Cultivation of chastity

Chapter 168
These days, Li Tai stayed obediently in the Palace of the King of Yue. Apart from visiting the Prince, Empress Changsun, and Li Shimin, he studied and practiced martial arts in the Palace of the King of Yue, in order to have a little quiet time.

During the Zhenguan period, Shangshu Province's execution ability was still very good. With the memorial submitted by Li Tai as the base, the court soon divided up the cultivated land.

As soon as those aristocratic families got the land, they didn't care about anything else, and immediately planted seeds and cultivated fields on the land.

fallow?What an international joke, even if it is fallow, it is definitely not this year!
And with the division of this field, the aristocratic families that were not allocated really set their sights on Ma Zhou one by one.

They only hope that Ma Zhou can do the work faster and better. Even if the spring plowing can't keep up, the autumn plowing can still catch up.

Therefore, Li Tai won his freedom, but he never ran over to supervise the construction and renovation of Zheng Baiqu.

Because Li Tai believed that these aristocratic families were definitely more serious than himself, so he just let Ma Zhou continue to direct the work according to the system he had arranged at the beginning.

As winter goes to spring, if the nearby people have no arable land, they will come to help move bricks and do some odd jobs.

After all, the job of including food and housing, and directly giving food stamps is quite good for the local people.

However, Li Tai didn't worry too much about this, but took Peacock to continue to familiarize himself with his entire industrial system.

As for the arable land allocated to him, Li Tai temporarily planted some Lu beans to fertilize the soil.

Now that the Tang Dynasty has not been affected by the disaster, and its own food reserves are more abundant, there is no need to overdraw the land for fishing. It is better to cultivate the soil well.

Moreover, in Li Tai's original plan, this part of the soil was intended to be a temporary base for cultivating medicinal materials.

It's just that Liu Shenwei went out with the army and hasn't returned yet, which made Li Tai have to wait.

Only Liu Shenwei can rest assured that he is in charge of this matter personally. If someone else takes over, I'm afraid it won't be able to control the situation!

In the medical system, to be honest, doctors are very important, but medicines as material support are also very important.

The prerequisite for being able to prescribe and prescribe medicines is that there are sufficient reserves of some commonly used medicines in the clinics, instead of relying on the common people to slowly collect them, otherwise the medical efficiency will be too low.

In the final analysis, I do need a doctor with great powers, but what I need more is a medical system that can deal with any epidemic and disease, and this requires comprehensive cooperation from upstream to downstream.

So this matter can only be left to Liu Shenwei, but I don't know when Liu Shenwei will come back.

"Is this Guangzhou?" Liu Shenwei stared dumbfounded at the heavy ears of rice and said, "Wheat here is not easy to grow, but rice can be harvested twice a year!"

"Strictly speaking, three crops a year!" Master Yuan Ke said with a calm face, "It's just that this kind of rice is excellent, with sufficient sunshine and suitable temperature, as long as it is replaced by an ordinary old farmer, it can be grown if you want. Such an effect."

Liu Shenwei looked at Yuan Keshi as if saying that it was only natural if he had hands, but he didn't know where to complain about making friends.

This kind of rice was obtained from envoys who were going to pay tribute to the north from a small country like Linyi in Chenla.

Although the envoy kept saying that this kind of seed was for remembrance and would never be sold, but after paying 20 taels of gold, the envoy said decisively that we hit it off as soon as we saw each other, and the soil of my hometown was given to Li Jun as a gift.

Resolutely leave the early rice seeds that I miss to Yuan Keshi, and give Yuan Keshi the opportunity to cultivate this new rice seed.

After all, Liu Shenwei used to farm, and said, "In Guangzhou, enough early rice seeds can be cultivated in one year. Speaking of which, how many early rice seeds did you get from the envoy of the Chenla Kingdom?" Ah, there is such a large piece!"

"It's just a small bag, and there are only seven plants that can really germinate in the end!" Yuan Keshi recalled.

"Wait, seven plants!?" Hearing this, Liu Shenwei couldn't help but looked at a large piece of early rice in front of him in disbelief, and suddenly said to Yuan Keshi, "Don't tell me, these are all used by you. The tillers are divided!"

"What are you making such a fuss about.

It's normal that you can't do it, but I'm from the agricultural sciences, so it's normal to be able to till a few more plants than you.

