Villager of Daming

Chapter 456 There are many soil classifications in the front land (third change)
Zhu Yuanzhang talked and ate with Queen Ma.

Braised sparrow meat in soy sauce has no bones. The meat is removed, and the small pieces are discarded. Put them together with the bones and give them to Xiaqiu Village.

Xiaqiu Village stewed these in high-pressure barrels, then made jelly, and sent them to the library as snacks for students and children.

The bones are all pressed and crispy, so it is delicious to eat.

"Sparrows are so annoying. When it's time for the autumn harvest, they wander around the fields in groups. They even dare to go to our experimental field, so they just eat online."

Zhu Yuanzhang poured some braised sparrow soup into the rice plate, saying that he hated sparrows.

"You can't catch it too hard. This thing pays attention to a balance. When the crops are immature, the pests need sparrows to eat."

Empress Ma said that the knowledge learned from Xiaqiu Village can't kill all the sparrows, otherwise the food production will be reduced.

"The sparrow meat tastes better than chicken." Zhu Yuanzhang didn't know about other things, so he just took two bites and praised.

"Xiaqiu Village specially uses a pressure cooker. What we eat is secondary processing. I heard that northern sparrows will not fly to our south like wild geese in winter. How do they survive? It's so cold."

Queen Ma had never been to the north, so she couldn't figure it out. There are sparrows all over the world. When the dripping water freezes in winter, where are the sparrows?

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"Li Chang, these days I have been feeding sparrows in sauce to the people passing by, how do they live in winter?"

Zhu Yu also asked the same question. He knew that there were migrating birds, the most common being wild geese.

"In a nest in dry grass, or in a tree where other birds have discarded it.

Sparrows make their own nests, but they prefer to take advantage of what's available.

Under the eaves of ordinary people, like swallows, they will make nests. Most swallows want to move south, and sparrows can occupy other people's nests.

The weather in the south of the Yangtze River is not very cold, so the situation of sparrows building nests under other people's eaves is not as good as that in the north.

When people in the north see swallows and sparrows building nests in the eaves of their houses, they will never catch them, and they will not allow their children to dig out their eggs. "

The head of the village told Zhu Xi what he had heard from Hanhan, and he had never been to the north.

"Why is that?" Zhu Biao was also interested.

"Sparrows are afraid of too much noise and cold in winter, so when building a nest, they will choose a place with good insulation, preferably in the sun, and there is not much movement.

A house facing north and south must be the main house. There is no major movement, which means that the family is harmonious and there are no quarrels.

So others will say, this family is good, and there are swallows and sparrows as nests, so they are blessed.

In addition, where the sparrows make their nests, there will be a vegetable field in front of the house, where vegetables such as cucumbers and eggplants will be grown, and there will be food when the worms grow. "

The head of the village analyzed it from another angle, taking the living habits of sparrows as an example.

"Indeed, with a main house, no quarrels, and a vegetable field, life won't be too bad for such a family."

Zhu Biao agreed with the chief's statement that if there is a main house, there must be a side room, which proves that the family's financial conditions are good.

"In three more days, we will arrive in Baofeng County. What's there?" Zhu Xi also wanted to prepare for get out of class.

"Iron, coal, salt, and clay. In the Song Dynasty, porcelain was fired there. There are several types of soil. Some are very good and suitable for growing a large number of crops, and some are poor in quality and need special classification for planting.

In view of different soil conditions, the imperial court could not collect rent in the same way as the land tax in the past, otherwise wheat would still be grown in the fields of the people's homes, and the production would be severely reduced.

Some lands are not fertile enough to extract, so it is necessary to plant perennial plants of the Viola class.

Some places are dry, and there is only a certain period of time each year to grow things, which are generally used to grow wheat.

However, it is better to plant soybeans and sesame as oil crops, or to plant cotton when watering conditions are available. "

This trip to Baofeng depends on seeing coal mines, bitter salt mines, and normal salt mines.

"Go there and have a look. It should be planting winter wheat. When it grows in the field, it will be harder. Go to a few more places."

Zhu Biao knew that it was not easy to change the collection of land taxes. The imperial court did not know the situation of each piece of land in the area. The land that should collect grain also had to harvest hemp and cotton. In some places, mulberry trees had to be planted to raise silkworms.

Which kind of people do not plant, which one will be punished, and must be handed over.

In Xiaqiu Village, mulberry trees are no longer planted, as they find it troublesome to raise silkworms, but cotton is grown because cotton is needed for weaving and making clothes.

The special hemp fields were changed to cotton fields, and the rice fields were used to grow two kinds of hemp in rotation.

Let's wait and see where it is. If that's the case, we will have to arrange for people to record the soil conditions in other places in the future.

In a place with a lot of rain, it is suitable for growing rice. Wouldn't it be a lie to let the people grow cotton?

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Three days passed in a flash, and the team finally arrived in Ruzhou, but did not go to Ruzhou County, so Ruzhou Zhizhou and other officials ran from Ruzhou County to Baofeng County.

Today is August [-]th, and tomorrow is Mid-Autumn Festival.

The team set up camp and had to stay for a few days. What vegetables, fruits, and furs the people had in their homes could be sold.

As they walked along the way, the team opened sticky bird nets to catch sparrows.

There is no need to kill them all, as long as one batch is reduced, the people will be more relaxed.

If you don't dig out the bird's nest, you won't keep yelling and beating drums to scare the sparrows to fly, and they will die of exhaustion if they don't dare to land.

It is even more impossible to smoke and poison.

The people who grow beans and rice lead the team of sparrows to their fields, talking about how sparrows harm food and other sad words.

The kids came over to wash their hands and faces, and got popcorn sticks and fried sparrows.

The number of times of frying is too many, and there is half a pot of oil left in a pot, so replace it, and do not continue to add oil, because it needs to be used to make soap.

In addition, there are also sparrows on iron plates, which are also oily!Let's stop cooking and make soap together.

The magistrate, Tongzhi, and magistrate of Ruzhou came here. The officials of Ruzhou County did not come.

In addition, Zhao Li ran over with all the people in his Zhaojia Village. He was the most courageous village head selling bitter salt back then.

He bribed the county officials to buy a salt guide, and sent the bitter salt from the village to the market in Dangtu County for sale.

After that, he sold it three more times and made a lot of money. The well that produced bitter salt was confiscated by the imperial court, and they helped boil the brine.

At the same time, he also used the money from selling bitter salt to bring a lot of livestock back to the village. Everyone worked hard to farm and raise pigs and poultry.

Now life is going well, and everyone in the village puts on beautiful new clothes and comes to see the benefactor.

"Quickly kowtow to His Highness the Crown Prince and King Qin." Zhao Li called for more than 700 villagers to kneel down.

"Stop kneeling, there are still pregnant women here." Zhu Xi saw that there were elderly people and pregnant women, who would be to blame if there was a problem with kneeling?

The guards went over to stop them, while Zhu Biao looked at the people in the village, mainly looking at their faces, but it was useless to look at the clothes, which could be provided at any time.

All of them looked good, at least not with disheveled faces. It is normal for the skin to be rough due to cooking salt.

Zhao Li knelt down and kowtowed. When he got up, he looked at the chief: "Yichang, last time you helped us with the idea, we followed it, and life is really better now."

(End of this chapter)