Go back to the Ming Dynasty to be a thousand households

Chapter 102 Wuzhaibao Five-Year Development Plan ([-])
Everyone, headed by He Chaoxun and Deputy Qianhu, was excited by Huang Laifu's words. Everyone felt a kind of grandeur from Huang Laifu's tone, which made people feel proud.If they were still suspicious of such a big deal before, now everyone is full of confidence in Huang Laifu's actions.

In addition to continuing to increase the development of agriculture and animal husbandry, it is also necessary to widely plant various economic crops. This is the result of Huang Laifu's careful consideration.With the development of agriculture and sufficient food, if we operate various economic crops at this time and provide a wide range of raw materials for commerce, we will achieve a virtuous cycle of development.

In addition to commercial considerations for planting various cash crops, there is another point: if food crops continue to be cultivated, various pests will appear, land fertility will be weakened, and other problems.

And if the multiple cropping rotation system is implemented, planting leguminous crops such as peanuts, soybeans, peas, broad beans, vetch, and alfalfa in rotation on some fields can improve soil fertility, reduce diseases, and Provide excellent feed for herbivores such as pigs, sheep, deer, and rabbits.Make agriculture get rid of the danger of completely relying on certain kinds of crops, blossom in an all-round way and develop in diversification.

In fact, in China, the multiple crop rotation system began since the Warring States period, while in Europe, the crop rotation system did not appear in Britain until the 18s.But for thousands of years, the inland states and counties in the Central Plains still relied on compost-like intensive farming methods to gain the upper hand, mainly because the inland states and counties had more people and less land, and farmers wanted to produce more food.However, in Wuzhaibao, there is plenty of land, and the multi-cropping and rotation farming method can be implemented on a large scale.

At the beginning of the year, Wuzhaibao planted a total of tens of thousands of acres of alfalfa. Compared with many places, alfalfa can be harvested five or six times a year, and Wuzhaibao can only be harvested twice, but the yield per mu has reached several Qianjin has provided excellent feed for many pigs and sheep. Next year, Huang Laifu decided to increase the amount of alfalfa planted.

In addition, at the beginning of the year, some rapeseed was planted in Wuzhaibao, but when it came to the autumn harvest, Huang Laifu found that the rapeseed output was very average.Huang Laifu decided to remove the canola and replace it with peanuts and beets.

Peanut is an important economic crop. In addition to improving the soil, the most important thing is that peanut is rich in oil. The oil yield can reach 50%, more than twice that of soybean, and more than one-fifth higher than that of rapeseed. It has always been a source of high-quality edible oil, and it has been widely planted all over the country in later generations.In addition to extracting oil for consumption, peanuts can also be fried, fried, or made into candy cakes such as peanut candy, peanut crisps, and peanut butter. The stems and leaves can be used as high-quality animal feed, and the seed coat can be used as medicine.

Under normal conditions, in later generations, 1 ordinary peanuts can be planted per mu in the northern region, with an yield of about 500 jin per mu. Although it is unknown how much peanuts will be produced in Wuzhaibao, Huang Laifu decided to try.

At this time, peanut seeds are not difficult to find, because peanuts native to America were introduced to my country as early as the middle of Ming Dynasty.Peanuts have been listed in the products of Jiajing's "Changshu County Chronicle", and Huang Shengzeng's "Growing Taro Method" said that there are growers in Jiading.Wanli's "Xianju County Chronicle" says: peanuts originally came out of Fujian, and they were planted recently.It can be seen that after the peanut was introduced, it was first promoted in the south of the Yangtze River and the southeast coastal areas, and then spread widely, becoming an important food and oil crop.

In addition to peanuts, the oil extraction industry in Wuzhaibao is sugar beets.As the saying goes, sugarcane in the south, sugar beet in the north.Beets were introduced to China as early as the Song Dynasty, and by the Ming Dynasty, they had been widely planted in the north of the Ming Dynasty. The seeds are not difficult to find, and the beets are even more valuable.

First of all, the yield of sugar beet is high. In later generations, the border farming method was adopted, and the density of seedlings was 5000-7000 per mu, and the average yield per mu could reach more than 5 tons.Even if Wuzhaibao cannot reach the output of later generations, the average yield per mu will be 2 tons.

In addition, sugar beet has a high sugar content and a purity of more than 80%.After the beets are harvested, through various processes, they can be made into various sucrose products such as white granulated sugar and soft white sugar. In Daming at this time, white sugar was a valuable commodity.

In addition, the stems and leaves of beets are ideal juicy and green feeds. In addition to containing the general nutrients required by livestock, they are also rich in carotene, which can supplement the lack of vitamin A in the feed.After sugar refining, sugar beet dregs are also ideal feed for pigs and sheep.

In addition, after heating and hydrolyzing sugar beet pulp, and mixing it with cement and gypsum furnace ash, some thermal insulation materials can also be produced. Qian Jing is optimistic.

In addition to the above oil crops, Huang Laifu will continue to grow some soybeans in Wuzhaibao. In fact, the soybean yield in Wuzhaibao this year is not high, less than [-] catties per mu. The reason why he continues to plant is that It is mainly used to fix nitrogen and fertilize fields to improve soil fertility.

