Datang Nongsheng

Chapter 505
During the harvest season, people's faces are often filled with joy. This year, Guanzhong is still mainly planting wheat. The seeds used are also provided by the Ministry of Agriculture. The growth is basically the same as last year. Moreover, due to the relocation There are more ethnic minorities in China, and the number of planted fields has also increased, reaching 500 million mu. If the overall harvest is bumper, the grain output will go up to a higher level.

On the ridge of the experimental field, Sun Xiangfu led Li Tai and a group of officials from the Ministry of Agriculture, each holding a harvesting sickle and bundled straw ropes, and began to divide the area for all the people who came to harvest. This year there is no army to help, all officials of the Ministry of Agriculture In addition to the people who came to help from Xingfu Village, there are only more than 1000 people, and the harvest of 30 mu of land has to be busy for a while.

"Do you know why I have to bring officials to the fields to harvest wheat?"

Sun Xiangfu pushed the brim of the straw hat back to the back of his head slightly, and said to Li Tai, the little fat man who imitated his movements and pushed the straw hat.

"Master Sun wants the officials to appreciate the hard work of the farmers and know that every drink and food are hard-won."

Li Tai has read a lot of books, and naturally understands a lot of truths. Sun Xiangfu is naturally satisfied with his answer. When he bent down to start cutting wheat, the big straw hat just covered his head. He cut his back and shoulders swiftly, and said, "In this world, there is no bigger matter than eating. If you can't solve the problem, everything else will be in vain. Therefore, no matter where the officials are For such a high position, one must not forget one's own roots, and most of them are officials who come from a group of scholars, who cannot lift their hands, shoulders, limbs, and grains. , How can we govern this country well! Therefore, this atmosphere must be corrected for them."

"Master Sun is right. A person who can't even solve the problem of eating by himself can help all the people to eat!"

Sun Xiangfu was very relieved to hear Li Tai say this, but what he said next made Sun Xiangfu almost fall down.

"Thai today knows that food and drink are hard-won, so today's dinner, Tai is going to solve it by himself, so I use the wheat I cut myself to cook a pot of noodle soup, and eat all of it... "..."

"Xiaotai! Wheat can't cook batter soup, but you can cook it into wheat rice and eat it with bran. When you go to the toilet, the feeling will make you unforgettable."

Hearing this, Li Tai felt embarrassing on his fat, sweaty face. He grew up in the palace since he was a child, and he could barely distinguish the five grains. He really didn't know how to eat them. Just now he spoke in favor of Sun Xiangfu's criticism of those officials. Scholars don't work hard in their limbs, and they don't know the grains!Now it seems that I am not that much better than those people.

"Don't be too preoccupied. Hurry up and mow one acre of land. You can add a steamed bun for lunch. Cut two acres and add a steamed bun for dinner. With your physical strength, you probably won't be able to cut three acres in a day."

"I, I will definitely be able to cut three acres. If I cut three acres, can I eat another steamed bun?"

"No, if you eat more, your wheat for the day will be in vain. You will consume more nutrients than you consume, but you won't be able to lose weight."

"Ha! Then I'll only cut two acres!" Li Tai grimaced, and quickly started harvesting. He knew that if he didn't harvest when the sun was not strong in the morning, the sun would be scorching after a while. It's too hot to wait.

However, a child of eleven or twelve years old only has a few minutes of hair strength, and the stamina is not enough when it is used up. When Li Tai straightened his sore waist and looked back, he realized that an acre of land is actually so big. , his clothes were drenched with sweat, and he hadn't even mowed half an acre of land.

"What do you think at this time?" Sun Xiangfu asked with a smile after cutting the whole way and approaching Li Tai's position again.

Li Tai replied, "Being a farmer is really hard work."

"This is a well-known thing, not an idea."

"So, what is an idea?"

"It is a good idea to make such hard work simple and easy."

Hearing Sun Xiangfu's words, Li Tai immediately thought of the lawnmower he had seen in Shanyang. With that thing, wouldn't it be quick to mow the wheat?

"Master Sun, did you prepare a lot of lawnmowers early in the morning, but deliberately led the officials to cut wheat with a sickle in the fields, so that they could experience the hard work of farming?"

Sun Xiangfu praised Li Tai in his heart, he was really smart, if Li Chengqian was here, he might not have thought of this, nodded and said, "Yes, but it's not just the reason you mentioned.

As a policymaker standing at the height of the country, you always have to consider the problems of the people. This year, Weinan’s agricultural tool factory produced more than 1000 improved lawn mowers, which are more suitable for cutting wheat. However, our Ministry of Agriculture has We lent these easy and labor-saving cars to the people in Guanzhong first, but our own official land is cut slowly with a sickle by manpower. Guess what the people will think? "

Li Tai's eyes lit up, and he replied, "Of course I'm grateful to the court."

"Yes, they will be grateful to the imperial court, this is the political significance of the Ministry of Agriculture's doing so.

