The fourth brother Li Sizhuang said: Third brother, aren’t you talking nonsense? Niuwen’s full text novel (Qihang Novel~ Reading novel online) Who doesn’t know that you should turn the ground first and then sow the seeds. Just now, Young Master Zuo came back, and the general said to give rice again." Li Dazhuang said: “Don’t say these useless things, now it’s just like this, take a method that can be used!” Li Sanzhuang said: “Then prepare the land first. It has been raining some time ago, and many fields have accumulated water. You must drain the water first, then crush the soil with a stone stick to level the ground…” Li Erzhuang saw his younger brother challenging his authority, very

He was dissatisfied and gave him a blank look: "Who doesn't know to break the soil? You just want to show off? "Li Sanzhuang was dissatisfied and said with his neck, "Aren't I worried that Young Master Zuo and the others don't know*..." Zuo Shaoyang smiled and said, "Yes, we are not familiar with farming, so we should say it a little more detailed." "How is Zuo Shaoyang said it's time to go into details." Li Sanzhuang said proudly, "In theory, the land preparation should start in mid-February, but we have delayed it. Now it's the sowing season, which is a bit too late." "Why is it too late?" Zuo Shaoyang asked.

"We need to drain water first. After draining the water, we need to dry the fields. After about ten days of drying the soil, we can turn over the ground, crush the soil with stone sticks, and then sow the seeds. It will take at least half a month to dry the fields, overturn the soil, and crush the soil. We only have five people now, one hundred and thirty acres of fields, most of which are abandoned for many years, and only twenty or thirty acres of fields are mature fields. If we want to cultivate them all, it is impossible for us to complete the ups and downs of thirty acres of cooked fields at most. According to my opinion, we will choose the mature fields that have been planted before and plant them together. "Otherwise, we can't chew too much*..."

Li Erzhuang said angrily: "What's your idea for Young Master Zuo? You only plant 20 to 30 acres of 130 acres, and the rest are abandoned?" "I don't want to do it either. However, only the five of us, the remaining fields are almost abandoned for many years, so it's even more troublesome to plow. There are also fertilization. How many hands do you have?" Li Sanzhuang said.

Li Sizhuang also echoed: "I think the third brother's suggestion is reasonable. We all want to plant 130 acres of land, the more the better." However, if the five of us turn over the land and turn it over, and it is still a land that has been abandoned for many years, it is probably not going to come down for two months. It is now the end of March, and we must sow the seeds before mid-April, otherwise we will miss the season. We only have half a month to choose the farmland we have cultivated before to ensure that we can sow and harvest it!" Li Erzhuang stopped talking. "He is in charge of farming at home, so why don't you know that the third brother? The fourth brother's words make sense, but he is thinking about how to plant more to repay the life-saving grace of the Zuo family. However, farming requires seasonal conditions, and it will be misleading. No matter what purpose you delay, if you don't give food, you won't give it, and if you plant it, you will be a waste of planting.

Seeing that Miao Peilan had been silent, Zuo Shaoyang asked, "Lan'er, what's your intention?" Miao Peilan smiled shyly and said, "I can't be busy." It takes half a month to turn the ground to dry the fields and break the soil, and it depends on God's expression. If it rains for half a month, it will be troublesome and the soil cannot be broken. If it is a mature field that has been cultivated in previous years, it is not a big problem, but the land that has been abandoned for many years, the seeds cannot be sown without turning the ground to prepare the soil, and they are all fed to the birds.

This half month does not count the time for fertilization and seed selection. If it were added, I would be afraid that it would take half a month. "The season was over before that time, so that the seeds would not be sown." Zuo Shaoyang said: "You mean, with the ability of you five, you should be able to sort all the land before the end of the time in mid-April, and you can only make up at most twenty or thirty acres of land?" Miao Peilan nodded.

Li Sanzhuang said: "This must be the cooked land that was cultivated in previous years. If it were abandoned land, I was afraid that ten acres would be good*..."

Li Erzhuang sighed and said, "If there was enough time, I should be able to plow a few more acres of land. It's a pity that time is too late."

Aunt Li listened silently, and after hearing this, she interrupted: "Now is the best sowing season. If you miss the end of March, you will be able to harvest less in the future. But all the land has not yet been plowed yet. By the time you plow the land, you have missed the best sowing season. Don't expect a good harvest this year*..."

The seeding method mentioned by the Li brothers and Miao Peilan is very different from the method Zuo Shaoyang knew in modern society. After thinking about it, he asked: "After the ground is turned over, will the seeds be sown directly in the field?", "Yes, after sowing, people should be staying by the side to drive away the birds to prevent pecking.", "When will the nose be irrigated with water?"

"When the seedlings grow," "If this is the case, it can only be sown after half a month of land is turned over. The sowing time is pushed back for half a month, and the best season is missed, and the harvest is not good. Is that true?", "Yes!", the Li brothers were very happy to see Zuo Shaoyang was very interested in farming, and they felt very intimate. You must know that in ancient times, scholars disdained to deal with farmers. Farmers often had a natural sense of inferiority complex when they were with scholars. If they could make friends with scholars, it would be a very worthy of boasting.

