Chapter 540: Filling in the Soil
Look, this field is planted with soybeans. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info this side is Tian Jing, and this piece is rape flowers. The young farmer pointed to the pile of wheat in the field. This field was planted with soybeans, then wheat, another with field cyanine, and another with rape flowers.
Obviously he is an official, but he has no official appearance, the trousers of the official robe are tied around the waist, his feet are barefoot, and his feet are covered with mud, but he is very pointed to the piles of crops, and he is so excited that he is more excited. It is not surprising that the peasants have been recruited, and they are accustomed to persuading the peasant judges.
They only focus on the few piles of farming. You don't need a scale, just look at it. Obviously, the harvest of these three pieces is much higher than that of simply burning weeds and wheat stalks and fertilizing the fields with plant ash.
'Tian Jing only needs two months, you can directly shovel, this harvest is the best, you can increase by two percent. Although soybeans and rape flowers need to be planted for one less season, they can be used to extract oil. The choice is yours. ’
This is green manure technology, not unusual. The Chinese have known this for a long time. A field that is cultivated over and over again will have a worse and worse harvest. Green manure must be used, so that the field can not be fallowed, and the land utilization rate is improved.
Take advantage of the planting interval to plant some other kinds of crops, and then when the main crop is grown, the plant is shoveled into the soil and used as fertilizer.
This is hundreds of years stronger than the Westerners, and even green manure has to be used, a thousand years earlier than the Westerners. Until the Middle Ages, Westerners were still using the method of abandoning cultivated fields, raising cattle and sheep on them, so that the land could naturally restore its fertility. If they knew what green manure was, they wouldn't have to. Depending on the region, a field that has been planted with wheat will take three years to cultivate in a place that is faster, and even a decade or more than ten years in a slow place.
Nowadays, the agricultural judge is trying to popularize and popularize all kinds of green manure technology to the whole country, according to local conditions, in different places, to promote the green manure technology suitable for the local area, some places to promote Tian Jing, and some to promote soybean and rape flowers, which can be regarded as the development of sideline business.
"Okay, that's probably the way to plant it, you can apply for seeds, but these crops are very common, and it's not difficult to get them yourself." The farmer judge said with a smile, all the peasants are talking to each other, and the effect is really obvious.
When it comes to rape flowers and soybeans, the Chinese have been planting them for a long time. Soybean cultivation can even be traced back to the Neolithic Age, and was called soybean in ancient times. It is recorded in the Book of Rites and the Book of Songs, which shows its antiquity. In addition to eating it directly, there are also tofu and soy sauce that have been made for a long time in China.
However, in the early days, few people knew about this effect of fertilizing the fields, and they were the first to eat it. Soybeans will be popular, not to extract oil, but this crop is less picky, a little smaller beans, and the water is not so demanding when growing. The effect of green manure was not used until around the fifth century.
But it's just that all the while, everyone doesn't know the effect. Now that the agricultural judge is persuaded to compare the two, he knows the benefits of this technique. In the past, in the agricultural books, the records were all vague, that is, they knew that they could fertilize the fields, but they didn't know what the effect was.
Whether it is the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, or the Ming Dynasty, there is no intuitive understanding of how much the crops can grow in such fertile fields. The display of the agricultural judge is just to let everyone have a clear and intuitive understanding of how effective it is.
'Mingfu, what should we do if we plant it and can't sell it?' There was a farmer who, after talking to the others for a long time, was pushed out as a spokesman, and the others did not dare to ask. He asked a very practical question, it's okay to grow soybeans and rape flowers, but it's not easy to do.
You don't have to worry about this, an oil mill is going to be built in the township, and there is no need to worry about no market. As for the sales of the oil extracted from the oil mills, the agricultural cooperatives will also be responsible. ’
Both crops can be used to extract oil. Among them, soybeans are a better crop than rape flowers. The oil content is so rich that the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations even listed him as an oilseed rather than a legume. Rape flower can also be used to mustard oil, which is also a very common crop in Taiwan, but it is gradually being phased out because this crop is very likely to attract pests.
Later, Taiwan gradually promoted the planting of sunflowers, which are the kind of flowers that are very large and will follow the sun to change direction. It doesn't attract pests, and it's also beautiful and more ornamental. If this is the case, it will not be replaced by rape flowers.
