Datang Nongsheng

Chapter 69
The Sun House is destined to be full of joy today. Sun Xiangfu has added 12 acres of land to his job, and he has also served as the deputy supervisor of Zhongmu. Sun Xiangfu's official position as Xia Mu Jian Cheng, where Sun Xiangfu lived, made his mother Nie Sanniang faint from crying with joy.

In the decree, Li Shimin also allocated [-] mu of land for Shi Bao, which is next to Xingfu Village. Then, in the future, the young men of Xingfu Village will not only be royal households, but also servants with establishments in the Fisheries Department. , or the tenants of Sun Xiangfu and Shi Bao, they need to be responsible for farming [-] mu of land, but in fact!The villagers of the former Xingfu Village did not need to cultivate even one mu of land, because these tasks would be handed over to the hired workers of Xingfu Village.

Since the beginning of winter, the literacy campaign in Xingfu Village has been going on, and now anyone can recognize the thousand-character text, and they can understand some of the more straightforward letters Sun Xiangfu wrote to them, and , with Sun's algebraic symbols, the people in the whole village can do addition and subtraction within hundreds of thousands, multiplication and division, as long as you give some time, you can do it. In this era, you can already become a low-level manager Post up.

The eighth day of the twelfth lunar month was Sun Dali's wedding day. Sun Xiangfu and Shi Dabao happened to return to the village for a wedding reception, and at the same time they could finish handing over their jobs.

It was the first time for Yu Xiuer to come to Xingfu Village. When she saw the clean and tidy cement road around the village and the neat brick and cement houses, she couldn't believe that this was a village, and the city of Chang'an was nothing more than that!

Walking through the springboard on the village pier, Sun Xiangfu looked at the surrounding farmland on the high slope. In later generations, he was a graduate student of the Agricultural University who could teach farmers how to farm. Of course, it is no problem to teach farmers in this period to farm.

"Uncle Mi, have you turned over the land in the village?"

"It's been turned over. We are now brothers and sisters, and we have more than a dozen four-headed plows. We haven't had it for two days. We have turned over four thousand acres of land." Strolling at the entrance of the village, no, I just picked up Sun Xiangfu who was returning to the village.

"But I just saw that there are still many lands along the banks of the river that have not been turned over. Are those lands from other villages?"

"No, they still laugh at our village for having money and no place to spend it, doing some useless things, digging the land so early, and we have to dig it again next spring." Wang Youmi actually doesn't know why he digs the land at this time , but Sun Xiangfu said it was overturned, and Sun Dali sent someone to carry it out.

At this time, Yu Xiu'er, who was listening to their conversation, became interested, and said, "Yes! Husband, isn't digging the ground now a waste of work, and in the next spring, I have to do it again."

Sun Xiangfu smiled and replied, "You don't understand this, don't you hear the truth that 'auspicious snow heralds a good year', there is little snow this winter, so the only way to dig out the eggs hidden in the ground is by manpower. If not, the eggs hidden in the ground will hatch in a large area, and they will become a disaster, and this is how the locust plague comes."

"Ah! Will there be a plague of locusts next year?"

Hearing Sun Xiangfu say the word locust plague, Wang Youmi was so frightened that he couldn't hold his crutch firmly. He had experienced a locust plague once in his life. Even more than ten years later, when he was having nightmares, Wang Youmi couldn't hold on to the locust plague. I will remember that if there is a plague of locusts next year, then all the good things in Xingfu Village will be shattered.

"Uncle Mi, there should be only a small drought next year, and there may not be a locust plague, but if there is a drought for two consecutive years, it will be hard to say. We must prevent disasters before they happen, so we have to use our own methods to kill locusts hidden in the soil. The method is to plow the field shallowly for the insect eggs in the soil." Sun Xiangfu supported Wang Youmi and said.

"Husband, if this is the case, then Lantian County still has [-] mu of land in our family, and we have to send people to look it up. By the way, there are also my father and uncles. I am afraid that there are tens of thousands of mu in total... "..."

There are quite a few officials in the Yu family. There are already many jobs, and more are passed down from the ancestors. Therefore, marrying a daughter can marry three thousand acres of land. Of course, Sun Xiangfu hopes that everyone will take action, and the small dry locust may not There will be a disaster, but it can be several times more than the normal year, and it will lay the foundation for a larger locust plague later. Therefore, killing a hundred eggs this year is likely to kill the next year's locusts. Tens of thousands of locusts, early prevention, is the least effort, the most rewarding action.

"Well, there should be one or two light snowfalls before the beginning of spring next year. We will arrange it immediately after we go back. It's urgent." Sun Xiangfu nodded.

"Then why didn't your husband write a note and present it to His Majesty?"

"Uh, I forgot about that, I'll write it later! If His Majesty activates it, someone should dig the ground!"

After entering the village, the first thing Sun Xiangfu did was of course to go to Sun Dali's house to congratulate him, and gave many gifts from Chang'an City. Sun Dali is the groom's official today, and he has many things to do, so he has no time to stay with him all the time. When Sun Xiangfu and his younger siblings arrived in the village, they went to find a place to have fun by themselves. Sun Xiangfu took Yu Xiuer's hand and walked along the cement road around the village towards the fishing ground.

"Xiu'er, I want to change the play."

"Changing the play? Why?"

