On June 21 of the second year of the founding of the Yuan Dynasty, in late July of 14o BC, Nanzhuang was under the jurisdiction of the Marquis of Pingyang. ￥◆，⊙.23√x.netbsp; Today is every once Luli meeting, June happens to be after the summer harvest of corn, the villagers are busy rectifying the land to collect weed, in order to pay this year's weeding tax, according to the days and then a few days of busy work should plant soybeans, summer sowing a crop of soybeans can be harvested before the winter, rare farming when the men, women and children of Nanzhuang put down their hands, rushed back to Zhuangzi in the evening before the sun set to attend the meeting.

Zheng Lao coughed twice and shouted: "Everyone listen, our prince has ordered, we have just collected the corn in the granary, and we will no longer grow corn!" ”

"What?"

The old and young masters of Nanzhuang exploded their nests, and Xu Ji jumped up and shouted: "Old Zheng, don't be joking, if you don't grow corn, do you want us men, women, and children to learn to drink the wind and pour foam?" ”

"It's just that the yield of soybeans is not enough to eat."

"We can't do it without food."

"Zheng Lao Mo wants to laugh."

Zheng's old-fashioned beard cocked: "You little babies know how to fart!" Don't think I don't know how much money you make, planting a crop of soybeans on an acre of land deducts rent and taxes, squeezing oil and selling it for at least 20,000 yuan, buying grain can buy more than 1oo stones, how many families in our Zhuangzi only have one hectare of land? In addition to Xu Letou, the lazy man, the Hun village with the least arable land also has one and a half acres of land, there is no O class pawn in our village, the worst has to be the first class duke, the first class duke can occupy an area of one and a half acres, at least 30,000 yuan a year for a crop of soybeans, 40,000 yuan for planting, the old man's family more than 3 acres of land last year sold soybean oil and earned more than 73,000 yuan, you tell me how much you earn? ”

Xu Ji touched his head and sat back in place stupidly. He did earn more than 20,000 yuan himself, but that little money was not saved for a few months. He was all smashed into the flower street and willow alley of Chang'an City, and last winter except for military service training. Basically, they sleep in Chang'an City, and they live a happy life.

The bad result was that he was weak at the beginning of spring, and the family affairs that Zhuangzi had said for him were also disturbed because he had no shadow.

The woman is a very beautiful little widow, the two sides have met and said the same, the woman sees that he has an annual income of 20,000 yuan and does not dislike him for being lazy, and there is no one and no shadow wandering around, of course the woman is not willing to go to this kind of man, and the marriage is blown up early to find another husband's house.

The heads of other families also kept their mouths shut, and the women and Taoists had to pay attention to the unforgiving chatter. was all dumb when they were yelled at by their men, and the little kid didn't even have the qualifications to speak, only the qualifications to attend the meeting and listen to the adults.

"The price of soybean oil follows the soybean market, soybeans are now 18o money a stone, the price of soybean oil is 2oo money a bucket can not be moved, Chang'an's nobles and wealthy families want to eat oil, hundreds of thousands of pot-bellied men in the north and south armies also want to eat oil, Chang'an Wuling has more than one million people, and more than 58o people in Guanzhong need to use a large amount of oil. One of you pretends to be poor for the old man individually! The old man was thinking that in the past few years, the family also had some money, and the money from selling the land to the prince was also saved, so he could buy a few hectares of land south of Zhuangzi and plant them together, and the old man's five masters could plant 25 hectares of land. My eldest grandson, Zheng Tong, is a doctor who can farm 5 hectares of land, how much do you think you have to earn? ”

Sun Chu is a level 7 doctor, not tall but very strong. He stood up and arched his hand and said, "Old Zheng, you are angry for the time being, we are not saying that we can't stop planting corn." But you always have to show everyone a clear way, our village is to plant two soybeans instead. Or do you want to grow something else? ”

"Planting two stubble soybeans is a stupid thing to do, the prince once said that except for a few crops can be planted in a row, corn, soybeans and other crops are the most unsuitable for continuous planting, a little careless planting can not harvest the ideal yield, the ground is planted and waiting to cry! It will take another two or three years to tidy up the land and lose a good loss, and it is a fool's move to take advantage of a small advantage and suffer a big loss, and the old man has never said that he wants you to plant two soybeans. ”

"What's that?"

"Plant this." Zheng Lao picked up a heavy ear of fruit and said, "Do you recognize this thing?" ”

Xu Ji jumped up again and shouted: "I know this, isn't it wheat!" Wheat is the fourth in the five grains, but what this thing grows is hard to eat. ”

The people of Nanzhuang are very puzzled in their hearts, the reputation of wheat has always been bad, because the hulled wheat has a layer of wheat bran that cannot be removed, and the taste of the wheat is very poor, and it is difficult to swallow it when you eat it.

From the era of the Three Emperors and Five Emperors to the Han Xing Dynasty for 26oo years, the Han people have always eaten millet (corn), and there are millet (millet seeds) planted in the north, mixed with a variety of crops such as soybean (soybean) in the south, there is rice in the south but the yield is very low, it is too troublesome to serve rice, and the gains outweigh the losses and cannot become large, and wheat is the reason for poor taste and low yield can not be popularized.

Among the five grains, millet, millet and soybean are indispensable staple foods, and it is a bit of a suspicion of indiscriminate filling of rice and wheat if rice and wheat are included.

"It's not easy to sell or taste when you have to grow wheat, and I always feel like I don't have much future."

