Late Tang

In Dengzhou City, there are lights and festoons everywhere, and it is lively.

The marriage between Li Jing, the commander-in-chief of the town [***], and the Xiao family of Lanling is the most lively happy event in Dengzhou today.The wedding day is approaching, and countless guests come.Although Xiao Yuniang married Li Jing, she was only Li Jing's eighth wife, but with the influence of Lanling Xiao's family and the fact that the groom is the commander of the town [***], this marriage is extremely grand.

Visitors from all over the world gather from all over the world.

Li Jing has already married one wife and six concubines, so he is familiar with getting married.He was not willing to make it so grand, but the marriage with the Xiao family was originally out of political interests, and the top family of the Tang Dynasty like the Lanling Xiao family wanted to give the old patriarch's daughter a dignified and dignified wedding. It shows that their relationship with Li Jing has gone one step further.For this reason, Li Jing has no reason to object. After receiving Li Jing's approval, the Lanling Xiao family began to prepare for the wedding with all their strength. In Mrs. Han's words, it would be difficult to show their Lanling Xiao family's rich heritage.

There are still three days left before the wedding ceremony, but Li Jing is not busy with the wedding these days, these things are handed over to Xiao Shi, what he is busy with is still preparing for sending troops.

The time has come to June, and the summer harvest has started one after another. The united soldiers, township soldiers, and even scouts are on vacation to help with the summer harvest.After this busy summer harvest, Zhen[***] will also start sending troops northward.

The roads in southern Liaoning have been repaired, and the Fuzhou River and Biliu River in the east and west have also been dredged, so that water and land will advance together.

This year, the prefectures and counties under the jurisdiction of the town [***] have planted a large number of yams and taro, and the cultivation of lotus root is also going smoothly.A large number of pigs, chickens, ducks, geese, sheep and cattle farms were opened.Even in the hills and other places that cannot be cultivated, various fruit trees, as well as tea trees and mulberry trees are planted.

The scale of the Academy of Agricultural Sciences is also getting bigger and bigger. With the strong support of Li Jing and the generous funding, it has also recruited a large number of experienced farmers to participate.Li Jing is full of expectations for fully guiding the cultivation of various crops, especially the early Champa planted on a large scale in Dengzhou and southern Liaoning this summer, which is about to be harvested.

The Champa rice seeds from Champa Country in the south of Annan are more productive than all rice varieties today. In Annan and other places, they can even be harvested three times a year. One ripe.As a result of last year's breeding and trial planting, the production capacity of Zhacheng rice has reached three stones per mu, which is even more than double the average yield of about one stone that is common for rice today.If large-scale trial planting, those experts said that at least two stones can be achieved.

Although Champa rice can only be planted in excellent paddy fields, and it is impossible to plant all Champa rice, this output is still exciting.By fertilizing the land with manure, plant ash, and retting leaves, these paddy fields can grow another season of soybeans after the Zazamak harvest is over.You can also get soybeans with an yield of about one stone per mu. There are two crops a year, and you can get three stones of rice and one stone of beans.

Li Jing also specially allocated a large sum of special funds to the Academy of Agricultural Sciences, specializing in the improvement of various agricultural tools.

The improvement of the top ten agricultural tools, Leisi, Xibo, Chekang, Minohat, Zhejiao, Zhugao, Chujiu, Douhu, Keizeng, Cangyu, has a very good effect.Especially the application of Jiangdong plow, Jiangdong plow is the first new type of curved plow used in the Jianghuai area, and it has already been used in many places in the late Tang Dynasty.This kind of plow must be drawn by oxen, but it plows the ground very well.

According to the calculations of the Academy of Agricultural Sciences, a medium-sized ox can plow ten acres of land with a Jiangdong plow, but with traditional plows, if one person plows one acre, ten people can make one cow.Moreover, Jiangdong plow can plow deeper and the effect is better.

Compared with the previous plows, Jiangdong plows have great advantages: the appearance of curved shafts and plow discs eliminates the plow balance, shortens the plow shaft, reduces the weight of the plow frame, and overcomes the "rotational phase interference" of straight shaft plows. It is more flexible to operate, especially easy to turn, which is most suitable for "Southern Paddy Fields" where "the fields vary in height, width and width".Secondly, the appearance of the plow and the plow tip makes the depth of the soil and the width of the soil more arbitrary.The previous plow did not have the structure of a plow comment, but the plow tip and the plow bottom were integrated.In addition, Jiangdong plow not only has a plow judge specially used to control the depth of the cultivated land, but also has a division of labor between the plow tip and the plow bottom.The slender bottom of the plow makes it easy to keep stable and consistent in depth during plowing.The plow tip is manipulated up and down, left and right by human hands to control the depth of the cultivated land and the width of the cultivated furrow.

The Academy of Agricultural Sciences finally added a pair of hooks and rings between the plow disc and the plow shaft, so that it "turns the plow head when plowing, and the yoke is the basic and the last, and it is not integrated with the plow", thus increasing its uniqueness. Flexible surnames, and formed a new form of "connection of oxen and plows".

For this new plow, Li Jing vigorously promoted it, and asked the farm tool workshop to build new plows day and night, and leased and sold them to the people who cultivated the land.

Li Jing implemented confidentiality measures for these new farm tools and high-yield domestic crops, especially for foreign countries, it was strictly forbidden to carry seeds and new farm tool blueprints out of the country.

