Everyone turned their heads to look, only to see behind many farmers, a farmer standing there alone, seeing so many people looking at him, did not flinch, but said: "The land here is just insufficient and difficult to cultivate. It's like a seriously ill woman who has no milk, how can she feed her offspring? Only by fertilizing more can we cultivate well. ”

Several farmers immediately said: "If you just fertilize the land, this saltiness can be removed?!" I'm afraid that you, a Yizhou person, haven't seen the power of our salt here. ”

The other farmers also shook their heads and remained silent, as if they did not agree with this farmer's method.

There are also people who say that the land should be divided into pieces, and then the soil in each field should be boiled, the salt in it should be boiled, and the boiled mud should be re-thrown into each field, and the divided plots should be divided into ditches to plant rice.

This statement has also been agreed by several farmers, after all, everyone knows that the land is wet and salty because the soil contains more salt than other places, so it is natural that crops cannot be grown well. The people living near the sea know how to boil salt, and although it seems laborious, it can be regarded as a one-and-done solution.

Zhou Nan said to Yu Shen beside him: "Write down these methods, and then pick a few that work in the future, try them separately, and finally see which one is the best." Yu Shen hurriedly responded, took out the paper from the backpack behind him, took out the pen and ink, put the paper on a wooden board, and began to record the method mentioned by the farmers just now.

Seeing that Zhou Nan attached so much importance to the method they proposed, they were greatly encouraged, and their emotions were higher than just now. Several people agreed with the proposed method, so they immediately found Yu Shen and told Yu Shen so that Yu Shen could record it.

In the evening, the sky had already darkened, and the afterglow of the sun was shining in the river, but unfortunately the sparkling sun reflected in the water could not be seen from the west bank of the river. There were a few dog barks not far away, and there were still people living in this wilderness, Zhou Nan couldn't help but look at the place where the dog barking came from.

The river in the east did not flow to the southeast here, but turned to the northeast, around a large bay, and the change of the river course suddenly made the river in this position turbulent and muddy. On the west bank of the river, there is a large area of land on the high bank of the river, although it is also a saline-alkali land with white flowers, but there are also a few clumps of wild grass growing here and there, and a few sparse ridges of land, I don't know what is planted in it, it seems that it has only been cultivated for a long time. There are also two paddy fields in which crops have not yet been grown. Looking further into the distance, you can see several houses, all of which are fences made of tree branches, and in the middle of the fence are a few thatched huts, and some of them have earthen houses.

At this time, Li Feixing came to see Zhou Nan and said that there was another five miles in front of him, and he would be able to reach Wuqing County, and asked if he would enter the city now.

Zhou Nan shook his head and said, "Since I'm here to govern the field, I won't go into the city." I think the terrain here is also high, so why don't you stay here? ”

Li Feixing said without hesitation: "The villain will take people to level the camp and set up tents." Then he rode away with his men again.

Hearing that he was going to camp and stay in this deserted village, Yu Shen, a rich boy, was a little excited, and immediately went to choose a place with Xiao Jiu. In the past few days, although Yu Shen and Xiao Jiu have different backgrounds, in this group of people, only the two of them are close in age, and they have always followed Zhou Nan's side, so they naturally became acquainted.

Zhou Nan also took the craftsmen and farmers to the small deserted village not far away. Approaching the deserted village, standing on a high place, Zhou Nan found that this seems to be a natural mound, the Lu River flows around this mound for most of the circle, and finally goes to the southeast, and the southeast can vaguely see the city wall of Wuqing County a few miles away. The land that is about to be completely surrounded by the Lu River is not like the wasteland that my group walked over just now, but a piece of field, and between each field, there are ditches connected to it. However, the fields are not connected, and there is still a lot of wasteland in between. Moreover, whether it is wasteland or cultivated fields, there are many saline-alkali lands with white flowers, and it seems that the villagers here are only barely cultivating on saline-alkali land.

The farmers behind him were even more excited than Zhou Nan when they saw that there were people farming here, and immediately came to the ridge to see if it was the way they said to govern the field.

Only the farmer from Yizhou only walked to see a few fields, and walked along the ditch for a while before turning back, so he no longer looked at it, but with a disdainful face. Zhou Nan couldn't help but wonder, this farmer in Yizhou, just said that he wanted to fertilize the fields, but could fertilization change the essence of saline-alkali land? Looking at this person's expression, he seems to be quite sure, do the peasants of this era already know how to improve the saline-alkali land?

After about two incense sticks, Li Feixing rode over again and said to Zhou Nan: "Dazhai master, there is only one village here, because the Lu River bypasses the west, north and east sides of the village, so it is called Sanshui Village, and there are only about 100 households living in the village, and Han Dutou and Ma Dutou have already leveled the plot in the village and set up camp. ”

Zhou Nan asked uneasily: "Is there any vacant space in the village for us people?" ”

"The owner of the village can rest assured that this mound is five miles in circumference, and the village is also one mile in circumference, and it can be lived in. When the people in the village heard that it was the official army, they also said that they would vacate the house for us to live in. It's just that their huts are not as warm as our tents. Li Feixing said with a rare smile.

"Then let's go inside. Just tell to go down, don't disturb the villagers, we live ours. Zhou Nan instructed Li Feixing.

Li Feixing hurriedly nodded in agreement, led the horse to lead the way in front, and led Zhou Nan and these farmers and craftsmen towards the entrance of the village.

This mound is already facing water on three sides, and this Sanshui village is located in the center of the mound, using the ditch dug by farming, and actually digging a ditch more than one zhang wide outside the wall of the village, as a moat.

When Zhou Nan and others walked to the outside of the moat, the suspension bridge had already been lowered, and many men and women walked out of the village, and the front was an elderly man with gray hair and strong spirits, seeing Zhou Nan and Li Feixing beside Zhou Nan, he hurriedly led the villagers out of the suspension bridge, saluted Zhou Nan, and said: "The little old man's surname is Zhai, he is the village chief here, I don't know that the nobles are coming, I have not greeted him from afar, forgive my sins!" Forgiveness! ”

"Village Chief?!" Suddenly hearing such a familiar title, Zhou Nan was very kind, and Yu Shen bookworm generally introduced beside Zhou Nan: "The old Liao Taizong Emperor has an edict: in each village, a powerful household is designated as the village head. Xinliao is below the county level, and is still under the jurisdiction of the county, township, village or li according to the old practice. Village Chief Zhai must be a prestigious elder in Sanshui Village, so he is the village head. ”

Only then did Zhou Nan understand that in this era, there are not only village heads, but also township chiefs - in fact, there are county magistrates, large counties are magistrates, and small counties are county magistrates. It's just that Yu Liyan is collectively referred to as Zhixian according to the habits of Zhou Nan.

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