Zhai Village Changman thought that his ancestral method of governing the fields could be praised by the horses, but who knew that this noble man just shook his head, thinking that Zhou Nan was high above and did not understand the hardships of farmers. If it is on a good field, there are two stones per mu. But in this salty wetland, it's good to have some harvest. In other places, they can't even grow seeds.

  Village Chief Zhai boasted to Zhou Nan: "Within a radius of dozens of miles, there can be such a harvest, but there are few places. When my ancestors came here, it was only because the locals here did not farm here that my ancestors were able to live here. If it's a good field, where will my ancestors plant?! ”

  Zhou Nan shook his head, not that he didn't think this method was good, but that he was not satisfied with this output. Don't talk about the fact that the yield per mu is 1,000 catties in later generations, even in this era, there are two or three stones per mu. Grain and rice are different from beans, millet, rice, and wheat, and the weight of a stone of grain and rice is also different, on average, a stone of grain and rice is about 120 catties. In an ordinary field, one acre of land collects 300 catties of grain, and a few acres of land are planted, which is enough for a family to eat. I brought people to control the fields and plant rice, so that this saline-alkali land can be changed into normal land, and it can also be like a normal field, with a yield of two stones per mu. With a yield of half a stone per mu, of course Zhou Nan will not look at it.

  "Write down the method of village chief Zhai's deep ploughing and washing of the fields, and let the farmers follow suit when we go back." Zhou Nan first instructed Yu Shen, and then said to Village Chief Zhai: "Village Chief Zhai has worked hard for several generations to achieve today's achievements, and it is not easy to harvest half a stone. ”

  Village Chief Zhai said with a smile: "Raise some chickens, ducks and geese, feed some sheep, catch some fish from the water, pick some wild vegetables, and mix grain and rice, which can barely feed a village." ”

  "What wild vegetables can grow in this field?" Yu Shen asked curiously.

  "In poor places, people don't dislike them, and naturally there are wild vegetables that don't dislike them. At this time, like golden cauliflower and salted artemisia, when the stems and leaves are fresh, they are picked back, boiled in water, mixed with wild onions, fresh and delicious, and the salted artemisia has a fresh taste of seafood. It can be used as medicine to treat food stasis, fever, etc. Artemisia salina can be dried and hung up, and when there are no fresh vegetables, they can be cooked and cooked. Village Chief Zhai said with a few treasures.

  Hearing the three words golden cauliflower, Zhou Nan's heart moved, but he asked: "When I came in just now, I saw that the people in the village raised a lot of geese, how to feed the geese?" ”

  Village Chief Zhai said disapprenously: "Naturally, it is put in the ditch outside the field at the edge of the village to eat grass and insects." Even when the rice is about to ripen in July and August, it cannot be driven out to prevent the geese from stealing the ears of rice. ”

  Zhou Nan asked again: "How many sheep are there in the village?" How do you graze on weekdays? ”

  "There are 130 households in the village, and every family has sheep, hundreds of them, and eight or nine sheep. They all rushed to the wild wasteland to graze. Although this area does not grow crops well, it is a sheep that can shepherd sheep and eat the grass on the salty ground, the meat is delicious, and the sheep in our Sanshui Village in the past are all famous good sheep in Yanjing City. Village Chief Zhai looked proud, which made Zhou Nan regret a little: If he knew this, it would be better to choose another village and let this Sanshui Village specialize in shepherding sheep, otherwise, wouldn't it bury the reputation of this Sanshui good sheep?

  "There are fish in the river, and there must be crabs too?" Zhou Nan asked again.

  "There are naturally crabs when there are fish, and the crabs in the river are delicious, but now is not the time." When Village Chief Zhai saw that Zhou Nan was asking about some food, he thought that Zhou Nan wanted to taste the delicious specialties here.

  Zhou Nan came all the way from Yanjing, all he thought about was the matter of saline-alkali land, and he just asked the village chief Zhai about these chickens, ducks, fish, and sheep, but also because he suddenly thought of a way, and now there are golden cauliflowers, salted artemisia and wild vegetables on the wasteland outside Sanshui Village, fish and crabs in the river, and geese and sheep raised in the village.

  While being delighted, Zhou Nan asked uneasily: "In addition to Sanshui Village, are there fish, crabs, chickens, and geese in other villages in Wuqing County?" ”

  "In the middle of the village, and near the river, there are naturally all of them." Village Chief Zhai replied that he was very strange why Zhou Nan kept asking about this.

  Zhou Nan smiled reassuringly and said, "Sanshui Village is really good!" After the soil properties are improved, when the mu yields two stones of rice, the village chief Zhai is afraid that he will laugh at the harvest of this half stone. ”

  "Don't say two stones, you can have one stone of rice to harvest, and the little old man will also lead the clansmen to leave a monument for the nobles at the entrance of the village, and praise the kindness of the nobles." Village Chief Zhai asked in disbelief, "It's just that what is the best way for your nobles to go to this field?" ”

  Since Yu Shen followed Zhou Nan out of Yanjing City, he has only seen Zhou Nan worried along the way, and he has never seen Zhou Nan so confident in the matter of governing the fields and planting rice. Along the way, I didn't hear Zhou Nan say that there was any good way to manage this field, and now listening to Zhou Nan's tone of speech, it was very unexpected.

  Zhou Nan didn't say anything about how to govern the field, but said vaguely: "The way is there, but I have to try it to know if it works." ”

  Yu Shen was about to ask, but he heard a few people coming in outside, the leader was Li Feixing, followed by two people, both of whom knew each other: one was Wuqingzhi County, who appealed in the court some time ago when he was in Yanjing at the court, and the other was a small head of the Wansheng army that Zhou Nan and Gao Yuan reorganized when they were in Zhuozhou, and later he was injured, so Zhou Nan specially asked him to be a garrison in Wuqing County.

  Zhou Nan came to Wuqing and was not prepared to come in secret, so when he said that he would be stationed in Sanshui Village, Li Feixing sent someone to Wuqing County and told Wuqing Zhixian County the news that Zhou Nan was here. Therefore, Wu Qingzhi County and the garrison rushed to see Zhou Nan.

  The village chief of Na Zhai saw that the county and the garrison were coming together, and the county couldn't control the line pipe, so he panicked and gave up his seat, where were the two willing to sit? Zhou Nan asked everyone to sit down and speak, and Wuqing Zhixian said: "The arrival of the king is really a blessing for the people of Wuqing." I wonder how long the king will stay here? The lower officials can also arrange grain, rice, vegetables and vegetables. ”

  Zhou Nan said with a smile: "I'm afraid that I won't be able to cure the field for a few days." I have 300 people here, you can send 100 stones of grain and grass first, and don't worry about anything else. ”

  The garrison hurriedly said: "The master of the village is here, even if we don't eat or drink, we also want the master of the village to have food to eat and meat to eat, how can we not care?!" Knowing that the lord of Dazhai had arrived, I and the county magistrate brought grain, rice, meat and vegetables when they came. ”

  Village Chief Zhai also hurriedly said: "Although Sanshui Village is poor, the nobles have arrived today, and this first meal is eaten here at Xiao Lao'er!" ”

  Seeing this, Zhou Nan did not shirk, and asked the magistrate and the garrison, as well as Yu Shen, to stay at the village chief's house for dinner. Sure enough, there were some village vegetables and vegetables, including chicken, fish, a large pot of stewed mutton, and a few wild vegetables that the village chief said. There is one, green, with a faint smell of sea, which must be the salt artemisia that the village chief said; There is also a golden cauliflower, which Zhou Nan has also eaten, that is, alfalfa. Seeing alfalfa, Zhou Nan was more relieved.