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Chapter 8: Concentrate on farming

After a long time, Chen Xiu raised his head and said, "Today is the seventh day of the second lunar month. You have to plant millet before the end of the month, otherwise your family's harvest will definitely be smaller this year than in previous years."

"Uncle, is this an almanac? Have you calculated your life by fingers?" Chen Yue still asked his thoughts.

Of course, it also received a slap.

Chen Xiu said angrily: "Do you think you can understand the almanac? Only in the county government office can you find a person to explain it to someone every month."

After saying that, Chen Xiu touched the wooden board and said with a sad face: "When I was a child, I heard from the elderly that a certain family had millions of property before and there were scholars at home. After moving here more than a hundred years ago, the family had fallen into decline and fewer and fewer scholars. Until now, no one in the entire clan reads and learns. It's a kid~~"

It turns out that Chen Xiu said that the Chen family’s ancestors were rich, and having no worries about food and clothing was the basic operation, and there were slaves and servants in the family. Now, among the seventeen or eighteen households in the clan, some of the ancestors were slaves, craftsmen or tenants in the family, and there were only seven or eight families in the Chen family.

Chen Yue vaguely remembers that in the history books, Qin Shihuang and later the early years of the Han Dynasty, they had the requirement to move wealthy households or nobles to settle in Beijing. In order to achieve the goal of strengthening the weak branches, strengthening the central government's strength, and deterring or managing the local government.

When the old man recalls the past, he usually does not interrupt him.

Chen Yue didn't believe it, but he was kicked and realized that this year was the fourth year of Yuanfeng. But he didn't know what Yuanfeng was. He wanted to ask what the emperor's surname was, but he didn't dare to do so. He was afraid that as soon as he asked, he would be regarded as a traitor. He would not be sent to the army to be a dead soldier when he was not caught.

"Uncle, I'm going to be an adult for two or three years. I wonder if the border is dangerous now? Did the Huns often attack the border?" If you can't ask the name of the emperor, then ask the Huns, this nation has been entangled with the Han Empire for hundreds of years, and it was not until the late Eastern Han Dynasty that there was no news.

Chen Yue didn't know who Yuanfeng was. He knew that Emperor Gaozu of Han, Emperor Wen of Han, Emperor Jing of Han, and Wenjing's rule in middle school. Later, emperors of various dynasties often hoped that under their own governance, the country could achieve the grand occasion of Wenjing, and praised Wenjing's rule. Wenjing's rule was also the first great rule of the feudal dynasty.

Of course, Emperor Wu of Han also knew that after Han Wu, he was not clear. The Eastern Han Dynasty knew about Emperor Guangwu, Emperor Ling, Emperor Huan of Han and Emperor Xian of Han. The only ones related to Han were the Han Zhaolie Emperor in the southwest and the Northern Han was near Taiyuan. I think the ones behind him were not. He is now in Guanzhong or near Chang'an.

"The Huns were already afraid of being beaten and were far away from us." Chen Xiu began to recall the past, "What a pity, what a pity. If our champion General Hou Cavalry had not died young, there would have been no Huns on this day, otherwise how could they survive until now."

"Car General Champion Hou Huo Qubing?" Chen Yue was surprised.

"yes."

"So, uncle, do you know the champion Hou of the General of the Cavalry?"

Chen Yue felt that the years passed by were unfavorable after he traveled through time. Today, he had been beaten by the clan leader several times.

"I have met the champion Hou, but he doesn't know a certain family." Chen Xiu said regretfully, "That year, I went to Chang'an City with my father to welcome the champion Hou Kaixuan. I looked at him from a distance. He was such a handsome young man. That year, I was about the same age as you, and I thought to myself that I would become an adult soon, and I could join the army, follow the champion Hou Yuan of the Cavalry to expedition to Mobei and make contributions immediately."

"Uncle, have you been a soldier?" Chen Yue asked.

"No, your uncle beaten up. Your uncle said that a good man is not a soldier."

"Uncle, are you Gui Geng this year?"

Chen Yue was beaten again because he explained to Chen Xiu for a long time before Chen Xiu understood that Gui Geng was asking about his age, so Chen Xiu slapped him again in anger.

"I am fifty, I am fifty years old this year. It's been forty years in a flash, and time passes so quickly." Chen Xiu said with emotion, "Thinking about it, I have been watching the champion Hou Kaixuan for forty years, and he has passed away for more than thirty years. I heard from the old people that when Emperor Xiaowu heard that when the champion Hou passed away, he also vomited blood. He raised the champion Hou as his son."

Emperor Xiaowu? That must be Emperor Wu of Han. I am still fifty years old and haven’t died yet, which is a bit abnormal. Didn’t the ancients live in more than 30 or 40 years of employment?

"That Emperor Xiaowu..."

"Yexian has been there for several years." Chen Xiu pinched his fingers and calculated there, "Your Majesty Xiaowu has been there for ten years. This peaceful world was defeated by Your Majesty Xiaowu and the Marquis of Changping and the Marquis of Champion."

