Any animal and plant has its own specific living environment, if the animal and plant are placed in an environment that is not suitable for them, it will seriously affect the growth of this animal and plant and even produce mutation, such as orange is a good example, after a long time of testing, the orange that grows in the warm land of the south is still an orange, and the orange that lives in the cold area of the north has become a citrus orange.

In the field of botany, oranges and citrus aurantium both belong to the Rutaceae family, and they are also plants of the citrus subfamily, and it is not an exaggeration to say that they are developed from the same plant.

That is, a long time ago, both tangerine and citrus aurantium developed from the same plant, and their origin is the same, both are plants of the citrus subfamily.

This kind of mutation is forcibly changed under extreme survival conditions, and if it is not changed, it can only be a dead end, and there is no better way.

Of course, if it is through human intervention, this mutation will become faster, and the effect will be better, after all, people's IQ is very high, so that the mutation of animals and plants can develop in the direction of people, such as the dwarf-type date palm tree in front of you, it is very good, which is not only convenient for artificial picking of fruits, but also higher yields, after all, the nutrients absorbed by the trunk are given to the fruit, so that the fruit can not grow fast and good.

But Li An knows in his heart, such a date palm tree can only grow in the tropical desert, if it is transported to Chang'an City, it will never grow well, even if it can barely survive, whether it can bear fruit is a big problem, even if it bears fruit, the size and quantity of the fruit may be very small, and there may be a phenomenon of sour fruit, just like the orange plant, it cannot survive well in the north of the Huai River, even if it survives, the taste of the fruit is not delicious.

Since the fruit is not delicious, then there is no return, if you want to eat dates, you can go directly to the market to buy it, on the streets of Datang, there are still a lot of vendors selling dates, and after Datang opens up the railway and sea route to the west, commercial transportation will become extremely convenient, in the future, Egypt's newly picked dates, only need more than ten days to transport to Chang'an City.

However, Li An felt that Ottoman's subordinates were also well-intentioned, and if he refused directly, he always felt that something was not suitable, and it didn't matter if he accepted some, even if he didn't live in Chang'an City, it would be fine.

"Alright! Since you are sincere, then I will accept it, but I will not return to Chang'an City now, I have to go to Spain for a walk first, and when I come back, I will be ready. ”

Ang Lee accepted the kindness of the Ottoman men.

"Okay, okay, Li Shilang, rest assured, I will definitely prepare the best date palm trees for you, and send them directly to the north of the Red Sea, and send them to your steam boat."

Uthman's men spoke.

It can be seen that Osman's subordinates still consider the problem very well, which makes Li Ang very satisfied.

"Okay, I'll leave this matter to you."

Li An looked back at his subordinates and explained.

Ang Lee doesn't need to wait for such a small matter as receiving a gift, just let his subordinates do it, anyway, it's not a difficult task, his subordinates are fully competent, and Ang Lee has more important things to do, and he doesn't have too much spare time to spend energy on such small things.

Since you come from afar, you can't just take a look and leave! Ang Lee felt that it was necessary to spend more time in the date orchard, and come to pick something in person, anyway, he came here, just take a look and leave, it was too inappropriate.

Ang Lee asked the Ottomans to prepare the tools for picking, that is, baskets or something, while Ang Lee himself had already prepared gloves and sleeve guards.

It is impossible for ordinary people to prepare gloves for picking dates, which seems too hypocritical and will make people ridicule, but Li An's status is noble, and Li Xiaolu is a delicate beauty, so no one dares to say anything, in addition to Li An and the others, many subordinates and Ottoman subordinates also accompany them to pick, anyway, these dates are actually not worth much, besides, Li An can also pay.

There are a lot of gloves, but Li An only asked his subordinates to take two pairs of gloves, he and Li Xiaolu each have a set, and the rest can only be picked directly with their hands.

Because the date palm tree here grows very short, and the height of people is not much different, so, without the help of any heightened tools, you can pick directly on foot, but because the distance between the date palm tree and the date palm tree is relatively narrow, the pedestrian aisle is somewhat narrow, and there are many places that are not directly passable by people, and you need to bend down to drill under the tree, and this often makes the clothes very dirty.

As a farmer who makes a living by planting date palm trees, it is most normal to stain his clothes in order to pick dates, it has nothing to do with it, but it is a symbol of labor, and for Li An, who does not need to work and has a high status, it is really unnecessary to stain his clothes, Li Xiaolu is a dancing girl, and she is also not a person who works, and she is also a person who loves beauty very much, and she is reluctant to stain her clothes in order to pick dates.

Two people who don't want to get their clothes dirty picking dates together in the dense date palm forest are a perfect match, at least they are the same kind of people.

Of course, Ottoman's subordinates, the position is not low, and they are usually not working guys, let them shuttle among the branches, they are also reluctant, so, like Li An, choose a wider location on the road to pick, and where you need to bend down to enter, you choose to give up, anyway, as long as you can pick dates, it is enough, they just accompany Li An to play, there is no need to work too hard, if the arm is scratched by the branch, and the face is full of mud, it will be too much to lose.

Date palm trees are all planted artificially, so they are all in a row, each row of date palm trees is almost a straight line, the distance between the trees is very short, some are enough to have a person's distance, and some are directly nailed together, there is no way to pass normally.

The distance between the rows is slightly larger, but there is a difference, some are separated by a tree between the two rows of date palm trees, while others are separated by two or three trees, so the spacing is still very different.

