Poor family mother and son

Back at the residence, Chu Qing, who was already a little tired, wanted to sit and rest for a while, but couldn't sit still.

The conversation with the old man made Chu Qing feel very heavy.

I have a few jins and taels of knowledge, and I know that no matter how many agricultural channel programs I have watched and how much ecological knowledge I have paid attention to, it is all just talk on paper.

On the contrary, like an old man, dealing with the land all his life, when to plow the land, when to plant seedlings, what the weather is, how much fertilizer, and the experience accumulated in his life is the real knowledge.

Let’s just talk about the locust plague. Chu Qing came to the conclusion that there may be a locust plague this year based on some historical records in his memory, combined with the local drought and flood disasters, and seeing locust eggs once in a while, which is relatively hasty.

But the old man has experienced it himself. He has also walked and inspected everywhere in the fields and by the river, and has discussed with experienced farmers. He can tell her what the real locust plague is like and what it leads to.

Not only in agriculture, but also watching Master Lu making iron buckets, Chu Qing took a piece of paper and clicked to figure out how big the bucket should be and how big the iron sheet would be.

Therefore, true knowledge comes from practice, and it is clear that those are just "false tricks".

But just this fake trick also leads to the real reality.

The old man's deduction is far more serious than Chu Qing's deduction.

Now it is no longer a question of whether to help the common people tide over difficulties or help the officials to improve their political performance, but if the locust plague does happen, the disaster caused will be more serious than drought and flood.

Before crossing, I read the news about the locust plague in East Africa.

It is said that a square kilometer of land can hold about 8000 million adult desert locusts, and the food consumption of such a swarm of locusts in a day is equivalent to that of 3.5 people.

Moreover, locusts also have a "skill" - blackening. Once a solitary locust becomes a gregarious place, it will change color. It is more ferocious and more toxic in its body. Even its natural enemy, the pink starling, dare not Shut up.

If the old man's predictions come true, with the technological level of this world, there will be no pesticides, no airplanes, and no resistance at all!
The result of the disaster caused by hunger is that Yizi cannibalize each other and starve to death everywhere, and the follow-up is rebellion and uprising.

Once there is turmoil at home, foreign countries are bound to "take advantage of your illness and kill you".

The country of Voss covets Daxuan not for a day or two. If it takes advantage of this time to send troops to invade, will Daxuan still exist under internal and external troubles?

The civil strife in Voss has not yet been provoked by Chu Qing. Is Daxuan going to destroy the country because of the locust plague?

Under the nest, how can there be any eggs?
This kind of disaster, I will also be the victim!
No, kill it early!

But how?I have no one around me to discuss with.

As far as I am concerned, I want to try my best to hold the emperor's thigh tightly, because to be a tool man, I naturally have to be a tool man of the most powerful person in order to live for a long time, but I have three departments in my body. It seems that he cultivated himself as a "lonely minister".

The more the emperor trusts the person, the less he can keep "religion guests", such as Hu Hengqiu.

As the "eyes" of the emperor, the secret investigation department must present "clean and clear" in front of the emperor, so that the emperor can rest assured, so Hu Hengqiu only consults with the emperor for matters, and dare not hire outsiders.

Not only that, when Chu Qing came to Beijing for the first time, Hu Hengqiu reminded her unambiguously: As long as the emperor doesn't send you a deputy, you'd better not be self-righteous, just report something.

Chu Qing got up and went out again. Although she didn't know what else to do, she still had to move.

Xiangzi had just finished feeding the horses, when he came out of the stable, he saw Chu Qing coming over, and rushed to meet him: "Boss, where are you going?"

"Accompany me to the lumber yard." Chu Qing said.

In fact, there is no purpose. I can't say why I want to go to the lumber yard. Anyway, I just want to go for a walk, even if I want to relax.

When they came to the lumber yard, it was still full of excitement, which made Chu Qing feel much better.

A woman came up to her and said, "Boss, why don't you eat here after lunch? Look, I dug up a lot of bamboo shoots today for you to stew! You can eat them for a few days. If you want to eat again, you have to wait." next year!"

Chuqing's lumber yard has increased opportunities for many local farmers to make money. When they see Chuqing, they are like seeing the God of Wealth, and they are quite flattered.

