Zhao Ziliang walked through each of the more than 20,000 acres of cultivated land and looked at it carefully.
After spending several days, he found that many fields still needed to divert water from adjacent fields.
This situation was affected by the amount of rain.
When it is too large, rainwater will not be drained out, causing floods; and during dry periods, it is easy to cause droughts.
Regarding this situation, Zhao Ziliang instructed Zheng San on the spot: "This won't work.
It's not okay for multiple fields to share one canal.
It must be two adjacent fields sharing one canal.
If that doesn't work, just build another one between the two fields."
A small canal is connected to a large canal.
In short, each piece of land must be able to divert water from the canal alone.
Water cannot be diverted from other fields.
Send someone to carefully check and make statistics.
How many fields need to be re-excavated canals?
Organize manpower to do it immediately."
Zheng San agreed: "Okay, it's our fault for being careless.
Unexpectedly, these new recruits have learned to be lazy."
The more than 20,000 acres of new fields are the lifeblood of the seven or eight thousand soldiers of the entire Xilin Guard.
They are all fed and clothed in these fields.
Zhao Ziliang cannot help but be careful.
The fields that were opened early and sown early have already grown seedlings, while the fields that have just been cleared and sown have not yet moved.
Zhao Ziliang wandered around the fields with seedlings for a long time.
After returning to Shouzhufu, he found Zheng San again.
Said: "I have roughly looked at the fields where the seedlings have grown, and I have repeatedly emphasized the need for intensive cultivation.
The distance between the seedlings must be the same, and the density of the seedlings on each piece of land must be uniform.
When sowing, you must pay attention to the spacing.
It cannot be too long or too short.
We have reclaimed wasteland in the past in Hexi and Hedong.
You can It’s not like I don’t know.
Logically speaking, I should have a lot of farming experience.
Why is it so different this time?”
Zheng San immediately admitted his mistake: "Boss, this is my fault.
I'm really busy these days.
I didn't have the patience to instruct the soldiers in detail when they were farming.
I just gave them a quick demonstration and then went to do other things.
I was responsible for supervising them."
People don’t know much about it.
They just know that the sooner it’s done, the better.
It’s my fault.”
After hearing what Zheng San said, Zhao Ziliang knew that he could not be entirely blamed.
After all, he had too many things to be responsible for alone, and he was really incapable of doing all the work.
Moreover, farmers in this era did not understand the role of intensive farming at all.
As long as Zheng San was Only those who have been with Zhao Ziliang and have seen the benefits of intensive farming know this.
"Forget it, I can't blame you entirely for this.
The sowing has been completed, and there's nothing we can do to fix it.
We can only put more effort into weeding, loosening the soil, fertilizing and removing insects."
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Zheng San quickly agreed: "Okay, I will send someone to supervise this matter, and provide some training and instruction to these supervisors."
In terms of crops, in addition to the main crop of wheat, there are soybeans, highland barley, alfalfa and millet, high-field wheat, medium-field barley, and low-field alfalfa and millet.
Not only can they receive enough rations for the soldiers, but they can also harvest a lot of fodder for the livestock, among which soybeans are the concentrate for war horses.
War horses that eat soybeans not only recover their physical strength quickly, but also have greatly improved endurance and sprinting power.
No matter where he served, Zhao Ziliang always attached great importance to reclamation as long as he was on his own.
In this era, grain was the most important strategic material.
With grain in hand, he would not panic.
Whether he was in Anxi, Hexi or Hedong, he would He presided over the land reclamation and obtained countless fertile fields.
His successors have basically benefited from him.
In fact, those successors don't need to do anything.
They just need to continue what Zhao Ziliang did when he was in office.
However, many people think they are great and want to make changes, but In fact, it got worse in the end.
Nowadays, most of the cultivated fields under the jurisdiction of Suiye Governor's Mansion are the fields that were opened up during Zhao Ziliang's tenure.
Not only has the number not increased, but it has also decreased.
