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Chapter 602

Zhili Hejian Prefecture Xian County, Huai Town.

In April, spring is warm and flowers are blooming.

In the fields, rape blossoms are blooming, bees are buzzing, white butterflies are flying, and there is a scene of prosperity.

"Whoa!"

Mr. Jia, the governor of Zhili, who was dressed in a simple old farmer's clothes, took advantage of his attendants not to notice, and swept away a piece of it with a stick, quite complacent, thinking that his skills had improved, and ordinary plants were no longer his opponents.

Not long after, he threw the small stick in his hand into the rapeseed bushes, picked up the hoe and put on a straw hat, stepped into the field again, and carefully hoeed the weeds in the field.

The scene of labor is very touching, but seeing Mr. Jia looking up from time to time to wipe his sweat with a coarse towel hanging around his neck, squatting down from time to time to carefully look at the knee-high wheat, his expression is dignified and at the same time brings a touch of relief.

Every move reveals Master Jia's love for the farmland and respect for the farmers.

This is the fourth day that Master Jia has come to Huai Town.

In order to set an example for the army and civilians in the whole province, Mr. Jia deliberately made Huai Town his camp town, working with the local farmers every day at sunrise and resting at sunset.

And here he wrote the first poem to persuade farmers in his life, which is called "Farming Good".

Poetry Cloud:

"Urge to plow the cuckoo and sing the forest music, Chen Jixiang will work hard on the field.

Jingjing Lincheng came to visit the girl, and the child led the child to hug her side. "

This poem was published in the "Daqing Daily" half a month ago. The editor's note said: The whole poem is not deliberately lyrical, but only tells the scene of the farmhouse, bringing readers into a festive spring scene. poetry.

It's just that why the poem was written yesterday, but it appeared in the daily newspaper half a month ago, mainly because Mr. Jia deliberately made some fine-tuning in order to cooperate with the large-scale farming activities in Zhili province.

The flaws are not concealed.

Since ancient times, all officials have attached great importance to agricultural production, and Lord Jia is no exception.

During his travels, he repeatedly emphasized that both industry and agriculture should be grasped, and no matter which one should be used, he should not be soft.Regarding the issue of agricultural development, he has issued instructions many times, and even said to the accompanying officials sternly: "If anyone is farming, I, Manchuria, will have his head!"

"Daqing Daily" mentioned in an article to be published in June that when Mr. Jia took office, he discovered a rice plant that "stands out from the crowd" on the way to visit the folks, and it matures 2 months earlier than other rice.

For this reason, Master Jia was very happy, and ordered people to collect the seeds of this rice plant, and began to continuously test planting to increase the scale, hoping to spread it to the whole province in the coming year.

Because this rice was discovered and cultivated by Mr. Jia himself, it is called Jia Dao.

"Jiadao" plans to conduct a large-scale trial planting of 900 mu in Baoding Prefecture, Zhili next year. It is expected to have a bumper harvest, with a yield of [-] catties per mu. Related celebrations are underway in the Governor's Office, the Buzheng Office, and the Baozhong Office. , Just wait for the trial planting results to come out before starting.

This report, to be published two months later, was personally reviewed by Mr. Jia, and many additions and revisions were made to the article, which shows that Mr. Jia's emphasis on agriculture has gone crazy.

"Persuade with all my heart, and consult with those who are suffering from time to time, and those who hinder agriculture in the slightest will be eliminated!"

The "Daqing Daily" has mentioned in several consecutive issues that the new governor-general attaches great importance to agricultural production, and reported that the governor-general implemented the "nine-rank agricultural officials" system on a pilot basis when he visited Zhengding Prefecture.

That is to say, all the prefectures, states and counties are ordered to nominate a hardworking and simple farmer who has cultivated the land all his life every year, and award him the Ninth Rank Dingdai. In addition to being commended at the governor's office in Baoding, he also enjoys the treatment and salary that the Ninth Rank Dingdai deserves.

Mr. Jia hopes that this move will improve the treatment of agricultural experts, and at the same time summarize the life experience of these agricultural officials in words, and then spread it to farmers through the "Daqing Daily" and related units, so that the agricultural experts in Zhili counties Production can go to a new level.

