021: The conspiracy below the dinner

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Although Deng Shifeng's staple food is ordinary rice, its grains are full, and the grains are large and of good quality, so that all the villagers are reluctant to eat, you must know that in traditional agriculture, villagers often choose the largest and fullest fruit as the seeds of the next year, not only rice, but also many other crops. However, almost every piece of rice taken out by the immortals is basically comparable to the rice carefully selected by them in the past as seeds, do you think this can make the villagers willing to eat it...... Deng Shifeng understands the reluctance shown by the villagers very well, and also understands that some people have secretly hidden some rice to be used as seeds in the spring of next year, and Deng Shifeng will never allow these people's actions, because the rice grown by these hybrid rice in later generations is not up to the task of continuing to reproduce, so Deng Shifeng does not want to make trouble for himself with the food problem.

As for the origin of these rice grains and the disadvantage of not being able to make rice seeds, Deng Shifeng explained to the villagers very simply, that is, these rice grains are cross-bred, just like the offspring mules produced after the cross between donkeys and horses, although they have many advantages but have no fertility. The villagers were ignorant of Deng Shifeng's explanation, but with the help of the divine power built up in the past few days, the villagers still clearly understood and understood one thing - you can secretly hide some rice to make seeds for next year, but these rice seeds will not produce grain next year...... But no one will help you!

Deng Shifeng's warning shocked the villagers who still wanted to secretly use it as seeds, in this era of relying on the sky and the earth to eat, if the fields have low yields or even no harvest, it will be a disaster for the people who rely on the fields to eat, and few people can survive a whole year under such circumstances. Especially Deng Shifeng has already said that once he secretly uses it to plant, resulting in a reduction in harvest or extinction, no one in the village will help him (or in other words, there is no extra food to help you at all), so there is only a dead end waiting for him.

After solving the problem of the emergence of hybrid rice and some of the troubles it caused, the villagers turned their helplessness into appetite, and under the supervision of Deng Shifeng, these excellent grains similar to seeds were unceremoniously sent into the rice bucket and pot, when the first pot of white rice with only a little chaff appeared in front of all the villagers for the first time, the eyes of the villagers seemed to be attracted by the white things, and they remembered that the rice bowl was always rice bran and other things mixed with things, even if it was a big joy, In the bowl, there is only a little bran and other grains, and the rice is clean and beautiful like this...... Seriously, no one has ever seen it! And when everyone picked up the hot rice bowl, the scene even appeared for a short period of time, adults, children, the elderly, women and children, everyone stared at the contents of the bowl for a long time, and then began to taste the first pure rice without cereals for the first time.

Eating rice naturally has to have a meal, and the last village dinner is different, this time the dishes in front of the villagers in addition to the pickled cabbage, sour bamboo shoots and some green vegetables, these three things, a hunted, more than 100 catties of wild boar became the main meat in the process of this dinner; This wild boar originally lived near the valley, before Deng Shifeng knew about his existence, but considering that there was no need to provoke it, everyone lived together in peace, but now Deng Shifeng abducted the villagers, naturally they had to consider their safety, this wild boar is more difficult to deal with than jackals, tigers, leopards, bears, blind people, Deng Shifeng asked Luo Dan to lead the wild boar to an open field, consumed two rounds of automatic rifle ammunition to accurately shoot its head, which not only eliminated potential safety hazards but also added a lot of meat to the villagers.

The above grain rice and wild boar are the staple foods in the dinner, and some of the supporting roles in the dinner plate seem inconspicuous, but they are also the characters carefully prepared by Deng Shifeng, their appearance not only successfully attracted the attention of the villagers, but also the most successful is that the villagers are willing to open part of the land after the spring to plant these crops! These crops are naturally potatoes, sweet potatoes, corn and peanuts carried by the local agricultural tricycle that trafficks vegetables and fruits.

"Folks, are these things delicious?" Standing under the lights, Deng Shifeng, a great immortal in the eyes of the villagers, began to speak at the dinner.

"Yum!!"

Corn is sweet, sweet potato is fragrant, peanuts are not only chewy but also rich in a lot of vegetable oil, as for potatoes...... The taste of cooking is average compared to the other three things, but at least it is easy to carry, and as long as the oil is enough for stir-frying, it is also a good dish, and the villagers naturally praise it.

"Hehe, tell everyone, these things are not only delicious, but also easy to grow, they are not only drought resistant and high yield, but also the requirements for land are not as high as rice, you look at the mountains around here, it is very good for growing these things......"

Deng Shifeng with a smile on his face, under the illumination of the light, this really showed his fox tail, and it seemed to be a reward and celebration for these villagers to taste these supporting food crops, but in fact, it was Deng Shifeng who was laying the groundwork for the promotion of these crop planting......

These crops have low land requirements, high yield, drought resistance and harsh climate, and also contain very rich nutrients, which are crops that all countries in the world attach more importance to, and various benefits naturally need not be said (please Baidu for information, do not waste space here). The time when they were introduced to China for planting was basically in the middle and late Ming Dynasty, and the corresponding recorded time was basically in the middle and late sixteenth century, and there was not much controversy in the academic circles in later generations, because this period was with the rise of the world's great voyages, and there were more and more ships going to China from all over the world, and these overseas and even the other half of the earth grew on various crops began to gradually arrive in China, so it is reasonable that they appeared on the land of China and gradually appeared in various local chronicles.