If you can't even master the tillering technique, what kind of agricultural teacher is you? "

Master Yuan Ke took it for granted, as if he was saying that this kind of thing is not worth mentioning.

"I can only tiller seven wheat seedlings at most, how many tillers can you tiller?" Liu Shenwei asked Yuan Keshi.

"Probably thirty more plants than you!" Yuan Keshi replied casually.

"Three or four plants?" Liu Shenwei looked at the area of ​​the rice. It is not possible to plant three or four more plants.

So Liu Shenwei quickly came back to his senses, looked at Master Yuan Ke as if he was looking at a monster, and said, "Thirty plants?!"

"It doesn't matter if you have hands!"

Master Yuan Ke didn't think he was anything special, but the conditions in Guangzhou were poor.

If in the experimental field in Chang'an, the number of tillers can reach at least fifty or more, but unfortunately the conditions here are not enough.

It has to be said that tillering technology is one of the most abnormal technologies invented in ancient China.

Because of the existence of this technology, many plants can be produced from one seed, but basically more than nine plants are considered a show of skill, and only a few people can reach this level.

And the vast majority of people are basically between six and nine plants as they get familiar with farming. It really requires more skills to accumulate more plants from seeds.

The existence of tillering technology allows people to leave fewer seeds, but can grow more food, increasing the risk of resistance.

Of course, the biggest contribution of this technology is not actually the common people, but like Yuan Keshi, who can use this technology for rapid multiple growth when they encounter certain plants.

Otherwise, if you really rely on one seed to grow a plant, if you want to promote this kind of rice, it may not take ten years to start.

"You are amazing, you are amazing!" Liu Shenwei couldn't help complaining.

However, Liu Shenwei came back to his senses, and asked with a bit of melancholy:

"Then you plan to stay in Guangzhou and not go back with me?"

"No!" Master Yuan Ke shook his head and said,
"For Manager Cheng, the rebellion in Lingnan has been cleared away, food has been grown to calm the local people, and the surrounding area has been naturally stable, so it is only natural for the class teacher to return to the court.

But the King of Yue asked me to stay in order to formulate the seasons of Guangzhou and even Lingnan, which cannot be produced in a short time.

After all, you have also seen that even in winter, it is still green and lush.

So you can't treat it with the common sense of the Central Plains. I'm afraid you need to stay here for a while to figure out the local seasons! "

After Liu Shenwei heard Yuan Keshi's words, he didn't continue to persuade him.

Because Liu Shenwei also knows very well that if he wants to teach the people to cultivate intensively in agriculture, then the laws must be formulated clearly.

This is the foundation of farming.

Most of the people in this era have never read a book. Why do Chinese people seem to be able to farm individually? The most important thing is that this kind of farming season is almost engraved in their bones, so that they know exactly what to do at what time.

And relying on the understanding of farming seasons and farming according to the seasons, Chinese farmers killed all the farmers in the world outside the Chinese civilization circle before industrialization. This is the meaning of the seasons.

It's just that things like seasons need to be revised slowly, which is really more troublesome than farming, and needs to be constantly revised.

"Since that's the case, I won't persuade you anymore. After a while, I'm going back to Chang'an with Manager Cheng!" Liu Shenwei said.

Master Yuan Ke said: "Remember to bring the herbs and early rice seeds you recorded here.

Although this rice is watery, it grows fast. Give it to King Yue and let him try it in Chang'an to see how it works! "

"Understood, it's you. Although you have been here for a year, the environment here makes it difficult to stay for a long time."

Liu Shenwei said to Yuan Keshi, "If Feng An also has other ideas, you should just hide in Guangzhou City.

The rice fields outside are gone. To King Yue, you are more important than these fields! "

"Don't worry!" Yuan Keshi nodded and said, "Feng Shangzhu is worried about himself, and you have arrived in Lingnan so quickly this time, and nothing happened to the whole army. Feng Shangzhu knows what he should do! "

Although Liu Shenwei has joined the army, he is really not as good as Yuan Keshi in this regard.

Liu Shenwei only knew that Feng An was the King of Lingnan on the Lingnan side, especially after Chen Longshu was defeated, Feng An seemed to be the dominant family.

That's why Liu Shenwei reminded Yuan Keshi to pay attention, but now it seems that he is still superficial.

