Chapter 69: Changing the Play

Sun Fu is destined to be jubilant today, Sun Xiangfu's job field has been added to 2,000 acres, and he has also served as the deputy supervisor of the middle pastor, and he will be promoted in the future, and Shi Bao, who is only more than twelve years old, actually became the official position of the lower pastoral supervisor where Sun Xiangfu lived before, and it made his mother Nie Sanniang cry happily and fainted.

In the will, Li Shimin also allocated 2,000 acres of vocational land to Shi Bao, which is next to Xingfu Village, then, in the future, the strong men of Xingfu Village, in addition to the status of the royal village, are still the servants of the Fishery Division, and at the same time, they are also the tenants of Sun Xiangfu and Shi Bao, they need to be responsible for cultivating 6,000 acres of land, but in fact! The villagers of the original Xingfu Village did not need to cultivate an acre of land, because these things would be handed over to the hired workers of Xingfu Village.

After the winter, the literacy campaign in Happy Village has been going on, and now any person can recognize the thousand-character text, and they can also understand some of the more straightforward letters written by Sun Xiangfu to them, and there are Sun's algebraic symbols, and the people in the whole village, the addition and subtraction within a few hundred or thousands are very slippery, multiplication and division, as long as you give a little time, you can also do it, and in this era, you can already go to a low-level steward position.

The eighth day of the lunar month is Sun Dali's wedding date, and Sun Xiangfu and Shi Dabao just returned to the village to drink the wedding wine at the same time, and they could finish the job field by the way.

Yu Xiu'er came to Xingfu Village for the first time, and when she saw the clean and tidy cement road around the village, as well as the neat brick and cement houses, she couldn't believe that this was a village, and Chang'an City was nothing more than that!

Walking across the gangplank on the wharf of the village, Sun Xiangfu looked at the surrounding farmland on the high slope, in later generations he was a graduate student of the University of Agricultural Science and Technology who could teach farmers to farm, and it was certainly not a problem to teach farmers to farm in this period.

"Uncle Mi, have you turned over all the land in the village?"

"We are now many, and there are more than a dozen four-headed ploughs, and in two days, 4,000 acres of land have been turned over." Wang Fu Wang Gui's father Wang Youmi now loves to wander around the village entrance when he has nothing to do, no, he just received Sun Xiangfu who returned to the village.

"But I just saw that there are still a lot of land along the banks of the river that have not been turned, are those the land of other villages?"

"But no, they still laugh at our village for having money and no place to spend it, doing some useless things, turning over the ground so early, and having to turn it over again at the beginning of spring next year." Wang Youmi actually didn't know why he was turning the ground at this time, but Sun Xiangfu said that it was called overturning, and Sun Dali sent someone to carry it out.

At this time, Yu Xiu'er, who was listening to them on the side, also became interested and said, "Yes! Husband, isn't it useless to turn the ground now, and in the spring of next year, I will have to turn it again. ”

Sun Xiangfu smiled and replied, "You don't understand this, don't you hear the truth of 'Ruixue Zhaofeng Year', there is little snow this winter, and you can only rely on manpower to turn over the eggs hidden in the ground and freeze to death, so as to reduce next year's insect infestation, otherwise, those eggs hidden in the ground hatch in a large area, and they can become a disaster, and this is how the locust plague comes." ”

"Ahh Will there be a locust plague next year? ”

Wang Youmi heard Sun Xiangfu say the word locust plague, and the crutches in his frightened hands were unstable, he had experienced a locust plague in his life, and the tragic scene, even after more than ten years, when he had a nightmare, he would remember that if there would be a locust plague next year, then all the beauty of the happy village would be shattered.

"Uncle Mi, next year should be just a small drought, and there may not be a locust plague, but if there is a drought for two consecutive years, it is difficult to say. We need to prevent disasters before they happen, so we have to use our own methods to kill the insect eggs hidden in the soil and plow the fields shallowly. Sun Xiangfu supported Wang Youmidao.

"Husband, if that's the case, then there are still 3,000 acres of land in Lantian County, and we have to send someone to turn it over, by the way, and my father and uncles, I'm afraid that there will be tens of thousands ······of acres of land."

There are a lot of officials in the Yu family, there are many fields, and there are more inherited from the ancestors, so that if you marry a daughter, you can marry 3,000 acres of land, Sun Xiangfu of course wants everyone to take action, the small drought locusts may not become a disaster, but it can be several times more than the normal year, and it will lay a good foundation for the bigger locust plague in the future, so killing a hundred insect eggs this year is likely to kill tens of thousands of locusts in the year after tomorrow.

"Well, before the spring of next year, there should be one or two light snowfalls, and I will arrange it immediately after I go back, and I will come in a hurry." Sun Xiangfu nodded.

"Why didn't the husband write an excerpt and present it to His Majesty?"

"Well, that's forgot, I'll write it later! With His Majesty initiating, there should be someone going to turn over the ground! ”

Entering the village, Sun Xiangfu's first thing is, of course, to go to Sun Dali's house to congratulate him, and sent a lot of gifts brought by Chang'an City, Sun Dali is the groom official today, there are many things that need him to be busy, but he has no time to accompany Sun Xiangfu all the time, and when his younger brothers and sisters arrived in the village, they went to find land to spread joy by themselves, Sun Xiangfu took Yu Xiuer's hand and walked along the cement road around the village to the direction of the fishing ground.

