Datang Nongsheng

Chapter 203 The Way of Inheriting the Nongmen

It is not difficult to leach manure. In this period, high-temperature composting and rotting fermentation can be easily done. Because high-temperature composting will pollute the air, it is not suitable for use in densely populated Guanzhong, so Sun Xiangfu just taught these children They spoil by fermentation.

The process is very simple, put animal or human feces in the dug pool bath, add platycodon root powder, sawdust, bran and the like in a ratio of [-] to [-] to ferment.

In summer, this kind of traditional fermented septic tank only takes more than ten days to fully decompose. The leached organic fertilizer is easy to apply and has a small smell. Once, you can benefit for many years, and the effect of chicken manure is the highest.

Of course, the most difficult thing to grasp about this kind of fertilizer is the proportion problem, because no one weighs the feces. They are all children, and it is inevitable to be careless when doing things. Like Zhao He, he randomly scattered a handful of things in the pig manure pond he dug. In the cesspool, it turned out that his cesspool was not as good as Sun Deshou, Wang Erxiao and the others.

But the learning atmosphere in Xingfu Village is relaxed and inclusive. If you make a mistake, you can try again until you get it right. There are enough reserves in the village for them to experiment and play.

Since last year, Sun Xiangfu knew that this year's poultry and livestock feed reserves were abundant, and he told Sun Erli to organize manpower to dig biogas ponds to store fertilizer. In the past half a year, the biogas slurry and biogas residue in the major biogas ponds have reached a terrifying amount. Once this year's locust plague is over, Sun Xiangfu will use this kind of high-fertility thing as base fertilizer for the land that Sun Xiangfu can cultivate in Guanzhong, and plant farmland for one season according to the farming standards of later generations.

"Your Majesty is here, and I greet Your Majesty..."

Seeing the emperor and his party approaching this way, the children saluted Li Shimin in an irregular manner, but Li Shimin did not blame them, looked at Sun Deshou with a smile and said, "The lettuce you just mentioned is What kind of dish? Why haven't I heard of it?"

"Uh, lettuce is a vegetable that my elder brother brought back from Lingnan. It is also suitable for growing in Guanzhong in summer. Wang Erxiao, Zhao He, and Ma Yu all grow it. You see."

Lettuce has a long history of planting. It is a vegetable that was widely popularized in the Central Plains in the middle of the Tang Dynasty. After Sun Xiangfu saw this vegetable in Lingnan, he thought that there seemed to be no one planting it in Chang'an, so he got some seeds back. This year is the first A batch was planted in Chang'an. Of course, as Zhao Long traveled more frequently to Central and South Asia, more vegetable plant seeds would be collected by him and brought to Chang'an.

Li Shimin looked into the vegetable field following Sun Deshou's direction, and saw green vegetables neatly arranged in the field, on the dry mud, and there were water marks from the water they had just watered with the kettle.

"Are these vegetables grown by you children?"

Not only lettuce, but many other crops are neatly arranged in the field. They are not professional farmers, so I really can’t recognize them all. Although the sky is dry and there are many locusts, the growth of vegetables here is very gratifying. Everyone is looking after.

"Yes, this is the homework of my farmer's children."

"Classwork?"

Li Shimin was a little surprised. He found that he only knew about this farming school "Qi Min Yao Shu", but he never thought that the farming school had its own unique education system. Their inheritance is not just about reading that book. , but to actually do it.

"Isn't what you're studying recorded in "Qi Min Yao Shu?" Li Shimin continued to ask.

"Uh, my elder brother said that what is recorded in "Qi Min Yao Shu" is only the foundation, it is the knowledge studied by the first generation of ancestors, and our farming descendants must create more advanced farming and breeding technology one generation after another, oh, advanced , which means better and smarter.

And my elder brother is the fourth generation heir, two generations of ancestors before him have surpassed the knowledge of the ancestors, and the knowledge he has mastered is at least three generations higher than what is recorded in "Qi Min Yao Shu". And our task is to surpass my elder brother and strive to become the successor of the next generation. "Sun Deshou explained according to the lie Sun Xiangfu made up before.

"The inheritance of this farm is actually like this."

Not only Li Shimin, but also Xiao Yu, Fang Xuanling and others were very surprised. The ancients respected the knowledge left by the predecessors, and they were afraid that there would be mistakes and omissions when passing it on. Because what is recorded above is the most primitive knowledge, the education method like Nongmen, which is dedicated to overthrowing the predecessors, has never appeared.

"Hehe, my elder brother also said that not only the technology of farming and breeding, but any other technology should continue to seek breakthroughs and progress on the basis of predecessors. In this way, human civilization will progress rapidly, and no longer because of ignorance. And do a lot of stupid things.”

After all, Sun Deshou was still a child, and he didn't have any scheming. He said what Sun Xiangfu told him, but these words aroused the interest of Li Shimin and the others.

"Your elder brother thinks that many people in this world are doing stupid things?" Li Shimin took the words trickily.

"Yeah! My elder brother said that those who rebel are stupid. No matter whether they succeed or not, they don't eat three meals a day. They live, grow old, get sick and die. What are they trying to do? It's just vanity. This is a very low-level emotion. People who are influenced by low-level emotions are fools who have not yet understood."

Li Shimin agrees with Sun Deshou's words. People who don't have the political ambition to lead the world to live a better life and rebel just because of their own greed are indeed stupid. However, the progress of civilization he said can reduce such fools born?
This is a question worth thinking about for Li Shimin, just like before he suddenly felt that he should do all the preparation work in front, it is a direction he will work hard in the future.