At this time, Feng An received the news that Cheng Zhijie was preparing to return to court in his mansion.

At first he breathed a sigh of relief, but soon frowned.

Conscience of heaven and earth, Feng An really has no intention of rebelling against the imperial court.

If he really meant it, then Feng An had revolted and became king at the end of the Sui Dynasty, instead of decisively approaching Li Tang when he rose to the limelight a little bit.

Although he secretly called Lingnan King, it was not in secret. In fact, he was not the great official of Tang Dynasty.

To be honest, Feng An was somewhat surprised when the imperial court sent troops to Lingnan this time.

Because normally speaking, the soldiers of the imperial court are all from the north, so they should not be used to the weather in the south, especially in July and August when the weather is the hottest.

But this time the imperial court actually resolved all these matters, even Cheng Zhijie sent soldiers to wipe out those troublemakers all the way, and even no serious plague broke out in the army, which is absolutely impossible according to the usual practice.

However, the current Datang army has such abilities, how could this not surprise Feng An.

Of course, Feng An also quickly understood that the medical battalion was the reason. Now that the Tang army is fighting with a medical battalion!
In such a situation, if he wanted to make any moves, what would Cheng Zhijie do if he drove over with Datang's army!
Don't look at yourself as the King of Lingnan. The reason why the court let me be the King of Lingnan is that the cost of managing the Lingnan area is too high. In addition, the roads are impassable. Even if there are any special products, I can't send them out. I just developed sucrose. .

If the court wants to destroy him, at least looking at the speed of Cheng Zhijie's army this time, Feng An said that he can support it for a year at most.

Afterwards, everyone will definitely betray their relatives, and Cheng Zhijie will kneel down and beg himself not to commit suicide, but to be sent to Chang'an to be hacked into pieces.

But now that Cheng Zhijie came over to sort out the waterways and cultivate the fields, Cheng Zhijie originally thought that he would have to stay for two years before returning.

But because of the hot weather in Lingnan, the planting in autumn can continue to grow normally in winter, so the efficiency of Cheng Zhijie's appeasement has increased a lot.

Basically, the planted grain was harvested in the spring, and then those Liao people who were captured to farm, or the local people who had been completely sinicized, after eating the grain, naturally settled down one by one.

For Cheng Zhijie, this is almost enough.

After all, strictly speaking, Cheng Zhijie has the ability to calm down a region, but if he wants to deal with internal affairs further, it is somewhat difficult for Cheng Zhijie.

After all, his main job is still a general, not a civil servant.

At this moment, Yuan Keshi led the staff from the agricultural school to work.

Compared with those agricultural officials who can only persuade, Yuan Keshi and his group will really go deep into the common people.

They will not only ask the old farmers about the local planting species and techniques, but also bring the planting techniques of the Central Plains to this side, especially many tools that cannot be thought of locally.

Therefore, teachers and students from agricultural colleges such as Yuan Keshi were quickly accepted by local farmers.

The most important thing is that because this area has always been sparsely populated, but the clans gather together, the situation of land annexation is relatively not serious.

And although the local area can't be planted with a handful of seeds, the conditions for planting crops are indeed much better than those in the northern area.

Therefore, after accepting the guidance of the agricultural school, the local people basically ushered in a bumper harvest.

For the people at the bottom, whoever can bring them food is their parents.

What's more, the Guangzhou area has always been the basic market of the imperial court. At this moment, coupled with the deterrence of the army brought by Cheng Zhijie, it can be said that the speed of calming down in the Lingnan area far exceeds the speed at which the people can resume production after the normal chaos.

But in any case, with the first grain harvest, the imperial court has regained its foothold in the Lingnan area.

At least the people in this area of ​​Guangzhou have become like the imperial court.

Of course, for the time being, Feng An doesn't have to worry about his territory being eroded, because the number of students and teachers in the agricultural college is really not enough. This time farming can be popularized, which is why the medical camp also came to help.

It's just that Feng An understands that with the popularity of these agricultural officials in the Lingnan area, the foundation of the Lingnan King's rule in Lingnan may be eroded.

But I have no reason to reject the imperial court's kindness to the local people, and even to the Liao people to teach farming!
Forget it, when the imperial court really controls this land, I'm afraid it will be a headache for my son, don't think about it, trouble!

(End of this chapter)