Chapter 80 Disaster Prevention in Guanshi County
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After Qingming, the weather is a little warmer, and the air is also wet and damp, looking at everything that has awakened, when the convoy with the banner of Su Ji is stretched out and walks under a hill, the air is filled with a strong fragrance of flowers into everyone's heart and lungs, Lin Saiyu lifted the curtain from the car, sniffed, turned around and greeted Ying'er, who was still sleeping in the car, and said: "There must be a large pear orchard here!" Get up and look at the flowers! Ying'er slept with swollen eyes, rubbed it out, opened her eyes and looked around, only to see that there was bare everywhere, there was only a little green on the ground, and there were flowers there.
"Little brother, where is it here?" Lindsay Yu raised his hand and asked a steward on horseback, this steward is only sixteen years old this year, called Brother Xiao Ding, he is a villager of Li Da's steward, he brought it out when he was young, and now he can act alone.
Lin Saiyu was kind and polite all the way, and he was also familiar with them, plus he had heard the name of Mrs. Cao many times, Brother Ding was particularly enthusiastic, and when he heard him ask him to hurry closer, he said with a smile: "Big lady, you are about to go out of the boundary of the Daimyofu, this is Guanshi County, the big lady said well, the pears are produced here, it is the time to bloom, and after this mountain, you will see it." β
Said Lindsay Yu was very happy, Guanshi County? But the crown county of Shandong in later generations? It was really rich in sweet pears, she had been to school a few times, so she rubbed her face and cheered up, sure enough, she jumped over the hill and saw the snow-white pear blossoms on the plain below, and walked down, people walked through the road on both sides of the pear orchard, the swarm of bees in the fresh and pink flowers made a fuss in the spring, and Ying'er and Lindsay Yu jumped down from the car, shuttled between the pear trees, saw that they liked, plus they had been on the road for a morning, Xiao Ding Ge discussed with several other stewards, beckoned everyone to find a roadside tea shop to rest here, and asked Lin Saiyu to take Ying'er to see the flowers.
"This soil is typical of sandy loam and light loam, which is most suitable for planting forest fruits, and the fruits that grow are sweet and sandy." Lin Saiyu bent over and grabbed a few handfuls of soil to look at, and said to Ying'er, who was fascinated by the pear tree.
Where did Ying'er pay attention to her, along the way, Lindsay Yu saw the land where the crops were planted and was about to go down to take a look, digging the soil in the ground, not too dirty, pinching and putting it in front of the nose to smell, or what kind of acid and alkali, soon I saw everything and pulled a leaf and broke a stem, and it was not enough to see it, and I also paid for a large stack of paper to clamp it up, Ying'er was confused when she saw it, and now she is used to it, knowing that she is saying something that she doesn't understand, En'en ignored it and ran to play.
Lin Saiyu hurriedly told Ying'er not to run around, while standing up straight and sitting in the car with a somewhat stiff body to look around, the pear orchard is planted behind the wheat field, and slowly walked over, the wheat at this time is slightly different from the later generations, belongs to the kind of grain that has almost not evolved, the leaves are narrow and thin, the yield is not high, speaking of which the time for large-scale planting in the north is still short, that is, it replaced millet as the object of collection in the late Tang Dynasty, and the current grain is still in the preliminary exhibition.
