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Chapter 510 Preparation for harvesting food
Jiang Anrao transported a lot of high-quality rice seeds back from Chu District and Southwest County.

These rice seeds have been cultivated and optimized for many years. Although they are not as good as later generations of hybrid rice, they are already good seeds given today's limited technological level.

Her idea was to start planting rice in the spring and wheat in the winter in the Hanzhong area of ​​Qin.This can achieve three crops in two years. With one more season of grain, there will be more grain reserves.

Calculating the time, the battle of Changping is not too far away.

In today's war, there are only a few winning factors. Only with sufficient food reserves can we have the last laugh.

So Jiang Anrao has been running around since he came back to survey the soil and learn more about the local climate conditions.

However, when they heard that Jiang Anrao was going to plant two crops, the local farmers shook their heads!

"That can't be done, that can't be done! Since ancient times, there has been no such thing as planting two seasons of crops in Qin. If you say yes, you can plant one season of wheat, and then harvest some yams, mung beans and the like, and you can barely make it. Rice and wheat, How can it be done?"

None of the farmers here have ever grown rice, and some even don’t know that rice needs to be cultivated first and transplanted. They think they can just throw it into the soil and bury it?

Whether it can work or not, you will know after trying it.

Population and land were all matters under Jiang Ruoyang's control. Jiang Anrao mobilized all the Mohists and agriculturists who could be found in Qin's territory to select sites in Hanzhong to select land suitable for growing rice.

The Qin and Han Dynasties used six feet as a step, and one step refers to the distance traveled by each step of the left and right feet. The length of a foot in the Qin Dynasty was about 23 centimeters today.

Since the Qin Dynasty abolished the well fields in Shang Yang's reform, it has been stipulated that 240 steps are considered to be one acre.According to statistics, the cultivated land in the Qin-Hanzhong region has now reached nearly 5 million acres!
Now that Jiang Anrao had planned to plant it, he had to start preparing in advance.It is now September of the 39th year of King Zhao of Qin. Although everything will not start until the next year, Jiang Anrao needs to use the time before the spring sowing begins to train people in various places.

The people in Hanzhong have never grown rice.Therefore, farmers must first be taught to prepare the land for preparation, and then teach them about fattening, raising seedlings, things they will encounter when planting rice, and the timing of adding and releasing water.

Wait until spring sowing before teaching them how to transplant rice seedlings in advance.

Because it was the first year of the experiment, not all cultivated land could be planted for two seasons, and there were not that many rice seeds, so Jiang Anrao led people for two months to sow [-] kilograms of rice seeds per acre. We measured and selected [-] acres of cultivated land.

Among them, the ratio of upper, middle and lower fields is 5:3:2.

It is also true that there are too few people who know how to grow rice in Qin. No matter how much land there is, Jiang Anrao and his people will not be able to cover it. No matter how hard he runs, it is impossible to cover all places in one or two days.

Sometimes the farming season waits for no one, just like the timing of tillering fertilizer. If one more leaf comes out, it will be too late. Therefore, in the first try, everything must be within control.

At this time, almost all the fertilizer was from farmyard manure, so Jiang Anrao urged that human and animal excrement and even urine should be retained.After all, urea is an indispensable fertilizer for rice cultivation.Of course, in fact, even if she didn’t tell the farmers, they would be reluctant to throw it away.

Jiang Anrao introduced many new farming techniques and tools in Qin, but after his family went to Xianyang, Jiang Anrao's energy was all on the Mo family.In recent years, Mohism has been vigorously developed.

This sudden return to the fields is quite unaccustomed.

When King Qin Zhao and Wei Ran accidentally mentioned Jiang Anrao's great actions during this period, they even sighed with emotion.I think back then, the conquest edict was given to Jiang Yang because of Jiang Rao's ability. Looking at it now, I found that Jiang Rao had not devoted himself to farming for many years.Fortunately, the Mohists were also working on improving the weapons of the Qin army.

But then, King Qin Zhao also began to have another doubt.

Why did Jiang Rao suddenly engage in farming with such great fanfare?
This question wasn't asked by Jiang Anrao until the end of the year, when she was almost done with her work, returned to Xianyang, and met with Gan Mi.

"There is no reason, but I feel more and more important about food. If the two countries are at war, unless they can defeat each other with one blow, they can only fight for consumption.

Qin's long-term victory in the war for so many years is also related to the continuous supply of Qin's army.

Nowadays, the Qin State is constantly fighting. If there is not enough food reserves, if the Qin army is in a stalemate with other countries in the future, wouldn't it be a loss?
Therefore, I want to grow more food on the existing land. "

Farming technology can no longer be advanced, so we can only work hard in terms of frequency.

Gan Mi heard this and agreed.

After saying this, the two of them also chatted about other things.

Jiang Anrao has traveled too many places over the years, and everything he sees and hears is something Gan Mi doesn't know about. It's a rare meeting, so he must ask about this and that.

Although Gan Mi was married, she still had a lively side to her temperament. Ying Zhu was very kind to her, so she could still retain some of her old temperament.

Gan Mi was actually pregnant once, but when she was almost eight months pregnant, she accidentally fell down and aborted the child. It was still a boy and the child did not survive. And she also completely injured her body because of this time. There is no possibility of childbearing.

Seeing that Jiang Anrao had been married for many years and had not given birth to a son or a half, Gan Mi did not ask the reason in detail, only thinking that it was the same reason as her.Afraid that Jiang Anrao would be unhappy, the two of them rarely talked about children-related topics.

Jiang Anrao was kept by Gan Mi in An Guojun's Mansion for two days, just because Gan Mi wanted to hear her talk about her experiences. Gan Mi drove Ying Zhu away when he showed up these two days, and Ying Zhu had no choice but to touch his nose and leave.

However, Jiang Anrao couldn't stay here forever. After two days, he said goodbye to Gan Mi and returned to the Jiang family in Qili.

Qin now uses the legislation of the Shang Dynasty. Jiang Anrao's family follows modern customs and regards December as the twelfth lunar month. However, in the Shang calendar and in the current Qin State, November is the end of the year, and December is the twelfth lunar month. January.

On the first day of December, the king would go to worship heaven and ancestors.The common people will send sacrifices to the God of Plague on the last day of November.

In the history of a previous life, fireworks and firecrackers should have only begun to appear in the Tang Dynasty.But the Chinese people have had firecrackers made by burning bamboo for a long time.

The land of Qin does not value extravagance, and the common people do not worship heaven. Therefore, for the common people, sending off the plague god on the last day of November is also a big festival.But in the past, there was no such thing as firecrackers in Qin.

Jiang Anrao returned to Xianyang and no longer had to run around, so he became an idler at home again.So she thought for a moment, then ran with Wang Yun outside the city to cut down bamboo, and then did an experiment of throwing firecrackers into a brazier. As expected, the crackling was very lively.

The whole village can hear it!
(End of this chapter)