Since ancient times, agriculture is still in the second place, but in fact, no matter in which dynasty, the status of the peasants is the lowest, respect for the peasants is just a pretext for the national policy of the rulers of the past dynasties to build the country based on agriculture.

Since the founding of the Great Song Dynasty, the dynasty has been stable, the commercial development of southeast Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Lingnan has been very rapid, the commercial tax revenue is ten times that of agricultural taxes, the merchants have entered and exited the fresh clothes and angry horses, and the eight sedan chairs have been carried in and out.

Zheng Ruoying only hated herself for being a daughter, and she had lost her career all the way. The family has fertile land and shops, and he can only work the way of business, hoping to achieve a little success on this road to satisfy his father. Most of the shops in Fengshan belong to their Zheng family, but no matter how much money they make in these places, it is only through his father's light, and Zheng Ruoying has never been able to get rid of his father's shadow. By mistake, she met Liang Chuan, and growing sugarcane became a top priority.

Farming is a very tedious activity, and Zheng Ruoying did not expect that one day she would go to the fields more often than to the shops. Fan Dianyuan and his group of tenant farmers were working in the fields, and Zheng Ruoying made a special trip to invite Liang Chuan to guide Fan Dianyuan in their farming.

Liang Chuan hated Zheng Ruoying's elegance of coming to him for three days to chop wood, after all, once this axe skill is completed, it will be used endlessly for life, freezing three feet is not a day's cold, and if you don't persevere, you will definitely not be able to reach Li Chuyi's supernatural realm.

Fan Dianyuan and the others were indeed diligent and willing, and they cultivated the sugarcane fields according to Liang Chuan's instructions. Talents like them are the backbone of our country, and they have supported our nation for thousands of years, and they are the only ones who can afford to be industrious.

A few children, the children of northern farmers who had never seen sugar cane, had never seen a southern species, following the adults' buttocks and playing in the fields. Children are born with everything like to put in their mouths, and as soon as they put it, they found that in the new world, although there is only a small section of this sugarcane seedling, but the taste is also sweet and sweet, the child is greedy, this cane seedling has not been planted, but it is secretly put in the mouth by the child to eat a lot, fortunately, there are a lot of cane seedlings, and the few children eat are insignificant.

After Fan Dianyuan found out, he slapped a few little dolls fiercely, the most important quality of the peasant family is to do their duty, but also to be safe, they can't do that kind of ugly thing like mice looking at the rice tank, and now the owner treats his own group of people well, and he can't mess around.

Liang Chuan looked at the farm tools used in their era and wanted to improve them for them, but after thinking about it, the price of farm tools is quite expensive now, and then casually improving farm tools for them to use will increase the burden of these farmers, and the farm tools of the Song Dynasty are already very mature, even if they are in the Ming and Qing dynasties, they have not changed much, just take the plow as an example, it has not changed much in later generations, that is, the material has become iron.

The same farm tool is said to be easy to use or not to use, it depends on whether the person who uses it is used to it, and no matter how convenient the tool is, if it is not used, it will only be counterproductive. So Liang Chuan didn't say much on farm tools.

Moreover, the beginning of spring has arrived, if they are required to change their farming tools at this time, it will take a period of time to adapt, and when they are fully adapted, they will have already missed spring ploughing, and sugarcane will have to wait for next year to plant.

After the sugarcane ridges were reclaimed, the 20 or so carts of sugarcane seedlings could be planted one after another. Almost after these cane seedlings are planted, they can wait for the next batch of cane seedlings, so that time will not be wasted, and the overall time efficiency is the highest. The depth of the cane seedlings into the cane ditch should be one foot, and the depth of the soil after putting the cane seedlings into the soil should be more than one finger, and the sucrose can be slowly fertilized after seven days after the cane sugar is planted in the soil.

This is relatively simple, Liang Chuan wields a hoe to compare his hands, but these crops are as simple as drinking water.

The more troublesome problem is the problem of irrigation.

In this era, there are no sluice dams, let alone pumps, just like Fan Dianyuan and their hometown of northern Shaanxi, the harvest of crops is completely determined by God's will, and in the year of great drought, they can only move their families to escape the famine or go to other places to beg, because it does not rain, and there is no water on the ground.

The south is not afraid of a great drought, but is afraid of a great flood! If the water in the field is not drained in time during the rainy season, the crops soaked in the field will rot and die, and the result will be no harvest.

Liang Chuan said to Zheng Ruoying: "At the moment, a few basic problems have become unproblematic, but there is another one that is more tricky? ”

"What's the problem?"

"Although we are close to Nanxi here, the water level of Nanxi is much lower than that of the north bank, this water can not be obtained without the help of some tools, and it will not be able to irrigate so many of our dry fields.

Zheng Ruoying looked at Liang Chuan's face with confidence, as if she had expected that there would be such a problem, thinking that you must have a way to deal with it, and you have to pretend to be advanced every time, okay, if you don't say it, I won't ask!

