More than 20,000 acres of fields reclaimed, Zhao Ziliang walked through each field, looked at it carefully, spent several days, he found that many fields still need to divert water from adjacent fields, this situation will cause rainwater to be discharged when the amount of rain is too large, resulting in waterlogging; In the dry season, it is easy to cause drought. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Regarding this situation, Zhao Ziliang instructed Zheng San on the spot: "This is not possible, it is not possible for multiple fields to share a water channel, it must be two adjacent fields to share a water channel, if it really doesn't work, build a small water channel between the two fields to connect the big water channel!" In short, every piece of land must be able to divert water from the canal alone, and you can't go to other fields to divert water, you send someone to carefully check the statistics, how many fields still need to be re-excavated canals, and immediately organize people to carry out it! ”

Zheng San promised: "Okay! This also blames us for our carelessness, I don't think these recruits have learned to be lazy! ”

More than 20,000 acres of new fields are the lifeblood of the entire Xilin guarding seven or eight thousand soldiers, and they are all in these fields, so Zhao Ziliang is not serious and careful.

Zhao Ziliang turned around the field with seedlings for a long time, and after returning to the Shouzhu Mansion, he found Zheng San again, and said: "I have roughly looked at the fields that have grown seedlings, I have repeatedly emphasized that we must cultivate intensively, the distance between the seedlings should be the same, the density of the seedlings on each piece of land should be uniform, and we must pay attention to the interval distance when sowing, not too long, not too short, In the past, we have reclaimed wasteland in Hexi and Hedong, and you don't know this, it stands to reason that farming experience should be very rich, why is it so much worse this time! ”

Zheng San immediately admitted his mistake: "Boss, this matter is my fault, I am too busy these days, I did not patiently instruct them in detail when the soldiers were farming, I just hurriedly demonstrated and went to do something else, the person in charge of supervision does not know too much, but I know that the sooner I finish it, the better, this is to blame me!" ”

Zhao Ziliang heard Zheng San say this, and knew that he couldn't be blamed entirely, after all, he had too many things to be responsible for, and he really lacked skills, and the farmers of this era didn't understand the role of intensive cultivation at all, as long as Zheng San, who had been by Zhao Ziliang's side and had seen the benefits of intensive farming, would know.

"Forget it, you can't be blamed for this matter, the sowing has been completed, and you can't remedy it, you can only put more effort into weeding, loosening the soil, fertilizing and removing insects!"

Zheng San hurriedly agreed: "Okay, I will send someone to supervise this matter, and conduct some training and teaching for these supervisors!" ”

In terms of crops, in addition to wheat, the main crop, there are soybeans, barley, alfalfa and millet, wheat in the upper fields, barley in the medium fields, and alfalfa and millet in the lower fields. Not only can you receive enough rations from the soldiers, but also can harvest a lot of forage for the livestock, among which soybeans are the essence of the war horse, and the war horse that eats soybeans not only recovers quickly, but also has a significant increase in endurance and sprint explosiveness.

No matter where Zhao Ziliang serves, as long as he is alone, he has always attached importance to reclamation, and in this era, grain is the first important strategic material, and he has food in his hands, so he is not panicked! Whether it is in Anxi, Hexi or Hedong, there are countless fertile fields that have been cultivated by him, and the successors are basically stained with his light, and those successors actually don't need to do anything, just continue according to Zhao Ziliang's previous practice when he was in office, but many people think they are sorry and want to make changes, but in fact, in the end, they get worse and worse.

On the one hand, the people in charge of reclamation are lazy, and a lot of fields are wasted, on the other hand, many fields are not fertilized in time after the crops are harvested, so that some fields have no fertility after planting for a few years, and the harvest declines year by year, and finally they are simply abandoned and no longer cultivated.

Of course, this situation can not be allowed in the hands of Zhao Ziliang, when plowing the land, he asks for fertilization once, and the crops must be fertilized two or three times in the growth process, the orange stalk can not be burned, try to stay in the field to make regenerative fertilizer, if there is a condition, but also chop the orange stalk and then sprinkle it in the field, so that it can easily become fertilizer at the fastest speed.

There are many things that can be used as fertilizer, for example, the cake residue left after soybean oil extraction is a good fertilizer, and crops have this cake residue as fertilizer to grow quickly. There is also rapeseed, the rapeseed cake left after oil extraction is also an excellent fertilizer, but the rapeseed crop must be sown in winter, and it can be harvested in the spring of the next year, and it is too late to plant now, and the planting of rapeseed does not need too fertile fields, and the lower fields can have a good harvest when planting rapeseed.

Now carpenters and blacksmiths are making all kinds of agricultural tools, of course, including oil extraction tools, in addition to mechanical power can not be obtained, in fact, the Tang Dynasty's agricultural tools have been very developed in feudal society, many agricultural tools have been used until the 21st century, at this time the agricultural level of the Western world is several centuries behind the Tang Dynasty.

On this day, Zhao Ziliang inspected the ironsmithing workshop, dozens of blacksmiths were making a round concave and convex ironware, and the blacksmiths stopped when they saw Zhao Ziliang coming.

Zhao Ziliang waved his hand and said, "Don't stop, continue!" ”

The blacksmiths then continued to make ironware.

