Chapter 63: The Seeds of Scientific Farming

"The unification of writing, currency, and weights and measures in the 'Qin' state can be regarded as establishing standards, so that a lot of information can be inherited, which greatly promotes the development of human society. Although text is a way of embodimenting information, its carrier is bamboo slips, which are very troublesome to write. Therefore, the ancients tried their best to be concise and used concise words to record the relevant history and experience. However, this kind of concise text lacks the time and space information in the three elements of information I mentioned earlier, so some information cannot be reproduced, and many things cannot be verified. ”

"Because the information is imperfect, the information creates uncertainty. Judging from the understanding and commentary of the "Four Books" and the "Five Classics" by the great powers of the past dynasties, there are also big differences. Although the content of the Four Books and Five Classics covers all aspects of daily life, and in your opinion, it is a classic of governing the country and the country, but it does not help us much in the current problems that need to be solved. Because from the perspective of the way the problem is solved in the "Four Books and Five Classics", it focuses on finding solutions from the person himself, and many incomprehensible phenomena can only be psychologically comforted through divination. However, in my villa, I focus on finding ways from the outside of people, and more to play the role of various objects, with limited manpower and infinite material resources. ”

"The Gewu chapter of the "University" says: 'The so-called knowledge is in the knowledge of things, and the words want to make me know, and the things are exhausted. The soul that covers people's hearts is not knowledgeable, and the things in the world are all reasonable, but the reason is not endless, so its knowledge is endless. …… This is the personality of things, and this is the best thing to know. It can be seen that the ancients also agreed that the human mind has the ability to know, and that everything in the world always has certain principles, but because these principles have not been thoroughly understood, knowledge seems very limited. ”

"The "Four Books and Five Classics" that you have learned has a positive effect under certain circumstances, but due to the limitations of its knowledge, there is no way to keep everyone from freezing and no one from starving, and this is exactly the problem we need to solve at present."

"Is it possible to solve these two problems by learning from you?" One student said weakly.

Wei Minsheng looked at the student with his eyes and said in a firm tone: "After learning my knowledge, one person can make hundreds of clothes a day, do you think it will freeze you?" After learning my knowledge, a few people can plant thousands of acres of land and produce millions of catties of grain every year, do you think they will starve you? ”

Tie Zhuang, who has been farming for generations, stood in the crowd, stunned by what Wei Minsheng had just said, and blurted out: "What? A few people can plant thousands of acres of land and produce millions of catties of grain every year, which is impossible. ”

Wei Minsheng looked at Tie Zhuang and said, "Why is it impossible?" ”

Tie Zhuang said: "My family has been farmers for generations, and the harvest per mu of land is only 500 catties at most, which is only more than 200 catties when converted into the weight of the villa. Even if the harvest per mu is 300 catties, there is only 300,000 catties of harvest per 1,000 mu. Moreover, it is a thousand acres of land, and even if you plant it, how can a few people get the grain back from the field? ”

When Wei Minsheng heard this, he was happy, there are still people in this group of students who know how to farm, cultivate them well, and then let him make the industry of mechanized agriculture, so that the people of this world can see the miracle of scientific farming.

So Wei Minsheng said to Tie Zhuang: "After you pass the first stage of study, I will let you see how a few people plant thousands of acres of land, and how a few people can recover millions of catties of grain from the ground." It depends on whether you have the ability to learn this knowledge and grow thousands of acres of grain for everyone to see. ”

After saying so much, Wei Minsheng also felt a little tired, jumped off the stool, and separated the students and went back to his courtyard.

Seeing that Wei Minsheng was gone, Tie Zhuang and a few students who were usually close to him found Wang Shuangming and said, "Teacher Wang, what the owner said just now was all a lie to us, right?" ”

Wang Shuangming said: "What do you have to deceive the owner? I heard Xiaobao, a disciple of the owner of the village, say that there is a kind of car that specializes in cultivating land in the country of the owner, the largest can cultivate thousands of acres of land a day, and the smaller one can also cultivate dozens of acres of land every day. I heard that there are also harvesters that can harvest 500 acres of grain every day, so it is not difficult for a few people to cultivate thousands of acres of land. Study hard, you can't farm in this villa like you used to, you can produce up to two or three hundred catties of grain per mu, and according to the owner's method, the yield per mu can be thousands of catties. ”

"But why is there so much empty land in our mountain villa, and we don't plant thousands of catties of grain per acre?"

"Because the literate people in the villa now have other things to do, and they don't have the energy to take care of growing food, only Aunt Wu Zhen is growing vegetables in the villa now. Do you know, Aunt Wu Zhen alone, in this short period of half a year, she has grown nearly 10,000 catties of sprouts, which are different sprouts every day. ”

"Then you can send us the seeds, and we will plant them!"

"Do you think that this mu yields thousands of pounds of grain or according to your way to plant, Xiaobao heard the owner say, these grains are not planted and finished, but also weeding, fertilization, insect control, when to do what to do have detailed requirements, some grains also need to pay attention to what temperature, soil moisture or something, these detailed things I don't know, only know that Xiaobao has this information. And there are a lot of grains that we have never heard of before, and the planting requirements of each grain are different, if you can't even understand these requirements, how can you grow these grains well. Now give you these miraculous grain seeds, and you will not be afraid to waste them. ”

After listening to Wang Shuangming's words, Tie Zhuang secretly made up his mind that he must learn how to grow these new grains, even if he works for free in the villa for a few years. You think, a thousand catties per mu is equivalent to one mu of land becoming four acres of land, and now the land tax collected by the government is levied on a per mu, and two hundred catties of grain are collected for each mu of good land. In the past, the yield per mu was low, and the remaining grain after paying taxes was only two or three hundred catties, which was converted into the weight of the villa, and there was only a net harvest of more than 100 catties per mu of land. If this grain grows more than 1,000 catties per acre, it means that 100 catties of grain are handed over, and there are more than 900 catties left, and according to this calculation, the net harvest of one acre of land can be equivalent to the net harvest of nine acres of land.

In the past, the harvest of more than ten acres of land at home could only make the family barely starving, if this method of growing food was used, it was equivalent to becoming the harvest of hundreds of acres of fields.

Thinking of a bright future, Tie Zhuang and his people worked harder in their studies.

PS: I'm going to go back to my hometown on New Year's Day.,I coded a chapter last night.,Today's update will be updated first.,So as not to be scolded.。