The Yunlong Yuan family was almost wiped out, but the Yuan family in the tugboat port resisted the invasion of the bandits. Slowly, news came, not that this bandit was completely aimed at a small family, but that the major families were taking advantage of various situations to lead disasters to the small family. At the same time, because Zhang Fenglan is becoming stronger and stronger in Yunlong Town, she does not dare to touch the Wu family in Qinghe, and she can always let the small family attached to the Wu family set herself on fire.

The Wu family and the Yuan family walked the river, which was strictly calculated as the sphere of influence of the lake bandits and the boat gang. Other families, including the Yuan family in the tugboat port, have some connections with bandits and bandits because they have to live on land. Some bandits and even some big families secretly raise themselves and use them as tools to fight their opponents.

Whether the bandits who attacked Yunlong Town have the shadow of these big families, the people from the tugboat port said very vaguely.

Zhang Fenglan directly warned the people of the Yuan family not to act rashly.

There are many reasons not to act rashly, among which the division of land and water forces has long been conventional, and this balance should not be broken. Moreover, Zhangjialing is in a very fragile period and can only compromise on everything, which is also a big reason. Zhang Fenglan must have received some threatening rumors, so she brought back thousands of rounds of ammunition from Hankou afterwards for Zhang Chun's training.

Zhang Chun sensed the truth of the matter. But what can be done is also very limited, and in troubled times, we have to rely on strength to speak, but strength is not something that can be cultivated in a short period of time.

The only thing you can do now is to do your own thing.

After the summer harvest, Zhangjialing was in addition to literacy. It's a rush to plant rice. The yield of the newly harvested wheat was not satisfactory, but the old and young in Zhangjialing were very happy that it was already a high yield, at least they did not have to worry about starvation.

Rush to finish planting rice. Public toilets and sewers are to be built in the earthen enclosures.

An earthen kiln was built on the edge of the west pond and bricks and pottery pipes were fired. This is a necessary craft for croppers, who can burn it, but they are not proficient. Zhang Chun had enough food, but he had no money after buying two cows again, so he had to rely on himself for everything.

Yuan Fang finally got up, the dead can't survive, and the living have to live.

The soil enclosure was cleaned all at once, and the sewage was collected and discharged into the large manure tank by the threshing floor in front of the south gate. Farm manure has already begun to be piled up by the manure tank. A new courtyard was built next to the manure tank, in which two piglets were fed, and the rest of the place was a cowshed. Six buffaloes, in Yunlong Town, not every family has them, and the cows are too expensive these days. Other families believed that hired farmers and long-term laborers should contribute, and even the ploughing of rice fields was done by people, but some yeoman farmers raised some buffaloes at home.

After the livestock yard and sewer system were built. Zhang Chun didn't dare to toss.

However, the earthen kiln did not stop, and Zhangjialing began to burn the kiln. In the past, the two masters of the kiln in Yunlong Town brought three apprentices over because of banditry, they had no food source, and the spring famine was good, but it was not easy to survive until the autumn harvest. The two masters did not know how to burn porcelain, but ordinary pottery could still be burned. And who usually uses porcelain? Anyway, neither the Zhang Chun family nor the Zhang Yang family have a few porcelain. Zhang Fenglan also sells mainly pottery rather than porcelain.

The two masters took over the earthen kiln and began to renovate the kiln mouth, mainly firing adobe bricks, Zhang Chun said that the pottery should be burned, but the quality should be guaranteed. Niutou Mountain has very good clay, but the masters did not dare to open the kiln mouth to Niutou Mountain. Because it's not very #safe yet. Therefore, only three apprentices go to Niutou Mountain every day to pull a cart of clay back, and the output of pottery is limited, but there is no limit to adobe. Large adobe bricks are used to build walls on the outside of the earthen fence to reinforce the earthen fence on the one hand and prevent rainwater erosion on the other. This progress is not fast. But it goes on and on. The west pond is almost connected to the north pond.

One thing Zhang Chun doesn't quite understand is that the water and fertilizer management of rice planting technology in China is very mature, and the same is true for the production of farm manure and field fertilization. Why can't we see any traces of this in central Hubei? However, when Zhang Chun explained, Zhang Xiuqing and other slightly older people were quickly able to understand and apply, saying that the old people had taught them. Soon, Zhang Chun learned that only homesteaders paid attention to water and fertilizer management, and they also had enough materials to make farm fertilizer, and if their own homes were not enough, they would go to the rich people's homes to pick up manure and go home to supplement the shortage of fertilizer.

Homesteaders depend on the land for their income and a year's worth of food. But when it comes to hired farmers, tenant farmers, and even long-term workers, they don't pay attention to field management. Most of the income from their labor was given to the landlords, and some of them were paid a little to support their families. For example, in the past, this was the case in Zhangjialing, where the manure from these farmers' homes was generally used to grow a little vegetables and sweet potatoes and pumpkins in the fields, which could feed their families.

The straw of crops is used to burn the fire for cooking, because the entire Niutou Mountain belongs to the Zhang family, and if you want to cut firewood, you must send most of the firewood to the Zhang family, and if the Zhang family does not collect firewood, the farmers cannot go to Niutou Mountain to cut firewood. The straw harvested in the field is not enough to burn, so in autumn and winter, they all go to the stone girl mountain in groups to cut firewood, risking bandits and robbery.