However, most crops need an adaptation period after arriving in a new environment, even if they can easily produce high yields, it is after a long period of adaptation to climate, soil quality and other conditions, which gradually go all the way north to become the main force to feed a large number of people in the country. At this time, just entered the Kangqian period of the Qing Dynasty, the emergence of these high-yield crops greatly filled the huge food needs of the people, so there is a view in later generations that the Qing Dynasty was able to have a prosperous Kangqian era, and its greatest contribution should be these crops to help the Qing Dynasty feed a large number of people.

These crops should still be in a process of adaptation on the land of China and gradually spread throughout the country, but when they were introduced to Guangxi in later generations there are still many controversies, such as corn as an example: from the perspective of the chronicles, although there are records of corn in the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty in the "Guangxi Tongzhi" and "Nanning Fuzhi", but in the description there are very different from the shape (size of rice grains) and the color (black) of corn; It was not until the Yongzheng period that the "Guangxi Tongzhi" volume 31 "products" recorded: "Guilin Mansion corn, white as snow, round as pearls, the most expensive product", this can be regarded as the official appearance of the corn color, appearance of the record.

This phenomenon should be due to the fact that Guangxi has been mainly producing rice since ancient times, and there are many local stem crops like taro, and these species are still in the adaptation stage, so the cultivation and development of these crops is relatively slow, and only slightly planted in the mountains in the early Qing Dynasty. In addition to the period of their own adaptation process, another reason for the slow adoption is that there is no one to guide them.

In later generations, it is often seen in TV news reports: a certain township under the leadership of a certain leader to introduce new varieties, vigorously promote the planting of the crop, improve the utilization rate of land and increase the income of farmers, per capita income from how much to how much, the next step, a certain leader is ready to raise, how much to introduce how much funds, in the local establishment of relevant factories, do further deep processing of the crop, increase the added value of its products......

In the above news reports, there are often words such and such a leader or a certain advanced person leading the whole village, which requires political news and propaganda on the one hand, but more importantly, since ancient times, due to the limited land and the average yield per mu is also very limited, farmers will not plant crops indiscriminately, especially in ancient times, planting things in their own thin fields, that is to bet on their own and the family's rations for the next year, farmers are naturally cautious and cautious; In addition, there is no one to guide and no one to teach, all kinds of new crops are thrown into the ground to see them grow on their own, observe the harvest and growth of crops in a few years, and compare the demand for labor before they can gradually be accepted, the process during this period is based on years as a unit of time, as short as two or three years, and as long as ten or even decades. And for conservative reasons, you ask farmers to plant some of this in the vegetable fields and ravines in front of the house and behind the house, and they can try it, but let them take out a lot of their own arable land to grow things they don't know...... Kill them and they won't do it! Therefore, in later generations, for a new crop, in addition to the village leaders to carry out a year or even a few years of personal proof of the benefits of the slow promotion, if you want to quickly promote the planting in a large area, there must be a political axe to come forward, the purchase after the large-scale promotion of planting and the promise to give a certain compensation in case of a poor harvest or even no yield, the villagers can promote the planting of these crops on a large scale.

In the political axe of the ancient dynasties, due to the mutual constraints and coveting of those official positions between officials, officials will not promote the cultivation of products out of conservative considerations for their official hats, and the promotion of a new crop will be subject to pressure from all sides...... As long as the local family finds someone to participate in such a book...... The distribution of the frontier is considered the lightest. Like in the Hechi area of western Guangxi, the terrain here is called seven mountains, two rivers and one field, and these mountains are especially the lava head mountains of karst landform, there is not only a thin layer of soil on the surface and the nutrients are also extremely poor, in this kind of place, the common people in the later generations are looking for soil in the cracks of the stones, one plant in the east and two plants in the west are planting corn This kind of food crops that are very suitable for local characteristics, it is also in the middle of the Qing Dynasty in the Jiaqing period before it can gradually be popularized in the local area......

It can be said that when corn entered Guangxi, we counted it as the early 17th century, but it was spread out on its own without the popularization of agricultural officials and political axes, and the real popularization was at the beginning of the 19th century after more than 100 years or even longer, which shows how important the political axe guides, popularizes and finds appropriate personnel to lead the planting of a crop. Understanding this, Deng Shifeng painstakingly made this dinner, just to borrow his divine power in the hearts of the villagers to promote these food crops that are extremely important to himself and the villagers!!

As for whether the seeds of these crops will take as much time to adapt as the ancestors of this plane...... Deng Shifeng said that these seeds turned out from the agricultural tricycle (sweet potatoes and potatoes are counted separately, mainly some bagged seeds) are basically the things sold by Guangxi agricultural seed units, and they are the same as themselves, with the identity of the current ancestors and future generations of juniors, they have already inherited the inheritance of the ancestors and adapted to the soil and climate of Guangxi!!

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