As soon as the Shangyuan Festival passed, the temperature in the south of the Yangtze River suddenly rose, and the people who planted vegetables began to pick up the good fertilizer into the ground, preparing to plant vegetables after ploughing.

In Xiaqiu Village, a steam engine tiller was dispatched to build a furrow in a field, and then hired people to help with the planting.

A month ago, the village of Xiaqiu was raising seedlings in greenhouses, and now they can be transplanted and planted.

More than a month earlier than other normal species, due to the seedlings raised in the greenhouse, the fertilizer control is good, and the growth rate of the seedlings is fast.

The advantage is that cucumbers, cowpeas, and eggplants are on the market early, and according to this planting method, they can be eaten a month and a half in advance.

The disadvantage is that it requires manpower, and if you plant normally, make a small pit in the ridge, and sprinkle the seeds into it and cover it with soil.

If the seedlings are raised and then the seedlings are moved, the pit will have to become larger, and then planted one by one, which consumes a lot of manpower, and ordinary people cannot afford to be tired.

In addition, the root system of transplanted crops is not as good as that of direct planting, such as when it rains heavily, the transplanted seedlings fall first, or the drought and the transplanted seedlings die first.

Advantages and disadvantages coexist, so this year only Xiaqiu Village planted, and then rented some people's land, let them help manage, the rent is the people's normal annual income from growing vegetables.

The people do not need to produce seeds and fertilizers, but take care of them, watering when it is time to water, and spraying when it is time to apply medicine.

Then the other 21 villages in Xuancheng County also took seedlings from the greenhouses in Xiaqiu Village over there, and they would vacate half of the land to plant, and the other half would naturally sow seeds in the original way.

They want to see which one is better, and then choose next year, so they don't receive their seedling money, so they let them help try, and they take their own risks.

In the evening, Zhu Yuanzhang walked over again and went to the village land, where the rented land was not safe.

"There are no seedlings in our greenhouse, but directly alternately planted, vegetables now average five pennies a catty, and they can't be sold at a high price after the Lantern Festival."

Zhu Yuanzhang stood on the ground and looked at the cowpeas and cucumber seedlings transplanted with the help of the people of the Prince's Mansion, the Qin Prince's Mansion, the Jin Prince's Mansion, the Yan Prince's Mansion, and the Wu Prince's Mansion.

Because I was worried about the sudden cold spring, I didn't use the ditch to take the water, and I moved the seedlings to water the place where the seedlings were.

In this way, when the spring cold appears, when the temperature comes down, you need to supplement fertilizer water, and you can use a ditch to irrigate, so that you can suddenly warm up, and by the way, you need to supplement fertilizer.

If you do it now, the soil will be saturated with water, and then the fertilizer will not be able to follow it.

In addition, there are seedlings in the greenhouse, ready to be replanted at any time, and those that freeze to death are quickly pulled out and thrown away, and new ones are planted.

The greenhouses in the palace did not provide seedlings, and they were always selling vegetables, from 20 Wen before the New Year to 10 Wen after the New Year, and from 10 Wen to 5 Wen after the Shangyuan Festival.

Wuwen also earns, the construction cost of greenhouse vegetables has been recovered, and now every time you sell more, you will earn some.

When the cucumbers in the earth grow, you can buy several catties for a penny, and the vegetable farmers are very hard.

Key vegetable farmers do not have any means of fertilization and spraying, relying on the agricultural books recorded in the previous dynasty, they will take a little method, such as soaking grass ash water to kill insects, or lime water.

Fertilizer is the farmer's fertilizer, or rotten leaves or something, soaked together, this is the limit that the people can do, and some people can't do this.

"Your Majesty, watermelons and melons make money! Someone eats it all the time. ”

The chief knew that the price of the dish had been reduced, and at the same time, the watermelon had also dropped, and the watermelon was also worth it, but it was ......

"We still have to provide it to Huimin Pharmacy, your village grows less, and you don't sell it, oh, sell some to Fuhua Building."

