Villager of Daming

Chapter 1118: Burning stubble and drying grain, seeds are expensive

On the first day of June, the sky is bright.

Zhu Ming stood next to the wheat field, holding a sickle to cut a handful of wheat first, and the others started to cut.

The number of harvesters was small and they were scattered throughout Zhuozhou as a show to the local people.

There were many people in the army, and bundles of wheat were collected, transported to the side, and put on machinery for threshing.

There are also foot-operated threshing machines, which craftsmen made improvised. Most of them are made of wood with iron wire at the core.

By the way, I also helped the people of Zhuozhou build a pedal-operated rice thresher, and they will start planting rice next year.

This time, the stubble was cut high, not so low. When the harvest was over, a fire was set to burn the wheat straw.

After a month or so, the people would plow the land again. After it rained, they would let it dry for a while and use it to plant vegetables for winter storage. They would then harvest the vegetables after autumn and leave the land alone.

Plant green onions, radishes, carrots, and green onions. Harvest the green onions before planting rice next year.

Seeds are different from grains. Seeds are the best grains and have the highest yield.

There are onions in the ground now. They were planted in spring and then planted after harvesting in autumn. There are few onion seeds and the breeding time of Ming Dynasty is short.

"Just now the people from Xiaqiu Village mentioned something, and His Highness Prince Jin realized something..."

Tong Tongtong boldly asked, if the grain is bought, the people will use the money to buy grain?
"Exchange!" Zhu Di knew how to do it: "Exchange good seeds for ordinary grains, and the yield per mu of someone's land will increase by half a percent. If others want to exchange seeds, they need to exchange eleven kilograms of normal grains for ten kilograms of seeds, and get an increase of 10 percent.

"Zhao joined the government and asked the court to buy the onions he planted, and also buy the grain he grew in the future? What will the people eat?"

In fact, some crop seeds in Xiaqiu Village are cost-effective to exchange for twice the grain.

Zhao Yao, who participated in the political affairs, repeated the situation again, but the officials who were far away did not hear him. He was tired after doing a little work and his hearing deteriorated.

The seeds in Xiaqiu Village are good, and the yield is much higher. It is a one-for-one exchange with the court. Now the court and the people get a 20% bonus.

You can grow garlic and ginger at will in Zhuozhou. The local latitude is good and you can grow them in spring and autumn. You can choose either spring wheat or winter wheat. If you don’t want to grow wheat, just plant rice.

Zhao Yao, who was involved in politics, called for a stop, and the officials put on a show and helped harvest in the fields.

The four princes are all very skilled, but they are unwilling to do it. They look at Xiaqiu Village, cut a few bundles, put down their sickles and talk about things.

"So Zhuozhou is most suitable to be a breeding base?" Zhu Fan, who made some gestures in the field after hearing what was suitable for planting here, felt that it was not cost-effective to let people grow things normally.

Some people don’t know how to do it at all, so they might as well not cut it! The wheat stubbles were cut in different lengths, and they could not be tied into bundles. The wheat was scattered on the ground, which made people worry that the wheat harvesters had cut themselves.

"Everyone, please stop doing it, let others cut it, and come over and have a chat."

The onions that have been planted will be eaten by oneself next year, while the rest of the court will collect them and send them to other places as seeds.

After adding up the 20%, it is equivalent to the freight. For nearby places, the imperial court earns part of it. For mid-range places, the imperial court earns the same amount. For distant places, the freight is naturally compensated, and the nearby places are used to compensate.

Officials have been waiting for this moment! Did you do this kind of work yourself? It’s so hot, it hurts when the wheat ears are scratched on my arms and face, and my waist is sore...

The people of Zhuozhou followed the operations taught by the sergeants and did not have to calculate the planting and harvesting time by themselves, which was very worry-free.

The grains obtained by Xiaqiu Village were not given to Xiaqiu Village, but to our eldest brother, the Crown Prince. The Crown Prince used the grain to comfort and pacify the people.

