Datang Nongsheng

Chapter 597 Showing You
There are guests at home, although Sun Xiangfu is sleepy, he can't be lazy on the bed. Under the arrangement of Uncle De, the breakfast at the house is quite rich.

"South noodles and north noodles, eat noodles when you are in the north, and eat more noodles when you come to the south. Don't dislike the cheap food in our small place, it is very real."

Sun Xiangfu happily ate a large bowl of fish ball noodles by himself, and he did not forget to sell these special foods of Jiuyuan County to several guests in his family.

"Well, this salted duck egg is also good, much more oily than the duck eggs produced in Guanzhong." Changsun Wuji attacked the third salted duck egg, and praised it while eating.

"Food in various places has different characteristics due to some geographical factors. When you go to the north, the skewers are delicious. When you go to Guanzhong and Luoyang, the pasta is delicious. But when you go to the south of the Yangtze River, no matter how you cook the pasta, you can't catch up with Chang'an. The taste from Luoyang, the specialty rice noodles, are very refreshing, and the duck meat..."

Li Chunfeng has lived in both the north and the south these years. When he talked about eating, he talked endlessly, and everyone was happy to listen. After breakfast, it was supposed to be the time for Sun Xiangfu to teach the peasant children and a dozen little princes , However, it can be handed over to Sun Xiaomei. Recently, due to his habit of lazy bed, Sun Xiaomei has been doing it for him.

Therefore, Sun Xiangfu, who has nothing to do, is going to take his eldest Sun Wuji to No. [-] Yuantian to have a look. After all, if he wants him to learn all the gods and shapes of Jiuyuan County, he must let him know I have a certain understanding of the industry and operation mode of Jiuyuan County.

Li Chunfeng also asked to go with her, so she took them with her, while Zhen Qian went to the back house and chatted with Yu Xiuer, Hongmei, and Chuntao about the daily routines of having a child.

After going out, Changsun Wuji finally realized how convenient the transportation in Jiuyuan County is. Even in the dry winter season, the ditches next to the main cement roads can be used for fast passage of hundreds of stone boats in both directions, and there is a connection to the Yangtze River. With the gates in place, they can ensure that these irrigation canals are fixed at a certain water level. Similarly, these canals also undertake the waterway transportation inside the paddy field, and the river slope roadbed is generally much higher than the water surface. The water truck is built in the paddy field and drains water outside, which can also protect the crops in the paddy field from being drowned.

The boat was soon propped to the embankment of No. [-] embankment. Between each embankment, there was another big river that was much wider than the Grand Canal. Sun Xiangfu named it Jiuyuan River.

This river is more than 100 meters wide and deep enough to drive any heavy-duty ship that Datang currently has. As more and more paddocks are added, its length will become longer and longer. Function, it can also connect all the waterway traffic in the paddy area, so that any large or heavy cargo in this area can easily and quickly go in and out, and go to the Yangtze River waterway.

Changsun Wuji took this big river to Jiuyuan County by boat, and after boarding the boat at the wharf next to the sluice yard, he only had to travel a short distance to reach several other fields under the jurisdiction of Jiuyuan County.

At this time of winter dry, the water level in the Jiuyuan River is not high, and there are no waves on the edge of the Yangtze River. The speed of propping the awning boat with bamboo poles is very fast. After a short time, they reached the No. [-] embankment at the mouth of the river. However, Sun Xiangfu did not take his eldest grandson Wuji over the levee to the No. [-] paddy field, but directly let Zhang Ke and others who punted the boat to the duck shed on the river beach in Shanghe Village.

The duck sheds are all made of pennies and some netted thatch. If the water in the Yangtze River rises to the foot of the embankment, these duck sheds will definitely be removed quickly. Therefore, it is a temporary building. As long as the water recedes, everyone will put the penny Once the things are brought back, they can be rebuilt immediately, and it doesn't cost much to migrate.

Since the entire No. [-] big embankment is Sun Xiangfu's experimental field for planting two-season hybrid rice, these fields do not need to be taken care of after the autumn harvest, and ducks are used to collect insect eggs and missing millet in the field. After eating all the food, they will spend the winter empty first. Therefore, the people in the entire No. [-] embankment are very free after the autumn harvest, except that each family will draw a man to the construction site of the embankment to complete the last year of labor. , the rest of the women, old people and children are mostly busy with the new industry that Sun Xiangfu promotes.

At this time, the morning mist had long since dissipated, and the ground was warm under the sun. Many people gathered around the duck shed in Shanghe Village, most of them were women. They were lined up on the grassy slope of the embankment, playing drums Some are unfamiliar with simple dances.