"You said earlier that your elder brother's farming technology has surpassed many records in "Qi Min Yao Shu", so can he now grow an acre of land and produce several times the yield?" Li Shimin asked everyone very interested question.

Sun Deshou thought for a while, then nodded and replied, "In theory, it is possible. Last year, my eldest brother increased the wheat production to a little over four stones without leaching out the organic fertilizer. This year, with the organic fertilizer, the production may increase again." A few percent, two or three times higher than the original output of more than two stones is not a problem."

It is not difficult for future generations to produce more than one thousand jin of wheat per mu, which is more than eight stones. Even if the yield of later generations cannot be fully achieved due to seeds, fertility, and pesticides, it is not impossible to produce six or seven stones per mu. Don't forget, the ecological environment in this period is very good, there is almost no pollution, and the sunshine is very abundant. As long as the fields are fertile and the planting methods are scientific, the growth of crops may not be worse than that of later generations.

"What is theory?" Li Shimin asked again.

"That is, under the condition that all preparations are done to the best, it is like the wax gourds grown in the experimental field of the boy, which almost meets the best conditions for the growth of wax gourds. If one mu of land is planted according to this condition, the yield may be lower It has reached over ten thousand catties." Sun Deshou pointed to a few wax gourds in the area where the card with his name was inserted.

People in the Central Plains learned to grow winter melons very early. There are records of planting winter melons in "Qi Min Yao Shu". However, with the help of organic fertilizers and planting pollination, the winter melons in the experimental field will be much larger than those grown by ordinary farmers. Of course, Sun Xiangfu would not let him study a kind of melon with mature planting technology out of boredom. The proposition he gave Sun Deshou was to mutate winter melon and grow zucchini that are also suitable for summer consumption.

"Winter melons yielding ten thousand catties per mu?"

Li Shimin and several ministers were a little dazed. It is true that winter melons are big, but in this period, winter melons weighing more than ten catties are already considered big, and the growth of winter melons requires a lot of fertility and water. Therefore, there are very few people. It is possible to produce two to three thousand catties per mu, but it is not one or two times the yield per mu, it is more than five times the yield.

What they don't know is that last year in the shed of Xingfu Village, many winter melons weighing more than 200 catties were planted. Winter melons abound, and there are even super large winter melons that grow to more than [-] catties. It is not difficult to produce [-] catties per mu.

"Well, plants are usually simpler than animals. If you understand its growth habits and meet its growth conditions, you can make it grow well. We are planting these experimental fields now to better understand the habits of crops. Afterwards, do some elite breeding or mutations to look for the possibility of some breakthroughs.”

All right!Li Shimin and the others didn't understand the more professional talk, but no matter what, after going around Xingfu Village today, Li Shimin has a deeper understanding of farming.

The country is based on the people, and the people depend on food. Farming can solve the food problem of the people very well, so its importance is self-evident. Now he has more expectations for this school. Looking back The list of these children will probably be recorded by the secret guards. When they grow up, Li Shimin is likely to use them a lot.

After visiting the children's experimental fields as if they were curious, Li Shimin saw Sun Dali who was brought out of the prison in Chang'an by the guards. Since Li Shimin had no intention of embarrassing him, he lived comfortably in the prison. Well, he still has the identity of the steward of Huangzhuang. In a sense, he is also Li Shimin's retainer, but he has not yet entered the rank.

"Sun Dali, if something happens to Sun Zhengming, can you keep the village as it is now?"

"Uh, to report back to Your Majesty, this villain has never thought about it." It was the first time for Sun Dali to see the emperor at such a close distance, and he scratched his scalp and said awkwardly.

"Everything here is very good, I like it very much, so, no matter what method you use? I hope it will continue like this and bring more miracles to my Great Tang."

"Well, what you said is true? No matter what method is used?"

"You have no jokes."

"Since this is the case, the villain wants to entrust the government to help buy the locusts in the Guanzhong area. You need as much as you want for a penny and a catty. There is money to buy them in our Xingfu Village. I wonder if your majesty can help the villain?"

Since Sun Xiangfu often mentions the emperor in front of Sun Dali, Sun Dali's respect for the emperor is not as strong as that of other common people, so he raised it a little boldly.

Sun Xiangfu had told him about the purchase of locusts earlier, but not long after the locust plague broke out, he was arrested by the government and put in prison, but the matter was delayed. Now that he was released, the first thing he thought of was It is to complete the tasks assigned by Sun Xiangfu.

"Locusts, one penny and one catty? What do you want so many locusts for?" After saying this, he suddenly thought of the three locust flour steamed cakes he ate earlier. Now, half a day has passed, and he has no muscles. hunger.

Locust powder is high in protein and has sufficient calories. The calories of three steamed cakes are much higher than that of several bowls of coarse grain rice. Naturally, it can supply Li Shimin's consumption. In fact, this stuff should be eaten by laborers who are engaged in heavy physical work. its use.

"I agree to this matter, but the locust cakes produced in your village can only be used to help the victims."

The imperial court is responsible for collecting the locusts, and Xingfu Village pays for them. The locusts collected can only be used to help the victims for free. Sun Erli doesn't know what logic Li Shimin is doing. Does this mean that Xingfu Village should pay for nothing to help the court solve the problem?

It should be, but because of such a condition, Sun Erli happily agreed without even thinking about it.

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