Chapter 29 Full farming and full planting
He disobeyed the request of the clan leader. The clan leader made a private statement that from then on, the clan would not lend the oxen and farm tools to Chen Yue's family for use, and he expressed intentionally or unintentionally that if the Chen Yue family was bullied from outside, the clan might not provide protection.
Someone came to Chen Yue's house to tell him these words at night, and expressed concern about them. He believed that the patriarch would almost publicly express his intention to expel Chen Yue's clanship.
The genealogy of expelling the family may not be big. Chen Yue put his finger on his finger and estimated that in more than three years, Liu Bingyi would ascend the throne. As long as he established a good relationship with the future Emperor Xuan and gritted his teeth and survived these three years, everything would be in a state of chaos.
At worst, I haven't left the village for the past three years and concentrate on farming at home.
Just when Chen Yue was shameless and demanding wood ash everywhere, Liu Bingyi and Zhang Pengzu drove to Chenjia Village.
"Peng Zu?" Chen Yue looked at Zhang Pengzu in surprise, thinking to himself that this is Pengzu, who is the legendary Pengzu who lived more than 800 years old, and asked carefully, "How long do you live this year?"
Zhang Pengzu looked at Chen Yue's face and knew that the man wanted to cross it. He said to Liu Bingyi dissatisfiedly: "Bingyi, isn't this man a fool, right?"
Liu Bingyi was also speechless because when he introduced himself, he had omitted his surname, which made Chen Yue think that Zhang Pengzu's surname was Peng, and he was also associated with the legendary god.
"He is Zhang Pengzu, not the Pengzu you think." Liu Bingyi introduced, "Pengzu is the son of Zhang Gong, the commander of Yeting. This time he came to pass the two hectares of land in the southern suburbs of Chiyang County to you and me."
Liu Bingyi told Chen Yue about Zhang He's gift to the land, and the two brothers Chen Yue were stunned.
While the two brothers in the Chen family were still in the trap, Zhang Pengzu shouted after taking a few sips: "What is the water in your house? Why is it salty and sweet? By the way, what else is there on this table? I'll make a set for it for a certain family."
What, he refers to a bamboo stool.
Zhang Pengzu's shouts made Chen Yue recover.
"This is a stool, but unfortunately I don't know how to work in a carpentry work, otherwise I could sit on a more comfortable chair." Chen Yue introduced with a smile, and pointed to the bowl and said, "This is light salt water, because my brother likes sweetness, so he specially added some frosting. It's hot today, so you two drink more to avoid sha."
Sha is commonly known as heat stroke, and it is called Zhongxia in writing.
"Can this thing be cured by drinking it?" Zhang Pengzu said in disbelief.
Chen Yue shook his head and said, "It cannot be cured, it can only prevent or alleviate the symptoms of sha. I already know that my family has nearly a month of summer harvest, and my family has not experienced sha because of this sweet salt water."
Chen Yue would definitely not say that this was called glucose liquid in later rural areas. They didn’t understand it even if they asked questions. It was annoying that the so-called infusion in later generations had the same ingredients as the white sugar and salt.
During heatstroke, patients often experience varying degrees of dehydration, so drinking salt water is beneficial to rehydration and can correct the manifestations of dehydration. Of course, Chen Yue seems to have only heard of it before and does not understand it.
"A certain village harvests summer seeds every summer, and many people experience sha. Every year, people die, which often affects the harvest. Later, when it comes to summer harvesting and summer seeds, you should allocate more potions to provide more for a certain village." Although Zhang Pengzu was a playboy, he still loved the villagers.
Chen Yue smiled and said, "This is not a secret recipe. Boil the water and let it cool, then add a little green salt, so you don't need too much. If possible, you can also add a little frosting to enhance the flavor, which is better than drinking salt water at all."
"It's that simple?"
"It's so simple." Chen Yue still reminded, "Be sure to boil the water and cool it down. Don't save trouble and use it directly, as it will be useless."
Of course, Chen Yue didn't know if the cold water was effective, but he knew since he was a child that it was boiling water and cooled down, so he insisted that if he didn't explain it clearly to them, these ancient people might have scooped out a basin of water from the river and added salt. They probably wouldn't die of heatstroke by then, but died of drinking dirty water.
"I heard that you can train chickens and dogs? Are you going to know anything else?" After talking to Chen Yue for a while, Zhang Pengzu became more and more interested in Chen Yue.
"Practice people." Chen Yue said speechlessly.
"How to practice?"
Liu Bingyi could no longer see it, and reminded him: "Peng Zu, it is important to deliver the land deed and the house deed early, so that Xiao Yue can plan the crops for the next two years. After Xiao Yue has arranged these things, we will come to him to communicate with each other."
"Yes, yes." Zhang Pengzu patted his head and said embarrassedly, "I almost forgot the important things. Xiao Yue, you come and write the contract bookmarks and move your house early."
