Chapter 405 Grafting
The vast land is sparsely populated, which means that a lot of land needs to be reclaimed, after all, a lot of land has been abandoned due to the war.
Jinyang has enough livestock, and at the same time has more advanced ploughshares, it is relatively easy to reclaim the land, especially these lands, which were only abandoned before, and only need to be re-eradicated from the weeds.
In the past, most of the common people's farming, whether it was plowshares or other utensils, were made of pure wood, and now the popular agricultural tools are made of steel.
Spouting thinking, this is Zou Yu's point of mentioning to the craftsmen who supervise the craftsmen, he has repeatedly organized the craftsmen who are skilled in the craftsmen to go to the field to take out the previous agricultural tools, let them use them personally, and think about how to improve.
In this era, because of the inconvenience of transportation, the language is very different from place to place, and the agricultural tools used are also different, not to mention so many craftsmen, get together, can they collide with sparks, at least they make all kinds of agricultural tools in their hometowns, and they can also pick out some more convenient promotion.
In the past, the craftsmen did not think about improving it, not because they did not understand, but because they did not have the time or energy to think about it. Ordinary craftsmen, in order to make a living, are busy working all day long, occasionally resting, and also busy with family affairs.
As for the craftsman supervisor, the craftsman supervisor has more work, not only has the task of the imperial court, but also has to tinker and make things for the officials' homes.
Public and private use, this official has this habit, especially with so many craftsmen under his hands, wouldn't it be a waste not to use it. The steward of the craftsman as a supervisor needs to sell favors and make extra money, so how can the craftsman have time to think about other things.
High-level craftsmen, such as Yan Lide, Yuwen Rutong and others, they did not personally farm, so naturally they did not know much, and their energy was more focused on how to make more exquisite palaces and draw better calligraphy and paintings!
Jinyang has a very generous reward for craftsman innovation, which increases their enthusiasm, advocates innovation, and advocates mutual learning and discussion, because the addition of folk craftsmen and Taoists has greatly accelerated the speed of innovation.
Rows of iron nails were taped under the wood, and they were pulled back and forth in the ploughed field, and the grass roots in the field were cleared, and the rocks in the field were thrown out, and a wasteland was quickly reclaimed.
The seeder is also very simple, a wooden bucket, mounted on the wood wheel, the wood wheel is separated by a small pit, as long as the wheel is pulled, with the wheel turning, the seeds will fall into the ground, not only the distance is the same, the number is almost the same, compared with the hand, it is more convenient and fast.
The extensive use of iron tools is the most convenient for the people, making the work much easier.
Many things are just a piece of paper, but no one thinks about it, to pierce it, and after it is pierced, new things will naturally appear in large numbers! To say that the biggest change in Jinyang, the most versatile and advanced, is still the waterwheel!
Recently, with the arrival of more than 10 people from the Thai family, the update of the waterwheel has once again reached a new level! Nowadays, large and small waterwheels, distributed along the river, workshops, houses!
The large waterwheel is even larger, which is the result of the heavy use of steel, which used to be large and could not be supported by wood, but the use of steel is different, and the pulley makes the waterwheel more flexible and can drive more things.
Waterwheels don't have to be water! According to the improvement of the waterwheel, the rotating large machine came into being!
Not only the utensils, but also Yang Yu, who is less than 16 years old, has made a breakthrough in agriculture!
Grafting this was taught to him by Zou Yu, but Zou Yu only knew how to do it roughly, and it was generally used on the same plants, so that the fruits that tasted bad would taste better when grafted.
After countless experiments, Yang Yu used the willow branch that is the easiest to survive to insert the rod, and after the rod survived, he immediately grafted and grafted the branches of the peach tree! When the willow branches grow, they become peach trees!
The willow tree grows much faster than the peach tree, so that the peach tree has many more saplings.
In the same way, pear trees and plums have also been planted in large quantities, and at present, it only takes one year to cultivate tens of thousands of fruit tree saplings.
Choose the best as seeds, not only plants, animals are also like this, the number of chickens, ducks and geese is getting larger and larger, and the eggs that lay the most are selected as seeds, and in the long run, nature is getting better and better!
It's a virtuous cycle, but as the number of poultry raised increases, it already needs to be fed with grain, which is not cost-effective.
The Turks could not farm, so Zou Yu planned to let them grow plants to feed their poultry, reclaim wasteland, and grow alfalfa, pitcher plants, barley, and other plants that could be harvested several times a year.
This is also a kind of control in disguise, let them plant these, the farm to buy the grass they planted, and they can not only use these to feed their own livestock, but also use the money to buy food, of course, there is no opinion, after all, their own food, there are only two or three things, to buy it is different, you can buy whichever you want, you can eat enough rice, just buy noodles.
In this way, everyone is happy, and it can also drive the economy, which can be said to be counted in one fell swoop. It's just that the Turks wouldn't have thought that this was Zou Yu's means of controlling them, so that they had no problems living in peacetime, but there was no extra food to march and fight!
The grassland is not only grazing cattle and sheep, but also poultry, chickens, ducks, geese and pigs! The largest number of grass on the grassland is grass, and in the grass, the most are grass seeds and insects! Of course, cubs can't go to the grassland to release them.
It is also imperative to build farms in the grasslands, but this will have to wait until the scale is expanded, after all, it is currently on its own territory, and it has not yet been fully promoted.
Before the corn, sweet potatoes and potatoes are found, the food will definitely not be too sufficient, so it can only rely on breeding, and the best in the breeding industry is chickens, ducks, geese and pigs! Sheep grow slowly, their size is limited, they are not as fast as pigs, and cattle are currently scarce in farming, let alone beef cattle.
When Zou Yu was fine, he was thinking about the things of the future, and he was afraid that he would forget that day, so he thought of a little and recorded it.
To say that the current living conditions, the south is definitely much better than the north, which makes Zou Yu a little impatient to take the south, but the current conditions are limited, which is why he agreed to marry Xiao Yuexian as a concubine, first, he can win over Xiao Miao, and when he can't quickly dominate the world, he can restrict the development of Li Yuan and others, and secondly, he is also preparing for the future governance of the south, after all, the Xiao family is in the south of the Yangtze River and has a lot of power.
There is no opinion on marrying Xiao Yuexian Zou Yu, it is nothing to add a new Yue'e, after all, beauties like it, not to mention that they are still familiar people, but Zou Yu did not expect that Fang Xuanling would bring him so many people.