When Pan Geng moved to Yin, I initiated Jian Shang

Chapter 484 The Curtain of a New Era

Tong County.

After Xinqu rushed to Luanping Market to sort out his manpower and returned, all the more than a thousand slaves in Tong County were ordered by Xinqu to be released to various families for distribution.

Then around Tong County, people began to rush to plant summer grain.

Because of Xin Qu, the Xin clan was the first tribe in the north and south to enter a double-season crop rotation.

In summer, except for some beans and millet, most of them are fruits such as Cucurbitaceae.

The last time he entered Shanxi, he searched Gaoyi and Jiyi in Shanxi and got a lot of seeds.

The old people in Gaoyi and Jiyi didn't want to be abandoned in the Youxin family, so in the face of Xinqu's offer of a relatively decent job and life, they still chose to accept Xinqu's order and help the Youxin family. Quickly master the various seeds they have domesticated for hundreds of years.

Therefore, Xin's recipes have been greatly enriched.

This is why Xinqu asked people to disclose the recipe.

In this era when there is not enough to eat, the wisdom and experience of each tribe are passed down from generation to generation. Often these experiences, before the ancient times, were in a state of self-treasure.

Some tribes are close to you and have close territory.

If you leak out which plants are edible, then you are very likely to see your tribe's reserves and secrets taken away and eaten by other tribes.

At that time, it may lead to your death.

Therefore, even if they transfer experience to each other, they are still imparting it to tribes that are far away.

Closer to home, they either steal each other's troops, or capture the enemy's chiefs and old men and then torture them.

Generally speaking, in this era, there is no so-called sharing, but only separation for survival.

But Xinqu is a modern person after all, and he knows very well that it is best to have fewer information barriers in a country.

Because poor information is not conducive to governance, on the contrary, it may lead to separation from each other and no way to integrate.

Therefore, Xinqu will publish the recipe and ask everyone to spread it. He will even artificially encourage the cultivation of edible plants and domesticate them as much as possible.

Just like now, Zisong, who had just arrived, squatted on a border and reached out to pull up a cabbage.

After looking at it carefully, he said: "Isn't this the cross flower in our south? Why does the Xin family plant so many?"

"Prince Song, this is Youxin's vegetable field." Wei Shanzhou explained, "Youxin will plant a large amount of weeds every year, and then select the plump and fat ones to plant seeds.

Eat the rest.

For those who are old, they will pick off the leaves in autumn, dry them in the sun, wash them, and pickle them with Xin's coarse salt.

When there is no other food in winter, these vegetable leaves can be used as food, which can also save a lot of food consumption. "

"In other words, these are all around?"

"Absolutely. Some Xin family members encouraged their people to establish vegetable fields near their homes.

And if you can't finish the vegetables in these vegetable fields, you can also use them to feed chickens, ducks, pigs, sheep, etc. Wei Shanzhou explained, "Youxin family has been promoting methods such as crop rotation, cattle plowing, and field substitution.

At the same time, animal husbandry and breeding are encouraged, and they even start to try to farm fish!

In short, with Xin's food, there is actually wealth.

The taro fans from last year are still eating them this year. "

Wei Shanzhou felt a little emotional.

Last year, Xinqu used a lot of manpower to build a taro field of more than 100,000 acres on a polder field.

Almost all his wealth was spent.

Fortunately, there were no big problems with his plan. Only those fans made of taro supported their craziness last year.

But now, Ms. Youxin is still busy every day.

Because of the adjustments to the promotion method of titles, the proportion of farming has been increased. If they want their fields to feed more people and their titles to be promoted, everyone still chooses to accept Xin Qu's order and cultivate more non-staple food.

After hearing this, Zisong looked at it slightly strangely: "There are wastelands nearby, why is no one going to burn them? After the burning, isn't growing millet better than growing these vegetables?" Upon hearing this, Wei Shanzhou's eyes moved slightly. , lowered his voice and said: "Xin's title is bound to a limited number of acres of cultivated land.

The Xin family is currently sorting out the waterways, and the new round of rectification and distribution will not be completely completed until the end of this year at the earliest.

Xin Qu spoke out and said that each family should first go to the place to cultivate and plant millet near the water flow. Whoever cultivates the land will own it.

If there is not enough in the future, when he completes the water channel arrangement, he will open up new fields near the water channel, and then the good land near the water can be divided up.

In other words, if you reclaim land in advance, no matter whether it is divided or not, once your land quota is taken up and the land is close to good water, you will no longer want it.

Therefore, the desire for reclamation is not strong, and most of them are tasks assigned by the president assigned by Xin Qu.

Because in the next three years, most of the rivers may be diverted under the plan of the Xin family. If you open up land to plant millet at this time, if the rivers near you are moved by the Xin family, then you will have to live on dry land. .

If one acre of paddy field is managed well in a year, sixty or seventy pounds will not be a problem, but dry land is not so good.

Maybe, it’s only thirty pounds, which isn’t even enough for the seeds you sow!

Therefore, everyone chose to grow enough food for their families, and the rest was planted with millet, beans, cabbage, and melons and fruits.

Or grazing cattle and sheep.

Look, those over there are cattle and sheep.

The Xin family has a huge demand for cattle every year. Basically, you only need to raise one, and the yamen will register it, collect one, and teach you how to tame the cattle as farm cattle.

You can also apply for a loan from the yamen to buy cattle. Within the next five years, if you give the yamen a female calf or three male calves, the loan will be repaid.

As long as the cattle are well maintained and the cattle do not get sick within five years, the investment can basically be recovered.

In short, in order to cope with the farming conditions revised by the Xin family, cattle prices still increased, but only for live cattle.

I think the Xin family might open up about this and ask us to give it to them. "

Zisong nodded.

Oxen plowing... Can either a grumpy cow or a slow cow really be able to plow the land?

Zisong was still a little in disbelief.

But he soon became convinced that cattle could be used for farming.

Because the cow pulling the cart slowly had a ring on its nose, and there was a calf trying to run next to it, but when the shepherd boy pulled the rope on the nose ring, the calf screamed in dissatisfaction and then stopped running. .

Calves that have been domesticated since childhood are not completely obedient, but they are certainly not as overly tempered as those bison.

By adapting from an early age, domestication of farm cattle can be started after one year old, so that they can get used to using farming tools.

In other words, Xin Qu had already deducted time from the beginning of promoting cattle farming.

A year later, he almost completed the initial ironization.

The nine-year compulsory education from time travel is his biggest golden finger.

This knowledge may not be of much use in life in the future, but for a person in a poor and ignorant era, it is a shortcut.

You can take fewer detours than others and complete the transformation of productivity ahead of time.

In physics and chemistry students starting from junior high school, you will basically be taught one key point: experimental induction.

You know the theorems or axioms. As long as you find the right substance and keep experimenting, you will always gain something.

Therefore, a year later, when the Haihe River Main Road project was completed, Xinqu could reorganize the construction of Beiping City while completing the reclamation of nearby land and start the era of iron cattle farming.

Solve the contradiction between manpower and productivity that has always troubled him.

The new production relations can also solve most important or unimportant social problems.

A new era is about to begin.

(End of this chapter)