The guards were very nervous when they discovered the venomous snake. Why didn't they see it when they alerted the snake before? Keep looking quickly.
Zhu Yuanzhang took a look at the snake and spoke to the village chief next to him: "There are many poisonous insects on the mountain. Has anyone been bitten?"
"It carries a medicine bag with a pungent smell, just like the snake in front of it. It will not rush to attack. It is disgusted with the smell of realgar, unless it is hungry, but then it will probably find small animals to eat."
The leader pointed to the sachet on Zhu Yuanzhang's waist. It contained many kinds of medicine, but the princess and the pregnant women in the village had to stay away and could not follow her.
Zhu Yuanzhang looked at the sachet on his waist, then at the colorful rope on his wrist, and smiled: "We couldn't find the colorful thread when we were young! But now we have it. Do you know the meaning of the colorful thread?"
The headmaster also showed off his wrist, which was also tied with a colorful rope: "Actually, there is only one purpose for tying colorful ropes for children, it is easy to find.
During the Dragon Boat Festival, people have to go up the mountain to collect dew and find mugwort, so they drink realgar wine and wear sachets to drive away snakes and insects.
The children were tied with colorful ropes early in the morning because they would run around if they went out.
At this time, the colorful ropes on the arms, wrists, ankles, and neck will be conspicuous, making it easier to find the child. "
"I see, yes, it's easy to find." Zhu Yuanzhang thought that the chief would say some auspicious meaning, but he got such an answer.
As the two talked, the others began to work hard to harvest the two types of wormwood without uprooting it.
Instead, the children pulled out a few roots and hung them at the door of the room. The ones without roots didn't look good.
"This root..." Zhu Yuanzhang looked at the inside.
"It is said that mugwort is best during the Dragon Boat Festival. In fact, it can be harvested before. At least the villages in Xuancheng County will look for mugwort, mugwort and other herbs in the wild.
Use it to make moxa sticks and mosquito-repellent incense. If you cut it now, you can collect it again in a month. When the weather gets cold, you can collect it again.
It is grown as medicinal materials in the village, so naturally the roots cannot be pulled out. Although there are many wild herbs, we still have to prepare them ourselves.
Our local area is suitable for growing many kinds of medicinal materials, such as licorice, Bupleurum, Pinellia ternata, Chuanxiong, Angelica dahurica, Chonglou and so on.
This saves manpower and makes management easier. His Majesty gave a large area to the village, and the village was guaranteed to be able to grow a lot of herbs. "
The director introduced the benefits of artificial cultivation of herbal medicines, which are large in quantity and easy to manage.
Zhu Yuanzhang looked at the surrounding mountains again: "Is the land good?"
“A large piece of land has good soil and many plant species, which means there are many herbs that can be grown.
Plant grass where grass should be planted, and trees where trees should be planted. If there are more people, insects can also be raised.
Grasses are herbal medicinal materials, and trees are woody medicinal materials, such as clove, eucommia, cork, mulberry, etc.
Minerals, sulfur, realgar, cinnabar, gypsum.
Fungi, mushrooms, Ganoderma lucidum, Tremella fuciformis, Poria cocos, etc.
Animals, bezoar, bear bile, musk, deer antlers, etc.
Insects, scorpions, centipedes, cicadas, bees, etc.
There are also classification methods for seafood, the simplest one is grass, wood, insect, stone valley. "
When the village chief saw that Zhu Yuanzhang liked to listen, he popularized science, otherwise he would have learned in vain.
Zhu Yuanzhang really liked listening, and the group chatted while walking along the path. The chief introduced all the plants and animals here, including insects.
By the way, I will talk about the ores back then, especially those that can be used as fertilizers and medicines, and then focus on the role of peat.
The village chief grabbed a handful of dirt and said, "Please see, Your Majesty, the villagers came here secretly to pull dirt. The peat can be burned as coal, but it's not worth it."
Its biggest function is to grow crops. The village uses it to spread out newly reclaimed bad land, so that the land becomes good farmland.
Then use it to grow seedlings, which is better than normal fertilizer, including air permeability and water permeability. "
"It's equivalent to a lot of good fertilized land? How do ordinary people know? Send someone to ask and see where it can be found elsewhere. A large piece of land is used directly for planting things. It's better to take out some seedlings."
Zhu Yuanzhang understood this kind of soil and felt that it was not cost-effective to plant crops directly on thick soil.
“That’s how it should be. There are no insect eggs or crop diseases in the soil.
If you press it hard, it will become a lump, and if you shake it, it will become loose again. It is very convenient to pack it into bags and transport it from other places.
The village's 20,000 acres of wheat fields are harvested from here, and after the harvesting is completed, there is no reduction at all. Of course, we didn't focus on one place to dig. "
The leader threw away the dirt on his hands and washed his hands by the stream in front of him.
As the scriptures say, everyone around knows that this soil is a treasure, and its greatest use is to turn barren land into fertile farmland.
If others knew, my family’s land was all low-grade. If I came here to transport peat, it would be high-grade when I returned home. The yield per mu was too different.
Zhu Yuanzhang was very excited. After observing, he found that there were indeed many fields, so he said: "The palace has also planted land, and the soil from the fields has been selected. Well..."
"When your Majesty returns to the palace, you can take a few boatloads of peat with you and put them in the greenhouse outside Donghua Gate. Then you can have better food in winter."
The head of the village understands that if someone takes the money from the palace, they have to give it away. To put it bluntly, the whole country belongs to them.
"Okay, okay! Oh! If a person is knowledgeable, he can farm better than others.
Many people farm and know how to use farmyard manure, but unfortunately there is not much of it.
Throughout the year, there is nothing to do except cry when there is a disease or insect infestation.
As long as the people learn the recipes given by Xiaqiu Village, as well as the test strips for testing soil acidity and alkali, at least they won't have to cry helplessly.
We can have a fight with God when we watch the weather. If the food is sick, treat the food. If the food is infested with insects, kill the insects. "
Zhu Yuanzhang talked about pesticides and fertilizers. Not to mention that Ningguo Mansion, Taiping Mansion, and Yingtian Mansion were now being farmed by government officials.
People from the yamen would take brochures and test strips and go to the fields to see if there was something wrong with the crops. They would immediately tell them how to make adjustments and then help deliver things.
However, the 21 villages in Xuancheng County are not under the control of officials. They directly learn from Xiaqiu Village, and then they know where the mines are and bring manpower to mine them.
Always prepare lime water and plant ash, waiting to be soaked in water to treat crop diseases.
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After all the wormwood seeds were collected, the people in the team found a lot of herbs under the guidance of the children, and the team returned.
"Why don't we change the wooden bridge to a stone bridge and find out the people?" Zhu Yuanzhang asked the people who came to the car and followed the trot.
“Your Majesty, no one went out yesterday, and it was the same early this morning.
But there are fishermen in the west, and they said they saw a group of people who didn't look like locals coming here.
I came here early the day before yesterday and asked the fishermen for directions and Xiaqiu Village, but I haven't seen them since. "
Follow the runner and report the situation.
"I know, let's go investigate again!" After Zhu Yuanzhang finished speaking, there was the wooden bridge in front of him, and there were people guarding it.
No one had noticed that the bridge was shaking so much before, so they probably thought it was just like that.
Only the people in Xiaqiu Village are familiar with the situation here. The bridge was built by them later, and it was originally built of wood.
(End of chapter)
