Regarding the high-rotating drum car, the Renjiao version of "History" says that it appeared in the Song Dynasty, while the people's version of "History" says that it appeared in the Sui and Tang dynasties.

Neither statement is wrong.

The Tang Dynasty left a written introduction, but there were no names and patterns. Wang Zhen's "Book of Agriculture" in the Yuan Dynasty had a specific name and map.

It is very likely that it was rare in the Northern Song Dynasty, and Chen Yuan has never seen it all the way from Fujian.

"Is this a barrel car?" Chen Yuan asked.

Zhu Ming introduced: "The high drum car was there in the Tang Dynasty, and my father improved it. ”

It is not an improvement, but an adjustment according to the specific terrain, which is somewhat different from the record of Wang Zhen's "Book of Agriculture".

Chen Yuan approached to observe the specific structure, although it was not used at this time, the ten-meter-high wheel still made him sigh: "If it is really the daily use of the people, it is the way." ”

Walking through the rape fields that had already borne seeds, Chen Yuan came to the aqueduct at the foot of the mountain.

Zhu Ming said: "The thieves don't know how to build water conservancy, and this irrigation canal was also dug by the villagers organized by my father. The water from the river is brought by the high-water trucks and poured into the canals, so that half of the paddy fields in the village can draw water. When I went out, the canal had not yet been dug, but now it has been dug and the fields can be irrigated just after the rape is harvested. ”

Chen Yuan praised: "If Brother Yuanzhang is an official, he will be able to benefit the people, and he will be able to succumb to his talents in this small ravine." ”

After a while, there were villagers working in the fields.

The field is lush with wheat seedlings, and villagers are cutting sweet potato seedlings.

Chen Yuan asked curiously, "What is this?" ”

"The high-yield crop brought back from overseas is called sweet potato," Zhu Ming explained, "My father once said that educating people should be taught according to their aptitude, and farming should be adapted to local conditions." The dry land below the mountain is slightly fertile, and wheat and corn can be rotated twice a year, and sweet potatoes and beans can be interplanted in it. Not only is it highly yielding, but crop rotation also reduces pests and diseases. Barren mountainous areas are not good, generally do not set wheat, but choose something else to rotate with corn. ”

"There is a way to farm." Chen Yuan nodded.

Zhu Ming said as he walked: "There is a weir pond dug on the east and west sides of the mountainside, which can also store rainwater for irrigation. This year, I plan to dig another one, and it will be more convenient to use water at that time. ”

From time to time, Chen Yuan met villagers who were working, and he had heard the story of Zhu Ming's suppression of thieves, and knew that the villagers here were all bandits.

At the moment, I saw it with my own eyes, but I didn't have half of it, and I was more like an honest farmer. He believes that this is due to the work of education, and there are great Confucians in this mountain, and in just over half a year, they have been very successful in turning bandits into people.

Everyone watched and chatted all the way, and walked to the high mountain where the cottage was located.

The barren slopes at the foot of the mountain have been reclaimed, and some broad beans have been planted casually, and there is no desire to harvest much, mainly to maintain the fertility of the newly opened wasteland.

These wastelands were distributed to the new fugitives and the poor. Taxes are exempt for three years, and broad beans are planted in spring, soybeans in summer, and peas in winter, all of which are legumes, all of which can provide nitrogen fertilizer for the soil. Sprinkle some plant ash to provide potassium fertilizer for the soil and phosphorus fertilizer for poultry manure.

After two or three years of cultivation in this way, the wasteland can become mature land.

Under the guidance of science, land reclamation can be faster!

Zhu Guoxiang was halfway up the mountainside, instructing the villagers to plant saplings.

When he heard that Chen Yuan was coming, he hurriedly stepped forward to greet him.

After greetings, Zhu Guoxiang pointed to the newly planted saplings and said: "They are all tung oil saplings, and it is difficult to find them in Xixiang County, so I still bought them with the help of Lu officials in Lixian County." The halfway up the mountain is too steep, it is inconvenient to plant and water, and it is easy to cause soil erosion. All the trees here have been cut down by the bandits, just in time for planting tung oil. It will take three years to extract oil, and then it will be another income. ”

Zhu Guoxiang was dressed as a peasant at this time, wearing a short linen shirt, his trousers were pulled up to his calves, and his two bare feet were covered with mud.

Seeing that everyone was looking at themselves, Zhu Guoxiang explained with a smile: "I just came back from the paddy field and taught the villagers to control water and drought and raise seedlings, and I haven't had time to change into clean clothes. ”

Chen Yuan said: "Yuanzhang is enduring hardships and practicing himself, which is really admirable." ”

Zhu Guoxiang laughed: "It's not hard, I like farming." Some people drink for enjoyment, some people watch theater for enjoyment, but I enjoy farming. ”

Dean Zhu really enjoys having a wife at night, crops during the day, and so much land in the whole village, let him plan and arrange it.

It's already a bit of a lot!

Chen Yuan admired it even more: "Turn suffering into happiness and enter the Tao a few times." ”

Zhu Guoxiang shouted at the villagers who planted the trees: "After planting these, call it a day, and go to your own land." ”

Several villagers bent down to say goodbye, and their eyes when they looked at Zhu Guoxiang were full of admiration and love from the bottom of their hearts.

This is very different from when facing Zhu Ming, the villagers are more in awe of Zhu Ming, after all, Zhu Ming killed many people when he suppressed bandits.

The father and son led everyone to continue up the mountain, and the higher they went, the steeper it became, and the legs of several sons and brothers went soft.

Li Hanzhang likes military affairs, and when he passed by the tiger's mouth, he exclaimed: "This is a natural danger, and it is not easy for Dalang to suppress thieves." ”

"I led the troops to feint on the front, and sent people to go around from behind the mountain for three days, and climbed up the cottage at night to set fire to win." Zhu Ming explained simply.

Li Hanzhang nodded and said, "With the right fit, with the odd win." ”

"The Art of War" was a banned book in the early Song Dynasty, and the ban was lifted in the middle of the Northern Song Dynasty, and it has spread until now.

Chen Yuan also read it, and said approvingly: "Going to the army to fight and strategize, but it is not easy to attack, and success is quite talented in leading troops." ”

The top of the hill still looks like a ghost, and there are charred ruins everywhere.

But it's no problem to burn down the rest of the house and arrange for more than ten guests to stay.

Shen Yourong is taking the female dependents on the mountain to weed the vegetable field, where many vegetables are planted, among which there are several square meters of yellow flowers - Dean Zhu is already preparing for refining colchicine.

Hearing that a guest was visiting, Shen Yourong threw down his hoe and came over.

"Mr. Chen, this is clumsy." Zhu Guoxiang introduced.

Shen Yourong bent down and saluted: "Mr. Wanfu." ”

Chen Yuan said, "The lady is fine." ”

After a greeting, Shen Yourong took everyone's entourage to choose and clean the vacant house.

Zhu Guoxiang led them on, behind a ruin, the land was loosened and watered, and a lot of fertile organic matter was piled up.

Dozens of basswood trees are half-buried in the soil, and some small shiitake mushrooms have grown.

Zhu Guoxiang tirelessly introduced the results: "It was cultivated last autumn, and it can be picked in a few days, and it can be harvested until summer." After thorough study of the skill, the villagers were invited to learn it, and the woman could grow mushrooms and sell them for money during the slack time. ”

"This mountain treasure can also be cultivated," Chen Yuan exclaimed, "Brother Yuanzhang's agricultural skills are superb." ”

Zhu Guoxiang said: "The mycelium cultivation time is too short, there are not many mushrooms this year, and a large number of mushrooms should be produced in two or three years." ”

Chen Yuan didn't understand what mycelium was, he just felt that it was very powerful.

Zhu Guoxiang continued: "There are two tricks to this method, one is to cut flowers, and the other is to surprise the mushrooms......

"Mushroom startling" is to use shoes or cork to beat the basswood from which shiitake mushrooms are cultivated. The ancients believed that shiitake mushrooms grew after thunderstorms, so they slapped the basswood to imitate thunder, which could wake up the seeds of shiitake mushrooms.

In fact, it is through vibration that the mycelial cells are stimulated to become active.

Everyone squatted on the side and watched, just like people from the city came to the farmhouse, and they felt very strange to see everything.

Min Zishun even borrowed the woman's hoe and went to the vegetable field to weed, purely thinking about the addiction of farm work. This is very new to him, he has never been in the field in the state city, and he has no idea how the vegetables grow.

Chen Yuan pointed to the mushrooms that had not yet grown up: "In Kaifeng City, a plate of fried meat with fresh mushrooms costs at least two hundred yuan. It is fried meat with dried mushrooms, and a plate costs seventy or eighty yuan. The price in Guanzhong will be lower, but it is also quite expensive, and this item is very useful. ”

"Then it will be dried and sold to Guanzhong." Zhu Guoxiang said with a smile.

The price of Kaifeng is really high, and a breakfast of offal chop is at least 20 Wen or more.

Rich and noble families are also willing to spend money on food, and the big oysters on the Jiaodong Peninsula can only be sold for a consistent amount of money when they are transported to Jiangnan! Of course, the main thing is that the freight is expensive, and it has to be transported by sea ship as soon as possible, and it is easy to stink and deteriorate without a cold chain.

All kinds of mushrooms are also very expensive and especially sell well.

If shiitake mushrooms are produced with energy, the profit per catty is higher than that of tea, and the price will not be reduced until the technology is popularized.

Zhu Guoxiang led everyone to wander around, and it was not until mid-afternoon that the room was cleaned out, and they each went back to their rooms to rest.

Calling his son to the room alone, Zhu Guoxiang asked, "Aren't you going to make a name for yourself in Yangzhou?" Why did you come back all of a sudden? ”

"It's too famous," Zhu Ming said things briefly, "I didn't expect Song Huizong to actually issue an edict to conquer the country, and he also underestimated the ancient people's worship of imperial power. Now the people of Yangzhou call me Zhengjun, and people come to the banquet every day. The old lady of the Li family died, and she actually spent a lot of money to ask me to write an epitaph, which made me make up my mind to avoid the limelight for the time being. ”

Zhu Guoxiang said: "The Li family is powerful and can just make friends, why don't you help write the epitaph?" ”

"The reputation of the Li family also stinks," Zhu Ming said, "those who open gold shops and put usury everywhere, you should understand what it means." ”

Zhu Guoxiang nodded and said: "It's good to come back, reputation is sometimes too much." ”

Zhu Ming said his thoughts: "That's the truth. Now we have no money and no power, our own strength is still too weak, and we are also rootless when we are famous. If it's just for wealth and officials, of course it doesn't matter, but what we want is to rebel. I continued to stay in Yangzhou, just to make more friends with celebrities and local heroes. But do they value me? No, what they value is imperial power, and Zhengjun can give them a long face. ”

Zhu Guoxiang was pleased: "It's rare, you still have self-knowledge." ”

"Daming Village is where our foundation lies, and it must develop here as soon as possible," Zhu Ming continued, "Now we accept too many favors from Haoqiang, and we are too deeply involved with those people, and we can only be restrained in the future." I plan to stay in the village until the autumn exams, and by the way, improve my real level. At least you have to be familiar with the "Book of Rhymes", and you have to write the scriptures well, otherwise it will be broken by someone who pokes it. By the way, how is tea studied? ”

Zhu Guoxiang said: "I know how to make black tea, without the help of modern scientific and technological means, there are only a few methods of ancient fermentation, and you can study it with a little attempt." In addition, I found an important situation. ”

"What's the situation?" Zhu Ming was surprised.

Zhu Guoxiang said: "When I talked to the tea workers, they said that tea can be picked in autumn. Spring tea is the best and can be made as a group tea. Autumn tea can also be sold, but it can only be made into loose tea. It doesn't matter if we roast the tea, although the quality of the tea leaves in autumn is not so good, it is perfectly fine to use it for stir-frying. ”

In both the Tang and Ming dynasties, there are many records of autumn tea.

Only in the Song Dynasty, there was very little autumn tea, and the reason was that the drinking method of Song tea had too high requirements for the quality of tea buds. Even the tea and horse division did not bother to tax autumn tea, and allowed the tea plantation owner to make loose tea in autumn and sell it for himself.

Zhu Guoxiang said excitedly: "Make use of autumn tea, our more than 300 acres of tea mountain, the annual profit is estimated to be more than 1,000!" ”

There are also hundreds of acres of tea mountains outside the old white staff, relying on tax evasion and tax evasion to sell illicit tea, plus a small amount of high-quality group tea, the net profit of a year is about 200 yuan.

Qianguan's annual profits can make the old white man's eyes red, and most of them have to send someone to inquire about the roasting tea technology.

Zhu Guoxiang said: "There are also many poor people outside Yangzhou, and when the Zheng family sends a boat to collect tea, they can be entrusted to help recruit people." The new villagers, who live in the waste tea mountain downstream, must clean up the waste tea mountain this year! There will be money when the tea is sold, and there will be grain when the corn and sweet potatoes are harvested, and it will be no problem to recruit another 300 people this year. ”

Zhu Ming said with a smile: "If you recruit another 300 people, the population will be close to 1,400, which is the largest force in the county." The future is promising! ”

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