"I don't ask for a high salary, I just want to be able to do things for the county lieutenant and repay the unpaid kindness that year......"

Koma was originally a village stableman, but now he has reached retirement age and left the village stable, but he is still quite strong, so he hopes to come and raise cattle and horses for Heifu.

"The county lieutenant now has a big business, more than 1,000 acres of land, and he has to buy horses and cattle, and he hopes to accept me, not an old man boasting, among the horses and cattle in this county, I am also one of the best!"

As he spoke, he showed his ability, and immediately went into the stable, broke the mouths of the cows and horses, and accurately reported the ages of the six horses and three cows of Hefu according to the growth and wear of their teeth.

The foal's eyes are vicious, and he seems to be able to see through the skin, muscles, and even bones of cows and horses.

"It was the law that rescued the women, not me."

Heifu was willing to refuse, but he still couldn't persuade the stubborn old man, and in the end the colt knelt down for Heifu, so he had to agree.

If you think about it carefully, what Ju said also makes sense, his own family does need to add a lot of livestock, if there are no professionals, it is easy to be deceived, and it is difficult to raise well, so it is better to keep him.

Heifu knows the skills of the foal, not only is he good at horses, cows, but also the horses he raises are also good, and the "red gall" that he bought from him carries him thousands of miles, and is very popular with Heifu.

In addition to the foal, his daughter, Kite, who had married a good man, also hoped to come to Heifu's house to do something, and Heifu still had an impression of the little woman, who was at home in the blind mountains, and if she hadn't wittily run out for help, perhaps the outcome of the day would have been very different.

So Hefu hired a foal for four stone a month to help him manage his cattle and stables, and his daughter Kite came to help restrain the servants and concubines, and gave her two stone of grain a month......

After finalizing the matter, Heifu secretly snapped his fingers again: "Ordinary cattle and horses have 10,000 yuan on their heads, and an adult subordinate concubine has more than 4,000 yuan, as well as furniture. From now on, I still have to feed more than 20 people and more than 10 cattle and horses, so that more than 100,000 yuan will be gone! ”

Heifu couldn't help but feel a little pain, the 70,000 yuan he received in the last war was not much left, and now he could only count on the two brothers' money and the food in the field to save him......

It's still the same sentence, no matter how much money there is, it's not enough to spend, Heifu now urgently needs a way to make a long-term profit, it seems that he has to start the brown sugar industry as soon as possible, and this is the only thing, he still has it in his hands, and he didn't hand it over to change the title for himself and his relatives.

……

After the meal, taking advantage of the fact that it was not dark, he called out to Heifu to follow him to the nearby fields for a walk, and pointed to the subordinates who were busy in the paddy fields:

"This was originally Yun's rice field, but now it has become a public field, and July is the critical juncture of rice booting, not only to irrigate enough water, but also to apply ear fertilizer."

Heifu knows that there are three kinds of fertilization techniques in these years: seed fertilizer and top dressing.

The basal fertilizer is scattered in the field to increase soil fertility; Seed fertilizer is to take fertilizer when sowing; Top dressing is when the crop is headed, and the silkworm arrow and human manure are applied to the ground, which is also a new method developed after the invention of compost manure.

He said to Heifu that the method of composting and composting has begun to be popularized in Anlu County.

"However, it is only applied to the public land near the county seat, and the private land cannot be promoted for a while."

Although the Qin state abolished the well-field system and granted state-owned land to various families after the Shang Dynasty reform, there were also many fields directly in the hands of the government, also known as public land.

Gongtian used prisoners and subordinates as laborers, and the number was very large, as many as hundreds of people in Anlu alone, and there were more than 1,000 field slaves in Gangneung, and the harvest of the fields was all owned by the government......

Although the method of composting and composting was approved and implemented by the county guard, it was still difficult to fully promote it given the speed of information dissemination in this era.

In most counties, they can only let the county's Tian Qifu and Tian Zuo officials implement it in the public fields near the county seat, wait until this year's autumn harvest has an effect, and then let the fields in each country preach to the people and encourage them to follow suit, which is equivalent to the activities of science and technology in the countryside in later generations......

Therefore, when the county was visited in April, the optimistic estimate of the county Shouteng that "the southern county will increase the production of grain by 3 million to 4 million stones" may be greatly discounted, and according to the ratio of public land and private land in each county, it would be good to have one million stones.

"In addition to the difficulty of promoting in the poor countryside, we also encountered a problem."

Pointing to the subordinates who were topdressing the rice fields, he said distressedly: "There is not enough manure!" ”

From the heartfelt account, Heifu learned that it turned out that fertilizing one acre of land required at least hundreds of catties of manure, and a hundred mu was tens of thousands of catties, and if it was less, it would have no significant effect. In the past, the problem of planting a little less at home, or using the power of a county to supply hundreds of acres of land, was not prominent, but with the promotion of this method, manure was stretched.

Faced with this problem, the field officials in Anlu County also thought of many ways, such as putting the grass and trees together in the manure tank to rot and increase the amount of fertilizer.