Of course, most of them are relatively small, and only a few are relatively large, which is also a compromise designed for the convenience of harvesting and the improvement of yield.

If the distance is large, the number of fruit trees planted will be small, and if the distance is small, it will be very troublesome to pick.

After all, so many fruit trees, always with basket picking is definitely not good, in order to facilitate picking and transportation, must use vehicles, and the passage of vehicles on the road is required, too narrow, vehicles will not be able to pass, so, every few rows of distance, there must be a wide spacing, in order to facilitate the passage of vehicles.

When you need to pick, you can cooperate with the division of labor as a family, each person is responsible for a gap, and a person is responsible for the cart, and the people who pick on both sides will collect the dates, first put them into the basket in their hands, and after the basket is full, pass through the cracks of the date palm tree, pour the dates into the vehicle, and then go back to continue picking, so that the maximum efficiency can pick a sufficient number of dates, which is the most effective method, and the efficiency is the highest.

Of course, there is also a wider road in the whole date palm forest, after all, the road just picked just now is only for small carts, the large number of dates also needs to be carried by larger vehicles, and the main road also needs to be doubled the width of the vehicle, so that the vehicles can be staggered during busy times, further increasing the efficiency of picking.

When Li An came, he saw that the farmers here hired a lot of workers, and they also prepared a lot of vehicles, including horse-drawn carts with a large volume of goods, and also hand-driven carts.

Generally, farmers with a smaller planting scale will choose to pick by themselves, while farmers with a larger number of planting are different, they are too busy by themselves, and they must ask someone to pick them, as long as the wage is lower than the profit of selling dates, they can be considered.

If the price of dates plummets, and the labor cost of hiring someone to pick is higher than the profit of selling dates, then all the people who plant dates will not ask people to pick them, and would rather let the dates rot on the tree than choose to pick, after all, no one wants to do things without benefits.

In this era, the output is still relatively small, so there are relatively few cases where the price of bumper crops plummets, and under normal circumstances, the prices are relatively stable.

The reason why prices will often plummet in later generations is because the technical conditions are too superior, the yield of one acre of land can reach ten times that of this era, and the labor efficiency is increased dozens of times, so that the crops planted by one hundred people in later generations can easily exceed the income of one million people in this era, even in different countries in later generations, the difference in labor productivity is also amazing.

For example, in countries on the other side of the ocean, two million people farm to feed the whole country, accounting for less than 1 percent of the population, and the food produced is also very surplus, which can be called a model of modern planting, while in some countries more than half of the people are farming, but they still can't fill the stomachs of the people, the gap is obvious.

Of course, for many populous countries, if they rashly implement mechanized planting and suddenly turn hundreds of millions of farmers into millions of farmers, then what will the extra hundreds of millions of farmers do to let them drink the northwest wind? What to do in the event of a peasant uprising is a very real problem, and we cannot look at what others do or what we ourselves do, and we need to adjust step by step and gradually reduce the number of peasants, so as not to cause turmoil in the whole society.

The current agriculture of the Tang Empire is gradually advancing mechanization, which greatly reduces the demand for manpower in agriculture, so as to liberate more surplus labor and let these labor force enter industrial production, so as to promote the modernization of the Tang Empire's industry.

This process is advancing step by step, and it is not achieved overnight, because of the lack of agricultural machinery production capacity, resulting in the liberation of labor is not too much, and the development of industrialization can fully digest this part of the excess manpower, so that they can easily live.

Ang Lee chose a gap that allowed the cart to pass, and walked here very smoothly, without the branches scraping his clothes, and he could also pick his favorite date fruit.

Ordinary people pick date fruits, are picked in bunches, transported back, and then slowly processed, which is also fast enough, but Li An is not a labor hired by the landlord, of course, there is no need to pick desperately, but selectively picking, that is, specifically picking the largest and fullest coconut fruit, for the color is not good-looking, the shape is not good, there are insect eyes, of course will not want.

Although they are all fruits on a tree, but the size is still a little different, and it is impossible to make every date grow exactly the same, there is no one in the world with the same leaves, the same, there is no one in the world with the same date, even if it is the same variety, the fruit on the same date palm tree, is also different in size, there will always be some differences, of course, the difference will not be too big, not as big as a watermelon, small than a grain of rice, this is impossible, except for a very few fruits that have not grownThe smallest normal fruit is half the size of the largest fruit, that is, the difference between the larger and smaller fruits is only twice as much at most, and it is impossible to have more.

A date palm tree can hang about five or six strings of fruit, more than a dozen strings, and each string can have hundreds of dates, absolutely not more than a thousand, the total output of a tree is dozens of catties, and more should not exceed a hundred catties, but there are many date palms in the orchard, all of which add up, that is massive, and it needs to be pulled out by a large cart.

Li An paced and observed, while Li Xiaolu next to him was holding a basket that did not hit, ready to obey Li An's orders at any time.

"Li Shilang, there are a lot of red and big dates in this bunch, let's start picking them from here!"

Li Xiaolu said with a smile.

Li An nodded and said, "Okay, since the little beauty values this string, let's pick it together and let's start." ”

After speaking, with his gloved hands, he looked for the largest and reddest date in this string of dates, and after finding it, he gently unscrewed it off, and then put it into the small basket on Li Xiaolu's chest, which was regarded as the harvest of picking.

Li Xiaolu, like Ang Lee, uses the same method, looking for the best dates, unscrewing them, and putting them in the basket in front of her.