"Replying to Your Majesty, the rice village is trying to plant japonica rice this year. The harvest will be later than that of indica rice. The jute interplanting is also like indica rice. When the rice tillers, the jute seedlings will be transplanted.
This can increase rice production without hindering rice growth, which is the best of both worlds.
During last year's autumn harvest, the amount of indica rice produced was 20% higher than usual. One is to use fertilizer accurately, and the other is to benefit from interplanting.
Only indica rice has increased, and jute crops have become so abundant that the village is too busy twisting hemp rope and weaving sacks. "
According to the Hanhan teaching, the head of the village only answers one question when asked by others. The superiors like to hear content about increasing income.
"Hahaha!" Zhu Yuanzhang laughed. There was so much jute that it turned into a sack.
"Okay, it's better to harvest more. This year we received wheat ears. We only knew that we would harvest two bushels more of wheat. We never thought that the indica rice would be even worse. Drink!"
Zhu Yuanzhang was indeed willing to hear this kind of thing. He knew that generally, ramie was grown in a field dedicated to growing hemp, and some jute was planted next to it.
Ramie is used to make clothes, but jute cannot be used, so it can only be made into sacks.
The imperial court issued an order that included mulberry trees and silkworm raising. If no additional silk and hemp were planted, Xiaqiu Village would no longer raise silkworms and would not perform labor labor.
After interplanting, the vacant hemp fields were converted into cotton fields, which also increased production and income.
The chief then drank a cup of wine and waited for His Majesty to continue asking.
Zhu Yuanzhang turned to a village elder and asked: "Does the village elder work hard on weekdays?"
Zhu Wentian whispered the word "eat" next to the chief.
The chief realized that his majesty would give himself time to eat and take two bites of food.
The village elder who was asked just swallowed the soup and smiled instantly: "So that His Majesty will know that we, the older ones, are not busy anymore and can help rub the rope.
Or just wander around the village, look at the fields, livestock, and poultry, and find something to do.
If you don't do any work, your body and bones will feel uncomfortable. If you work hard for a lifetime, you will never be able to take any time off. "
"That's the truth!" Zhu Yuanzhang agreed, and then looked at another village elder: "How good are the cattle in our Xiaqiu Village?"
He doesn't eat much himself, and he doesn't come here specifically to eat.
"Cows?" The village elder thought for a moment and then replied: "There are 210 cows in total in the village, and 11 of them have calves. They don't suffer from serious diseases, and if they have minor problems, they can be easily cured.
Cows chew cud, oh, animals that chew cud. The first stomach is the rumen. It is very important. Many diseases come from it.
The reason is that the eaten food should be kept inside, chewed again, and fed to the cows as silage, so that the rumen will be protected.
There is also the reticulum, which traps the soil and stones brought in by the cows from eating grass.
If you eat too many stones and cannot get them out, you will easily get sick. Normally, they will be rolled out when you eat grass.
Knowing this, we will understand how to feed grass, just like getting up in the morning..."
The village elder explained how to raise cattle. He usually didn't work much, so he just studied. Now he was talking happily.
Zhu Yuanzhang seemed to have found a confidant, and he echoed from time to time, yes, that's right, isn't it! Uh-huh! Diarrhea is troublesome. We take the cows out to eat grass, and they have to cut the grass and dry it in the sun. They can't always eat green food. They have been beaten...
He was born as a cowherd boy and had rich experience in raising cows. He was probably beaten out of this job, so he is very old and pitiful.
After exchanging tips on raising cattle, Zhu Yuanzhang finally realized that the other party had not eaten for a while, so he quickly asked people to pour rice wine for the village elders, and he also took the opportunity to take a few bites of vegetables.
After taking a break, he continued to chat with other village elders about raising livestock and poultry. He talked about all kinds of things. He had the urge to appoint officials to the village elders.
These village elders can manage very well if they are placed in the lower counties to specifically manage livestock and poultry breeding.
