Song Dynasty Iron Armored Army

Chapter 357

"You say you are in your thirties, how can you be so lazy, the yamen is desperately trying to pull you out of poverty, why don't you want to move. You dare to eat sprouted potato seeds, why didn't you eat to death?" Chen frame said.

The lazy man said: "It's not dead. The company used poison on the potato seeds. After eating two meals, I would vomit and have diarrhea. I dare not eat any more."

The people from the commercial firm also came and said angrily: "You are talking nonsense. Sprout potatoes are potato seeds and cannot be eaten. They are poisonous when they germinate, not the poison we planted. This has been said countless times, don't you Long ears."

County magistrate Chen saw that the potato seeds were poisonous, and he only ate a small amount of the potato seeds, most of which had already germinated and grown.

"I give you two choices, which one do you choose?" County Magistrate Chen asked.

"The county magistrate, tell me." The lazy man was scared, and it was a lie to say that he was not afraid. The county magistrate could beat him until he blossomed with an order.

"First, plant the potatoes obediently, and return the potatoes to the business in May. Second, you don't have to plant potatoes, and you don't have to cook by yourself in the future. Go work in the quarry for half a year."

The lazy man was terrified when he heard that. The quarry Chen County Magistrate said was a place where rogue bullies were detained. Among the more than 1000 people arrested in the county, those who were sentenced to be beheaded by Qiu Hou were only a few of the most heinous ones, and everyone else went there. The quarry struck stones.He is a lazy guy who can't fight or make trouble, and he can't be beaten as a grandson when he enters that place.

"I will plant, I will plant, and I will plant tomorrow." The lazy man said quickly.

Chen frame turned cold and said, "Tomorrow?"

"No, no, no, today, immediately, now."

"Okay, I'll check and accept it in two days. If a plant is found to be unqualified, you will be punished for deceiving the official and work in the quarry for one year." The county magistrate Chen shouted.

"Yes, yes, I will work hard," said the lazy man.

Deng Fei took people to the southernmost Baiyanji area. There are more than a dozen villages here, but this place is the most worry-free.

Originally, tigers and wolves here were extremely harmful. Wu Song led a team to kill several tigers here, killing hundreds of wolves and wild boars.Chaijiazhuang Commercial Bank sells piglets, goats, etc. on credit here. The preliminary work is done well, so the promotion of potatoes is relatively good. This place has promoted as much as five or six thousand acres, and most of them are grown by retail investors. .There is a self-cultivator of three to five mu in the family. He planted one or two mu. After checking it, he found that the development is very good.

This is the benefit of power. Carrots in one hand can benefit the people and make them grateful. However, there are very few people who don’t know how to be grateful and have low human nature. They need a big stick. If you beat the stick hard, the carrot will be sweet.

The entire Fei County has a huge area, sparsely populated, and only a million mu of land, so there is no pressure to promote [-] mu of potatoes.

Many people don't believe that such an ordinary, unattractive potato can produce more than 3000 catties per mu.

Potato seeds are autumn potatoes transported from Yangma Island, and the transportation process can be said to have gone through thousands of sails.

First take the blessing ship, transport it to Cangzhou Port, and change to the centipede ship from Cangzhou Port.The centipede ship goes upstream, enters Dongpingfu through the Yellow River, and then transports it along the small river to Surabaya.The end of Sishui is very close to Fei County, there are still two hundred miles.The remaining [-] miles of transportation is the most expensive transportation, Chaijiazhuang Commercial Bank, Lijiazhuang Commercial Bank, Hujiazhuang Commercial Bank, and more than a dozen local commercial firms in Fei County.Transported by horse-drawn carts, mules, and camels.This road will take two or three days, and the trouble of lagging traffic is unavoidable.Another thing is to help the people cultivate the land. The three commercial firms have mobilized thousands of mules, and [-]% of the farmers can handle it by themselves, and some have their own cows and mules.If you don't have any, you can hire other people's cattle. The price of arable land here is as cheap as Cangzhou, and it only costs ten yuan to cultivate an acre of land.

But it didn't take much effort to promote it, because the company launched a strategy of selling potato seeds on credit, and no money was required if the output could not be reached. It was written in black and white, and it was notarized by the county government.What everyone thinks more is that the time is short anyway, sow in February and harvest in early May.Potatoes cannot be grown, and sorghum planting is not delayed. In short, it will not have much impact.On the contrary, if the harvest is really good, it will be great happiness.Potatoes are delicious and can be used as a staple food, as a vegetable, or even as a pig.