However, Li Jing also knows that once these technologies and new seeds are applied and cultivated on a large scale, it will be difficult to keep them completely secret.However, Li Jing didn't care too much about these. The spread of new agricultural technologies can increase food production, which is considered a good progress.

In order to cultivate more Champa rice, more water conservancy facilities were built in Dengzhou and southern Liaoning.After the rivers and ditches were dredged, they began to recruit more people to build dams and reservoirs and dig ponds in their spare time.The construction of reservoirs, ponds and dams can not only prevent drought, but also prevent floods and floods in the suburbs.Even after the dam was built, the water storage capacity of the river did not increase, and various large waterwheels newly researched and perfected in the town [***] began to be built along the river.

The water mill uses water power to grind rice noodles.Big water trucks, to bring water to the highlands to irrigate the fields.

There is even a newly developed hydraulic forging hammer, which can lift a heavy forging hammer by using hydraulic power to forge larger rough iron blocks, greatly increasing the efficiency of iron and steel smelting, and even built a hydraulic forging press to directly forge Many parts.

In addition, a hydraulic spinning machine was even developed to drive spinning with hydraulic power.Although the spun yarn is relatively thick, it is tough and strong and saves manpower.

Dozens of new mining farms have been added this year. The iron and coal in southern Liaoning, and the gold in Dengzhou, all of these minerals have huge reserves.Especially Dengzhou Gold, several buildings are producing gold continuously.And there are more iron ore in Liaodong. Li Jing remembers that the iron ore in Liaoning alone occupies one of the four reserves in the country.Such sufficient iron ore is enough for Li Jing's workshop to consume enormously.

But at this moment, Gongsun Lan brought Huang Chao to attack Ziqing Town, beheaded Xue Chong, and broke through Shouguang in Qingzhou, and then attacked Linzi and Qiancheng counties controlled by Xiangzhen[***] news.

"Huang Chao has eaten the bear's heart and leopard's guts, and dare to bark his teeth with us?" Li Jing was very surprised to hear the news.

In the bedroom in the backyard of the commander's mansion, Li Jing hugged Gongsun Lan in his arms, panting, and said strangely.

Gongsun Lan lay in Li Jing's arms, gently drawing circles on Li Jing's chest like green fingers, and said softly: "Huang Chao is just a first-class bandit, running around. It's not unusual to dare to attack us, even the emperor's rebellion Dare to build, what else is not dare. He fled back to Henan, but was defeated by Kang Shuai of the Tianping Army and Cui Shuai of the Taining Army, and fled to Ziqing Town. Although he defeated Wang Jingwu, an old friend, Wang Jingwu's territory But now the rats can't even feed them. It's strange that Huang Chao didn't come to snatch us."

"Where are the imperial court's towns to suppress bandits? Where are Deputy Envoys Du and Deputy Envoy Cui?"

Du Qiang and Cui Anqian's abilities are still pretty good, so why haven't we heard any news of their fighting since the grass bandits resurfaced for more than half a year?

"Du Kui and Cui Anqian are still in Yingzhou and Haozhou in the south of Xuanwu. Earlier, the Tianping Army and the Zhongwu Army broke out successively. It was hard for the two towns to quell the civil strife. Now the Zhongwu Army is also seriously injured. Besides, Yang Fuguang Tian Lingzi has been stuck with their food and grass supplies since he became the military envoy of the capital supervisor and concurrently served as the military envoy. Without food and grass, how could we fight the war.”

Gongsun Lan smiled, "I received news that Du Shuai and Cui Shuai are going to borrow food from you, and the Tianping Army Kang Shuai and Taining Army Cui Shuai are also short of food this year, and they are also planning to borrow food from you. It is estimated that it will appear at your wedding banquet in one or two days."

Li Jing frowned: "The summer harvest has just started, and the towns are coming to borrow grain?"

"Isn't that because everyone has heard that the town [***] has a bumper grain harvest this year, and now everyone knows that Marshal Li is rich and powerful, and you bought most of the grain shipped from the southeast to the north. If you don't borrow it now, everyone But I’m worried about being borrowed by others.”

"There is another news. Mr. Zhang in Beijing sent back the news. Tian Lingzi told the emperor that there was a shortage of food in Chang'an, and the price of a bucket of rice had already exceeded 55 yuan, while the price of rice in Dengzhou was only 500 yuan a bucket of rice. Therefore, Dengzhou must have enough food. , he asked you to deliver food to Chang'an, and at least [-] million shi!"

When Li Jing heard this, he immediately laughed.

Li Jing used to beat local tyrants, but now Li Jing has become a local tyrant that everyone wants to rob.Right now, the whole town [***] has 27 counties, and the total arable land is only about 500 million mu. This year, 100 million mu is planted with yam and taro, and another 100 million mu is planted with Champa rice. The next ones are wheat and millet.Yam medicine and taro have to wait until autumn to harvest.Calculated, the total harvest of the summer harvest is only about 600 million shi of grain, and there are 27 million soldiers and civilians in the 300 counties of the town [***], all these grains are not enough to eat by themselves, and we have to wait for the autumn harvest season, plus Vegetables, fishing and farming can only be combined to barely support themselves.The town [***] is now stockpiling grain, and it has to buy grain from outside at high prices.

These days, the landlord's family has no surplus food.

However, all parties came to borrow food, and they all had a lot of background.The Emperor of the Tang Dynasty, Du Wei, Cui Yunqing, even Kang Chenghui and Cui Yunqing, none of these people could be easily rejected by Li Jing.

Thinking of this, Li Jing couldn't help having a headache! (To be continued.)