At a glance, the whole world is walking in a white and green, it looks particularly fresh and bright, it is really a pure natural ecological environment, this scene is rare in her time, here is indeed a big handful. Lin Saiyu took a breath, the wheat here had obviously just been watered, she didn't care about the wet mud, she raised her feet and walked to the ground, and suddenly fell into it, and the skirt on her feet was full of mud, and then she bent down and pulled out a handful, and heard someone shouting in the distance: "Hey, that lady, what are you doing?" β
With the shouting, a fat man about forty years old ran over with several tenants with farm tools in his hands, looked at the wheat seedlings in Lin Saiyu's hands, and said angrily: "You, whose lady are you?" How have you destroyed my wheat? β
Lin Saiyu hurriedly saluted and said, "The land of this tree master's house? β
The fat man kicked his anger and said, "It's not mine, could it be yours?" While looking at her, I saw that the woman was only eighteen or nineteen years old, with a good black black sideburns, only a pointed silver hairpin, and the appearance of a middle-aged person, wearing a white lotus silk jacket and purple silk emerald skirt, and secretly paid in her heart that it was a little different from the common village women, so she said: "You lady is very raw." β
Lin Saiyu didn't pay attention to his sarcasm, and hurriedly handed the wheat Miao to him, and said, "This old man, the little woman has the courage to say that this wheat is infected." β
The man who said the word was stunned, and the tenants behind him looked at each other even more, looking at the wheat that looked a little yellow.
"Dare to ask the master, do you think that the wheat is yellow because of the drought, so you rush to water?" Lindsay Yu said again.
The man nodded hesitantly, looked at the woman again, and asked, "Where is this lady from?" How do you know that this wheat is sick? β
Lin Saiyu smiled, just about to speak, she heard Ying'er greet behind her, and saw that Brother Xiao Ding and they had already gotten up and were about to leave, knowing that these goods had deadlines, they didn't dare to delay, and it was inconvenient to elaborate, so she pulled out a handful of wheat seedlings again, looked at her mouth and said, "It's not very serious, it's still too late to treat," while looking at the slightly discolored man, "Master, did this wheat be planted early this year?" β
The tenants nodded hurriedly, and someone said in surprise: "It's weird, how do you know?" Seeing that she said three sentences or two crisply, her demeanor was like an old farmer who had accumulated years, and the fat man was more of a person who had seen the world, and immediately realized that this person in front of him should not be underestimated, and said busily: "This big lady, my wheat has worm disease?" β
His voice trembled a little unconsciously, and the faces of the tenants behind him changed, they all remembered the locust plague a few years ago, which brought about the catastrophe.
Lin Saiyu smiled, she knew that the productivity was low at this time, basically relying on the sky to eat, the play sang in the play that there were nine years of famine, although exaggerated, but the road to the end of the crop production is not easy, the wisdom of the past dynasties summed up, relying on deep cultivation to deal with a pest plague is not easy, and the current comprehensive pest disaster is not in line with the agricultural hazards, if it is not timely, the yield reduction or even no harvest is inevitable. Seeing that there was only a vague word, the man in front of her who looked like a landlord looked nervous, of course she understood, and it was more worthy of the situation of those tenant farmers who relied on meager grain for their livelihood in the face of the wheat disaster, and couldn't help patting her in front of her and said with a smile: "Fortunately, fortunately." Fortunately, she passed by here, fortunately she had just fallen ill, and fortunately she met the landlord's house.
Listening to Ying'er urging a few more times over there, Lin Saiyu hurriedly said: "It's not an insect disease, it's just root rot, it seems that most of it is infected at the seed stage." As he spoke, he picked up the uprooted seedlings and pointed them out to everyone. This disease is also known as false drought, wilt, for winter wheat, is very common......" said here busy biting the head, it is a very common disease for her, for the Song Dynasty, it should not be very common, cough, and continued: "It can cause a reduction in yield by half or more......"
As soon as these words fell, everyone's faces changed, and the fat man almost fell, and asked urgently: "You, what you said is true or false?" Who are you, you? β
Lin Saiyu was not easy to explain, and hurriedly said: "You remember, use animal manure plus grass, pine shells, and bark manure, sprinkle it in the ground, and spray more water at the same time, be sure to spray more water, spray once during the rise period, and spray again during the paddle filling period, which can reduce losses and keep two-thirds of the harvest. After finishing speaking, he hurriedly left with his skirt up, and then turned back and instructed halfway through: "I'm sorry for you to ask each other, and other families can also take a look, according to my estimate, this is a disease brought by seeds, and you all have seeds from the same origin here, but I'm afraid that there will be this harm to many people." β
As he spoke, he strode away, got into the carriage in Ying'er's chatter, and the group whipped the way, leaving only the fat man and a few tenants standing in the field, only to see that the people were gone, and then came back to their senses.
