Three Kingdoms: I help Liu Bei grow thousands of miles

Chapter 3 Scientific Planting
In the early spring, it was drizzling.

Lan Tian wore a straw hat and was busy planting seeds with Ganji in the field. Although he often went to the fields with his mentor, most of the time he was doing research, and he basically didn’t wield a hoe. It’s really tiring to roll up his sleeves now .

Even though it was raining lightly, the backs of the two father and son were soaked in sweat.

Due to the military disaster last year, there are fewer people in Wangjiazhuang and more land. Ganji wanted to have [-] acres to plant with the help of Lantian.

During the Three Kingdoms period, wars were frequent, and corn was planted twice a year in all parts of the north. In the absence of drought and locust plagues, the average yield per mu was around three stones.

That is to say, the Gan family is responsible for the 240 mu. The normal corn output per season should be 480 shi, and the output in two seasons a year should be about [-] shi.

Liu Bei's field officials stipulated that they should hand over two hundred shi every season. If there was any leftover food, it was up to the farmer.

Three stones of corn in the Han Dynasty is equivalent to 281 catties in today's city. If God favors them, they should have no problem eating.

The two went out to work early in the morning. Lan Tian was yellow and thin and working hard. Ganji couldn't bear to see it, but when he thought about paying rent and tax on the 80 mu of land, he could only hope that God would reward him with food.

After paying the rent and tax, it would be nice to have some surplus food, at least to raise some meat for Lantian.

Around Chen, Gan Qian sent her breakfast to the field. The busy spring farming and the slow speed of planting, she didn't care about going home to rest.

At this time, due to the lack of food, the system of two meals in the morning and evening was still implemented in various places. The grain storage of the Gan family was now exhausted. In addition to borrowing millet seeds from Liu Bei on credit, they also paid a small amount of rations in advance.

There are many Yellow Turbans in the Qingxu area, and Cao Cao plundered Xuzhou wantonly last year. One can imagine the tension of Liu Bei's food.

Ganji is very strict about the rations, because what is borrowed will always be returned. If there is any disaster, the hole will get bigger and bigger.

Fortunately, now that the land is recovering, Gan Qian can pick some wild vegetables in the wild, but it is still difficult for Lantian to eat enough.

Gan Qian looked at Lantian wolfing down, and smiled, "Why are you eating so fast? Are you in a hurry to continue working?"

"The land hasn't been sown yet, so I have to hurry up and do more work, otherwise the sown seeds won't be able to get water after the spring rain ends." Lan Tian is unfamiliar with farming, but has profound theoretical knowledge.

When Ganji heard this, he looked at the adoptive son with admiration, "I thought you knew nothing about farming, but I didn't expect you to know how to nourish seedlings with spring rain."

"It's what others say"

After breakfast, the two of them continued to sow until they returned home in the evening. It took seven or eight days of hard work to sow the [-] mu of land.

The next time is to wait for the spring rain to moisten the earth. During the short rest time of the busy farming, Ganji still needs to prepare fertilizer for the millet seedlings. Grass manure.

Grass manure is the green grass that grows naturally in the field. Before sowing, the grass is covered in the ground as fertilizer to increase the fertility of the land.

It is recorded in "The Book of Fansheng": "When it can be cultivated, it will be plowed when it rains, the soil will be close to each other, the seedlings will be alone, and the grass will be dirty and rotten, all of which will become good fields."

In addition, farmers also burn soil as manure, which is spread during the growth of seedlings to promote the growth of crops.

More than ten days after the end of the spring rain, the young millet seedlings slowly broke through the soil, and the fields in Wangjiazhuang were full of green. At this time, Lan Tian did an incredible thing. He happily came to the field to thin the millet seedlings.

Thinning is also called thinning, because at this time, farmers do not plant scientifically, and the amount of sowing greatly exceeds the amount of remaining seedlings, resulting in crowded seedlings. This not only grabs the fertility of the land, but also makes each seedling absorb insufficient nutrients. Can't saturate either.

Seeing that this guy pulled out the germinated seedlings, Ganji immediately went to the ground to stop him, "Xiao Tian, ​​what are you doing? You pulled out these seedlings, what will happen to our harvest in summer?"

"This is called thinning. We pull out the excess seedlings, so that the rest of millet will grow better and have higher yields," Lan Tian explained.

"Nonsense, I've been planting for more than 20 years, and this is the first time I hear such absurd words, why don't you stop?" Ganji pointed at him and said angrily when he saw that this guy was not going to stop at all.

It's true that you are my adopted son, but if you want to smash my job, even if my father comes.

"Father, my method is really effective." Lan Tian fought hard.

Lan Tian didn't continue to talk about "scientific planting" with Ganji, and the other party couldn't understand it with his current knowledge base, so now he can only rely on the emotional card.

"No matter where you learned it from, I have to be responsible for the survival of this family." Ganji said angrily.

"Father, just let me try." Lan Tian begged.

"Lan Tian, ​​don't be lazy, I have more experience in farming than you." Ganji said earnestly.

"Why don't you give me [-] acres to try?" Lan Tian took a step back and said.

"If I say no, I won't. What's wrong with you today?" Ganji looked puzzled.

"Father, brother Tian, ​​what are you arguing about?" Gan Qian happened to come to deliver food at this time, and saw the two of them fighting in the field, their faces flushed.

Gan Ji was so angry that he didn't want to talk, Lan Tian explained the situation to her just now, Gan Qian persuaded after hearing this: "Father, why don't you give Brother Tian ten acres of land to try? You have to try He will die if he tries it."

When Gan Qian said this, firstly, she didn't want the relationship between the two to become stale, and secondly, she always believed that Lantian was not ordinary, and should be a person with great wisdom.

"Okay, ten acres is ten acres." Seeing his daughter begging for mercy, Ganji finally compromised.

Ganji gave Lantian a relatively barren [-] mu of land, and asked this guy to do some "scientific planting" by himself. From then on, Lantian thinned out and cleared the trees within his jurisdiction, and his adoptive father Ganji didn't say much.

At the beginning, Ganji tried to persuade him that the ancestors' experience in farming for thousands of years could be faked?But as time went by, this guy realized something was wrong.

Although the millets that Lantian took care of were sparse, those plants had thick roots and were much taller than those he took care of.

Could it be that the so-called 'scientific planting' played a role?
My old farmer Ganji is not as good as a child in farming?
When the millet seedlings hang on the ears, Ganji, who has always regarded himself as a farming expert, has to be convinced, because every ear of corn in the blue field has bent branches. As long as there are no pests and droughts, the harvest should be very good .

The past few months have also exhausted Lan Tian. In order to have enough to eat, such a thin body insisted on throwing himself in the fields every day, serving his ten acres of land like his own mother.

insect?There is no pesticide, I caught it for you by hand, and I am still determined to eat this full meal.

This is truly a dream come true with both hands.

Although he was very tired every day, Lan Tian felt extremely fulfilled, as if he was participating in social practice or doing a graduate project.

At this time, the more Ganji looked at Lantian, the more pleasing to his eyes, thinking in his heart whether to promise his daughter Ganqian to him?Anyway, the age difference between their siblings was only one year, but they shook their heads immediately.

Gan Ji vaguely remembered the words of Gan Qian's face-to-face teacher in the village when she was young: This girl has the appearance of a dragon and a phoenix, and she will definitely be very expensive in the future.

(End of this chapter)