"It's time to plant rice~~!" It was dawn, and with the shouts of Zhu Wentian's friends, everyone went to the ground to plant rice.
Ropes were stretched out in the paddy fields. Everyone rolled up their trouser legs and went to the fields with their bare feet, picking up the seedlings tossed aside.
One by one, holding the seedling in their left hand and inserting it in their right hand, they walked backward along the rope, keeping their upper body steady and their feet sliding.
Zhu Wentian was also in the team, working hard.
On the contrary, the inner growth has not gone away, and the elderly village elders and women who are menstruating are equally indifferent.
Zhu Yuanzhang was lazy and handed the question book to his eldest son for review. He ran to the field to drink tea with the headman.
It's not yet time to eat, and it will still be half an hour later. The rice transplanters take advantage of the cool weather to work early, and wait until the time is right before eating.
Then he took a nap and waited until noon before getting into the water and planting rice seedlings.
With the help of people, we can plant all the rice seedlings in one day, and we can still grow japonica rice.
Last year's japonica rice seeds can be planted for several years and then replanted.
This year, other villages in Xuancheng County will follow suit and plant japonica rice. They need to take good care of it and send it to the north to be used as seed for the fields there.
The imperial court collected japonica rice seeds from them and gave them an extra 40%.
Last year, the japonica rice grown in Xiaqiu Village was 20% less than the indica rice harvest. If other villages can reach the harvest of Xiaqiu Village last year, they will receive more compensation for indica rice.
If it's a little worse, the extra compensation won't cause them any loss.
Including the rapeseed and ramie seeds they took careful care of this year, they were also sent to other places as seeds, but only an additional 20% compensation was given.
This year no one from other villages came to help, they were all busy with their own fields.
"A group of people came over today to help copy the map. The most difficult part is engraving."
Zhu Yuanzhang sat next to the small table with a parasol on his head and chrysanthemum tea on the small table. He felt like he was at the seaside.
The head of the village did not sit down, but put his hands behind his back to watch the villagers working. After hearing Zhu Yuanzhang's words, he responded: "A picture can be subdivided. If it is for convenience, it should be printed on white silk."
"In a month at most, our country will have many useful maps, and each state will give them one.
Ask them to complete their own part of the mountain range, and when it is done, a set will be taken to Xiaqiu Village.
Yi Chang, no wonder you feel so familiar when you mention a certain place, so you look at the map all day long.
It will be the fifth day of May in a few days. Is there any place to pick mugwort around the village? Let's go pick mugwort. "
Zhu Yuanzhang changed the topic back and forth, talking about the map, and suddenly turned to the Dragon Boat Festival.
The head of the village nodded: "Yes, from Xiaqiu Village to the north, where the village used to collect peat, there are large areas of mugwort and mugwort specially planted.
Artemisia and other polygonum are the raw materials for making soda ash. The soda ash sold to the palace at that time was made from the noodles collected from the villagers.
During the Dragon Boat Festival, we can collect mugwort seeds together, they are all medicinal materials.
There are also colorful threads ready. The only thing left to make the rice dumplings is sticky rice, which can be purchased from various places. "
Zhu Yuanzhang showed a look of astonishment: "No wonder I haven't seen artemisia planted in the village. In winter, my mother-in-law Ding grows it. Other medicinal materials suitable for our local growth are also planted in the village.
Is it far to the north? Is there anyone there? Is the road easy to walk? Is the river visible? Is the mountain high? "
"Replying to your majesty, I asked that this place is an uninhabited place, and the villagers would pass by it when taking the overland road to Dangtu. Later, the road was built to dig peat.
There are rolling hills and streams, but most people are not willing to move there and there is little flat land, making it unsuitable for farming.
There is no need to flatten the land to plant mugwort in the village. It is enough to burn other weeds, clear the open space and scatter the seeds.
After the road is built, it will take half an hour by carriage to get there from Xiaqiu Village, which is almost twenty or thirty miles. "
The director replied while thinking, he hadn't been there for a long time.
Zhu Yuanzhang squinted at the people working in the paddy fields, took a sip of chrysanthemum tea and said, "Yichang, what do you think we can do in the mountains?"
"Of course it is a medicinal material. Does Your Majesty know that ginseng can be grown? If we can find ginseng seeds, we can grow ginseng here.
After five to eight years of planting, the medicinal effects will appear, just like planting carrots, one kind in a large area.
It only takes five years to dig it out and use it as medicine, which is good, at least better than nothing.
We can grow some other medicinal materials, whether they are perennial or annual, as long as the climate is suitable. "
The head of the village told Hanhan about the function of the mountain without even thinking about it. He and Hanhan had agreed to plant medicinal herbs in the garden outside Chaoyang Gate.
He also tried to find a way to get ginseng seeds from the Northeast, and even considered selecting dried ginseng from a drug store to try to germinate it.
It's best to have ginseng picked from the mountains last year and delivered immediately. You can try that one.
Or this year, through the imperial court, we can go over there and keep an eye on the ginseng, wait for the ginseng to bear seeds, and bring back both the seeds and the ginseng.
"Okay!" Zhu Yuanzhang clapped his leg: "You give us the map of the Ming Dynasty, and we will give the area from there to Xiaqiu Village to Xiaqiu Village.
From now on, that place will belong to you. If we build more roads, we can run over and have a rest if we get bored staying in the palace.
You plant medicinal materials, and we will arrange for people to guard them until the medicinal materials grow... Can ginseng really be grown like radishes? "
Zhu Yuanzhang said and suddenly changed to asking, everyone knows that ginseng is precious.
Korea pays tribute to ginseng every year, and people living in the Northeast also collect ginseng. This has always been the case from ancient times to the present.
It is not easy for the mountain rangers to go out to find ginseng. When they encounter small ginseng, they will raise it and mark it.
If you can grow it in large quantities...
If someone else said this, Zhu Yuanzhang thought he had been deceived. Those who deserved to be beheaded would be beheaded, and those who deserved to be exiled would be exiled.
Xiaqiu Village says it can be planted. Just look at the bamboo fungus and white fungus. You can see that the white fungus is in groups and the bamboo fungus is in pieces.
Turning an obviously precious thing into a vegetable and selling it to the Yi people was very successful, as well as those from Tianzhu and those living in arid areas.
Once it is said to be medicine, everyone buys it and is willing to pay a high price.
"Your Majesty, you can plant it. In more than a month, the ginseng seeds from the Northeast will be mature. If you don't watch them in advance, they will fall to the ground and be difficult to find.
Ordinary people do not think that ginseng can be grown, but normal ginseng germination takes one and a half to two years.
If not handled properly, the place will not be suitable for ginseng growth, and ginseng will not germinate for many years.
Xiaqiu Village has a way to accelerate germination, just like other crops, it can accelerate germination, raise seedlings in advance, and then transplant them. "
The village chief believed Hanhan, and Hanhan said it could be planted, so now was the time to seek help.
Zhu Yuanzhang nodded: "Like this rice, people in ancient times just planted the rice grains. Later they learned that they should cultivate the seedlings first, and then remove them and plant them separately.
After a while, people will arrange to search for ginseng seeds in the northeast. If they find a seed, I will give them ten cents.
Under the heavy reward, I believe they are willing to collect the seeds and send 10,000 seeds, but only a hundred seeds. "
Zhu Yuanzhang has a way to make people active. He buys them with money. A seed costs ten cents, and one plant can always produce dozens of seeds, right?
(End of chapter)