Facts are clear that the Chinese people’s tradition of singing and dancing has been passed down from generation to generation. When they solve the problem of food and clothing, they will think of using this way to entertain themselves. Therefore, the square dance culture of later generations can be so strong that The point of exporting to foreign countries.

Sun Xiangfu refused to admit that it was a square dance, because it was obviously on the edge of the river embankment, so it wasn't a square at all!
But before the group of them approached, they heard a burst of laughter and cursing over there. It should be that the young man in charge of beating the drum beat the wrong rhythm, which was heard by one of the dancing women.

"Let's not disturb them, just walk around in the duck shed." Sun Xiangfu smiled and said to his eldest grandson Wuji.

"Your Jiuyuan County's industry is so big, they have free time, shouldn't they do more work, why are they dancing and playing here in groups during the working time?"

As the superior manager, Changsun Wuji naturally has some faults in the manager. He knows that all the young and strong men in Jiuyuan County have gone to work on the construction site. Working in the rear, maintaining the property in Jiuyuan County, why are they still dancing and having fun? The key point is that a big man like him who needs to come to inspect avoids them, which makes him a little uncomfortable.

"No matter how big the industry is, it also needs a combination of work and rest. They should start working before dawn, otherwise, there will be no fresh ingredients for the diners' breakfast at each stall, and as long as the day's work is done, the rest The time they spend is their free time. It would be unreasonable for us to drag them to talk about business! Therefore, in the future, the managers of other counties should not overuse people's power, do things consciously and passively, The effect is completely different, long-term high-intensity labor will make them feel bored with labor, reduce efficiency, and easily accumulate into diseases, and the result is not beautiful."

When Changsun Wuji heard the words, he suddenly understood, and stopped talking, and followed Sun Xiangfu to see what he wanted to show him.

There is really nothing to see in the duck shed, except for the output.

There were several half-grown children in the shed, kneeling and crawling on the ground, holding a feather pen to write on the small notebook on the bench. Seeing this scene, Sun Xiangfu remembered that today is the children's holiday every seven days, and beside them, several Inside the long rows of baskets lined with dry straw are full of duck eggs.

"Gouzi, how many eggs did you pick up today?" Sun Xiangfu has lived in Shanghe Village for almost a year. He naturally knows the children in the village. This boy named Gouzi is a boy Sun Xiangfu knows well. He is ten years old. Left and right, the skinniest age, used to be Wu Meiniang's attendant, but now, he can do homework by himself.

"47 frames, 82 in each frame, a total of 43, and there are still [-] for a fraction. However, when Tao Ge and the others who put the ducks come back, they should be able to make up for a few frames. The duck shed in our village has been producing for [-] consecutive days. There are over ten thousand eggs, and today will be no exception."

This little guy named Gouzi was full of wit, and Changsun Wuji was a little surprised when he reported this series of numbers.

Even Li Chunfeng who was on the side looked curiously at Gouzi and said, "If this kid is trained well, he may not be able to become a master of mathematics in the future."

Hearing what he said, Sun Xiangfu wanted to laugh. There is a famous saying in later generations called "nine-headed birds in the sky, and Hubei guys on the ground". It's not like those half-Hu blood people in the north can compare.

Gouzi's math level is not high among the children in Shanghe Village!You know, the children in Shanghe Village have been taught in shifts by Sun Xiangfu, officials from the Ministry of Agriculture, Wu Meiniang, and now Sun Xiaomei for a whole year. These simple addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division are no longer a problem.

"How many ducks are there in the duck shed in the village now, how many ducks are sold out every day, and how many ducks are added?" Sun Xiangfu asked first, seeing that Changsun Wuji and Li Chunfeng wanted to test him.

"There are 320 ducks in the village, about 270% of them are laying eggs, but not every day, about [-]% are young ducks that have just grown feathers and can go into the water, and [-]% are non-laying ducks that can be slaughtered at any time. Ducks, according to the monthly slaughter quota of [-]% of ducks that do not lay eggs by the Chamber of Commerce, our village has to kill [-] ducks every month, an average of [-] and [-] ducks per day, because the people from the Chamber of Commerce said that counting ducks, duck eggs The number of such indivisible things must be rounded up. As for the addition, the duck hatch will send us [-] integers every month. However, some accidents will happen and some will die. The number of new additions was less than [-], but a little more than the number of culling."

After Gouzi’s answer, Changsun Wuji didn’t even think about taking the school exam. He was just shocked that a village of 8000 households could export more than 30 ducks and more than [-] ducks every month. duck eggs.It is said that this is still public property, and there are privately raised chickens and ducks in the homes of the people in the village.

"Little baby, do you want to become a disciple of the poor? I can teach you more advanced arithmetic." Li Chunfeng stroked Gouzi's head and smiled.

