While organizing spring plowing, Marin did not stop transporting troops to Newcastle. Danish pirates were already employed by Marin to launch attacks on the southeastern coast of England and attracted the attention of the English navy. Marin's ships also began to quietly circle the North Sea and then transport soldiers to Newcastle.
In fact, Marin could have temporarily put the 20,000 troops prepared to transport to England into spring plowing. After all, these soldiers were all children of farmers and could do farm work.
However, the action to seize England was very important. Therefore, Marin resisted this temptation and insisted on transporting the 20,000 troops to Newcastle in batches.
Because, in Marin's opinion, he now has too much food to eat and it is difficult to sell, and he is forced to make wine and sell it. Therefore, the problem of spring plowing in the three newly acquired provinces is not so urgent. At worst, just collect less food.
Moreover, because the three provinces were just acquired at the end of last year, Marin had not even had time to establish large-scale fertilizer processing plants in the three new provinces of West Friesland, Bremen and Jutland. Without enough fertilizer, even if spring plows and farms all the newly acquired land, the benefits would not be high.
Therefore, I have temporarily given up this year's spring plowing and first built a fertilizer processing plant, which has become more relaxed. After all, there is plenty of time now.
The key to the fertilizer processing site is the unified collection and treatment of residents' feces - it takes several months to dissipate the odor of the feces and make it into a fertilizer cake with little taste. Then, it is crushed, and then added the phosphate ore powder transported from Western Sahara and the potassium salt transported from the Harz Mountains... In this way, a mixed fertilizer containing the three major fertilizers, nitrogen fertilizer (manure), phosphorous fertilizer (phosphate ore powder) and potassium fertilizer (potassium salt), was born...
Using mixed fertilizers with all three major fertilizers can increase the yield per mu of rye to four or five hundred pounds per mu, which is a completely European primitive farming method.
Moreover, the spring plowing hosted by Marin is not that simple. The traditional Germanic spring plowing is just a Saxony heavy plow drawn with a light plow or a few horses, plow the land, loosen the soil, and then sprinkle the rye seeds... and then water it, and it will be OK...
If you are irrigating the land by the river, you may also use a water truck (European water truck technology is quite advanced). But if you are far away from the river, you will rely on the weather for your salary... At most, the serfs will pick up the sky water on the day they sow rye seeds. Next, they will ignore it...
Fortunately, rye is as tenacious as weeds, and can survive like a strong man. If wheat requires a lot of water, it is impossible to plant it far away from the river.
Therefore, in the current German region, rye is the mainstream. Wheat, even in the warmest south, is mainly irrigated land by the riverside in the valley. Because waterwheels can provide enough irrigation water...
But how expensive and sparse water irrigated land by the river? Therefore, the amount of wheat planting in Germany is very small. The price is 5 times that of rye. The southern Italian region has introduced the Arab ditches irrigation technology, so the wheat planting area is more. The perfect irrigation system and fertile volcanic ash soil make southern Italy a golden area in the eyes of Europeans. Sicily, because it produces Duran wheat, which is used for making pasta, is praised by Europeans as the "golden basin"...
It is not that simple for Malin to farm on the land of the three newly acquired provinces. In addition to using mixed fertilizers that have collected all three major fertilizers, Malin also needs to dig a large number of ditches and soil trenches in the fields to dig water and irrigate.
Ditches are the main roads for diversion of water, and soil ditches are the key to flooding wheat fields. In wheat fields, there will be a shallow soil ditch every few meters. During irrigation, the water flows into the soil ditch. Because the soil ditch between each ridge is only a few meters apart, the irrigation water introduced into the soil ditch can penetrate the roots of the wheat and let it drink full water. Of course, the most important thing in irrigation is that when the wheat is just planted, the water is required at that time. Only when the humidity is high enough can the wheat germinate and grow better...
Although rye is not as delicate as wheat and requires little water. However, if there is enough irrigation water, it can also promote the increase in yield.
However, although this irrigation technology is now a pity that it requires the excavation of a large number of trenches and soil trenches, which is very labor-intensive. Therefore, even if Marin now has enough labor to develop the three new provinces, it is not time to excavate trenches and soil trenches.
On the contrary, with this year's buffer, from the end of spring plowing to autumn harvest, Malin can organize the idle young laborers in the old provinces to dig ditches and soil trenches in three new provinces. By next spring, new ditches and soil trenches can be put into use. In addition, fertilizer processing plants can also provide a large amount of mixed fertilizers, and there will be ghosts if they do not increase their production...
In his previous life, Malin's father told Malin that in the era when there were no excavators, after the founding of the People's Republic of China, the country organized farmers many times to use the slack season (mainly winter) to concentrate on agricultural "conferences" and specialize in digging trenches and digging canals to facilitate irrigation. This "contest" of digging trenches and digging canals is also called "Choose Daqin" in Malin's hometown, which is an activity with extremely high labor intensity, and is generally only recruited men. The reason why it is called "Choose Daqin" is because when digging a river, the soil is placed in a basket for men to carry it and climb the river embankment. Therefore, it is called "Choose Daqin". As for the word "Quin", it means attendance. Because in that era, it was a labor point system, and attendance was calculated. Digging a river was a matter of great strength, so it was called "Choose Daqin". The soil was all carried on the river embankment by manpower, so it was also called "Choose Daqin"...
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content later! In the era without excavators and dump trucks, all irrigation rivers were basically dug by "picking Daqin". In the Jianghuai area where Malin was in the previous life, because rice and wheat were ripe a year, rice and wheat were rotating, so that only winter was considered slack. "picking Daqin" was generally organized in winter. It is said that "picking Daqin" was particularly hard. In the cold climate of the cold winter, the farmers were sweating all over, and many people took off their cotton coats and only wore single clothes to pick up soil. Moreover, at this time, men were particularly able to eat, and it was normal for each person to eat several large bowls of rice. Because they consumed a lot. In addition, there was a lack of meat and oil and water at the time, and there were not a few bowls of brown rice at the bottom, so it could not last at all...
If Marin wants to develop and utilize the land of the Great Duchy of Beihai, it is inseparable from this "selecting and digging" model. Why? Because only by organizing a large number of labor force, can we dig trenches and dig trenches (mainly digging irrigation rivers, such as digging large projects like the Red Flag Canal). If any farmer digs a river without any trouble? Even a manor cannot do it. Therefore, major things like digging irrigation rivers must be organized by the official to do it. Of course, digging small irrigation ditches and soil trenches is not difficult, and each manor can do it by organizing labor.
Of course, when organizing the organization "picking Daqin" to dig irrigation rivers, it is necessary to provide the labor force with enough food, which is more than a lot of food than usual. Otherwise, the young and strong men would not be able to stand it. Why did Emperor Yang of Sui die in digging the Grand Canal? It is not that he did not give food, but that he gave less. When digging the canal, the labor force's appetite was several times that of usual. If he only gave the amount of food that he usually stayed at home and was exhausted in half a day.
Then, the supervisors didn't understand (after all, the supervisors sent by the government didn't have to work themselves and couldn't taste that kind of taste), and thought the farmer was lazy - in fact, they had exhausted their energy, and it was useless for you to whip...
Chapter completed!