Zuo Shaoyang said: "Is there any way to sow seeds now and cultivate the land at the same time?" The four brothers of the Li family, Miao Peilan and Aunt Li all looked at each other, and there was no such thing as shaking them together. Li Erzhuang smiled and said: "Young Master Zuo, there is no way to do this, because we have to turn over the cultivated land, dry it, and then crush the soil with stone sticks. This time usually takes more than ten days, that is, after ten days of turning over the ground, you can only sprinkle the seeds on it. There is no way to do it at the same time*..."

"There is a way!" Zuo Shaoyang smiled, "We just need to remove the rice into a special seedling field. At the same time, we can turn the ground and prepare the ground. When the seedlings in the seedlings grow long enough, we will plant the seedlings back into the rice field. Isn't this just taking into account both?"

The rice seedling transplanting technology appeared as early as the Han Dynasty. However, the seedling transplanting at that time was to pull up the seedlings, remove the weeds in the fields, and then plant the seedlings back. The purpose was to weed, which was not the same as the current seedling transplanting. Moreover, this weeding method was only used locally because the effect was not ideal and was not popular. The real seedling transplanting technology was after the Song Dynasty. Therefore, the Li brothers and others in the early Tang Dynasty naturally did not know about this agricultural technology.

Miao Peilan and the others didn't understand what kind of seedling cultivation was transplanting, so Zuo Shaoyang explained it carefully to them and understood it. However, these mountain divinations were in the fields, and the farmers who were facing the loess and facing the sky were told by a scholar to cultivate seedlings and farm, and they all felt a little awkward.

Li Erzhuang asked carefully: "Planting seedlings in addition is of course a good way. You can cultivate the land at the same time. But planting the seedlings back into the field, will it be... This hurts the seedling roots, and you have to dig a hole to plant one by one? Could it be, this, hehe, it's too hard*..."

"No, because the field needs to be irrigated and soaked in the fields, breaking all the lumps of soil into mud. In this way, planting the seedlings in, basically won't hurt the seedlings*..."

Li Sanzhuangqi said: "After plowing the fields, just irrigate them directly? Don't crush them and sow them?" They had never heard of the method introduced by Zuo Shaoyang, so they were naturally very strange.

Zuo Shaoyang said: "Yes, after drying the plowing field first, you can soak the fields without drying the fields. Don't let too much water be released. You can't hide the soil from the back of the soil. Make a five-inch field shortage, let the water flow in and out of the low field shortage. Then use the mud to beat the mud to level the fields. When the seedlings grow, you can transplant it.

*…”

This is a very different technique from the rice cultivation in the early Tang Dynasty. The crowd listened to him and the others who didn't believe that Zuo Shaoyang's strange idea could be achieved, so they just listened but didn't believe it.

Zuo Shaoyang said: "According to my method, we can save ten days of drying the fields and use them to plough them, and we should be able to turn more fields. Moreover, we can sow seedlings at the most suitable time to ensure the greatest benefits. What do you think?" Everyone didn't say anything. They doubted whether Zuo Shaoyang's new farming method was feasible. They always felt that this was a fantasy of scholars. If they really followed Zuo Shaoyang's method, if there was no harvest, it would not help the Zuo family but harm the Zuo family, then it would be unreasonable. However, it was clear that he expressed his objection and did not give Zuo Shaoyang face, so he simply didn't say anything.

The room was quiet. Zuo Gui and Liang knew nothing about farm work and didn't know what to do. Liang whispered to Zuo Shaoyang: "Zhong'er, you have never planted crops, don't make any mistakes, otherwise..., let's do it according to the method that Brother Li and the others said!" Zuo Gui's father also stroked his beard and nodded frequently. Of course, he also believed in Li Erzhuang, the authoritative agricultural authorities who had been farming and harrowing fields since childhood, and naturally he did not believe that the method his son, who had never planted the land, was useful.

Zuo Shaoyang was anxious: "Don't worry, do what I said and you will definitely do it*..."

Everyone still looked at each other and did not dare to express their opinions.

Fenix ​​also said, "Brother, the food is our life now. If the fields are not well planted and they are abandoned and they do not produce food, we will have nothing to eat next year!" Zuo Shaoyang asked Miao Peilan, "Lan'er, what do you think?" Tiperin shook his head with a red face: "I don't know..., I listen to Brother Zuo's*..."

This made Zuo Shaoyang immediately feel confident: "Okay, our family has 130 acres of land. The elder brothers of the Li family said just now that with Lan'er and the five people who cultivated land, they can only thirty acres of tillage, and the remaining 100 acres are still abandoned. It is better to do this. Let's divide two groups of four elder brothers of the Li family to plant 20 acres of cooked land. This will ensure that there is grain output and will not waste fertile land. The rest will be cultivated according to my method. Anyway, the general agreed to give us 100 acres of rice seeds*..."
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