Technology dominates the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 71 [Building farm tools and curved ploughs] for collection, recommended

"After saying this, you may not understand it for a while. You just need to remember that sweet potatoes can be eaten as food, and can be used to feed livestock such as pigs, cattle, horses, etc., and the yield is very high. The yield per mu can reach 60 to [-] or [-] shi (here One stone is calculated as [-] catties), it is the fruit bestowed by the gods." Lu Bu advocated heartily.

[Sweet Potato] that can be eaten as a meal, the yield per mu is 56 to [-] shi!What kind of fetish is this?Everyone couldn't believe it.

The average yield of rice here is only three shi per mu, but the sweet potato is as low as [-] shi, and it can be eaten instead of rice.Most people, the brain can't react.

Just looking at a piece of sweet potato seedlings in front of him, his eyes are hot and eager to try.

"The minimum yield per mu is [-] shi, which is seven or eight times higher than that of millet in the Central Plains. Can this be eaten?" Not to mention that everyone is hard to accept, even Zhang Liao dare not believe it easily.But it was something Lu Bu made, and he had to believe it.

"Is there such a god in the world?" Ding Hong could imagine that if it was true as Lu Bu said, planting these sweet potatoes might solve the problem of food and clothing for the common people.He no longer cares about how Lu Bu discovered these things. Anyway, it is a good thing for the benefit of the people, so why bother to get to the bottom of it.

Jia Xu was thoughtful, and murmured: "No wonder he can exempt the poll tax so freely. It turns out that the secret is on this sweet potato."

He was very interested and wanted to know what Lu Bu would do next.Now Lu Bu is in charge of Nanhai County, Cangwu County, and Hepu County, with nearly 70 people.With a vast land and few people, it is not easy to do something here.

Not to mention whether Liu Biao in Jingzhou will interfere, but to deal with the remaining Yulin County, Jiaozhi County, and Jiuzhen County in Jiaozhou, it will take a long journey, time-consuming and laborious. If the enemy is prepared, it will be a tough battle. .

Fighting requires people and food. Fortunately, the taxes and food in Nanhai County and Cangwu County have not been handed over to Zhu Fu, the governor of Jiaozhou, and there are more than one million shi in the food treasury of the two counties, which can support the next autumn harvest.But the premise is that there is no long-term war, otherwise it will not be able to afford it.

Although Jia Xu didn't say anything, she was thinking about Lu Bu in her heart.But Lu Bu had too many accidents, and he still couldn't do it without omission.

On Lu Bu's side, seeing everyone's emotions being mobilized, he immediately cut to the chase and said, "Now, this general will teach you how to grow [sweet potatoes]."

As he said that, Lu Bu came to a large open field beside him, which should have been cultivated and then abandoned.

"First come a dozen or so people to dig the land deeply. Remember to use hoes to dig deeper, and then crush the soil. It's best to be a good farmer." Lu Bu pointed at the wasteland in front of him, and said to Zhang Liao and the others. said the person who came.

"General, Cao Min is willing to give it a try."

"I would too."

Soon 20 people walked out, all of them holding hoes, most of them were young men with strong bodies.And these people are basically those who came out of those brought by Ding Hong.

"Okay, it's up to you. Follow the general's instructions and plow the land first," Lu Bu said.

Cultivating the land, these people are good hands, and their movements are quite skilled.

About one stick of incense passed by, and 20 people plowed about three acres of wasteland.The soil dug out from the surface was also crushed. The land is sandy. Although it has been raining lightly, the plowed soil is not very sticky.

Lu Bu took some sweet potato vines, showed them to 20 people, and said: "The sweet potato seedlings are section by section, and each section has a node. A long sweet potato seedling can be divided into sections according to the nodes. One verse, like this."

Lu Bu demonstrated it to them himself, and then asked them to try it out, and didn't stop until Lu Bu was satisfied.

