Plowing the land is not only required during the sowing period. Even for land reclamation, plowing the land is a long-term and careful job in order to solve the hardening or compaction of the land.
Plow the ground more than once. If necessary, for example, if you want to grow staple crops, you must add some humus layer or river mud in advance as a base fertilizer.
In short, it’s just playing in the mud.
Because of the trading and plundering of a large number of domestic cattle, in addition to the two types of buffalo from the south, Li Jie traded a large amount of red cattle, a specialty of the Song, Lu, Zheng and Wei areas, in the Biyang Kingdom, and the rest were yellow cattle.
However, red bull is special because it is more delicious, so County Magistrate Li has no intention of letting red bull go to the ground.
The cattle mainly responsible for plowing are big-horned buffaloes and oxen.
More than half of the cattle in the entire Jiangbei region should directly belong to County Magistrate Li alone. Crocodile men and brave men will certainly obtain large livestock from plunder during foreign wars, but in most cases, the large livestock include horses, sheep, and deer.
The cattle are returned to Jiangyin and converted into cash.
Whether it's white sand linen or Gusu silk, it's more cost-effective than raising a cow.
Crocodile people and brave families also have farmers who become manor owners, but there are very few because it is a thankless job. The loss of farm tools and the lack of labor force the manor owner to invest a lot of money in the early stage.
The consumption of manpower, material and financial resources is extremely staggering, and you have to survive a difficult period before you can reap the benefits. However, this difficult period is relatively long, and you may not see results within three to five years.
Therefore, alligators and brave families, as long as they are rewarded for their service, are willing to convert their merits into shares and become shareholders of a large workshop.
For example, weapons workshops, farm tools workshops, linen workshops, printing and dyeing workshops, paper making workshops...
If you take one out at random, you won't have to worry about making any profit, and it is a long-lasting and heirloom property.
Although land is a more stable wealth, the existing Jiangyin city system is not very suitable for the "new rich" without foundation to transform into land feudal owners.
In fact, the land output produced by a single person is completely inferior to the benefits brought by various types of workshops. With the same cost input, the value created by the manor owner is not even a fraction of that of the small shareholders of the workshop.
Take the production and processing of agricultural tools as an example. The most produced products in Jiangyin City are actually stone agricultural tools. These agricultural tools are shipped in large quantities to Dongsha or Yue for sale. A fleet of ships transports agricultural tools there, and what is shipped back may be a ship of slaves or silk.
, it may also be wood or ore.
As for metal farm tools, Jiangyin City itself does not have enough at present. When the hardened land and saline-alkali land in Jiangbei were opened up, there was no gunpowder blasting to cooperate. Metal farm tools were just decorations and their lifespan was quite short.
However, with the steady output of natural sulfur, County Magistrate Li couldn't wait to start bombing indiscriminately. It doesn't matter whether it is hardened or not, just bomb it. The same is true for the saline-alkali land. Explode all the way, and the sand mining and excavation are finished.
The soil diverts water, and then continuously directs fresh water to wash away.
Washing the land is also a careful job. County Magistrate Li does not have high expectations for the land in Jiangbei. In the short term, he will produce a wave of soybeans, and then plant wheat and Leymus chinensis. After burning the wasteland to form preliminary soil fertility, he will combine it with retting and then plant rice.
Moreover, during the process of trenching and digging, many water diversion canals did not require any more soil work. They were just plain soil ridges and ditches without the reinforcement of stones, bricks and cement.
The reason for doing this is that firstly, the geographical environment of Jiangbei is actually quite good, and there is no too fast water erosion; secondly, this kind of soil ridges and furrows can be planted with cress, water chestnuts, wild rice, and wild rice.
Especially for wild rice, after the virus-infected plant tillers, it becomes an aquatic high-yielding crop. The only drawback is that the seeds degenerate and can no longer serve as grain.
However, the characteristic of wild rice is that after dehydration and sun-drying, its nutrients are retained well, and because it is easy to preserve, it is very suitable as an emergency side dish.
Currently, Crocodile Man and Brave Man’s rations for going out contain very little dried wild rice, because the population of wild rice infected with the virus is still small and in the breeding and development stage. However, Crocodile Man and Brave Man’s own emergency food includes dried cress, which is
With the good things used to improve fragrance, plus dried cypress slices and taro slices, Jiangyin's armed forces can last much longer in the wild than Gusu Wangshi.
As for the logistical pressure, due to the emphasis on caring for large animals and various improvements in food processing, the logistical pressure of crocodiles and brave men can be reduced to one to one with the same number of combatants. The Suzhou King Division is at least the least
, a king's master should be matched with five young and strong civilian husbands.
With the same 10,000 combatants, what the King of Suzhou has to consider is not 10,000 people to eat horses and chews, but 60,000 people. But Jiangyin City can be reduced to 20,000 people.
Just the difference in ration supply allowed Jiangyin City to save a lot of money in financial expenditure.
And all of this is naturally based on the extremely special system construction of Jiangyin City.
Although the crocodile man and brave man who received education and knowledge from Li Jie still had a strong desire for land, their fanatical superstition of Li Jie overwhelmed their desire for land.
Whether the land can produce anything depends on the sky.
