Chapter 5 Report on the Development of Economic Production: Grain
"From the actual survey, the current development trend of Desmond can be divided into three types: agriculture-based, handicraft-based, and commerce-oriented, and as for the development of industry, it is still in a state of stagnation. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
The agriculture-based can be subdivided into four situations, namely, wheat, barley, rye, and oats, among which wheat and rye are more nutritious, and easy to thresh, husk, and grind; Toasted bread tastes good, but it grows very slowly, and under the current conditions (i.e. Western Europe) it can only be sown in the autumn of the previous year and harvested in July-August of the following year, but it does not grow well in barren land and is extremely prone to freezing to death in cold conditions.
Oats and barley are spring sowing crops that grow quickly, with a growth period of only three months; However, its disadvantages are that it is difficult to dehydrate, the bread cannot be 'soaked', and the taste is extremely poor, so it can only be eaten as livestock or in disaster years. (By this standard, Europe was a year of disaster, and the peasant's common food, the black leba - don't confuse the black bread made with modern technology with the medieval 'French baguette', which is refined with wheat and sugar, and is almost indistinguishable from white bread; while the medieval black leba was made with a mixture of barley, earth, and wood chips, and they were not fermented!) Therefore, the medieval black leba could be used as a weapon, and it was roasted on a fire for two hours before eating, and then it was consumed with water. )”
Having written so much in one sitting, the Earl of Donchester breathed a sigh of relief, and prepared to move his already stiff wrist - writing with a quill is not an easy task, especially for the modern man who is familiar with the pen, and accidentally over-exerts the goose feathers.
This report is definitely not what Lord Earl wants to write, and it is not even Lord Earl's willingness to go to the countryside for a private visit, but there is no way, this is the task released by the Golden Thigh Early Education Machine.
Moreover, a reward that the little Count Tang could not refuse: a simple method of making organic fertilizer.
Count Tang Xiao is a time-traveler, and the identity of a time-traveler has brought him insight beyond the world's millennium and vision beyond the world's millennium, but unfortunately he didn't give him the knowledge to transcend the world's millennium.
In today's society, in the world of the 21st century, the differences between various types of work are getting bigger and bigger, and some can even be said to be very different. For example, Count Xiao Tang, he also studied engineering before he crossed, a standard engineering dog, but Count Xiao Tang specializes in mechanical manufacturing, and there is a distance of 108,000 miles from organic fertilizers in chemistry and biology.
That's right, Count Don Jr. knows that manure is also fertilizer, biogas is also fertilizer, and reeds are also fertilizer. However, there is always a difference between fertilizers, and some can not even be placed indiscriminately, such as chicken manure, unrotted chicken manure is released directly into the field, which will produce a lot of heat and organic acids, and contains a large number of harmful bacteria and poisonous eggs, resulting in root diseases and insect pests.
Therefore, in the first year of the tragedy, the fields directly under him were lost......
Moreover, fertilizer is the god of increasing grain production.
Taking rice as an example, for every kilogram of fertilizer used, at least six to seven kilograms of grain can be increased, and it is pollution-free and does not harm the fertility of the land. Before the founding of the People's Republic of China, China's average land yield of 200 catties per mu can be regarded as high-yield fields, but now you look at the news, 2014 Yangtze River Daily: rice yield of 200 catties per mu, who is pit farmers?
Therefore, Count Tang could not refuse this task, and food was the root of everything. If industry is the source of the development of modern society, then food, it is the mother of industry.
However, this research report is not something that can be written casually, and the early education machine will also score according to the report you submit to it, if you don't do a good job below sixty points, then I'm sorry, wait for next time.
Nima pit daddy, which three- to five-year-old kid is about to start doing social research? Even if it's aliens, it's a little too early!
Therefore, the Earl of Xiao Tang has to do it, not only to do it but also to do it seriously, not only to investigate but also to investigate seriously, but also to find out how much oats are produced in an acre of land, how much wheat is produced, when to plant and when to harvest, how many seeds to be left for the next year, how much labor costs, how many rations a peasant (based on a family of five) needs to be fed in a year, these are all trivial and troublesome statistical work, no one in the entire county will do it, and even if someone can, he will not do it. Most of the people who will do it are learned nobles and clergy, and they are all high-ranking people, so they don't care about the lives of the peasants.
Why bother? Isn't it just a bunch of mud legs that will regenerate after death? In these years, the more mud legs die, the better, and they still rebel in the province. As long as they can pay their taxes and grain on time, whether they eat SI or gnaw bark, the noble lords are invisible.
Only the little Count Tang, his heart has not yet been rotten by this damned era, he knows to care about the lives of the peasants, he knows that people have to eat when they live, and those who have nothing to eat will either starve to death or revolutionize.
And the little Count Tang still wanted to live well, so he didn't want the peasant revolution under his command, so he had to try to find other ways to increase grain production.
In addition to fertilizer, there are three ways to increase grain production: irrigation ditches and crop rotation.
This irrigation is God's work, and God can only follow his mood as much rain as he wants, and we mortals can't control it. But the rest of the ditches and rotations, it's worth mentioning.
First of all, the rotation of seeds, this scene is really worth seeing.
Ancient China also had wheels, but the wheels in China and the medieval wheels were simply two different things.
The Yangtze River basin in China is fertile and rainfall-abundant, making it ideal for cultivation. However, there is a lack of sunshine in the rainy season in late spring and early summer, and the temperature is low in winter, and the accumulated temperature of a year makes it a great waste to plant only one season of rice, and the time to plant another season of wheat is not enough.
What should we do, do we plant only one season, and let the rest of the land go to waste, which is called 'protecting the land', or use our brains and more technology to successfully plant two seasons of land that was not enough to plant two seasons?
The Chinese chose the latter, and the technology pointed out is rotation.
But what about Europa?
They have the fallow system, a technique that our ancestors began in the Xia Dynasty, and it was not until the ninth century that it was successfully spread, and it also derived the two-garden system, the three-garden system, and the four-garden system.
Isn't Nima's two-garden system just one land for cultivation and one land for abandonment?! The so-called three-garden system is also a piece of spring ploughing, a piece of autumn ploughing, and a piece of abandonment!!
Abandon the wasteland, have all your tech trees been clicked on the wasteland?!
That's land! The most precious land in the world!
Ireland's Great Grazing Estates, the best place in the world for animal husbandry; Thousands of miles of plains in France, thousands of miles of fertile soil; The typical Mediterranean climate of the Italian region, with warm and abundant sunshine, as well as the Crimea, Ukraine, the vast steppes of Eastern Europe to millions of square kilometers, the breadbasket of the whole of Europe!
But they didn't even point out the basic technology of planting!
Tyrannical creatures!
Speaking of ditches, since the collapse of ancient Rome, it seems that no one has thought of digging ditches, and the only ditch that Count Don saw in Desmond that is still usable is three hundred years old today!
There is no water for crops, and every year I look at God's face, it's strange that this grain is not underharvested! And the silt in the ditch, which is also a good fertilizer, can be used directly.
So, start from scratch! The future is good, the road is tortuous, Count Don Jr., Fight!