Defend the Tang Dynasty

Chapter 81
The war is coming, preparation is very important, but eating is equally important.

Whether there will be a good harvest next year depends entirely on the Taoist fertilizer.

The six bags of flint sent by Qian Chonghou were not bought by Su Dasushi, but by Bai Xianning who is far away in Guishu.

Han Pingan opened the sack and found that he bought two of them as Bai Xianning said in the letter.

One is Huozhezi flint, also called flint, which is hard and almost every household has it.

When igniting a fire, knocking a stone or a hard iron on the flint and rubbing it will generate sparks and ignite the flammable tinder.

A loose texture that has been turned into gravel when transported here.

This kind of flint is not common, and it is widely used in pottery workshops. It is said that it can be used to support combustion and can be added to pottery. The glaze will be thicker and more beautiful.

Picking it up and smelling it, both stones have a garlic smell, and they should both contain phosphorus, but I don't know how much.

Now that potassium is available, Liu Sangen and his men boiled thousands of catties in the salt lake. Qian Chonghou's transport team has transported two batches back, and they are trying it out in Xiayewangzhuang.

Now that the phosphorus is also available, Han Pingan hastily asked Mr. Li's subordinates to take it and smash it, and then use a roller to grind it into powder.

Put them into large clay pots in several batches, and then pour in several types of green vitriol refined in the refining workshop these days and stir them in batches.

I don't know the concentration of sulfuric acid refined by the local method, nor the content of these phosphate rocks, and I don't even know what substances are in it besides phosphorus. and see if there is no effect.

If there is an effect, choose the one with the best effect, and refine it in batches according to the ratio of raw materials.

After a busy afternoon and a night of cooling, more than [-] cylinders of labeled phosphate fertilizer were produced.

If winter wheat is not planted, spring wheat must no longer be planted.

Han Pingan didn't dare to delay for a moment, went around the coking workshop under construction, and brought the refined phosphate fertilizer and Qian Chonghou's train team back to Xiayewangzhuang in the bitter cold wind.

This remote village is not only a transit point between Baisha City and "Dao City", but also a place where good farmers from all Yele tribes gather.

Neither Yu Wangli nor An Mishan is in charge of the overall situation here, but Li Yu and An Yun'er!

Letting the two of them sit here seems like a joke, but it is actually a helpless solution. The Metropolitan Governor's Mansion lacks talents, let alone trustworthy talents.

For a while, there was really no one to find, so the two of them could only be left alone with ten Sogdian personal guards and five old soldiers from the military city.

In order to keep their secrets, they have another identity to the outside world, that is, the girls of the No.12 schoolboy team of Yaojianzhou School.

But the No.12 schoolboy team only exists on paper, and the names other than the two of them are fake.

It is said that not seeing each other for a day is like three autumns, not to mention that the parting took more than a month.

Reunited after a long absence, Han Ping'an didn't care about tenderness, and went to see the experimental field as soon as he saw it.

An Yun'er was very excited, because she was in charge of it, and she had been working hard for more than a month, so of course she wanted to show her husband.

The three of them came to the north of the village together, and there were long rows of shacks in front of them. There were fifteen or six big shacks by visual inspection.

They are all the same size, the front wall is short and the back wall is high, and the walls are all rammed with loess.

The roof of the shed is made of wood, and almost all the wood that can be found in Yele is concentrated here.

Every evening, or when there is a sandstorm or snow, the wooden frame must be covered with a thick thatched felt.

The thatched felt is made up piece by piece, thick and strong, and can be covered to keep warm.

The thatch is not covered during the day, otherwise the crops planted in the shed will not see the sun.

There is a fire path under the ground near the back wall of each greenhouse, and the fire pit is dug on the right side of the greenhouse.

Every time Qian Chonghou's transport team came back from "Daocheng", they would not empty out, and would bring back the coal needed for heating along the way.

But the point brought back by the convoy team is far from enough, and Baisha City is also helping to buy it.

Just because it is warm here, more than [-] old soldiers who are most capable of farming and the Sogdian guards who are stationed do not want to live in the village, and eat, drink, sleep, and sleep here.

Han Ping'an was shocked, and subconsciously asked: "Yun'er, didn't I ask you to build two, why did you build so many sheds?"

An Yun'er had a great sense of accomplishment, and said proudly: "Before you left, you said that the soil in each place is different, and you have to pay attention to what kind of fertilizer you use and how much you use."

"I said it."

"But I don't know what the soil is like, how much fertilizer is used or how little is used. You also said that the farming season waits for no one, so I dare not try it slowly, so I asked Brother Nine to inform the villages, and let the villages dig in the fields. Some soil has been delivered."

"Where is the soil in this shed?"

"Baiyangzhuang and the upper and lower Chihe rivers."

An Yun'er lifted the thatched curtain, led him and Li Yu into the warm shed, took off the leather jacket, and introduced as if presenting a treasure:
"This one goes to the Chihe River. I divided it into four pieces. This piece was sprinkled with five qian ren of fertilizing field powder, and this side was sprinkled with a couple of liang. "

Seeing her serious look, Han Ping couldn't help but laugh: "Stupid people have stupid methods, but this method is really good. Whether Feitian powder works or not can be known by comparison."

"I walk around in the shed every day, I'm almost exhausted, and you still call me stupid!"

"Sanlang, Yun'er is really caring. It snowed a few days ago. She was afraid that the snow would collapse the shed, so she dragged me to watch here all night."

