"Brother Huang, farming is different from others, and if you go against the heavens, you will get twice the result. It has just rained in the past few days, and it is the time for planting, and if you miss these days, even if you replant and harvest will be far away. It was because the peasants were in a hurry to cultivate the land in these days. Zhu Youstew said.

"Yes, there are rules for farming, and you must not violate the time of day. But there are some rules, such as the method of farming, must not be violated? From ancient times to the present, agricultural tools have changed countless times from the pre-Qin to the Qin and Han dynasties, to the Sui and Tang dynasties, to the Song Dynasty, and then to the present dynasty, but they have made farming easier and easier. ”

"Brother Huang, farming tools are different from farming methods. Even if the farm tools are not as good as before, they are just more effort on the part of the farmers, and the harvest is slightly less; If the method of farming changes, if it is wrong, it will cause heavy losses, and may even lose the harvest. Brother Huang, you still have to be cautious! Zhu Youstew persuaded.

Yesterday, Yun Xi called his wife into the palace, and told him that he would take him around the farmland on the outskirts of the capital today, and he would promote new farming methods to him. Zhu Youstew thought about it for half the night, and felt that it was better to be cautious, so he said.

"Brother naturally knows, so he just brought you to this Zhuangzi, instead of Mingfa will promote it throughout the country." Yoon-hee said as he walked towards the farm near the field.

"This Zhuangzi? But the imperial brother wants to use this Zhuangzi as a place for experimentation? Zhu Youstew looked at the farmers who were farming in the fields by the roadside. Brother Huang, this is a royal village? ”

"This is not the Imperial Village. This place is called Heyanzhuang, which was originally the Zhuangzi of the Xue family, and your sister-in-law married into the dowry of the royal dowry. As soon as your sister-in-law entered the palace, she entered the public account of Wenhua Hall with all the Zhuangzi who accompanied the marriage, but because it was her dowry, it was not counted as the imperial village. After that, it became a muddy account, and so it came down. Yun Xi smiled.

'Xue family? Zhu Youstew was not so easy to fool: "At that time, the Xue family was just an ordinary third-grade commander, and the hereditary future was the commander of the fourth-grade, how could this Zhuangzi's position be so good, how could it fall into the hands of the Xue family?" However, how this Zhuangzi came to be has nothing to do with me, so don't ask. ’

How did he know that this Zhuangzi was originally from the Chang family. Yun Xi was still the emperor's grandson at that time, and he was given according to the prince's etiquette. Of course, Yun Xi would not have the idea of succeeding to the throne in advance, but he was young at the time and didn't think much about doing things, and he had a little power in his hands, so he wanted to make some scientific inventions based on what he remembered in his head.

But he didn't graduate from a related major, so he could only let the craftsmen explore slowly, and the money spent was a sea of money. He also figured out how to treat the subordinates of the Wenhua Palace and his own guards with grace and power, and it also cost money, and the money was not enough to spend. It just so happened that at this time, the Chang family also had the heart to restore the relationship between relatives, so they wanted to give him a Zhuangzi. He was short on money at the time, so he agreed.

Yun Xi thought of the events of the year at this time, and felt quite ridiculous, and said secretly: "Although grandpa didn't do anything at that time, grandpa already knew about it." He thought well, all this seemed to be done very secretly, but in fact, it was all within Zhu Yuanzhang's line of sight. It's just that he thinks it's nothing, and he doesn't care.

After thinking about it, they had already entered Zhuangzi. Zhuang Tou had already received the news yesterday, and after seeing Yun Xi and his party, he hurriedly knelt down and said, "The villain Lu Lingfeng has seen the master. He naturally knew Yun Xi's identity, but Yun Xi didn't want other people in the village to know his identity, so he just called him Master.

He looked at Zhu Youstew again, and was hesitating what to call it, Zhu Youstew smiled and said, "Just call it the second master." ”

"I've seen the second master!" Lu Lingfeng kowtowed and said.

"Get up." Yun Xi said. At first, he placed the craftsmen engaged in scientific invention in Heyanzhuang, and only moved them to other places after succeeding to the throne. The original head of the village, Lu Chengfeng, jumped to become the official in charge of those craftsmen, and let his younger brother Lu Lingfeng be the head of the village.

"Thank you, sir." Lu Lingfeng said another sentence before standing up.

"All the farmers in the village have gone to work in the fields?" Yun Xi took a step towards Zhuang Nei, and when he saw that every house was deserted, he asked.

"It finally rained today, so the farmers naturally had to hurry up and farm. You don't know, most of our fields in Zhuangzi can't grow rice because of the high terrain, they can't attract water, and they can only grow wheat. When it rains, everyone is in a hurry to sow wheat. Lu Lingfeng explained.

"Let them all come back!" Yun Xi commanded. He didn't have time to wait for them to wait until the noon break.