After three days of inspection, the [-] mu of potato planting is still quite good, and very few plantings are not good, which will not affect the overall situation.

In the back hall of the county yamen, County Magistrate Chen hammered his sore calf, and sighed, "No wonder my brother keeps building roads and bridges, bridges and roads. This road is so important. Those remote villages can't even be passed by on horseback." It’s hard work, and the food can’t be shipped out even after it’s produced, and the cost is too high. I’m going to break my legs after walking for a few days.”

Zhu Wu said: "Now the county road has been repaired and can be used for vehicles and horses. The rest is the road leading to the village. After half a month of drying in the first month, it will be over. After the spring sowing, we will continue to dry. Sweet potatoes and corn have also been promoted. Tens of thousands of acres, if the roads are not repaired, how can so many grain and agricultural products be sold?"

Chen Jia is very happy. He knows these kinds of crops. The yield is indeed high and the adaptability is strong. As long as the farmers have one-third of the land to plant these grains, then there will be no people in this county who will starve to death. Become very wealthy, and he will also leave his name in the county annals.

"As long as there are no major disasters, the good harvest has become a settlement. There is no need to promote it next year, and farmers will rush to plant new crops. At that time, we will leave a strong mark in the county annals." Chen Jia said.

Zhu Wu smiled and said, "Hahaha, is County Magistrate Chen so satisfied with just one county magistrate? My brother's fleet has traveled thousands of miles away, where there is a wider land and a wider plain. As long as we closely follow in the footsteps of my brother , then it’s not just the county annals.”

What Zhu Wu said was very subtle, and Chen Jia understood. He is a scholar, but he is not a person with low EQ. What does it mean to go overseas? What the Lord did, the great China, there are only a few who can expand the territory, Qin Shihuang counts as one, Han Wudi counts as one, and Tang Taizong counts as one.As for the Zhao official family in this dynasty, let’s forget it, it can only be regarded as a local separatist regime, and it’s just a small corner. There are Liaojin in the north, Xixia Uighur in the west, and Dali Baiyue in the south.

Chen Jia nodded and said: "Let's work together and strive for three years to turn this mountainous area into a huge grain and grass depot. Store grain on the ground and store grain for the people. Brother's trick is really clever. It is better than digging holes to build granaries." Too much stronger."

Potatoes are purely used for food, but corn is different. While eating, straw is also an important feed for cattle and sheep.Although there are few horses in the mountains, there are donkeys, cows, mules and a large number of goats and sheep.

These livestock need a lot of grass. In summer and autumn, there is a lot of grass outside, so they don't need to eat straw.But the long winter lasted for three months, the grass outside was withered and yellow, and tigers and wolves were easy to damage. At this time, forage was needed, and corn stalks and sweet potato seedlings began to play a role.

Poor peasant households do not have large livestock at home, but no matter how poor they are, they still have to raise a few sheep.Raising sheep is not as simple as exchanging grass for meat.Sheep manure is an excellent fertilizer, which can improve the soil and increase the yield of crops.Moreover, compared with cattle, goats reproduce several times faster, with a litter ranging from two to as many as three or four.A lamb can reproduce again in six to seven months, so the role of corn stalks and sweet potato seedlings is huge.

In addition, mutton is the main meat of the Song Dynasty, and sheepskin is fur for winter clothes, so several commercial firms have selected sheep as an important animal for poverty alleviation.

As for the promotion of pigs, it is far less than that of sheep. Sheep can eat grass and straw completely, but pigs can’t. .

In addition to promoting the planting of new crops, spring is also a good time to promote tree planting. In mountain villages, roadsides and streams are good places to grow trees. Plant some poplars, willows, elms, etc., so you don’t have to worry about building houses in the future, and it’s easy to find wood for them. .

Deng Fei cupped his fists and said: "Magistrate Chen, Master Zhu, spring is the season when wild animals are most likely to hurt people. I plan to scatter all [-] horses on the ground to wipe out any wild animals that dare to approach the village. At the same time, I will order all villages and workshops to strictly guard. Be careful."

County magistrate Chen said: "Okay, Dengdu head to do it, and must send the notice to every village to make every village move. Now many villages have goats, piglets and other poverty-relief animals distributed. If you don't pay attention to the management It is likely to be carried away by wolves."

"Yes. Then I'll go down and make arrangements." Deng Fei left.

A huge county is divided into seven towns, and each town has thirty Ma Kuai, who are responsible for patrolling, maintaining law and order, arresting criminals and hunting wild animals.Of course, dealing with wild beasts mainly depends on the local people's own efforts.

(End of this chapter)