Datang Nongsheng

Chapter 536 Jinghu is cooked, the world is full

When Sun Xiangfu led tens of thousands of people to teach rice planting in the field, the court finally agreed on his previous request.

Before his memorial was announced in the court, all the people hadn't combined the issue of social structure with the country's economic development. Now, they know better about the issues that need to be paid attention to in governing a big country How high-end it is.

It turns out that the number of farmers, workers, businessmen, and scholars in a country needs to be allocated reasonably. If it is unreasonable, problems will easily arise.

Before the surrounding ethnic minorities and the people in the new overseas territories have a good grasp of farming techniques, the land of the Central Plains still needs to temporarily undertake the agricultural needs of all the people in this country, and provide basic living needs such as food and clothing for everyone. Assure.

Shannan Road has well-developed waterways and is located in the confidant of the country. Once the economy takes off, it will definitely drive the entire central region.

Moreover, Datang really needs a relatively high-yield grain-producing land that is not afraid of floods and droughts. With this land, the fields in other places can be used for planting cash crops, which is beneficial to the whole The development of the country's agricultural economy can play a very positive role.

Most importantly, it can help the country to fight against all natural disasters more effectively.

"Jinghu is cooked, and the world is full." '

This is the slogan Sun Xiangfu shouted, and Li Shimin was so excited when he shouted, he regarded the embankment he wanted to develop as an artifact for the future.

Therefore, Li Shimin approved all of Sun Xiangfu's petitions. Starting this year, the imperial court's finances and taxes will be concentrated in the construction of the central region. Every year, the money invested in the development of the paddy field will reach 500 million guan.

Moreover, not only waterway transportation, but also land transportation will increase investment. In the next three years, the official roads in the four directions from the central part to the southeast and northwest will be widened, leveled, and paved with cement as the infrastructure construction following Chang'an and Luoyang. After that, a new round of extension.

As for where the money for these infrastructure constructions will come from, Li Shimin has not worried at all, because Datang's fiscal and taxation this year will have a relatively large increase, and the new monetary policy has brought him enough money. The cash, gold, silver and copper are constantly being sent to the official mint to be minted into coins, and he will continue to receive a large amount of cash, and the income other than finance and taxes will be invested in infrastructure construction. Then, in fact, In fact, they are ordinary people who sell their labor and earn the money away.

After the samurai returned to Chang'an, he brought Li Shimin the news of the flood in the Shannan Road area. However, Sun Xiangfu has not asked for help so far, which proves that he is sure that he can deal with the flood by himself.

However, Li Shimin was still a little worried, so he called Feng Zhidai to lead an army of more than [-] Zuo Xiaowei to come to support him. Among them, after the filial piety period, Lawyer Pei, who was appointed by Li Shimin as the general of Zuo Xiaowei, also accompanied him.

In fact, when Feng Zhidai led the army into the Shannan Road boundary, the flood had already receded. As Sun Xiangfu expected, the ecological environment in this period was not as bad as in later generations, and the floods were generally not too big. , are all caused by rainfall, and the duration will not be too long. Once the rainy season is over, the water level will almost return to normal.

It's just that the area of ​​the flooded fields is not small. After all, the people in the lake area cultivate the fields on a relatively low terrain for the convenience of irrigation.Therefore, during this period of time, the large ships of the waterway transfer company gathered many people who were looking for a way out because their fields were flooded in the counties and counties of Shannan Road.

Now, almost 40 to [-] people have gathered on the embankment that has been repaired, which accounts for more than [-]% of the population of the entire Shannan Road.

When these people took refuge on the embankment, after seeing the rice fields and villages in the embankment, they immediately found their own life goals. This kind of people is not afraid of floods, it is almost impossible to encounter drought, and they can control the land according to their own wishes. The rice paddies with the water level in the fields are just perfect, no wonder they can grow such neat, dense seedlings.

Moreover, they also know that the imperial court will vigorously develop such paddy fields in the future, and sent fourteen princes here to personally plant the paddy fields.

Afterwards, Sun Xiangfu spent almost no effort, and they voluntarily obeyed the call and started a large-scale embankment project.

