Chapter 14: The Test

"Three or four thousand catties per mu, this is absolutely impossible!"

Wu Yong looked surprised and couldn't believe it at all.

In this world, there is an output of three or four thousand catties of grain per mu?

Impossible, absolutely impossible!

Not only Wu Yong couldn't believe it, but Mr. Li Lin didn't believe it either.

He has practiced medicine all his life, has had prosperity, has been brilliant, has seen many dignitaries, and has also walked through the splendid rivers and mountains of China......

I've never seen such a god-sent artifact!

Don't say you've seen it, you've never heard of it.

It's Li Qiaozhen, who doesn't know much about agricultural production, so she didn't have much reaction.

Regarding the reaction of Wu Yong and the others, Zhao Cheng had already expected it.

Wu Yong has been farming all his life, and the experience accumulated by his ancestors for generations is telling him that there is no grain in the world that yields thousands of catties per mu.

With a yield of three or four thousand catties per mu like this, it is even more nonsense.

"According to legend, this kind of thing comes from overseas, and people who don't come into contact with it will never believe that it can produce three or four thousand catties per mu.

Even I didn't believe in such a god-given thing in the world at first.

But my friend personally ordered someone to plant it, and it was indeed enough to produce so much food. ”

Zhao Cheng explained that he is going farther and farther on the road of making friends out of nothing.

“……”

Wu Yong shook his head woodenly, this is not a matter of believing or not believing at all.

It completely violates the common sense of farming for thousands of years, and completely subverts the original worldview!

The impact of this kind of thing on the peasants is like Zhu Chongba, Zhu Biao and others who have seen all kinds of terrorist methods in Zhao Cheng for the first time.

It simply cannot be explained by the existing worldview.

A lot of things can only be attributed to the supernatural.

"The yield per mu is three or four thousand catties, and even Qin Gongzi said that with the assistance of what kind of fertilizer, it can produce seven or eight thousand catties per mu...... This, this, this ......"

Mr. Li talked about this for a long time, but after all, "this" could not come out.

He is close to sixty years old, has been dealing with medicinal herbs all his life, and knows a lot about various plants and crops.

In his world, there is no such crop in this world.

"I know you can't believe it, we can try, it's about 300 kilograms here, and you can plant about two acres of land.

Now it only takes three months to plant, and after three months, it will be clear. ”

Zhao Cheng didn't intend to let them accept it from the beginning, this kind of thing can only be smashed in the face with facts in order to break the original worldview.

As the saying goes, how can you grow without breaking the worldview?!

"Two acres of land ......"

Old Man Li muttered, if it's just two acres of land, maybe you can try it.

Several of his sons died young, and some of the land that had been cultivated in the barren mountains was rented to the families in the village, and most of it was deserted.

If it is really as magical as Qin Ming Gongzi said, then this thing can definitely solve the food problem in the village.

Even, the old man also imagined the distant future, the terrifying contribution of this thing to the people of the world.

The people who introduced this kind of thing to Shenzhou made a high contribution, which is far from being summed up in one or two sentences.

The Buddha said: Saving a life is better than building a seven-level floating slaughter.

This thing is not just to save the lives of one person and two people!

Thousands of lives, billions of lives are not exaggerated.

Wu Yong has some knowledge, but he is far from being able to compare with Old Man Li.

He was still thinking about whether it was worth it to take two acres of land to grow this inexplicable thing.

Their village is very remote, the vicinity is mostly mountainous, and it is also sixty or seventy miles away from the Yangtze River, so they rely on these lands in the village for survival.

Taking out two acres of land to grow potatoes is still too risky for Wu Yong.

He was a realist.

It's hard to believe that this thing can really yield three or four thousand catties per mu.

"Village Chief Wu, I know you're hard to believe, but you can take two acres of wasteland and give it a try......"

Since Zhao Cheng has taken out the things, he must plant them.

These things can change the fate of this village and feed hundreds or thousands of people.

In the future, the development will spread and will definitely affect thousands of people.

If this village was near a big city, Zhao Cheng would not take out the potatoes anyway.

But this is a cottage, and there are very few outsiders who come all year round, and most of the time they come to collect taxes.

And the place is remote, with little contact with the outside world.

Here, there are no big landlords, and there are no powerful and powerful.

Whether it is Wu Yong, the big boss, or the rest of the small families, everyone's living environment, living conditions, and living materials are the same.

There is also basically no obvious exploiting class and exploited class.

There are many Wu cottage hills, maybe there is an owner, or maybe there is not.

But over the years, the kings of the mountains have "occupied the mountains as kings" and basically become the masters here.

Because the boundary is really remote, even the government is reluctant to interfere.

This has some objective conditions for taking out potatoes.

After all, a cottage is a cottage after all, and it is not the same as an ordinary village.

In particular, this Wu cottage is still a village united by the clan surnamed Wu, and it is more cohesive.

In the ancient social environment, the clan was more authoritative than the government for ordinary people.

It's also easier to gather strength to do big things.

For example, a very simple analogy, if there is a foreign enemy attacking, the big boss Wu Yong will raise his arms and shout, and hundreds of strong men can gather in Wu Shanzhai.

How dare ordinary forces provoke this force?

As for those real big families, powerful and powerful, they are not interested in Wu Shanzhai.

As long as Wu Shanzhai develops steadily for a few years, it is easy to become a large force within a radius of 100 miles, and perhaps it can also spread its influence.

This series of conditions made Zhao Cheng plan to use Wu Shanzhai as an experiment.

An experiment to rapidly change the mode of production of feudal landlord society.