He stood up and looked at Chen Yue's house, and then said, "Although the village is small, the house is much larger than yours, so move there quickly. It is only three or five miles away from Chiyang County. A family has a house in Chiyang, so you can come to play with a certain family. I heard that if you want to study, Chiyang also has a great scholar, so you can visit it."
Chen Yue dared not decide on moving without authorization. He knew that not only the ancients, including those from later generations, also valued the old place very much, and he had to seek the consent of Chen Wu.
Of course, half a hectares of land were set. After asking Liu Bingyi, he found out that half a hectares of land was fifty acres, and he also knew that they were all good land. Although 150 acres of them were under his name, he also expressed his attitude to Liu Bingyi. All those lands were cultivated according to his fertile land method, two in a year, sow wheat in the late autumn of the first year, and sow corn immediately after harvesting wheat in the early summer of the next year.
"Don't you need to rest?" Zhang Pengzu said in confusion after hearing this, "The land power may not be enough to continue farming like this. I heard that after farming like this, the harvest is not as good as planting more than one season. A farmer cultivates one hectares of land and only planting one season of grain is the limit. Even if your family moves away, the two tenant farmers and family farms half a hectares and twenty-five acres will not be easy. Besides, it is difficult for your family to cultivate half a hectares of land every quarter."
Zhang Pengzu believed that he was not a playboy. Although he did not work in the fields, as Zhang He's heir, he still knew the basic farming situation of his land.
"I will definitely find a way to make all the land cultivated every quarter." Chen Yue answered seriously, and said, "Your cattle can be borrowed for me two more."
Before going through time, Chen Yue did not understand that the farmers in each dynasty were basically completely alive, whether in the early or late stages, when they encountered disasters, and the later the dynasty, the more serious the land annexation became. He could not think of why the farmers who had 100 or hundreds of acres of land in the early dynasty had basically lost their land later.
A few months after he arrived in the Western Han Dynasty, he realized that although many farmers had more than 100 acres of families in the early days of the founding of the country, their roots were not fully cultivated. If a family of five had grandparents, parents and children, and normal labor was considered the best. With the existence of oxen, it was the limit to be able to sow 30 acres per quarter, and even fewer without oxen. If you plant 20 to 30 acres of land, you have to pay a tax of 100 acres. When the agricultural tax was low in the early days of the founding of the country, you could bear it. However, with the increase of various additional taxes, or if you encounter disasters, you would have no food to eat.
Chen Yue really envied the flat land in Guanzhong. His previous life was in the southwest, and he was all hilly. Even in the 21st century, he could not fully use large-scale farming machinery. Because of the large population and small land, each family had to have three types of land, upper, middle and lower when land was contracted and distributed. Therefore, the land of each household was not connected in pieces, one piece in the east and one piece in the west, and the ridges between the lands of each family were pitifully smaller. They were still decreasing at a visible speed every year. Large machinery was not allowed to pass at all, so there were only small farming machines, and many families still had to raise cattle to plow the land.
At present, although there is no large machinery to use, of course he cannot make it. He does not say that the quality of steel and other things is not good, nor does he even know the basic structure of the engine. Even if the complete parts and tools are placed in front of him, he will not assemble it. However, he has seen modern plows, which have faster turning the ground and deeper arable land. Unlike the plows today, they can only plow a layer shallowly, which is very laborious.
There is also a ox-pull automatic seeder, which is a stroller. It is simple and can be made by hand. Of course, it still has a prerequisite, that is, steel. If the plow is still the soft iron of the present, it will definitely not work.
There are two hundred acres of land, and after his family goes there, three families will farm. The family needs two cows. One young man can control one head, and the other head is driven by a young man and overturn the land. The same is true for sowing. In this way, it should be no big problem for the family to truly cultivate one hundred acres.
Zhang Pengzu did not believe what Chen Yue said, but he still conveyed his father Zhang He's meaning, "My father said that no matter whether these two hectares of land can really reach the increase in income of three or five dou of acres of acres, as long as you work hard and manage it, after you are sixteen years old, another 100-hectare farm in the Zhang family will be handed over to you to manage, and five hectares of land will be directly assigned to your family. Of course, it can really reach the increase in income of three or five dou of acres of land, and at least ten hectares of land will be given to your family."
"Haha." Chen Yue didn't believe Zhang Pengzu's words and joked, "Like you say that, can you add up wheat and millet to acres of one or two hu of acres of land be given to my family twenty hectares of land?"
"My father didn't say that." Zhang Pengzu thought for a while and said, "If you can really achieve your opinion, you can make the decision and give your family twenty hectares of land and ten cows."
Chen Yue was a little surprised. He was just joking, but he found that Zhang Pengzu was very sincere. He glanced at Liu Bingyi.
But Liu Bingyi said, "Mr. Zhang said this. After I told Zhang Gong about how you farm, Mr. Zhang was very interested in managing the land. Of course, the premise is that you have to manage these two hectares of land well. It is not to let you go to Mr. Zhang's house to be a manager, but to manage it on your behalf. Your family is still a single family, not a servant or tenant."
Chapter completed!