Turbulent Times Chapter 1010: Farming

The next day, Wang Junlin began to inspect various parts of the salt field. The first thing he looked at was the well-cultivated fields, and there was still time to cultivate some grain. Wang Junlin asked Qian Zhengkuo to plant some crops before the season passed. Some.

Lian Zhongtao selected 6,000 salt workers from more than 30,000 salt workers and salt slaves. More than 20,000 people are farmers, and the main job of these people is to cultivate the land.

Wang Junlin brought Chen Danying, Xiang Xiang, Luo Shixin, Li Xuanba and others in plain clothes and came to the field without disturbing any farmers. They were accompanied by Qian Zhengkuo and another newly appointed agricultural officer of the saltworks.

In front of him was a family of five saltworkers turned farmers on a fertile land of about ten acres. Their family had a cow allotted and a plow designed by Nie Xiaoyu himself. Bring it up and prepare to hang it on the cow.

According to what Qian Zhengkuo said, the agricultural officer he recommended was quite proficient in farming, so Wang Junlin wanted to test him out and casually asked him how to use the plow.

The agricultural officer named Liu Xingyuan was about forty years old, with dark and rough skin. At this time, he said confidently: "My lord, when these fields were reclaimed, they had already been plowed for the first time, and they were laid out after the spring. Dung can now be plowed and fertilized evenly. Now the adults buy a cow for each family in the salt field. In fact, the three households can use it together. You can use three cows to pull a big plow for deep plowing, or two cows in front and one cow behind. Restoration."

Wang Junlin looked surprised and asked like a student, "What's the difference between three cows and two cows?"

"Three cows are deeper, and the plowed land can be as deep as one foot, and it saves one person than the latter method."

"What about after plowing?"

Liu Xingyuan said: "There is wet soil in the ditch, and the soil is better. The seeds must be sown in the ditch. If you plant wheat, you can start it in March, but this year there is only one crop. It is not as good as the humble official said. One crop of ripe white radish can be harvested in April, another crop of garlic can be planted in April, and another crop can be harvested in May. In this way, more crops can be produced every year. This point must be notified to every household as soon as possible, otherwise ordinary farmers only know grain and wheat, and they don’t know the method of intercropping.”

When Wang Junlin heard that they were all vegetables, how could they do without the staple food, he hesitated and said: "In this way, there will be no wheat harvest this year. This is the staple food. Is there any other way?"

Liu Xingyuan shook his head and said: "This is the best way. In this way, the land will not be idle, otherwise we will only harvest one season of wheat this year, and the land will not be fertile."

Wang Junlin had never planted land in his previous life. Hearing that Liu Xingyuan was so professional, he said: "Qian Zhengkuo, Liu Xingyuan, please further verify what Liu Xingyuan said just now. If there is no problem, then follow this method. species."

Unexpectedly, someone beside him suddenly said: "My lord, this Master Liu is wrong."

"Oh?" Wang Junlin turned his head and saw that it was Xiangnan who had followed hundreds of scholars in Zhuo County to stage a protest at the posthouse where he lived. At that time, four of their scholars risked their lives to go in to meet Wang Junlin, one of them was disguised as a sword **** and assassinated Wang Junlin, and the other three were Xiang Nan, Mou Xuhong, and Zhao Shuren, who were subdued by Wang Junlin with thunder and sent to Du Ruhui's side exercise.

In the past few months, the three scholars have made great progress. They are no longer just empty talkers, and all three of them are from poor families, and their families are tenants. Nan belt is by my side.

Seeing that Xiang Nan, who had been silent all this time, spoke, Wang Junlin couldn't help being interested: "Xiang Nan, why did you say he was wrong?"

Xiang Nan said: "My lord, what Master Liu said just now is the method of crop rotation and continuous cropping, but the land in the salt field has just been reclaimed, and the land is insufficient, and it is difficult to make up for it with manure alone. The harvest will not be good, so this year the most important thing is to fertilize the land, not to force more crops, if according to what Master Liu said, only use the soil in the ditch, not to mention the few crops, and it will not be able to fertilize the field."

Wang Junlin's eyes lit up when he heard what he said, and asked him, "Then how do you plant it? It's best to show it."

The farming officer Liu Xingyuan, who was selected and promoted by Qian Zhengkuo, looked at Xiang Nan talking eloquently, and was dissatisfied in his heart, but seeing that he was the person next to the prefect, he didn't dare to refute, so he waited for the other party to continue talking.

Being watched by so many people, Xiang Nan blushed a little, and simply brought tools with a farmer, bowed his head and skillfully dug a shallow ditch with a hoe, and piled the excavated soil on the edge of the ditch to make a ridge Then he said: "My lord, I think it's best to use the method of interplanting and interplanting this year, so that the soil on the ridge can also be used, grain and beans are intercropped, wheat is planted in the ditch, beans are interplanted on the ridge, and wheat is planted on the ridge. When it is ripe, the beans are ripe, which is also a material. But it is best to add mung beans, and after harvesting, it is the best green manure.”

Speaking of this, he dug the ridge into a furrow again, and piled the soil on the original ditch to form a ridge, and continued: "At that time, after the green manure is harvested, the ridge will be plowed into a furrow, and the furrow will be turned into a ridge. After the manure is evenly fertilized, the land will be fertile enough, and here is the Daitian method. If we plant winter wheat at this time, next year’s wheat harvest will be more than this year’s.”

The demonstration was very clear and the words were very clear. Wang Junlin turned his head to look at Liu Xingyuan, who quickly said with a face of shame: "This lord is right. It is a humble job that is not thoughtful. Please punish me."

Wang Junlin said: "Punishment is not enough, but since you are the agricultural officer of the salt farm, you must be pragmatic in making decisions in the future, and you must not take it for granted."

Wang Junlin said it very lightly, but what is his identity? Liu Xingyuan was already sweating profusely. Qian Zhengkuo next to him was the recommender, and there was sweat on his forehead. He also complained about this Liu Xingyuan in his heart. This guy claimed to be proficient in farming. Today he brought him here on purpose, just to let him perform well in front of the prefect, and to be reused by the prefect. It can be regarded as he has a direct line of his own in the salt field, but unexpectedly, he was given by a young scholar beside the prefect. The retort was speechless. Although the prefect did not say that he was Qian Zhengkuo, the latter understood that there was also the responsibility of the recommender.

But Wang Junlin ignored the two of them, and said to Xiang Nan: "Xiang Nan, I know that your family is a tenant farmer, but I see that what you just said is not just about farming experience, but you have made research on this aspect .”

Xiang Nan hurriedly said: "My lord, I was originally a tenant farmer of the Lu family. After the family handed in food to the Lu family every year, there was not much left, so I had to try to collect more food from the ground. I just read two books Agricultural books..."

Wang Junlin's eyes lit up, and he asked, "What agricultural book?"

Xiang Nan answered honestly: ""Wang Zhennongshu" and "Qimin Yaoshu", and others such as "The Book of Fansheng" have also been read a little bit. I flipped through the textbook."