Therefore, even if the farmers know how to use wheat straw and rice straw to ferment into fertilizer, they cannot risk running out of firewood, and they are not willing to work for the landlord in vain. It is better to use manure in the vegetable field than to have manure.

What about the landlords? It stands to reason that landlords should understand the importance of fertilizer. But will the landlord care about that little bit of production? They don't care, the Zhang family's nearly 3,000 mu of land is almost 80% rented, and only 1,000 mu of land is handed over, and most of it is inferior land. Therefore, the Zhang family concentrated a lot of wealth, which was not given to the country or farmers, but was used for the luxurious life of their own family.

This phenomenon is not only the case of the Zhang family, but also of almost the whole country. Since the end of the Qing Dynasty, land annexation has reached an extremely serious place, and the homesteaders are close to none, in this case, it is not that people do not understand agricultural technology, but they do not want to manage it and do not want to manage it.

Therefore, there is a very important premise for the phrase "science and technology is productivity", that is, "under the conditions of reasonable social relations", science and technology can be transformed into productive forces. Otherwise, there will be a phenomenon of technological degradation.

The Qing Dynasty implemented the policy of apportioning the land into the mu and never increasing the tax, in fact, it was to collect the land tax according to the acreage, which played a role in reducing the burden on the peasants in the early days, but left a hole for land annexation. In the late period, no matter how many people the landlords annexed and forced more people to death, the court did not care. As long as you pay taxes according to the field register, Xin Baojiu just came over to ask Zhang Chun if he could pay taxes, and Xin Baojiu didn't care about anything else. Coupled with the armor protection system, local power was actually placed in the hands of the landlords and wealthy households. The relationship between the local government and the government, between the government and the emperor, was nothing more than the relationship between the big landlords and the small landlords. Naturally, the landlords want to safeguard the interests of the landlords, and the sacrifice is naturally the common people.

The decay of the Qing Dynasty was rotting from the roots.

This is not something that an enlightened landlord, such as Zhang Chun, can change. Because even though Zhang Chun adopted the model of the collective farms of later generations to promote the development of agriculture and agricultural technology, what about Zhang Chun's descendants? Or what about the descendants of future generations? Who can guarantee that future generations will not keep a clear head in a life of easy wealth acquisition and extreme luxury? The old Chinese saying that "you can't be rich for three generations" is actually a phenomenon manifested in this extremely irrational social system.

Therefore, Zhang Chun decided to divide the farmland at a certain time, at least nominally, and not allow the land to be annexed. The only way to do this was to adopt a policy similar to the "nationalization of land" in later generations. Of course, this is just an idea, and it is not suitable to do it now, because he does not have enough population to carry out intensive farming.

Zhang Chun's renovation of the sanitary conditions in the soil enclosure is actually to collect manure to the maximum extent and use the wheat grass harvested in the summer to make large-scale farm fertilizer. Rice is not in time for fertilization, because there are no corresponding facilities and conditions.

The first experimental field was cotton. Since wheat is planted in large pieces, it is a little late to plant cotton when the wheat is harvested. Hubei's cotton is upland cotton imported from the Americas, and Zhang Zhidong is still very keen in this regard. Upland cotton should start to raise seedlings from the end of May to June, but in fact, all the cotton in Yunlong Town is sown after the summer harvest in July, and it is also a sowing mode, the field is very wide, the middle plants are very dense, the fertility of the soil is not enough, the growth period is short, the plants are short, and the yield is naturally frighteningly low. And everyone thinks it's normal.

When Zhang Chun noticed this phenomenon, it was actually too late. However, Zhang Xiuqing still led people to plough the 200 acres of dry land, divided it into more than one meter wide field ridges, and adopted a certain spacing for on-demand sowing. After the emergence of seedlings, only one plant is retained in each litter, and there is no replenishment of seedlings. By the time the plant reaches flowering, the farmyard manure is almost fermented, fertilize it, and then plough it shallowly.

As a result of these measures, the Zhangjia's cotton fields are taller than those in Jinjiling, and the plants bloom much earlier.

When Zhang Xiuqing took people to do these things, Zhang Chun sat in the field and read books, reading "Qi Min's Technique", and sometimes taught Lizhi sentence by sentence, if Lizhi ran around and played, he didn't force it. If someone asked Zhang Chun why he knew this, Zhang Chun patted the book and said, "There is it in the book." ”

This reason can be hidden from others, but it surprised Yuan Fang, at least Yuan Fang can't "apply what he has learned" so quickly.

Yuan Fang has come out of the grief of losing her family, on the one hand, because this is a troubled time, it is not only the Yuan family that has been destroyed. From Yunlong to Qianjiang, it is full of devastation. On the other hand, because the living atmosphere in Zhangjialing is so good, all the people here can be treated equally under the leadership of Zhang Chun, and even the women who have been insulted by the bandits and are pregnant with children are not discriminated against. will not regard Yuan Fang as an outsider, and will never be an outsider, and really treat Yuan Fang as a "sir". After all, Yuan Fang is considered to be the most knowledgeable person except for Zhang Chun.

Yuan Fang was already able to clearly know what Zhang Chun was trying his best to change, and it seemed to be careless, but he could walk steadily at every step. Whether it's enlightening children, training escorts, or transforming farmland and changing planting methods. These are undoubtedly building strength.

And Zhang Chun, like Yuan Fang, has the hatred of destroying the door.

This kind of power buried in the heart, even if Zhang Chun did not show it, these adults and children of the Zhang family remembered each one in their hearts and showed it in their daily actions.

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