Ordinary people, who doesn't want to have a field with a stable harvest in the field, who wants to be forced to have nowhere to go by disasters every year!On the contrary, the 3-odd army led by Feng Zhidai can just help Sun Xiangfu do some organizational and management work. With tens of thousands of people working hard, there are many specific things to manage.

The power of many people is great, especially when these people are also equipped with a large number of new iron tools transported by the waterway transfer company from the Weinan Farm Tool Factory.

In May, when the rice grains began to bloom, these people not only completed the half-built plowing field before stopping for spring plowing, but also completed the construction of the fifth adjacent field. The embankments add up to about 12 mu in size. If each household is allocated more than 20 mu, it can only accommodate [-] households. For hundreds of thousands of people living in shantytowns on the embankment, they want to get a piece of embankment of their own. For the people in the Jinghu area of ​​Tiantian, there are simply too few people. In order to get such a good field for their family, the people are working hard. Sun Xiangfu estimates that they can build two cities in one month. The embankment with an area of ​​no less than [-] mu was surrounded, and the land inside was leveled and planned. After all, some irrigation ditches had already been excavated when the embankment was used for soil.

After that, Sun Xiangfu only needs to enclose land for them along the river and lake, let Feng Zhidai lead the soldiers directly, and organize the people to build embankments by themselves. The building is getting bigger and bigger, and more than 20 mu can be developed to accommodate eight or nine thousand households. This also appeared in Sun Xiangfu's plan. An embankment of this size can be established directly in this era. It is a county-level administrative region. In the future, Sun Xiangfu will merge it with the eight surrounding small embankments to form a county with a population of more than [-] households. The name is already thought of, called Jiuyuan County.

After making these plans, Sun Xiangfu started the first round of hybrid rice breeding teaching. There were basically no technical difficulties. He just taught the officials of the Ministry of Agriculture according to the traditional breeding method that Sun Xiangfu had long been familiar with. I don't know what the concept of crop hybridization is, like the children of the farm, they have basically learned the theoretical knowledge of these things, especially for young children like Wu Meiniang who have not formed their own fixed cognition about things. The officials of the Ministry of Agriculture have learned much faster, and at most she can cultivate some of her hands-on ability, and she will be able to match the level of Sun Deshou, the first batch of agricultural children who were first exposed to agronomy.

On the big field ridge next to the lotus pond on the big embankment, Zhang Ke caught a big frog with flower skin for Sun Jing, and then tied a thin rope around his waist, and let Sun Jing hold the other end with his hand. As soon as the frog jumped, Sun Jing happily followed him. If the frog wanted to jump into the river or into the field, he would pull it back again. Obviously, he had already adapted to the days when his mother was not around. There are also many fun things.

Sun Wanting is holding a lotus bud that Wu Meiniang helped her pick, imitating Wu Meiniang, gently turning the petals of the big flower bud outwards with her hands, and after turning them all over like this, the pink petals are stacked together. The layers are very beautiful, but the petals of the lotus that have been in full bloom are easy to fall off and cannot withstand her playing.

In order to eat a fresh lotus pod, Li Tai wet all his clothes and made his legs full of mud. Unfortunately, after seeing Wu Meiniang's eyes, he obediently contributed the lotus pod he picked.

There is no way, he is too afraid that this perverted girl will play tricks on him. Now, the fourteen princes will keep a distance of more than three meters from her when they have nothing to do. When they sleep at night, they will not only wash themselves clean Yes, clean the bed quilt, and close the doors and windows tightly. Even if the house is not ventilated in summer and it will be a bit stuffy, they would rather sleep sweating profusely.

Because they were afraid that a bunch of toads would crawl on their bodies, or that a water snake that was specially designed to eat toads would appear in their room.

That's right, these are all masterpieces of Wu Meiniang. His method of educating the kings is definitely not taking political classes like Sun Xiangfu, persuading them earnestly, and scaring them with the whip that has never beaten anyone. After more than two months, when the kings accidentally remembered it, they would still use shuddering methods to force them to obey.

