Reborn Regent of Ming Dynasty

“It’s not just human killing wells.
Zhang Shouren took advantage of the victory to pursue, and then smiled and said: "We can also make the well wider, install a runner, and use a mule or donkey to pull the handle. This will save manpower, and the scope of irrigation will be several times larger. Those near the river, Water trucks, far away from the river, use manpower wells or livestock wells... My 20 mu of land in Fushan must be irrigated normally. Whether it is water trucks, wells, or diversion canals, I will mobilize a lot of manpower before next spring. The construction was successful!"

All the people present were overwhelmed by what they heard.

Now Jiangnan has a governor of ten prefectures named Zhang Guowei, who is in charge of ten prefectures including Suzhou, Songjiang and Changzhou. He is a very powerful official.Under his rule, the Jiangnan area also began to rebuild abandoned rivers and canals, and began to pay attention to the problem of water diversion and irrigation. Suzhou, which paid one-tenth of the grain tax in kind in the first government of the country, is now facing floods and droughts, and Food cannot be self-sufficient, what a joke is this?

Zhang Guowei is a capable bureaucrat, and his actions in Jiangnan are obviously the same as Zhang Shouren's considerations. [

No matter how rich the land is, food is fundamental.

Even after hundreds of years, seeing that human beings can go to Mars, food is still a fundamental problem that has not been solved. When materials are highly developed, many people are still starved to death every year.

A truly outstanding person is to grasp the most fundamental thing, Zhang Shouren has traveled through a year, and he has found the most important key point.

"My lord's thoughts are very good..."

Seeing Zhang Shouren speaking eloquently in front of his eyes, Mr. Chen, who just mentioned "Master Zhang" with a hint of sarcasm, was silent for a while.After a long time, he said to Zhang Shouren in a very sincere tone: "However, the land here in Shandong is different from that in the south, and it's not just about solving the water shortage."

"Appreciate further details?"

"Lack of water, lack of good seeds, and a lot of plowing and subterranean fields, that is, the soil is not good and has no power. The common people are lack of experience in deep plowing...Of course, this is secondary. The most important thing is that the land is not good. There is no land. , boring, and there is salt land, the air is humid, and it is prone to pests. Well, the most important thing is that there is no fertility. I think adults know this, right?"

"Well, I know."

Of course Zhang Shouren knew that the land in Shandong has been planted with dry crops for a long time, such as corn, sorghum and wheat, and very little rice.

Insufficient land resources, this is impossible.Just like Huguang, rice is ripened twice or even three times a year. In addition, high-yield crops such as wheat can be grown. The soil is strong enough and the yield is high. Four stone or so.

In Shandong, the land with two stones is the middle field, the land with three or four stones is the upper field that is close to water and easy to irrigate, and the land with one stone and one and a half stones per mu is the most common dry field.

Most of the fields kept by Fushan military households are dry land with low yield.

Lack of water, plentiful insects, lack of rain, and lack of fertilizers are big problems that cannot be solved.Mr. Chen's meaning is also simple. Pumping water up certainly solves the problem of water shortage, but the problem of soil fertility cannot be solved anyway.

The land in the south of the Yangtze River is fertile. It is not a matter of a day or two. It depends on manpower, not the sky.

Liaodong at this time is a black land, and the soil is strong enough to make Shandong people roll in the ground, but the land in the south of the Yangtze River is not bad. For thousands of years, every generation has been constantly picking up the silt from the rivers and ditches to fertilize the fields. , There are a lot of microorganisms in the silt, the excrement of fish, shrimp and crab, etc., which are lifted out and covered in the land, which can make up for the loss of soil fertility caused by the production of crops and replenish fertility.

Just imagine, how many acres of land can be dumped just by using human and livestock manure?And usually you have to be half dead from exhaustion. Once you lift up the silt, you can at least fertilize dozens of acres of land. There are rivers and ponds everywhere in the south of the Yangtze River. It can also clear the waterway, which kills two birds with one stone.

Every few years, there will be a lot of mud in the south of the Yangtze River, and this is the secret.

If it were not for this convenience, why would Jiangnan become the economic and cultural center of China after the Tang Dynasty?Without a little benefit from God, without this kind of unique and abundant natural conditions, this kind of transfer is unlikely to happen.

Hearing from Zhang Shouren, he knew it, Mr. Chen was also a little bit interested, but he immediately nodded and said with a smile: "Since your lord knows, that's the best, and I don't need to say more!"

There was a look of relief in his expression, but also a feeling of pity. The arrogance that the scholar subconsciously looked down on Wu Fu just now was restrained.

Although this young master isn't that kind of pedantic person, there is still a bit of that in his subconscious, but Zhang Shouren's performance also convinced him, and now he talks to Zhang Shouren as if they were on equal footing.

It's funny to say that in the Denglai area, Zhang Shouren is an out-and-out tyrant, even if a high-ranking civil servant sees him, he is too polite and dare not make a big deal, and this Mr. Chen is only a little bit equal at this moment The feeling of seeing it, this kind of confidence and pride, is really surprising.

"Haha, I wonder if Brother Chen is free?"

"Huh? I'm going to Dengzhou next time, and it seems that it's inconvenient to stay here for a long time in Fushan."

Mr. Chen didn't know what Zhang Shouren meant, so he subconsciously refused.

But what he said was also true. He was on a tour. He had a letter to Dengzhou long beforehand. It happened that his relatives in Dengzhou had gone to Jinan, so he traveled around Jiaozhou and Fushan.

Now it's almost time to see and see, and it's time to leave.

"The rain doesn't stop. The autumn rain hurts people. I asked someone to prepare some hot pots. We don't have good river crabs in Shandong, but there are still a lot of sea crabs. A few days ago, I left a lot of fat crabs and asked them to boil them with ointment. How about hot pot, how about we boil mutton with crab paste and crab roe at night?"

Mr. Chen moved his index finger when he said this, and for a while, he couldn't move his footsteps.

"How is it? Great wow!"

Qin Dongzhu seemed to be in a good mood, and immediately agreed.

The old shopkeeper Li also gathered together, and said with a smile: "Let's get the mutton out. I just got a batch of fat sheep from outside the mouth the day before yesterday. Let someone kill them and cut them into thin slices and send them over."

"Okay, that's it for now."

The two businessmen saw Zhang Shouren's intention to win over the scholar, and although they thought it was unlikely, they still tried their best to make fun of it.

Moreover, Zhang Shouren is a person who doesn't do silly things. Since he keeps people, he must have his own intentions. Qin Dongzhu and Mr. Li's shopkeeper are a pair of old foxes, so they naturally stepped forward to have fun at this time.

Only Zhong Xian has nothing to do, obviously he has no interest in Mr. Chen, he is not in a good mood, as a farming official, he is said to be meaningless in farming, so he is in a bad mood.