Lin Gao Qiming

Chapter 395

It's good to have girls worshiping, but the job still needs to be done.After a whole day of tossing, a large amount of various compost materials have been piled up on the ground in Fubuer.

Wan Lihui already had sufficient experience in composting and fermentation. He instructed everyone to smash up the messy garbage that had been cleaned up, mix it with river mud, water plants, and grass that had been cut, and then mix it with the huts of Fu Buer's family. The more than ten buckets of excrement and urine were all mixed together and piled up in a pile, and the pile was sealed with soil outside.Usually, as long as it is turned over to keep enough water, the compost can be used after six to seven months-just in time for the second year's spring plowing time to apply the base fertilizer.

"The compost should keep sufficient moisture, otherwise it will not be easy to rot." Wan Lihui explained the technical essentials to Fu Xi one by one: the compost should be piled loosely at the beginning, and should be piled tightly after the temperature of the compost rises.Also check the water content in the compost at all times. He taught her a simple way to poke a dry wooden stick into the deep part of the compost. After a while, when the stick is wet, it means that the water content is just right. Otherwise, sprinkle water to moisturize.

"...But there should not be too much water. If you see dark, smelly water coming out from under the compost, it means there is too much water."

It is the rainy season in Lingao now, and it rains almost every two or three days. Wan Lihui asked them to fetch bamboo poles and straw, and set up a canopy for the compost.

A series of actions by Fu Buer's family became a long-term after-dinner conversation among the villagers.And Fu Buer was skeptical about his approach, but he didn't dare to doubt it openly. He just took the long-term worker and his son to the paddy field where he was preparing to transplant rice seedlings every day, soaking the fields, turning the soil, applying base fertilizer, and repairing ditches.At the same time, I waited for the heaven and earth to send the seedlings.

The order for the amount of seedlings has been allocated based on the sowing area reported by Wan Lihui. On this day, a wheelbarrow transport team came from Lingao, using the new type of wheelbarrow general-purpose agricultural cart "Zidian" from the vehicle factory.The Zidian wheelbarrow was manufactured by Li Chiqi and Jiang Muzhi according to the road conditions in Lingao, referring to various modern wheelbarrow styles, and combining their own industrial capabilities.It has strong passability and large bearing capacity on the ridge dirt road.

On the cart are boxes of rice seedlings.When Fu Buer heard that the rice seedlings were coming, he quickly put down his work and went to see it.He was immediately attracted by the rice seedlings in the shallow wooden box—does this mean that it is said that one mu can harvest five or six hundred catties of rice?

However, the number is too small!He estimated that these seedlings can't even be planted on 100 mu of land, and they can only be planted on [-] to [-] mu of land at most.This is too deceptive!He couldn't help but think that the whole paddy field would be planted in the sky and the earth would refuse; he promised to only plant half of it, but the rice seedlings were obviously not given enough!

Wan Lihui was taken aback by Fu Buer who ran up to him and shouted excitedly, because he didn't know what he was talking about, so he had to wait for Fu Xi to translate with a smile on his face before he knew his opinion.

"Not enough seedlings?" Wan Lihui thought that this was unlikely, and hurried over to look at the boxes containing the seedling trays. These seedlings were all large-eared and non-compact varieties, and the seedlings were strong and well-developed—he understood.

"That's right," Wan Lihui said with a smile, "Tell your master that more rice seedlings does not mean high yield—just watch."

Jiang Muzhi, the leader of the transportation team, sent a letter from Ye Yuming, in which he was indeed asked to promote the sparse rice planting technology in Fubuer.

"What? You can reap more by planting less? There is no such thing in the world."

Looking at Fu Buer's suspicious expression, Wan Lihui knew that he would not believe in rice planting techniques such as "sparse planting" until he saw the final result.

Rice sparse planting, as the name suggests: is to appropriately reduce the number of seedlings per mu when rice is transplanted.The purpose is to improve the ecological environment in the field, give full play to the advantages of strong tillering ability of rice, coordinate the growth contradiction between individuals and groups, enhance the stress resistance ability of plants, increase yield, and reduce the production cost of rice at the same time.

