Chapter 412: Development a year later
Although it was determined that tobacco would be the main industry in Yulin County, Tang Jin did not take it for granted that he would mobilize the people to grow tobacco as soon as he posted a notice. That's something that only a fool would do.
Moreover, at present, the people are hungry, and the food they eat is still the relief food they received at the beginning, and the latest autumn grain has not yet been beaten. Let's not talk about whether there is a place to grow tobacco at this time, and even if it can be grown, what can be grown and eaten? You can't smoke to satisfy your appetite, right?
In addition, Tang Jin also needs to breed and cultivate the wild tobacco he found, not to optimize its genes, but at least to know what soil it is suitable for and what kind of diseases it will be infected with, right? Otherwise, once you find out that there is something wrong with this thing after promoting planting, you will be happy.
As a result, Tang Jin, who was a brave general who suppressed bandits just now, instantly turned into a polite agricultural expert. He directly led people to dig the garden in the backyard, replaced all the precious but extremely difficult flowers to serve with tobacco that was moved down from the mountain, and planned it into three different types of experimental fields, each for different experiments.
Of course, this kind of shallow agricultural research is not like chemical or physical research, and it does not need to get up early and late every day to calculate various complex formulas, but only need to observe the growth of crops regularly and observe them every once in a while, and summarize the rules. It's just that Tang Jin obviously didn't expect that this experiment would have been carried out for nearly a year.
In the twenty-first year of the day, on the fifteenth day of the seventh month,
Tang Jin went to Yulin County for a whole year.
If you want to make an evaluation of your tenure this year, others don't know what to say, but Tang Jin himself definitely has two words, comfortable!
Except for the time when he first came, in order to gain the trust of the people as soon as possible and start his own agricultural plan, he was busy running around for several months. In the time after that, Tang Jin's little life was simply not too happy.
Every day is, take care of the tobacco, make records; Then go to the fertilizer factory and take a look at the fertilizer production. And then ...... It's nothing.
By the way, when it comes to fertilizer factories, we have to mention one thing. That is, in the early days of the construction of the factory, Tang Jin encountered a huge problem, there was no sulfur, to be precise, there was no large amount of sulfur.
He wanted to produce two types of fertilizers, one from the treatment of phosphate rock with sulfuric acid and nitrogen from urea. These two are the most suitable local fertilizers in Yulin County after Tang Jin's inspection.
But among them, the latter is easier to do, the raw materials are just ammonia and carbon dioxide, ammonia can be prepared by human urine, and carbon dioxide is everywhere. But the former is a little more troublesome, phosphate rock is relatively rare, but fortunately, Yulin County is located in the mountains, Tang Jin successfully found a large amount of phosphate rock, no matter how bad it is, it can be reluctantly replaced by animal bones, but sulfuric acid ...... It's not easy to get it.
Sulfur isn't a necessity.
In addition to the fact that some trade counties or big cities will have a large number of hoarding goods, there are only a little in the pharmacies in poor and remote areas like Yulin County, which is obviously not enough.
Fortunately, Tang Jin thought in time that there was no sulfur, so you could use green alum! It's also a mineral that can be mined in the mountains. In the end, relying on the green alum to save the field, the fertilizer factory was saved from the fate of shelf.
As for the effect of chemical fertilizer production...... It's not too big, it's half over. The main reason is that the crops are about to be harvested when the fertilizer is made, and the effect is not big at this time.
But even so, the people were shocked!
You know, they are all late seedlings caused by famine, and they missed the best time to sow seeds, and it is a blessing to be able to survive, as for the bumper harvest...... What about dreaming?
As a result, after using Tang Jin's chemical fertilizer, their crops were not only harvested, but even more than the so-called bumper harvest in previous years! If this is sown and fertilizer according to the season and the requirements of the magistrate, will the harvest be turned upside down?
For a time, Tang Jin's prestige reached its peak. At this moment, all the people know that this county lord has the ability! Have great skills! Listen to the county master's words! If you want to live a good life in the future, you can point to the county master!
