Datang Nongsheng

Chapter 527 Into the Village
Sun Xiangfu went to Shannan Road. In addition to farming, he was also responsible for building the road network of Shannan Road. Changsun Wuji was also the governor of Luoyang. The highway network was built to connect with Guanzhong and Shannan roads.

Relatively speaking, Changsun Wuji's job is much easier, because Henan has many plains, while Shannan Road has many mountains and rivers. Therefore, after Sun Xiangfu's convoy entered the area under the jurisdiction of Shannan Road, it moved very slowly. I wanted to take a look at the situation on the official road, and the group didn't arrive in Jingzhou until the first month was almost over, and it would be too late if the rice was not bred.

Of course, Jingzhou City is not his goal, but the Dayuan Rice Experimental Field by the Dongting Lake is.

In a farming-oriented society, as a land official, the main focus is on spring plowing and autumn harvest. Therefore, after the Shangyuan Festival, the samurai is no longer in the general manager's mansion, but has come to the Dongting Lake area early. Now it is a new agricultural area developed by ordinary people as the main force.

"Zhengming is here, and the old man's burden is finally about to be let go."

On the pier by the river, after the warrior Xun greeted Sun Xiangfu and the princes, he said with a relieved expression on his face.

He didn't feel this way because he was going to be the general manager of Shannan Road. On the contrary, the position of general manager of the Overseas Exploration and Investment Company may be more challenging and stressful to him, because he has always been one in the first half of his life. As a businessman who travels all over the world, he knows that it is more difficult to manage such a big situation than being a state highway manager in a heartland.

The reason why he has this expression is entirely caused by his daughter Wu Meiniang. After learning the knowledge in the booklet left by Sun Xiangfu, Wu Meiniang insisted on following him to supervise the farmers' spring plowing and arrange the spring plowing that he originally planned. The batch is useless.

Although the warrior Xun dotes on his daughter, he will not take the words of an eight-year-old girl seriously. However, Wu Meiniang often regards herself as a farmer's child, so the warrior Xun must not carelessly consider her opinion. After the officials from the Ministry of Agriculture who worked in Shannan Road called for a meeting, the spring plowing work here officially became a situation where an eight-year-old girl had the final say.

The new agricultural technical commissioner sent by the imperial court this year is Du Ruhui's eldest son, Du Gou. He is the first batch of officials to join the Ministry of Agriculture since its establishment. He has experienced two years of training in cultivating crops in four seasons in the Chang'an Experimental Field. , this is because of his outstanding level, he won the title of this technical specialist. After the beginning of this year, each state road, the Ministry of Agriculture has only sent one such technical specialist to guide him. It is already very high-end.

As the highest official in the local area, the samurai Xun knew early on that most of the officials of the Ministry of Agriculture under him were actually from aristocratic families and were forcibly sent to the Ministry of Agriculture. It's just to convey the order of the Ministry of Agriculture. The real person in charge of agricultural farming technology is Du Gou, a technical specialist sent from Chang'an. Therefore, Samurai Xun planned to follow Du Gou's suggestion to organize and arrange this year's spring plowing. But after this Du Gou came, he was taken aback by his eight-year-old daughter who taught him.

Now, under Wu Meiniang's command, the entire piece of good plowed land has been made like muddy soup. He is really worried that something went wrong, which will cause these farmers who repaired the plowed field to have no food this year.After all, the output of the paddy field that was planted for one season last year was much higher than that of ordinary fields in the Jinghu area. If this year, as last year, two crops of grain were implemented, it would be enough to support him back then. All the rations of these farmers conscripted were gone.

"What's the matter, look at you, have you encountered any difficulties?" Sun Xiangfu saw the expression of the warrior Xun in his eyes and said.

Ordinarily, through what Li Shimin has done in the past few years, he should not have to worry about Li Shimin wielding the butcher knife against Li Yuan's old party like him. Moreover, returning to Chang'an this time should be regarded as being entrusted with a heavy responsibility. Sun Xiangfu couldn't understand the relieved expression of a huge industry with tens of millions of assets in his hands.

"Hey, I don't know if it's a blessing or a crime. It's because the old man has a soft ear and listened to some words from the little girl. What's the matter? After you settle down in the village, go to the field to see for yourself!"

As the samurai Xun said, he moved away, and at this moment, Wu Meiniang, who had grown significantly taller by a head, appeared in front of his eyes. After all, girls develop early, at the age of eight or nine, they start to grow tall. Looking at Wu Meiniang's figure, I'm afraid she will be at least 1.6 meters tall in the future, which is considered tall in this era, but the stretching did not affect her appearance. After her face was slightly thinner, her eyes looked bigger and more energetic up.

"Meiniang met Uncle Sun, no, met the head."

"Hehe, if you call me the head, you are confident that you have thoroughly read all the brochures I left you. I want to see what you have done to the fields in this embankment."