"Being a Taoist priest? No, I already have a teacher, Teacher Sun's younger sister."

When Gouzi saw these strangers brought by Sun Xiangfu, he didn't feel inferior. Even those little princes who lived in the village during the rice planting period were all scared and cried by him. To save face, he pushed Li Chunfeng's hand away from his little head.

Hearing that Gouzi's teacher is Sun Xiaomei, Li Chunfeng didn't say anything. That girl is also a genius. At least, Li Chunfeng didn't think he could beat her in calculation.

Seeing this, Sun Xiangfu smiled and said, "If Daoist Li really wants to accept apprentices, let alone the entire Jiuyuan County, there are probably hundreds of people who are better than Gouzi in this big embankment alone. As long as you say a word, I will You can discuss it with the adults in their family and let them all worship you as their teacher, I am afraid that it will take you a lifetime to teach them."

On No. [-] embankment, there are [-] households, and every family has children. There are one or two less, and five or six more. In this embankment alone, there are three to four thousand children. Gouzi's arithmetic is the most among them. Just line up in the middle, otherwise you won't be reduced to come to see the duck shed and count duck eggs. Li Chunfeng has never seen those children who help the chamber of commerce to calculate the accounts, so they really know how to calculate.

In fact, there is nothing interesting about duck sheds, which are all part of the production process. Sun Xiangfu took his eldest grandson Wuji to have a look, just to let him have an idea of ​​the scale of a village-level duck breeding industry. The county has 100 households and more than 30 villages. There are more than 30 villages near the river beach and the big river beach. These villages are most suitable for the development of duck farming. Therefore, every village has a duck breeding industry. It has created the scale that Jiuyuan County can export 1000 ducks and more than [-] million duck eggs every month.

Then, Sun Xiangfu took his eldest grandson Wuji and began to climb the embankment slope. Here, there is another scene, that is the buffalo.

There will be one buffalo piling tied to graze on the slope of the embankment every 30 to 25 meters. The dead grass on the embankment is just for the buffalo to beat their teeth. Outside the backyard of each family in the village, a bundle of The bundled straw is piled up like a hill, and the family here has [-] acres of rice fields!There are two harvests a year. If a family only raises one cow, they will not be able to eat up the straw. Most of it will be burned by the villagers as firewood for cooking, and the ashes will be used to fertilize the fields.

Pointing to one of the big buffaloes, Sun Xiangfu said, "This is the bull king of Shanghe village, we can't let him meet the bull king of Zhonghe village, otherwise he will fight, and even the bull can't be held back, but these two have a bad temper The guy here is the hero of these two villages. When the people in No. [-] Courtyard moved in, Wu Shangshu allocated [-] buffaloes here, and three households shared one head. Guess how many cows there are in No. [-] Courtyard now? "

"Buffaloes need to be two years old to be able to plow the land, and three years to fully grow. Generally, they only give birth once in one or two years. At most, there are only six or seven hundred buffaloes!"

"Hehe, you guessed it wrong. Buffaloes usually conceive for eight months, and there is an estrus period of more than half a month every year. If they are well guided, they basically give birth once a year, which only takes three years. The first size Not only has the progress of two households with one head been realized, but also more than 200 calves have been exported to the newly opened paddy fields. By the end of next year at most, each household will be able to achieve one cow, and more than [-] calves will be exported every year. "

"This cow also has a high-yield way?"

"Of course, any technology, as long as you study it, you can make progress. There are many rice fields here, and the demand for cattle is high. For the research on cattle reproduction, Shanyang has already had a set of technology. After coming here, it is basically applicable, and now, roughly [-]% to [-]% of the cows can give birth to one calf every year, and in the future, we can make some progress.”

In the era of advanced science and technology in the later generations, if you raise beef cattle, you can grow them for slaughter in less than a year. On the No. [-] paddy field, you raise farming cattle. It took more than three years to double the number. In Sun Xiangfu's opinion , is actually not a good result.

However, this data almost shocked Changsun Wuji's jaw. He was the Minister of the Household Department and was in charge of the people's livelihood economy. It can be further increased by a large amount. You must know that the actual situation in the Tang Dynasty is that there are too many fields allocated to the common people, and the common people cannot take care of them. If they are planted at will, the output is generally so low. Cattle, the situation is quite different, at least in the most labor-intensive farming, it can help the common people save a lot of physical strength and farming time.You know, rushing to plant at the right time has a lot to do with the output of the field. If a farmer of later generations is to manually cultivate the [-] mu of Yongye Field with intensive cultivation, he will definitely cry, because he can't grow it at all. Come.

(End of this chapter)