On the one hand, the people in charge of the reclamation are lazy and have abandoned a lot of fields.
On the other hand, On the one hand, many fields are not fertilized in time after the crops are harvested.
As a result, some fields lose their fertility after a few years of planting, and their harvests decline year by year.
In the end, they are simply abandoned and no longer cultivated.
Of course, Zhao Ziliang cannot allow this situation.
When plowing the land, he requires fertilizer to be applied once, and the crops need to be fertilized two to three times during the growth process.
The orange stems cannot be burned and should be left in the field as regeneration fertilizer as much as possible.
If possible, chop the orange stalks and spread them in the field, so that they can be turned into fertilizer as quickly as possible.
There are many things that can be used as fertilizers.
For example, the cake residue left after soybean oil extraction is a very good fertilizer.
Crops can grow quickly using this cake residue as fertilizer.
There is also rapeseed.
The rapeseed cake left after oil extraction is also an excellent fertilizer.
However, rapeseed must be sown in winter and can be harvested in the following spring.
It is too late to plant it now, and growing rapeseed does not require too much fertilizer.
You can get a good harvest from rapeseed in both fields and inferior fields.
Nowadays, carpenters and blacksmiths are making various farm tools, including oil-extracting tools.
In addition to the inability to obtain mechanical power, the farm tools of the Tang Dynasty were actually very developed in feudal society, and many farm tools are still in use into the 21st century. , at this time, the level of farming in the Western world was several centuries behind that of the Tang Dynasty.
On this day, Zhao Ziliang inspected the ironware making workshop.
Dozens of blacksmiths were making a round and concave-convex ironware.
When the blacksmiths saw Zhao Ziliang coming, they all stopped.
Zhao Ziliang waved his hand and said: "Don't stop, continue."
The blacksmiths then continued to forge iron tools.
Zhao Ziliang came to a place and watched a blacksmith hammering a concave-convex iron object with a small hammer.
He couldn't help but ask: "What is this made of?"
The blacksmith replied: "General, this thing is buckled on the inside of both ends of the stone roller.
Use a wooden frame to put it on the stone roller.
The two citron heads on the square wooden frame are buckled into this thing, and then put on the wooden frame.
Climb the rope and be pulled by oxen or horses, and you can grind down the wheat.”
"Oh, so that's what it is."
Zhao Ziliang nodded and asked, "Nowadays, after harvesting crops, you can only use this method to thresh them."
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The blacksmith replied: "Yes, most farmers in the Tang Dynasty used this method to thresh wheat.
It was the fastest.
There were also a few farmers who harvested less wheat, so they used bamboo sickles to thresh the wheat one by one.
It was too Time-consuming and labor-intensive” Zhao Ziliang thought for a while and said to a subordinate next to him: "Bring me a pen, ink, paper and inkstone."
"promise" Without much time, the servant brought pen, ink, paper and inkstone, and spread a large piece of white paper on a table.
Zhao Ziliang dipped his brush in ink and started drawing on the white paper, and he drew very seriously.
Zheng San, Gao Shi, Cen Shen and other officials stood aside and watched.
Zhao Ziliang finished the painting quickly.
When everyone looked at it, they saw a square boat-like object drawn on the white paper.
Judging from the dimensions on it, it should not be very big.
Moreover, there are connected large and small toothed iron tools and wooden rollers, with densely packed iron triangles inserted on the rollers.
What is this?
Gao Shi couldn't help but asked: "General, what is this?"
Zhao Ziliang dropped the brush and said with a smile: "I call it a thresher.
Look here.
This is the pedal.
A person stands here and puts one foot on the pedal and presses hard.
The force will be transmitted to the gear through the iron rods on the left and right sides.
The large gear drives the small gear, and the small gear is connected to the roller.
The roller will rotate quickly.
If If a person holds wheat ears and puts them on the roller, will the wheat particles on the wheat ears be knocked off by these small iron triangles and fall into the barn?
This thing can be operated by one person or multiple people, up to four people. , otherwise this thing would be too big to move easily.
