Starting from the Western Han Dynasty

Chapter 156 The caterpillar is so terrifying?
Li Huan smiled and pushed the stinky tofu in front of Zhang Qian: "You can eat rotten tofu, let alone a rotten idea?"

During the days when he was on the run as an envoy, Zhang Qian really ate everything. The stinky tofu in front of him was carefully cooked, so he naturally ate it all in one bite.

"Since the prince calls Chen Guiren after his mother and is going to Anyang County to build the ancestral home, why not invite Chen Guiren to go with him?"

Li Huan was shocked: "How is this a bad idea of ​​yours? This is simply earth-shattering!"

"Hahaha..." Zhang Qian said with a smile: "As long as the lord speaks, I believe that the nobleman will happily nod and go. After all, I am a man who governs the country with filial piety. When the ancestral house is completed, it is right for the elders to preside over the sacrifices. Not to mention, the lord is not Are you planning to prepare a new building material? As long as this thing is given to the noble lady, she will not let Liu Ling get there first!"

"Although it's a bit shocking, but if you think about it a little bit..." Li Huan changed to rice wine, took a sip, and narrowed his eyes: "The Queen Mother really has no possibility of refusing... Come, Brother Ziwen, I respect you!"

Zhang Qian boarded the departing carriage in a daze. Li Huan had people spread the bedding inside, and also told Zhang Qian's servants to be careful not to choke Zhang Qian if the bumps caused Zhang Qian to vomit.

This is a real surprise. Zhang Qian's drinking capacity is actually not as good as his own...

It's understandable when you think about it. Zhang Qian seemed to have heard himself saying that tiger whip wine was very powerful. He even drank rice wine, and he was still pouring it into his mouth...

Who am I? I used to be a wanderer who drank with rich women at nightclubs. In terms of drinking capacity, I really can't say anything about it.

In the afternoon breeze, Li Huan yawned and leaned on the wicker chair.

Princess Nangong Jinzhan, who was rushing over from the side, had a smile in her eyes: "What on earth did you say to Liu Ling?"

"Then something exciting must have happened." Li Huan was instantly exhausted.

Jinzhan said excitedly: "I heard that after she went back yesterday, she actually fell into the ditch twice while walking. The last time, she almost fell into the well. After struggling for most of the night, Liu Ling finally fell asleep, but today Already have a fever."

"Hahaha..." Li Huan's laughter was extremely hearty, "There are times when she will suffer."

"But, what exactly did you say to her? To make her so evil?" Jinzhan was extremely curious.

"I can't tell you. After I tell you, I'm afraid you will become like her." Li Huan shook his head. He felt that he really couldn't explain things like gravity to Jinzhan now.

When Jinzhan heard this, he immediately showed fear: "Then I will never have the slightest interest in this."

"There is something that I think is quite strange." Jinzhan immediately thought of the doubts in her heart. She looked around at the vibrant fields and frowned: "Why are there so many bugs in my fields, even on the trees?" They are all densely covered with caterpillars. Although there are some here, why don’t they seem to be so many?”

"Caterpillar?" Li Huan shivered subconsciously, "Take me to see it!"

Jinzhan's fields are terrifyingly large. According to her casual statement, there are probably tens of thousands of acres... In addition to the fields near Chang'an, there are also fields all the way west to Mei County, under Qishan Mountain, and along the Jing River, and they are all Good land for irrigation.

Li Huan rode his horse and walked to the edge of the field. He immediately discovered that the difference between the field here and his field there was really big...

The distribution of the ditches here is extremely unreasonable. In addition, there are too few trees. Many servants and tenant farmers in the farm are catching insects.

Li Huan felt his scalp numb when he looked at the densely packed caterpillars. There were even many caterpillars that had crawled along the horse's legs and onto his back before he knew it.

Jinzhan's nerves were thick, and its two slender jade fingers picked up the wildly struggling and squirming caterpillar. Under the numbness of Li Huan's scalp, it was flicked away by the curved fingers.

The horse under Li Huan's crotch seemed to be able to sense the timidity of its owner. With two kicks, the horse's hooves were nailed with iron horseshoes and crushed the caterpillar crawling forward on the ground. The dark green internal organs exploded instantly.

Li Huan frowned as he watched, and even used the scabbard to sweep the caterpillars off his followers to the ground. Then he looked at the divine horse under his crotch and trampled the caterpillars to death one by one...

"Is it so scary?" Marigold seemed to be used to such seasonal bugs.

