The gentlemen from overseas are different from the locals of the Great Song Dynasty, although they speak with strange accents, but this does not prevent Chen Benshun from understanding what they say. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

What ecological agriculture, fertilizer-saving cultivated land, sustainable development, these words, Chen Benshun has never even heard of these words, but once he understands the meaning of these words, he expressed a high degree of agreement with these words, he has always had these thoughts in his heart, but he doesn't know how to say it, when he listens to those overseas gentlemen, he is like a sense of enlightenment.

In the next half a month, Chen Benshun ate and lived with those overseas gentlemen, exchanges and discussions, the collision of knowledge and inspiration, Chen Benshun's grasp of the time is extraordinary, and the mastery of overseas gentlemen's geographical advantages is beyond Chen Benshun's imagination.

In the last month before the next month, Chen Ben and the entire Ministry of Agriculture promoted the crops ordered by His Majesty the Emperor in the four states and sixteen counties of the New Song Kingdom.

Sweet potatoes and corn, these two crops Chen Benshun had never even heard of, but in the mouths of those overseas gentlemen, they were great crops that could change the structure of the grain industry in the New Song Dynasty.

"The yield per mu is at least 1,000 catties." These are the words they most often say.

The yield per mu is 1,000 catties, this kind of thing is simply incredible in Chen Benshun's eyes, in this world, 500 catties of crops can be planted on an acre of land, Chen Benshun may be amazed, the yield per mu is 1,000 catties, and he is not afraid to flash his mouth when he says this.

But those overseas gentlemen obviously disdained Chen Benshun's doubts, and they once revealed to Chen Benshun when they were drinking that in their overseas countries, sweet potatoes and corn yields of 3,000 catties per mu abound, and if the fertilizer is diligent, 5,000 catties is the normal yield.

With a yield of 3,000 catties and 5,000 catties per mu, this kind of thing seems to be like a fool's dream, but seeing the serious expressions of those overseas gentlemen, Chen Benshun is really a little skeptical, is there really such a high-yield crop in this world?

It was in this suspicion that Chen Benshun and overseas gentlemen began to promote the cultivation of sweet potatoes and corn to the people in the surrounding 16 counties.

Thanks to the hundreds of thousands of tons of grain that Jiang Yin transported from modern times, Cangzhou's grain continued to overflow to the surrounding townships and counties after half a year of development, so that Qingzhou, Dezhou, and Dizhou were no longer short of grain, and the price of rice and grain also dropped a lot.

Choosing a sandy soil with few weeds and light salinity, fine flat land preparation in spring, combined with spring turning and straw application per mu, farmers began to plant sweet potatoes and corn according to the requirements of overseas husbands.

The overseas gentlemen also gave the farmers some fertilizer, and they asked each farmer to choose a single acre to use the fertilizer they provided to plant, and see what the difference between sweet potatoes and corn produced on this land will be when the summer harvest comes.

At the end of March, sowing began, according to the requirements of Mr. Overseas, the seedbed construction adopts the ondol seedling method, the seedbed area is generally more suitable for one zhang, and the size of the seedbed can also be determined according to the amount of seedlings. The location must be selected in a sheltered and sunny location, and the seedbed sits north to south.

When it comes to farming, Chen Benshun relies on experience, while overseas gentlemen have their own set of methods called 'scientific planting'.

Sowing, breeding, seed protection, this set of scientific planting methods for each step of planting sweet potatoes have requirements, sowing is required to be selected out of the seed potatoes erected on the bed surface sandy soil, the sowing amount is three feet fifty catties, an average of ten seed potatoes in a square foot, and then, cover the seed potatoes with sand, the sand soil should be three feet higher than the top of the seed potatoes, covered with agricultural film, heat preservation and moisturizing.

For the planting of corn is more particular, first of all, the sowing depth should be appropriate, a depth of about one foot can be, sowing too deep will cause slow seedling, weak seedlings, if the watering is too large, there will be very poor seedling, resulting in a lack of seedlings.

Then the corn also needs to be watered in time. After sowing, it is necessary to water the head in time. If the amount of fertilizer is too large and not watered in time, it is easy to cause chemical fertilizer burning, resulting in serious seedling shortage. Watering should be appropriate, not too much watering, flood irrigation is easy to form water in the field, resulting in slow seedling emergence speed, seedling yellow, and even serious lack of seedlings. Especially in the deep planting plots, it is necessary to control the amount of watering.

Chen Benshun also took these new breeding methods to heart, once he thought that he had achieved the ultimate in agriculture, but after seeing the methods of those overseas gentlemen, he knew that there is a sky outside the sky, and there are people outside the world.

These overseas gentlemen have reached the realm of fascination with agriculture, they say that Chen Benshun does not understand all kinds of knowledge, discuss various land content issues, and then comment on the planting methods of farmers, from their tone, you can hear the disdain in their hearts.

Overseas gentlemen are proud, and Chen Benshun doesn't know where their pride comes from, but when the facts don't come out, he doesn't dare to easily deny their pride.

The yield per mu is 1,000 catties, this is a knot in Chen Benshun's heart, if he can really receive so many goods during the summer harvest, he is willing to immediately apprentice to these overseas gentlemen, he hopes to learn more agricultural knowledge, for which he is even willing to make a big determination to learn to write.

Forty-five-year-old Chen Benshun has returned to the desire he had when he was 20 years old, eager to see the output of the field as soon as possible, eager to learn more about the field, and eager to become a farmer with a higher level.

So after planting corn and sweet potatoes in various townships and counties, Chen Benshun had to go to the countryside every day to check the growth process of these crops. The corn stalks grow, recorded; Sweet potatoes are starting to produce small potato rhizomes, record .....

In short, any changes that occurred in the two crops of sweet potatoes and corn in the field, Chen Benshun recorded bit by bit, and he also began to slowly begin to go from being literate to being able to write.

Later, in order to more conveniently observe and record the growth and changes of high-yield crops, Chen Benshun himself also contracted five acres of land, which were also planted with corn and sweet potatoes, and he went to the field every day to observe the growth of these crops.

Cangzhou as a typical northern average altitude city in China, is an excellent place to plant sweet potatoes, in the townships and counties of Cangzhou, the growth of sweet potatoes is also quite gratifying, just more than half a month, the fist of the big sweet potato pieces have basically grown, the growth and development of corn is slow, but because the weather is good, the growth is also OK, the four states and counties of the entire New Song Dynasty, hundreds of thousands of high-yield crops planted have achieved results.......