Reborn Regent of Ming Dynasty

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Galloping out of the big camp, Zhang Shouren and his entourage drove along the road at lightning speed, and the farmland on both sides was sown again.

This time, what was planted was a large field of sweet potatoes.

The bet between Zhang Shouren and Chen Zilong actually increased the sweet potato fields planted in Fushan area by tens or hundreds of times.Many plots that were not originally planned were planted with sweet potatoes by subordinates or tenant farmers themselves. [

Anyway, this thing is for soil fertility. The wheat harvested in the previous season is equivalent to two years' harvest. Even if the sweet potato harvest is not much added, it can only be considered as soil fertility before this season's wheat.

Besides, it saves trouble and worry, and does not require too much effort.

On the side of the road, I saw Zhang Shouren and his party riding over, and the farmers who were taking care of the sweet potato seedlings in the farmland ran over cheering, standing by the field, bowing and bowing to Zhang Shouren. Nibbling on the edge of the farmland.

Last season, the farmlands on the Fushan side generally increased their income, at least by more than two shi. If they were planed and handed over to Zhang Shouren, the family could still produce several times more grain than in previous years.

Plus Zhang Shouren is here, the government will not come down to collect miscellaneous taxes, there will be no labor and apportionment of dozens of items, large and small, Huangbang's official tax is also the money borrowed by Zhang Shouren and turned over to the government, there is no need to find someone to borrow usury, and there is no need to put it Grain was sold to unscrupulous grain merchants. Taking Fushan as the benchmark, the tenant farmers within the 20 mu of farmland were the happiest, and their admiration for Zhang Shouren was also the most sincere.In addition to tenant farming, from Jiaozhou to Jimo, then to Pingdu, Laizhou, and then to Lingshan, Changyi, Gaomi, as well as Anqiu, Changle, and Rizhao in Qingzhou, are also deeply influenced by Fushan.

From a place with a radius of tens of miles to a radius of thousands of miles, the radiation affects dozens of states and counties. The entire force has spread all over Shandong except Yanzhou!

"Hey, isn't that Chen Wozi?"

In an acre of field, Chen Zilong, who was dressed in short clothes, was directing a dozen people to work in the field. Zhang Shouren led the horse, and shouted with a smile from a distance of dozens of steps: "Chen Wozi, what the hell are you doing?" ?”

After the bet, the two had more chances to meet each other than before, and their relationship became closer.

Hearing his yell, Chen Zilong replied angrily: "Your sweet potato is a hell of a thing. There are so many plants, and the production has been reduced. It depends on how you explain to the people."

"You think they grow sorghum, and the millet is high-yielding?"

Zhang Shouren said with a smile: "Even if the production is reduced, the only thing to do is to restore the fertility of the soil, and we still have to count on the next year's wheat."

The geographical conditions here in Shandong are far inferior to those in the south of the Yangtze River, let alone compared with places where the rice is cooked at 1.4 meters.Between the two seasons of wheat, only some other low-yield crops can be planted, and there is no way to grow rice in the dry land.

In the Jiangnan area, rice is harvested twice a year, and the interval between the two seasons is short, so a rest is enough.Just for this point, the two places are also very far apart. This is due to natural and geographical conditions, which is unimaginable.

If there is no rain for several months in a row, and the northern Shaanxi plateau has to fetch water ten miles away, Shandong will be a paradise again.

Hearing that what he said was reasonable, Chen Zilong could only keep his face silent, and Zhang Shouren jumped off his horse to look at the crops he planted.

"It's all corn?"

"Well, after thinking about it, this thing is very drought-tolerant. If you can select good seeds and increase the yield, as you said, you can harvest three or four stones per mu, and the people will be really blessed."