After the sparse planting is adopted, the demand for seedlings per mu can be greatly reduced, the man-hours, seeds, fertilizers and seedling raising facilities can be saved, and the production cost can be reduced.When transplanting rice seedlings, since there are fewer seedlings per mu of land, the need for labor is also greatly reduced-especially suitable in places like Hainan in the Ming Dynasty that lacked labor.The reduction of labor per mu of farmland can make it possible to win more farming hours and make full use of Lingao's water and heat resources.

In addition, sparse sowing can make rice grow into a more ideal plant shape during growth and form large spikes.After heading, the area of ​​green leaves is large, the posture of receiving light is good, and the grain weight is increased.Promote the high-yield structure of ear, grain and weight, and generally increase the yield by 5-10%.

Rice sparse planting is an extremely technical agricultural technology, which requires a high level of field management.So this time not all customers adopted the sparse planting method. Ye Yuming and others discussed it, and finally only selected Fu Buer as a pilot.After all, among the agricultural technicians, Wan Lihui, who has the most experience in rice cultivation, is here to guide.

In order to ensure the success of sparse planting, Ye Yuming asked him to stay at Fu Buer's family for a longer period of time in the letter to ensure that they mastered the technique of sparse rice planting.

"Sparse planting is good, but—" Wan Lihui looked at Jiang Muzhi suspiciously, wondering if he could accurately convey his thoughts back to the Heaven and Earth Society, "It needs a lot of fertilizer—— The farmyard manure is not enough."

Thin planting is not a panacea, nor is it simply a matter of reducing the number of transplanted seedlings and increasing the spacing.Generally speaking, 'a fat field depends on hair, and a thin field depends on cutting'.That is to say, for plots with relatively barren soil and poor fertility, the density of transplanting should be appropriately increased to increase the effective number of ears per mu.And the fields with very fertile soil or more fertilization should be appropriately sparsely planted.The rice fields in Fu Buerjia are generally of poor fertility.Only half of the paddy fields are barely passable, and sparse planting with insufficient fertilizer is worse than dense planting.

"You don't have to worry about this," Jiang Muzhi said, "Commissioner Wu has confiscated more than ten tons of lignite from Nanbao to Bairen City. He has also brought back two shipments of guano from Dongsha Island. It should be enough, right? "

Jiang Muzhi also told him good news. On a plot outside the county seat, the exploration team discovered a peat field.Peat is useful as both fuel and fertilizer.And the victory is that it is very close to Bairen City.Now the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Commerce is negotiating with the landowners, preparing to buy the land and mine it.

"...The road from Bairen to Nanbao will be completely opened up in a week. Our vehicle factory is rushing to work day and night to transport coal oxcarts. Once the road is opened, lignite is still rolling in. Let alone your land of one or two hundred acres. , the whole county is probably enough." Jiang Muzhi said enthusiastically.

"So the fertilizer plant is just around the corner—"

"That's right, the construction has actually started. I heard from Ye Yuming that the civil works are underway recently. It's probably coming soon."

"This is great." Wan Lihui thought, if I knew this, what would I do to compost so hard!

"By the way, Ye Yuming asked me to send you a message: Recently, there have been sporadic signs of bandits fleeing in the local area. The patrol team is stepping up their patrols, and I want you to pay attention to your personal safety—"

"Damn!" Wan Lihui cursed, "I'm all alone here, and I don't even have a guard on duty. How can I pay attention to safety?"

"Do you have a gun?"

"Yes, standard equipment for business travelers." Wan Lihui showed a Smith & Wesson 9mm revolver, "but only six bullets."

"Here's a box." Jiang Muzhi took out a cardboard box from his bag, which was packed with 24 rounds, "and this—" He took out a long stick-shaped thing rolled up from a bundle of paper.There is a pointed bamboo stick below.

"Signal rocket."