"Master, is this really fake?" The tenant asked cautiously, rubbing his eyes, at this time Lin Saiyu and his party had already passed the hill, and they couldn't see half of the figure, "Could it be that I'm dreaming?" He was kicked by the man, "Idiot! Go into the field and see if that's really the case! β
He turned around and kicked the others, shouting, "Go and follow...... According to...... The man did what he said! Do you remember them all? If you forget that the master has skinned you! The tenants were so frightened that they ran around in a panic, and wrote them down in a hurry, and when the tenants went away in a panic, the man turned around, looked at Lindsay Yu's distant figure again, rubbed his eyes and muttered, "Could it be that the Saturnalia lady has come down to guide me?" β
Coincidentally, this man's surname is Huang Zhou, his ancestors are in business, passed to his generation, and he has twenty or thirty acres of fertile land and two houses, he is timid, and he can't do business, so he raises this field to live, and the days are also solid, since the field is seen as the root of life, the house in the city of the crown does not live, rented out, the family has moved to the house in the village, and every day to go to the field, because the love of the field is like life, and the tenants are very mean, people send the nickname yellow worm, and see that the spring is open, but the wheat in the field is a little yellow, Although I secretly thought that there was a lot of snow and water this winter, why was it still dry, and I didn't want to tell the tenants to water it, but it was really an early bird that had worms to eat, and I happened to meet Lindsay Yu passing by.
Although this Huang Zhou is stingy, but also a loyal, he said Lindsay Yu's words, a spread of ten to a hundred, the landlords and old wealth have gone down to the ground to see, and now they really have this symptom, for a while it was lively, and soon alarmed the county lord, this county lord is also a diligent and loving people, and a little more brainy than ordinary people, immediately ordered Huang Zhou to hand over the recipe, in the county to push away, and after dozens of days, the original yellow wheat that was not growing well returned to normal, rubbing up, and the entire Guanshi County was boiling, There is a story of Huang Zhoulu meeting the god of agriculture and the lady is also spreading, all say that Huang Zhou's merits are cloudy, and Huang Zhouzhen is really burning incense at home, he has lived for half a life, and he has never heard half a good word about himself, this time it is the ancestral tomb is smoking!
The county magistrate of Guanshi County will not believe this, while sending someone to inquire about who this lady is, while communicating with the brother county, asking if there is such a situation, and then asking is terrible, it is almost the entire northern winter wheat area has exploded root rot, and for a time there is an endless stream of people and horses coming and going to Guanshi County, not only the county magistrate can not cope with it, many people who are sick and disorderly run to Huang Zhou's house to dig the soil secretly, hoping to borrow the divine power of the god of agriculture to save their own wheat, so scared that Huang Zhou had to send people to wait for the land day and night, Otherwise, his wheat harvest would have been cut off because of illness, and the harvest would have been lost.
The county order of Guanshi County was originally a supplementary official, and he was honest, he had been a county order for decades, and he could count the words he had said in front of Shangfeng, but he didn't expect that this incident would not only lead the prefect to visit in person, but also be instructed to personally write a letter to the emperor, report on the timely disaster situation in Guanshi County, and remind the emperor to check the wheat producing areas of the country by the way, what a big topic this is!
The county commander of the Guanshi clan was surprised, delighted and afraid of insomnia for several days, so with the help of the scribe sent by the prefect, he wrote a book to the emperor in this life, and handed it up layer by layer with trembling, and still continued to suffer from insomnia. At the same time as Guanshi County is insomnia, Zhu Wenqing, Cheng'an County, is also insomnia, but he is not happy, but anxious. Guanjiang Chinese Network provides you with free full text reading without pop-up ads for crossing to do landlords, or you can download the full works of txt to read locally.