Villager of Daming

Chapter 809 Prices drop again and subsidies increase

After the Lantern Festival, the temperature in the south of the Yangtze River suddenly rose, and the people who grew vegetables began to pick up the fertilized fertilizer into the ground in preparation for plowing and planting vegetables.

In Xiaqiu Village, steam-powered tillers were used to create furrows in a field, and then workers were hired to help plant the fields.

A month ago, Xiaqiu Village started raising seedlings in greenhouses, and now the seedlings can be transplanted and planted.

It is planted more than a month earlier than other normal ones. Since the seedlings are raised in a greenhouse and the fertilizer is well controlled, the seedlings grow quickly.

The advantage is that cucumbers, cowpeas, and eggplants are on the market early. According to this planting method, you can eat them one and a half months in advance.

The disadvantage is that it requires manual labor. For normal planting, just make a small hole on the ridge platform, scatter the seeds in and cover it with soil.

When the seedlings are raised and then transplanted, the pit will become larger, and then they are planted one by one, which consumes a lot of manpower and is beyond the reach of ordinary people.

In addition, the root system of transplanted seedlings is not as good as that of direct planting. For example, if there is heavy rain, the transplanted seedlings will fall first, or if there is a drought, the transplanted seedlings will die first.

Advantages and disadvantages coexist, so this year only Xiaqiu Village is planting vegetables, and then renting some people's land and letting them help manage it. The rent is the people's normal annual income from growing vegetables.

People don't need to provide seeds and fertilizers, they just take care of it, water it when it's time to water it, and spray it when it's time to spray it.

Then the other 21 villages in Xuancheng County will also take seedlings from the greenhouses in Xiaqiu Village over there. They will free up half of the land for planting, and the other half will be sown naturally according to the original method.

They wanted to see which one was better and then choose next year, so they didn't take any money from them. They were allowed to help try it out and they borne the risk themselves.

In the evening, Zhu Yuanzhang wandered over again and went to the village land. The rented land was not safe there.

"We don't raise seedlings in our greenhouse, but plant them alternately. Vegetables now cost an average of five cents per pound, and they won't be sold at high prices after the Lantern Festival."

Zhu Yuanzhang stood at the edge of the field and talked while looking at the cowpeas and cucumber seedlings that people from the Prince's Palace, Prince Qin's Palace, Prince Jin's Palace, Prince Yan's Palace, and Prince Wu's Palace helped transplant.

Because I am worried about a sudden cold in spring, I don't use furrows to drain water now. I just transplant the seedlings and pour some water on that one.

In this way, when the late spring cold occurs, fertilizer and water need to be supplemented when the temperature cools down. Watering with furrows can suddenly warm up and supplement fertilizer at the same time.

If we do this now, the water in the soil will be saturated, and fertilizer will not be able to follow it.

In addition, there are seedlings in the greenhouse, ready to be replanted at any time. If the ones that freeze to death are quickly pulled out and thrown away, and new ones planted.

The greenhouses in the palace did not provide seedlings, but were always selling vegetables. The price dropped from twenty cents before the New Year to ten cents after the New Year, and from ten cents to five cents after the Shangyuan Festival.

I still make five cents. The construction cost of the greenhouse vegetables has been recouped, and now I earn more every time I sell more.

When the cucumbers grow in the earth, one penny can buy several kilograms, and the vegetable farmers have a hard time.

The key is that vegetable farmers do not have any means of fertilizing or spraying pesticides. They rely on what was recorded in the agricultural books of the previous dynasty and will take some measures, such as water soaked in plant ash to kill insects, or lime water.

Fertilizer is the fertilizer from farmers, or rotten tree leaves, etc., retting together. This is the limit of what the common people can do, and some people can't even do this.

"Your Majesty, watermelons and cantaloupes make money! People eat them all the time."

The manager knows that the price of vegetables has dropped, and the price of watermelons has also dropped at the same time. Watermelons will still be valuable if they drop further, but...

"We still have to provide it to Huimin Pharmacy. Your village doesn't grow much and you don't sell it. Oh, sell some to Fuhua Building."

Zhu Yuanzhang indeed mentioned this matter. Watermelon is valuable, but it must be eaten for free. It is medicine.

Some use watermelon pulp, some use watermelon rind, and some use watermelon seeds. Watermelon seeds are easy to say. They have always been available. There are many summers, and even watermelon seeds that are not specially used to extract seeds can be used.Those who specialize in extracting seeds cannot eat the flesh, as the seeds are large and numerous. These are eaten as snacks and are classified as nuts.

The people at Huimin Pharmacy know that there are watermelons and cantaloupe. Once they find that people who come to see a doctor need them, they will prescribe them, and then the people can eat watermelons.

Even those who need to eat the melon rind will eat the flesh and receive the fruit for free, otherwise they will have to prescribe other medicines. If the reserve of other medicines is small, there may not be enough raw medicines.

"Your Majesty loves the people as his own children. Today's technology is better applied. The coal residue and cinders left after burning are also good fertilizers in the vegetable fields.

If there are no conditions, just crush the large particles slightly. If there are conditions, crush them more thoroughly and speed up the decomposition speed.

The grinding is done in the village. In the process of smelting steel, there must be a lot of burnt coke ash. This can... be subsidized to the people. "

The mayor didn't want to mention something that made His Majesty sad, so he quickly changed the subject. The ashes from the stove can be used as fertilizer, as long as you don't overdose.

Similarly, coke ash has many uses, one of which is fertile land. It would be a pity to throw it away. It is best to subsidize it to the people. If you ask for money, the people will not buy it because they have no money.

Zhu Yuanzhang had already seen the ashes in the vegetable field and thought about it: "How to subsidize it? According to the region or who is poorer?"

“According to the crop planting methods and varieties, for example, what crops we ask to be planted in the fields, and the people do it, we will provide them.

Especially for some new varieties, people usually want stability, and they are unwilling to plant them even if they are given seeds.

We use subsidies to get people interested. Once people are willing to give it a try and receive subsidies, the new crops can be sold for more money.

From now on, I will get used to it. As long as the seeds are given by the court, the people will be assured and will not accept them on the surface and violate them in practice. "

The head of the village told him how to do it, and he promised that it would not work if he just gave it away for free. The quantity of the things was limited, and then the people put all their efforts into the fields, and finally the land was left uncultivated.

Zhu Yuanzhang nodded: "It's done! Vegetables from the earth still need to wait for a while, but there are more wild vegetables. Some of the wild vegetables that grow quickly can be eaten as buds."

"We have wild vegetables in the greenhouse, including dandelions, garnets, garlic and other vegetables used for medicinal purposes."

The chief asked doubtfully, "Does Your Majesty want to eat it?"Then make stuffing.

"We are asking whether people will still buy vegetables from greenhouses, or will prices continue to drop?"

Zhu Yuanzhang knew what Li Chang meant and shook his head.

It’s not about eating, of course you can eat it, but there are too many wild vegetables. When people see green vegetables, who will buy expensive greenhouse vegetables?

"Jubiqi's sauce is very popular, and the wild vegetables are delicious when dipped in the sauce, or you can get some oil residue and fat meat to make stuffing.

However, wild vegetables cannot replace normal vegetables. Cucumber... There is a kind of wild vegetable that tastes like cucumber, but does not have the texture of cucumber.

There are also eggplants. I still have the dried eggplants from last year. How about frying up an eggplant box to eat?Or lotus root box? "

When the director talked about the food, he was also greedy. He had to eat tonight and he didn’t know what to eat yet!

"Yeah! Just fry the eggplant box. It needs to be lean meat, but the fat is greasy. It has been deep-fried. Let's go back and keep the lights on here to save some electricity."

Zhu Yuanzhang said as he walked back with his hands behind his back. There were lights in the field so that he could observe the growth of the crops.

(End of this chapter)