Chapter 692 Farming Mode

Master, madam, young master, young lady, dustless here is polite! When Liu rushed to Chang'an City, it was almost noon, probably because he saw Feng Xiaoyi yesterday, early this morning, Mrs. Luo was on a whim, and after talking to Lao Liu's family, she took her son and daughter-in-law to Qin Mansion to visit Yiguo Gong, so when Liu Wuchen came to visit and ask to see, Luo Xiang, the old housekeeper who stayed at home, directly took him to Liu Yiyi's small courtyard.

I haven't seen each other for so long, and when I see their old boss again this time, Liu Wuchen was a little excited in his heart, and he couldn't help but bow down to the ground and make a big gift to Lao Liu.

"Well, Wuchen is also here," Lao Liu sat in the hall, nodded at Liu Wuchen, he had been a big family for so long, for this kind of etiquette, Lao Liu was also starting to get used to it, looking at the big housekeeper of their Lao Liu family, Lao Liu said with sincerity: "Just find a seat to sit, this room is full of people from our Lao Liu family, don't be too restrained." ”

"Yes, there is one more thing in charge these days, they are not there, and the second kid is only concerned about his own future, and all the affairs of our family are laborious and dust-free." Liu He's family also made a statement on the side, when Lao Liu and their eldest son are not in the house, their Liu family's business, not only is not declining, but there is a momentum of getting bigger and bigger, that is, far away in Fengjie, their old couple has also heard from time to time, these are all the credit of the dust-free housekeeper in front of them.

After going through such a thing, Lao Liu and Liu He have completely regarded Liu Wuchen as their own. When Liu Wuchen first arrived in their mansion before, the old couple's precautions and estrangement in their hearts had dissipated without a trace.

"The old lady is serious, the so-called food king's wealth, the matter of loyalty to the king, since the eldest young master trusted Wuchen at the beginning, and personally asked Wuchen to stay in the mansion, in addition to letting Wuchen have a livelihood, but also have the grace of knowing Wuchen, Wuchen will not live up to the trust and expectations of the young master." After bowing his hand and thanking him, after turning his head and glancing at the eldest young master of their family, Liu Wuchen sat down in the lower seat closest to the door.

"Hehe, Brother Wuchen said this, but it's a bit hypocritical," Liu Yiyi shook his head and smiled lightly, waved his hand and motioned to his subordinates to pour him a bowl of tea, and said: "Brother Wuchen is knowledgeable, knowledgeable, well-behaved and has no lack of talent, and it is a blessing for the younger brother to be able to invite Brother Wuchen to take the position of housekeeper in the house." It's just that Brother Wuchen has been ~ living in this corner of the three plains, but he is a little condescending and wronged Brother Wuchen. ”

Liu Wuchen's knowledge and ability, Liu Yiyi can see clearly in his eyes, compared to Liu Ertiao, compared to Zhang Chuwen, and even better than Luo Bingwang, it is more than one domain, if it were not for the original prison disaster, cut off his future, so that he has no intention of pursuing a career, otherwise, if he is an official, he will not be able to become an auxiliary ruler of a country, and he will definitely be able to mix with a second-grade and third-grade master.

"The young master has won the award, no dust and shame!" Bending slightly and arching his hand lightly, Liu Wuchen bowed gratefully to Liu Yiyi.

"The family is all right, how are the crops in the field?" After Liu Wuchen sat down on the chair, he hadn't said a word to their eldest son, he had been doing farming for half his life, and he had always been a little worried about the cultivated land at home, so Liu Laoshi interrupted and looked up at Liu Wuchen.

"Back to the old man." I heard Liu honestly ask. Liu Wuchen, who had already prepared, replied lightly: "This year, we have crops in the house." There is no shortage of water and fertilizer. The tenants were also very industrious. Not to mention this autumn harvest. It's only in June that we have spring millet in our fields. The average yield per mu is nearly 300 catties. We have reserved those granaries in our house. It's all piled up. ”

"Three hundred pounds? Is this really? Lao Liu straightened up suddenly. He looked down at Liu Wuchen. A look of surprise and dismay.