The strength of sunflowers over rape flowers is that this crop, when used as green manure, provides more nutrients to the soil, so it is worth promoting. It's just that this crop is native to the Americas, and he didn't even think about it until the New World fleet returned.
The agricultural cooperatives are responsible for the marketing of agricultural products, which is also established by Li Chen by imitating Taiwan's system. Speaking of which, it is really not easy to be a judge of persuasion of agriculture, and he has to take care of even the problem of finding sales for agricultural products.
Taiwan has production and marketing cooperatives, or agricultural products transportation and marketing classes. Assist farmers in selling their crops. If it is only sold to the market, the farmers themselves can do it, but what about exporting it internationally? For example, Taiwanese bananas were exported to Japan in the early days, and there are many crops. Without the assistance of these units, how can the farmers alone get it?
Li Chen wants to improve the living standards of the farmers in the Tang Dynasty and increase their income, if it were the ancients, he would probably only think that it would be good to let the farmers have land to cultivate. But a later generation traveler, just want farmers to have land to cultivate, high-yield crops, and have enough to eat, that can only be regarded as basically qualified.
Even, it is not impossible to say that it is not qualified, this kind of requirement, just the idea of the ancients, has been like this for thousands of years, limited by the times, subject to knowledge, they do not have a higher pursuit, it is normal.
But a modern traveler, well-informed, and well-fed can only be a basic, and more importantly, it is necessary to increase the income of farmers and develop a side business for them. China's problem, agriculture will always be a big problem, and even, Li Chen can say that as long as the peasant problem is solved, Datang will have no problem.
As long as agriculture does not collapse, there will always be a basic income, and even if it is invaded by foreign enemies and backward in science and technology, as long as the peasants do not have problems, China will be able to get back up sooner or later.
Peasant incomes have risen, and industry has risen. Even if Li Chen does not advocate it, if the peasants' incomes are good, a large market will naturally be formed. If you have a higher pursuit, you have to send your children to school, and there will be more readers. To make good use of industrial products, the industrial level can also be slowly improved.
And to achieve this goal, there is no way to do it by farming. It is also necessary to try to get the peasants to develop side jobs, farming, and only to maintain the basics, and it is better to be able to develop the processing of various agricultural products, as well as animal husbandry. This problem will not be outdated for thousands of years.
Even if it is the world's largest power, it is not only high-tech and munitions, agriculture and animal husbandry are also its main products. Otherwise, why do they keep taking their chemical pigs and beef to force the small countries that depend on them to pay, and nothing else?
To develop these, in fact, he has been doing it for a long time. In the past, all kinds of canned food were promoted, chickens and pigs were raised, and then canned food, and local pottery factories were established. Now it's just a step further, and oil making is also a good choice.
It's just that after the things are made, how to sell them, there is no market, and the farmers can't be allowed to use them for their own use, that's not equal to zero. This question depends on the persuasion of the agricultural judges. After all, many peasants, the farthest place they go to is just a hundred miles away from home, they go to few places, and they don't have much to study, so they naturally have less knowledge. Therefore, Li Chen asked the judge to persuade farmers to take on this responsibility.
It sounds like a lot of trouble, but it's actually okay, after all, the largest sales location for these agricultural and animal husbandry products is still in the city. The judge of persuasion is to provide an intermediary. If the city merchant came to the place to look for a source of goods, he could find a judge who persuaded the peasants. Or persuade the agricultural judge to go to the city to find a place to sell. In this regard, the royal firm can also play a role in helping, otherwise many agricultural judges would not be able to do it.
Getting this guarantee, everyone has moved their minds, many people want to plant soybeans, but rape flowers are also good, rape flowers can also be planted halfway to bulldoze, without delaying the next season's harvest. After receiving the seeds, everyone said goodbye to the agricultural judge, and the farmers respected the scholar very much, especially the agricultural judge who often demonstrated various advanced agricultural techniques for them. This is an official who never asks for anything from them, but desperately gives them all kinds of good things, and really thinks about them.
Just as the crowd was about to disperse, a child hurried towards the place, shouting as he ran, "Oh no."