Li Huan wanted to speak, but couldn't help but shuddered: "Why are there so many bugs here?"

"Isn't this the question I want to ask you?" After Jinzhan finished speaking, Li Huan saw him grab a caterpillar from his head that had crawled onto his crown at some point.

This made Li Huan even more hairy.

Jinzhan looked at Li Huan's exaggerated movements and couldn't help but ask the guard: "What did my man look like during the fierce battle with the Huns at Gaoque?"

"Reporting to the princess, the king set up a high platform for generals to sit on a high platform, looking as calm as a mountain. While talking and laughing, the Huns were wiped out in ashes!"

"You taught them nonsense, right?" Jinzhan rolled his eyes.

The guard said sternly: "Princess, how dare a villain speak nonsense, the king is indeed like this..." He glanced at Li Huan in some puzzlement, and smiled awkwardly: "The villain does not understand today why the Patriarch is so afraid of such a Just a caterpillar.”

While he was talking, Li Huan saw a piece of hot pepper, which was crushed by the guard's two thick fingers. The dark green internal organs exploded in his hand, and he wiped it casually...

Jinzhan frowned and looked at the endless fields: "Alang, why are there not so many insects in the crops next to the house? Farmers are catching insects every day, but there are so many every day that they can't catch them all. ."

Li Huan endured the discomfort and picked up a caterpillar with the edge of his sword.

The caterpillar immediately arched and climbed up the sword body quickly.

"Why?" Li Huan frowned: "I may have overestimated your farming skills. I was... when I was in the mountains, I also farmed, but there were not so many insects."

"Alang, is there really a way?" Jinzhan's eyes lit up: "You must not know how much my big man's farm output is reduced every year because of these pests? It's pretty good here because I have enough people in the farm. In ordinary people’s homes, almost the entire family takes turns staying in the fields.”

"There used to be fruit trees over there, but when this season comes, worm threads will grow on the fruit trees. Within a few days, dense worms will grow out of the worm threads. We can only burn them with fire and boil water. , but still couldn’t stop it, so in the end all the fruit trees were cut down.”

"It's a pity that there is no dichlorvos..." Li Huan muttered in his heart. The place where he grew up is a combination of urban and rural areas. In his childhood, he followed his parents to farm. When he was about to work hard to farm as a boy, the land was occupied, so he could only work hard. Studying, otherwise you can only work hard to move bricks. The ancestral grave of Lao Li's family burst into flames. He was admitted to college and became the only college student in the whole family and the village. The only hope of the village. In the end, he succeeded in being spotted by a rich woman in college, and finally traveled through time. ...So, for farming, he has two brushes, but not many. Many of them only exist in memory, such as dichlorvos...

In his mind, dichlorvos was invincible. When insects were growing on the crops in the village, he would fight dichlorvos. They would even quarrel fiercely. After getting involved, he would kill two mouthfuls of dichlorvos...

The only regret is that the famous dichlorvos was killed in the world he lived in before, but he could not invent it in this world...

But why are there not so many insects in my thousands of acres of land?

As the breeze blew, Li Huan felt that his head, which had been drinking a lot, suddenly became clearer: "I remembered that I had been on guard before. I steamed the manure and composted it at high temperature!"

This time, it was Jinzhan who disliked Li Huan: "Did you steam the dung?"

"Yes!" Li Huan patted his head, feeling that he really came to the Han Empire, and became a living bag. As long as he was free, he was either drinking or drinking. This thing had to be controlled.

"High temperature can kill insect eggs... Insect eggs exist in manure. Burning fields in the soil can kill some. Hmm... I think you can also sprinkle some lime? But you can't do too much, otherwise the pH will change and it won't work. …”

Seeing Li Huan's serious look on his face as he was reminiscing, Jin Zhan also showed a heartbroken look on his face: "Alang, how inattentive were you when you first learned the art? How much did you let down your respected master's knowledge?"

Li Huan smiled awkwardly: "Don't say that, I think it's good that I can remember these..."

"But steaming manure is a good way. You can't steam it, and piles of manure will also produce high temperatures..." Li Huan looked at Jinzhan's doubtful face and spread his hands helplessly: "The fields next to the Hou Mansion are all done like this. "Before we reclaimed this land, it was covered with vegetation and the fires burned for many days."

"Does that mean we have to wait until spring next year?" Jinzhan looked at Li Huan resentfully.

Li Huan felt guilty for the first time, but this did not prevent him from quibbling: "It's really not my fault. I used to live in the mountains. Occasionally I met a few Qiang people, and they didn't farm. I really didn't I thought that the people who farmed outside could cultivate the land like this... Besides, I have already dedicated the columbist to His Majesty..."

