Li Zhi looked at the young man and asked, "Does the wheat he grows have a high yield?" ”

The farmer nodded and said, "One acre of dry land planted by Brother Wang can produce one stone and five buckets of wheat, and mung beans will be planted in summer, and the harvest in one year is very impressive." In the past www.biquge.info he planted 15 acres of dry land and paid half of the grain as rent every year, so that he could feed a family of three. Now that Brother Wang and his daughter-in-law have obtained forty acres of dry land, the general of this dry field only collects thirty percent of the land rent, I am afraid that Brother Wang will become rich! ”

Li Zhi nodded, and glanced at the young man on the ground again.

The young man, Wang Finch, not only knew a lot, but also patiently instructed others, and seemed to be a good teacher.

Li Zhi walked up and said, "Wang Que, where did you learn these farming skills?" ”

The king bird was instructing the other peasants, but saw Li Zhi come up and ask himself. He didn't know who Li Zhi was, but he looked at Li Zhi puzzled.

"This official is Li Zhi, the general of Fanjiazhuang!"

Hearing this, the farmer next to him reacted. Many people had seen Li Zhi in an official robe before, and when they saw Li Zhi at this time, they recognized it and quickly knelt on the ground. Someone took the lead, and the others also knelt down, and suddenly hula knelt down.

Li Zhi said to the peasants: "No courtesy! Then he asked Wang Que, "Wang Que, where did you learn how to farm?" ”

Seeing Li Zhi asking him repeatedly, Wang Que said a little nervously: "Xiaomin is literate, and these knowledge are learned from the "Wang Zhen Agricultural Book", "Qi Min Yao Shu" and "The Book of Fan Sheng", and then combined with the actual situation of his own farming, he summed it up. ”

Li Zhi nodded and said, "According to your knowledge, what is the most important thing in the first year after this land reclamation?" ”

Wang Que replied: "The wasteland is barren, and the land is insufficient in the first year after the land is cleared, and the key lies in the fertile land. It is not only necessary to apply good fertilizer, but also to use the soil power on the ditch above to have a good harvest. If the seeds are planted well, the first year's winter wheat can be harvested with one stone and four buckets. ”

Hearing Wang Que's words of killing four buckets with one stone, Li Zhi was stunned, and secretly said that this is four buckets more than an ordinary harvest. If the king bird is used as a manager to guide others to farm, and the 190,000 mu of dry land is more than four buckets per mu, it is more than 70,000 stone of grain. Just counting the land rent collected by Li Zhi, he can also collect more than 20,000 stone of land rent, which is equivalent to allowing Li Zhi to earn more than 40,000 taels of silver.

Of course, the kingbird can't guide so many people. He is a person who lacks skills, and it would be good to be able to guide a hundred households. However, Li Zhi can match him with people to maximize the scope of Wang Finch's guidance.

Li Zhi asked, "Wang Que, how much grain can you harvest from the dry land you rented before?" ”

"My lord, if it is an ordinary year, my field can harvest one stone and five buckets of grain! You can also grow a season of mung beans! ”

Li Zhi turned his head to look at the surrounding croppers and asked, "Is what this king bird said true?" ”

The surrounding farmer replied one after another: "General, Wang Que is right, we used to watch the fields he planted in Baodi. Originally, his family rented more than a dozen acres of thin fields, and after planting them for five years, the fields were extremely fertile. ”

"What Wang Que said is true, I am from the same village as him, and he can harvest a few more buckets of land than us!"

Li Zhi nodded and said loudly: "Wang Bird, I don't think you want to farm, you come to my shogunate to be the instructor of the Agricultural Affairs Department, and you will pay six taels a month." This instructor runs around the fields every day, and I don't care about your food. I'll let you lead ten of your men and teach others how to grow a good field! Would you like to? ”

Although it cost Li Zhi 400 taels of silver a year to hire ten of his subordinates, this amount of silver is not much compared to the income from increasing agricultural production. As long as the peasants in Fanjiazhuang and Jinghai County increased their yields per mu, Li Zhi would be able to increase their land rent income by 10,000 taels of silver.

Li Zhi is ready to let Wang Que try it for a year first, and it will indeed work to expand the team next year. Moreover, in the first year, when the king bird instructed the farmers, the farmers would not believe it too much, and they needed to talk a little more. When the first year's harvest came out, his guidance proved to be really useful, and the second year did he really guide the farmers on a large scale.

So Li Zhi only matched ten people to the king bird in the first year.

Wang Que was stunned, looking at Li Zhi in a daze, and didn't react at once. Six taels of money can get seventy-two taels of silver a year. The kingfinch will farm again, and the income is limited, where can I earn seventy-two taels of silver a year? Li Zhi gave him such a good thing to do at once, and he also managed ten people, which made him feel like he had jumped into the dragon gate. After a long time, he said loudly: "My lord, I am willing, I am willing!" ”

Li Zhi said: "Okay, I will hire ten literate and clever people for you when I go back, as clerks of the Shogunate Agricultural Department, and listen to your command." This year's bumper harvest of winter wheat in Fanjiazhuang and Jinghai County depends on you! If the farmer under your guidance has a good harvest, I will give you a bonus! ”

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Li Zhi is ready to deploy some useful traditional equipment into the troops.

The first is thistle, which is a military spiked spiked spreading barrier, usually cast from pig iron. The finished product has four iron spikes sticking out, several inches long. No matter how the thistle lands on the ground, there is always a thorn pointing upwards, and the tip of the thorn is like the herb "tribulus terrestris", hence the name.

Each thorn of the thistle that Li Zhi was going to make was two centimeters long, and it was spread on the ground like a needle. After laying some thistles on the ground, the enemy can't get close at all. If the enemy wants to get closer, he must slowly clear the ground of the thistle terrestris, and then charge the battle after cleaning, which gives Li Zhi's riflemen more time to shoot.

With his mind decided, Li Zhi asked the blacksmiths to start making it. Nowadays, Li Zhi uses boring the chamber to make the barrel, and one craftsman can produce one rifle in seven days, and 500 rifle craftsmen can produce more than 2,000 rifles a month, which can fully meet the rifle needs of Li Zhi's soldiers. Now Li Zhi has 4,000 rifles in stock, in addition to having each soldier have a gun. Reproducing rifles from stockpiles was already a waste, and Li Zhi stopped the blacksmiths in April, and now these blacksmiths are just right to produce thistles.

Tribulus terrestris are so small that blacksmiths can cast a hundred a day. There is also a hole in the middle of each thistle, which is strung together every five for easy laying and stowing. Li Zhi planned to let a soldier carry twenty strings and spread them in front of the battle during the battle, so that the twenty meters in front of the battle would become a hell for the enemy.

It is conceivable that the Qing army or the thieves were stopped by thistles in front of Li Zhi's musket array, unable to advance or retreat, and constantly fell in the rifle fire.

In addition to thistles, Li Zhi also built a pole car.

The pole cart is a large chariot with a tall pole that is 15 meters long. The pole has a wooden chair for the lookout, so that the lookout can climb up and sit and constantly observe the situation on the battlefield. Li Zhi equipped the lookout with a telescope so that the lookout could observe the surrounding situation.

After the car was built, Li Zhi tried it near Fanjiazhuang and found that the lookout could see the whole situation within a radius of more than ten miles on the lookout pole, which could greatly make up for the scout's reconnaissance ability when it was suppressed, which was very practical. (To be continued.) )