Guide to Traveling through the Northern Song Dynasty.

Chapter 124 0119 [The future can be expected]

Chapter 124 0119 [The future can be expected]

Regarding the high-drum car, the People's Education version of "History" said it appeared in the Song Dynasty, while the People's version of "History" said it appeared in the Sui and Tang Dynasties.

Both statements are correct.

The Tang Dynasty left a written introduction, but there were no names and patterns.Wang Zhen's "Nongshu" in the Yuan Dynasty had a specific name and map.

It is very likely that they were rare in the Northern Song Dynasty, and Chen Yuan had never seen them all the way from Fujian.

"Is this a drum?" Chen Yuan asked.

Zhu Ming introduced: "The high-drum trolley existed in the Tang Dynasty, and my father improved it himself."

It is not an improvement, but an adjustment according to the specific terrain, which is somewhat different from the records in Wang Zhen's "Nong Shu".

Chen Yuan came closer to observe the specific structure. Although it was not used at this time, the ten-meter-high runner still made him sigh: "It really is the way that people use every day."

Passing through the seeded rapeseed fields, Chen Yuan came to the aqueduct at the foot of the mountain.

Zhu Ming said: "The bandits don't know how to build water conservancy. My father organized the villagers to dig this irrigation canal. The high-speed water truck brought the river water and poured it into the canal. Half of the paddy fields in the village can get water. When I go out, The canal has not been dug, but now it is done, and the field can be irrigated only after the rapeseed is harvested."

Chen Yuan praised: "Brother Yuanzhang, if he becomes an official, he will surely benefit the common people of one side. I'm just living in this small ditch."

After going back for a while, some villagers were working in the fields.

The wheat seedlings in that field are lush and green, and the villagers are cutting sweet potato seedlings.

Chen Yuan asked curiously, "What is this?"

"The high-yield crop brought back from overseas is called sweet potato," Zhu Ming explained. "My father once said that educating people should teach students according to their aptitude, and farming should be based on local conditions. The dry land at the foot of the mountain is slightly fertile, and wheat and corn can be rotated twice a year. Sweet potatoes , Beans are interplanted among them. Not only is the yield high, but crop rotation can also reduce pests and diseases. This is not the case in barren mountainous areas. Generally, wheat is not used, but other things are selected to rotate with corn."

"There is a way to farming." Chen Yuan nodded.

As he walked, Zhu Ming said, "On the east and west sides of the mountain, weir ponds have been dug, which can also store rainwater for irrigation. We plan to dig another weir pond this year, so that water will be more convenient."

From time to time, Chen Yuan met villagers who were working. He had heard the story of Zhu Ming's suppression of bandits, and he knew that the villagers here were all bandits.

Seeing it with my own eyes at this moment, there is no trace of banditry, more like an honest farmer.He believes that this is due to the merits of enlightenment. There are great Confucianists sitting on this mountain, and in just over half a year, they have successfully turned bandits into civilians.

Everyone observed and chatted all the way, and walked towards the mountain where the cottage was located.

The barren slopes at the foot of the mountain have been reclaimed, and some broad beans have been planted casually, without expecting to harvest much, mainly to nourish the fertility of the newly reclaimed wasteland.

These wastelands were allotted to newly arrived escaped households and poor people.Taxes will be exempted for three years. Broad beans will be planted in spring, soybeans will be planted in summer, and peas will be planted in winter. All beans can provide nitrogen fertilizer for the soil.Sprinkling some plant ash can also provide potassium fertilizer for the soil, and poultry manure can provide phosphorus fertilizer.

After two or three years of cultivation in this way, barren land can become mature land.

Under the guidance of science, land reclamation can be faster!
Zhu Guoxiang is halfway up the mountain, instructing the villagers to plant saplings.

When he heard that Chen Yuan was coming, he hurried forward to greet him.

After exchanging pleasantries, Zhu Guoxiang pointed to the newly planted saplings and said, "They are all tung oil saplings. Xixiang County is hard to find, so they were bought by officials from Lilu in Tuo County. The halfway up the mountain is too steep, and it is inconvenient to plant and water. It is easy to cause soil erosion. The trees here were all cut down by bandits, so they can be planted with tung oil. It will bear fruit in three years and extract oil, which will be another source of income.”

Zhu Guoxiang was dressed as a farmer at this time, wearing a short linen jacket with trousers rolled up to his calves, and his bare feet were covered with mud.

