Looking at the strange expressions of Li Dian and the more than 100 people, Lu Ren smiled: "At this time, the tadpoles in the water are generally only the size of soybeans, and they are not easy to catch. The frogs and toads were placed directly in the sacks. Every day at dusk, I come back to count, the tads are poured into the bucket, the frogs and toads are counted separately, and I will send someone to count them carefully. Remember, I have to live, and I don't count dead! The top three teams that catch the most every day, I will give them a meal as a reward, and the three soldiers who catch the least are ...... I'll give you a few sticks as punishment! Do you understand everything? ”

"No!!"

"Also, you are only allowed to go to a place a little farther away from the fields of the camp tun, and you are not allowed to arrest them in the fields of the camp tun or in the fields of the nearby villages. If I find out that someone is disobeying the order or disturbing the nearby villagers, you will be beaten with a stick and you will not be able to get up! ”

"No!!"

"Go for it!!" Lu Ren waved his hand coolly, and these twenty soldiers all went out of the camp with their own "equipment" and inexplicable moods. Seeing that these hundred people were out of the camp, Lu Ren laughed a few times, hugged his arms and hummed a tune unknown to others: "All the frogs in the wild are caught, all are caught, all are caught......"

The most inexplicable thing is Li Dian. After Lu Ren finished humming a few minor tunes, Li Dian really couldn't hold back anymore: "Brother Lu, what are you sending these 100 people to catch and catch frogs?" ”

Lu Ren laughed and said, "Of course it's eating!" The frog meat is delicious, especially the frog legs. And the frog has no fat at all...... Hey, it's drooling just thinking about it! ”

"......" Li Dian was speechless for a long time before he said, "Brother Lu, let me say a few words." I know that Brother Lu has been clothed with vegetables and little meat since he came to Tuntian for several months. It's just that if Brother Lu wants to eat some meat, he asks himself if his bow and horse skills are acceptable, and it is okay to bring a few entourages out of the camp to hunt some game and come back for Brother Lu to taste, why does Brother Lu want to be so excited? If this spreads to Han Duwei, I don't know what Han Duwei will say about you. Dian Dou dared to ask Brother Lu to take back his sincere life, don't do such nonsense. ”

Lu Ren was happy, but his face was no longer the giggling attitude just now: "Man Cheng, I usually manage the camp as if I am messing around, but in my heart, have I really done anything ridiculous?" ”

"This ......," Li Dian thought for a moment and slowly shook his head. In the image, Lu Ren's work is sometimes unbounded, which makes people feel incomprehensible, but afterwards they will find that there will always be some truth.

Lu Ren found a clean stone surface and sat down and said, "Just now I said that I want to eat frog meat, it's just a joke." Mancheng, you should know that after the spring is warm, there are many pests in the field that harm the seedlings, but those pests are not weeds in the field. Weeds are dead things, once they are found, they can be uprooted at any time, how to catch pests and other things that fly around? If there are fewer people, it will have no effect, and if there are too many people, they will destroy the fields. That's why I'm in a hurry to let these 100 people go outside the camp to catch more frogs and toads and come back.

"Frogs and toads are born to feed on these pests, and I sent 100 people to catch frogs and release them into the field, in fact, I wanted to use these things to protect the seedlings. It is said that the brine points tofu, one thing drops one thing, and it is better to deal with these headache-looking pests, or to hand them over to their natural enemies. ”

Li Dian didn't understand these things about the ecological food chain, but he heard that Lu Ren was not messing around, but doing something beneficial to Tuntian, so he nodded in understanding at the moment.

Looking at Lu Ren again, although he had a smile on his face, he was actually very depressed in his heart:

"Well, I can't help it. This field was originally barren, but it was reclaimed last winter, and so many people shouted here, and the original wildlife had long since run away in fear. Now temporarily catch some frogs, toads or something and come back to make up for a supplement, there will always be some pest prevention effect, right?

"Depressed, really depressed! The information sent by Shirley contains the chemical formula of the pesticide, but my chemistry has always been very good, and I can't understand it. Even if you can understand it, there is no corresponding chemical production capacity in the Han Dynasty, and this pesticide can't be made! Alas, forget it, just do what you want, technology must have the corresponding productivity to have an effect, or the two are inherently complementary to each other, just knowing that there is no corresponding productivity to do is equivalent to talking in vain...... Now I have an understanding of what it means to 'link theory with practice'! In the future, we must do things more in connection with the existing production capacity, otherwise it will be a trivial matter if I can't do it, and most of the others will treat me as a madman! ”

After thinking about this, Lu Ren stood up and climbed the lookout to look at the large fields carved out by his Tuntian army. For some reason, when the green scenery came into Lu Ren's eyes, Lu Ren had an indescribable feeling of comfort in his heart. Later, Li Dian also climbed the lookout and looked at it with Lu Ren, and his expression was as relieved as Lu Ren.

"Brother Lu, I just heard you talk about the fact that frogs and toads can protect the fields and protect the crops, so should I go and issue an order that the people in the camp are not allowed to hunt these two things in the fields in order to have a temporary appetite?"