After talking for a while, Chen Yue did not ask what the current emperor was named. Chen Yue found some clues in his deep memory, that is, there would not be many wars before Wang Mang usurped the throne. Moreover, both Han Dynasty were forced to perish, not because they were captured by foreign enemies, but because they killed themselves.

The Western Han Dynasty had a history of more than 200 years. It was not until the late Xinmang period that there was a rebellion in the green forest and the whole country was in chaos. It is estimated that it was around 80 BC, and there were still 180 years of peace. I guess I would not survive the chaos. It seems that I have to leave a treasure bag for my descendants in the future, so that they can rely on the plane's son Liu Xiu in advance.

Afterwards, Chen Yue stopped asking about the upper class. He had no chance to contact Liu Bang and Liu Xiu. He wanted to become an official by clinging to the superiors. It seemed that he had no chance.

There are only a variety of lands. Plant good land to see if you have the opportunity to be a landlord. The yield per mu is 100-150 kilograms is too low. It depends on whether you can find a way to increase the yield. Not to mention three or five times, it would be amazing to double it.

Thinking about the farming in my hometown when I was a child, of course, my parents in my previous life were planting, and I just started it. The wheat that is not suitable for planting in the southwest region is more than 500 kilograms per mu. In the 1980s and 1990s, I didn’t use pesticides and fertilizers, but the planting was slightly better. When I was in college, I heard that the yield of the Central Plains region was about 1,000 kilograms per mu.

At present, there is not such a good grain planting, and a yield of 300 kilograms per mu should be achieved. The premise of realization is fertile land and intensive cultivation. In his memory, everyone is currently planting extensively.

When Chen Yue watched his cousin come home after work, he wanted to talk to his uncle again to see if he could have a meal, but he was ruthlessly driven out of the door.

When chatting with the uncle's patriarch, he also obtained a message that the reason why ox plows cost more than 5,000 is that after the ox is born, it will not be sold until it is two or two and a half years old. During this period, it mainly learns how to plow the land or drive the car with the old cattle. Those oxes that are not gentle enough to learn how to plow the land and do not know how to drive the car are usually brought to a special slaughterhouse after they are two years old. This type of cattle usually costs more than 2,000.

Chen Yue had a plan and saved enough 5,000 yuan to buy cows and plows. He did not dare to tie the cows in the clan to pierce them. Otherwise, he might be the one who was worn.

How to make money the fastest? Of course, it is doing business.

But Chen Yue dared not be a businessman. My uncle said that merchants are used to be dead soldiers when fighting. They rushed to the front and died the fastest, and their descendants could never raise their heads. The status of scholars, peasants, industry and commerce, being farmers, being farmers is two levels higher than being merchants.

Who in the clan dares to be a businessman not only to be removed from the family tree, but also to be taken away from the whole family's land and real estate. Unless he is absolutely certain, Chen Yue will not be a businessman.

Just thinking and not doing it is not Chen Yue's nature.

After returning home, Chen Yue made arrangements. Of course, he did not dare to arrange his mother, so he could only arrange for himself and his younger brother. The task for Chen Miao was to collect wood ash from each family in the clan and then sprinkle them all into the soil. His own job was to dig a big hole, and the saying for his family was to fatten.

Of course, the whole family doesn't know what fattening is.

The firewood ash after cooking in each family was poured out randomly and the land was not taken away. Chen Yue knew that there were many minerals in the wood ash that could fertilize the land. He heard that it could also kill insects, but he didn't know what the effect was, but he knew it would definitely be effective.

The two brothers Chen Yue cut several bamboos after lunch. He ordered his memory to craft four baskets, which was of course ugly. However, it should not be sprinkled with wood ash or grain, so he still handled the gap very well.

Two people can carry about 50 kilograms of grain, and of course it will be even lighter to load the ash. I found a bamboo to make a shoulder pole, cut two trees to dry before I could make a shoulder pole that can carry heavy objects again. He didn’t have a carpenter job, and there were no carpenters in the clan. Think about it, this shoulder pole must be as ugly as this basket.

Chen Wu is an honest peasant woman. She didn't understand Chen Yue's arrangements, but she did not object to her. She believed that men must be the head of the family, although her son was still young.

After returning home, I saw my son's hands full of wounds, and his heartache expression was undoubtedly revealed on his face, but there was no need to speak much. I just went outside to find some grass and crushed it to Chen Yue and simply painted it on. In her subconscious, the man suffered this little injury and did not hurt his muscles, which was not worth making a fuss. It was just that as a mother, I felt uncomfortable.

About twenty meters away from home, Chen Yue drew a frame of more than ten square meters. He planned to build a septic tank to collect all the excrement of people and animals in the village here. After fermenting it for ten days and half a month, it can be used to fertilize the land. Of course, the longer the time, the better, but his first batch of land cannot wait for too long.
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