"Let the common people dig the ground in winter, I guess they will not be happy. After all, not all the common people are like the common people in Xingfu Village who have silk clothes and cotton jackets. Most of them wear rough linen clothes, which can hardly resist the cold wind. Be careful to fall ill, it is a fatal thing."

"But what does this have to do with your change of play?"

"I want to weave the story of the locust plague into the play, and let our smart, wise and powerful white lady tell the people how to fight the locust plague. This may be more useful than His Majesty's imperial decree."

"Husband, be careful. However, this method can be tried. It's a pity that our previous rehearsals were wasted."

"It's not a big change. It's just changing Xu Xian's location from the south to the north. The original scenes basically don't need to be deleted, just add one more episode."

From the second time onwards, there were not many big scenes and big moves in the plot. Xu Xian was assigned due to the involvement of the official banker, and then Bai Suzhen went to Xu Xian's distribution place to find him, and then the two continued to be husband and wife, opened a drug store, and showed affection It is only necessary to arrange a locust plague in this distribution area, so that the kind image of Bai Suzhen, who is trying to save the hungry people in the locust plague, will be more stable. As for the part of dealing with the toad spirit, it can be performed later.

Chatting and chatting, the two of them climbed up to the heightened reservoir dam. Due to the abundant labor force and no rain or snow this winter, the hundreds of meters long dam has been raised to seven or eight meters. The hoarded water is also six to seven meters deep, but there is no fear that hundreds of thousands of fish will suffer from hypoxia.

"Husband, this is the fishing ground of Xingfu Village!"

"Well, the big fish used in our restaurant is provided here, but they are all caught and hoarded before. The fish fry stocked this autumn will not be raised until winter next year. At that time, they have been raised for more than a year, and their size should be They're all huge."

The wind on the dam was very strong, and the two of them didn't stay for long, so they headed towards the chicken farm, where Aunt Cuihua usually took care of it, but today her son got married, so she handed it over to Wang Fu's wife to take care of it, of course , the main group is still the hired workers from the neighboring villages.

"Village head, wife of the village head, why don't you rest in the house, come to the chicken farm in this cold weather, don't make yourself smelly." Wang opened the door of the chicken farm to Sun Xiangfu with a happy face road.

"Hehe, let's show my wife to see my property, the chicken farm is doing well now!" Sun Xiangfu looked around with a smile.

"Of course the chickens in our village are good. According to the method you said, every hen can lay eggs. It's just that the hired workers in the neighboring villages have learned our work of raising chickens, and they all want to go back to their villages to raise them! "While Wang was excited, he expressed the concerns of the chicken farm.

It's no wonder that those hired workers want to raise chickens by themselves, because the profits are too great. In winter, an egg costs twelve renminbi in Chang'an, and twelve renminbi can buy two catties of millet, and two catties Millet, with some miscellaneous food, is enough to feed a chicken for more than ten days. Based on the average laying hen in Xingfu Village, which lays an egg every three days, a hen can produce at least a hundred eggs a year. The value of a hundred eggs is [-] yuan, and the income of a hen can almost equal the output of an acre of land. Who doesn't want to raise them?It can only be blamed that there are few chicken farmers in this era, and eggs belong to the ranks of high-priced tonics.

"It's okay, let them raise them after learning it! Let's sell the eggs from those high-laying chickens to hatch chicks and sell them to raise them."

In later generations, my country's chicken industry was very developed. Let alone one egg for two catties of grain, when the price of rice was sold at two or three yuan per catty, the price of eggs was only a few cents, almost equal in weight With the price of food, the more than one billion people in the country can't eat all the eggs produced in their own country, and they can still export them in large quantities.Because at that time, as long as the chickens were fed for three months and reached the egg-laying period, they could almost lay one egg a day, and a self-employed chicken farmer could casually raise thousands of chickens, and there were even powerful ones. Yes, raising 10,000+ chickens is comparable to the scale of Xingfu Village.

The advantage of allowing the whole people to raise poultry is that it can reduce crop pests and improve the nutritional level of farmers’ diet. In this era, the natural environment is good, there is no pollution, and there are few cases of large-scale chicken plague. In fact, it is more suitable for the development of poultry farming. Although when everyone starts raising poultry After the chicken, it is bound to reduce the price of eggs, but isn't this what Sun Xiangfu wants?

When people in this country can eat rice and local eggs with high nutritional value, who is this country afraid of?

Sun Xiangfu took out the chicken farm's feeding log and looked at it. Although the writing was very simple, the writing was ugly, and there were many typos, Sun Xiangfu read it with gusto.

Among the more than 2 chickens, more than 100 chickens with the highest egg production rate have been found out, and their eggs have begun to hatch. This is the second generation of high-yielding chickens. The offspring of these chickens will become the main breeding of chicken farms In this way, only a few rounds later, Sun Xiangfu believes that chickens that can produce more than [-] eggs per year will be born.

"Go back and talk to Aunt Cuihua, add some more hired workers, take advantage of the lack of snow this winter, drive the chickens to the farmland in our village to graze for a few days, these chickens will dig out the eggs in the field and eat them " Sun Xiangfu gave a simple suggestion, and then he heard the sound of drums and gongs in the village, so he and Yu Xiu'er went down Jishan Mountain and walked to the village.

　Please collect, recommend, it has been more than a month, and it has not broken the thousand mark. It is up to you whether to eat instant noodles in bags or buckets in the future.

　　


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