The next step is farming. Planting sweet potato seedlings is still very particular. First of all, deep plowing is necessary. Deep plowing can deepen the active soil layer, loosen and mature the soil, enhance the decomposition of soil nutrients, improve soil fertility, increase soil water storage capacity, and improve soil air permeability. It is conducive to the growth of stems and leaves and the deep development of roots, thereby increasing the yield of sweet potatoes.

The second is ridge planting. The advantages of ridge planting are that compared with flat planting, it increases the surface area, increases the light-receiving area, increases the interface between the soil and the atmosphere, has a large temperature difference between day and night, and is conducive to dehumidification and drainage in the field.Try to keep the distance between the ridges as consistent as possible when raising the ridges. If the width is uneven, the nutrients obtained by adjacent plants will be different, resulting in excessive vegetative growth of dominant plants, while weaker plants may not receive sufficient sunlight and nutrients, and uneven growth will affect Yield.

This also had to be demonstrated by Lu Bu himself. Maybe he hadn't planted land for more than ten years. Lu Bu picked up the hoe and felt a sense of intimacy.Like an old hand doing farm work, he is skilled and natural.

He suddenly remembered a poem he had read in elementary school, and read it out inadvertently:

"One grain of millet planted in spring will yield ten thousand seeds in autumn."

"There is no idle land in the world, and the peasants still starve to death."

"At noon on the day of hoeing, the sweat drips down to the soil."

"Who knows dishes on the menu, A Journey."

Nearly a thousand people heard this poem suddenly read by Lu Bu, especially the last two lines: "At noon on the day of hoeing, sweat drips down to the soil." "Who knows that every grain of Chinese food is hard work."

They suddenly felt that Lu Bu was very kind, someone who understood their hard work in farming.Later, this poem also spread like wildfire from here, and was sung among the people, which became a legendary story of Lu Bu.

Moreover, Jia Xu, Zhang Liao, and the soldiers knew Lu Bu's other two sides: understanding farming, and being able to recite poems and compose fu!
Afterwards, Lu Bu braved the light rain here, instructing nearly a thousand people to plant sweet potato seedlings until dark.

It made everyone feel very lucky to meet the Lord of Cangwu County like Lu Bu.This incident quickly spread Lu Bu's good reputation of being considerate of the people, and the hearts of the people gradually moved closer to him.

But Lu Bu didn't have time to relax. That night at the prefect's mansion, he recruited skilled carpenters and blacksmiths from the army overnight.

In addition, Lu Bu asked Ding Hong to bring in a few farmers who were proficient in various agricultural tools and could provide some advice if necessary.

To plant millions of acres of sweet potatoes within a month, not only the support of the majority of farmers is needed, but also a sufficient supply of agricultural tools, among which hoes are the most in demand.

Secondly, because there are many plains in the three counties, waiting for further land reclamation.Therefore, an advanced tool for cultivating land is very important.

Calling these carpenters and blacksmiths to come here overnight is to let them build a sharp tool for farming: Quyuan plow.

"Wait and see if the things on this drawing can be made." Lu Bu directly took out the [Quyuanli Design Drawing] rewarded by the system. The drawing is composed of words and pictures, and the words are also Han Dynasty characters. They understand it at a glance.

Watching Lu Bu take out more than a dozen pieces that looked like silk, after spreading them out, there were pictures and words on them.

A dozen carpenters, blacksmiths, and farmers in the hall watched closely.

"Quyuanli?" Seeing the name of the design drawing, everyone understood that it was a design drawing of a new type of plow.

But after a closer look, everyone was surprised, especially a few farmers.

A blacksmith asked, "General, when will you want this?"

Lu Bu looked at him and asked, "How much time do you need?"

More than a dozen people discussed it, and the answer to Lu Bu was that samples should be made and handed over to Lu Bu before noon tomorrow.

Lu Bu also made it clear to them that the item was urgently needed and in large quantities.What they need can be satisfied, and they will be rewarded after successful production.

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