The Zhang family now has a lot of land, not counting the fields in Hebei, nor the land in other states and counties in Gyeonggi, and the Zhang family in Ningmin County alone has no less than 3,000 acres of land. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Among them, there are 1,600 acres of rice terraces bought from the Zhao family, 1,000 acres of rice terraces in the bathing ditch that the Zhang family spent a lot of manpower and material resources to reclaim last winter, and more than 500 acres of land in Bailu Township.

There are so many fields, all of which are planted by the Zhang family themselves this year, except for some of the fields that are also planted with winter wheat, which will not be handed over until after the summer harvest. But most of the fields will be planted this spring.

1,000 acres of terraced fields are planted with rice, and the remaining hundreds of acres are planted with millet. And after the summer harvest of those fields that grow winter wheat, Zhang Chao plans to plant beans.

These lands are not tenants, but employ long-term laborers to cultivate, and when the farming is busy, they also hire some short-term laborers.

The sun is just right, and the spring breeze is blowing.

Zhang Chao's family was plowing the fields and fertilizing, and the family went into battle together.

Of course, the Zhang family does not need to plant the land in person now, but today is the first day of spring ploughing, according to custom, the emperor has to make a spring ploughing ceremony, personally support the plow, and the landlords below will also personally go to the field. This is also a kind of education for children, and land is fundamental.

Zhang Chao's six students were all taken to the field by him today.

The Zhang family personally cultivated only three points of land, which was not very big, and Zhang Chao quickly ploughed this little land with the help of the plow. After ploughing, the soil must be broken up again with a knife rake.

The mud ploughed by the plough is all large and solid, frozen for a winter.

The knife rake is specially used to break the soil, like a small wooden row, but on several horizontal logs, rows of oblique rake knives are installed, almost four fingers wide. When raking the ground, the man stands on the rake, the ox drags it away, and the rake knife cuts through the soil, so that the mud can be broken, and after raking a few times, the large piece of soil will be raked into small pieces.

A group of women from the Zhang family are carrying baskets to pick up grass in the field.

Although many grasses have frozen to death after winter, there are still many grasses that are tenaciously alive, and there are still many grasses that are dead, but the roots of the grass are still alive, and they will recover and sprout as soon as spring begins.

The Tang Dynasty did not have herbicides, so it had to rely on manual weeding.

When plowing the land, it is also important to pick up the roots and grass.

After using a horse rake to break the ground, Zhang Chao took the rake and continued to rake the ground.

A rake is a thinner farming tool that makes the ground thinner after a rake, with a horizontal bar handrail on the top and a large comb-like rake on the bottom.

Some use bamboo to make teeth, and those with iron teeth.

Raking the ground, just like combing the ground, can not only break the ground more finely, but also rake out the weeds and grass roots in the ground.

The rake will bring up the grass roots, etc., and Zhang Chao will lift the rake every time he rakes and leave the grass behind. Then let the thirteen mothers come over with baskets, shake the grass clean of the soil, and then load it up and carry it to the edge of the ridge.

Lao Niu, as a technical guide today, has been following Zhang Chao to guide how to support the plow, how to use the ox rope to teach the ox to stop and turn, etc.

"It's a good job, I didn't expect Saburo to be so talented in farming, as soon as I say it, I'll do it well."

Zhang Chao wiped the sweat from his forehead and left a pile of grass and mud.

"It's the cow that is well-tamed, and the land is better."

Ploughing three points of land, Zhang Chao was tired to death. It looks easy, but in fact, it is quite tiring to plow, harrow, and rake. There are still two oxen pulling the plow, and the improved short-curved plough is used, and the plough is lighter, or else, it is more tiring.

It's not easy for the landlord, and you have to put on a show from time to time.

It is even more difficult to think about those ordinary people, there are no oxen, someone has to pull the plow, and the shoulders have to be worn out. In particular, there is no advanced tillage tool such as the curved plow, and the efficiency of the old plough is too low, and the average person can not pull it, and it is difficult to control the deep ploughing and shallow ploughing.

In addition, many people's plows are made of wood, and the plowshares are reluctant to use iron, so they dare not imagine how this field can be plowed. Some people don't use the plough at all, and use the treadling plow.

The treadmill is said to be a plow, but it is actually a shovel, but it is more efficient than an ordinary shovel. Stepping the treadle into the ground with your feet and turning it up is not much faster than digging with a hoe.

It's scary to think about dozens of acres of land being cultivated in this way. No wonder the yield is so low and it takes so much time to cultivate.

Like the set of tillage tools used by Zhang Chao, the plough, the knife rake, and the iron-toothed rake, all of which are iron, and even the steel used, which is light and sharp, and only landlords like Zhang Chao use it.

And Zhang Chao is not at home with two oxen pulling the plow, which is even easier.

Others can't do it if they want to work intensively, there is no condition.

"You six come here."

Zhang Chao called the six students who came to Heng and the others, just now these little guys had been standing on the ridge to watch the play, and Zhang Chao didn't pay attention to them. But he didn't call these six people here today for the spring outing.

Today, these six have to go to the field to experience it once, and do farming.

Anyway, they are all Zhang Chao's disciples, Zhang Chao doesn't care if their father was a general before, or a prince of the court, or his mother is a princess.

Princess Pingyang has said that if you don't obey, you will be beaten.