"Just kidding with you, this method is very good."

"Really?"

"What are you doing to lie to you? Hey, what is this kind of thing is already out."

"All the wheat is planted in this shed. I don't expect to harvest much, just look at the growth."

An Yun'er pulled him to squat down, pointed to the two small fields in front of him, and said excitedly: "It's warm in the shed, and there was enough water before, but in fact it all came out, but the field that has been sprinkled with fertilizer powder is better than the one that has not been sprinkled." Come out fast, grow well!"

Han Pingan compared it carefully, and found that the growth of potassium chloride was different from that of unused.

An Yun'er giggled, and continued: "But now it seems that sprinkling five qian is similar to sprinkling two taels. It doesn't mean that sprinkling too much will make it grow."

People only use so much chemical fertilizer per acre, but you only use two taels for this small area, which is indeed a bit much.

Han Pingan looked at the wheat seedlings on the left and right sides, and said with a smile: "You can pull out these seedlings and replant them, and sprinkle less when replanting, and see how much is suitable at least, and then calculate how much you need for an acre. how much to use."

"least?"

"Fatland powder is expensive, let's put it this way, what you sprinkle these days is not fertilizer powder, but money."

"Okay, I'll let Uncle Liu and the others pull it out and plant it later."

"What you sprinkled is No. 25 fertilizer powder, and No. [-] fertilizer powder is also refined, but there are only [-] cylinders, so save a little experiment."

"Both can be used together."

"can."

"I have to discuss with Uncle Liu and the others how to try."

"Discuss slowly, don't rush."

"Farming time waits for no one, how can we not be in a hurry!"

She was so serious that Han Pingan believed that she could become an agricultural scientist in the Yele Department, so he couldn't help laughing and said, "Yun'er, I want to grow good crops and have a good harvest. Fertile field powder accounts for at most [-]%, and good seeds account for [-]%." , field management... that is, how to cultivate accounts for [-]%."

An Yun'er said unconvinced: "You don't need to say that, I went to the field to pick wheat ears when I was seven years old, and I went to the field to weed weeds when I was ten years old. I know more about how to farm than you, unlike you and Sister Yu'er who have never done it. Worked in the fields."

This is not bragging, it is fact.

For Yele Town, farming is as important as fighting.

When Mrs. An was the town envoy, he not only set an example by stationing in the city, but also sent his family members to work in the fields during busy farming seasons, even Mrs. An, who believed in the Fire Cult, was no exception.

"I know you know better than me, but you can't be complacent. You have to ask Uncle Liu and the others humbly, and you have to sum up their experience, and then promote it in my Yele Department."

"What is promotion?"

"It is to let everyone plant the land as you said."

"Listen to me?"

"Of course, it's not because you are Cao Wulan's adopted daughter, nor is it because you are my wife, but because you will be the best farmer in my Yele tribe!"

"But I am a woman."

"There is a saying that a woman does not give way to a man."

A woman with a career is attractive. Han Pingan felt that he should not only be praised, but also encouraged. After thinking about it, he smiled and said, "As long as you become the best at farming, then you can be the director of the Farmland Department of our Yele Department." !"

Don't look at the imperial court conferring a bunch of governors, governors and other officials, but no one mentions them in the Yele tribe, and they are used to being called leaders.

After formally taking over the Yele Department, in order to facilitate management, the Finance and Taxation Department, the Entertainment Department, the Intelligence Department, and the Security Department were successively established for reference from the previous Thieves Bureau.

Thinking that the director, like the former leader You Yi, is an official position on his own.

An Yun'er snickered and asked: "Crazy, you mean I can be an official!"

Han Pingan smiled and nodded: "Not only you can, but Yu'er can too."

Li Yu happily asked: "Sanlang, Yun'er can be the director of farmland, what kind of official can I be?"

"You have done a good job for more than a month, and you can be the director of the Transit Department of my Yele Department."

A woman can actually be an official...

The more Li Yu thought about it, the more amusing he became, and he covered his mouth and smiled and asked, "Then do we have an official office?"

An Yun'er was even more excited, and said eagerly: "Su Da has official offices, and we want to have one too!"

Han Pingan didn't expect them to take it seriously, and said with a smile: "There are not only official offices, but also subordinate officials, and even a budget."

"What is a budget?"

"It's just money. If you don't have money, how can you try to fertilize the field powder? If you don't have money, how can you pay Uncle Liu and the others? So we must let the crops grow well, and we must also live within our means."

Uncle Jiu said that the money is being spent too fast these days, and Han Pingan felt that it was necessary to plan carefully, and then said: "You already have the paperwork, and after another month, select some smart students from this batch of schoolchildren and put them in the government office first." build up.

Then brainstorm, think about what to do in the next year, and how much food will be needed. Only in this way can Brother Nine be able to support it. "

"We need to settle accounts..."

"So when you have time, learn the arithmetic from the ones I teach you."

An Yun'er was about to speak, when Li Yu asked curiously: "Where is my transshipment agency, can it recruit people? Is there a budget?"

Han Pingan was very happy that they were willing to do things, and looked at them with encouraging eyes: "Of course we need to recruit people, and Qian Chonghou's transportation team belongs to your transit department.

But what you are doing now is all confidential, who you want to recruit later, you must first ask the Security Bureau to help you find out the details. "

(End of this chapter)