Seeing everyone looking at him, Zhu Guoxiang explained with a smile: "I just came back from the paddy field and taught the villagers to control floods and droughts and raise seedlings. I haven't had time to change into clean clothes."

Chen Yuan made a bow and said, "Yuanzhang is enduring hardships and doing what he does, which really admires me."

Zhu Guoxiang laughed: "It's not hard work, I like farming. Some people enjoy drinking, some people enjoy watching theater, but I enjoy farming."

Dean Zhu really enjoys it. He has a wife at night and crops during the day. There is so much land in the village, he can plan and arrange it however he wants.

Already a bit reluctant to leave!
Chen Yuan admired him even more: "Turning suffering into joy is almost entering Taoism."

Zhu Guoxiang shouted to the villagers who planted trees: "Call work after planting these, and go to your own land."

Several villagers bowed to say goodbye one after another. They looked at Zhu Guoxiang with admiration and love from the bottom of their hearts.

This is very different from when they faced Ju Ming. The villagers were more in awe of Zhu Ming. After all, Zhu Ming killed many people when he suppressed the bandits.

The father and son led the crowd to continue up the mountain, the steeper it went, the legs of the young masters became weak.

Li Hanzhang was fond of military affairs. When he passed by Shahukou, he exclaimed: "This is a natural danger. It is not easy for Dalang to suppress bandits."

"I led the troops to attack the front, and then sent people to go around the mountain for three days, and climbed up to the village at night to set fire to win." Zhu Ming simply explained.

Li Hanzhang nodded and said, "Combined by rightness and won by surprise."

"Sun Tzu's Art of War" was a banned book in the early Song Dynasty, and the ban was lifted in the middle of the Northern Song Dynasty, and it has been spread by now.

Chen Yuan also read it, and praised: "It's not easy to attack the army, but it's not easy to attack. You have the talent to lead the army successfully."

The top of the mountain still looks like a ghost, and there are burnt and blackened ruins everywhere.

But it is no problem to burn the rest of the house and arrange more than ten guests to live there.

Shen Yourong was leading the female relatives on the mountain to weed the vegetable field. There were many vegetables planted there, including several square feet of yellow flowers - Dean Zhu was already preparing for the extraction of colchicine.

Hearing that there was a visitor, Shen Yourong threw down his hoe and came over.

"Mr. Chen, this is Zhuo Jing." Zhu Guoxiang introduced.

Shen Yourong bowed and saluted: "Mr. Blessings."

Chen Yuan bowed and said, "My lady is well."

After some greetings, Shen Yourong led the followers to select and clean the vacant houses.

Zhu Guoxiang led them to move on. Behind a ruin, the land was loosened and watered, and a lot of fertile organic matter was piled up.

Dozens of pieces of basswood are half buried in the soil, and some small shiitake mushrooms have grown.

Zhu Guoxiang never tired of introducing the results: "The ones cultivated in autumn last year can be picked in a few days, and can be picked until summer. After the technical research is thorough, let the villagers come to learn, women can grow mushrooms and sell them for money during the slack season .”

"This mountain treasure can be cultivated unexpectedly," Chen Yuan sighed in admiration, "Brother Yuanzhang has excellent agricultural skills."

Zhu Guoxiang said: "The cultivation time of mycelium is too short, and there are not many mushrooms this year. After two or three years, a large number of mushrooms should be produced."

Chen Yuan didn't understand what mycelium was, but he just thought it was very powerful.

Zhu Guoxiang continued: "There are two secrets to this method, one is to cut flowers, and the other is to startle mushrooms..."

"Mushroom scaring technique" is to use shoes or cork to beat the basswood that cultivates shiitake mushrooms.The ancients thought that shiitake mushrooms would grow hair after a thunderstorm, so they slapped the basswood to imitate thunder, which could awaken the seeds of shiitake mushrooms.

In fact, through vibration, the mycelial cells are stimulated to become active.

Everyone squatted to the side to watch, just like people from the city came to the farmhouse, and everything they saw was very strange.

Min Zishun even borrowed the woman's hoe and went to weed the vegetable field, just thinking about the addiction of doing farm work.This is very new to him, he has never planted the ground in Zhoucheng, and he has no idea how vegetables grow.

Chen Yuan pointed to the shiitake mushrooms that had not yet grown up: "In Kaifeng City, a plate of fried pork with fresh mushrooms costs at least two hundred yuan. It costs seventy or eighty yuan for a plate of fried pork with dried mushrooms. The price will be lower, but it is also quite expensive, and this thing will be of great use."