Liang Chuan turned his back and waited for Zheng Ruoying, who was behind, to ask him how to solve it, and after waiting for a long time, he didn't hear a word from her, but he took the initiative to turn his head and asked, "Don't you want to know how to solve it?" ”

Zheng Ruoying crooked her face and said, "I must want to know, but this girl doesn't want to beg you now, making each of us like eating dry rice." ”

Liang Chuan didn't expect that his way of speaking would make these individuals feel uncomfortable, so he said: "Miss, where are you unhappy, let's communicate purely and there is no need to have a psychological burden!" ”

Zheng Ruoying snorted, turned her head and didn't speak.

Alas, this girl is really strong, and she eats soft rather than hard.

Liang Chuan shook his head with a wry smile and said: "The ideal state in the sugarcane field is to have water to instill when you need it, and to drain the excess water in time when you don't need it." To achieve this effect in time, the best is to divert water for irrigation ditch and drainage ditch to be excavated separately, the irrigation ditch is high on the riverside and low in the ground, so that water can be stored, and the ditch for drainage is high in the field and low on the riverside, so that when the rainy season comes, the ridge can be broken to let the water in the cane field be discharged. ”

Zheng Ruoying nodded again and again when she heard this, but after thinking about Liang Chuan's design, she asked, "Where does the water come from, you also said that the water level in the river is much lower than the embankment, how to lead the river water to the north bank?" ”

Liang Chuan said: "Have you heard of the waterwheel? ”

China to the Song Dynasty, the development of agricultural tools to a prosperous period, all kinds of agricultural tools are in line with the purpose of agricultural service, completely benefit the people and facilitate the people, the late Tang Dynasty improved Quyuan plow, to the Song Dynasty there is a rollover, but the structure of that thing is too complicated, the practicality is not high, but the principle of the waterwheel is very simple, the countryside can get the material, the carpenter also has, Zhao Jinyu is the carpenter, and so the carpentry work at home is done, he will tell Zhao Jinyu the structure, let Zhao Jinyu help make a waterwheel.

A few people were confused when they heard this term, and the blind deer interjected: "Is it a big wooden disc like a wheel, which will carry the water by itself when it stands by the river?" If you know, you know, but you won't do it. ”

Liang Chuan continued: "But it's still too early for the waterwheel to be made, you have to use some other tools first, you can go to the mountain and cut two logs of the same length, preferably two stout, make a hole at the top, as a support, and then find a long bamboo pole, make a hole in Sanqi, and use a small wooden stick to cross this hole and the hole in the two round trees, so as to make a lever principle. You can't understand this, in short, the two ends of the bamboo pole are tied with ropes, the short end of the bamboo pole is tied to a wooden barrel, and at the other end of the manpower to pull the bamboo pole or hang a heavy stone, this tool is called orange tree, which can not only save effort, but also can beat the water from the low place to the high ground, and the high ground can flow directly into the sugar cane field along the dug ditch. ”

A few people were confused when they heard Liang Chuan, but Liang Chuan drew a model on the ground, and the principle of this lever was originally very simple, but it made people feel very complicated when they talked about it with their mouths. The production of this lever is very simple, that is, when fetching water, two people must cooperate, spend a little more effort, and when the waterwheel is built, it will not have to be like this.

A group of people who can farm and those who can't farm surrounded Liang Chuan, all shocked by so many strange ideas in this young man's mind, why can such a well-informed character appear in a place like He Lu where birds don't?

It stands to reason that people with so many skills should not be willing to stay in this kind of ravine. It is said that this person used to be a little beggar, but he didn't expect to be able to talk like this with the eldest lady of the first family in Fengshan today, and even the eldest lady had to act according to the wishes of others.

Zheng Ruoying also admits that she has read a lot of books and been to many places, and the world she has seen is not the most knowledgeable among her peers in Fengshan, but she is also a person with a broad vision, but her little bit of Taoism seems to be completely worthless in Liang Chuan's eyes, no matter which aspect, Liang Chuan can always stand in a place more than her to point out her shortcomings. Why did he know so much, and where did he learn it from.

If Zheng Ruoying knew that the knowledge that Liang Chuan learned was all learned in the classroom a thousand years later, and he didn't understand the real practice, I don't know how she would feel?

"Now the problem of irrigation is according to the plan you said, there should be no other major problems, think about it, are there any other aspects that we need to consider in advance?" Zheng Ruoying looked at Liang Chuan, who was in a good mood, and was very happy in her heart, not pouring cold water on him, but asking questions realistically, it is better to take precautions than to sharpen the gun in battle.

"There should be no other problems for the time being, and if there is a problem, we have to wait until we encounter it to find a way to solve it, and now I am not in a hurry. Although the sugarcane we grow now is not as fine as the fine management of our hometown, but looking at this season, there should be no one who can do it and manage it better than us, so we should still have confidence, even if the harvest does not reach the level of our hometown, at least it should have a good harvest than the sugarcane farmers in other places, and if others continue to do it, we will definitely be able to do better! Liang Chuan said confidently and with a proud face, and everyone present was moved when they heard Liang Chuan's words.

That's right, planting a sugarcane is more expensive than planting a few acres of rice, so if there is no harvest, God probably won't be able to see it.