It is more reassuring than those who passed the imperial examination. Many Jinshi did not know how to raise animals at all.
He suppressed his impulse and asked Zhu Wentian's friends about their studies. He himself didn't understand Three Hundred Thousand, so he only asked what he knew.
The children were not afraid either. They became very proficient in telling stories according to Brother Hanhan’s instructions.
Zhu Yuanzhang asked them to write again. He said a word and the children wrote it. Some of the words were good and some were bad, but they were all correct.
He drank a glass of wine, laughed, and was so happy! All the children in Xiaqiu Village are studying, except Hanhan, but Hanhan is very strong.
The only person he didn't speak to was the village chief's wife. She was not an old woman or a village elder, but a woman.
Normally, women in the palace should entertain women, but under special circumstances today, he would not talk to her.
Zhu Yuanzhang looked at the children with hope in his eyes. These children farmed the land, raised livestock and poultry, burned kilns, made steel, and made colored glaze...
As long as I live in the village, I keep learning. When I ask questions, the children tell stories that I find interesting.
With such training, I will be able to take the imperial examination in a few years. Now the imperial examination selection is too poor and I can't do anything.
Thinking of this, Zhu Yuanzhang's heart moved, he looked at Li Chang and smiled: "Yichang, do you know about the imperial court's dispatch of troops to Sichuan?"
For a moment, Li Chang wanted to turn his head and look at Hanhan. It wasn't that he didn't know he wanted to ask Hanhan, but he was surprised.
When the villagers knew they were coming, Hanhan kept teaching him things, including the war to pacify Sichuan.
He thought for a moment, stood up, bowed, and sat down again: "Returning to your majesty, the terrain of Qutang is easy to defend but difficult to attack. The enemy Mo Renshou is proficient in water warfare and familiar with the local conditions. Zou Xing, Dai Shou, and Wu Youren each have their own strengths.
Wu Youren, in particular, was good at fighting battles along waterways and key points. He once defended Baoning and made the key points safe.
Our army sending Jingzhou and Xiangzhou naval divisions and Jingwei to attack Qutang Gorge will inevitably be blocked, and the other side will definitely use iron cables to cross the river.
Our naval division fought against the current, with iron cables blocking the way. There were mountains and dense forests on the shore, so the enemy could send boats to and from the river to meet them. Our Jingwei army could not get support from our naval division on the way and could not attack that position.
Therefore, the army on the southern route was blocked and the water battle was unfavorable, so they had to retreat to Guizhou to wait for the opportunity and at the same time contain the enemy's garrison strength.
However, the Northern Route Army is easy to fight. As long as the Northern Route breaks through, the troops led by Fu Youde are infantry. The troops in Henan and Shaanxi can fight on the road to cross the river.
As long as they wait for breakthroughs one after another, they will throw thousands of wooden signs and tell Tang He down the river.
At the same time, the enemy troops guarding Qutang Gorge also received wooden signs. They rushed back to support in a hurry. The army from the south could attack Qutang again and they would be able to break through. "
After the chief finished speaking, he wiped his sweat and felt a little annoyed. Hanhan said it in more detail than this, including many names, but he didn't remember them.
Zhu Yuanzhang: "..."
He stared at the mayor, sweating on his forehead. It was hot!
As soon as the news came back along the Yangtze River, Tang He encountered the opponent's method of crossing the river with an iron cable in Qutang Gorge. He could not attack by force and retreated back to the state.
The Northern Route Army took the land route, but no news had been sent back at this time.
The southern army took part of the Jingwei troops along the Yangtze River, and sent out boat divisions from Jingzhou and Xiangzhou to fight upstream along the Yangtze River.
Other armies set out from Henan and Shaanxi. The soldiers in these two places were not good at water battles and did not have such good ships and training.
However, there is the Yellow River in both places, and the battle across the river is indeed skillful.
Can the North Road really win? And then South Road follows up?
Zhu Yuanzhang also wiped his sweat: "You...are..."