Zheng Lao rolled his eyes: "Who said, you don't take off the bran to blame yourself for being stupid, it's the best to take off the bran to make steamed buns and soup cakes, I don't believe you haven't eaten soup cakes in Chang'an City." ”

The gluttonous doll whispered: "I have also eaten the baked cakes of the Hou Mansion, and they are sweet and delicious when sprinkled with sesame seeds." ”

Some people are busy swallowing saliva, some people are holding their stomachs and thundering, and they haven't eaten dinner after a tiring day, and the villagers in Nanzhuang are a little hungry.

"Are you really going to plant?"

"Then plant it and try it?"

Zheng Lao grinned: "Junhou is asking us to completely change to new food, if you believe me, you will follow the planting, Junhou said that if you don't believe it, you will never force it, and you will regret it in the future, don't blame you for not reminding us, you can't miss the opportunity and don't come again." ”

Sun Chu thought for a long time, gritted his teeth and stomped his feet and said, "Okay!" Then take your word for it, let's plant new food! ”

"I also plant! I believe in Zheng Lao, and I believe in Junhou even more! ”

"Count me in!"

"And my share."

The Huns also raised their hands in agreement, and after a while, there were only a dozen households left in the Kung Fu Zhuangzi that did not raise their hands, and most of these households were difficult horns. It's either a lot of fart all day long, or it's three days and two ends looking for trouble. Do something crookedly and chatter, or be lazy and slippery and play a scoundrel like Xu Ji.

Zheng Lao looked around and felt that it was almost okay. Let his grandson Zheng Tong take the contract and ask everyone to sign and draw the fingerprints, and keep them in triplicate in the hands of the bankers, in the Luli Treasury, and in the county government, and if there is a dispute in the future, you can go directly to the county government to fight a lawsuit.

In the end, Zheng Lao didn't urge the nail household, and said with a smile: "The old man didn't say anything just now, the grain in my hand that looks like wheat is not wheat at all, guess what this is?" ”

The dealer was taken aback again.

"Elder Zheng, don't scare us, what can you say is prepared to be wheat?"

At this time, Zheng Tong stood up: "It's really not wheat, it's a precious grain seed from a special channel in the north." With the ability of the prince, we can get enough seeds for our Zhuangzi to plant, this kind of grain is suitable for large-scale cultivation at high altitude and low temperature, and it can survive in winters that are twice as cold as the border countries, and its name is rye. ”

"Rye? What the hell is it? ”

Zheng Lao said: "Similar to wheat, the yield is similar to wheat, carefully take care of our ability to yield more than 4 stones per mu without pressure, the trouble is that the planting cycle is very long, from the end of August this year (the end of September of the Gregorian calendar) to the end of May of the next year (the end of June of the Gregorian calendar)." After nearly nine months of planting, after harvesting rye, you have to quickly replant a crop of soybeans or vegetables, fertilize and fix the soil, and then plant another crop after autumn. ”

"Isn't that good? Planting once every 9 months, everyone can do something else in their idleness. ”

"Don't think it's easy to grow rye. This crop is much more delicate than corn, the land will be barren after two years if the fertilizer is not applied well, and the rye prefers a cold and slightly humid climate. He is also very afraid of high temperature and waterlogging, and is very diligent in fertilizing, watering, and draining every year. In particular, we must be vigilant at the beginning of spring jointing and heading periods, and we can't be idle when the farming season is busy every spring. It's basically the same as the previous life. ”

Zheng Lao poured this basin of cold water, and the lazy farmers who originally wanted to be opportunistic all extinguished the fire.

An important attribute of the popularity of corn is strong tolerance, no matter how harsh the environment can have a stable income, just like the Xiongnu horse in the horse breed is one of the standards of strong tolerance, corn is the Xiongnu horse in the grain, in addition to this point, the high yield limit of corn is far less than other high-quality crops.

The yield of rye is comparable to wheat, the planting and harvesting time is basically the same, but the nutrients are far better than wheat, and the advantages are a lot of disadvantages are poor universality, the characteristics of the crop must be planted in the cold north, and the more strange is that the colder the better, a bit similar to the Qinghai skull in the grain, the quality is good but the requirements are too harsh.

"You all listen, in a few days we will not plant soybeans first, spend some effort to clean the ground, don't forget the method of soil fertilizer that I taught you last time, fresh cow dung, soybean flour, and cooked gypsum powder are mixed with fermentation in proportion for three days and three nights, and then take it out and add water to use it as fertilizer, and you can also kill the hateful insects in the field, drip into the hole of the insect and then plug the mouth and soon die, which is more insecticidal than the plant ash, and the chicken bones and fish bones are ground into powder and sprinkled down, as well as the plant ash, and the water of this ferment, The county will send someone to urge you to apply fertilizer, and remember to report how much fertilizer per mu to the county when the time comes. ”

"We can save everything."

Zheng Lao nodded with satisfaction and announced the adjournment of the meeting.

All of the dozen or so large and small Luli under the Pingyang Hou Mansion have received requests to plant new grain, and the situation in each Luli is basically the same as that of Nanzhuang, and the few opposition will not have much impact at all, and it is very smooth with the new grain planting plan of Tongguò.

There are also many people who regret planting a stubble of soybeans, at least running away tens of thousands of dollars of income, how many people want to take advantage of the last two years of soybean oil planting has not risen, a variety of soybean oil sales money to buy the land, the vacancy of their own title of the field to fill up, seeing that this time there is no chance, can only grit their teeth and accept fate.

Cao Shi gently closed his reading notes: "What is the ambition of the bird?" Tens of thousands of dollars of income have been spent, how do you know that the good of rye planting is a good thing for the present and for the future? (To be continued!)

ps: It's really strange for us to study winter wheat, rye is obviously a very good crop, and the nutritional value is very, very high, especially in the northeast, northwest (Hexi Corridor, Hetao area) and Inner Mongolia is very suitable for planting.

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