This year is not good, and the seedlings in the field are not strong enough. Fortunately, there is a place to work, otherwise there will be no food, no money, how will life be?
It's already April now, if you really don't eat bamboo shoots, then you won't be able to eat them.It is estimated that these bamboo shoots were found after a long search up the mountain.

"Okay. Put some chili on." Chu Qing agreed.

"Okay!" The woman turned around happily and left.

Dongjia's chili is a good thing, put some in the stew, it can be served with rice.The owner said to put some chili, then everyone can eat this meal.

"Hey, come back!" Chu Qing called to stop her.

"Master?" The woman turned around, a little apprehensive, wondering if something went wrong.

"Do you grow peppers?" Chu Qing asked.

What Chu Qing brought here was dried chili, which was not completely ground into powder. Some dishes require whole chili to taste.

"No..." The woman replied, "No one dares to touch your bag of peppers unless you come."

"Take out the chili seeds, soak them in water for four hours, drain the water and grow seedlings. Plant one, and you can sell it for money," Chu Qing said.

If the seedlings are dry, then pick up water to irrigate the pepper seedlings. This thing has a short growth cycle and can be harvested in two months, and it doesn't need water as much as rice.

Furthermore, there are few peppers, and the price is higher than that of grain.If the food cannot be grown, at least the chili can be exchanged for some money.

"Give it to us for free?" the woman asked tentatively.

"Ah, it's not for nothing. After you plant it, you have to give me a catty back, so you don't need to dry it." Chu Qing replied.It's not a lot if you don't dry it in the sun.

"Hey!" The woman showed a big smile, responded readily, and ran away.

Chu Qing never held on to the seeds, whether it was peanuts or peppers, even if they were sold in shops, the price was not high.

It's not that I don't want to make seed money, but that these things really don't have many races.

Why?Simple, less people, less land.

There are few people, and the whole family, old and young, will join the battle just to be busy with the crops; there is little land, and the cost of land reclamation is high, so we can only use the existing land for intensive cultivation, and then we have to grow food.

Just listen to some nouns in the mouth of the farmers and you will know-vegetable garden, crop field.Not to mention the vegetable field.

Why, because there are few fertile lands, all of them are used to grow food, and they have to pay taxes.

Vegetables are easy to solve. You can grow one kind of vegetable garden in front of and behind the house, and there are many wild vegetables on the mountain to eat when you can grow vegetables.

No more manpower can tend more land.

Like Chu Qing, planting hundreds of thousands of acres of peanuts and soybeans is "rich to burn" in the eyes of farmers.

Of course, if Chu Qing was just a peasant woman, she wouldn't grow these things on a large scale.

When eating, Chu Qing ate the bamboo shoots, everyone was happy.

This shows that their flattery is on point. Naturally, there is even more joy, they can eat more sliced ​​meat.

Eating crunchy bamboo shoots, I naturally think of the father of bamboo shoots - bamboo.

While eating, Chu Qing confessed: "Go to the mountain and get some thin bamboo, as thick as your fingers will do."

Because they ate in the work shed, it was like a large cafeteria. When Chu Qing spoke, everyone heard him.

Xiangzi asked for everyone: "How much? What are you doing?"

Chu Qing couldn't tell, so he could only say: "As much as possible, and besides, weave more fishing nets."

"Boss, the fishing nets can't be sold at a price!" A worker shouted.

For fishing nets, fishermen use local materials to weave their own nets, and no one buys them specially.

The workers said this out of clear consideration. Rich people may not understand this, and they will not be able to sell and make money at that time.

"Well, you guys just do it, the more the better, I'll sell it to the north, where there's less hemp." Chu Qing responded, "Chop thin bamboo, make it ten feet long, use a net to make a bag and hang it up, Make it like a net for catching fish, and weave the net more densely so that it can catch small river prawns."

Small river prawns are about the size of locusts.

Because the bamboo shoots thought of bamboo, Chu Qing had some ideas. Locusts can fly, even chickens and ducks can't reach them even if they fly high, so they have to be caught by people.

Get some scoops and fishing nets, at least you can catch a lot of locusts.

There are plenty of bamboo and ramie on the mountain, and the cost is low.

"If the order in your hands is not in a hurry, then do this first, if not, then recruit some more people." Chu Qing said to the foreman.

"Hey, I got it, my boss!" The foreman responded in a repeated voice.