Isn't that the royal dog's? Someone recognized the child, and seeing him in a hurry, everyone stopped, and finally when the child ran away, he couldn't take care of his breath, and shouted, "Out, something happened, Uncle Jiang, help." They're going to beat my father to death. ’
'Who, who did it?' Could it be Zhao peeling again? When everyone heard this, they were shocked, and they were called Uncle Jiang and persuaded the agricultural judge to immediately think of a person, "Go." Let's go. After that, he pulled his legs first and ran wildly. A group of peasants also followed him and ran towards the goal.
'Stop. After running for about a mile, I ran to a small river, and saw a fat man in brocade clothes, commanding a group, filling in the soil, and Judge Jiang shouted loudly.
'Leave him alone, go on, whose food are you going to eat?' Seeing that a cadre was actually afraid of the sesame official, he obeyed the order to stop as soon as he shouted, and the fat man in brocade was angry, and shouted in his broken voice, so everyone continued to work just now.
'Zhao Dechang, you are so bold, you ignored the ban of the imperial court three times and twice, and filled in the soil privately. Jiang persuaded the peasants to be extremely angry, this matter is not once or twice, look at today's posture, this Zhao peels, Zhao eats people, if you don't level this field, you won't stop.
'Judge Jiang, you are a petty eight-grade petty official, you don't care about the county order, why do you care, this is my land, I can do whatever I like." Zhao Dechang, the nosy agricultural judge, was also very angry, but just to fill in the land and use it to build a textile factory, you care so much.
'There are paddy fields here, there are ditches, you build a textile factory, how can other people use water.' ''I don't care, anyway, this is my field, I can fill it if I like, you can't control it.'' ’
The location here is the entrance of an irrigation ditch, and the water flow is relatively large, so it is very suitable if it is used to build a textile factory. Although the income from farming is stable, it is not as high as the income of textile mills. Therefore, in many places, water-powered textile factories have been built.
This phenomenon is very common in Datang. Originally, under Li Chen's blow, this phenomenon of occupying ditches and driving waterwheels was somewhat restrained. But recently there has been a resurgence.
If you haven't forgotten, Li Chen had only rectified the Zhengbai Canal and Weishui in the Guanzhong area before, and this kind of waterwheel occupied the waterway, resulting in the phenomenon of the function of the irrigation ditch decreasing day by day. However, with the response of water-powered textiles, textile factories made huge profits, so that many people began to occupy the canals again.
Before, the efficiency was poor, and there were a large row of waterwheels next to the Zhengbai Canal and Weishui <, but in fact, many of them did not start work. After all, there isn't that much to grind. Later, Li Chen vigorously rectified and only gave a few companies the right to open water-powered mills, allowing them to grind here, and not allowing them to set up privately, so this phenomenon was relatively restrained.
However, with Li Chen's various measures, water-powered looms and extensive cotton planting, the textile farm is becoming more and more profitable, and Li Chen also sells this new type of textile machine to the outside world, so that the signs of occupying the waterway are staged in various parts of Datang. Many people have built factories next to some ditches and tamped the paddy fields with soil. How could a peasant who cherished the land, more than his life, agree to such a thing, so there were many protests.
It's just that this kind of struggle is useless, and those tenant farmers who will do this are all big landlords, rich and powerful, and those tenant farmers are simply powerless to fight. Some were driven away, and some were recruited into the newly built textile factory. So there has been nothing going on, and the magistrate doesn't care, anyway, don't kill anyone, everything is not a problem. Just like Zhao Dechang said, my land, I love as much as I like.
However, if it's just like this, it would be good, Judge Jiang didn't have to fight against him, the main thing was that to drive a hydro loom, a relatively large water potential was required, which would affect irrigation. As happened in Chang'an, irrigation water will be greatly affected. Therefore, the emperor appointed the judge to persuade the peasants, and Judge Jiang will fight hard.
I'm not leaving here today. Have the ability to step over my corpse and bury me in the ground by the way. Seeing that Zhao Dechang, he didn't care about continuing to fill in the soil, such a good field would soon be abandoned by him.
It takes years to raise a field. If it is to be destroyed, it will only take one day, Judge Jiang's eyes are red, not only the field has been destroyed, but even the irrigation ditches that have been built with cement for a hundred years cannot be saved. And he stood in front of them, and when he saw who dared to fill it in, and if he wanted to fill it, he buried his body in the earth.
"Hmph, let's go, surnamed Jiang De, I'll see if you can live here for the rest of your life." Zhao Dechang saw that he couldn't be good today, so his face was so pale that he waited for a bunch of people to leave.