This kind of rocket is a by-product of the second weapon design team headed by Lin Shenhe when it was developing uncontrolled rockets. The signal rocket rolled from a paper tube is fired by ignition, and the shooting height can reach 200 meters.There is no parachute design, it relies on black smoke during the day and fire at night to alarm, so the signal does not last long.However, a few kilometers away from Meiyang Village is the fixed patrol route of the patrol team. Once a distress signal is found, it will come in time.Little use, better than nothing.

"When I plug it into the ground and light it up, I think my head will be chopped off. It's better to hit my PHS." This place is already outside the edge of the PHS coverage area, benefiting from the clean radio environment of this time and space And without high-rise buildings, the call distance of PHS is farther than that of modern time and space.Wan Lihui's mobile phone can be connected sometimes and sometimes not.

He murmured and took it over, and saw that there were six of them.

"Recently, it's the rainy season and it's easy to get wet. I'll give you a few more." These words made Wan Lihui feel even worse.

Watching the transport team drift away on the ridge, the sky began to rain again.The field outside the village was empty, with few people, and the gray sky and mountains in the distance... Wan Lihui had never felt so lonely, it seemed that he was the only one left in the world—— Can those people who travel to different time and space alone in the novel really be able to endure such loneliness?At least he still has five hundred companions who can understand what he says.

After some disputes, Fu Buer desperately followed Wan Lihui's instructions and adopted sparse planting and transplanting.

The sparse seedlings in the paddy fields immediately became the laughing stock of the whole village.A few well-meaning clansmen and relatives came to persuade them: the matter of farming has been passed down for thousands of years, why should the Australians change it casually?Just saying that he planted well in Bairen doesn't mean that he can plant well here too. Don't just listen to others' bewitching, and lose a year's harvest in vain!Others suggested that Australians have "witchcraft" in farming high yields.

After a few days, Fu Buer's eyes were sunken. In order to avoid being raped by his wife again, he simply beat his wife as soon as he got home, saving the energy of arguing.Every time Fu Xi came to deliver food to Wan Lihui, he would smile, it seemed that this was in line with her wish.

"Why does your master always beat his wife?" Wan Lihui was puzzled by the housework that had been happening every day recently.

"It's not because of your business." Fu Xi whispered.

"Me? I pay for my meals."

"Haha, it's for eating." Fu Xi laughed, "For farming..."

After speaking, he told him all the recent gossip in the village, and Wan Lihui realized the seriousness of the matter.Although he doesn't read many miscellaneous books, he also knows that civilization may not overcome ignorance, and that reforms will always be opposed by conservative forces.Tiandihui's agricultural promotion was in vain.

In order to cheer up the Fu family, after Wan Lihui had dinner, like the Fu family, they sat in the yard fanning their fans and drinking a few sips of withered grass tea to talk.By the way, I need to practice my Lingao dialect—you can’t expect to have help from natives who can speak Mandarin everywhere you go.

At first everyone was very reserved and didn't dare to speak. After a few days, I felt that the Wanshou elders were very kind and there were many anecdotes to listen to.Ask him anything, and he will try to explain it to them.Gradually, everyone is willing to talk more - except Fu Buer's wife.She still refused to communicate with Wan Lihui face to face.

Within two or three days, Wan Lihui found out the details of Fu Buer's family:

After all, small landlords like Fu Buer are still very hardworking. Most of these small landlords who gradually made their fortunes from farmers are capable, diligent and thrifty, and have certain brains and agricultural planting techniques.

For example, he pays more attention to collecting fertilizer than ordinary local farmers.Wan Lihui has seen local farmers throw their feces into the river and discard them in the wild more than once because of the smell. This kind of thing is simply unimaginable for Wan Lihui, who was born in a farming family.Therefore, Fu Buer's harvest is better than that of ordinary farmers. The rice yield he grows is about [-] catties per mu.

If we rely on rice alone, this big family can't afford to support them, let alone the second richest man in the village - we must know that the number one rich man has three families with nearly [-] acres of land.There are also a few more cows than him.It is due to the painstaking efforts of generations that Fu Buer can survive until today.