"Xiu'er, I want to change the play."

"Change the play? Why? ”

"Let the people go to the ground in winter, it is estimated that they will not be happy, after all, not all the people are like the people of Happy Village who have silk cloth clothes and padded jackets, most of them are wearing coarse linen clothes, it is difficult to resist the cold wind, and one accidentally falls ill, which is a fatal thing."

"But what does this have to do with you changing the play?"

"I want to make up the story of the locust plague into the play, and our clever and powerful white lady will tell the people how to fight against the locust plague, which may be more useful than His Majesty's holy decree."

"Husband is cautious, however, this method can be tried, but it's a pity that our previous rehearsals were in vain."

"The change is not big, that is, the place where Xu Xian is assigned is changed from the south to the north, and the original scenes basically don't need to be deleted, just add one more paragraph."

Since the second episode, there are not many big scenes and big actions in the plot, Xu Xian was implicated in the matter of the official bank and was assigned, and then Bai Suzhen went to Xu Xian's distribution place to find him, and then the two continued to be husband and wife, opened a pharmacy, and showed affection, only need to arrange a locust plague in this distribution place, so that Bai Suzhen's kind image of trying to save the hungry people in the locust plague will be more stable, as for dealing with the toad essence, it can be arranged to play later.

Chatting and chatting, the two climbed up to the reservoir dam that was raised, due to the abundance of hired workers, and no rain or snow this winter, the dam several hundred meters long has been raised to seven or eight meters, and the water hoarded in the reservoir is also six or seven meters deep, but I am not afraid that hundreds of thousands of fish will be hypoxic.

"Husband, this is the fishing ground of Happy Village!"

"Well, the big fish used in our restaurant is provided here, but they are all fished and hoarded before, and the fish fry stocked this autumn will not be raised until next year's winter, and they have been raised for more than a year at that time, and they should be very big."

The wind on the dam was very strong, and the two didn't stay long, so they went to the direction of the chicken farm, where Aunt Cuihua was usually taken care of, but today her son got married, and it was handed over to Wang Fu's wife to take care of, of course, the main group of people is mainly hired workers from neighboring villages.

"Village chief, village chief's wife, why don't you rest in the house, you still come to the chicken farm on this cold day, don't make your body stink." Wang opened the door of the chicken farm to Sun Xiangfu with a happy face.

"Hehe, lead the lady to see your own industry, the chicken farm is very good now!" Sun Xiangfu smiled and looked around.

"Of course the chickens in our village are good, according to the method you said, the hens can lay eggs, but those hired workers in the neighboring villages have learned all the work of raising chickens, and they all want to go back to their own villages to raise them!" While Wang was excited, he expressed the worries of the chicken farm.

It's no wonder that those hired workers want to raise their own chickens, it is really too profitable, in winter, the price of an egg in Chang'an is 12 Wen, 12 Wen can buy two catties of millet, and two catties of millet, plus some omnivorous, enough to feed a chicken for more than ten days, with the average output of one egg every three days in the laying hens of Happy Village, a hen produces eggs a year, at least 100, and the value of 100 eggs, that is 1,200 yuan, the income of a hen can almost be worth the output of an acre of land, who does not want to raise? It can only be blamed for the lack of chicken farmers in this era, and eggs belong to the ranks of high-priced tonics.

"It's okay, let them raise it when they learn it! Let's take the eggs laid by those chickens with high egg production, hatch the chicks, and sell them to raise. ”

In later generations, China's chicken industry is very developed, not to mention an egg for two catties of grain, when the price of rice is sold to two or three yuan a catty, the price of eggs is only a few cents a pound, almost the price of the same weight of grain, the country's more than one billion people, can not eat their own country's eggs, but also a large number of exports. Because the chickens at that time, as long as they reach the egg-laying period after three months of feeding, they can almost lay an egg a day, and a self-employed chicken farmer can raise tens of thousands of chickens casually, and even some are powerful, raising hundreds of thousands of chickens, which is larger than the scale of Happy Village.

The benefit of raising poultry for all people is to be able to reduce crop pests and improve the nutritional level of farmers' diet, the natural environment in this era is good, there is no pollution, and there are fewer cases of large-scale chicken plague, in fact, it is more suitable for the development of poultry breeding, although when everyone starts to raise chickens, it is bound to reduce the price of eggs, but this is not exactly what Sun Xiangfu wants?

When people in this country can eat and eat eggs with high nutritional value, who else is this country afraid of?

Sun Xiangfu took out the feeding log of the chicken farm and looked at it, although it was written very simply, the words were also written very ugly, and there were many typos, but Sun Xiangfu read it with relish.

Among the more than 20,000 chickens, more than 100 chickens with the highest egg production rate have been found, and the eggs they lay have begun to hatch, which is the second generation of high-yield chickens, and the offspring of these chickens will become the third generation of chickens that are mainly bred in the chicken farm.

"Go back and tell Aunt Cuihua that you can add some hired workers, and take advantage of the lack of snow this winter to drive all the chickens to the farmland in our village for a few days, and these chickens will dig out the eggs in the field and eat them." Sun Xiangfu gave a simple suggestion, and then heard the sound of gongs and drums in the village, so he and Yu Xiu'er went down the chicken mountain and walked to the village.