"Sir!" Lu Lingfeng shouted: "If you miss this rain, this year's harvest will be much less." He subconsciously shouted, but immediately became afraid: 'I didn't listen to the emperor!' What if the emperor decrees that he will drag me out and behead me? ’

He was about to kneel down and beg for mercy, when he suddenly heard Yun Xi say, "Master Ben has exempted the grain that he has to hand over this year!" Then tell them, come and listen to me today, and when this master speaks, every household will be rewarded with a consistent amount of money. ”

"The villain is going to pass on the master's order!" Lu Lingfeng hurriedly agreed, and then immediately ran towards the field. After a short time, all the farmers ran back to the village, fearing that they would slow down. Exempt from the grain and reward money handed over this year, not to mention that delaying half a day will only reduce the harvest by one or two percent, even if half of the fields are lost, it is worth it!

These people looked at Yun Xi excitedly, as if they were looking at a string of money. Fortunately, they still know how to be humble, and under the leadership of Zhuangtou Lu Lingfeng, they all knelt down and said: "The villain has seen the master!" Everyone shouted with all their might, and the magpies flew wildly, and the dogs of the families also barked.

"Get up!" Yun Xi waved his hand and said.

When everyone was on their feet, someone brought over a large cabinet and put it down horizontally. Yun Xi jumped on the cabinet, didn't talk nonsense, and said directly: "Ladies and gentlemen, there is nothing else to do when Master Ben came to call you over to talk today, just to tell you a new method of farming, and use this method to farm in the future." ”

There was a look of suspicion on everyone's faces. At first glance, the person in front of him is a city man who does not touch the spring water with ten fingers, and he is still a person with a lot of wealth and status, where will he know how to farm. If you weren't worried that you wouldn't be able to get the money when you go back at this time, you probably turned around and left.

Yun Xi didn't care about their expressions, and continued: "The farming method that Master Ben is going to give you today, Master Ben has a name, it is the family farm. ”

Yes, the new farming method that Yoon-hee has been promoting is the family farm.

The so-called family farm refers to a new type of agricultural business entity that takes family members as the main labor force, engages in large-scale, intensive, and commercial agricultural production and operation, and takes agricultural income as the main source of family income.

The emergence of family farms has promoted the development of the agricultural economy and promoted the process of agricultural commercialization. It can effectively narrow the gap between the rich and the poor in urban and rural areas. At the same time, with the goal of maximizing benefits, family farms have transformed agriculture from a guarantee function to a profit function, overcoming the disadvantages of a self-sufficient small-scale farmer economy, with a high degree of commercialization, and can provide more and more abundant agricultural products for the society.

In the 20th century, almost all developed countries in the world practiced the family farm system, with large family farms in rice and Australia, followed by medium-sized family farms in France and other countries, and Japan, which has the largest population density, also established small family farms in China from 1946 to 1950 after the implementation of compulsory paid land reform under the bayonets of the rice army.

Of course, the first industrial revolution has not yet arrived, and agricultural machinery cannot be discussed, but as long as they are given oxen and new agricultural tools to accompany their inventions, and they are prompted to change their mindsets, the number of fields that farmers can cultivate can at least triple to quadruple.

"......, now that the Ming Dynasty has few people and a lot of land, there are so many barren lands, why do you still cultivate so little land?" Yun Xi shouted.

"Master, it's not that we don't want to grow a few acres of land, we really can't plant it! The days when you can plant the land are only a few days, and if you miss the time to replant, you will not get a good harvest, and your efforts will be in vain; Big animals are expensive, and they can't afford to tie them! Someone shouted as they stuck in the crowd.

"As long as you farm according to the method given to you by Master Ben, you can grow a few acres!" Yun Xi also shouted.

"Master, the little one listened to what the master just said, and it sounds better than before. But it also takes a lot of effort, even if you give new farm tools, you can't grow a few acres. Someone shouted again.

"So, in order for you to grow a few acres of land, there is a concept that needs to be changed."

Yun Xi said: "When you apply fertilizer, if you lose half of the fertilizer, how much less can the harvest be?" If you use half the effort when turning the soil, loosening the soil, mixing the soil, and breaking the soil, how much less can the harvest be? ”

Hearing Yun Xi's words, the farmers below all frowned. In order to pursue the maximum yield, how can there be less effort in farming? Even in some years, because the family fell ill at the time of planting, they could only do things hastily, but after so many years, I have forgotten how much the harvest has decreased.

"Does no one know?" Yun Xi asked again, and when he saw that no one answered, he wanted to throw out his opinion, but at this moment he heard someone say, "I know!" ”

When Yun Xi heard this, he hurriedly looked up, and saw a man in his thirties, wearing a ragged suit, and no mother-in-law beside him, shouting.

"It turned out to be him!" There was a lot of talk below, and most of them were laughing at the man. Yun Xi was puzzled and asked Lu Lingfeng. Lu Lingfeng said: "Master, you don't know, this person is called Yang Ling, the most lazy person, he never uses his best efforts to farm, and the harvest of the land he plants is always less than that of others." He has no other skills, so his life is very poor, and no one is willing to marry his daughter to him, so he has been a bachelor until this age. ”