Chapter 300: Agricultural Experts
Li Xiang thought to himself, last time Shi Bingxue did say that he would give himself a gift when he turned around, but he didn't expect to do what he said. He returned to the house with the brocade box in his hand www.biquge.info opened it, and saw that it was a pink brocade with a poem embroidered with colored thread red.
Li Xiang was about to see what was written in this poem, when he heard someone next to him exclaim: "Huh? This Jinpa is really beautiful. Li Xiang was startled, and when he looked back, it was Lu Shiya who had walked in at some point, and was standing behind Li Xiang at this time.
Li Xiang wanted to put away the Jinpa, it was too late, but Lu Shiya snatched it, looked at it a few times, and said happily: "This handkerchief is really good, and there are verses inscribed on it." As he spoke, he read the poem out, only to hear her read: The autumn snow is red, the winter plum spirit is full of couplets, if you have the ice heart to pull the ice and snow, smash the jade bone and gamble for a hundred years!"
Li Xiang listened, stood in place, and thought: "If you have ice and snow in your heart, and smash the jade bone and gamble for a hundred years, what does this ice and snow sentence mean?" ”
"This is a good veil, where did it come from?"
"I saw this brocade in the market yesterday, and I thought it looked good, so I bought it and prepared to give it to you." Li Xiang had bitter words in his heart, so he had to bite the bullet and continue to lie.
"Hehe, your vision is not bad, this character is also well written, it seems that the handwriting is from the hand of a woman, but I don't know which girl in the embroidery building can write such good words." With that, Lu Shiya took the Jinpa and went happily. Li Xiang secretly complained in his heart, but he was helpless.
Lord Wang and the Lu family knew about the miscellaneous flash rice that Li Xiang had made, so they approached Li Xiang and asked Li Xiang to get more of this kind of thing. Li Xiang thought that he would not stop doing it, and printed out crops such as cotton and potatoes, preparing for them to plant.
Lord Wang and Lord Lu also invited all the land protectors, experienced old farmers, landlords, and large dryland households in the vicinity of Lin'an, and this time Li Xiang wanted to teach them the techniques of potato and cotton cultivation. As soon as they heard the news, those people ran fast, since Li Xiang became famous, the common people knew that the Great Song Dynasty had a genius, not only could make poetry, but also helped the Great Song Dynasty make artillery, and now they have made high-yield grain, and they have been looking forward to this day for a year and a half.
Li Xiang came to the field, and everyone looked at him with bated breath. Don't say anything about the seedling throwing method, the first choice is cotton, now with these kinds of dry grain, he is not afraid of missing the grain harvest of the Song Dynasty, clothing, food, shelter and transportation, clothing is also very important. He asked the tenant farmer to bring pig dung, straw ash, and mud together, and then he found a fine-haired bamboo tube and sawed it into twenty centimeters high, and put it together on the mud mixture to form a culture bowl. Then plant the cotton seeds on top of it by hand. As a result, his hands were also covered in mud.
Zhao Er, this guy, stopped him in distress and said, "Young Master! ”
These peasants remembered that this young official was a star in the sky, and even the emperor never forgot that he would be a minister of the Great Song Dynasty in the future, so how could he let him work personally. So he knelt down and begged Li Xiang to clean his hands, if there was any work for them to do, he just stood by and instructed.
Li Xiang looked at these kneeling peasants and thought with emotion: No matter when, farmers are the most simple. He said: "You all hurry up, even the Holy Lord is still in the palace to demonstrate for the world, and personally farm, not to mention the officials? The planting method of these new crops is not only related to you, but also related to the fact that more people in the world do not worry about food and clothing, and this official cannot but be cautious. ”
Under the persuasion of Lord Wang and Li Xiang, these peasants got up from the ground.
Li Xiang picked up the nutrition bowl and said, "This official knows that some of you have secretly introduced this cotton. ”
Li Xiang looked at them and said, "Everyone wants to live a better life, and this official can understand." Besides, dressing is also a major event in the world. It's just that your planting methods are different, and even those farmers in Quzhou are planting wrong. The official searched through the agricultural books to find ways to increase the yield, and only then did he find a way to make this plant truly achieve high yields. ”
Hearing this, everyone, including Lord Wang and Lord Lu, were in awe, and they flipped through the agricultural books, how many agricultural books they had to read, not only to read, but also to absorb their strengths and make up for their weaknesses and understand the essence of them. This young man has put a lot of effort into order for the farmers of the world to have a good life.
Li Xiang actually laughed in his heart, and he said: "For example, governing the world, ruling crimes by law, educating the people, and being lenient and severe." The same is true for planting crops, which should also be properly sparse. Plants grow not only to absorb nutrients from the ground, but also to absorb sunlight. ”
Of course, he didn't dare to say that he had to absorb carbon dioxide from the air.
At this time, he saw a pig not far away who was eating wild vegetables on the side of the road, and made an analogy: "For example, a sow has ten piglets in a litter and a milk supply, but can she raise thirty piglets?" ”
Everyone burst into laughter.
Li Xiang said solemnly: "Then these little pigs will grow deformed due to lack of milk, and even die." Of course, it is not possible to plant a crop in a field, so that the crop grows into a tree and the harvest is insufficient. ”
The crowd laughed again.
Li Xiang said again: "Therefore, this official painstakingly meditated on this idea. Transfer cotton. First, in this way, cotton can be grown in a nutrient bowl first, and in winter the cotton leaves fall and the sunlight penetrates the surface, and winter crops can also be planted. Don't look at this season, they can give you an extra harvest, how much more will the entire Great Song add up? ”
Once again, the crowd was stunned. This young man is truly for the country and the people.
Li Xiang said again: "Then why use a nutrient bowl? Because cotton is different from rice, rice is a herbaceous crop, and the roots are fibrous roots, and the roots grow quickly, so the official told you to boldly use the method of throwing seedlings. But cotton is different, it is a small tree crop, its trunk is larger, the weight of support is more, its root system is developed, dozens of times thicker than rice. ”
Hearing this, everyone nodded their heads again and again, they had all seen or planted cotton.
Li Xiang said: "Therefore, its root system grows slowly, and if you rashly use the method of transplanting seedlings, it will hurt its roots and prolong its growth time." ”
At this point, he threw a few more bowls of nutrients, put them together, and said, "You see, why does the official make the bowls round, so that the places where they are next to each other are small, and the roots will not connect with each other, and the roots will always look for a place with water and soil, and they will be forced to grow downward. In this way, it will not hurt its roots when it is transferred, and second, because its roots have been downward, it will absorb more nutrients and grow better when moved to the field in the future. And this nutrient bowl is fully nutritious, making it stronger for seedlings and young roots. That is, you don't care about the harvest, and you plant a single plant in the field, first, the roots grow shallowly, and second, not all the roots are in the range of your fertilization, and many roots do not grow strong. ”
Li Xiang knew that these peasants were not highly educated, so he tried his best to explain the truth in simple language. (To be continued.) )