Chapter 234: Who's the Young Man You Are?
Mrs. Xu pointed to the large open space behind the Zhenbei Army garrison, and introduced to Huo Yunqian:
"At that time, there will be a pattern of interplanting corn in the field with medicinal herbs He Shou Wu.
In the first and second year of planting in He Shou Wu, our family planned to interplant corn.
This not only saves land, but also staggers the growth cycle of Polygonum multiflorum, which has been checked.
Moreover, the interplanted corn stalks do not need to be cut off, and they are left in the coming year, which is a support for He Shou Wu to climb.
I have seen the herbal diagram that the child found for me, and the growth of Polygonum multiflorum is just right with corn stalks. ”
Mrs. Xu pointed to the two wide ditches buried in the snow:
"General, look at this again, I plan to let the wasteland that our children have bought not be wasted at all.
Our Zhuang households, accustomed to farming only with other people's families, do not compare with others for the New Year, thrift can help the cheap, so that the general smiled.
Therefore, even in the ditches of this field, peony will be used to interplant vegetable crops, and peppers will be interplanted.
Chili pepper is a vegetable, avoid frequent picking, we think so, so as not to cause damage to the peony herb.
And this large wasteland, by next year, there will not only be interplanting He Shou Wu and peony, but also acute sub-medicinal materials such as Zhimu, chrysanthemum, atractylodes, and atractylodes.
As for how to interplant, our family sat together and pondered, and the grain or vegetable crops that were simply interplanted with them had to be a day different from the growth of medicinal herbs, so we planned to try it this way. ”
Mrs. Xu took Huo Yunqian out of a long way before she stopped.
"Anyway, General, you must have heard it, we have a lot of ideas, but to be honest, here in the Northland, there are two kinds of land, whether it will work or not, we don't know.
But the woman thought that this was the wasteland that the child had bought.
The child said she wanted to try, so her three uncles and I were going to try it. ”
"She said, you just try?"
This time, Huo Yunqian really felt how favored Xu Tianxin, a peasant girl, was at home.
Mrs. Xu looked at the vast wasteland, holding warm sleeves in both hands, and wrapped a cotton scarf around her head, and suddenly said:
"Actually, what really convinced me and her three uncles was not to let her do anything.
It was the general who probably didn't know that after you gave her so much silver, she once came home and said to us, "Grandma, no one dares to plant like this, let's try it."
Because the bounty for buying this wasteland was given by you, the general.
If it doesn't grow, it's a wasted effort.
It's not even in vain.
My family Tian Xin said that if she failed, she would write down the process, how she failed, where she failed, and handed it over to her Uncle Zhao, ah, it was handed over to Zhao Zhenting.
In this way, I can keep a file in the town and leave it for the reference of people who have the same idea as my family in the future. If it can be spread, it can also be passed on to the people in the south who grow two crops a year. No one's seeds are easy, they are all the people's hard-earned money. ”
Speaking of this, Mrs. Xu paused, deliberately turned around, looked up at Huo Yunqian's eyes and said:
"And if it can be planted, our children say, this large wasteland is your test field.
It started with my family, and after success, it was promoted to the outside world. Whoever planted it in our family and how it was planted, we went out to teach.
In this way, the people of the Northland under your control will be able to sell medicinal herbs and eat a little more.
She can also be regarded as making the best use of the silver reward you give, and use it with peace of mind. ”
Huo Yunqian felt as if something was moving in his heart, and he turned his head to look at Xu Tianxin.
The three guards stationed in the station, including Ge Qi, also turned their heads to look at Xu Tianxin.
Jiubao was standing next to Xu Tianxin, and he turned to face Xu Tianxin head-on: "Girl, ......"
Girl, Jiubao, I want to praise you again, in fact, I am by the young master's side, and I am not a person who likes to flatter, but I can't help but want to express it to you.
What I want to say is: I can't have more contact with you because you are too good-looking.
The phase can be disguised, but the heart cannot.
made him want the young master to take out the wasteland money from the private treasury again. Rush to this spiritual beauty.
Xu Tianxin was suddenly looked at by so many people, and his face was a little red.
She looked at Huo Yunqian with a hard head: ...... Grandma, when did I ever say that to you.
I remember singing only to you: you once told me that meeting is a song.
Mrs. Xu quietly breathed a sigh of relief in her heart, and thought: Granddaughter, don't be stupid, next year, your field will not be planted on the kang and covered with a quilt, then it will be poked under people's noses.
So it doesn't matter if you're a test field or not, you are.
Why hide it, it's better to be generous and sell favors.
It just so happens that we will also talk to the general, we did not accept his reward in vain, as well as the extra four hundred taels of wasteland money given today.
We can take this money with peace of mind.
Do you know how much value will be created for the Northland by using the two modern places well?
Growing two kinds of crops on a wasteland can not only be medicinal herbs and grain, but also several kinds of vegetables, as long as you learn the trick of interplanting at intervals.
