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Zhang Chao has been staying in Bashang during this period.

The main thing is to be busy with spring plowing, not just busy planting the hundreds of acres of land on millet, but also a thousand acres of newly opened terraced fields to plant rice.

The long-term workers invited by the Zhang family have no experience in growing rice.

They are all the people of Bashang, and they usually grow millet, wheat and beans. In Bashang, which is short of water, none of them have ever grown rice.

Zhang Chao had no choice but to come to guide him personally.

Zhang Chao knew a little about growing rice. Although his grandmother's family was also in Guanzhong before, he planted rice because he was by the water. On May Day holidays, he went to his grandmother's house and helped pull and transplant rice. During the summer vacation, he helped to cut rice. However, later, the rice fields of his grandmother's family were all built in greenhouses to raise seedlings, using seedling trays, and then throwing seedlings, without having to pull and transplant rice. Moreover, he used a harvester and no manpower to harvest them.

To grow rice, you must first cultivate seedlings.

During Qingming Festival, you have to soak the seeds. Soak the selected rice in water, and then you can't soak it all the time. You have to soak it for a certain period of time and then pick it up and leave it for a while, so that the rice seeds sprout.

Then it will be sprinkled into the prepared rice fields.

There must be many requirements for seedlings. First, it must be a place where water can be used to ensure that water can be released at any time. Second, seedlings require good fertility, otherwise the seedlings cannot grow. Third, the seedlings must be made very fine, making the fields like mud.

As for the timing of sowing seeds, you have to control the weather. If it is too cold, the rice seeds will freeze to death, and if it is too hot, it will burn to death.

This is indeed the first time I have to open terraced fields on Bashang and plant rice.

Zhang Chao is twenty-two years old this year and has already owned thousands of yuan in property and thousands of acres of fertile land.

Especially now that Zhang Chao writes books and writes history, he has also set up a book printing shop, which is very prestigious among the scholars.

The income from the land is actually not much. Zhang Chao doesn’t have to mess with that little land at all. He just rents it for others to plant it and collects rent. Anyway, the main income of the Zhang family is not this. Whether it is a printing shop, a winery, a restaurant, a house, a cooking food shop, a lot more money than the income from farming.

However, Zhang Chao still invested so much money to develop a deserted bathing ditch, which was by no means the first choice for other rich people.

Just like now, I have to open terraces to grow rice.

Many people think that the thousand acres of terraced fields that Zhang Jiafei has opened at such a high price. Why should we grow rice? Rice is indeed more valuable than millet, but you have to know it.

The dignified Earl of Wu'an and a Hanlin bachelor, he didn't care about what others were doing. He just acted according to his own plan. Zhang Chao thought it was too simple to make money by opening a workshop. And turning a wasteland like a bathing ditch into a rice and grain river is more valuable. In fact, in the Tang Dynasty, business was restricted after all, but agriculture was unlimited.

If the bathtub model is really successful, then Zhang Chao can be replicated infinitely. At that time, the rice and grain rivers developed by the Zhang family can become treasure pots and produce stable output.

In the East Palace, there was no objection to Zhang Chao's spring farming in the countryside. Anyway, Zhang Chao was the deputy director in Chongwenguan, and not just a teacher. With the textbook compiled by Zhang Chao in Chongwenguan Primary School, teaching is now progressing smoothly. As for the Hanlin Academy, editing books and dictionaries is also very smooth.

During this period, six students including Li Chengzong and Chai Zhewei have also stayed in Zhangjiagou. Under Zhang Chao's Lingwei, several children have gone from being the first young master to now becoming wild children in the countryside.

They are just a group of children. Over time, they gradually adapt to life in the countryside.

Zhang Chao even asked six people to raise silkworms and chickens and ducks, and asked them to take care of these silkworms and ducks in person, asked them to pick mulberry and feed silkworms, dig earthworms and feed chickens and ducks, and even asked each of the six people to start writing diaries, carefully observe the living habits of these silkworms and chickens and ducks, and also record the scenery and life in the countryside, and depict some people in the countryside.