Lao Liu reads little. I don't know much. He either doesn't understand or understand other things. But in this kind of harvesting of crops. But he was a connoisseur. Can one acre of land produce 300 catties of corn? It's not a joke, is it? Remember the past. His old willow led the ploughing oxen to work tirelessly in the field. When you work hard. It is to catch up with the wind and rain in the good weather. At most, it is a harvest of 1780 catties. That's it. It's enough for their family to enjoy a season.

But now. The great steward of their house said to him that the spring corn harvest in the house was fruitful. It can reach 300 catties. That's still the average yield. It is three to five percent higher than last year's harvest of the highest mu of their old Liu's family. Lao Liu couldn't help but be a little unconvinced. This willow is dustless. Not fooling them. Bullied them, the old Liu family doesn't understand farming, right?

"Back to the master. Exactly. It's three hundred and five pounds. When the corn is harvested. The farmers themselves have already made statistics. Wuchen has also been to see it myself. Indeed, there is no element of exaggeration or misrepresentation. "Because the Liufu land reward system is different from other households. The annual payment of grain to tenant farmers is based on the amount of land produced. Therefore, the tenant farmers in the land below Liufu also paid special attention to their responsibility for the grain production of the land.

In fact. When the tenant farmers reported the figure to the steward. Liu Wuchen was also taken aback by this number. I intuitively thought that it was the tenant farmers below who made false reports in order to pay for food. For this reason, he also specially asked Chen Ming to investigate.

I remember that last year's autumn harvest, the yield of the thirty hectares of fertile land in their house was already somewhat amazing, and the highest yield per mu could be obtained

Ten catties, in the entire Sanyuan County and even the entire Chang'an City, can count a piece of wasteland that was opened up back then, and the harvest has reached such a point, their Liu family is already unprecedented.

But this year, when Chen Ming presented the results of the investigation, Liu Wuchen never imagined that the output of this wasteland would increase so dramatically.

Three hundred and five catties, in this era when the output value per mu is less than two hundred catties at most, what kind of concept is that, that is, Liu Wuchen is rarely engaged in farming, but he can also imagine what impact and shock this number will bring to the court and all the farmers in Datang.

One mu increases production by 100 catties, 10 mu is 1,000 catties, 100 mu is 10,000 catties, if all the land that can be cultivated in Datang is counted, what kind of number will it be?

"Brother Wuchen, why didn't you say hello to me for such a big thing?" Seeing that Liu Wuchen was as serious as he said, Liu Erjo, who was sitting on the side, also somewhat indicated the importance of this matter.

After all, he is also a farmer, although he is not very proficient in farming, but he still has a spectrum in his heart about the output of grain in this field. If the yield of grain per mu in the house can generally reach 300 catties, if it is reported to the court, then ......

"The second young master also thought of the impact that this matter would have if it was announced," he bowed to Liu Ertiao, and after turning his head to look at the eldest young master of their family, Liu Wuchen said softly: "The eldest young master is not here, the situation in the house is not clear, and the second young master has advanced to the official body, so it is inconvenient to act. ”

"What about the eldest brother, didn't the eldest brother come back at that time?" When the millet was harvested, it was nearly June, and at that time, the eldest brother and sister-in-law had already established themselves in Chang'an City, and it was impossible not to know. Thinking of this, Liu Ertiao couldn't help but turn his head to look at the boss of their family, and asked softly, "Big brother, did you already know about this matter?" ”

"Well, I did hear Wuchen mention that, but I didn't care too much about it at the time, if Wuchen didn't mention this stubble today, I would have forgotten," Liu Yiyi nodded nonchalantly, and said, "Isn't it just the output of three hundred catties, what's all the fuss?" ”

Compared with those in later generations who could easily produce 500 to 1,000 catties, these 300 catties were only the level before liberation, and they couldn't enter Liu Yiyi's eyes at all.