The almshouse needs food, but it is obviously not possible to rely on the local government. The government does not have much income, and it has to give it to the school.

Huimin Pharmacy and Herbal Medicine Library are both places where money is spent. Thanks to the help of Xiaqiu Village, otherwise only people in a few places can enjoy these benefits. "So much food is all given?" You have to leave some food for your own village! "

Chief Fang Dachuan felt sorry for others again, feeling that the people in Xiaqiu Village were prodigal.

"Don't say anything. How can there be a shortage of food in Xiaqiu Village? We only eat good food.

Most of the rice from Zhuozhou is shipped to Xiaqiu Village, because we always go to Xiaqiu Village to eat.

The rice from Dingliao Duwei is more fragrant than the rice here. Once it is steamed, you don’t need to eat the vegetables. You can eat it just by eating the rice.

If Zhuozhou wants to get more grain, it must increase its output, and then the increase will be its own, and it will be exchanged for more.

Don't worry about wheat, think about rice more, and... ginger, the older the ginger mother is, the better.

There are a large number of seven-year-old ginger in Xiaqiu Village. The three-year-old ginger harvested from elsewhere is grown by oneself and kept year after year. The ginger produced is so good!

Ginger that has been seeded for three years is mother ginger, that is, old ginger. It is generally used for medicinal purposes. The older the better.

There are a small number of ginger mothers who are more than twenty years old. They are in chaos. After planting the ginger, they just leave it there and grow for many years.

If any of you have it, please tell me in advance, don’t dig it yourself, and don’t eat it, Xiaqiu Village will collect it. "

The fifth elder, Zhu Xi, always has a petty attitude. Xiaqiu Village thinks about benefiting the village all day long, and the Ming Dynasty does not need to develop.

If Xiaqiu Village pays some benefits, it will naturally reap benefits. Otherwise, why wouldn't I dare to provoke Sister Ling'er! The beating was in vain. Who else would dare to beat the prince?
This is something people got in exchange for their own interests, so you can’t accept it.

Du Zhizhou, Guan Tongzhi and all the Zhuozhou judges listened the most attentively, and the yield per mu increased greatly. If they exchanged it for seeds, they would earn twice more.

A half-percent increase in production is equivalent to an extra half month of grain a year, and adding an additional 10% in exchange for other grains adds another month.

The greater the increase in output, the greater the proportion during replacement, exceeding 20%, and another replacement will provide four more months of food.

If you want to harvest more food, apply more fertilizer, check the pH, and use the pesticides and fertilizers introduced in the brochure. People are hardworking and guarding the land is worth the hard work for a year.

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In a blink of an eye, it’s noon, everyone is taking a rest, and someone is making arrangements in the distance. Here we still eat rice.

Freshly harvested wheat cannot be ground and must be dried for a long time.

There are new drying fields in some places, which are covered with cement. Before that, they had been covered with straw curtains for watering. After harvesting the wheat, the straw curtains were removed, and as soon as the cement floor was dry, they were put up to dry.

Craftsmen from other places continued to bring cement from Beiping Prefecture to make it. People dried millet in other places first, and then moved it over after the cement floor was ready.

This kind of land can be used for a long time and is better than the land pressed with stone rollers, which is usually done once a year and is time-consuming.

The mud drying ground cannot be kept, and it always rains. Special drying grounds are built every year, and the pits are filled with gravel and pressed again.

Then when I was drying the grain, I saw it raining, so I put the millet away. When the rain fell, I had to wait for the weather to be sunny enough to dry the mud drying ground before I could put the millet up and continue drying.

The cement floor dries quickly. As long as the sun comes out, the little water from the previous rain will evaporate quickly.

There were meat and vegetables today, and most of the birds we caught were sparrows. They came over to eat wheat, so they just put it on a sticky net, and then braised it in braise.

The caught hedgehogs will not be eaten. The smaller ones will be raised and the larger ones will be sent to Huimin Pharmacy, where they will be processed and used for medicinal purposes.

(End of this chapter)