Zhi Hui was right, how could Gao Yue have time to come to Jingzhou City? He was busy receiving the caravans of Chang'an City outside Baili New Town, accepting all kinds of materials and equipment sent by them, and actively lobbying them to rent mansions in Baili New Town, one of which stored goods for them, and the house provided food and lodging for business travelers.

Gao Yue was wearing a scarlet robe, standing under the newly built city wall, holding a whip, pointing around to the merchants, his voice was a little hoarse, but his enthusiasm was still blazing: "My Baili City is in all directions, adjacent to Jingzhou and Changwu City, to the north can be connected to the Lingzhou trade road, to the west can be through Liangyuan, Huating Road into Longzhou, to the east can be connected to Pizhou, to the south can be directly along the Qichuan River Valley to Fengxiang, and there are three Shence camp military towns of Linyou, Purun and Haoqi on the left and right. Although there are not many households, they can camp the fields and take their families, there are also 10,000 people up and down, surrounded by rivers, the land is flat, the water and grass are abundant, and the purchase of mansions here can get the benefits of the trade of the various ethnic groups in Hui, Xifan, and the party, and the capital can be much cheaper than Chang'an and even other places in Guanzhong......

But even so, the merchants looked at the newly opened cities and the uncultivated fields in the surrounding areas, and generally did not have much confidence in the prospects of the "blueprint" of the high servants.

Gao Yue didn't force it, and still stamped the documents held by the merchants very happily, so that they could go back to Chang'an and get money or salt from the Jingyuan Jinjuan Courtyard smoothly, so that it would not be difficult for them to come again next time.

The most important thing at present is not trade for the time being, but to feed the army and have surplus materials to talk about other things.

Soon, Gao Yue, Ming Xuan, Liu Demu, etc., surrounded by county officials and Youyi, held poles and rope rulers, demarcated the field spacing for each tun, allocated the fields, built the house, dug out the fat cellar, and then began to open more ditches from the Furong Canal led by the Daxi River, which was directly connected to the Qichuan leading to Fengxiang, and diverted water to irrigate the tuntian.

"Gao Shiyu, the river of Daxichuan is sandy, if the diversion canal is opened, the water flow will decrease, and there will be too much sand, so that it will be congested." So the monk Mingxuan put forward the scheme of "standing at the mouth of the ditch", that is, before each ditch enters the ditch, digging the ground as a hole, and then inserting the wooden pillar in turn, densely covered like a sash, and then using a large horizontal wood to penetrate it for reinforcement, so that once the river passes through the snack, it will be injected out, which can not only filter the sediment, but also can leave larger stones to ensure the cleanliness and smoothness of the ditch. Then Ming Xuan offered the system of "weir gate bucket door", Gao Yue adopted, and set up a shed at the weir gate bucket gate, specially placed the county officials as "water officials", required each tun to use water, must first write a document to apply, after passing by the water officer to open the gate and release water, according to the amount of supply, this is the "law of water production".

Soon July arrived, and it was the time to plough the barren fields mentioned in the "Four Hours Compendium".

In addition to the common barley and wheat, there is also a crop seed that can be prepared for emergency preparedness, and that is buckwheat.

For example, wheat is commonly referred to as "winter wheat".

Prior to this, Gao Yue required all the soldiers of the tun, including Fan Yangbing Liutun, who was cultivating in Baishiyuan, Lingtai, to start ploughing in mid-July, and half of the land was urgently planted with buckwheat, which is what is said in the "Qi Min Yaoshu" "Autumn harvest, first plough the buckwheat field, and then plough the rest of the land." "Once the buckwheat is planted, winter wheat can be planted in August on the remaining half of the farmland.

The buckwheat can be harvested in October to get the first grain, and then the land is fallow, and the white millet is planted again in the spring of February of the following year. The winter wheat on the other half of the cultivated land can be harvested in May of the following year, so that the second batch of grain can be obtained, and after the wheat is harvested and sunned, green manure plants such as adzuki beans and flax can be planted on the cultivated land; In the autumn of the following year, white corn, flax, adzuki beans, etc., can be harvested at the same time, and this is the third batch of grain - after the white corn is harvested, buckwheat and winter wheat can be planted, so that the effect of harvesting grain three times in two years can be achieved.

However, Gao Yue knows that this can only be regarded as "two years and two crops", and it is not the "two years and three cropping system" that can be achieved in China during the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties and the Sui and Tang dynasties, as mentioned in many sources, because Gao Yue's farming mode can only be said to be "intercropping", not the "multiple cropping" necessary for two years and three cropping.

The so-called intercropping is to divide the field, and all kinds of crops are not delayed by each other; Plurality, on the other hand, is the rotation of different crops in the same field.

Why don't you use such advanced technologies as multiple cropping and two-year triple cropping? It's very simple, because Jingzhou is a situation of "vast land and sparsely populated" (or before the Ming and Qing dynasties, northern China was like this, that is, there were fewer people and more fields), for the soldiers in the camp, the family had to be responsible for 100 acres of land, and you let him work intensively on the field within two years, and then plant the next stubble, and then harvest several crops, and also undertake the task of practicing archery, no one can stand the fatigue of this "multiple planting".

The burden of intercropping is much lighter, and it doesn't matter if the farming methods are more extensive.

Therefore, as a historical materialist, Gao Yue is at the top of his thinking by adapting measures to local conditions and seeking truth from facts: in the case of vast land and sparsely populated land and a large number of fields per capita, increasing the area of cultivated land per mu is the most practical way to increase yield, rather than adopting the unrealistic "two-year, three-cropping system".

Therefore, it was not until the Ming and Qing dynasties, when the per capita land occupied was becoming more and more tight, that the two-year three-cropping system was really popularized, and the fields were less will be intensively cultivated in order to increase production, which is the reason.

In addition, he once told Duan Xiushi that he wanted to implement the double cropping method of rice and wheat in Jingzhou, but after careful consideration, he also gave up this behavior, because if rice wants to produce yields, it is necessary to select good seeds, dig water conservancy, and cultivate intensively, which is also more than worth the loss for the army's barracks, and is far less convenient and efficient than planting crops such as millet, buckwheat, and wheat.

The camp was in full swing, and the facilities of Baili City were slowly improving, Gao Yue discussed with Yao Lingyan in the Jingzhou Military Mansion, and sent people to cut down trees for free in many mountains in the west of Jingzhou, and then transported them to the city to continue to build beacons, flag pavilions, post stations and mansions.

Soon, Cui Ning, who received a letter from his son-in-law, took the initiative to resign from other envoys in the imperial court, and only retained the affairs of the governor of Lingzhou, and then left Fangzhou and went to Lingzhou to sit in the town and continue to appease the tribes of the party.

Although Yang Yan in the court was resentful, he did not dare to make things difficult.

Then Cui Ning went up again, saying that when the camp in Anxi of Jingzhou mutinied, he had recruited 10,000 Han "rights and interests soldiers" in Weibei as a reserve for counterinsurgency, and now the mutiny has stopped, and all these 10,000 soldiers can be disbanded, but there are 3,000 of them who originally belonged to the "Dongshan Party" in Gyeongzhou, and the department lived in the water and grass, and has now migrated to Linjing in the north of Jingzhou.

"Isn't Gao Yue now the envoy of Jingyuan Fangzhen? This taught him to be pacified. The Emperor replied.