In ordinary farms, half-grown men like you are about to go to work in the fields. Their physical strength may be a little better than yours, but it is limited. During the one or two hours before the sun is hot, they can at most Only about three mu of land was harvested, and the whole family went to battle, and they cut about ten acres a day. Every household in Guanzhong has [-] mu of Guangyongye Field. That is to say, they only need to harvest In about eight days, there are also tasks such as picking to the car, pulling back, beating, drying, storage, etc., all of which are completed. They have to do heavy physical labor for at least half a month.

This is not counting those families that do not have enough labor to support them. Many of the men in the family went out to serve in the army, and some died on the battlefield and never came back. These families are generally headed by a widow, or one or two An old man and a few children are taking care of the fields. It takes them longer time to complete the work. If the harvest time is too slow, they have to worry that the wheat will be overripe and fall to the ground and cannot be harvested. Therefore, they may Facing the scorching sun and the scorching heat wave in the fields, they continued to work, and many people might not be able to hold on because of this, and fell down in the fields.

These are the problems faced by farmers and common people, and as a country manager, we should consider their problems and help them solve them.

When you become an official, you should work for the people and become their parents. I let the officials of the Ministry of Agriculture work hard here to harvest, so that they can personally experience the hard work of the farmers and find ways to solve the problems of the farmers. these questions. "

"Tai, I was taught today."

Li Tai put down the sickle and wheat straw in his hand, and saluted Sun Xiangfu respectfully.

"Don't do this nonsense, if you are lazy, you won't be able to eat the steamed buns at noon and night.

Moreover, you not only need to see the political significance of this matter, but also see the benefits of a developed industry to a country.

These rice-cutting carts, driven by livestock, can cut over a hundred acres of fields in one day, which is dozens of times the labor of an ordinary person. Yigong only brought two to three thousand Zuowuwei soldiers to drive With more than 1000 such cars, the role played by hundreds of thousands of young and strong laborers can be achieved.

Therefore, you must not underestimate the power of industry. If Datang hadn’t developed industry, it would be impossible to defeat Goguryeo within 20 years. Similarly, if there is a country with a more developed industry than Datang , They can also defeat us as easily as our Datang defeated Goguryeo. "

Li Tai was stunned by Sun Xiangfu's words. What appeared in his mind was the scene of the Shanyang military parade, when the soldiers of the Tang Dynasty were all armored, with various chariots and full of firepower. It was brought by Datang's industry. Without these things, how could the Tang army's combat power become so terrifying.

To a large extent, this has impacted his cognition who only read sage books in the past. After all, at the age of eleven or twelve, he has already begun to understand. After reflection, he began to understand that what is said in sage books, It doesn't help him govern the country as a whole.

Sun Xiangfu wanted to take advantage of each and every specific matter to teach by example and to correct Li Tai's thinking, lest he become stupid in reading and be taken advantage of by those rotten scholars.

The sun is getting hotter and hotter, and Li Tai's body, his fat, is burning rapidly, and his physical strength is also declining. In the end, he failed to earn the steamed bun at night, but only cut an acre In many places, they had to retreat with everyone to the village where the Ministry of Agriculture works in the experimental field area to rest.

He drank two large bowls of iced sour plum soup, and ate two slices of watermelon sent by Xingfu Village. When a bowl of rice covered with two kinds of stir-fried vegetables was served, how ugly was his eating appearance? How ugly.

"How about it, do you feel delicious after eating after working?"

"Yeah, um, this food is really delicious, even more delicious than the imperial chef in the palace. By the way, Master Sun, my extra steamed buns are here!"

"Since you ate two slices of watermelon just now, the amount of fruit is too much. Let's save the steamed buns for dinner! If you can harvest the remaining half acre at dusk, you will have two slices of watermelon at night." I ate a steamed bun."

Li Tai, who finished a big bowl of rice, was obviously still unsatisfied, but remembering that after eating now, he would have nothing to eat in the evening, so he decided to bear with it and be half full, otherwise, the night time would be very difficult.Moreover, he planned to cut the remaining wheat at dusk. Although his back hurts and his butt hurts now, he would rather work than eat quilt horns when he was hungry and dreamed.

After lunch, most of the exhausted officials went around the village looking for a place to take a nap. Sun Xiangfu listened to Sun Dali and the others talk about the harvest data of the previous two days in Xingfu Village.

"Most of these watermelons this year are not as big as last year's, and they are not sweet enough. The yield per mu of wheat is barely the same as last year. It seems that our seeds have reached their limit so far."

After Sun Xiangfu finished listening, he looked at the watermelons piled up in the warehouse, but shook his head and said, "The seeds are still improving, but crops like wheat and watermelon are too harmful to the land, even if we will plant a season of soybeans in the future." , The fertility in the field can’t be replenished. After harvesting, let everyone find a way to replenish some fertilizer in the field! Later, we will use more methods of leaching to meet the fertility problem of the field.”

(End of this chapter)