This group of people looked sad, not knowing whether to report to the family or discuss it.
Li Zhao didn't care about this. He was currently studying gunpowder.
When they read, they know proportions.
But the things in the books are dead, and it is still quite difficult to operate them according to the instructions.
Li Zhao could not trust anyone else in this matter, so he handed it over to Wu Diao Temple.
As for when the test will come out, it can only depend on God's will.
When everyone works together, the results will be different.
At noon that day, Li Zhao ordered the kitchen to cook as rich a meal as possible.
The villagers who came here to work and eat for the first time really felt the prince's heart.
Especially when the fragrant and soft rice enters their throats, they feel that this is the greatest happiness in life.
On that day, through everyone's efforts, the wasteland diversion canals in these areas planned by Li Zhao were completed. The next step was to dig smaller ditches on the main road diversion canals.
There is a lot of land planned by Li Zhao, and it needs to be soaked for at least three days before it can be dug and cultivated well.
Three days passed by in a blink of an eye.
The plowing team formed by Li Zhao is already in place.
Even though there is still sun, the weather is starting to get cold after all.
Therefore, Li Zhao specially ordered the kitchen to prepare ginger tea and ginger soup for them. Although they would feel hot all over while working and would not feel cold, Li Zhao did not want them to get anything wrong.
A big ox with a strong head and body was led out. Many old farmers who did not know how to use a curved shaft plow gradually became more and more skilled after helping Li Zhao plow more than 30,000 acres of land.
There are one or two old farmers following each old farmer who tills the fields. Although preliminary digging has been done here, it is generally not very deep.
Even if many rocks have been removed, there is no guarantee that there will be no big rocks at the bottom.
Once discovered, they need to be dug out first by those carrying hoes.
Once the iron blade of the curved shaft plow hits the big stone hard, it will curl up.
Although the iron smelting technology of this era was relatively developed, it was nothing compared to that of later eras.
Those things from the later era cannot stand up to big rocks, let alone the handicrafts of this era.
These curved shaft plows are treasures. Even if they are only worn out, it will be very troublesome to repair them.
Although Li Zhao has expanded its recruitment three or four times, craftsmen are still scarce.
"Come on, it's here!"
Sure enough, as everyone expected, it didn't take long for us to encounter deep rocks.
This is the difference between wasteland and grain fields.
Therefore, the speed of plowing the fields cannot be much faster.
Li Zhao prepared three meals a day, making sure that everyone was full and well-fed. In between, he would bring ginger soup and ginger tea to supplement them.
I originally thought that the land would be plowed in four days, but unexpectedly it was postponed for two days.
Everyone was a little anxious, felt that the progress had been slowed down, and blamed themselves.
Li Zhao didn't mean to blame, because he knew that plans were always just plans, and plans could not keep up with changes.
As long as it can be completed smoothly, it will be great.
After the wasteland was reclaimed, everything here looks much more comfortable.
Because the field of vision is wider, the new land that was reclaimed is still soaked in water.
In the following days, these wastelands need to be repeatedly watered to infiltrate the surrounding soil so that it can retain water and moisture.
After all the water is drained, the fire earth will begin to burn.
Li Zhao is doing this now, and this method of fertilizing fields was banned by experts in the later era.
In the final analysis, it is still a dispute of interests. Plant ash is a very nutritious thing. The ashes are fed back to the earth, and the earth can provide nutrients to the soil.
Experts say that burning platycodon and straw to pollute the air is simply nonsense.
It is never the common people who really pollute the world and cause more greenhouse gases in the world.
They do not recommend that large factories stop working and stop emitting greenhouse gases, but instead encourage people to buy more fertilizers!
Why?
Because fertilizer is also a tool for capital to make money.
They prey on the common people because they are the easiest to make money from and the easiest to deceive.
After the fields were dry, Li Zhao went to the fields himself.
He carried a shovel and covered it with soil one shovel after another.
The rest of the people were doing the same thing in the fields.
"Here, spread the grass!"
The grass that had been harvested before and the straw that had long since dried up in the rice fields were finally put to use.
Thick grass is spread on the soil, and some skinny branches and dry firewood are added, so that it can burn more fully.
Li Zhao was so busy that he was sweating profusely and didn't feel cold at all. After laying out these things, he would cover them with soil again with a bamboo dustpan.
After doing the same operation about two or three times, it will be like a three-layer cake.
Li Zhao was so busy that he was out of breath. If there weren't so many people, he would really not be able to complete the process of fertilizing the fields.
Wu Diao Si came over holding a torch: "Your Highness!"
Li Zhao took the torch and walked around the oblong fire mound, and the raging fire began to burn.
Countless vegetation and trees are flying with ash, it just looks scary.
Things like burning fire and soil are mostly done in the evening. This is what Long Jiaan and the others told Li Zhao. Burning fire in broad daylight is easy to scare people and is not very auspicious.
Secondly, when burning in the evening, you can use the night temperature to lower the temperature of the fire mound.
The fire mound burned very slowly. When all the soil inside was burned, it was almost dawn the next day.
This is just the right time for ordinary people.
Every household has a toilet, and the excrement in it is the best nutrient for the soil.
In the early morning, Li Zhao and the others got up early. Everyone had to pick dung. The distance was very far, so someone had to change the dung, otherwise their old waists would not be able to carry it.
Li Zhao humbly asked for advice because he lacked these things and knowledge.
Li Zhao followed Long Jia'an with a hoe, and used the hoe to open up the fire pile in the same manner.
The still steaming fire mound turned into an enlarged version of the ingot.
Even if it is kept all night, it still has residual warmth.
Pour the fecal water into it slowly, and it will react with the hot soil in it.
The soil becomes fertile soil containing two natural fertilizers: plant ash and manure.
When the dung water is poured into it, there will be a hissing sound, which Li Zhao will find very smelly, but the old farmers are used to it.
At this time, you only need to wait for two hours. When the temperature inside has almost dropped, stir it evenly with a hoe and shovel, pick up the soil with a bamboo scoop, and sprinkle it on the new fields that have just revealed the outline of the grain field. above the soil.
There will be a fermentation process. When many microorganisms become active, it proves that the field begins to have nutrients.
At that time, the soil needs to be turned over again to mix the fertile soil with the original barren soil to form a new soil.
And this is not the end, because we still have to fertilize several times. This so-called fertilization means repeatedly turning over the soil, watering with manure and water from the river.
Let this land continue to absorb nutrients.
A piece of wasteland cannot be cultivated in one go, it will take at least two or three years.
This is why Li Zhao requires everyone to farm for three years before this field belongs to them.
It is foreseeable that the harvest in the first year will be bad.
Time passed in a flash, and Li Zhao had reclaimed 18,000 acres of wasteland without even realizing it.
It only took a month, but the news caused an uproar again.
The popularity of Quyuli was once again forced to grow, which also made the major families finally put down the last big hanging stone.
With this thing, it’s stable!