It was repeatedly tested in the modern era with wasteland and cooked land. It's called minerals different.
At that time, if a lot of wasteland can be developed, he will be willing to use the wasteland that is not good, and the development of one land and two kinds of land will be his personal achievement for General Huo Da himself.
For the local people, as long as they can eat enough, they will remember the good of the Northland general for the rest of their lives. You say what the centripetal force here will become.
Mrs. Xu guessed correctly.
At this time, Huo Yunqian's heart fluctuated with some emotion, precisely because after he came to the Northland, everything was equivalent to starting over.
It is not only the military management of military training matters, but also the management of military household settlement matters.
There is also economic management, how to make the people here have food at home, and stop starving to death.
There is even cultural management, schools, academies, temples, and cultural inheritance.
In the meantime, I don't know in what year the future will be, the war will be together, the troops will be dispatched, and countless military salaries will be consumed. Once the imperial treasury is empty, how can they save themselves, look for military funds, let the soldiers and horses not move, and the grain and grass go first.
The imperial court has a salt and iron franchise to earn military funds, and he, Huo Yunqian, is just a military general stationed in the north, saying that he is in charge of here, but his every move is monitored, and he can't make money with salt and iron.
There is another point, which Huo Yunqian has never said to others, because this is very frustrating, and once it happens, it will make him close his eyes and not be healthy.
That is, he is also very anxious, and wants to let the people here have enough to eat in the past few years that he has been in charge of the Northland.
In that battle eight years ago, it can be said that here in the Northland, every family has a son who never returned.
Huo Yunqian didn't dare to expect that he could make the family here prosperous.
But he very much hoped that if one day in the future, if the city really broke down, after the wall he held on to fell, at least the people here would have some food to save to support them with food to eat, so that they could flee to the impregnable city.
Some of the family assets can settle down in a new place.
So, whoever says that he is a noble son, he is the poorest person.
What Huo Yunqian didn't expect was that the first person to help him "save money" was Xu Tianxin.
The Xu family also showed great righteousness, saying that they were willing to work hard for a year of failure, but after success, this is the experimental field.
"Slow down." Huo Yunqian grabbed Mrs. Xu's arm.
Mrs. Xu had just almost tripped over the wild grass buried in the snow.
Mrs. Xu looked at the general's attitude, and adhered to her always principle of "opening your mouth to make three profits, and if you can't do it, it will be enough", and planned to ask the senior official to help her family redivide and divide the wasteland, but suddenly pretended to say something and stopped:
"General, the women still have a few words, I don't know if to say them or not...... If so, can you not blame it? Just think I'm talking nonsense. ”
"You speak."
Then Mrs. Xu was by Huo Yunqian's side, pointing to the wasteland in the distance, and complained:
"You all said that our children would buy it there, but in fact, it was a coincidence, and we didn't want to buy it, it was dozens of miles away.
I went to reclamation in the spring, went to the early morning, and didn't come back in the middle of the night, what kind of sleep did I sleep, and directly let my family's unsuccessful boy be a savage in Jiapigou.
Therefore, our children were forced to buy there helplessly, and Zhao Zhenting was also very helpless, he was about to turn over the documents left by Zhizhi.
In the end, it was stipulated by the previous yamen that the newly purchased wasteland should only be allowed to go along the roadside, the side of the mountain, or along the ditch of the ground......
In short, the requirements of the people's women can be understood, that is, how difficult it is for us ordinary people, how to divide it. ”
Mrs. Xu hurriedly pointed it out to Huo Yunqian: "There is no recruitment, the child bought wasteland, and in the end it became this and that piece." Have you ever seen the open space next to the poplar forest on the side of your village, so you have to go to the other side of the road to walk two miles to reclaim it? ”
Mrs. Xu was still wearing cotton gloves, clapped her right hand with her left hand and continued: "Even the homestead is too." Whoever builds a house is not a piece of the house, but our family is good. One piece next to it, one piece opposite. ”
Xu Tianxin followed behind, thinking: Grandma, why don't you say it, our family bought too big. Grandpa Lizheng was so worried that after your new house was built, you need to beat the gong to get together the heads, right?
Mrs. Xu: If it's too big, you have to sue. Then expand out, it's not like we didn't pay for it. We are not fully built houses, we are convenient to go home for the construction of factories.
And that's unreasonable, you don't change it as a yamen? Setting this one is purely embarrassing, needless to say, when I made such a play, I just wanted to receive gifts.
Huo Yunqian stretched out his hand.
In Xu Tianxin's eyes, Jiubao is more magical than her hiding money.
As soon as he stretched out his hand, the nine treasures on the other side immediately conjured up the map of Erdao River out of nowhere, and the dansha was marked with dots on it, Xu Tianxin guessed that it was the specific open space of Erdao River.
