"Hey, Your Majesty."
Hu Er scratched the back of his head naively. Although he didn't understand why he changed his name to Zhang Qi, he was obedient.
Zhang Qi took a look at Hu Er and saw that he was in good health and could train. He also knew that the injuries caused to him by the tiger last time were almost healed, but his arm still needed some time to rest.
He patted his shoulder gently: "Okay, listen to your sister and take good care of your injuries. When your injuries are better, your Majesty will take you out to play."
"Yeah!" Hu Er nodded like a fool: "Be obedient, hehe, Hu Er is the most obedient."
Amused by his silly appearance, the haze in Zhang Qi's heart dissipated a lot. After a few words of warning, he and Hu Ling left.
"Everything goes well at the small workshop."
Zhang Qi put his hands behind his back.
Hu Ling followed obediently. In fact, they, wolf cubs, had quite a lot to do every day, but in front of Zhang Qi, Zhang Qi also took the first priority in the most important matters.
"Hu San is in charge there. Apart from the necessary homework every day, he is guarding the stove."
The small workshop is a testing ground established by Zhang Qi with modern knowledge. Even though he has not developed his tribe much in the outside world, it is because he does not have a suitable territory yet. Now that he has won the Xianbei grassland, he must work hard When developing, we must also consider how to liberate the labor force.
I walked to a small workshop located less than four or five miles outside the city of Silonia. The outside of the workshop was surrounded by a log wall, and the space inside was quite large.
Outside the log city wall, there are several acres of farmland cultivated, which are experimental fields.
Although the farm in Sotai Village can grow a batch of crops in a month, that is because of the power of the system, or the running trajectory of the game.
The crops harvested from the farm are all cut out of the same mold, whether in terms of size, style, scale, or anything else. There is no difference at all, so there is no way to select improved varieties among them for crop improvement.
That's why Zhang Qicai asked people to open experimental fields, use the difference in flow rate between the riding world and the outside world to cultivate crops, select high-quality, healthy, and high-yielding seeds for cultivation, and breed suitable seeds year after year.
Of course, this selection method is just a more detailed survival of the fittest, and cannot be compared with the improvement technology optimized from the genetic level in modern society.
But doing it is better than doing nothing.
It has been selected for several generations now, and many high-quality varieties have been selected. The yield of sorghum per mu has basically stabilized at 300 to 500 kilograms per mu.
Coupled with the use of farmyard manure and phosphorus and potassium fertilizers, the output of one acre of mature land has been stabilized at about 430 kilograms.
Phosphate and potassium fertilizers are confusing to talk about, but refining them is not difficult.
Regardless of purity, plant ash mixed with rice washing water is the best potassium fertilizer, and the meat bones, fish bones, and beef and sheep hoof horns left after eating meat every day are ground into powder and fermented to be the best phosphate fertilizer.
This is already one of the highest yields in this era. Zhang Qi thought that with the blessing of the fertile black soil on the northeastern plains, it would not be difficult to feed the tens of thousands of people with sorghum alone.
Not to mention pumpkin, a naturally high-yielding food.
Enter the log city wall.
There was a constant sound of clanging iron inside.
There are not many wolf cubs here, only about a dozen, and judging by their age, they should be among the children brought in in the second batch who have not been implanted with spiritual points.
Now they are almost eight or nine years old. In this environment, each one of them looks like a little adult.
"Your Majesty!"
Seeing Zhang Qi's arrival, all the children eagerly saluted Zhang Qi. Although the second batch of children who came in had not been implanted with spiritual power, in terms of fanaticism, they were no better than the first batch of children who had grown up. Poor wolf cubs.
This is the brainwashing effect of faith.
Zhang Qi smiled and waved his hand and nodded, indicating that they should continue to do whatever they needed to do.
My eyes looked around the small workshop. Dozens of plows were neatly placed next to the wooden pillars that supported the ceiling.
Zhang Qi stepped forward to check, and found that the plows were of different styles, ranging from angle plows to single-blade plows, but gradually the styles of these plows evolved into one type, which was the curved shaft plow.
To the farmers of later generations, Qu Yuanli was no stranger to him, but if he wanted to reproduce it one to one, Zhang Qi said that he did not have the ability. All he did was give a rough appearance and then asked the craftsman to We groped little by little and headed in this direction.
In the beginning, the speed of improving the plow was naturally not fast, but as the wolf cubs grew up day by day, those cubs who were extremely talented in craftsmanship were finally able to get the Qu Yuan plow out of Zhang Qi's memory.
Zhang Qi has tried farming before, and both the feel and effort saving are consistent with what Zhang Qi remembers.
Taking advantage of one, Zhang Qi separated the plowshare from the plow frame.
These plows are not integrated. The plowshare and plow frame can be disassembled, making it convenient to transport or replace damaged accessories.
Hu Ling followed him and asked carefully: "Your Majesty, is there any problem with this?"
Zhang Qi glanced at Hu Ling and smiled: "No problem, you go tell Hu San and let the boys who know how to blacksmith come and make plowshares when they have time. I need three thousand."
Hu Ling was stunned for a moment, then reacted and accepted the order: "Yes, Your Majesty."
"Then" Hu Ling thought for a while and continued: "Your Majesty, the iron material here may not be enough."
Most of the materials in the small workshop are smelted from the iron ore purchased by the caravans, and some are crude iron leftover from Sojal's smelting materials.
The use of small blast furnaces is now very mature. Although there is no coal and only charcoal can be used as fuel, which requires many more steps to heat up, the more difficult it is, the easier it is for their technology to improve.
The output of a small blast furnace is not large, and the amount of molten iron or molten steel dissolved at one time is only about a hundred kilograms. However, as long as the small blast furnace is expanded proportionally, it is not realistic to say that it is not realistic to say ten thousand kilograms at a time. It can still be done with just a few hundred or even a thousand kilograms. of.
The process of liberating productivity is the process of the birth of science. Zhang Qi's enlightenment education was very successful in this regard.
At least after he took over Xianbei's territory, he didn't create something from scratch, but already had a foundation.
"I know this." Zhang Qi put down the plowshare and moved the plow frame to the side. He wanted to take the plow frame out and let outsiders process the plow frame. When the time comes, he would directly take out the plowshare, which would not only save a fortune. Nar can also perform miracles in front of the Xianbei people.
"Don't worry about the hard things. Suojiaer has accumulated a lot of materials. Just go and move them. He won't stop you."
"Also, have someone send this plow frame to the hall, and let the craftsmen go there. I have a new task to give them."
Zhang Qi patted the dust on his hands and said softly.
In ancient society, agricultural civilization was inherently more stable than nomadic civilization. Of course, this does not mean that nomadism is undesirable, but Zhang Qi, who has the experience of later generations, naturally prefers a development process in which farming is the mainstay and nomadicism is supplemented.
The Northeast Plains have natural advantages in this regard. Although the Northeast Plains are now swampy due to the water system, these can be overcome. And with the current population of Zhang Qi, a 100,000 acres or even only a few tens of thousands acres of farmland are needed. It's enough to feed them.
As for the future, take your time.
(End of chapter)