During this period, King Jing Li Yuanjing's feet were stung by leeches, and Wu Meiniang told him that it was this blood-sucking insect that gave birth to cubs in his body, and soon, those cubs would grow up in his stomach , Then, his stomach will grow bigger day by day, and it will be full of this kind of insects that like to suck human blood. These words directly scared Li Yuanjing to the point of fainting, and wanted to find an imperial doctor to save him, but Wu Meiniang told him He, the local people drink saponin water to treat this kind of big belly disease, which has miraculous effects.

Then, King Jing almost pulled his anus off.

After that, when he saw Wu Meiniang showing displeasure in his eyes, he would be unconsciously afraid, always worried that she would release that kind of leech to suck his blood again.

Also, on Qi Wang Li You's leg, the wart that grew after being shot by the toad's juice still hasn't healed yet.

As for the leeches that look even more terrifying, there is no need to say more, because once you find such a thing in the field or in the water, the princes will definitely scream and rush to the shore immediately. Come on, this is an enhanced version of the leech. They saw a leech suck blood from a buffalo with their own eyes, and in a big clay pot owned by Wu Meiniang, there were actually several big leeches that climbed up almost as long as chopsticks.

"Ah! There are water snakes."

Li Yuanchang's scalp almost burst, he turned around and was about to run to the ridge.

"Don't move, don't step on the rice. The water snake is more afraid of you than you are. Moreover, he won't bite you in the water. Continue to inspect the entire field." Not far away, he was holding an eel hook Sun Xiangfu, who was fishing for eels on the stalks of the rice fields, roared angrily.

Just now, the eel with a thick thumb in the cave was about to bite the hook, and it was scared back by Li Yuanchang's noise. If the word "wanting to cry without tears" refers to a person's expression, then Li Yuanchang is now The expression on his face is just that, a month ago, he was bitten by a water snake released by Wu Meiniang. Although the water snake is not poisonous, it still made his calf swell up into a big bag. God knows what about this eight or nine-year-old girl He was so brave that he dared to play with the water snake's tail like the children in the village.

Their current task of inspecting the rice fields is to pull out the barnyard weeds in the fields. This kind of weeds that naturally tend to grow in the rice fields can easily absorb the fertility of the rice fields. It grows very similar to rice and grows faster than rice. Hurry up, get closer, and it's easy to find their larger seedlings. The locals like to call them 'pai'. Manually clear these barnyard grasses in the field, called tearing pies, and regularly tearing off the roots The barnyardgrass that grows in the paddy field can largely prevent the rice yield from being damaged.

Li Tai was the first to complete the task of tearing barnyard weeds in the field he assigned. Therefore, in addition to picking a few lotus pods to satisfy his hunger, he can also learn eel fishing from Sun Xiangfu. Contributed to Wu Meiniang, and finally turned to Hongmei and Chuntao, who were holding the child in one hand and holding a big lotus leaf to cover the sun in the other, Sun Xiangfu finally pulled the big eel out of the hole.

"Wow, big stuff! There are at least two or three taels." Sun Xiangfu happily put the eel into a wooden barrel with a net opening next to Jiegeng, and said with a smile.

Inside, there are more than a dozen eels with thick thumbs, swimming restlessly, trying to escape.

"Master Sun, can I try this too?"

"Yes, but if you want to learn how to fish eels, you must first learn how to find eels' holes."

"I heard Qiu Zan and the others say that there are many eels in the lotus root pond. Why do you only like fishing in the rice fields?"

"Because the eels in the rice fields like to eat the smaller soil frogs, and the soil frogs are beneficial organisms that can help us eat most of the pests in the rice fields. If I just want to eat rice field eels, I only need to get a few fish cages Go down, it’s enough to eat, why bother fishing so hard, but when it comes to fishing eels, there are some fun in it, you need to master it well.”

"Is there any skill in fishing eels?"

"That's natural. First of all, to find the eel hole, you must have a certain level. Second, after the eel bites the hook, you can't pull it too hard. The eel hook is made of iron. If you pull it too hard, it will easily tear. His mouth should be opened and pulled when needed, and wrestling with it, especially for large field eels, which generally have to use up almost all of its strength to pull it out of the hole. Moreover, the direction of the sharp hook is best to face He has a more sore lower lip, and the upper lip has bony, less hooking..."

(End of this chapter)