Chapter 1296 Production System
Chapter 1296 Production System (Monthly Ticket Plus 1)
It was already afternoon, and the sun was setting in the west.
The lake water gradually lost its midday gilt color and turned into a black jade inkstone.
There are several floating boats tied to the pavilions and bridges on the shore.
The newly sprouted lotus leaves still have curled emerald edges; occasionally a precocious lotus bud breaks through the silk clothes and trembles in the warm breeze, holding up the rouge pen tip.
The copper bells on the eaves of the waterside pavilion rang softly, and a few egrets were suddenly startled from the depths of the reed marsh, and they flew away over the water with a leisurely and unrestrained posture.
Several palace maids were squatting beside the rocks, holding baskets full of water chestnuts tied with hemp ropes and washing them in the water.
Suddenly, they heard footsteps. They turned their heads and looked back. They saw a group of soldiers jogging towards them, looking around. Suddenly, they understood something.
One of them, who was beautiful in appearance, quietly pulled down the collar of her skirt, revealing half of her fair and smooth breasts.
When others saw this, they secretly cursed him for being shameless.
But don't laugh at each other. For a better life, what does it matter? Who wants to continue living this hard life?
Last year, after Xie, the daughter-in-law of the former Langya Lieutenant Kong Tan, was taken to the palace, she was washing clothes by the water and was caught by the emperor. He took her directly into the laundry room and favored her for half an hour. Unfortunately, she did not get pregnant and nothing happened in the end.
If you are lucky and get pregnant with a prince or princess at once, you will be out of suffering.
However, their efforts were doomed to be in vain. After Shao Xun sat down in the pavilion, he was only concerned with teasing the children and did not pay any attention to the palace maids at all.
Instead, Lady Shi glanced around and sneered secretly.
The slaves had noble status before, but now the gap is too big and they feel uncomfortable. Some of them have become coquettish unconsciously.
Haha, the emperor doesn't like you. I just hunt some wild food occasionally to change my taste, don't take it seriously.
Besides, didn't you see that the emperor was wearing plain clothes? They are all as stupid as pigs.
Shao Xun quickly sat on the stone bench, and the two girls, Yang and Shi, sat beside him, holding their babies.
The palace servants quickly left in disappointment, and the soldiers also dispersed far away.
The lake breeze makes people feel relaxed and happy.
Shao Xun looked at Yang Xianrong and said, "I called you here today for something else."
"I thought you would just live in Guanfeng Palace and not move out." Yang Xianrong said.
Shao Xun smiled awkwardly and said, "Indeed, I live in Guanfeng Hall. I get up early every morning to practice martial arts, attend court meetings or answer questions in the morning, review memorials in the afternoon, ride horses, and practice with the children. After dinner, I write or read books, and go to bed at midnight. It repeats over and over again, and I am almost back to the time when I lived in the military camp thirty years ago."
Yang Xianrong leaned in to look at him and said, "You've even given up on women. You must be very uncomfortable, right?"
Shi looked at Yang Xianrong with some envy.
She would never be able to speak to the emperor in this tone in her life. The difference between her and Yang Xianrong was probably the difference between a mistress and a female slave.
"After giving up women, I have a lot of energy but nowhere to vent it. It's a good time to do some serious work." Shao Xun said, "You still have a farm in Guangchengze, right? Send some people to Huainan and let Chen Yan build a large farm in Guangling first."
"Huainan" sometimes refers to Huainan County, and sometimes it is a geographical term, that is, the Jianghuai area between the south of the Huai River and the north of the Yangtze River. In the context here, it is naturally a geographical term.
Chen Yan was originally the governor of Tangyi, and after the fall of Jin, he became the governor of Guangling. He was a relative of the Shi family, so Shao Xun also called Lady Shi over to see his son.
"Do you want people to grow rice?" Yang Xianrong reacted quickly.
