Looking at the information piled up like snowflakes in front of him, Liu Zhi rubbed his eyes, he didn't do anything this morning, so he was here to read the news from all over the world. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

What Dou Jiande and Luo Yi fought in Zhuojun, how many people died, how many were gained, the current sphere of influence of the two sides, what is the brotherly wall between Li Shimin and Li Jiancheng, etc.

Liu Zhi dropped the pen and ran outside to relax, and his neck was a little sore after walking for a long time.

At this time, it was already early summer, because the humidity of Langya Mountain was relatively heavy, so the sunlight was not very strong, and it did not feel very hot, and all kinds of plants he planted in the yard had already budded and branched.

Among them, there are crops such as cotton and corn, as well as cucumbers, watermelons, melons and other fruits and vegetables of the Cucurbitaceae family.

As for apples, peaches, pears, and other fruits, he also planted them, but they were not planted in his small yard, but in a sunny place on the mountain.

The fertile soil and water of Langya Mountain, the growth of these plants is gratifying, coupled with the high temperature and abundant sunshine at this time, so they quickly became large.

Liu Zhi obviously couldn't manage so many plants alone, so he found someone to come and handed them over the management technology, and then let them manage it.

Among them, cotton and corn are Liu Zhi's two treasures, so he has to come and see them every day.

And when summer comes, watermelon and other water-replenishing fruits are also essential, so he also attaches great importance to watermelon.

These three plants are not seen in the Central Plains at this time, cotton is native to Central Asia, at this time only in the Western Regions has some distribution, there is no Central Plains at all, and corn is native to South America, in the Central Plains is absolutely not seen.

And in addition, at this time, watermelons are also difficult to see, watermelons were brought back by Zhang Qian when he went to the Western Regions in the Han Dynasty, but at this time it was only distributed in the Western Regions, and it was difficult to see in the Central Plains, but when the imperial court set the capital of Chang'an, in the summer, Emperor Wen of Sui liked to eat this kind of thing very much, and occasionally there would be soldiers who transported some watermelons back to Beijing, but only for the royal taste, and it was not called watermelon, but called cold melon, and the size was far less than that of later generations, and the size was about two or three catties. The reason why the watermelon in later generations is so big is because of the use of biological polyploidy technology, which makes the watermelon multiply larger, and even the watermelon can be removed, which is much less troublesome to eat, but at this time, these are impossible to do.

In addition to these things that are difficult to see outside, the remaining melons and cucumbers are all things that have appeared in China at this time.

Among them, cucumber is also introduced by Zhang Qian from the Western Regions, because it is handed down from foreign hands, so it is called courgette, for which there is a very interesting allusion.

In the Eastern Jin Dynasty, the northern Qiang people established a kingdom called Hou Zhao, and the founder of the Later Zhao Dynasty, Shi Le, after ascending the throne as the emperor of Xiangguo, was annoyed by the people of his own country calling the Hu people, thinking that he had been discriminated against, so Shi Le formulated a decree: no matter speaking or writing articles, it is strictly forbidden to appear the word "Hu", and the offender will be beheaded for pardon.

One day, Shi Le summoned the magistrates in Shan Yuting, and when he saw Fan Tan, the commander of Xiangguo, coming to see him wearing patched and tattered clothes, he was very dissatisfied. He split his head and asked, "Fan Tan, why did you come to the court when you were not dressed properly?" At this time, it was the Wei and Jin dynasties, and it was very decent and literati, and improper dress was a very serious matter, and it would even violate the law. As soon as he had finished speaking, he realized that he had broken the ban, and hurriedly prostrated himself and pleaded guilty. When Shile saw that he was guilty, he no longer blamed, and at this time, there were many tribes in the north, and there were also times when they sent troops to rob each other, and what he said could also be the truth.

But this matter was rude to him, saying the word 'Hu Ren' in front of him, Shi Le felt uncomfortable, so when he waited until the routine "Imperial Lunch" after the summons, he pointed to a plate of courgettes and asked Fan Tan: "Do you know what the name of this thing is?" Fan Tan saw that Shi Le was deliberately questioning him, and he must not say the word 'courgette', otherwise it would be worse, so he replied respectfully: "Purple case delicacies, silver cups of green tea, golden bottle nectar, jade plate cucumbers." When Schleer heard this, he smiled with satisfaction.

Since then, the courgette has gradually been replaced by other cucumbers, and over time, the world has called it cucumber, no longer saying that it is a courgette.

As for the melon, this kind of thing has appeared even more recently, so that it is now planted everywhere, but because its yield is not high, it is generally planted in the mountains, and no one is willing to use good land to grow this thing.

Liu Zhi took a look, corn and cotton planted relatively late, only forty or fifty centimeters high at this time, but it is still early, this kind of thing grows fast, as long as you fertilize frequently, watering more, their growth will be very rapid, but now there is no fertilizer in this era, when he went to the countryside in the past, he saw that everyone still used human and animal manure to water the land, but in this era, human and animal manure is not much, people are good to say, mainly because the number of livestock is too small, and ploughing cattle is a rare thing, not every household has it, As for raising pigs, although this thing has been domesticated by the Chinese ancestors as early as the Neolithic Age, but their food is really too large, so it is not very good to feed, in the Shang Dynasty, this thing was also used as a mascot, was given as a gift to each other, if you go out to visit people, do not bring a pig, you don't want to come to the door, it seems that this period of time is the highlight of the pig, everyone is reluctant to eat, give each other gifts.

Pork has always been the main source of meat for Chinese in the agricultural era, the people of Langya Pavilion are not monks, naturally they want to eat pork, so they also raise a lot of pigs, thinking of this, Liu Zhi began to use his brain, pigs eat a lot of this thing, pull fast, so manure is naturally a lot, but at this time most of the pigs are free-range, their manure is pulled everywhere, this needs to collect their manure, and even if their manure is collected, the effect of direct use is not good, the reason why pigs are stupid, It is that they eat raw food, digestion is not good, there are many components in the feces are not completely digested, this thing is applied to the ground, and the plants are not easy to absorb, so they must first pile up their manure, compost, and artificially help the catalysis of these fertilizers, so that the fertility of the fertilizer will be improved a lot.