"Brother Emperor, farming is different from other things. If you go against the weather, you will get twice the result with half the effort. It has just rained these few days, which is the time to sow. If you miss these days, even if you replant, the harvest will be far different. So farmers are rushing
We have been farming in a hurry these days." Zhu Youdun said.
"Yes, there are rules for farming, and you must not violate the weather. But there are some rules, such as the methods of farming, which must never be violated? Since ancient times, farm tools have evolved from the pre-Qin to the Qin and Han Dynasties, to the Sui and Tang Dynasties, to the Song Dynasty, and then to this dynasty.
, has been changed countless times, but it makes farming easier and easier."
"Brother, the farming tools are different from the methods of farming. Even if the farming tools are not as useful as before, it will only cost farmers more effort, and at worst the harvest will be slightly smaller. But the farming methods have changed, and if they are wrong, they will suffer heavy losses.
, there may even be no harvest. Brother Emperor, you still have to be cautious!" Zhu Youdun advised.
Yesterday, Yunxi called him and his wife into the palace, and told him that today he would take him around the farmland on the outskirts of the capital and introduce new farming methods to him. Zhu Youdun thought about it for half the night, and felt that it was better to be cautious.
Okay, so that’s what I said.
"Of course my brother knows about it, so I just brought you to this village instead of spreading it across the country." Yunxi said as he led him towards the farm near the field.
"This Zhuangzi? The emperor wants to use this Zhuangzi as a place to conduct experiments?" Zhu Youduan looked at the farmers who were farming in the fields on the roadside. "Brother Huang, is this an imperial village?"
"This is not an imperial village. This place is called Heyan Village. It was originally the village of the Xue family. Your sister-in-law received the royal dowry when she married into the palace. As soon as your sister-in-law entered the palace, she transferred all the dowry to the public accounts of the Wenhua Palace.
, but because it was her dowry, it was not counted as the imperial estate. After that, it became a confusing account, and this is how it ends." Yunxi said with a smile.
'Xue family?' Zhu Youdou was not so easy to fool: 'At that time, the Xue family was just an ordinary third-rank commander. The future of the hereditary family was the fourth-rank commander. How could this Zhuangzi be in such a good position?
In the hands of the Xue family? However, where this Zhuangzi came from has nothing to do with me, so don’t ask any more.'
How did he know that this village originally belonged to the Chang family. Yunxi was still the emperor's grandson at that time, and his salary was given according to the prince's ritual system. Of course, Yunxi would not have the idea of taking the throne in advance, but he was young and did not think much about it.
Now that I have some power in my hands, I want to make some scientific inventions based on what I remember in my head.
But he didn't graduate from a related major, so he could only let the craftsmen explore slowly, and all the money he spent was gone. He also figured out how to treat the servants of Wenhua Palace and his own guards with kindness and power, and also wanted to
He spent money, but the money was not enough. At this time, the Chang family also wanted to restore the relationship between relatives, so they wanted to give him a Zhuangzi. He was short of money at the time, so he agreed.
At this time, Yunxi thought of what happened back then, and felt quite ridiculous, and said to himself: "Although grandpa didn't do anything at that time, he must have known about it a long time ago." He thought well. All this seemed to be done very secretly, but in fact
They were all within Zhu Yuanzhang's sight. It's just that he thought it was nothing and didn't care.
While thinking, they had already walked into Zhuangzi. The head of the village had already received the news yesterday. After seeing Yunxi and his party, he knelt down and said, "The villain Lu Lingfeng has met the master." He naturally knew Yunxi's identity, but Yunxi didn't want to
Let other people in the village know his identity, so he just calls him "Master".
He looked at Zhu Youdou again, and when he was hesitating about what to call him, Zhu Youdou smiled and said, "Let's call him Second Master."
"I've met the Second Master!" Lu Lingfeng kowtowed and said.
"Get up." Yunxi said. At first, he placed the craftsmen who made scientific inventions in Heyanzhuang, and after he succeeded to the throne, he moved them elsewhere. The original head of the village, Lu Chengfeng, suddenly became the official in charge of those craftsmen.
, so he let his younger brother Lu Lingfeng be the head of the village.
"Thank you, Master." Lu Lingfeng said again before standing up.
"Have all the farmers in the village gone to work in the fields?" Yunxi took a step towards the village and asked when he saw that every household was deserted.
"It finally rained today, so the villagers must hurry up and plant the land. You don't know that most of the fields in our village cannot grow rice because of the high terrain and cannot attract water. They can only grow wheat. We must hurry up to plant wheat.
When it rains, everyone is very anxious to sow seeds." Lu Lingfeng explained.
"Let them all come back!" Yunxi ordered. He didn't have time to wait for them to take a break at noon before giving instructions.
"Master!" Lu Lingfeng shouted: "If we miss this rain, this year's harvest will be much less." He subconsciously shouted out, but immediately became afraid: "I didn't listen to the emperor! What if the emperor comes down?"
What if they drag me out and behead me?'
He was about to kneel down and beg for mercy when he suddenly heard Yun He said: "I will exempt you from the food that must be handed in this year! Tell them again, come and listen to me today, and I will give each household a reward of money."
"I'm going to pass on the master's order now!" Lu Lingfeng agreed hastily, and then immediately ran to the fields. After a while, all the farmers ran back to the village, for fear of being slow. They were exempted from the food and rewards handed in this year.
For the money, not to mention that delaying for half a day will only reduce the harvest by 10% or 20%, even if half of the fields have no harvest, it is still worth it!
These people looked at Yunxi excitedly, as if they were looking at a bunch of money. Fortunately, they still knew the superiority and inferiority. Under the leadership of Zhuangtou Lu Lingfeng, they all knelt down and said: "I have seen the master!" Everyone!
They all yelled with all their strength, causing the magpies to fly around and the dogs in each house also started barking.
"Everyone, get up!" Yunxi waved his hands and said.
After everyone stood up, someone brought over a large cabinet and laid it down sideways. Yunxi jumped on the cabinet and said directly without any nonsense: "Fellow bankers, I have nothing else to do with you today.
I just want to tell you a new way to farm the land, and you can use this method to farm the land in the future."
There were doubtful looks on everyone's faces. The person in front of them looked like a city dweller who had never touched the sun. He was also a very wealthy and status person. How could he know how to farm? If he wasn't worried that he wouldn't be able to get it when he went back
If you have enough money, you will probably turn around and leave.
Yunxi didn't care about their expressions and continued: "I have given you a name for the farming method I am going to teach you today, which is Family Farm."
Yes, the new method of farming that Yunxi has been promoting is family farming.
The so-called family farm refers to a new type of agricultural business entity that uses family members as the main labor force, engages in large-scale, intensive, and commercialized agricultural production and operations, and uses agricultural income as the main source of family income.
The emergence of family farms has promoted the development of agricultural economy and promoted the process of agricultural commercialization. It can effectively narrow the gap between urban and rural rich and poor. At the same time, family farms aim to maximize benefits and transform agriculture from a security function to a profit function, overcoming the
It overcomes the shortcomings of the self-sufficient small-scale farmer economy, has a high degree of commercialization, and can provide the society with more and richer agricultural products.
By the 0th century, almost all developed countries in the world practiced the family farm system. The United States and Australia, which had fewer people and more land, practiced large-scale family farms, followed by medium-sized family farms in France and other countries, and Japan, which had the highest population density.
After the implementation of compulsory paid land reform under the bayonets of the US Army in 2006, small family farms were generally established in the country.
Of course, we haven't even reached the first industrial revolution yet, and agricultural machinery is out of the question. But as long as we give them cattle and new agricultural tools invented to match them, and encourage them to change their ideas, the amount of land farmers can cultivate can be increased by at least three times.
Four times the original size.
"...Nowadays, the Ming Dynasty has fewer people and more land. There are so many barren lands. Why do you still cultivate so little land?" Yunxi shouted.
"Sir, it's not that we don't want to plant more acres of land, but we really can't plant it! There are only a few days that we can plant the land. If we miss the time, we won't get a good harvest by replanting. It's a waste of effort; big animals are expensive and can't be tied up!
"Someone shouted from the crowd.
"As long as you cultivate the land according to the method I entrusted to you, you will be able to plant several acres of land!" Yunxi also shouted.
"Sir, after listening to the method you just said, it sounds better than the previous one. But it's also a lot of effort. Even if you keep giving me new farm tools, you won't be able to plant more than a few acres." Someone else shouted.
"So, in order for you to plant more acres of land, there is a concept that you need to change."
Yunxi said: "When you fertilize, if you reduce the fertilizer by half, how much less will the harvest be? If you use half less effort when turning, loosening, mixing, and breaking the soil, how much less will the harvest be?"
Hearing Yunxi's words, the farmers below all frowned. How could there be a time to put less effort into cultivating the land in order to pursue maximum yield? Even in some years, because a family member fell ill at the time of farming, they could only do it in a hurry.
It's over, but after so many years, I have forgotten how much the harvest has decreased.
"No one knows?" Yunxi asked again. Seeing that no one answered, he wanted to express his opinion, but at this moment he heard someone say: "I know!"
When Yunxi heard this, he quickly looked up and saw a man in his thirties, wearing rags and without a wife beside him, shouting.
"So it's him!" There was discussion below, and most of them were laughing at this man. Yunxi was puzzled and asked Lu Lingfeng. Lu Lingfeng said: "Master, you don't know, this man is called Yang Ling. He is a lazy man who works hard.
He never tried his best, and the harvest from what he planted was always less than others. He had no other abilities, so his life was very poor, and no one was willing to marry their daughter to him, so he has been a bachelor until this age."