Change it into a form of clan public ownership in a sense, and explore the right path that suits this era and greatly improves productivity.

"Mr. Qin, what do you need me to do?"

After being reminded many times by Old Man Li, Wu Yong still made up his mind to give it a try.

Even if the yield per mu is not three or four thousand catties, it is not bad to have four or five hundred catties.

At least there is still food!

In today's world, there are too many people who don't even have seeds.

Wu Shanzhai has been able to support it over the years, and it also occupies a lot of mountains and has enough grain in the early years, and has reclaimed a lot of wasteland to grow grain.

During the Hongwu period of the Ming Dynasty, one catty is equal to sixteen taels, which is a tradition for many years, and half a catty and eight taels originate from this.

However, the ancient city jin is not the same as the jin hundreds of years later.

In ancient times, one catty was about 600 grams, and one tael, thirty-seven and eight grams.

"Village Chief Wu, I want to establish an organization called the Wushanzhai Management Committee, and I will send these potatoes to the Management Committee unconditionally.

The work of the management committee is to manage the daily affairs of Wu Shanzhai and help the villagers of the cottage to engage in production activities......"

Zhao Cheng said a lot of ideas and made a lot of explanations, he originally wanted to try a big pot of rice in this world.

But history hundreds of years later has proven that a large pot of rice requires a very high level of productivity.

The Xia people of that era did not have the objective conditions to realize the big pot of rice, and the current Xia people are even more impossible!

……

The establishment of the management committee is very important, whether it is for Zhao Cheng, for Wu Yong, or for the entire Wu Shanzhai.

One day or two is not clear.

But after Zhao Cheng took the first step, everything fell into place.

In fact, there is nothing special about the management committee, which is to invite people with prestige in the village to form a collective to jointly manage the affairs of the village.

In other words, it is to gather the clan elders and build a shelf similar to an official mansion for them.

Not much has changed in substance.

Zhao Cheng left some ideas and ideas for group voting and group elections, but they were only suggestions.

How Wu Shanzhai will go in the future and how it will develop is no longer a problem for Zhao Cheng to think about.

In addition to unified management, Zhao Cheng also made large-scale changes to the educational form of the academy with the help of his identity as the dean of Wushan Academy.

We provide basic education not only to children but also to young people to disseminate basic knowledge.

Of course, Zhao Cheng did not forget those adults and old people.

He encouraged everyone to come to the College to study.

Although the academy is only Zhao Cheng alone, his knowledge and insight can be called omniscient and omnipotent in Daming, he can teach anything, and can give reasonable explanations for any problems.

The academy has been changed beyond recognition, but there is a hodgepodge of feelings.

Zhao Cheng has the intention to further transform the academy, but unfortunately, there are too few people in the cottage and there are no objective conditions for human resources.

It's enough to form a small school now.

Establishment of management committees, renovation of academies, and planting of new varieties......

This series of things unfolded together, and they were busy for more than half a month, but they began to bear fruit.

Under the mobilization of Wu Yong, and with the help of the little dolls of the academy to their parents, Wu Shanzhai redeveloped the abandoned land on the barren hill behind the academy and planted seeds from the 21st century.

Not only did they plant 300 kilograms of potatoes, but they also mixed two acres of corn.

In addition, there are also a lot of peppers, peanuts, etc.

There is strength in numbers, and everything is going well.

In addition, after the restructuring of the academy, Zhao Cheng not only taught children, but also specialized in adult education, carried out literacy campaigns, and imparted a lot of basic science and agricultural knowledge......

After a long time, he gradually gained some prestige in the cottage.

In the past, the villagers respected him, but they often stayed away.

But after this period of contact, the relationship has been much more harmonious, and I respect and love him from the bottom of my heart.

There are also many people who want to marry their daughters of the right age to Zhao Cheng, or be a maid for him or something......

Zhao Cheng did not accept it, and seriously criticized them with the worldview of modern people.

This kind of thinking is unacceptable!

Everyone was generally taught with a smile, and those who had a girl present at home ran home shyly.

Everyone got along quite well, and after talking a few times, they also understood Zhao Cheng's attitude, and did not discuss this issue excessively.

For more than a month, the entire Wu cottage has completely changed its appearance.

In particular, Wu Yong and the others were even more happy and excited when they looked at the green seedlings on the barren mountains behind the academy.

Every day, he would take some time to go and see, and even the big boss would go to the stream to fetch water and come back to water the seedlings.

It's not a drought, and it's okay to water it.

However, Zhao Cheng still focused on telling a few words, watering should not be too frequent, otherwise these seedlings will die.

Zhao Cheng now has a very high prestige, and even the big masters face him with a disciple courtesy.

In other words, almost the entire Wu Cottage, up to the eighty-year-old man, has to be a disciple of Zhao Cheng.

Zhao Cheng was naturally unwilling to bear it.

It's just a matter of popularizing some basics!

These people may be very important, but for Zhao Cheng, it really doesn't have to be so.

What can I teach in more than a month?

Basically, it is to come up with feasible solutions to personal problems, and then take the time to popularize basic science.

Most of the rest of the time, I still work as a teacher in the academy to teach the little dolls.

Under the bombardment of modern popular science knowledge, the little dolls in the village have learned a lot of things.

Why does water flow lower?

Why do plants need sunlight?

Why is Ruixue a mega year?

Or what is the black stone dug out of the mountain? What's the use?

……

Hearing that some villagers in Wushanzhai dug up coal in the mountains, Zhao Cheng couldn't help but feel happy for this village.

Coal, this is basically the easiest natural resource to exploit in ancient times.