The boats of the Xiaqiu Village team first took the Qinhuai River and entered the Yangtze River, and then went upstream.
There were still three ships, carrying iron, saltpeter, sulfur, and lead. The village was not given charcoal, so the village could make it on its own.
This time Zhou Zong stayed in the Prince's Mansion with only twenty guards plus Zhu Taiyi and four others.
The headmaster didn't want to be with outsiders, which would delay him from chatting with Hanhan. When other people were around, Hanhan could only pretend to be a fool.
I don’t know what I will do in the future. Anyway, a sixteen-year-old master can’t show it, and he can’t learn these skills even if he started learning them in his mother’s womb.
Zhu Wentian sat in a daze on the boat, actually sorting out knowledge.
When writing the letter, he considered that there is currently no winter wheat in Shandong, but spring wheat, and the court insists on allowing silkworm raising, so it should be in August or September. This year's lunar calendar is July.
Theoretically, Shandong can plant rice and wheat continuously, but Shandong is unwilling to plant rice. It would be easier if there was corn, which could be combined with wheat.
In addition, you can use soil methods to kill insects. Boil millet as poison bait, mix with oil and mix with wheat seeds, which can trap and kill underground pests.
Next comes fertilizer. There is also a soil method for this: on the spring equinox, rake twice the wheat once, and sprinkle one bucket of salt per acre, so that the wheat will grow. Or after raking, it is also good to spread salt during the Qingming Festival.
However, the method of spreading salt is generally not suitable. It has been around for a long time. People in the Western Han Dynasty came up with it. It consumes too much salt.
Ming Dynasty needs cheap and effective chemical fertilizers and pesticides, which is quite worrying.
Even if it is made, the situation in each region is different. People don't know how to use it. If they use it hard, it will seriously exceed the standard, and then they will kill all the frogs, fish and so on.
The key soil will also become worse and worse. It is better to cultivate more land. The population of the Ming Dynasty is currently small.
Yes, fight to the north, there is such a vast grassland, and the war in Beiyuan will not stop.
While Zhu Wentian was thinking about the follow-up matters, he occasionally heyed a few times.
Zhu Taiyi frowned while chatting, but when they got to Dangtu, they were halfway through the journey and everyone was about to have lunch. He couldn't help it anymore: "Zhu Lichang, are you really good at medicine?"
"How can I know it? It's Hanhan's meeting. He took the pulse." The director shook his head and glanced at Hanhan.
"Yes, Hanhan, I, um! Hey hey hey hey!" Zhu Wentian cooperated.
"Zhu Lichang, don't joke." Zhu Taiyi smiled bitterly.
"There were people in the village who had this symptom, and then I told me that the medicine would not kill anyone if I drank it."
The director had no choice but to admit that it was not Hanhan, but that he had memorized it himself, and it had nothing to do with feeling the pulse.
"Eat, the steamed buns are still warm. When mixing the stuffing, I added more salt, so I don't need to dip them in soy sauce or vinegar."
The captain's wife greeted the people on the boat to eat. The child first fed the steamed buns to the working boatmen, ate the steamed buns and then drank the soup in the saliva bag.
It's really not cold, and it's good if it's not broken. It's hot, so I don't bring stir-fried vegetables and rice. After steaming the buns, I put them in a basket covered with quilts and covered them.
Try to have as little contact with the air as possible. The heat of the day is different from the heat of the bun itself.
The boatmen said that when they were full, the children would eat by themselves.
When the boat arrived at Wuhu, it was almost home. Entering from Wuhu, followed by Huangchi River and Huangchi in Huangchi Town.
At dusk, the sky was not cool at all, and three boats arrived at the village pier.
"The chief and Hanhan are back!" someone shouted.
The villagers rushed up, with happy smiles on their faces, and hurriedly helped build the springboard. Thirty-two people got off the boat one after another, and the villagers went up to move things.
"Li Chief, Li Chief, look over there. On the road, there is an archway. There are three archways: loyalty, benevolence and righteousness, and kindness."
Some villagers pointed to the road at the entrance of the village to show the village leader, and they were very excited.
The chief saw it just now and was really happy. At the same time, he also thought about why he was kept until now.
"Okay! Great!" the village chief shouted loudly, and the village now felt confident.
There is a hidden benefit to archways. People from Xiaqiu Village were fighting with people from Xihe Village. Both sides said that the other was wrong. When the people from the Yamen looked at the three archways in Xiaqiu Village, they chose to believe Xiaqiu Village and arrest the people from Xihe Village.
As for other aspects...it's okay, except that the village chief can cry heartily while worshiping his ancestors.
It's like he didn't manage the village well and only built three archways. He was ashamed of his ancestors and so on.
All the villagers who came back later went to the archway to have a look. Three archways are three entrances.
The village elders were so excited that they shed tears, and the children ran around the archway.
"Let's change our clothes first before we eat. It's better to go back to the village to feel more comfortable." The village chief felt that there were roots under his feet.
Dinner is being cooked, there are more than fifty people, and the number of meals continues to increase.
The head of the village poured wine for the guards and Zhu Taiyi and the four of them. The ice-cold rice wine was brewed by the village itself. It should be called sake.
There are many impurities in rice wine, and some people even put lime in it, making it a dirty wine.
If you want sake, filter it, and keep filtering until it is clear.
The eldest son of the village chief is sitting at the main table today, and he reports on what happened after the village chief left.
“People from the imperial court came and collected most of the grain in the village for planting, and then sent the same weight of grain over.
All twenty-one villages have harvested rapeseed and ramie. The rice seedlings grown from the seeds planted in the village and the large animals have been loaned out and have been returned.
We also left wheat seeds and soybean seeds for them. Some of them said that our village should raise silkworms and how to grow mulberry trees well and produce more leaves.
It means that after we plant the mulberry trees, we can provide them with grafts. I haven’t said whether I agree or not. Our village does not raise silkworms..."
He said he would stop for a bite to eat and a drink, so he didn't waste any time.
It was said that officials from Ningguo Mansion and Xuancheng County had come to see the archway built in the village, and they wanted to write it into the county annals.
After that, I asked someone to deliver a letter and other villages started to make dried vegetables. A batch has been sent. There is no shortage of vegetables in winter.
In a few days, Wang Laowang and his father Wang Yiqian will still bring people to work, and their land at home has been planted.
The village has set aside ten acres of land for greenhouse cultivation, and it is now being fertilized!
The glass was blown every day, and the fire never stopped. Part of it was used to make mirrors, and part of it was used to install the windows of the greenhouse.
The twelve villages where the flintlocks were made were hammering day and night, taking turns eating and sleeping, and even now there was movement.
Four barrels have been made. At this rate, forty flintlock guns can be produced before the end of the year. But they are tired. Eight more people have been selected to learn from them. Once they learn, they can rotate more.
Two sheep have given birth in the village, and together with other cows giving birth, the people in the village drink milk every morning.
Twenty-one villages harvested rapeseed and ramie, sold them and raised money to buy a lot of livestock, and sent people to the villages to learn...
The eldest son of the village chief told one thing after another. Xiaqiu Village was really busy. If there was no one to take charge, everyone would run around like headless flies.
After dinner, Zhu Wentian took a bath and ran to the sacrificial hall to sleep, which was cooler.
A few days have passed, and it’s the fifth day of May. Today is the Dragon Boat Festival. Last year we didn’t have a good time, but this year everyone is well prepared.
The chief was thinking about words to use when worshiping ancestors, and the memorial arch should be erected in time. When the time came, he would kneel down and cry, hum!