Zhao Ziliang came to a place to watch a blacksmith use a small hammer to continuously hammer a concave-convex iron tool, and couldn't help asking, "What is this forged?" ”

The blacksmith replied, "General, this thing is fastened to the inside of the ends of the stone mill, and it is put on a wooden frame, and the two heads of the square wooden frame are fastened to this thing, and then a rope is put on the wooden frame, and the ox or the horse is drawn to it, and the wheat can be crushed!" ”

"Oh? It turned out to be this thing! Zhao Ziliang nodded and asked, "Now after harvesting the crops, you can only use this method to thresh?" ”

The blacksmith replied: "Yes, most of the farmers in Datang use this method to thresh, which is the fastest, and there are also a small number of farmers who harvest less wheat, so they use a bamboo sickle to shoot one at a time, which is too time-consuming and labor-intensive!" ”

Zhao Ziliang thought for a while, and said to a servant beside him: "Bring pen, ink, paper, and inkstone!" ”

"No!"

It didn't take much effort, Hu Cong brought a pen, ink, paper, inkstone, a large piece of white paper on a tabletop, Zhao Ziliang dipped the brush in ink and drew on the white paper, painting very seriously.

Zheng San, Gao Shi, Cen Shen and other officials all stood by to watch, Zhao Ziliang quickly finished the painting, everyone looked, only to see a square boat-like thing painted on this white paper, look at the dimensions on it should not be very large, and there are large and small connected toothed ironware, wooden rollers, and dense iron triangles inserted on the rollers, what is this?

Gao Shi couldn't help but ask, "General, what is this?" ”

Zhao Ziliang dropped the brush and said with a smile: "I call it a threshing machine!" You see here, this is the pedal, people stand here, one foot on the pedal and press hard, the power will be transmitted to the gear through the iron rods on the left and right sides, the big gear drives the small gear, the small gear is connected to the roller, the roller will rotate quickly, if the person holds the ear of wheat in his hand and puts it on the roller, will the wheat particles on the ear of wheat be knocked down by these small iron triangles and fall into the barn? This thing can be operated by one person or multiple people, up to four people, otherwise this thing is too big and not easy to move, with this thing, threshing becomes very easy! ”

After listening to Zhao Ziliang's explanation, everyone suddenly realized, Zheng San was very excited, he has been in charge of Zhao Ziliang's logistics and reclamation affairs, of course he is very clear about threshing, this thing seems to be very convenient for threshing, but I don't know what the actual efficiency and effect are, whether it is faster than using oxen to pull stones to grind, and whether it can be threshed cleanly? None of this is known, and it takes actual operation to know the effect.

As soon as Zheng San said his thoughts, everyone nodded.

Gao Shi said at this time: "General, because we were raided by the Treadon Force last year, the fields are deserted, and winter wheat is not planted, but the Donglin Shou in the east has planted it, Xia Guan heard that they are harvesting wheat these days, why don't you let the carpenter and the blacksmith make a sample as soon as possible in these two days, and then send someone to Donglin Shou to buy two acres of wheat ears and come back to try it?" ”

Zhao Ziliang heard that it was feasible, so he ordered a few blacksmiths and a few carpenters to make it by hand, the carpenters were responsible for making the square wooden hull, wheel rollers, and pedal parts, and the blacksmiths were responsible for building iron parts, and then assembling them after the construction was completed.

It took less than an hour for the blacksmiths and carpenters to make and assemble all the parts, but it was not a matter of time to send people to Donglin to buy two acres of wheat ears.

Two days later, a convoy of soldiers carrying two acres of wheat ears returned to Xilin to guard the catch, and Zhao Ziliang and the officials all rushed to the threshing floor to prepare for the test competition after receiving the news.

"General, two acres of wheat ears have arrived, how do you proceed now?" Zheng San asked.

This kind of threshing machine was used by farmers in the sixties and seventies of the twentieth century, and when Zhao Ziliang did not cross over, his home was still using this kind of manpower thresher because it was a mountainous area, and of course he knew how to use it. So he walked to the human thresher and beckoned to a servant, who immediately brought a large handful of ears of wheat, Zhao Ziliang took it and said to the three servants beside him: "General Ben will give you three a demonstration, you can see how to operate clearly!" ”

"No!"

Zhao Ziliang continued to step on the pedal with his foot, the roller in the thresher rolled rapidly, and the wheat ear in his hand was sent to the roller, only to hear the sound of "zizi ・・・・・・・zizi", the wheat particles on the wheat ear were knocked down, and in a breath, only the bare orange stalk was left on the wheat ear, and the wheat particles were all beaten clean.

"Oh-" The crowd couldn't help but exclaim, this thing threshed so quickly and cleanly!

Zhao Ziliang immediately ordered the ears of wheat on two acres of land to be divided into two, one ear of wheat was threshed by a human thresher, and the other ear of wheat was spread out on the threshing floor and threshed with a stone mill pulled by a horse.

With the preparation of the two parties, the game officially began, only to see that three people on the side of the human thresher were divided into two groups, one group of two people was responsible for passing the ears of wheat, and the other person was responsible for taking the ears of wheat and threshing them on the threshing machine, with a clear division of labor; On the other side, a strong man drove a horse and pulled a stone mill to constantly circle on the ears of wheat that were laid flat on the ground.

Half an hour has passed, the threshing has been completed on the side of the human thresher, and the horse-drawn stone mill has just turned over the milled ears of wheat, and it has to be turned twice in a row, and finally the final threshing work has to be completed by beating with a bamboo sickle.

Compared with the two parties, the efficiency of the human thresher is many times faster, although it is three people, but on average, the work efficiency is still twice as high as that of a single person driving a horse-drawn stone grinder to thresh!

When the game was over, a cheer resounded through the threshing floor! (To be continued.) )