In a slightly better health, Zhang Chao went to the countryside. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

It was the twilight of spring, and the spring millet had already been planted, but there were many people in the seedling fields of the Zhang family. The seedlings have grown and they are ready to be plucked and planted.

Pulling seedlings is a hard work, squatting in the field, little by little to pull the seedlings out of the ground, you have to be careful, you don't need to brute force, otherwise the tender seedlings will break. This requires good management of the seedling field, accurate control of drying and water, so that when the seedlings are pulled, the seedlings are easy to dial and will not be stained with too much mud.

After plucking the seedlings with the right hand and finishing with the left hand, you have to slowly wash the mud on the roots in the water, otherwise it will be quite troublesome to pick the seedlings to the field.

"It's a lively and lively scene."

Sun Fujia stood beside Zhang Chao and looked at the busy scene in the seedling field.

This three-year jinshi and five-year martial arts talent passed the Ministry of Rites Examination and passed the Ministry of Officials Examination, but when he was awarded the official, he was only given the position of an eight-grade school scholar.

Sun Fujia was the middle of the imperial history before he was dismissed, and this was already the deputy official of the imperial history platform, and he usually had the opportunity to enter the three provinces if he went up, and within ten years, he often had the opportunity to become the prime minister. But now, only one school scrivener has been awarded. This is not as good as the Jinshi he obtained in the Sui Dynasty back then, but he also did Shangshu Lingshi at that time.

Among the five Jinshi who were in the same department as him back then, one of them was Fang Xuanling, but now Fang Xuanling is also an important member of the Qin Palace. I don't know what the officials thought in the end, so I gave him a school scrivener, and transferred him to the East Palace and assigned him to the Chongwen Pavilion.

Sun Fujia then became Zhang Chao's subordinate, both Zhang Chao's protégé and Zhang Chao's subordinate.

However, there is also an advantage to being Zhang Chao's subordinate, for example, now, Zhang Chao ran to the countryside, so Sun Fujia also followed Ma Zhou and Cen Wenwen to Zhangjiagou, and Sun Fujia also became the glorious secretary of Zhang Chao.

In this war, hundreds of long-term workers of the Zhang family went to serve as soldiers, which caught the Zhang family a little off guard and had to temporarily recruit short-term workers, but many young and strong men in Guanzhong went to serve as soldiers.

Now the people who pull the seedlings in the Zhangjia seedling field are basically a group of women and little girls, and there are also seven or eight years old.

The seedlings are set out, sorted and washed, and tied into one by one, and there are teenagers who send the seedlings to the rice fields, carrying willow baskets on their backs or carrying willow baskets.

In the terraced fields, many of the Zhang's long-term and short-term men, driving oxen to push the rake, are carrying out the last broken ground leveling before transplanting, the field is full of water, after the ground is leveled, there are men carrying a load of biogas manure, fertilization. One acre of land, twenty quintals of biogas fertilizer, which is equivalent to basal fertilizer. With the fertilizer applied before, one acre of land is equivalent to two thousand catties of fertilizer, and several additional fertilizers will be added in the future, at least about 1,000 catties.

Many fermentation ponds have been built in Zhangjiagou, and there are also many dry fertilizer farms outside Chang'an.

"It's amazing how much fertilizer can be applied to one acre."

"Without fertilizer, how can you grow good crops?"

Zhang Chao looked at the busy terraced scene, and was very proud that he would bring a new way of farming to increase yields in a limited field. It is no longer just extensive farming, the fields are limited, and there is not so much land to cultivate, but there is a lot of room for new farming methods to increase the yield of the fields.

An acre of land with about 3,000 catties of organic fertilizer a year will be able to fully guarantee the annual yield of at least 500 catties of rice in Zhangjia terraced fields.

Forty quintals of biogas manure, that's a lot of money. One acre and forty quintals, and here one thousand acres, that is forty thousand quintals.

Just before transplanting, watering 20 quintals of fertilizer per mu is a lot of labor. A strong man, one day from Zhangjiagou to transport fertilizer, use a mule cart, and at most water two or three acres of land.

Not to mention, with so much biogas fertilizer, you have to need a lot of fermenters.

"If the yield per mu can really reach 500 catties, I think even if it is hard to make so much fertilizer and transport fertilizer to water the ground, it is very worth it." Sun Fujia calculated an account in his heart, originally such a barren slope as a bathing ditch, it was still the first year, even if it produced one stone in one season, it was good, and now Zhang Chao made it into a terraced paddy field and applied so much fertilizer, and the result is expected to produce four stones in one season, which is equivalent to four times.

One acre of wasteland has become four acres of sloping land, which is equivalent to about three acres of good land.

Only this terraced field, the Zhang family is equivalent to the harvest of three or four thousand acres of land in Zhangjiagou at once, if the other two thousand acres of land of the Zhang family are counted, those fields are also fully fertilized, and the yield is doubled, which is equivalent to another 2,000 acres of land.

In a small village in Zhangjiagou, there was a sudden harvest of five or six thousand acres of land, how amazing it was.

If the entire Bailu Township uses this fertilizer, and all the fertilizer is applied enough, wouldn't it be equivalent to doubling the yield and doubling the fields?

Guanzhong now has a grain gap of more than one million stones every year, and if all of them use Zhang Wenyuan's farming method and apply enough fertilizer, wouldn't it be that Guanzhong's output can be doubled, and Guanzhong will be able to become self-sufficient in grain all of a sudden.