"Columbine?" Jinzhan looked surprised.

Li Huan nodded and said: "Your Majesty, a tool to improve farming efficiency should have been handed over to the craftsmen. According to my understanding of these craftsmen, I am afraid that it is almost finished now."

“This spring plowing, I missed a lot of things.” Jinzhan sighed: “Every winter, there will always be people who starve to death and freeze to death. The promotion of the Quyuan plow can save many people in the world from starvation. Death, over the years, I have always heard people say that our Han country is already very powerful, but it is a pity that they are just scum who sing praises in the court and whitewash peace."

Jinzhan's words suddenly became more and more: "In the past, my grandfather was reluctant to build a palace, but now these dog officials should really beheaded."

Li Huan shook off the caterpillar that quickly climbed up the sword. The horse under his crotch snorted excitedly and trampled the caterpillar to death. It kept digging the ground with its front hooves, as if to tell its master that I can kill again, and come again. several……

Li Huan patted the war horse's neck and smiled helplessly: "There is nothing we can do at the moment. First of all, I pray to God to take pity on the people who are in trouble on this land. As long as there is a heavy snow this winter, there will be a good harvest next year. Auspicious snow heralds a good harvest!
As for these two, the farming model in the Hou Mansion can be promoted. Burning straw, steaming manure, and high-temperature composting are all very practical methods. "

"Besides, if you don't worry, catch the chickens at home, and the chickens may eat some of the bugs." Li Huan suddenly had a flash of inspiration: "I remember correctly, I am the savage who made Cuihua go down the mountain, and I raised four or five. Thousands of chickens.”

"Four to five thousand chickens...will they ruin all these crops?"

"First catch a few hundred chickens and try it." Li Huan knew that chickens are very magical animals. If you throw rice on the ground, she will peck at the rice. But if there are insects in the rice, put the chicken in the rice. , the chicken will pick out worms in the rice and disdain the rice; presumably, if there is meat to eat, who is still a vegetarian?

If it works, putting in a few thousand chickens might actually have an effect.

"Well, let's give it a try. There is no shortage of food in the manor here. If it is really ruined and we lose money for a year, I can still afford it." Jinzhan had an expression on his face like a execution ground.

Li Huan dared to laugh and said: "Is it so exaggerated?"

"I didn't think so before, because I was always worried that I would be sent to the Huns to get married." Jinzhan's conversation was very real, almost what he thought in his heart, "So, for these things, as long as they are not greedy for ink, I have never asked too much, but It’s different now, and there is finally hope for the future.”

Jinzhan watched as the guards began to surround Li Huan and help him catch insects. He sighed helplessly: "Forget it, you escort the Marquis back first, and then bring the chicken over. I'll take a look around here."

"Here!"

Everyone accepted the order, while Li Huan looked relieved...

I'm not afraid of losing my head in a fight, I'm just afraid of caterpillars...

At this time, in the Weiyang Palace, Liu Che was looking at the "column cart" in front of him, swinging forward and back, the wooden legs in front of it poking open the soft soil, and then pressing the armrests to exert force, the seeds were released with incomparable accuracy It fell into the soil, then pressed the handrail and exerted force, and with the last two wooden feet, the soil was covered.

In this way, you only need to push the columbine and walk along the excavated land, which means that the seeds have been planted. This improvement in farming efficiency is simply incredible.

Liu Che took several deep breaths to calm down. Han Yan beside her was busy passing tea to Liu Che.

The porcelain teacup, which looks like white jade, was fired in the backyard of the Marquis Mansion in Anyang. The method of making tea and drinking it has become Liu Che's daily habit.

Liu Che was quite fascinated by this novel taste, and also because drinking tea was relatively simple and economical, Liu Che hoped that he could lead by example and curb the rising trend of extravagance of big men.

"Promote it immediately." Liu Che was not in the mood to drink tea at the moment. All that came to his mind was Li Huan's mean face.

But... the things that people dedicate to themselves are indeed too good to say anything about!
"Here!" Han Yan accepted the order with her hands raised.

Liu Che picked up the teacup again, took a sip, and couldn't help but reveal a strange smile on his face: "As for selecting candidates to go to various vassal states to show off their wealth, do you have any good candidates to recommend? ?"

Before Han Yan could say anything, Liu Che couldn't help but emphasize: "Especially Huainan Kingdom."

(End of this chapter)