In addition to promulgating a series of relevant documents emphasizing, persuading and benefiting agriculture, Mr. Jia also paid special attention to the promotion of emerging crops.

Not long ago, Lu Yue, the procuratorate of Shandong, published the book "Sweet Potato Records", which summarized the experience of sweet potato planting and planting. Once it was published, it was discovered by Fan Wei, the prefect of Baoding, and then immediately submitted to the governor's office.

Master Jia didn’t even eat after seeing this book, so he read the whole book in the hut, and then he couldn’t wait to order that all provinces in Zhili should publish and copy it, and asked Zhili Buzheng Yamen and Tianjin Governor’s Yamen Relevant units such as the Rehe Dutong Yamen should organize special personnel to carry out sweet potato promotion, and select suitable land for large-scale trial planting in various regions.

Landlords who try to plant land can be given appropriate subsidies by the Buzheng Yamen to increase farmers' enthusiasm for test planting.

Mr. Jia made it clear that the sweet potatoes planted experimentally in various places are mainly used as livestock feed, not as rations for residents.

This request was recently put forward by Mr. Jia. It is a supporting project to allow the people of Zhili to eat three meals of meat every month within three years.

This project is under the control of the household owner of the governor's yamen.

To this end, a series of policies have been introduced, involving various aspects of agriculture and animal husbandry.

During the inspection of Daming Mansion, Mr. Lu of Qingfeng County made great contributions to the promotion of sweet potato planting, and Mr. Jia specially recommended him to the imperial court as the general judge of Daming Mansion.

This matter is undoubtedly a weather vane, which makes Zhili officials all the more vigorous in promoting sweet potatoes and developing the sideline business of chicken, duck, pig and sheep proposed by Mr. Jia, so that the people's faces will be red, and the instructions not to eat vegetables are even more vigorous.

It was also during the inspection of Daming Mansion that Mr. Jia discovered that corn was planted in many places.

This thing is commonly known as Baogu among the people. It was introduced to China during the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty and is suitable for planting in mountainous areas.

Corn can be used not only for residents’ rations, but also for livestock feeding. It can be planted on the side of miscellaneous fields instead of occupying the staple grain fields. Therefore, Mr. Jia encouraged the people to plant corn, and even asked county officials in the province to plant corn on both sides of the road. Planting corn, saying that you can enjoy the scenery when it is not ripe, and fill your stomach when it is ripe.

In order to carry out the spirit of the Governor-General, the "Daqing Daily" even called corn, sweet potato, soybean, peanut, cotton, and mulberry the new "six grains" and called on the people of the province to promote planting.

During the stay in Huai Town, Mr. Jia organized several on-site meetings with relevant units on agricultural production issues, mainly focusing on the repair of water conservancy facilities.

During the meeting, Mr. Jia proposed that the second official and the third class and six housekeepers in each county should spend one month every year to go to the villages to contract for households.

Firstly, to change the bureaucratic thinking in the past and let the people get in close contact with each other;
The second is to help people who lack labor at home to rush to harvest and plant.

In order to allow the following people to better implement their own requirements, Jia Liu deliberately chose the home of Widow Zhang in Huai Town as his long-term unit.

So far, he has personally helped Widow Zhang get rid of the weeds in five parts of the land, repaired the yard for Widow Zhang, and even used his salary to build a well and a latrine for the Zhang family, so that Widow Zhang could live with her husband Several children bid farewell to the bad habit of open-air convenience.

"At noon on the day of hoeing, the sweat drips down to the soil."

The sun was already high, and the temperature rose sharply. Jia Liu felt that he was sweating all over, so he put down his hoe in time, and said to the editors and editors of the newspaper squatting beside the field, "Is it all written?"

"It's all written!"

More than a dozen newspaper editors who had been accompanying him, that is, the rumormongers originally recruited by Shuanzhu, including but not limited to authors of novels and storytelling, hurriedly stood up and handed over their manuscripts to the governor for reading.

(End of this chapter)