"Huh?"

Liu Yiyi's words choked Lao Liu and Liu Ertiao and they were speechless for a while, three hundred catties, that's a full three hundred catties, it's not worth making a fuss, so how much does it take to make him startled?

"Now, that is, the wasteland has just been raised, and the gas fertility is still a little insufficient," directly considering the surprised looks of a few people, Liu Yiyi took a sip of tea, and continued to stimulate them with self-talk, "Otherwise, if we follow the current farming model in our house, in the next two or three years, the soil in the field will be cultivated into old soil and fertile land, not to mention three hundred catties, or four hundred catties and five hundred catties, it is not impossible." ”

"Hmm......"

If these words were said by others, Lao Liu and Liu Ertiao would definitely think that this person was a madman, and before he could finish speaking, Lao Liu bent down and picked up his shoes.

But now it is Yanagichichi who is saying this, and who is Yanagichichi? Lao Liu, Liu Ertiao, and Liu Wuchen and a few of them, all looked at Liu Yiyi in a daze, for such a person who is good at creating miracles, they have been with him for a long time, and they are already a little numb to this kind of thing that makes the impossible possible.

Perhaps, he can really increase the grain yield per mu to the point that it is impossible to increase the grain output to 400 catties and 500 catties.

"Big brother," stunned for a long time, Liu Ertiao was the first to react, leaned down slightly, and lightly leaned towards the boss of their family, and said: "I want to report this matter to the upper level, and write the grain yield in our house this year truthfully, I don't know ...... big brother."

"It's not a big deal, if you want to, just report it." didn't need to think about it, Liu Yiyi nodded directly, glanced at the second child of their family, and said: "However, if it is possible, you can hand a fold directly to the emperor, there is no need to report it layer by layer through the hands of others, and make the city full of storms." ”

The output of 300 catties is not very much in the eyes of Liu Yiyi, or it can be described very little, but where is it now, here is the average yield per mu is less than 100 catties or even only 560 catties up and down the Tang Dynasty, it is a feudal era that is extremely backward in terms of productivity and production methods, and the figure of 300 catties per mu is not a decimal number in the eyes of Li Shimin, a contemporary Ming monarch.

Although Liu Yiyi didn't care, in his heart, he also knew what kind of impact this matter would have on Datang Agriculture. One acre yields more than 100 catties, which doesn't seem to be much, but what if it is thousands of acres and 10,000 acres, or all the fields in the entire Datang country? That's a bit immeasurable.

If this set of farming methods that can promote the increase of field yields is dedicated to the court through the hands of their second child, dedicated to the emperor, and promoted to the entire Tang Dynasty, then the merits of their second child, as well as the status of their second child in the heart of Li Shimin, the Ming monarch, and the reputation and image of their second child in the people, in the hearts of farmers, will have great joy

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Their old Liu family needs a senior member of the court to rely on, although Liu Erjo's current official position is not high, although his reputation has not yet been revealed, but if he has a heart, it is not impossible to raise him to a high position in a short period of time and make him famous.

"If it is done well, this fold is your ladder of advancement," raised his hand and patted Liu Ertiao's shoulder, Liu Yiyi said softly: "I can't say that it won't be too long, your county Cheng's hat should be changed, and your official uniform, from green bend, is not necessarily." ”

"Why, just like this, can you be promoted?" Hearing the meaning of their eldest son's last sentence, Lao Liu still asked in a somewhat incomprehensible voice.

He couldn't figure it out, wasn't it just a method of farming, and it wasn't something valuable, how could it be possible for their second son to be promoted? There are also emperors, ordinary people in the sky, who also care about such trivial things?