Sometimes, he would ask these six students to listen to classes in Bailu Academy and communicate with the students.

He also gave them lectures and assigned homework, and the teaching tasks were not missed.

He would also take them to fish, and even sketch and draw in the fields.

The bathing ditch has changed, and the dam has accumulated a lake of spring water, and the blue waves are rippling.

The dam of the reservoir has also become a major road connecting both sides. There is a winding road on both slopes leading to the dam, connecting both sides.

On the slopes on both sides, the terraced fields were already closed, the fields were plowed and raked, and the grass on the ridges was also peeled clean.

"This is the seedling field, and you can pull and transplant the seedlings in a few days."

Zhang Chao pointed at the nearly 100 acres of seedling fields in front of him.

The seedlings in one acre of seedlings can plant more than ten acres or even twenty acres of land.

The seedlings carefully soaked and bred by Zhang Chao grew well, and the previous late spring cold did not affect the seedlings.

"I heard that many rice seedlings in Weinan suffered severe losses last time in Chunhan. Why do you seem to have nothing to do here?"

The prince went on a private visit today and brought Wei Zheng, Wang Gui, Wei Ting, Feng Li, Xue Wanche and other officials from the Eastern Palace to Bashang.

He had long heard that Zhang Chao turned a deserted slope into a rice terrace on Bashang, and he always felt it was incredible. In addition, he also heard from the guards of the Taiyuan King's guards that Zhang Chao took Taiyuan King and other students to Bashang and ran outside all day.

The Crown Princess was very worried about this. She was the eldest son of the Eastern Palace and could not bring him a wild child in the countryside.

It was quite common to come to Bashang all the way. But when I arrived at Zhangjiagou, I found that there were many different places here. For example, Zhangjiagou, which was originally a village, was extremely lively and even a bit prosperous.

The village wall is very high, and there are also village guards guarding the village, and even a village gate building was built.

Outside the village, there are also several large workshops, all surrounded by large places and many buildings. Li Zicheng even saw that there were restaurants, teahouses, brothels, and gambling houses not far from the village, which formed a street.

When I entered the village again, it was better to say it was a village. There was a long street in the village, with shops and stalls on both sides. Walking on the street, it seemed like I was in the west city.

The Bailu Academy is in this village, with a much larger scale than he imagined, and the sound of reading aloud comes from time to time.

This Zhangjiagou is many times bustling and prosperous than he imagined.

But when he saw the terraced fields and the green rice fields in the bathing ditch, he became more and more surprised. The wasteland between the two plateaus was originally just a few miscellaneous trees and weeds, but now it has become a pile of paddy fields?

"Seedlings are most afraid of cold, so it is actually better to grow seedlings a little later in the north. However, in this way, it is easy to miss the field. If early rice is planted late, it will be too late to harvest, and it will not be planted in the second half of the year." Zhang Chao explained with a smile.

"You have to plant two seasons a year?"

"Rice can only be planted for one season, because Guanzhong is not as cold as the southern weather. It is colder in the second half of the year and cannot be planted late rice. Moreover, Guanzhong is more drought, and this is even more so in this place. In the second half of the year, water is short of water. However, we can plant one season, and after the rice is harvested, we can plant one season of soybeans, some sorghum or millet."

"Can you keep up with the fertility?" Li Jiancheng asked in confusion.

Li Jiancheng is an amateur when it comes to farming, but he also knows that the land cannot be planted together, otherwise his fertility will not be able to keep up.

"This is indeed a big problem, so my plan is to grow rice in the first half of the year and soybeans in the second half of the year. For soybeans, the demand for water is low, and for soybeans, the growth of soybeans can also make the land fat."

The root system of soybeans is very special, with mycotosis, which can help the soil gain weight.

