Chapter 222: Focus on Agriculture
Ming Yu said: "In fact, we are nervous about plowing cattle everywhere, and we have worked hard to get a thousand ploughing cattle, which is a very good result!" In this county, there are only 200 heads, but it is not bad compared to other counties! Now that we have gathered enough 1,200 ploughing cattle, and with so many ploughing cattle, which county can match us? ”
When Shi Jia heard this, he couldn't help but smile bitterly, this 1,200 head of ploughing cattle can be regarded as the best in all counties, it's really sad!
Shi Jia wouldn't blame Ming Pre, of course he knew that Ming Pre had done his best, what else could he say if he could get so many ploughing cattle for him?
Ming pre-emptively said that because there was no war in the Jin Dynasty in the south, there were a lot of cattle there, and it would be good if they could buy them, but the road was too far, so they were afraid of being robbed. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
In fact, Shi Jia thought that he could take the waterway, which was much safer than the land route. It's just that Shi Jia doesn't have the ability to get a ploughing ox now.
Besides, ploughing cattle is an important resource, and of course the Eastern Jin Dynasty will not sell it to the north easily, and it will be strictly guarded, and it will be difficult to buy it yourself. Shi Jia thought about it, if he could really buy it, he would only buy a large number of calves, and he would be able to breed in the future, and he could breed more, and he wouldn't have to worry about the lack of cattle in time.
This matter can't be rushed, there will be a chance in the future, let's think about it in the long run! Shi Jia patiently listened to Ming Yu and continued.
Ming Yu also said that he issued the Law on Recruiting Displaced People, just to attract more displaced people to Wenxilai, as long as there are more people, Shi Jia's strength can increase.
At the same time, he is also forming an army of 3,000 exclusive Shi Jia, although the number is still very small, after all, he can't blatantly increase the number of people, which will make Shi Hu suspicious and will bring great disadvantages to Shi Jia. Shi Jia can fully understand this.
Shi Jia smiled and nodded, and said, "Okay! You know what to do, what else do I have to worry about? Everything you do is good! I am so grateful to you! ”
Ming Yu was appreciated by Shi Jia, and he felt that everything he did was worth it, and he couldn't help but smile happily.
Shi Jia asked Ming Pre again, about the development of commerce, but Ming Pre is a lot of land, very simple, in this society that values agriculture and suppresses business, businessmen are inferior, and only those who are forced to do business will do business.
Therefore, if you want Ming to develop business, this may be difficult to understand. In this era of war and chaos, you are carrying a large number of goods, and it is easy to be robbed by bandits from all over the world. Therefore, if you really want to develop a business at this time, it is too difficult and too difficult!
As soon as Shi Jia heard what Ming Pre said, he just smiled bitterly, and did not blame Ming Pre, he could only find another way. Then the development of agriculture, this can not be a little hesitant, it must be fast.
So Shi Jia then said: "Give me twenty acres of land, I will develop a new method of farming, and I will have farming tools, and the land in this place cannot be given to me good land and there must be good land all around, because my land is inferior to others, but I can obtain a higher yield than others, so that I can convince others!" ”
Shi Jia said it loudly, because when he was imprisoned in Yecheng, he had been thinking about how to improve the level of agricultural production.
As a traveler, and living in the countryside, he is still somewhat familiar with farm tools, and the level of agricultural production after a thousand years is of course much stronger than this era, Shi Jia is fully confident that he can do everything well and completely.
It was under such circumstances that Shi Jia took the initiative to ask Yizhong Tian and Liangtian to wait until after the autumn harvest to make a comparison to see who had a higher level. In this way, more people can come to learn from him, and then increase the yield per mu, increase the grain, solve the problem of eating, and the rest is irrelevant.
Shi Jia also asked Ming Pre to summon some carpenters, he was of great use, and at the same time, he had to go to Pu Yi, because Pu Yi was the best craftsman in the world, and only he could make the farm tools he needed.
Shi Jia had already drawn the map when he imprisoned Yecheng, and now he only had to hand it over to Pu Yi, and with Pu Yi's level, it would not be difficult to build these farm tools.
Shi Jia asked the carpenters to look at the figure of the high drum car he had drawn, and asked them to make it in the same way, and then placed it in Shi Jia's medium field.
After the construction of the high-drum waterwheel, people couldn't help but look at this waterwheel, and they were all talking about it, and they didn't know what it was for.
Shi Jia came, and he also brought a batch of tools that people don't recognize, what are these? After people looked at it, they shook their heads again, they really hadn't seen it before.
Shi Jia just smiled and nodded to everyone, he first wanted to see how others farmed, and then he would introduce his new method.
Shi Jia went to see it, and everyone else drained the water in the field, and then took advantage of the sun to dry the field, which had to be dried for about ten days, and the soil had to be dried, and then the clods of soil were crushed with stone sticks, and the ground was leveled, and finally the seeds were sown.
This whole set of drying fields, plowing the ground, and breaking the soil takes a long time, and it consumes a lot of manpower. In particular, ploughing is extremely troublesome, and it restricts not being able to plant too many fields.
Due to the fact that there are few people in Wenxi now, although the order to recruit displaced people has been issued, people are still waiting, and some people who have heard of Shi Jia's good name and entered Wenxi are still a minority. This doesn't solve the problem of a small number of people.
At this time, Ming Pre said on the side: "I hope God doesn't rain anymore, if it really rains, how can we sow seeds?" Now we have less than a month left, and if we miss the planting season, we will not be able to plant the land. I'm afraid that it won't be able to dry the fields when it rains all the time! If you can't break the soil, how can you talk about sowing seeds? Forcibly sown and sprinkled on the ground are mostly fed to the birds! And they can't grow in the soil. People mistake Tian for a while, Tian mistakes people for an autumn! Don't be careful! ”
Ming's words were immediately approved by all the people present, and everyone knew how to sow seeds when they were rushing to farm, but now it was raining from time to time, which made people very anxious.
Someone also said, "What a pity! Due to the war, there are not many ripe fields that have been cultivated without stopping in previous years! Most of them are barren fields that have been abandoned for many years, so a lot of soil has to be broken! Alas! As soon as these words came out, there was another big sigh!
When someone exclaims, "If only we had more time, we would have been able to cultivate more fields!" What's more, weeding is also a very hard job in the future! It's also very labor-intensive! This emotion was again approved by pieces of people.
People's livelihood! Agriculture is the biggest livelihood now! And now God won't benefit me! They can only rely on the sky for food! But you don't want God not to rain, God just keeps raining.