The last conscience of the Northern Song Dynasty

Chapter 146 Liang Xin’s vegetable garden
Gas is poisonous. For every household that buys a stove, the charcoal shop will arrange for someone to deliver it and install it in place.It is placed against the wall, and an earthenware pipe is connected to the roof and then to the outside of the house.

Even if conditions do not permit it, a one-foot earthenware pipe and a thick bamboo tube will be used to discharge the turbid air.

Every household will explain that burning charcoal is poisonous and the turbid gas is discharged outside the house.

A few days later, a new problem appeared.

Cao Rui came to Liang Mansion and waited until Liang Xin finished what she was doing before reporting: "I was at fault."

"Reb, what's wrong?"

Cao Rui: "This is how it happened. In the beginning, someone came to borrow money to buy coal cakes and pledge their family members. At that time, people were needed to deliver coal, make coal cakes and other tasks. It was a good thing to be paid one hundred cents a day to take care of food and accommodation. . But in the past few days, people who originally only borrowed five guan came to borrow [-] or even [-] guan. They bought cloth and rice, and more and more people came to detain people."

Liang Xin asked: "How much more?"

Cao Rui replied: "Hundreds of people."

Liang Xin said: "Transfer 3000 people to me and prepare 500 million yuan in money. Wait a minute." After Liang Xin finished speaking, he wrote a handwritten letter: "Transfer 3000 soldiers and horses from the front division of the palace to the imperial village outside the city. Then borrow servants. 1000 people, go to the Cao family farm outside the city. I want to grow vegetables."

"Uncle, it's already passed the Mid-Autumn Festival, and it will be late autumn soon."

"There's enough time, I'm well prepared and we need manpower."

Cao Rui took Liang Xin's handwritten letter and said, "I will follow my uncle's orders in everything."

"Outside the city."

"Yes."

Liang Xin asked Li Qingzhao to make float glass made of tin, but it would take time to succeed.

However, some craftsmen used the simplest method, using quartz sand, adding caustic soda, and using the previous method of making royal tiles to produce a batch of large tile-style glazed glass, which has very good light transmittance.

There is also a problem because the tiles are curved, so there is a spotlight effect.

The solution is to arc downward.

Then, the result is that the rainproof performance is extremely poor. The solution is to cut large thick bamboo in half and fasten it to the curved glazed tiles if it rains.

If it snows, the snow must be removed manually in time.

And in the greenhouse, humans need to take care of the vegetables, take care of the fire, and control the temperature inside the greenhouse.

When it's daytime, open the grass curtain above.

At night, put the straw curtain back on to keep warm.

This requires a lot of labor.

A steward who is professional and knowledgeable about agriculture has calculated that every twenty acres of land requires at least 60 people to look after it, and preferably 100 people.

Huangzhuang, the farm of the Cao family, the farm of the Liang family.

The greenhouse that Liang Xin wants to build will be at least a thousand acres.

This requires 5000 people to work.

and so.

Don't be afraid if there are many people. As long as Liang Xin is willing, there is endless work to do.

Soon, outside the city.

The entire Liang family, except Cao Tan, went out.

Then, Shen Chong also came with some people from the Ordnance Supervision, who were helpers.

Gao Shilin also brought people here.

Having fresh vegetables to eat in winter is not new. This technology existed in the Tang Dynasty.

There are no downsides other than being expensive.

At present, Liang Xin is planting large-scale winter vegetables, which is completely different from the extremely small-scale winter vegetable practice in the Tang Dynasty. He wants to come over and have a look. If possible, the Gao family can also consider investing in a piece.

There are vegetables in winter.The Gao family has a cellar and grows leeks.

Su Shi once wrote: The east wind gradually feels cold and chilly, and the artemisia annua and yellow leek test the spring dishes.

Green vegetables, Gao Shilin feels a bit outrageous.

Huangzhuang is Zhao Ji's field. Last time, a river of blood flowed from a man killed here. Dozens of stewards and eunuchs died, and hundreds of stewards were tattooed and exiled.

This is where Liang Xin really has the final say.

There was no way to clear the land near the slope, so we dug thousands of cellars and were putting radishes and pears in them.

When storing radish, mix it with a little pear to preserve it better.

Then the cabbage is pushed into the cave and covered with straw curtains layer by layer.

When the group arrived, there were already the first twenty acres of farmland and countless sheds built there.

They are all single-sided sheds, with a rammed earth wall on one side, then the main beam, and then the wooden frame. The wooden frame is inlaid with tile-shaped transparent glass. This is not considered to be glass, the only difference is the formula.

The method used is to pour charcoal at high temperature and use molds to form transparent glazed tiles.

The cheapest materials come first.

Regardless of the color, the cost is quite low, and using charcoal to further reduce the cost.

The former tenants of the palace were being trained.

Quickly roll up and open the blinds.If it rains, how to prevent rain, how to prevent snow accumulation, if a glazed tile is damaged, how to replace it quickly, etc.

Liang Xin introduced: "In this shed, courgettes are grown. When the Chinese New Year comes, fresh, crisp and sweet courgettes will be put on the table. A plate in Taoyuan Pavilion must cost a hundred yuan."

“This shed grows the balsamic vegetables that my aunt likes to eat, and we have them every day.”

Shed after shed.

It can be said that Bianjing City has all the fresh vegetables that can be seen in spring and summer.

Growing vegetables is the specialty of tenant farmers. As for new technologies for growing in sheds, we can only learn and improve them through constant exploration.

In the last shed, there is a vegetable that no one knows.

Liang Xin said: "There is a businessman from the Western Regions, his name is Mo... or something, his Chinese name is Zhao Fahe. He said that this is a very delicious dish there. Some of our tenants said that we have had this kind of dish for a long time. It was also introduced from the Western Regions. The two look like, but there are some differences. Plant both and look back at the better one."

Liang Xin said yes, and the name in Bianjing City is Qianjincai.

The tenant is right, it was introduced during the Jin Dynasty. After hundreds of years of continuous cultivation, it is indeed somewhat different from the latest introduction.

No matter what, Liang Xin still likes this dish.

It was Liang Xin before she traveled through time: lettuce.

Gao Shilin said: "I looked at these sheds, why can't I see Dwarf?"

"Well, that's good." Liang Xin didn't care.

Principle, cost-effectiveness, etc. are not within his scope of consideration at this time. The key point is that it can be planted, it can survive, and it can grow.

The dwarf yellow mentioned by Gao Shilin is the baby cabbage in Liang Xin's understanding.

Wocai is Chinese cabbage.

As for Li Qingzhao, she looked left and right. She didn't attach much importance to money. At first, Liang Xin asked her to arrange for someone to make cheap flat colored glaze, but she didn't see it being used in this way.

Liang Xin pulled Gao Shilin aside: "Whose guard is Jizhou?"

Gao Shilin asked with a smile: "Whoever you say belongs to him, that's who he belongs to."

"really?"

Gao Shilin replied: "Although the ancestor of the Cao family, King Cao Ji, has been dead for a hundred years, he once guarded the border of the Liao Kingdom for 40 years. The Cao family is also a family of martial arts, and the branches and leaves of the Cao family have long penetrated into everyone in northern Xinjiang." One place. Even if there are some bastards, as long as it’s not something particularly difficult. Your father-in-law doesn’t need to say anything, your eldest lady is editing a book, and they have to do things for you with their heads up. If you don’t do it, it’s impossible.”

(End of this chapter)