The author has something to say: Some readers mentioned Verne's novel "The Mysterious Island", in which 800 wheat grains were harvested with one wheat as seeds, I think it is unlikely, because the modern hybrid wheat has a seed-to-grain ratio of only 1:50 under the action of pesticides and fertilizers, and then look at the original text, "Indeed, the only crop in the first wheat field, under the careful care of Pencroff, grew very well." The engineer said that he could produce 10 ears of wheat, and now it has come out, and each ear of wheat has 80 grains, and they will get 800 grains of wheat in six months. Or is there a mistake in the translation here with an extra zero?

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The new bishop has brought more to the diocese of Tournest than that.

When he came to a country where the bishop had never set foot before, riding only a donkey and two or three servants, all young men, many foolish villagers, not knowing that he was a bishop, but only a poor priest passing by, confronted him with confidence, and talked to him about how bad the roads were, how bad the harvest was, how no milk had been left for the oxen, and how difficult life was that some witch and devil must be at work.

The young bishop did not say a word about witches and devils, but did not care about anything else, from the waist of his old woman to the newborn dolls of his neighbors, and he talked to them in such a cordial tone, and in the meantime he made some jokes that he did not know how to tell the cows and horses, so that the men gradually relaxed, and he spoke to them earnestly, and the students who followed him kept a record of all the places to be repaired, where the roads were to be repaired, where the ponds and dams were to be built, and which land could be improved by fertilizing the harvest, whose cattle have room for improvement.

These places that ordinary people think are bad, in the eyes of the Demon King, are where the profits lie.

Hugo said that the garbage heap in the corner, the mud that tosses on the road in the middle of the night, the scavenger's truck, the fragrant hay, the bread on the table, the blood in the veins, and the burp in the gutter are worth a thousand francs, that is, if they are used in the right place!

If you say "garbage!" "If they were to be poured out with contempt, the soil would be barren, the rivers would be polluted, and then there would be famine and disease.

Barren land, polluted rivers, famine, and disease are the background colors of this world.

Everyone thought that if they could get rid of all this, it would be heaven.

So they prayed earnestly in order to leave this world and go to a kingdom free from famine and disease.

So, no one thought that the young clergyman, who talked about the rubbish heap, would be the bishop, but he was very clever, kind-hearted, and willing to listen to the misfortunes of the peasants, so that at the end of his sermon many people came to listen to him.

He then said to them, "Ladies and gentlemen, we cannot patronize the road to heaven and not repair the road to the church, and we cannot patronize the heavenly Jerusalem and neglect the earthly Jerusalem...... As the Savior wants to clean up the temple and drive out the money changers who occupy the temple, how can you allow the way leading to the church to wither and ruin like a wilderness, and let robbers run rampant on the road......"

Of course, the Savior said that earthly Jerusalem is not good, and that heavenly Jerusalem is the original spouse, and he did not mention it when he called on people to leave earthly Jerusalem and return to their original spouses.

He remembered that he was working on an errand for the devil.

From this point of view, although he is not satisfied with his current work, his professional quality is much higher than that of today's CCTV anchors - CCTV once did a program, the content of which was that a local government in Xinjiang helped herders transfer to the field, and the transfer had to pass through the road, and the local government organized a lot of manpower to escort them along the road, maintain traffic order, provide support, and so on.

At the end of the decent Goethe program, the anchor asked a local reporter a question why the herdsmen had to take the road to change places.

The front-line reporter didn't answer at first, and the anchor continued to ask questions.

Finally, the front-line reporter finally replied that the road was built on the herdsmen's traditional transfer road, and the highway occupied the herdsmen's traditional roads, forcing the herders to take the risk of their livestock being crushed to death by vehicles.

The camera gives a close-up of a sheep that has been crushed to death, and the snow-white sheep has bright red blood stains on its body.

The anchor who got this answer smiled with satisfaction.

With such an answer, CCTV's program can be used to promote Aunt Re without cutting it.

Therefore, although the bishop is very dissatisfied with the devil, he is even more disgusted with her earthly heaven plan in his heart (as far as he sees this earthly heaven is a complete copy of hell, who doesn't know the way, the people in heaven only do one thing, that is, praise God, which is like an errand for the devil, he is a dignified bishop and has to sweep the streets in the middle of the night, sweeping horse manure, drunkard vomit, he can sometimes sweep the drunkard who has drunk too much and rolls into the ditch, sweeping until the drunkard has to use his brain to change their clothes and find a place to sleep, and when he is done, he has to preach, He also had to go up to the mountains and go to the countryside to preach), but he was still very dedicated to the work entrusted to him by the devil - probably because he knew very well that even if the devil himself was driven away, he would not have a good life......

In this way, he preached to the people, and agreed on the days of working together, to build roads, to build ponds and dams, to dig ditches, and to do the work of accumulating manure.

The construction of roads is for the smooth flow of goods, not only to facilitate the buying and selling of agricultural products and industrial products (handicraft products) and to prosper trade, but also to build roads well and facilitate the flow of people.

One of the characteristics of agriculture is that it takes a lot of people to cultivate and harvest, and it doesn't need so much in normal times, so the planting dates of each family will be deliberately staggered, so that they can help each other with au pairs. If the roads are well repaired, the scale of the au pair will be larger, so that the harvest can be cultivated in time and the agricultural time will not be delayed. The timing of the crop is very important, sometimes the wheat harvest is a little late a day, a storm comes, and the harvest of a year (in this case, several years) is over.

The road repair has set the standard, how wide the big road is, how wide the small road is, and the same width is a waste of labor.

It is also important to build ponds and dams and dig ditches, because watering in drought and drainage in floods all depend on pond dams and ditches, not to mention that there are many places in the diocese of Tournest that are the same as Brad's territory, where wheat is planted in waterlogged land and there is no drainage, so it is strange that the harvest is not wonderful.

The silt in the ditch is also a good fertilizer.

Accumulation of fertilizer can also increase fertilizer in the field on the one hand, and strengthen sanitation on the other hand - ask the farmers how many children they have had, and the answer is eleven, twelve, thirteen, how many survived? Oh, one, two, three.

This is also the reason why Luo Yi desperately wants to ask the bishop to play the role of a saint, it is not possible to engage in cowpox vaccination without great authority......