Niang Xipi, the master doesn't believe it, your Zhang family is the master of the eagle when you don't see a rabbit!

From now on, what you Zhang Shiling does, Lao Tzu will do too, I don't believe it - your surname Zhang will suffer?

Seeing that Li Hengcheng was really moved, Zhang Shiling said lazily: "Listen to everyone surnamed Zhang, if you are compared, you will jump into the pit for me!" ”

On his face where a woman is also ashamed, the laziness that he used to hang is gone.

"Yes, young master!"

Seeing that the eldest young master had moved his true character, the children of the Zhang family naturally did not dare to slack off, and they did things more carefully.

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In the main courtyard, hearing the roars of the young men in the courtyard, a smile appeared on the corner of Zhang Siyuan's mouth:

"Your Highness, there will be no omissions in the seedling cultivation method of this sweet potato, right?"

"Don't worry!" Zhu Cijiong waved his hand: "You brought back 10,000 catties of sweet potatoes, if the seedlings are properly raised, there will be at least five million seedlings next year." ”

"This sweet potato seedling, as long as there is a little water, can be planted."

Zhu Cijiong said with a smile: "The most important thing is that the cultivation of sweet potatoes is not only the use of seedlings, it is like willow, just plug it into it."

Plant early sweet potato seedlings first, and when these seedlings grow to a foot long, you can prune and cut them to plant late sweet potatoes. ”

"As long as my uncle can persuade the local people to cooperate with us in planting, wait until next autumn, and the yield of this sweet potato will not be a problem to exceed 50,000 catties."

"One pound of sweet potato seeds, can you breed 50,000 pounds of sweet potatoes?" Zhang Siyuan's eyes were about to pop out.

"A sweet potato, as long as it is not frozen, can harvest five or six seedlings next year, and there are dozens of sweet potato seedlings in one stubble, and as long as there is a spring rain, this sweet potato seedling planted in the ground, and then pruning and cutting 100 late sweet potato seedlings is not a problem."

"A seedling, even if it develops three one-foot-long vines, and when cutting, it only needs to be divided into three-inch long sections to be planted."

"The key is the planting period of sweet potatoes, which lasts for two months, during which time as long as the rain is right, you can prune and cut at any time!"

Zhu Cijiong simply calculated an account for Zhang Siyuan: "This is a confused account of children and grandchildren, and a nest of sweet potatoes has a minimum yield of three or five catties, uncle, how much do you say this yield will be?" ”

He smiled: "The row spacing between the east and west needs to be about one foot, and the column spacing only needs half a foot, although the ridge needs to be ridged, but we can dig the ridge a little wider, and plant it alternately with geese in separate rows, so that an acre of land needs about 1,000 to 3,000 seedlings." ”

Zhang Siyuan simply calculated the yield: "That means that if this thing is planted well, the yield can reach several thousand catties?" ”

He just felt his heart start beating faster.

Even though this thing has a lot of drawbacks, this yield per mu alone is enough to make it spread quickly!

Don't say it's food, when it comes to famine years, which tree will still have leaves!

"I have asked Gonggong Liu to take the little eunuch and start cultivating new varieties, so that in three or five years, it will be able to reach a yield of more than 3,000 catties per mu."

There is a sentence he didn't say, although the yield of sweet potatoes is so high, but the sweet potatoes of this era, because there are no breeding varieties, are very vigorous on the vines, and even small sweet potatoes will grow on the vines.

As a result, the nutrients are dispersed, and the average yield is not as high as that per plant when planted intensively.

And, most importantly, when the vines are full of furrows, they need to turn over and dry their roots so that the nutrients don't disperse, which takes as many as four or five times.

This thing is also very much needed for manpower.

"Enough! That's enough! Zhang Siyuan was ecstatic.

"Your Highness, Yunyang and Xichuan are both mountainous areas, and according to what you said, they are suitable for growing sweet potatoes.

Your Highness, this is an immeasurable merit that the living people have nothing to count for! ”

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Because of the exaltation of education, later generations will not have a good impression of the landlord when they mention it.

What kind of cunning and plundering, and what kind of grain rots and does not give the people to eat...... There are a whole bunch of damn reasons.

In fact, it can be said that the maintenance of the Chinese nation and the inheritance of Chinese thought are ninety percent of them.

But all the landlords, most of the work of building bridges and paving roads around them was done silently, and when they encountered a famine year, they would donate food and open a porridge factory regardless of the loss.

Because the people around them are mediocre households who create value for them, and the land and value are in production, not in barrenness.

Once a landlord does too much, the mediocre household who has nothing will move his nest!

What is the use of having empty land for a discredited landlord?

It's a pity that China is a land sparse place, with the world's worst arable land, feeding the largest population.

The difference in grain, even if all the landlords are scraped, will not be enough......

Land is limited, output is limited, and even if the landlords hoard land, grain cannot be stored, and it will eventually flow into the market.

The people, the family is poor, the land is small, the output is not abundant, and the per capita grain is less than 500 catties a year...... This is the current situation in China!

In the era when there was no oil and water, 500 catties of grain was not enough for one person to eat for half a year......

The Zhang family was a big landowner.

The land in the hands of the Baishui Zhang clan has reached more than one-tenth of the entire Nanyang (Wanxiang) Plain.

If these lands are concentrated, they are enough to cover several counties.

Zhang Siyuan is not a person who eats the ancients, let alone a mercenary businessman, every time he thinks of the tragic situation of his neighbor, he is restless.

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"Uncle, how many blacksmiths did you just say?" Zhu Cijiong put down the matter of food and asked.

Zhang Siyuan's face showed a hint of embarrassment: "In the past two years, the Qing court has been very strict with this kind of craftsman, I only found a dozen blacksmiths, but the apprentices have found a hundred and ten." ”

It's a shame, I didn't expect that even if he Zhang came forward, he wouldn't be able to find many blacksmiths......

And this matter can't be told to the Li family, who knows if Li Tingran, who is already a fifth-grade official, will have the same heart as him?

"Apprentice? What kind of apprentice? ”

Zhu Cijiong didn't care about how many blacksmiths he found, but became interested in apprentices.

"If you make some farm tools, they are qualified, that is, they are making weapons, and they have not yet ...... out of the division" Zhang Siyuan just wanted to find a crack in the ground to get into.

He promised a big word, who knew it would be so difficult.

The Qing court registered the craftsmen by category, and even sent officials to check them every month.

The dozen or so masters he found were still the heirs of the teachers in the family, so they dared to go with him.

"All the tools in the workshop are here, right?" Zhu Cijiong ordered this matter a few days ago.

Zhang Siyuan nodded, he had already purchased this.

"Let's go, let's go and see!"

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