Chapter 80: The People Live on Food

"Master Hou, where did you find the craftsmen, they are really powerful, and none of the carpenters can catch up with them." Yan Lide looked at the group of people working in front of him with red eyes,

It turned out that Feng Daiwen took them to build a batch of tools for them with steel according to their requirements, and everyone who had good tools was still sitting there, and strongly asked Feng Daiwen to arrange things for them to do, Feng Daiwen took them to see Yan Lide, and then asked them to build some furniture first, and then move directly into the villa later.

"Hey, I said don't beat their ideas, they are all invited by my hometown Aya to help! It is said that he is the descendant of Lu Ban, can he not be powerful. Feng Daiwen said proudly.

"Okay, I'm just thinking about it, it's no problem for them to teach a few apprentices." Yan Lide sighed and said:

"You have to communicate with them, there should be no problem, I will also tell you about it, and send more people to help them, don't tire me out," Feng Daiwen said with a smile.

"That's good, alas, that's amazing. There are many people who can do this, but I have never seen it so easily and quickly. Yan Lide looked at Tai'an and sighed and said: I saw Tai'an take a quick piece of wood, a small tool in his hand kept beating, and soon a majestic tiger appeared, and even the tiger's whiskers were clearly visible.

"Master Hou, the tools are not familiar yet, they are sharper than before, and they can be done better when they are familiar," Tai'an said embarrassedly when he saw Feng Daiwen looking at the patterns he carved.

Feng Daiwen knew that this was not showing off, but to be honest, and said: "It's already very good, Shuofang has too much work, I asked people to arrange some people to help you, and arrange others to do some small things, and those who have organic spirits can also accept some apprentices, but they can't be tired, otherwise I won't have the face to go back to Lingnan to see my father and fellow villagers." ”

"Okay, okay, haha, I still have to keep this old bone to build a few more houses for Hou Ye, and I'm still waiting to build a Guogong Mansion for Hou Ye, don't I dare to exhaust myself," Tai'an said with a happy smile.

"Haha, then accept your old auspicious words, you don't have to be polite if you need anything, just arrange someone to tell me," Feng Daiwen told again.

Tai'an nodded in agreement with emotion. Human nature is so simple, be kind to them, they will be doubly good to you, the real is the grace of dripping water, retribution and spring.

In June, the scorching sun is scorching, it is the season to plant beans, beans are a good thing, can make vinegar, war horses must also be fed, this is the best concentrate for feeding war horses, horses will lose fat and weak if they are not fed concentrate for a long time, but the horses are generally fed with black beans, black beans taste worse than soybeans, people generally do not like to eat, but when there is a shortage of food, it will also be mixed with cooking to eat,

For Feng Daiwen, beans are a good thing, bean sprouts are a rare fresh vegetable in winter, and it is also a must for navigation, navigation does not eat vegetables and fruits for a long time to supplement vitamin C will get sepsis, that is to kill, soybean milk, soak in hot water overnight, swell and then push it out with a stone mill, it is rare to cook it well, the production of bean sprouts is simpler, first soak it in warm water for half an hour, and then put a thin cloth under a lattice bucket, let the water drip down, and then cover a piece of cloth on top of the beans, Pour on room temperature water, water two to three times a day, and then cover, at most three days you can eat crisp bean sprouts, which is what Feng Daiwen's mother often did when he was a child. This is a custom in many places, and until now, some places will send some rice to the villagers near to do happy events, and as for tofu, it appeared in the Han Dynasty.

Planting is a big event, whether it is up to the emperor, dignitaries and nobles, down to the people, it is a very sacred thing, especially spring ploughing, the emperor will sacrifice to the gods of the earth, the local county order will also take the lead in worshipping, the village elders will also come forward to sacrifice before they will begin to cultivate and pray for a year of wind and rain, farming is a major event related to life and death, the ancient materials are poor, and if you miss the cultivation, the old and young are likely to starve to death,

Every time I see the yellow-faced and thin-skinned people Feng Daiwen feels sad, and the African refugees I see on TV, skinny, this is caused by long-term hunger, so that everyone is fed, clothed, and live a stable life, Feng Daiwen feels that this is the meaning of his coming to this era, Feng Daiwen attaches great importance to the origin of farming, there is no hybrid rice, it doesn't matter, he arranges people to experiment slowly, it can't be as good as later generations, but at least it can improve the yield, Lingnan Feng Daiwen arranged an experimental field, arranged for old farmers to cultivate, Beans, rice, and wheat in different places are planted in adjacent fields, and are cross-pollinated by hand, and the fullest ones are selected as seeds after harvesting, many people have not seen them, but Feng Daiwen saw his parents manually pollinate corn when he was a child, and in summer at noon, he used a piece of paper under a pot to shake the powder of the flowers on the tip of the corn in the pot, and then used a small brush to dip the flour on the whiskers in front of the corn bale, and after harvesting, he would pour out the corn in his free time and select the best to keep it for the second year as seeds.

Therefore, Shuofang Feng Daiwen also ordered the people to choose seeds, soak the seeds in room temperature water overnight, and plant them the next day. You can't dig the ground like before, drop a few bean seeds, and don't know if these bean seeds can germinate, so you can plant them so roughly. The ground must be turned over first, remove the grass roots buried deep underneath, and sprinkle lime and plant ash, which can not only supplement the calcium fertilizer needed by plants, but also kill the insect eggs in the ground.

Top dressing, is a very important matter of planting, the Sui and Tang dynasties have not been fertilized, the concept of top dressing, at most is the dry watering, grass weeding, rough farming, lack of fertilizer what to do. In rotation planting, dividing his family land into two pieces and planting one piece a year, Feng Daiwen asked people to forcibly arrange for the people to mix the grass and wood ash at home with cattle and sheep, and human urine and dung, and mix them in the pit, and sprinkle them in the rice field a few days later. Although the people were a little resistant, they still did it because of Feng Daiwen's good reputation.

"Weiguo, is this really good?" Zhang Gongjin, Ma Zhou and others watched the people throw these dirty things in their eyes into the rice fields and wheat fields, and asked suspiciously:

"Haha, Uncle Zhang rest assured, you will know when the harvest comes, you must know that Shuofang is a natural treasure land, there is not so much animal manure in other places, and it is not enough for fertilization, top dressing, you look at what these wheat looks like, such a thin pole, it will fall when the wind blows, how much can be harvested." Feng Daiwen smiled happily: They don't know that Lingnan has been doing this for a long time, and the people have always been very envious of the land that Feng Daiwen taught people to plant than other people's families, and they have always been very envious, and it slowly spread, every family has built a manure tank, and they are reluctant to defecate outside, you must know that now they are all burning firewood, but there is no shortage of grass and wood ashes, they are all piled up there and mixed with dung when needed, so now Lingnan has two more things that are not available in other places, one is the toilet, Built under the animals, even with Lingnan breeding chickens, ducks, cattle and sheep began to increase, one is the ash heap, each family dug a pit next to the house to pile up the ashes left by the firewood, usually covered with straw, rain, wind.

"Well, I'm sure you're right, we'll take a look then." Zhang Gongjin was helpless: