New cultivators, new fields, and new agricultural productivity began to appear in the Ming Dynasty. For example, after an early autumn rain in the fourteenth year of Wanli, the new cultivator Gao Zijia carried a wooden ox and walked to his new field in the Yuanjing Mansion of the Political Secretary of Dongyingbu.

The widow girl he named Wu Qian also followed him barefoot with a basket on her back. Not long after, a rooster crowed and called the red sun.

Gao Zijia faced the red sun, put the wooden ox on the ridge, and asked Wu Qian to give him the basket first, and then he took out a cloth bag from the basket.

The cloth bag is wrapped in ashes, which are the bones of various chickens, ducks and other birds and animals collected by Gao Zijia after the big fish and meat on the boat, and now they are burned for fertilizer.

Gao Zijia had already begun to sprinkle the ashes evenly in the field at this time. And Wu Qian, the widow, skillfully went to the pond above the ridge.

The pond was dug by Gao Zijia, and the water from the mountain stream on the edge of the field was diverted. There is a wooden chicken pen on the pond, and there are chickens that Gao Zijia recently bought from the market.

The reason why the chicken pen is erected on the pond is to be able to use the chicken manure as the feed for fish farming, so that the fish in the pond can be raised at the same time as the chickens.

The pond is not only for fish farming, but also as a reservoir for one's own fields to use water when there is a shortage of water, which is a comprehensive agriculture that has emerged in this era of the Ming Dynasty.

The earliest record of comprehensive agricultural management comes from the "Zhaochang Hezhi Manuscript" in the middle of the Ming Dynasty, which mentions that the brothers Tan Xiao and Tan Zhaoliang transformed the low-lying wasteland into a large pond to raise chickens and fish, so that the chickens and fish were fat, and thus became rich.

Nowadays, this kind of business model has been gradually promoted in the Wanli Dynasty. Gao Zijiazi also knows this method, and although it is no longer the time to grow rice, he has begun to prepare to plant maize, which is the corn of later generations.

Corn was introduced to the Ming Dynasty in this era, and it was mainly introduced by two routes, one from Yunnan and Burma to Yunnan by land, and the other from the southeast coast to Zhejiang.

After Zhu Yijun ascended the throne, he vigorously promoted the promotion of new crops, so that although Gao Zijia was from the north, he also knew about maize.

Wu Qian's task is to take care of these chickens, clean the chicken pen, take away the sick chickens in time to dispose of them, and sweep the feces into the pond.

In addition, she also had to follow Gao Zijia to learn to grow and harvest corn, rice, wheat, sweet potatoes, beans, etc., and as for the seeds, she could go to the city of Yuanjingfu and buy them from the local seed merchants from the Ming Dynasty.

According to the records of Liuhe County, in the era of the Ming Dynasty, in terms of crop types, there were as many as 107 kinds of rice, more than 20 kinds of beans, and more than 20 kinds of wheat that were adapted to different types of fields, plus the introduction of foreign crops.

It can be said that because the area of the agricultural civilization of the Ming Dynasty is more extensive than the local agricultural civilization of the Japanese Kingdom, and there are more channels to contact the outside world, it also enables the Ming Dynasty to produce a richer variety of crops and have a higher land utilization rate.

Therefore, Gao Zijia naturally needs to grow a lot of crops, and there are more types of land that can be used.

In short, because Gao Zijia, a Han man, has richer agricultural experience and technology, and there is also a widow like Wu Qian, they have planted fifteen acres of land on the basis of the original ten acres of land.

And because the land was more fertile, he actually collected 30 stone rice and more than 50 stone miscellaneous grains in the first year!

The original yield of the Japanese fields, which could only produce one stone per mu, was increased to two stones and five buckets per mu, and there was no shortage of chickens and fish, so that many products could be sold in the market to promote commercial development.

According to the records of the "Complete Book of Agricultural Administration", in the middle of the Ming Dynasty, the fertile land could be operated to a maximum of three stones, and the worse ones had more than two stones and five buckets.

And here, Gao Zijia has only raised fields for the first year, so it is good to be able to harvest two stones and five buckets per mu. However, in any case, although Gao Zijia, an ordinary Han civilian farmer, has become a displaced person who has dragged down the national finances in China due to natural disasters and the intensification of land annexation, as soon as it comes out, it has indeed become the real blade of the Ming Dynasty's foreign expansion!

It was not the people who moved from the Ming Dynasty, but the advanced productive forces. If according to historical records, because the agricultural production of the Japanese people in this period is not as good as that of the Ming Dynasty, they can generally only guarantee the yield of one stone per mu, the Han people who moved from the Ming Dynasty can at least make the agricultural production here appear, one Han as two or three Japanese.

Perhaps the Han Dynasty's Han Dynasty was not only a comparison of force, but also a comparison of productivity. Anyway, for the Ming Dynasty, the Han people could indeed create more wealth than the Japanese people.

Perhaps this is also why the alien races around the Ming Dynasty, whether it is the Mongols, the Jurchens, or the Southwest Tusi, like to plunder the population when they raid the Han land.

The most valuable thing in the Ming Dynasty may actually be people, that is, the domesticated Han people who are both hardworking and good at farming.

It's just that the rulers who used to uphold the old rites only thought about squeezing them and subduing them, and didn't think about organizing them to expand their civilization externally, so it seems that their contribution to civilization is not so great, and even after being over-squeezed, they are despised by most of the learned people in their own race because of the huge destructive power they show.

It is true that the Han people are better at farming and weaker at fighting and grabbing. When Gao Zijia ran his agriculture in his new homeland and began to enter the business by selling agricultural products, he also aroused the coveting of the surrounding Japanese landlord class.

The landlord class of the Japanese people was basically aristocrats, and there was no such thing as a common landlord, and the lowest landlords were basically samurai who worked for the daimyo.

Human greed is difficult to suppress, for the samurai who belonged to the Japanese landlord class, after seeing that the agriculture run by Gao Zijia and other Han people was more developed, the first thing they thought of was not learning, but the most primitive and crude plunder.

this day. As soon as the sky was light, some Japanese warriors rushed into Gao Zijia's village and killed several Han Chinese who had just migrated.

For a while, the screams and dogs barked constantly. Gao Zijia also hurriedly got up with Wu Qian, and then saw that several Japanese warriors were rushing towards him with knives, and several Japanese warriors were already destroying Gao Zijia's chicken pen and carrying his chickens away.

"Stop!" Gao Zijia shouted. But as soon as he finished shouting, the few Japanese warriors in front of him walked towards him with a wicked smile, and a warrior directly kicked him down, and then pulled Wu Qian over, held him in his arms and began to touch him.

This Wu Qian was so frightened that her face turned pale, and she desperately shouted at Gao Zijia, begging him to save her. Syllable! Because she heard that this Wu Qian was still a widow, the warrior who hugged him directly slapped her, scolded a few words, and then began to take off her skirt to use force.

Seeing this, Gao Zijia immediately went back to the house and pulled out the Yanling knife, and directly pierced the chest of the Japanese warrior who was about to use it: "Damn! The Japanese warrior couldn't help but fall to the ground in shock.

Several other Japanese warriors were smiling and preparing to watch a live show, but they were also stunned because of this, and they couldn't help but be furious, and they all drew their swords and slashed at Gao Zijia.

Bang! Bang! Bang! Suddenly, there was a loud bang. These Japanese warriors couldn't help but be stunned.