"If you don't understand, don't mix it blindly, the eldest son said yes, then he can do it for a while," glanced at the old man of their family, Liu He glanced at their second boy with a smile, and urged: "Erjo, since this matter is so important, don't you stay stupid now, why don't you go and write your fold?" ”

As soon as they heard that this was a good thing to be able to add an official to the knighthood, they couldn't understand what it was for, Lao Liu and Liu He's old couple were also extremely happy in their hearts, and they didn't care about anything, they just opened their mouths and drove the second child out, in their hearts, nothing is as important as their son's future.

"Go, take advantage of the stay in Chang'an for a few days, and do this matter," Seeing that the second child of their family looked at him, Liu Yiyi also echoed and explained softly: "I remember what I said just now, the excerpt was written, and it was handed directly to the emperor, if it is really inconvenient, take the excerpt to Shangshu Mansion to find the old man Wang, and his old man will transfer it on his behalf, and it is the same." ”

"Also, remember not to let Brother Xue leave your side," After speaking, afraid that Lao Liu and his wife would hear that they were worried, Liu Yiyi also leaned over to the second child of their family, glanced at Xue Rengui, who had been guarding the door, and said in a low voice: "In this Chang'an City, it is not without a little danger, with Brother Xue by his side to help take care of it, the eldest brother can really put his mind at ease." ”

"Well, I know the big brother, Nijo understands." Hearing the eldest brother's words of concern, Liu Erjo's heart suddenly swelled with warmth, and he whispered the words of the eldest of their family.

"Dad, mother, eldest brother and sister-in-law, Erjo will go now." After the second elder and the elder brother all finished instructing, Liu Ertiao slowly stood up, bent down and saluted Lao Liu and them, then started and turned around, and took his daughter-in-law and children out of the room. Lao Liu and Liu He got up a little reluctantly to see each other, and as they spoke, they sent the couple to the front yard door.

"Young Master, do you want Wuchen to go with the Second Young Master, if the Second Young Master has any questions about this matter, Wuchen can also answer it on his behalf." Following Liu Yiyidi, not long after Liu Ertiao left the courtyard gate, Liu Wuchen lightly arched his hand and whispered to their master for instructions.

"No need, Nijo is no longer a child, he knows what to do and what to do, so we don't need to worry about it." staring at Liu Ertiao's back for a while, Liu Yiyi turned his head lightly and said softly: "Besides, there is still a long way to go after Erjo, and we can't do everything for him in our house, and when it is critical, it depends on himself." ”

"The young master is right, it's a little short-sighted." With a light response, Liu Wuchen stood quietly to the side and said no more.

"Those cotton spinning utensils, Yuan Fang already has eyebrows, how many have been made?" Thinking of the most pressing problem in Sanyuan's hometown, Liu Yiyi spoke softly and asked Liu Wuchen about it.

"Back to the young master," knowing that their young master would mention this matter, Liu Wuchen had already prepared to reply with his hand, and said: "The three utensils of the cotton bow, the loom, and the spinning wheel have already been formed, but the stirring wheel, until now, Yuan Fang still has no clue, as if he has encountered some problems inside." ”

"Cotton gin, that's no wonder." Hearing this, Liu Yiyi nodded lightly, compared to the loom and the spinning wheel, which are also somewhat complicated instruments, this kind of thing is really difficult for the tools of this era.

After all, spinning wheels and looms are similar to those utensils used to weave silkworm silk and silk, and there are many places where they can learn from each other, and they are easier to make. And the churning car, which is also the so-called cotton gin, is a brand new object, there is nothing to learn, no form can be imitated, and I don't know what to do with it, no wonder Yuan Fang can't do it.

"What did Yuan Fang say?"

"Back to the young master, Yuan Fang has the heart to ask the young master for advice in person, otherwise he doesn't know when he will be able to make this last piece of equipment." Liu Wuchen bowed and replied.

"There's no need to be so troublesome," Liu Yiyi shook his head lightly, and said, "After you go back to Sanyuan tomorrow, go and bring some white stacks to Yuan Fang." ”

"You tell him that this churning cart can take cotton seeds." After a while, Liu Yichi gently threw out such a sentence again.