This is the knowledge that the farmers have long mastered, in the Qin State Government issued to the "Moon Order" to the various fields, there is "the month of the summer season, the soil is moist and hot, when it rains heavily, it is beneficial to kill the grass, such as hot soup, can dung the field, can beautify the territory ......"

Farmers in this era would collect weeds, leaves, and straw in April, and use the summer heat and rainfall to rot weeds to make green manure, which can now be combined with manure to double the amount of fertilizer.

"But it's still not enough."

He said helplessly: "The manure collected from the cattle and horse stables near the county seat, plus the rotting weeds, can be used for public land, and next year, I am afraid the amount will not be as good as this year...... I am afraid that the manure in the toilets of various farmers is only enough to water the vegetable fields, which is not conducive to increasing grain production. ”

Heifu nodded, this is the limitation of the method of composting and manure, it is precisely because of this limitation that the increase in production in Nanjun this year will be much lower than what Ye County expected, it would be good to have a million stones, and it may even be as low as five or six hundred thousand stones.

"This old fox, no wonder he only gave him a hairpin, not as he said before, he can be directly promoted to the ...... of not changing the title."

After thinking about it, Heifu asked: "Uncle, you said that the compost and manure used in Anlu County this year are mainly the manure in the cattle and horse stables?" ”

"Yes, yes."

"Only these places are under the jurisdiction of the government, which is convenient for collecting manure." ”

Heifu only felt that they seemed to have made a mistake: "Wait, uncle, let me ask you, where is the most concentrated number of people in Anlu?" ”

Without thinking: "Naturally, it is the county seat." ”

Heifu said: "There are more than 1,000 households in the county, nearly 10,000 people eat and drink Lasa every day, and they can produce 20,000 catties of manure, which can apply 100 acres of land. ”

Zhen blinked: "Brother Zhong doesn't know, officials, wealthy people, and wealthy families have their own toilets, which are used to irrigate their own fields, and there is no way to collect them. Most of the poor people in Luzuo do not have toilets at home, so they are directly in the field, under trees, and in ravines, and they cannot collect ......."

"In other words, most people in the county are still defecating in the open!"

Hefu immediately understood that there were two reasons for the shortage of manure: one was that the population was too small in those years for each household to produce enough manure for the farm; Second, the government did not properly manage the collection and use of farm manure, and wasted the manure produced by a large number of urban populations......

"Uncle's troubles, if you want to solve them, it's not difficult."

Heifu suddenly laughed, and when he asked for a solution, he deliberately did not answer, but pointed to the toilet in his own house......

"In five days, more than 1,000 garrisons will come to the county seat to assemble, taking this opportunity, I happen to have a good method that I learned in the army, which can be implemented in Anlu! Not only can it make up for the vacancy of insufficient manure next year, but it can also make Anlu the cleanest and decent city in the whole country of Nanjun and even the entire Qin State! ”

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On the 10th day of the seventh month, as the heat wave of the season and autumn gradually receded, more than 1,000 conscripts from Anlu County and three townships came to the southern suburbs of the county to gather.

Under Heifu's arrangement, the camp has been set up in advance by two hundred county guards, and in the rest of the month, more than 1,000 good families will train here, and they are not allowed to leave without permission, and they must eat, drink, and Lazar in the camp......

The public scholar from Chaoyang has lost his past illness, and he and the people in Tongli and Tongting formed the "Huyang Tingtun", and their pavilion chief is called "Hua", which is one of the nine people who followed Heifu to Wei and Chu and came back alive.

As the old department of the county lieutenant, in the past six months, he went to the Huyang Pavilion where the county lieutenant started, and Hua felt that his tun was one level higher than the other tuns! It's a lineage!

The group walked into the camp with great pride, and before they could find their own camp, they found that the hundreds of people who had arrived first had gathered in a building on the edge of the camp, and they were talking noisily.

Birch and go to the side where there are fewer people, but find that there is a newly built earthen house here, covering a large area, half an acre! The top of the black tile covers it, and there are many cross-holes in the adobe wall, which resemble the arrow holes of the city wall, and there is a gate on the left and right, and there are soldiers going in and out, and those who enter are full of novelty, and those who come out are full of praise while wearing belts, saying that they also enjoy the treatment of the rich and official families......

"What is this house for?" Gogo asked curiously.

"Go to the front and see for yourself, there is a handwritten inscription by the county lieutenant."

The son of the merchant named Yuanbai said this angrily, and then turned his head and praised the county lieutenant for being a wonderful idea.

"When I was a pawn, I lost a few thousand dollars to the county lieutenant, and it wasn't wronged!"

In the face of Yuan Bai's words, everyone just said that he was bragging, and no one believed it, who is the county lieutenant, how can he gamble with you?

So Tun Changhua and Shi Chang went to the disease, and could only go around to the front of more people, stood on tiptoe, and found that on the whitewashed earthen wall, there were two big seal characters written by the county lieutenant of Anlu County:

"Public toilets!"