57. Chapter 57 There are secrets to increasing rice income (first update)

Author: Farmer's One Pot

Chapter 57 There is a secret to increasing rice income (first update)

Zhou Zong returned to Nanjing and brought back smoked chicken and chilled smoked chicken.

Thousands of pieces were cut into shreds, and only the back part was tied up.

There is also egg stuffing, which is currently not available in Nanjing. Only Guangxi is most willing to use various kinds of stuffing.

"Finally we don't have to ask anyone to taste it. What's in those twenty big jars?"

As soon as Zhu Yuanzhang returned 'home', he relaxed completely.

When he saw the food, he waited for the other dishes to be cooked before eating, and took a look at the jar.

"Dad, this is the sauce given by the village. We give them dried seafood and they return the gift.

The letter said that the sauce we brew is stinky, but if it is done well, the stinky sauce will not stink.

The sour sauce made in the village is also not sour. The taste is actually the same.

There are maggots in our sauce jar, but not in theirs."

Zhu Biao introduced that this is what was written in the letter.

The key point is that the twenty jars are still black bean sauce. The one with douban tastes better than the one without douban.

"It's good not to get maggots! Good!" Zhu Yuanzhang knew that maggots would inevitably develop when making sauce, but he didn't know why.

"Do you want a recipe for making sauce? A recipe for roast duck was brought, and I was given eight pills of Angong Niuhuang Pills for emergency use. The symptoms are listed below.

Zhou Zong said that the village head proposed that a good restaurant could be set up in Shibosi to make money from foreigners, and foreigners would like to eat roast duck."

Zhu Biao said as he took out the medicine and put it on the table.

Zhu Yuanzhang took out the instruction manual and read it, nodding from time to time: "This medicine is powerful. It can be used to treat symptoms and save lives. People who are pregnant with children cannot take it. Oh! There are also medicines and preparation methods."

Zhu Yuanzhang was surprised when he saw the back. He thought the life-saving medicine was very precious and had no intention of giving it to him.

Obviously, people never expect to use medicine in exchange for favors. With this medicine in hand, what minister can't weigh it? Isn't he afraid that there will be no medicine available when the corresponding symptoms occur?

"Dad, there are few bezoars and rhinoceros horns, so the village doesn't do much. Musk is found locally, and other pearls are not hard to find."

Zhu Biao had read the prescription. If you have money, you can get gold foil. Rhinoceros horns are imported. Bezoar depends on luck.

Zhu Yuanzhang put down the instructions: "Ask foreigners to transport more rhino horns and look for bezoar elsewhere. Order Tai Hospital to trial-produce it first and send it to the village for verification. Send more copies of medicinal materials to the village."

He decided to do it and kept it ready at all times. He would give it to useful ministers and the palace, and eat it as soon as he encountered any symptoms.

"Give me something good again?" Queen Ma brought out two plates of food.

"Mom, life-saving medicine." Zhu Biao stood up to take the food.

"Since the village can make medicine, some of the medicinal materials from the royal reserve will be distributed and given away. It is inconvenient for them to buy medicinal materials from various places.

If there are medicinal materials, they can make good medicines that we don’t know about, and they will give them to us.”

Queen Ma picked up the manual and read it over. Once some of the corresponding symptoms appeared, they would be gone.

If the symptoms are mild, you can still maintain your health by taking this pill.

If the medicine is real or fake, you will know if you ask the people at the hospital and then find someone to try it. I think they will not give you fake medicine that will harm you.

Zhu Yuanzhang went to wash his hands and rub soap: "If you want to give it away, what can he do for us if you don't have any medicinal materials? It's hard for a clever woman to make a meal without rice."

When he came back, he grabbed a smoked chicken leg and took a bite. After swallowing, he said: "It's delicious, even better than roast duck."

"I want the prescription. Bring the medicinal ingredients and ask for it." Queen Ma felt confident to ask for it.

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The next morning, two hundred and fifty people drove to Xiaqiu Village.

They are long-term hired workers. They go back when the rice is harvested. After harvesting, they lend their livestock to plant rapeseed and ramie. After planting, they return to the village to work.