Moreover, Zhang Chao now has fertilizers in a fertilizer factory. Swamp fertilizer is an excellent fertilizer. It can be applied as base fertilizer and top dressing during the crop production period to increase the fertility of the land. After harvesting beans in winter, you can also harvest river mud and fertilizer fields from dry river ditches.

This is an advantage of ecological planting. The land will not become more barren as it grows, but can maintain a better cycle.

"The key to ensuring that the seedlings are not frozen is to build a shed for the seedlings."

“Make a shed?”

Wei Zheng and other civil and military officials in the East Palace were all very surprised.

Today, Zhang Chao was like an ordinary villager, wearing short cloth clothes, no robe, and even a squid head. He only had a cloth scarf tied around his head, his trouser legs were tied very high, and he was barefoot.

This outfit almost shocked the prince and his party who had just met Zhang Chao. The prince washed his horse and became a farmer.

Zhang Chao also carried a hoe on his shoulder.

"Your Highness, please come with me."

The group followed Zhang Chao down the ridge path. The ridge was very narrow and the soil was still very slippery in spring. Li Jiancheng and others slid into the field next to them if they were not careful. Sometimes their boots even fell directly into the mud of the wheels.

I'm leaving in a very embarrassing way.

However, Zhang Chao, with his trouser legs high and barefoot walking on the ridge of the field with great ease.

I finally walked to the edge of the seedling fields below, and the seedling fields were concentrated nearest to the reservoir, which was conducive to ensuring irrigation.

As they approached, Li Jiancheng and the others discovered that there were many curved bamboos piled up beside the rice fields.

"This is the bamboo that builds the shed, but now the seedlings have grown, so the seedling shed has been removed."

In later generations, seedling sheds were made of plastic cloth. However, now there is no plastic cloth, so Zhang Chao can only use a relatively stupid method to build a shed for seedlings.

Use bamboo to make the shed bones and then lay straw on it.

This is a relatively stupid method. You have to pack it at night and then collect it during the day.

Rice seedlings need to bask in the sun during the day and photosynthetic. If the rice seedlings die, they cannot be raised.

Although this method is stupid, it is still useful to spend more labor. With this, the Zhang family's seedlings successfully survived the cold current and grew up.

"Seedling cultivation requires careful management, which is quite tiring. However, transplanting seedlings into rice fields can greatly increase the harvest."

It is certainly OK to sow seeds directly into the field, but the yield of this method will be very low. Through seedling selection and transplantation, the yield can be greatly improved. However, how to grow good seedlings is very troublesome.

For example, this shed is very troublesome. There are different opening times for sunny, cloudy, light rainy and heavy rainy days, and the requirements for temperature control are very high.

In addition, water is also the key. Before the seedlings have three leaves, they must be irrigated with water to keep the bed soil moist but not too much water, nor can they turn white if they have less water.

In addition, the fertility of the seedlings must be maintained in the middle, and there are several top dressings in the middle.

Zhang Chao used worm liquid as top dressing, and he could also use wood ash as top dressing, but his fertility was much worse.

Without fat, the seedlings will not grow well.

"I didn't expect that there are so many ways to raise seedlings in one place." The prince nodded.

"That's of course. To plant good rice, not only has so many ways to cultivate seedlings, but you also have to go through the selection of seedlings before. Just plant good seedlings, and good seedlings. Only by selecting the seedlings can the germination rate of seedlings be ensured."

"What kind of breed is yours?"

"Sticky rice!"

Rice is generally divided into three categories: glutinous rice and indica rice, and japonica rice. Japonica rice is short, indica rice is long, and glutinous rice is sticky.

Glutinous rice is a good choice for making wine and making pastries. Japonica rice and indica rice taste better when cooking. Zhang Chao planted glutinous rice, which is more expensive than ordinary japonica rice.

"How much per mu of your terraced fields can achieve in one quarter?"

"It's about four stones, because it's the first year, the output may be lower." Zhang Chao replied with a smile. When he turned his head, he saw Li Jiancheng and Wei Zheng and others standing there in amazement.
To be continued...