"That's right." Shao Xun nodded and said, "It's incredible that so many people in Jiangnan are still growing millet. In the north, millet, wheat and beans are rotated in two years, and the people's grain production has increased greatly. Now it's time to take care of Jiangnan. After all, the per-acre yield of wheat is higher than that of millet, and the per-acre yield of rice is higher than that of wheat. Planting more rice and wheat and less millet can greatly increase grain production. With more grain, many things will be easier to handle."
"Okay." Yang Xianrong said, "But Guangling is sparsely populated, so we can't grow many crops."
"A tall building starts from the ground, so we must start with a beginning." Shao Xun said, "Let's start with rice-wheat rotation. With the climate and soil fertility of Huainan and Jiangnan, it is not impossible to have two crops a year. At worst, three crops in two years is also possible."
Whether it is the three crops in two years in the north or the two crops in one year in the south, the core crop is winter wheat.
It is precisely because of the utilization of the winter months that this agricultural farming system is able to function.
However, wheat and rice are crops with a long growth cycle, so it is not enough to harvest twice a year. But don't worry, the history of rice cultivation in the north is also very long, but there are fewer places to grow it, and the technology is relatively advanced.
At that time, agricultural technology in the south of the Yangtze River was very backward. Although there were a few advanced areas, the overall practice was still "slash-and-burn farming and waterlogging", that is, setting fire to the fields to burn all the weeds, using the wood ash as a source of fertilizer, then opening the gates to pump water into the fields and directly sowing rice seeds.
So how do people in the north grow rice? Long-term field management, regular weeding, and sowing rice seeds, when the rice seedlings are ready, weeds will also grow together - don't underestimate weeds, they have a great impact on grain production.
Farmers pull out the weeds and rice seedlings together, trample the weeds into the mud and water, let them rot, and then plant the rice seedlings back, achieving the purpose of weeding in one go.
Shao Xun had seen it in Guangchengze and felt it was very inconsistent at the time, but he couldn't tell why.
Then one day, I suddenly realized: Are you planting rice in the same place?
He remembered that before he traveled through time, he helped his family plant rice. They had to take out densely packed rice seedlings from a small piece of specially reserved rice field, and then plant them in a special large field. This caused him to have backaches and his legs were sucked blood by leeches.
Later, with the technology of transplanting rice seedlings, things became much easier.
You actually pulled up the rice seedlings and planted them back in the same place? How could you do that? Why don't you transplant them?
Well, the reason for not transplanting is very simple. I only grow rice for one season a year. I don't do rice-wheat rotation. I have plenty of time. I'm not in a hurry. I don't need to rush to grab the farming season. Later, Shao Xun suggested choosing a small piece of well-maintained dug field and raising seedlings in March and April. When the winter wheat is harvested in early May, the seedlings have grown. At this time, you can irrigate the wheat field and slowly transplant the seedlings in, and you can harvest in August.
This is called rice-wheat rotation with two crops a year.
However, this agricultural system was not very suitable for the north and could only be carried out on a small-scale pilot basis. It was not until the capture of Huainan that it was truly planted on a large scale. Shaobei and Huainanyuan had a certain scale of rice-wheat rotation, followed by Caizhouyuan, and then a small-scale promotion was also carried out in the northern part of Jingzhou.
How to say it, the seedling raising and transplanting system is the foundation.
Between March and April, winter wheat is still growing in the fields and has not yet fully matured. At this time, rice seedlings can be grown in small plots of land.
After the winter wheat harvest is completed in early May and the fields are flooded, the rice seedlings are transplanted. Because the seedlings are small and grow densely, they can be transplanted into rice fields to plant several acres.
Rice is harvested in August, completing two crops a year.
This rice-wheat rotation system was gradually spread after a large number of people from the Central Plains migrated south during the An-Shi Rebellion in the Tang Dynasty.
The great commercial prosperity in the late Tang Dynasty may not have been without the added bonus of this farming system, which allowed the agricultural potential of Jiangnan to fully unleash.
