If the wind is maintained, it is indeed more convenient than the saltwater method, but of course there are many drawbacks. For example, bad seeds that are pressed under the bottom cannot be removed, and some seeds that are in front of the big fan may also be blown away.

The second step is to sow seeds.

This step is more tempering than the previous step.

The beginning of everything is difficult, the beginning of the process is very tedious, and the whole process is extremely boring.

The first is to plough the land and do things for the royal family, naturally it will not only use manpower. Twenty large oxen pulled the zigzag plough and worked hard to plow the field under the traction of skilled farmers.

With oxen in hand, after Cai Dao led the children to pick all the seeds, the farmers ploughed the land.

As far as the eye can see, the ditches and ridges are vertical and horizontal, neatly appearing in front of everyone's eyes.

The second is to sow the seeds.

Because it is a test field, it is not possible to sow seeds at will as in the past.

Cai Dao took these boys and little eunuchs under his command to sow seeds step by step, row by row.

How many seeds are sown per acre, and what is the spacing between each seed. In the process of planting, Cai Dao asked people to make detailed records of these things, and he also made a lot of recording tools for this.

The most commonly used is the tape measure, which is made according to the 'degree' of the Great Song Dynasty.

In the beginning, the work was too tedious, and everyone who did it, whether it was adults or children, was tormented and miserable. The two old men only stared at the progress of one acre, and they had to retire.

It's so tiring.

They're old, and they can't stand it.

The two were gone, but they left the prince and the children of the family who had been following them behind.

Fortunately, Cai Dao did not mean to make it difficult for them to participate in it.

The second step alone took half a day.

At noon, the sun was still vicious, in order to prevent these little eunuchs and children under his command from suffering from heat stroke. Cai Dao then ordered that the operation be temporarily terminated.

At this time, it is naturally lunch time.

This is also the place where the urban residents of Bianliang City in the Great Song Dynasty were stronger than the farmers in the countryside. Generally, every household in the countryside eats one meal a day. And the people of Bianliang City, as long as they can get by, basically have three meals a day.

The lunch was made by Hua Lanxi with the group of little palace maids, and Aunt Su, who had been in charge of this matter before, was finally able to let go of this errand that she was not good at.

Lunch was very simple, green onion flatbread, pickles, shrimp skin and kelp soup, and Hua Lanxi brought a little private goods to the cakes of Cai Dao's master and servant and Zhao Mi - marinated high-quality sauce beef. It's not that Cai Dao is stingy, but now his pig farm has not yet formed a scale. The wild boar king is still working the pig farm, and if he wants to see results, he will have to wait at least until next summer.

What a pity!

No spicy food.

After Cai Daojing passed his hand, he first took a sip of soup, and then took a fragrant green onion flatbread from Hua Lanxi's hand, squatted directly on the ground and ate it eagerly.

Cai Bucket and Cai Ban also did the same, squatting beside him on the left and right, and began to eat.

Cai bucket can eat, this is something that everyone can see, but what no one expected is that the kid who looks like a monkey cub is actually a master who can eat. The three children wiped out the three flatbreads in front of them in an instant.

After strenuous labor, people feel very hungry, so they feel that eating is the sweetest.

At this time, the two old guys who had been hiding for a long time came over to join in the fun.

They were not polite, and without the help of others, they stepped forward to pick up flatbread and shrimp skin and kelp soup, and ate and drank.

Seeing these vulgar foods, those noble sons naturally disdained it. However, seeing that the two adults, the little eunuch and the children were eating very sweetly, and they were not beaten with iron, they would naturally know that they were hungry.

It seems that Luo Guozi did not prepare any food for them individually.

Cao Hu, who took the lead, and Zhao Zongzheng's second grandson both wanted to have a seizure, but the two high-ranking and powerful old men were gnawing on the pie, and they had no choice but to stop.

Seeing that nothing was going on, the two children of the Di family first put down their shelves and took the flatbread and pickles from the bamboo basket.

For the two people who are 'willing to fall', in Cao Hu's words, they are 'nouveau riche', and the children of these big families, even if they are hungry, will not eat the same meal as those little eunuchs and hillbillies.

Not to mention, the maids who have been trained by Cai Dao have different skills.

The green onion cake is not as simple as it seems, the flour is very ordinary, but when mixing the noodles, Hua Lanxi chopped some collected wild vegetables and kneaded them into the noodles. When she made the cakes, she smeared them with lard, and scattered black sesame seeds on them.

It looks, smells, and tastes so good, and it's crispy and delicious to chew.

Pickles, Cai Dao chose the kohlrabi of later generations, after pickling, the entrance is crisp and refreshing.

The shrimp skin kelp soup is just an ordinary thing, but it has a little seaweed and coriander in it, and it tastes unique.

The food was well prepared, but Cai Dao still let everyone eat only seventy percent full, including himself. Because of the afternoon work, it is even heavier.

There are still many experimental fields that need to be sown, and Cai Dao plans to make use of all the land that has been cultivated with soybeans.

Therefore, he gave everyone half an hour to escape the heat and eat.

……

Half an hour later, the children continued their work.

Measure the distance with a tape measure, dig a small pit along the ridge of the ground in the marked place, and sow the seeds. Once you've done your job, someone is taking notes.

And those little eunuchs had another job.

That is, the third step, weeding and fertilizing.

The land that has been plowed by the iron plough can naturally eliminate some weeds in the field, but weeds can not be completely eradicated so easily. It still needs to be uprooted one by one on every inch of land, including their 'corpses'.

These things are both the great enemies of crops and the best natural fertilizers. After the weeds are collected, they are loaded into trucks and transported to the edge of the manure pit, where they are dumped. After a few days of fermentation, it naturally turns into fertilizer.

At this time, Hua Qiqi also brought his brother, led the livestock, and pulled the cart loaded with water, and came here. This is what Cai Dao has long been told.

Before fertilizing, you have to water the ground somewhat. This work, except for Cai Bucket, the other children have no strength to complete it at all.

Therefore, Cai Dao had no choice but to hand over this job to those brothers of Hua Xuanyi.

These idlers in the past naturally have a lot of strength, and during this time, Cai Dao is supporting them, so naturally they don't have to go through the days of being full and having to be coldly spoken of in the past.

So, the work of carrying water and watering it, handed it over to them, was quickly completed.

Next, it's the turn of the initial fertilization.

At this point, not to mention those noble sons who have been hungry for most of the day, even Uncle Cao Guo and Zhao Zongzheng naturally can't stand it anymore, because the taste is too stringy. There are many children who can't survive this blow and even vomit what they have eaten in the morning.