Parents in this year are quite respectful of their children's teachers, and it is normal to disobey and punish them corparily. It will never happen that if you say that you have been beaten by a teacher, and as soon as you complain to your parents, your parents will tear up the teacher. If you dare to sue, you may have to be beaten by your parents again. Being beaten by a teacher can only mean that you should be beaten.

Six protégés, the eldest is twelve years old, and the youngest is only three years old.

But all the same, wearing robes and boots, out of place with this field.

When a few people heard Zhang Chao's shout, they were still a little hesitant, but they had clean boots on their feet, and when they went down to the ground, they would be dirty.

"Take off your boots, tuck the hem of your robe into your belt, and come barefoot."

Several teenagers looked at each other.

It's sunny today, but it's still a little cold. The most important thing is that the little ones are not dressed and fed, and they are very hesitant to let them walk barefoot in the mud.

"You can't be moved, are you?" Zhang Chao accentuated his tone.

The brothers were the first to obey, took off their boots and socks, lifted the foot of their robe, clamped it into their waist, and tied up their trousers.

Walking barefoot in the freshly ploughed field, my feet felt the soft soil and the cold.

"Ahh

Chai Zhewei suddenly shouted and retreated to the ridge.

"What's wrong?"

"Something bites my foot, snake!"

Hearing that a snake had bitten Chai Zhewei, Zhang Chao was startled. Give a few students a labor class, but you can't have an accident. He hurriedly ran over, but he didn't see any snakes.

"Where is the snake?"

"Where's the bite?"

Zhang Chao asked Chai Zhewei.

"Bite the soles of my feet." said that Chai Zhewei showed Zhang Chao the soles of his feet, but Zhang Chao looked at it for a long time and didn't see the wound at all.

"The serpent is there, still there!"

Chai Zhewei pointed to the ground in front of him and shouted.

Zhang Chao turned his head to look, I wiped, there was no snake, it was just a relatively fat earthworm, the earthworm had spent a winter in the soil, and now it was turned over. It's still writhing in the mud, but it's really fat, at least as thick as a chopstick.

Zhang Chao let go of the heart he was carrying and breathed a sigh of relief.

"Damn, I lied about the military situation and almost scared to death. This group of aristocratic children is really, obviously just an earthworm, he can be used as a snake. ”

"You say it's a snake?"

Zhang Chao directly grabbed the earthworm in his hand and brought it to Chai Zhewei, and he was so frightened that he hurriedly retreated.

"You think it's a snake too?" Zhang Chao asked the other five.

A bunch of little ones all nodded.

"What do you usually read all day long, and you don't even distinguish between grains, snakes and earthworms?"

Lan'er and Lian'er, the two girls over there, laughed together, laughing at these children, and they didn't even know the earthworms.

Lai Heng's face flushed with laughter, "Is this an earthworm?" ”

"That's right, earthworms grow good things, they burrow in the soil, they eat mud, and then the mud that earthworms expel will fertilize the fields. Chickens and ducks also like to eat earthworms the most, and they can lay more eggs after eating. Now, I give you the first task, everyone goes down to the field, catches twenty earthworms and turns them in, if you can't complete the task, catch one less, and catch the three-character scripture again! ”

"It must be grasped by hand!" Zhang Chao added another one.

Zhang Chao also asked them to take turns putting the earthworm in the palm of his hand, and a few little guys were scared and cried, but Zhang Chao didn't pay attention to them at all.

In the nearby fields, the long-term workers of the Zhang family were ploughing the fields, and when they saw the movement here, they couldn't help but come over to see the excitement. How to let a group of sons go to the ground and make them cry. I heard that one of them is the eldest son of the crown prince, and that is the eldest grandson of the emperor.

In the distance, there were also guards from the East Palace, standing not far away, but did not come. They were ordered to follow the king of Taiyuan and keep him safe. But the prince had already said that as long as it was not dangerous, then Zhang Sanlang had no right to interfere with the way King Taiyuan taught.

Dad watched a few boys crying and calling for their mothers, and he couldn't bear it. "San Lang, forget it, they are not ordinary children, just learn well, why don't you need to understand these."

Zhang Chao said blandly, "If you don't distinguish between the grains you read and read, and you can treat earthworms as snakes, what can such a person do?" Since their parents have put them in my hands, I will naturally teach them well. Reading is education, but you can't even lose the common sense of life. ”

Zhang Chao ignored their cries, "What are you crying about, if you can't complete the task, it's useless for you to cry." ”

The children cried for a while, but found that no one paid attention to them, and finally they couldn't cry anymore. Li Chengzong, who came to Henglaiji, performed well, although his face was not very good-looking, he also gritted his teeth and went to the ground and began to look for earthworms in the soil.

In the end, even Pei Xingjian followed the Laiji brothers to catch earthworms, but only the Chai brothers performed the worst.

When they got off the ground, they didn't really catch earthworms, and in the end, the Laiji brothers and Li Chengzong helped them catch the full number.

Zhang Chao checked it.

"Okay, you've passed. Now, go and spread the manure! ”

Spreading manure is to sprinkle fertilizer made from biogas residue with stove ash and broken straw on the field. Mixed with biogas slurry, as the base fertilizer of the field.

Although the fertilizer is added with stove ash and broken straw, it is still somewhat semi-dry and not wet.

The boys knew where the biogas residue in the manure came from, and they all stood there with ugly faces.

"After each person sprinkles a basket of fertilizer, if you can't finish sprinkling, copy the three-character scripture three times!" Zhang Chao is a very unceremonious threat! (To be continued.) )