suhua couldn't help but ask curiously.
"If you take good care of it and apply more fertilizer, the yield per mu is 3,000 catties, it should be about the same." Zou Yu said with a sigh of relief.
"Ahh
"Three thousand catties!" Bai Suhua and Hei Sumei exclaimed at the same time.
The two of them are not the kind of ladies who don't eat the fireworks of the world, and they are still very clear about the grain output, according to rice and wheat, which have a yield of three or five hundred catties per mu, three thousand catties is simply an astronomical amount.
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