But if you eat with Shou Li, you can really fill your stomach.
He who can make himself full is a god!
Therefore, no matter what County Magistrate Li did on the land of Jiangbei, the core core members of Jiangyin City did not think there was any problem. Even Magistrate Li specially designed an extremely large plow, and the crocodile men and brave men just looked at it.
Strange.
The plow can only be dragged by several oxen. There are wheels on the plow, and extremely precious steel is also used on it. The farm tools warehouse has a dedicated warehouse and maintenance team. In addition, there is also a team of brave men stationed to prevent
Someone stole the iron.
"Six cows plowed the ground..."
The international situation was changing rapidly, but County Magistrate Li was very calm. After the "pledge", although he organized people to cross the river, after gathering in the Jiangbei area, he showed the attitude of going to Hangou at any time and then heading north.
As a result, it had been several days since Ying Jian and Shaha traveled west together, and County Magistrate Li was still digging the ground.
The heavy plow in this experiment has once again opened the eyes of the villagers in Jiangyin City who have been blind for a year and a half. The efficiency of plowing the ground is extremely good, and this kind of heavy plow seems to be able to be modified, and additional installations can be added to the plow frame.
Sowing in bucket.
It's just that now it is used for land reclamation. The river mud after dredging has to be mixed into the newly plowed land, and then a crop of soybeans is planted. According to the soybean yield, it will be decided whether to plant wheat or yellow rice. The ultimate goal is to develop
The vast area north of the Yangtze River is completely planted with rice.
"Shou Li, are these new fields going to be planted with taro?"
"Half and half, half planted with taro and half planted with soybeans. When people from the Qin State came, they went to Gusu first. The Qin army's military rations were taro. When the time comes, sell more taro to them."
When the Qin army went on an expedition, there was absolutely no shortage of millet, taro, and pickle balls, especially taro. This thing is indeed an artifact. It has the dual functions of sugar and starch. It needs to be sugar, and it is sugar. It needs
It is starch and it can fill your stomach.
County Magistrate Li wondered whether the sugar content of taro brought a relatively high level of excitement to the Qin army's fierce fighting with the barbarians near the Yellow River.
Nowadays, the three high-yield crops in Jiangyin are taro, wild rice, and rice. The yield of soybeans per mu is always low. Even when County Magistrate Li was still Foreman Li, soybeans could only eat up the cultivated land area.
County Magistrate Li is now engaged in heavy plowing because he once took over a job from Russia. The local people were all poor, and the price of asking fellow villagers to build storage towers was too high, but Foreman Li's price was fair and honest.
Although the degree of modernization in that damn place was very low, because the fellow villagers used Maomei to pay, Foreman Li was thinking about how he could earn agency fees by bringing Maomei back to China to solve the problem of domestic singles.
Later, Foreman Li was detained for a few days because he was suspected of illegally engaging in cross-border marriage intermediaries. Fortunately, the Russian fellow became sober after drinking vodka and testified for Foreman Li. This allowed Foreman Li to finish reading "Theory" while in custody.
After "The Importance of Deep Plowing and Broad Planting", we must continue to live the lives of ordinary people.
In short, it’s not too bad. Anyway, Foreman Li had a lot of fun with his fellow villagers.
Now Foreman Li has become County Magistrate Li, and the useless skills he learned in the Russian Village Paradise have actually come in handy.
The plowing efficiency has been greatly improved. It is not as good as mechanization, but it is hundreds of times better than wielding stone farm tools.
"Shou Li, from now on Lu and Pheasant cities will all use this kind of wheel plow?"
"Is it possible to push people into the fields? The fields are not cultivated. If you let those wastes farm in the fields, you can't starve them to death, right? If they don't starve to death, they will rebel. Who do you think is rebelling? It's my rebellion.
"
County Magistrate Li patted Sha Gua on the shoulder and said sincerely, "Gua, why do I value you so much? Why are you the only special brave man in Yin Township? Because you have a great responsibility. Can the big animals in Yin Township break through a
Millions of heads, it all depends on whether you work hard or not, do you understand?"
"Don't worry, Mr. Li. It's your duty, and it's your duty to do it!"
"..."
Seeing Sha Gua's heartfelt solemnity, County Magistrate Li was a little emotional. You may call such an honest boy stupid, but he is not stupid at all. Crocodile Man, among the brave men, is the one who can compare with Sha Gua in efficiency.
There are only Shadong and Shaha. One is willing to study hard, and the other is full of brains and muscles.
In terms of project completion, Shagua is simply a god-like existence, and he seems to be quite at ease with it.
Even after completing Li Tiegen's sowing mission, Sha Gua was able to bring out many disciples according to Li Jie's instructions.
In the entire Jiangyin city, apart from Li Jie, only Shagua has more than ten disciples.
This is not simple. If I had to give an evaluation, County Magistrate Li could only say that Sha Gua is as wise as he is foolish.
He looks silly and stupid, but in fact he is somewhat irreplaceable and an indispensable technical dog.
"Work hard, and when my career becomes big, I will make you a high official."
"yes!"
As a hard-working young man and a new model of Baisha Village, Shagua holds his head high, he is... proud.