Chapter 64: Chen Nongtou's Joy (I)

Chen Nongtou's real name is Chen Benshun, Cangzhou Haixing County, Chen Benshun's ancestors are farmers for six generations, and the ability to farm has been passed down from generation to generation. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 ο½‰ο½Žο½†ο½

Therefore, Chen Benshun grew up and their family's land produced the highest grain in the entire township and county every year, and the Chen family's reputation for farming was also well-known in Haixing County.

Even the farmers around Haixing County have followed the Chen family to learn how to grow crops, when his family starts sowing, then when the people of Haixing County start to sow seeds, when his family starts to fertilize and remove insects, when the people of Haixing County start to fertilize and remove insects.

Not to mention, just according to the gourd, the output of farmers in Haixing County has increased by two to forty percent compared with previous years.

Chen Benshun was born smart, and when he was a child, at the end of the Tang Dynasty, the Central Plains was full of war, and his family had no money for him to study, so he began to follow his father and grandfather to learn the knowledge of farming passed down from generation to generation, and his son inherited his father's business and continued to be a farmer.

By the time he was twenty-five years old, he had not only mastered all the knowledge of farming handed down by his ancestors, but also summed up many ways to increase crop yields that his ancestors had never discovered through many of his own observations.

When he was young, it was during the great turmoil of the five dynasties and ten kingdoms, and Cangzhou often encountered wars, so Chen Ben dragged his family and fled everywhere.

Fortunately, in the process of fleeing his family of five, there were nobles to help him all the way, and no one died in Chen Benshun's family due to the war.

In Cangzhou, Dezhou, and Dizhou, the generation went around and around, and finally, after Zhao Dianjian and Zhao Kuangyin ascended the throne, Chen Benshun returned to his hometown Cangzhou Haixing County at the age of twenty-nine and became a child of the Great Song Dynasty.

I have to say that Zhao Kuangyin's ability to govern the country is still very good, he knows that he has experienced the wars and disputes of five dynasties and ten countries, so he formulated the national policy of enriching the people and recuperating.

Zhao Kuangyin reigned for 16 years, he did adhere to this basic national policy unswervingly, and the people finally came out of the war, after 16 years of recuperation, the degree of social stability gradually increased, and the economy of the entire Great Song Dynasty society was also growing steadily.

It seems that even the heavens are caring for the people who have been suffering for a long time, so in the sixteen years since the founding of the Great Song Dynasty, there has not been any big natural disasters in the country.

The sixteen years of stable time, but also let Chen Benshun's talent has been fully demonstrated, the mastery of agriculture when he was young, coupled with the experience accumulated over the years of running around, so that Chen Benshun has an understanding of agriculture beyond ordinary people, he planted wheat, fruit trees, gourds, soybeans, in short, on his one-acre and three-point land, he planted any northern farmer should grow crops.

Over the course of 16 years, he continued to research and improve his methods of agricultural planting, as well as to predict the weather and propose more improvements to the fertilization of the fertilized land.

These eventually created a miracle of his yield of 300 catties per mu.

In Haixing County, where he is located, everyone knows this doctor of farming, and farmers from ten miles and eight townships from far and near have come to Chen Benshun's house to seek advice, and Chen Benshun does not hide it privately, and has taught the villagers those agricultural skills he has summed up.

Not only is his ability high, but he is also a good person, so the villagers also affectionately call Chen Benshun Chen Nongtou, and usually respect him.

After 16 years of farming in Haixing County, Cangzhou, Chen Nongtou has grown from a 29-year-old young man in the prime of life to a 45-year-old middle-aged man.

He built a house in Haixing County, Cangzhou, married a daughter-in-law, and gave birth to four big fat boys one after another, the eldest is now seventeen years old, and the youngest is only six years old.

I thought that life would go on so peacefully, but half a year ago, a major event happened in Cangzhou.

A garrison general from Cong Bianjing suddenly declared Cangzhou's independence.

Then there was a great turmoil in the official system in Cangzhou, and at that time, the local officials in Cangzhou almost ran all over except for the Zhizhou Cheng Fengge.

From the state government supervision to the yamen master, as long as he was an official, he basically ran away, and at that time, almost all the officials in Cangzhou were paralyzed.

People everywhere are panicking, and rumors are circulating among the common people about various versions, what rebels, what coup d'Γ©tat, it is always completely chaotic.

Chen Nongtou was also very frightened, and he searched everywhere for news every day, he had already packed his luggage, exchanged all the money he had earned from farming over the years for silver taels, and was ready to run away with his wife and children at any time.

However, a few days later, Cangzhou did not recruit troops or send troops, but began to recruit people to various towns and counties in Cangzhou to build the city wall.

Originally, the construction of the city was a chore, not only delaying the agricultural time, but also with very little pay, and no one was willing to participate in the repair of the city.

But the regime that raised the banner in Cangzhou was willing to pay a bag of rice for three days, and as long as it went, it would pay a bag of rice in advance.

This attracted a lot of young people in Cangzhou, and many gangsters and unemployed people in the township went to Cangzhou City to try it out with the mentality of watching the excitement.

As a result, three days later, they returned to their hometowns with bags of white rice, and they were overjoyed and rushed to tell each other, and the new government they worked for told them that as long as they could bring ten people to Cangzhou City to repair the city, then each of them would receive another bag of rice as a reward.

At first, there were still very few people who went to repair the city, because the reputation of those unemployed vagrants was relatively poor, but as time went by, more and more people began to repair the city, and then brought back more and more rice, which began to make many people red.

Life is not easy, although the wind and rain are smooth, but the Tartars have been grassing for many years, coupled with the grain tax collected by the government, there are many people in the surrounding townships and counties of Cangzhou who are still very short of food, a bag of white flowers, as long as they work for three days, even if it is worth three days of suffering, so more men go to Cangzhou to build a new city.

At that time, Chen Nongtou also went to see the rice distributed by the new regime brought back by those people, which was a real snow-white southern rice, crystal white and delicately threshed, such a bag of rice, to say the least, would sell for thousands of yuan, but it would be possible to get a bag after three days of drying.

Chen Nongtou was also moved, he made an appointment with more than a dozen farmers from the same township, and then went to Cangzhou together, they decided to work for three days first, and then get a bag of rice.

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Many years later, when Chen Nongtou looks back on this incident, he still thinks that it was one of the most correct choices he made in his life。。。。。