Volume 1 Chapter 53 There is nothing difficult in the world
If you haven't started to do anything, think about the difficulty of doing it here, the difficulty of completing it there, and then discourage you, then you may not be able to achieve anything in this life.
Zhang Bin knows that changing from intercropping rice to continuous rice is a long-term process, which cannot be completed in one or two years, and there will be resistance of one kind or another.
However, once it can be popularized throughout the Ming Dynasty, it can increase the grain output of at least two or three hundred million stones every year, and such a thing is enough to change the historical pattern, no matter how difficult it is, it must be completed.
It was only the first step for him to ask Hu Jiang to do yield experiments, and later, perhaps, he would write a "Rice Planting Summary" or something.
However, this is all for later, and now, he has one more important thing to do, which is to distribute the seeds of potatoes and sweet potatoes.
After a few days of investigation, it seems that the pirate who attacked Binh Duong has been frightened and does not dare to appear in the waters near Binh Duong again, so the seeds of this potato and sweet potato must be sent as soon as possible, otherwise, the best time for planting will be missed.
Of course, Zhang Bin is still in the recuperation period, and he can't do the distribution of potatoes and sweet potato seeds himself, so he handed over this matter to his cronies Huang Peiwen and Wu Shiqi.
And the first batch was sent to Beishan Village, Binhai Village and other Lijia who fled to the county seat, because all of them were still in the county seat at this time, and when they rushed back, they just brought the seeds back together.
Zhang Bin even arranged for more than 200 guards to push flatbed trucks to help them send the seeds back.
Now, it is impossible to move these thousands of ordinary people again.
The county magistrates are all injured like this, and they don't forget to help the people solve the problem of food and clothing, what a rare good official!
Many times, people are like this, you respect me, I respect you, Zhang Bin thinks about the people so much, and the people will naturally think about him.
The county magistrate was seriously injured and shed a lot of blood in order to help the people stop the pirates, and this matter is almost known to everyone in Binh Duong.
Many people, especially those in Beishan Village and Haibin Village, are asking what can replenish blood.
This inquiry really made them inquire about some blood-replenishing things.
Among them, the most famous is the mulberry, and it is spread among the people that "the mulberry tree saves the driver, and the chun tree is the king." The story.
It is rumored that at the end of the Western Han Dynasty, Wang Mang usurped the throne, and Liu Xiu, the prince of the East Palace, raised troops in Nanyang to crusade against Wang Mang and aspire to restore the Han dynasty.
However, the first battle was unfavorable, and he was defeated by Wang Mang's general Su Xian near Youzhou, and Liu Xiu escaped from the battlefield alone, and suffered a knife wound in the chest, and was hit by a poisoned arrow in his left leg.
It stands to reason that with such a serious injury and no one to take care of him, Liu Xiu should be dead, but when he was seriously injured and fell to the ground and was about to fall into a coma, a mulberry happened to fall from the tree and fell into his mouth, and he ate the mulberry in a daze.
After eating mulberries, he found that he was much better.
So he hid near the mulberry tree, and every day he relied on the mulberry to satisfy his hunger, and after a month, the knife wound on his chest was miraculously healed, the poison of the arrow in his leg was gone, and his body gradually returned to health.
After he became the emperor, he was grateful for the life-saving grace of the mulberry tree, and specially wrote an edict to seal the mulberry tree as the king, but as a result, the eunuch who passed the edict mistakenly regarded the Tsubaki tree next to the mulberry tree as the hero of the rescue, and directly read the edict to the Tsubaki tree.
This is the story of the mulberry tree saving the driver and the Tsubaki tree being crowned king.
Due to the age, there is no way to verify the truth of this story, but it is true that mulberry can nourish blood and liver, and after the people of Binh Duong heard about it, they began to look for mulberry everywhere.
Coincidentally, this is the season when the mulberry is ripe, and there are still a lot of mulberry trees in Pingyang, so every day, there will be people carrying a basket of mulberries to the county government, Zhang Bin can't finish how to eat, and finally can only process the mulberry into dried mulberry according to the method recorded in the medical book, save it, and eat it slowly.
Of course, there are not only mulberries that nourish blood, but also the people of Binh Duong do not just send mulberries.
Like the most common eggs in the countryside, in fact, there is also the effect of nourishing yin and nourishing blood, and it is recorded in the "Compendium of Materia Medica": chicken yellow, the smell is thick, so it can replenish the form, and the people of the past said that it has the same effect as Ejiao, which is also the meaning.
Generally, farmers with a little money will find a way to send some eggs over, and they have expressed their hearts.
As for the richer, it is to send the chicken directly.
This chicken is not an ordinary chicken, but a black-bone chicken, that is, a black chicken.
There is also longan, which is also known as longan meat.
Black chicken stewed longan, this is a blood tonic that rural people know, of course, this is mainly under the treatment of collapse and leakage, Zhang Bin's loss of qi and blood is actually not very serious, and there is no need to make up so fiercely.
However, whether it is Aunt Xiaoliu or Xiaoyun, or even Xie Zhenggang and Wu Shiqi, they are all thinking of ways to replenish his blood and qi, even if the people don't send these things, they will find a way to find them for him and buy them for him.
makes up for it every day, and his blood is about to spurt out.
In less than half a month, his wound miraculously healed, except that he couldn't exert much effort, everything else was almost the same as normal.
At this time, he couldn't sit still even more, and he began to go around the countryside to check and check.
He is most concerned about the cultivation of potatoes and sweet potatoes, because he knows that a terrible natural disaster is coming, and the improvement of traditional food crops is too late to save hundreds of millions of people.
For the promotion of potatoes and sweet potatoes, he is most worried about the seeds being eaten, after all, it will take several months to harvest after planting, and if you eat it now, you will be able to eat it for a few days.
Fortunately, the famine had not yet begun at this time, and the common people were just not able to eat well, and before the time of the hungry wow wow, no one had eaten the seeds that were sent down as rations.
The next is the problem of land reclamation, most of Pingyang is hilly terrain, there are a lot of barren mountains, it is not a problem to open up thousands of acres of wasteland, but there is also a problem of ownership of this barren mountain, the middle of the involvement, if no one actively adjusts, it is really a bit of a push.
Zhang Bin went down to the township, encountered the most is this kind of problem, all farmers want to plant potatoes and sweet potatoes, because more than 2,000 catties of mu yield has been placed there, hundreds of people see this, this is no doubt, the main problem is that not every household has mountains, you want to plant, you have to have a place.
To do this, the twists and turns can be described as extremely complicated, but fortunately, Zhang Bin's prestige in Pingyang has been established, plus several major squires have been cleaned up by him, and finally after twists and turns, he still let most of the common people plant potatoes and sweet potatoes.
There are many things like this, if you are afraid of difficulties, just watch, but do not put into action, then no problem can be solved.
The so-called "There is nothing difficult in the world, only afraid of those who have a heart." "Only by doing it with heart can we succeed, after nearly a month of hard work, potatoes and sweet potatoes have basically been planted, and then, just wait for the harvest season.