On the way here, Sun Xiangfu had actually seen certain fields from afar, and he knew it already, and said something with a smile on his face, which relieved the nervous warrior Xun, as long as Wu Meiniang said Those methods were taught by Sun Xiangfu.

Soon, he arranged for his guards to pick up some salutes brought by Sun Xiangfu and the kings to the car on the pier. In the field area beyond the embankment, there were many brick and tile houses built by farmers. After Sun Xiangfu decided to come to Shannan Province to plant rice last year, he wrote to Samurai Xun to prepare in advance. After all, as soon as he took office, he would immediately devote himself to rice planting research.

Regarding the scene of green grass, levee, and field, Li Tai and many other princes who saw this landform for the first time were still a little curious, especially after Wu Meiniang appeared in the crowd, for a self-proclaimed farmer like her, And the little girl who seemed to be very close to Sun Xiangfu, and many little princes who confronted Sun Xiangfu because of dissatisfaction with the living conditions along the way, naturally hated her by the way, even though she looked cute.

The carriage traveled not far on the embankment, took a steep downhill, and then drove forward on a straight concrete road, about two or three miles, and came to a place with higher terrain and clusters of houses. Here is the village where the samurai Xun prepared an abode for Sun Xiangfu. There are more than 300 peasant households in the village, each of which has at least two young and strong, plus some half-sized children who can help the family cultivate the land, which can be used for farming There are about 900 people in business, which basically meet Sun Xiangfu's needs.

The whole village was greeted by the samurai Xun at the entrance of the village early in the morning. If only Sun Xiangfu came with his guards, then there is no need to talk about pomp, but this time he brought his family, and he was full of blood. There are fourteen princes coming together, so we have to call everyone together and talk about the rules.

Of course, what the samurai Xun meant was to let the people in the village recognize him, so as not to offend the nobles, but Sun Xiangfu didn't think so. They got off the car at the entrance of the village, and after showing their faces in front of everyone, Sun Xiangfu Immediately said to everyone, "Everyone in the village, I am Sun Zhengming, the newly appointed general manager of Shannan Road, and also the Minister of Agriculture of our Tang Dynasty. You should know the reason why I came here. It is to study rice planting and improve rice cultivation. output, so that more people in the world can eat as much as you..."

In fact, all the people living in Yuantian District have heard of Sun Xiangfu's name, and most of them have even met him in person, because this No. 200 large Yuantian was planned by Sun Xiangfu himself. With everyone's development, excluding water conservancy facilities, roads, cottages, and fish ponds, the land occupied by breeding has a total of 300 mu of rice fields and about [-] mu of vegetable fields.The samurai Xun settled [-] households in Dayuan and so on, and divided them into six larger villages: Shanghe, Zhonghe, Xiahe, Shangwan, Zhongwan, and Xiawan. Each village has [-] people. Ranging from multiple households to over [-] households.

The location where Sun Xiangfu and the others are now is Shanghe Village. As the name suggests, it is the village closest to the gate that can control the water storage of the entire river in the embankment. A large river runs through the entire embankment, and everyone only needs to guard the canals in each field and the openings of the ridges to control the water level in the field very accurately. A good field like this that can completely control the water level in the field according to demand can It is the best experimental field for Sun Xiangfu to plant rice.

After Sun Xiangfu explained his intentions in the future, everyone was naturally cheering and joyful. Who here doesn't know that he is the best farmer in Datang!He came here, that means the people here are blessed, at least, the harvest in the field will be much more.

However, after clarifying his purpose, Sun Xiangfu suddenly changed the subject and said, "Your Majesty sent me to Shannan Road. Besides farming, I also have a more important task, which is to teach you young princes to become talents. Wrong, the ones standing in front of you are all the lords of my Tang Dynasty. Come on, take a step forward and let the people here recognize you. This one is King Pu Li Tai, and this one is King Li Ke of Shu. ..."

Sun Xiangfu introduced the identities of the fourteen underage princes one by one, which attracted hundreds of people to salute. Then, he waved his hand and said, "You have met them today and greeted them. Well, that's the end of the matter of etiquette. When you see them again in the future, it's no longer a big gift. You have to do as the Romans do when you enter the country!
They came here to learn farming techniques and experience farming life. Moreover, Your Majesty has high expectations for them. I hope that they can really master some real skills through this study. Therefore, in order to complete the tasks assigned by Your Majesty, I have to give Everyone announced some rules.

First of all, no one, without my permission, is not allowed to offer, present, or present food to them.

Secondly, without my permission, no one is allowed to help them with the farm tasks assigned by me.

Finally, please help me supervise their words and deeds here. If they do anything that damages the royal dignity and morals, they must be reported to me. "

After three o'clock, all the princes, including Li Tai and Li Ke, were dumbfounded. This is the identity introduction, and it is clear that Sun Xiangfu wants to unite all the people in front of them, and punish himself and others!

(End of this chapter)