Of course, in addition to Tang Jin, there is another thing that has also become the object of worship of the people, that is...... Fertilizer plant. I don't know who passed it on, saying that the county magistrate has the ability to invite God, and the fertilizer factory he built is actually the temple of the god of ceres. And the so-called chemical fertilizer is a gift from the god of grains, and it is precisely because of the blessing of divine power that decay can be turned into magic, so that everyone ushered in a good year.
In this regard, Tang Jin said...... The history of Chinese literature is honestly not deceiving me, and mythology is indeed an interpretation of things that people don't understand. Unconsciously, he seems to have caused trouble for the future historians of the Tang Dynasty, and this will be another unsolved mystery at that time.
The problems at the fertilizer factories have come to an end, and after this year's summer harvest has tripled grain production, the last vestiges of opposition have completely disappeared. At the same time, Tang Jin has truly become the existence of Yulin County, in this acre of three-point land, who dares to say that Tang Jin is not half a word, and thousands of people in the county can drown him.
In addition, Tang Jin's tobacco cultivation has finally made a certain reputation. Of course, as I said before, because of equipment limitations, Tang Jin can only carry out the most basic cultivation and certain improvements. But fortunately, the results are good, perhaps because the world is different, the tobacco here is not as delicate as the earth, and its vitality is even to the level of weeds, and you can live if you give a little place. If it weren't for Tang Jin drying it himself and smoking a few sticks, he was sure that this was indeed tobacco
, he thought he was blind.
Of course, tenacious vitality is a benefit, but there is also a downside to this thing, which is that it is poisonous. It's not nicotine after making cigarettes, but its own juice has a certain toxicity, and taking a small amount will paralyze people's whole body, and if you take too much of it, it will be 100% ruined.
Fortunately, this toxicity does not affect the tobacco after sufficient drying and production, as long as the process is in place, it is no different from ordinary cigarettes, and even tastes much better. Even if you don't make later improvements and smoke wild, you can reach the level of mid-range cigarettes on earth.
"That way, I can start my tobacco plan!"
Finally, after summarizing the preparation process of cigarettes, Tang Jin decided to gather the people tomorrow to start making the first batch of cigarettes. As early as a few months ago, when it was determined that there was no other problem with this thing and there was no need to consider whether it could be grown, Tang Jin and Chen Changgui asked for more than a dozen acres of land, and hired some people to help him cultivate the first batch of tobacco, which is now basically mature and ready to be dried and produced.
"I don't know if that fool can stand up to ......"
There was no problem with his own affairs, and Tang Jin couldn't help but think of others. It's not an outsider, but Tang Jin's cousin, the eldest prince Tang Hao.
To say that this Tang Hao is also a talent, Tian'an County itself is a prosperous trade county, if Tang Jin is given this kind of start, he is afraid that he will be able to play flowers now. However, his rank is too low, and no matter how awesome the god is, he can't bring a dead pig-type teammate.
Arbitrarily changing the economic plan, indiscriminately interfering with the development of the chamber of commerce, and even adjusting the tax to the limit, a good prosperous trade county, was on the verge of bankruptcy in less than half a year, and the people were scattered and fled, and even ran thousands of miles to themselves. I have to say, our eldest prince, why can't he do it, the first loser.
In addition, the performance of the fourth prince Tang Hui is remarkable. From the beginning of his tenure to the present, except for the daily judgment of lawsuits, investigation and taxation, the rest of the interference is not interfered, and the focus is on understanding the situation, it seems that he intends to thoroughly understand the situation of the place first, and then consider how to govern it. Although the efficiency is a little slower, it has to be said that this is the most effective method at the moment.
As for Tang Yun, on the second day of his tenure, he shamelessly ran over the mountains and mountains to Tang Jin, along with all the county records and tax statements of the place where he had been in office for nearly ten years. Then he went to Tang Jin's house, and said that if you don't tell me what to do, I won't leave, and forced Tang Jin to make a one-year plan for him.
Of course, Tang Jin is not unwilling. In fact, even if he doesn't come to him, he will go to him, and he will have to use his business in Chenglin County to do business in the future, and it is easier to plan in advance than to discuss it now.
(To be continued)