Chapter 2 Thousands of acres of fertile land
In order to take care of Her Royal Highness the princess, he ordered someone to vacate Wenqiu Pavilion, the largest courtyard in the mansion, for her to live in, and appointed two well-behaved and clever maids to serve him, so he put his heart in his stomach.
Although this Kaifeng City now belongs to Dachu, if King Kang leads his troops to come, it will still be the Kaifeng City of the Great Song Dynasty in the near future.
If you can keep the princess well-thought, you will be able to offset your achievements and demerits in the future and protect your rich future.
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After having a stable place to live, Zhao Yingluo lay on the soft bed and began to think about what to plant on this acre of land.
In the Central Plains, the most suitable for planting corn after wheat is ripe! Corn and soybeans can also be interplanted to increase the yield per acre.
And also...... Sweet potatoes, people in this era, can't eat roasted sweet potatoes, that's really unpalatable.
There are also potatoes, and the french fries are called a Meizizi.
Chili peppers are even more indispensable, and they are necessary to eat hot pot.
After some consideration, Zhao Yingluo, who had not slept peacefully for several days, soon fell asleep, and slept until three o'clock in the morning.
Zhao Yingluo, who slept contentedly, went to touch the mobile phone next to the pillow to check the time in a daze, and after touching it for a long time, she suddenly remembered that she was now in the Northern Song Dynasty, how could she still have a mobile phone!
Rubbing her messy hair, she got up and went to the ground, next to a brand new skirt, which seemed to be quite expensive.
Although Zhao Yingluo really wanted to wear it to be beautiful, she thought that she would have to work in the field today, so she was a little reluctant to put it back.
"Spring Peach! Pothos! ”
"Here it is, girl!"
Chun Tao, who had been waiting outside the door for a long time, hurriedly picked up the copper basin, and the hot water used for washing in the copper basin had been changed by her several times.
"Go find me some coarse cloth clothes, narrow-sleeved ones! After eating, we went to the field, you also changed your clothes, and then called Luluo and Feng Jing, and asked the housekeeper to go to the blacksmith shop to customize a batch of guillotines, which is getting better and better. ”
The pothos asked a little puzzled, "What does the girl want to do with the guillotine?" ”
Zhao Yingluo said while washing, "I have my own use." ”
Chun Tao then spoke, "There are more than a dozen in the grange. ”
"Not enough! I want a hundred. ”
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A bowl of white fungus lotus seed porridge, a roast cake, and four plates of stir-fried vegetables with meat and vegetables are a breakfast.
After eating breakfast, Zhao Yingluo changed into the indigo coarse cloth clothes, took Chun Tao and Feng Jing into the carriage, and headed west.
After leaving Baojin Gate and walking two miles away, Zhao Yingluo and his entourage finally came to Lu Haowen's grange. The Grange also has a spacious mansion, but on weekdays, Lu Haowen lives in the city mansion and rarely comes here.
Jiang Laosi, who was in charge of taking care of the house, saw that someone was coming from the house, and hurriedly went out of the house to greet him.
Jiang Lao has been a tenant farmer for four generations, because he is the fourth in the family, his parents casually named him Lao Si, because he is diligent and honest, Lu Haowen asked him to manage the house and the farmers.
"Why did Miss Chun Tao have time to come to the village today?"
Jiang Laosi's smile was full of compliments, and when he saw Chun Tao helping a young lady about seventeen or eighteen years old to get out of the car, he was a little puzzled.
"Fourth Brother Jiang, hurry up and clean up the house, my girl wants to rest here for a while."
"Girl?"
"The girl in our family is the niece of the sovereign, and the sovereign specially explained that everyone in the house must listen to the girl."
As soon as Jiang Laosi heard this, he hurriedly bowed and saluted.
"No courtesy, how many farmers are there in this grange?"
"If you go back to the girl, there are one hundred and twenty households."
"Gather them all here, I have something to say to them."
"The villain is going."
After Jiang Laosi left, Zhao Yingluo instructed Chun Tao and Lu Luo to clean up the room, and made an excuse that she wanted to drive to play, and after driving the driver away, she drove away from the grange alone.
It wasn't until they couldn't see that she pulled into the void, and ten bags of twenty catties of corn seeds suddenly appeared, followed by bags of potatoes and sweet potatoes, which were about to fill the carriage.
But she didn't immediately take out the seeds of this era, such as tomatoes and peppers. One is that she has limited energy, and the other is that these three crops are highly productive and can save more people from hunger.
After taking out these seeds, Zhao Yingluo drove back to the grange.
At this time, Chun Tao was complaining that the coachman should not let the girl drive alone, and seeing that she came back safe and sound, she said happily, "Girl, Fourth Brother Jiang has summoned all the farmers. ”
Zhao Yingluo looked inside, and the whole courtyard was already full of people, men, women, old and young.
Seeing Chun Tao calling her girl, the farmers automatically got out of the way.
Zhao Yingluo saw that they were all yellow and thin, and they were not dressed properly, and sighed, the so-called peaceful and prosperous era in ancient times was just to feed the people.
Now that there are frequent wars, it is tantamount to adding insult to injury for them.
"I've seen the girl!" The farmers, who had already been instructed by Jiang Laosi, saw the master's house stand up and saluted together.
"You don't need to be polite, but I want you to come here today to announce one thing, from this year onwards, after the wheat is harvested, no other crops will be planted."
As soon as the farmers heard that they were not allowed to grow crops, they immediately began to talk about the fact that it was early summer, and after the wheat harvest was completed, it was time to plant other crops to increase the yield of the land. If you don't allow planting, how can you fill your stomach? How to pay Government rent?
Zhao Yingluo waited for their voices to lower before clearing her throat and saying, "The yield of those crops is too low!" If you want to have food and clothing, you have to change some crops with high yields, fortunately, there are several crops in the Western Regions with particularly high yields, I asked someone to bring back a lot, Jiang Laosi, you take a few energetic people to the carriage to unload the seeds inside. ”
Jiang Laosi and Feng Jing beckoned a few servants to take out a total of thirty bags of corn seeds, potatoes and sweet potatoes in the carriage.
After Jiang Laosi finished moving the last bag of sweet potatoes, he asked suspiciously, and he asked with some doubts, "Girl, is this ...... What is it? It's like taro, but it's not quite like it. There are these two. I've been farming for 30 years and I've never seen anything like this. ”
Zhao Yingluo smiled slightly, these crops were only imported from overseas after the Ming and Qing Dynasties, how could he have seen them?
She raised an eyebrow and said, "You'll all know later." ”
Then, she turned her attention to the farmers, "I want to ask you, what is the yield of wheat per acre?" ”
Jiang Laosi, a veteran of agricultural planting, replied without hesitation, "In normal years, the production capacity per mu reaches one stone or more, if the wind and rain are smooth, when it can reach two stones, if it encounters a famine year, it may only be half a stone or even no grain." ”
Zhao Yingluo calculated in her heart, a stone in this era is equivalent to about 150 catties, which may be not bad in this era, but if this output is put into future generations, it is about equivalent to a dead harvest.
She then opened a bag of corn seeds and instructed Jiang Laosi and others to distribute the seeds to every farmer.
After receiving the seeds, the farmers all watched with curiosity.