"Then dry it and sell it to Guanzhong." Zhu Guoxiang laughed.

The prices in Kaifeng are really high. A breakfast of offal offal is at least 20 Wen.

Wealthy people are willing to spend money on food, and the big oysters from Jiaodong Peninsula can only be sold for a penny when transported to the south of the Yangtze River!Of course, the main reason is that the freight is expensive, and it has to be transported quickly by sea boat. Without a cold chain, it is easy to stink and deteriorate.

All kinds of mushrooms are also very expensive, and they are especially popular.

If shiitake mushrooms are produced with energy, the profit per catty will be higher than that of tea leaves, and the price will not be reduced until the technology is popularized.

Zhu Guoxiang led everyone to wander around, until the room was cleaned in the middle of the afternoon, and they went back to their rooms to rest.

Calling his son into the room alone, Zhu Guoxiang asked, "Aren't you going to become famous in Yangzhou? Why did you come back suddenly?"

"It's too much fame," Zhu Ming said briefly, "I didn't expect Song Huizong to order conquest, and he underestimated the ancient people's worship of imperial power. Now people in Yangzhou call me Zhengjun, every day Someone came for a banquet. The old grandpa of the Li family died and paid me a lot of money to write his epitaph, which made me decide to avoid the limelight for now."

Zhu Guoxiang said: "The Li family is very powerful, so we can make friends, why don't you help write the epitaph?"

"The Li family's reputation is also bad," Zhu Ming said. "They run a gold shop and lend usury everywhere. You should understand what that means."

Zhu Guoxiang nodded and said, "It's good to come back, but sometimes reputation is too much."

Zhu Ming expressed his thoughts: "That's the reason. Now we have no money and no power, our own strength is too weak, and we are too famous if we are famous. If we are only seeking money and officials, it doesn't matter, of course, but what we think is To rebel. I continue to stay in Yangzhou, just to make more social celebrities and local tyrants. But do they value me? No, what they value is imperial power, and Zhengjun can give them face."

Zhu Guoxiang said comfortingly: "It's rare, you still have self-knowledge."

"Daming Village is where our foundation lies, and it must be developed as soon as possible," Zhu Ming continued. "Now we have received too much favor from the powerful, and we have gotten too involved with those people. From now on, we can only be tied up. I plan to be in the village, Stay here until the autumn exam, and improve your real level by the way. At least you must be familiar with the "Book of Rhymes", and you must write the scriptures well, otherwise someone will break it. By the way, how is the tea research?"

Zhu Guoxiang said: "I know how to make black tea. Without the help of modern technology, there are only a few methods of ancient fermentation, and I can research it with a little experimentation. In addition, I also discovered an important situation."

"What's going on?" Zhu Ming asked in surprise.

Zhu Guoxiang said: "When I chatted with the tea workers, they said that tea can be picked in autumn. Spring tea is the best and can be made into round tea. Autumn tea can also be sold, but it can only be made into loose tea. It doesn't matter if we fry tea , although the quality of autumn tea is not that good, it is no problem to fry it."

There are many records of autumn tea in Tang Dynasty and Ming Dynasty.

Only in the Song Dynasty, there were very few autumn teas. The reason was that the drinking method of Song Dynasty had too high requirements on the quality of tea buds.Even the tea horse department didn't bother to tax autumn tea, and let the tea garden owners sell loose tea in autumn.

Zhu Guoxiang excitedly said: "Using the autumn tea, our 300-mu tea mountain, the annual profit is estimated to be over a thousand!"

There are also hundreds of acres of tea hills outside the old Baiyuan. They rely on tax evasion and tax evasion to sell private tea, plus a small amount of top-quality tuancha, and the annual net profit is about [-] guan.

Qianguan's annual profit can make the eyes of old white employees turn red, and most likely they will send someone over to inquire about tea-frying techniques.

Zhu Guoxiang said: "There are many poor people outside the city of Yangzhou. When the Zheng family sends a boat to collect tea, they can be entrusted to help recruit people. The new villagers live in the abandoned tea mountains downstream. This year, the abandoned tea mountains must be cleared out! Tea leaves If you sell them, you will get money, if you harvest corn and sweet potatoes, you will get food, and it will be no problem to recruit another 300 people this year.”

Zhu Ming said with a smile: "If we recruit another 300 people, the population will be close to 1400. This is the largest force in the county. The future is promising!"

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