Although the Fu family had little money, they raised four domestic children, three boys and one girl.He doesn't need long-term work, only such hairy children.The houseboy is a one-time investment, and after buying it back, it only needs to be fed.Although he has not been able to do heavy work for many years, he is able to do side jobs. The older ones help in the fields, the younger ones raise ducks and pigs, and the girls help his wife cook for the whole family.Relatively speaking, it is also more food-saving-more importantly, the long-term workers are more obedient.

His main sideline is raising ducks - the local area can't consume so many ducks, so he made a special trip to Fucheng to find a chicken and duck shop, and agreed to come to him every three months to buy ducks.Raising ducks does not cost feed, does not require a lot of labor, and can still get duck eggs.The profit from selling ducks is not huge—the businessmen in Qiongshan County are merciless in bullying such "country folks", but compared with the local farmers, he has relatively flexible "cash" in his hands , Occasionally lend money to people in the village, the interest is not high, but the land, farm tools, and cattle are used as collateral, so it is almost guaranteed to make money without losing money.If the other party reneged, it would be even better to annex his land.Fu Buer never let other people grow the land. In his opinion, he can harvest more than 300 catties if he grows it himself, and [-] catties from others.

Other than that it's saving.Wan Lihui had only read stories about a rich miser in the countryside in novels before, but he never thought that he would meet such a rich man.The Fu family only serves three meals when the farming season is busy, and usually there are only two meals.Eat dry rice in the morning, so that you can work in the fields with strength, and eat porridge at night—you are going to bed anyway, and you won’t be hungry when you fall asleep.

Meals are completely treated equally, whether it is the master himself, the house boy, or the long-term worker, they all eat at the same table.Big pot of rice, big pot of vegetables.Rice or porridge is usually mixed with pumpkin or sweet potato.There is no such thing as meat, eggs, and fish—they all have to be sold for money.Occasionally, there are duck eggs that cannot be sold, and they are marinated with salt mud to eat salted eggs—of course, they must be so salty that they are almost unpalatable, so that they can be eaten better.Only when the farming is busy, there will be meat or fish to eat, plus a meal of sweet potato rice.

Wan Lihui ate alone, and Fu Xi cooked for him, and he paid according to the agreed price.Tiandi will give him 5 yuan a day for food.In the eyes of everyone in the Fu family and Meiyang Village, Wan Lihui ate better than the emperor: Dun Dun was dry rice without any miscellaneous grains, with fish or chicken and duck meat, and a little vegetables.Fu Xi also often cooks duck eggs for him.After seeing this kind of treatment, some old people in the village said that Australians are so extravagant, and they will be ruined sooner or later. The children are envious, and they are deeply educated: If they are not prodigal, why would they come all the way to this poor country?

But Wan Lihui didn't think he was treated well.He was not used to eating at the first time.Eating germ rice on the farm—an intermediate-grade processed product with the bran removed from brown rice and the germ retained, which is thicker than commercial white rice—was not very suitable for me at first, and it is even more uncomfortable to simply eat brown rice here.There is always a lot of dry rice left over from every meal.Every time Wan Lihui finished collecting the dishes, he would see the lady of Fu Buer's family watching Fu Xi unblinkingly as he took the leftovers to the kitchen before finishing the work.

"This mean old woman!" Wan Lihui scolded.Fu Buer's wife has not shown him a good face so far-compared with men who are more sensitive to the development of the current situation, women are probably always slower in this regard.

"Hmph, she, I wish everyone would eat the chaff and swallow the vegetables and leave all the rice." Fu Xi whispered, "She said you were a liar, and you deceived the master so that he lost his mind, ruined the fields and crops, and killed her This family ruined Haoshou Fu's house. They also said that you are a male vixen, and you have mesmerized the whole family." He said with a giggle.

"Male vixen?" Wan Lihui thought gloomily that I'm not the kind of young gentleman who can contribute chrysanthemums, why was he awarded such a title?

"Yeah, she quarreled with Sister Yijin last night and made Sister Yijin cry." Fu Xi pretended to be mysterious, "Do you know why?"

(End of this chapter)