Sun Fujia also knew that it was difficult to extend this method to the entire Guanzhong at once, and it was not easy to apply sufficient fertilizer to the land, and the cost was also a lot.

However, saying that a thousand words and ten thousand can double the output of land is shocking. The cost of this fertilizer is also completely negligible. The high cost of fertilizer is higher than the imperial court's annual arduous transportation of grain from outside the customs into Beijing?

"San Lang, sort out this method and promote it to the whole country, how many people can no longer go hungry."

Zhang Chao smiled.

"Well, I have established a fertilizer factory in Chang'an, and this year I have begun to set up fertilizer factories in Luoyang and other places, and I will continue to provide this high-quality and efficient fertilizer to the people."

Ma Zhou smiled on the side.

Sun Saburo's ideas are always different from others, such as Sun Fujia, an official like Sun Fujia, found a good way to increase production, and the first thing he thought of was to dedicate it to the imperial court, or to be famous. But Zhang Sanlang will always go to open a workshop and build a factory immediately to make himself money.

Zhang Chao also asked people to go to various places to prepare to open a fertilizer factory with local wealthy families.

The dry fertilizer products of his dry fertilizer factory are also ready to be sold all over the world. Although dry fertilizer is not as efficient as biogas slurry fertilizer from fermenters, it can be stored for a long time and transported and sold over long distances.

Biogas slurry fertilizer can only be used in the grange, ready to use.

However, although the fertilizer efficiency is reduced somewhat, it is still much better than the traditional compost, and it is also conducive to preservation and transportation, which can become a real commodity.

In fact, although the farmer has little knowledge, he also has a lot of wisdom.

They may hesitate to do something as new. But as long as they see the effect with their own eyes, then they will no longer have doubts.

At the very least, the villagers in Zhangjiagou are already using the new fertilizer, and they are also fertilizing according to the method that Zhang Chao taught them. Base fertilizer, top dressing, when to fertilize, how much to apply each time, these are also knowledge.

Zhang Chao was also very generous to these villagers, helping them build a fermentation pond and teaching them how to ferment all kinds of garbage and fertilizer into biogas fertilizer.

Now Zhang Chao is ready to start a new business for the Zhang family's engineering team, which is to help villagers build this kind of fermentation pond in various villages, so that they can make biogas fertilizer by themselves.

"The yield of rice is higher than that of corn, but it is much more delicate to be tended, and the requirements are too high, not only to be fertilized, but also to be water. Most places in Guanzhong do not have this condition. ”

Zhang Chao also sighed a little, if the rice is selected and planted well, and then carefully cultivated, the yield is indeed not low. But it takes a lot more labor to grow rice than wheat and millet.

Guanzhong, from the Qin and Han dynasties to the present, has actually been developed very strongly, and all the places that can be cultivated have been reclaimed. It's not a big place, but it's too populous. In addition, at this time, the imperial court lost control of good farmland such as Hetao and Hehuang, which made the cultivated land in Guanzhong more and more scarce.

Just say that a Hetao Plain, that is a very rich piece of land, the front and back sets add up, Feng Shui treasure, but now the Shuo Fang of the West Set is in the hands of Liang Shidu, and the front and back sets of the East Set are in the hands of the Turks.

As for the Hehuang Valley, it is occupied by the Tuyuhun people.

In addition, the Jianghan area outside the Guan, the development is very insufficient, only the Jianghan Plain has been developed, but more places are still quite backward, even primitive, the land there is sparsely populated, and the level of cultivation is even more backward.

Basically, it is still one season, if you promote fertilizer in these places, engage in intensive farming, and implement two-season farming, the lake will be wide and ripe, and the world will be full.

However, the development of Huguang also got the Song Dynasty.

Now, there are also some areas along the Yangtze River and the Han River, and there are still many barbarians in the rest of the country, which are regarded as wild places.

"What is Saburo thinking?" Sun Fujia now admires Zhang Chao more and more.

"I'm thinking that this ditch slope will be developed in a few years."

"I'm also looking forward to seeing that day, when the water is sparkling, the fruit trees are verdant, the chickens and ducks are flocked, the cattle and sheep are everywhere, the rice flowers are fragrant, row a boat, walk through the lotus leaves, pick some lotus water chestnuts, catch a few fresh fish, and cook on the boat, this kind of life, think about it is extremely pleasant." Sun Fujia imagined that scene, and couldn't help but be a little intoxicated.

"I'm going to build some houses down there in a few days, all of them on the waterfront, half on the shore, half on the water, with a small yard in the back, a small pier in front, and a few rooms, just enough for a family."

"Build a house like this?"

"Rental, you are tired of living in Chang'an City, you can come to me for a leisure vacation, as you said, go to the mountains to catch free-range chickens, go to the reservoir to fish, go to pick lotus pods and water chestnuts, and enjoy the tranquility and nature of the countryside."

"And you can come when you want, and you can go when you want. We also provide maids to help you clean your room, provide meals, etc. You don't need to spend money to buy a house, and you don't need to send someone to take care of you from time to time, you can come at any time, you can enjoy it, and you can leave at any time, without any worries. ”

After Sun Fujia heard this, he was very moved.

"It's a nice cottage like this, and I'll definitely rent one when it's ready."

"Of course there is no problem." (To be continued.) )