"Uh-huh, it should be done...... In fact, there is another kind of thing that harms the field in the field, and maybe we should catch some living things and come back to deal with it. ”

"Oh, but what is it that harms the field?"

"Voles. This thing is quite annoying, and it eats the rhizomes of seedlings, and it often goes unnoticed. Otherwise, you can go back and pick some people out, go to the wild to catch some non-poisonous vegetable green snakes, water snakes or something, and come back. But it's also troublesome, in addition to catching snakes, this snake will also eat frogs...... Headache!! This is called the incompatibility of fish and bear's paws. ”

Li Dian's face over there turned a little blue, and his hands arched with a little trembling: "Brother Lu, Brother Lu, it's okay to say this, this frog catcher is released into the field, as for the matter of catching snakes into the field, according to the opinion of the canon, it is better to be exempted......"

Lu Ren thinks about it, under normal circumstances, there are few people who are not afraid of snakes. And if there are poisonous snakes in the snakes that are caught, it will be difficult to clean up if something happens.

Soon the incident that Lu Ren did here reached the ears of Han Hao on the other side, and Han Hao's evaluation of this was just two words:

"Nonsense!"

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Of course Lu Ren is not messing around, he has done so many messy things before and after, and he still hopes to plant the field well? As for what Han Hao would think of him, Lu Ren didn't bother to pay attention to it. However, whenever Lu Ren had a ball game here, there would always be someone on Han Hao's side who secretly crossed the river to watch the game, and Lu Ren asked Li Dian to turn a blind eye to this kind of thing. And Han Hao's side didn't punish these people who sneaked over to watch the game, it seemed that Han Hao could only acquiesce to such a thing when he couldn't prohibit it, but there was still nothing casual in the camp on his side.

In this way, the two camps were relatively stable, and the time quickly passed the rainy season and turned into early summer. At dusk on this day, the ball game had just ended, and Lu Ren invited Li Dian to his place for a light meal. After the meal, the two were chatting some gossip, and suddenly a fast horse from Juancheng brought a letter from Xun Yu. After Lu Ren unfolded the letter and read it, his previous smiling face suddenly sank.

Seeing this, Li Dian asked, "Brother Lu, is there something wrong in Juancheng?" ”

Lu Ren nodded and handed the letter to Li Dian: "Take a look." ”

Li Dian took the letter and looked at it, and his brows furrowed. Xun Yu's letter brought bad news to Lu Ren, that is, Cao Cao had a little situation when he sent troops to attack Lu Bu, and he had to re-transfer a batch of grain and grass from Xun Yu, and the result was that the amount of grain that Lu Ren originally had to support here would be reduced.

Li Dian frowned, turned his head to Lu Ren and said, "Brother Lu, do you think you should go to Juancheng and discuss this matter with Duke Xun?" ”

Li Dian couldn't help but worry, because the food that Juancheng had allocated to Lu Ren before was calculated according to the per capita basic ration, and the so-called basic was just enough to make ends meet, and there was still a long way to go before he had a full stomach. If there is a reduction now, it will be equivalent to starving half a day without starving to death.

Lu Ren looked at Li Dian, and after thinking for a long time, he could only shake his head. Lu Ren is not a stupid person, how can he not know which one is heavier between Cao Cao's army and his own camp here? Discuss with Xun Yu? Xun Yu has a good temper, and his words will not be ugly, but if he is replaced by a person with a bad temper, it would be strange not to scold Lu Ren back.

Fu lowered his head and turned around the tent courtyard dozens of times, and when he almost stunned Li Dian, Lu Ren finally let out a long sigh and said, "Gather the tunmin tomorrow morning, let me talk to the tunmin about this matter." I hope you can sell me face and get through this pass......"

Looking up again and glancing at the many rice fields, Lu Ren gritted his teeth: "It's summer now." And the rice in the rice field...... Two months, as long as there are two more months, you don't have to harvest it in the autumn, so you have to let everyone survive these two months anyway. ”

"Two months?" Li Dian was stunned: "Brother Lu, you're not mistaken, right?" Generally, the harvest of grain is around August in the middle of autumn, but now it is just summer, and two months later it is only the beginning of the end of summer, and the rice in the field has not yet grown, so what is the use of harvesting? ”

Lu Ren looked at Li Dian and shook his head with a smile, but he was also glad that he had chosen to plant rice in the first place.

Rice grows very quickly under reasonable planting conditions, and can generally reach full maturity in three to four months. Of course, that is the ideal situation, and it is generally suitable for double cropping in the south.

According to Lu Ren's calculations, the ripening time is four to five months, and the maximum will not exceed six months. And Lu Ren here here began to raise seedlings soon after the beginning of the winter snow, and the warm spring has basically begun to be officially planted in February, so it will be almost ripe around June, and it will not exceed July at the latest.

Of course, no one believes in these things until they really grow up, and even Lu Ren's own heart is somewhat bottomless. And the first thing to do now is how to convince the people to support it......

(A little depressed, I originally wanted to write about the bombing incident of Lao Lu and Wan'er using two bamboo flutes to suppress Han Hao's side, but after thinking about it, I felt that it was too outrageous, and I had to give up in the end.) ）