With this thing, threshing becomes very easy.”
After listening to Zhao Ziliang's explanation, everyone suddenly understood.
Zheng San was very excited.
He had been responsible for Zhao Ziliang's logistics and settlement affairs.
Of course he was very clear about threshing.
This thing seemed to be very convenient to thresh, but he didn't know the actual efficiency and It is not known how effective it is, whether it is faster than using an ox-pulled roller, and whether it can thresh the grains cleanly.
Actual operation is needed to know the effect.
When Zheng San expressed his thoughts, everyone nodded.
Gao Shi said at this time: "General, because we were raided by the Taoist troops last year, the fields here were deserted and no winter wheat was planted.
However, there are plantings in Donglin Shouhuo to the east.
I heard that they are harvesting wheat these days.
Why don't we ask the carpenters and blacksmiths to make a sample as soon as possible in the next two days, and then send someone to Donglin to catch and buy two acres of wheat and come back to try it out?"
Zhao Ziliang thought it was feasible when he heard it, so he ordered several blacksmiths and carpenters to make it on the spot.
The carpenters were responsible for making the square wooden hull, wheel rollers, and pedal parts, while the blacksmiths were responsible for making iron parts.
After the construction was completed, Then assembly was carried out, and during this period, people were sent to Donglin to capture the wheat ears purchased from two acres of land and brought them back by horse-drawn carriage for competition.
It only took the blacksmiths and carpenters less than an hour to make and assemble all the parts, but sending people to Donglin to guard and buy two acres of wheat could not be brought back in a short time.
Two days later, a group of soldiers escorted a convoy carrying two acres of wheat ears back to Xilin to guard the capture.
After receiving the news, Zhao Ziliang and the officials all rushed to the threshing floor to prepare for the test competition.
"General, the wheat ears from the two acres of land have been transported.
What should we do now?"
Zheng San asked.
This kind of threshing machine was used by farmers in the 1960s and 1970s.
When Zhao Ziliang didn't travel through time, his family was still using this kind of manual threshing machine because it was a mountainous area.
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Of course he knew how to use it.
So he walked to the human threshing machine and waved to a subordinate.
The subordinate immediately brought a large handful of wheat ears.
After Zhao Ziliang took it, he said to the three subordinates around him: "This general will give you three a demonstration.
You see clearly how to do it." operate" "promise" Zhao Ziliang stepped on the pedal continuously with his feet, and the rollers in the thresher began to roll rapidly.
The wheat ears in his hands were sent to the rollers.
He only heard a "sizzling" sound, and the wheat particles on the wheat ears began to clatter.
After being knocked down, in one breath, only the bare orange stalks were left on the wheat ears, and all the wheat grains were beaten clean.
"Oh" everyone couldn't help but exclaimed, this thing threshed the grain quickly and cleanly.
Zhao Ziliang immediately ordered that the wheat ears of the two acres of land be divided into two parts.
The wheat ears of one acre of land were threshed with a human thresher, while the wheat ears of the other acre of land were spread flat on the threshing floor and used horses to pull stones.
Roller for threshing.
As the preparations for both parties were completed, the competition officially began.
The three people on the human thresher were divided into two groups.
One group of two was responsible for passing the wheat ears, and the other person was responsible for taking over the wheat ears and threshing them on the thresher.
The division of labor was clear; and On the other side is a strong man driving a horse and pulling a stone roller to continuously circle the ears of wheat lying flat on the ground.
Half an hour later, all the threshing has been completed on the human thresher side, while the Marathon stone mill has just turned over the milled wheat ears once, and it needs to be turned over twice in a row, and finally it needs to use a bamboo sickle.
The rack is beaten to complete the final threshing work.
Comparing the two parties, the efficiency of the human thresher is many times faster.
Even though there are three people, the work efficiency is still twice as high as that of a single person driving a horse-drawn stone mill to thresh grains.
After the game was completed, a burst of cheers rang through the threshing floor: