Villager of Daming

Chapter 884 Change of habits depends on officials

It is impossible to be fast. I used to run a marathon a day, but now I have to recover. The key lies in the animals.

When horses and mules carry things, their endurance is not as good as that of humans, unless there are many horses working in rotation.

Fortunately, the food is good. Huaiyuan has a lot of soybeans and sorghum! Just give it to them.

Put sorghum rice bran and wheat bran, plus a little bean cake, into a popcorn machine to make puffed popcorn food that is delicious to everyone.

After mixing the bean dregs and grass, add some salt, shell powder, and limestone powder, and feed warm water at the same time. If the warm water is given to the horse, the horse will be willing to drink more water.

Ordinary people can't afford to raise military horses, and they can only raise carts. The common people want to raise cattle most, because cattle are worse than horses in terms of food.

The people finished their lunch one after another and began to help with work, such as frying beans. The fried beans could be ground into powder at any time to feed the livestock.

There are few soybean straws left, and they are all sold by the people to make money. Fengyang has a special livestock transfer yard with cows and some goats, which is perfect for feeding them.

It can also be mixed with other silage materials and added in small amounts. Because it is not made from the whole plant and people need to harvest the beans, the straw is not that good and the fibrosis is serious.

The best time is when edamame is available. People can't bear to harvest the edamame together and make it into silage.

The wheat straw that was about to be harvested was not used to feed the livestock, but was directly burned. Then it was immediately plowed into the fields, added with fertilizer, and planted with soybeans and sorghum.

The sorghum stalks are used to make things, such as curtains, pot brushes with the sorghum grains removed, and brooms. The leftovers are used as firewood for the earthen stoves.

Each family will leave some soybean straw and sorghum straw for retting, otherwise rotation farming will be too fattening.

How could the people know this before? They are planted once a year to restore soil fertility, and only in the south of the Yangtze River can crops be harvested three times every two years.

Not to mention intercropping and intercropping, soybean planting is helpful to restore land fertility, and it will be no problem if you get some extra mineral fertilizer.

The sergeants who came over began to teach them to first look at the pH of the soil and then consider what mineral fertilizer and biological fertilizer to use.

"I think some places have not yet started two-crop rotation, intercropping, and interplanting in the first half of the year. The yield of sorghum is stable and the harvest of soybeans is increased by one season."

The second eldest brother, Zhu Xi, drank tea and rested after the meal, and talked to the head of the village. He and other ministers could not do this because they were too close.

His third brother Zhu Fan followed up and said: "The officials promised to promote it casually, but the people are still willing to farm according to their original methods.

When they were suddenly told to plant more crops, they were worried that they would not be able to grow it, especially if they had no livestock. They would have to burn the wheat if they planted it in a place with wheat stubble.

Not to mention the place where rice is grown, they now rely on the sergeants in the village to guide them, using the imperial court's method of coercion. "

Zhu Fan talked about the people's situation, and the people in Huaiyuan were obedient because the prince's brother came and said it in person. The people chose to believe it, and at the same time the officials actively promoted it.

The place is not far from Nanjing. When businessmen come over, they will tell you how to grow crops in Xiaqiu Village. The harvest can be more than two years in one year.

In remote places, like the Lianghu area, the people were almost gone. Later, when the general amnesty was issued, some of them went back. They continued to work as before, three times in two years, which was not so tiring.

Sichuan promised not to listen. Officials came over with various brochures and asked the government officials to promote them. All the people had to do was ask, 'Are you responsible for reducing production? ’ The officials dared not say anything.

When the people in Huaiyuan asked the county magistrate, the county magistrate dared to pat his chest and promise to reduce production and come forward to see him.

Zhu Di also spoke: "We need leaders so that sergeants can truly help the people and integrate mineral fertilizers and biofertilizers from various places, including simple pesticide production.

I don’t know what happened in the province of Beiping. When we went there, soybeans and sorghum were planted there. Isn’t the place where rice is being planted about to be harvested soon? Thank you to Guo Shoujing of the previous dynasty for this. After the Tonghui River was opened, people on both sides of the strait could grow rice. Otherwise, when we go there in the future, we still don’t know where to get rice seeds and choose where to plant them! "

Zhu Di thought of his fiefdom. Wheat was grown in most places in Peiping, and only one area was planted with rice.

His fiefdom is good, with a good plain, and it is not far from the sea. To the north is grassland, to the west is Shanxi, and there is a gap in the Taihang Mountains.

To the east is part of Hebei, then to Liaoning, which is rich in products. To the south is Hebei, with its mouth at Tianjin and the Bohai Bay.

If Shanxi does not mine coal intensively in the future, it will really be difficult to develop. It will need more machinery and equipment, and then focus on the primary industry. Anyway, there is no need to count on the tertiary industry.

The youngest Zhu Xi looked at his three brothers and said, "I just follow the example. I'm still young and I'm not in a hurry to find a fief. Anyway, the King of Wu is not the right one."

I plan to start a business alone, pay for it myself, and cooperate with Xiaqiu Village. I learned a lot from Jubiqi.

I want a caravan that runs around everywhere, buying whatever is good and transporting whatever is lacking to sell elsewhere. "

He said that he was worried about losing money if there was no Xiaqiu Village with him.

The village chief obviously couldn't agree. The village was trying to separate, or cut off, other princes and princesses. How could it be possible to find a prince alone to conduct trade?

"Your Highness can form a small team on his own and run around in a place close to Yingtian Mansion to train talents." The chief said.

"Wait to go back!" Zhu Rui showed a hint of disappointment and heard it.

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When dinner time comes, the hot pot for everyone to eat fish is actually a side stove. The pot is just a basin, not a mandarin duck pot, let alone a beautiful copper hot pot with charcoal inside.

The reason for this is that it is easy to carry and the pot can be put back and forth. The hot pot in Northeast China takes up too much space and affects the team's ability to load things.

Fish were caught in the Huaihe River. Small steamboats hauled large-hole nets back and forth, and a large number of fish were quickly caught.

The shrimp pot set up last night also provided a lot of river shrimp, some river mussels, lettuce and chrysanthemum grown in early spring, and soy products, and it was a complete meal.

The staple food is leather belt noodles. When the vegetables are ready, throw them into the pot and cook them. The dried cowpea pickles with meaty skin are very delicious.

The children, the elderly, and pregnant women ate the sausages made before, which was the Harbin red sausage that Zhu Wentian learned from Lao Maozi when he was young. It was delicious.

Since it exists, of course there are stuffed buns made from its scraps, which are white and dotted with some minced sausages.

It's not the black stir-fried stuffed rice from Dalian. It has a soft texture and needs to be seasoned with sesame sauce and other seasonings.

This red sausage scraps are cut into pieces and dipped in garlic sauce, or deep-fried to taste delicious. The previously fried stuffed skewers are all made of it, as long as it has starch.

The soup used to make it is the soup used to cook sausages. Why are there red bits in it? When cooking sausages, make holes in the sausages to vent the air to prevent them from exploding and stuff coming out of the holes.

To put it bluntly, the water for cooking the red sausage is mixed with starch while it is hot, stirred and mixed, and steamed in a pot. When eaten, it will have a faint smell of red sausage. There is no such stuffy taste in other places, so red sausage is not made.

It's said to be Harbin red sausage. There are workshops in all the three northeastern provinces, and it's very cheap.

When it is done, some are sliced ​​and eaten with garlic sauce, some are fried and dipped in dry ingredients, and the children are dipped in jam.

(End of this chapter)