No, in fact, it was the wasteland marker that your family bought, Jiubao glanced at Xu Tianxin and thought.
"I see."
Huo Yunqian simply glanced at the marking point, and replied like this, and Mrs. Xu was overjoyed.
The superior will not speak thoroughly, this is enough, enough.
This also made Hades easy to see the little ghosts, and the drawbacks left by taking office, she directly went to the current one to solve. lest Zhao Dashan dare not call the shots.
In order not to borrow money in vain, Mrs. Xu also immediately gave feedback, she pretended to ask Huo Yunqian: "By the way, general, when it comes to farming, the women want to ask you a question for us in the village, we have always been curious about the question, that is, is there an agricultural research institute in our imperial court?" ”
"Whatever."
How can I describe to you that we have an agricultural research institute in modern times?
"It's rice cultivation and seedling raising...... There are three major pieces of seed management and collection, whether there is a yamen who really understands this aspect and teaches us the tricks of the people.
There is also soil improvement, how to use manure, how much to use, what kind of manure to use, and medicine, which can make the soil always new and strong.
Water conservancy improvement, construction of steep ponds, including poultry breeding, livestock production, planting fruit trees, and what kind of fruit is planted in what kind of place.
For the people in our village, it is how to lay fish fry and how to protect the river.
General, you said, some of us here are still living in the mountains, so there should be a difference between what we plant and what we plant. ”
Huo Yunqian understood, in fact, the imperial court set up this department, in the capital. Served by some idle imperial relatives, getting a name, receiving some money, and going to the court, it is like a fictitious.
He is deserting, in addition to expanding the wasteland and increasing the cultivated land, is it also necessary to pay attention to increasing the yield per mu?
When Huo Yunqian pondered whether to set up a separate "Agricultural Research Institute" here in the Northland, Mrs. Xu said again:
"The women know that there are particularly good literati who have written books and left a lot of experience in agriculture and mulberry for a hundred years. But in practice, out of a hundred people in the village, ninety-nine are illiterate. Not to mention buying a book, even if it is given to him for free, he doesn't even know what it is written.
What a good book, wasted.
If there is no granddaughter who can read and write, the woman will not know that no matter if she is planting land and vegetables, she must be particular about it in order to increase production. ”
Huo Yunqian nodded unconsciously, he thought to himself: How to use those landed talents to go to the grassroots level, Mrs. Xu suddenly greeted Xu Tianxin: "Dabao, if you say a few words to the general, you will say those words that suggest you Uncle Zhao." ”
Huo Yunqian looked at Xu Tianxin and raised his eyebrows slightly, Dabao? That's a good name.
It doesn't hurt to say it.
Xu Tianxin said:
"The folk girl knows a Bai Xiucai.
Listening to him, the cultivation of agriculture and mulberry, the absence of open land in the wilderness, and the construction of water conservancy are also the main contents of their imperial examinations.
The folk girl thought, on the one hand, they have to take these tests, and it is not enough to grow crops and only read books, and he also proposed that it is best to see it on the spot in order to have something to say.
On the other hand, it is also possible to tell the daily books of agriculture and mulberry that the readers see in the vernacular to the farmers, especially the farmers in the mountainous areas.
And every time the imperial examination is held, only a few people go further. Some of the readers are still old, can you organize this part of the readers who are interested in agriculture and mulberry? ”
But there is a difficulty here, and the reader will not agree to it if he works hard.
In the imperial examination, if the examiners can go down to the grassroots level and help the people as an important point in the examination of virtue, and can give extra points, it is the best.
However, this requires the premise of a healthy court. Officials are now appointed casually, not to mention the fact that there is no falsification of the examination of virtue.
Xu Tianxin paused for a moment before continuing: "As for what the folk girl said to Zhenting, it is best to arrange it for the town governance office, so that the villages can also go to the governance office regularly to study...... It's just some immature ideas. ”
Huo Yunqian looked back at Xu Tianxin, after he finished talking with the pair of ancestors and grandchildren today, for himself, the biggest gain is that he must dare to speak up, do anything, and change the law repeatedly, and not follow the old ways. This point will be discussed carefully with his subordinates after returning to the General's Mansion.
"General, please."
Mrs. Xu invited Huo Yunqian to climb the plow with the dog, and her granddaughter as the driver, don't think deeply, let's also throw up the whip and shout, and relax.
Let's go into the village and see, half of the sky of the Erdao River belongs to her.
The other half of the day goes to her granddaughter.
"Emma, always in charge, who is this?!"
Ask who in front of people, can you carry some people on your back?
Huo Yunqian sat on the dog climbing plow, and was looked at several times by the aunts and aunts as soon as he entered the village.
This is called, no matter how well you develop, you must say hello when you see your parents and fellow villagers.
Big beauties, if you have a monthly pass, vote for the monthly pass, thank you, O(∩_∩)O