In addition, flax and hemp Huang Laifu also plan to grow some. These two crops will have an average national yield of about 300 kilograms per mu in later generations.

In addition to the cash crops above, Huang Laifu decided to start growing vegetables next year, mainly Chinese cabbage, cabbage, cabbage, spinach, celery, cucumber, carrot, eggplant, green onion, garlic, green beans, etc.These vegetables are available in the Ming Dynasty now, and in later generations, they all have a yield of several thousand catties per mu.Pumpkins in particular have an yield of 2 jin per mu. Of course, this requires pumpkin grafting, but the technical content is not high. Huang Laifu will study it when he has time.

Of course, many of the vegetables at this time were not available in winter. Although China had greenhouse cultivation technology since the Western Han Dynasty, it was greatly promoted in Ming Dynasty. As far as Wuzhaibao is concerned, it is a bit late, let's talk about it next winter.

At this time, Wuzhaibao has always been regarded as a winter vegetable. It is not only big and tight, but also sweet and crisp, with high nutritional value. Its vitamin C content is second only to peppers and higher than that of peppers. General vegetables such as spinach and radishes.Huang Laifu decided to vigorously plant.

In addition to vegetables, Wuzhai Fort also needs to plant various fruit trees. Huang Laifu has checked that the fruit trees suitable for Wuzhai Fort should include: apples, grapes, pears and cherries. These fruits are easy to store, easy to transport, and can be used for wine making. Some food substitutes.In later generations, the average yield of these kinds of fruits reached thousands of kilograms per mu. Although Wuzhaibao didn't know how much the yield would be, Huang Laifu decided to give it a try.

In addition, wheat straw is used as raw material to produce edible flower mushrooms, and some small things such as chestnuts, red dates, seabuckthorns, and wolfberries can also be tried.

Finally, it was Huang Laifu's decision to raise deer and rabbits.

Huang Laifu checked some computer data. At this time, Daming's deer farming is generally mainly based on antlers. If the sword is used to produce venison, it will be very profitable.

Moreover, it is not difficult to feed deer. The efficiency of the digestive system is more than 2% higher than that of cattle. If you feed deer straw, you only need to add bran, bran, bean cake, vegetable cake, etc. to feed.Moreover, the meat yield is high. For the same 60 catties of dry pasture, you can get 1 kg of goat meat, beef and beef, and 3 kg of venison.Northern Europe in later generations produced hundreds of thousands of tons of venison annually.Of course, the only prerequisite for stocking deer is that the breeder is close to the deer, otherwise the deer will ignore you.

There are also rabbits. The digestibility of rabbits is much higher than that of cattle and sheep. Rabbit meat is also high in protein, and rabbits reproduce quickly. You can feed wheat straw and wild grass, as long as you don’t feed fresh grass with dew.However, unlike pigs and sheep, rabbits are not suitable for breeding in captivity. If they are raised in captivity, there are many diseases, so they can only be kept in free range.

But to be honest, you said that pigs and sheep are fine. When it comes to raising deer and rabbits, no one in Wuzhaibao has any experience in raising them.

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Listening to Huang Laifu coming one by one, everyone in the room was elated and talked a lot.

After Huang Laifu introduced some preliminary goals for the development of Wuzhaibao next year, he said: "Everyone can see the development of Wuzhaibao this year, and the development of next year can also be expected. But our Wuzhaibao is developing more and more now. Quick, so some of the original personnel affairs can no longer keep up with the needs of development, and must be improved and subdivided so that everyone can understand what they will do in the future, and some idle people must also take care of things. Now we mainly Let's study this matter."

Hearing what Huang Laifu said, everyone immediately cheered up, especially the few hundred households who were idle. Hearing what Master Qianhu said, it seemed that he was going to assign them work, which made them pay more attention.

In the current Wuzhai Fort, except for He Chaoxun, Deputy Qianhu, Yang Anzhang and Yang Baihu, everyone else is idle and in a semi-retired state.Although they knew that Lord Qianhu would give them dividends at the end of the year, but seeing Wuzhai Fortress in full swing, they had nothing to do and were excluded from the power of Lord Qianhu, so they couldn't help feeling a little worried and disappointed.Now after hearing what Huang Laifu said, everyone couldn't help but feel refreshed.

Huang Laifu said: "Now there are so many miscellaneous things in Wuzhaibao's farming, and I decided to subdivide it. Divide it into food group, vegetable group, fruit tree group, animal husbandry group, agricultural technology group, etc..."

"The food group is headed by me personally, and my brother-in-law Gu Shibao and Steward Yang are the deputy heads of the group. The main tasks are to reclaim wasteland, manage the grain of various farms, and build various types of farmland water conservancy, etc..."

After hearing Huang Laifu's words, Gu Shibao and Yang Butler hurriedly stood up and bowed to everyone, especially Gu Shibao, whose face was flushed with excitement.Although he is the deputy team leader, Butler Yang is old after all, and he has to be busy with the thousands of houses, and Huang Laifu is even more busy with affairs. After he is familiar with the affairs, it means that he is in charge of the food team.

He had been dreaming of this day, and seeing his dream come true, he was naturally extremely excited.And everyone in the room cast their eyes on him, everyone knew Gu Shibao's uncle, seeing Huang Laifu's arrangement, they had nothing to say.

(End of this chapter)