Zhu Yuanzhang really talked about this matter, watermelon is valuable, but it has to be eaten for free, it is medicine.

Some use watermelon pulp, some use watermelon skin, and some use watermelon seeds, watermelon seeds are easy to say, there have always been, there are many summers, even if they are not specially used to take seeds, watermelon seeds can be used.

Those who specialize in taking seeds can't eat the pulp, the seeds are big and numerous, this is eaten as a snack, and it belongs to nuts.

Huimin Pharmacy knows that there are watermelons and muskmelons, and once they find that the people who come to see the doctor need to use them, they will prescribe a prescription, and then the people can eat watermelon.

Even if you need to eat melon skin, you will eat it and get fruit for free, otherwise you have to prescribe other medicines, and if the reserves of other drugs are less, I am afraid that the crude medicine warehouse will not be enough.

"Your Majesty loves the people like a son, and the current technology application is better, and the coal that has been burned and the remaining cinders are also good fertilizers when they are put in the vegetable field.

If there is no condition, the large grain will be directly crushed slightly, and the conditional crushing will be more thorough and the decomposition speed will be accelerated.

In the village, it is polished, and in the process of smelting steel, there must be a lot of burnt coke ash, which can be ...... Subsidies to the people. ”

The lieutenant was reluctant to mention something that made His Majesty sad, so he quickly changed the subject, the ash of the stove can be used as fertilizer, as long as it is not excessive.

Similarly, coke ash also has many uses, one of which is the fertile field, it is a pity to throw it away, and the subsidy is the most suitable for the people, if you want money, the people have no money and do not buy it.

Zhu Yuanzhang had already seen the ashes in the vegetable field, and thought about it: "How to subsidize it?" By region, or by who is poorer? ”

"According to the way and variety of crops are planted, for example, what crops we ask to be planted in the field, and the people do it, and we provide things.

Especially for some new varieties, the people usually seek stability, and they are not willing to plant seeds when they are given seeds.

We use the form of subsidies to motivate the people, once the people are willing to try, get the subsidy, and then the new crops are sold for more money.

In the future, as long as the seeds given by the imperial court, the people will rest assured, and they will not accept it on the surface, but in fact they will disobey the yang. ”

The chief said the method, and directly guaranteed that it would not work, the number of things was limited, and then the people put it into the field with all their might, and finally made the land wasted.

Zhu Yuanzhang bowed his head: "It's done!" The vegetables of the earth still need to wait for a while, but there are many wild vegetables, and some of the wild vegetables that grow fast can be eaten by sprouts. ”

"There are wild vegetables in our greenhouse, including dandelions, cories, small roots of garlic and other vegetables used for medicine."

The lieutenant chief said suspiciously, does Your Majesty want to eat? Then stuff it.

"Are we saying that the people will still buy vegetables in the greenhouse, or will they continue to reduce the price?"

Zhu Yuanzhang knew what the chief meant, and shook his head.

It's not to eat, of course it's okay to eat, it's a lot of wild vegetables, and when the people see green vegetables, who will buy expensive greenhouse vegetables?

"The sauce of Jubiqi is easy to sell, and the wild vegetables are delicious to eat in the sauce, or get some oil residue and fatty meat to make the filling.

However, wild vegetables cannot replace normal vegetables, cucumbers...... There is a kind of wild vegetable that tastes like cucumbers, but it doesn't have the texture of cucumbers.

There are also eggplants, last year's dried eggplant is still there, why don't you fry an eggplant box and eat it? Or lotus root boxes? ”

When the chief talks about cooking, he is also hungry, and he has to eat at night, and he doesn't know what to eat!

"Hmmm! Just fry the eggplant box, to be lean meat, fat and greasy, all have been fried in oil, let's go back, there is still a light here to save some electricity. ”

Zhu Yuanzhang said and walked back with his hands behind his back, and there was a light in the field to observe the growth of crops.

(End of chapter)