Building a house with a brick-concrete structure requires skill. With the current construction capacity, it is impossible to build the village's buildings in one month.

Now that the two hundred people are energetic, they can take their things home and calculate their wages, and they can live in the village and eat by themselves, thus saving the rations of a main force at home.

Time passed by and the rice was ripe. The rice in Xiaqiu Village ripened earlier than elsewhere, had more fertilizer and was grown in better soil.

A large group of people began to harvest rice, and people from other villages came to help.

Starting in the morning, there were many people, and by evening all the rice was harvested, picked out and placed on the drying field.

I came back the next day to help plant wheat. Twenty thousand acres of wheat were planted with salt water.

The animals in the front pull the columbine, and the people in the back support it, so that the wheat seeds fall into it.

Officials from the county came to watch and take notes, including the saltwater seed selection method.

No one grew wheat here before. Due to the high temperatures, it could only be grown in winter.

Generally, the yield of wheat in rice-growing fields is reduced. The soil in good paddy fields is more acidic and wheat is not suitable for it.

If too much alkaline fertilizer is added, the rice yield will decrease again.

The paddy fields in Xiaqiu Village were adjusted by Zhu Wentian to be more sour, not slightly sour.

He picked some litmus lichen growing nearby and easily made blue test paper, which he used to check the soil acidity and alkalinity.

The rice in the village is growing well this year, but the rice production in other villages has decreased due to drought.

The rice production in Xiaqiu Village increased by 15% compared to normal years, and the villagers and officials who came to help looked envious.

They all asked the village chief if he had any tips. The most people from Sanli Village came to help, and the village chief Wang Dong personally led the team.

When Zhu Wentian went to the county town before, he passed by the paddy field in Sanli Village and asked someone to tell him that he was sick and to replenish the plant ash and phosphorus stone powder.

The people in Sanli Village knew that the rice was not good, so they had no choice but to blame luck and the drought.

After receiving the news, with the mentality of treating a dead horse as a living horse doctor, they found phosphorus stone, turned it into powder, and added plant ashes.

As a result, the rice is gradually getting better again. Can this thing be saved? I owe you a lot of favors!

Since there was no work to be done in Xiaqiu Village, Wang Dong asked the laborers from the village to help him for free and brought his own dry food.

The village head didn't agree with anything he said. He didn't want wages, and other villages didn't want them either. He could borrow livestock when the time came.

If you don't eat, how can you treat guests like this?

As for favors, if you recognize them, then what can you do if you don’t recognize them?

Of course, if you don't accept favors, next time your crops get sick, don't come looking for them.

“This increase in rice production is mainly due to the good soil. Some fields are good for growing rice, but some fields do not grow well.

How do you see it? I have paper here, blue, and a piece of paper with blue and red colors on it. The colors have different shades.

First look at the water. Drop the water on the blue paper so that the color is in the middle.

Then put the soil into the water and stir it. The thicker the better, drop the water on the blue paper and compare the color.

The paddy field in my village is only as red as this color. If it is too red, use phosphorite powder to turn it blue, and use chicken manure..."

The manager took out the test paper and showed it to everyone. Hanhan made it. The color comparison chart was very troublesome. Hanhan said it was not very accurate.

And this blue test paper is not as good as the red one. When he takes the time to make the red one, that one will require more things.

Listening to the introduction from the village chief, people from other villages were shocked. What is the color of the energy soil in the land they farm?

People know what kind of soil is good for planting, and they can change it after measuring it.

Planting your own land means fertilizing, fertilizing, fertilizing...

"Yichang, you have this paper and so many colors,... can you sell it?"

Feng Gui, the village head of Xihe Village, is greedy. If he knows what kind of things are suitable for growing in which land, and what color the land is, his village can also increase production in the future.

"Ten pieces for a penny, buy a hundred pieces and get a watch for free."

The mayor offered a price, even if it was free of charge. He felt it was not good to give it for free.

If the other party takes it for free and doesn’t cherish it when he goes back, it will be so tiring to draw a watch!

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