Yang Xianrong witnessed the entire process of establishing the rice-wheat rotation and double-cropping agricultural system from scratch. When she heard that Shao Xun planned to gradually popularize this new farming system in Huainan and Jiangnan, she was speechless for a moment.
"You said before that the future belongs to Jiangnan. Don't I believe it now--" She shook her head and sighed: "Maybe the world is really different now."
"Some people think that the northern nobles went south to grab farmland. Admittedly, this is true, but they also brought a lot of good things from the north. Agriculture in the south of the Yangtze River is still too backward," said Shao Xun.
Artificially drive the northern nobles to move south, carrying out the Migration of the Elite to the South 2.0.
If the rice-wheat rotation system is popularized ahead of schedule, the idle time of farmland will be greatly reduced and the utilization efficiency of farmland will be improved. I wonder how far-reaching the impact will be in the future.
Perhaps, Jiangxi did not have to wait until the Tang Dynasty to be fully developed, Jingzhou did not have to wait until the Song Dynasty to gradually become a cultivated land, and the southwestern region did not have to wait until the Ming and Qing Dynasties to completely reform the native system. The entire historical process would be accelerated.
Of course, as the system changes, farmers still need to adapt.
Energy is conserved. The more things grow in the land, the more fertility is consumed. They need to do everything they can to conserve the land.
Shao Xun didn't know much about technology, he only knew the farming system that had been proven by history.
The new production system has been given to you, but you need to explore the corresponding fertilization technology on your own.
Having said that, Yang Xianrong basically understood.
Guang Chengze has been tinkering with these things over the years.
Tall and strong horses are divided into three categories: war horses, draft horses, and pack horses, each with different requirements.
Various types of cattle and sheep must also adapt to the climate in different places.
Weird vegetables and fruits.
Terraced fields and rice-wheat rotation are just one of them.
To be honest, she didn't really want to get involved in this matter. After all, she was a concubine, and these matters theoretically had nothing to do with her, although the Sun family and the Yang family were the ones who were actually handling the matter.
Thinking of this, she started teasing Shan Yinan's daughter again, looking angry.
My aunt and niece were both inseminated by this man and gave birth to children. Sometimes when I think about it, I get so angry that my lungs almost explode.
The baby girl had just woken up and started crying when she saw Yang Xianrong gritting her teeth.
Shao Xun hurriedly hugged the child and tried to comfort him softly, but he didn't expect the child to cry even louder.
While we were busy, another car stopped not far away.
Zhuge Wenbiao got out of the car with a big belly. When he saw the people in the pavilion, the slight smile on his face immediately fell, and he turned around and got into the car.
Yang Xianrong burst out laughing.
Shi's heart was pounding, and she lowered her head, wishing she could hide the child in her arms in the grass.
"My child, you have seen it too. I will take it back to comfort Yi Nan." Yang Xianrong stood up and chuckled, "Guangchengze can send most of its personnel to Guangling, and Huainan Garden may also be able to transfer dozens of people. They have worked tirelessly for you, so you should give them some benefits."
"They are all your relatives, Changqiu, so naturally they will be given important positions." Shao Xun promised: "As long as you work hard after going to Guangling, within two years, those with common status will be given official positions, and those with official positions will be promoted."
"You decide." Yang Xianrong said indifferently. After that, she nodded at Shao Xun and said, "Observe the mourning period well."
Shao Xun waved his hand helplessly. After the girl walked away, he looked at Shi and said, "Wen Biao is going to give birth in September. You are her elder, and I wanted you to take care of her more. But now it seems that's not possible. No one lives in the Youxianyuan of Huangnv Palace. You should move there tomorrow. It will be your bedroom from now on."
After saying that, he also stood up and left.
Shi heaved a sigh of relief and was delighted at the same time.
She also has her own independent bedroom.
(End of this chapter)