The peaceful days are like the flowing water of a small river, flowing into the distance inadvertently.

In more than half a year, Bai Sugar Shop earned tens of thousands of yuan of net profit for the Xu family. In addition to the restaurants and wine shops in Baisha Town and the income from Xuping’s farm, the Xu family is already a senior official with a net worth of more than 100,000 yuan.

Since experiencing the last Chencha storm, Xu Zheng's enthusiasm has been eroded a lot. He no longer wants to make more money, but began to pursue enjoyment. In May, the court had an order, and this year he stopped tribute. In June, Xu Zheng bought a house with more than two acres of land in Yongfengfang, the outer city, and settled his home. Of course, the inner city is more prosperous and lively, but every inch of land is valuable. At the same price, it would be good to buy a single-door courtyard. The new home belongs to the west wing of Xincheng City, and is good or bad in Luocheng. It is not far from the Bianhe Commercial District, and it is only three or five miles away from Kaifeng Prefecture. It is convenient and safe, and it is also a very good place. Zhang Sanniang said that this is the new house where Xu Ping and Lin Suniang got married two years later, and he specially invited Lin Wensi's family to see it.

Shi Yannian had already been to Jinxiang County, Jeju and served as the magistrate. He brought Xu Ping two letters to tell him about his position. It looked very good. When he arrived at Jingdong, in his words, he had arrived at the gate of the saint and made many new friends, inviting Xu Ping to travel there when he was free. Moreover, Shi Jie, who met at Jin Mingchi last time, had no chance to meet in Tokyo, but he had many exchanges and had a great time meeting him.

Xu Ping naturally didn't know that since Shi Yannian arrived in Jeju, a group of lower-class intellectuals quickly gathered over the years and became the "Dongzhou Yi Party" that made Taoist scholars heartbroken. He didn't know that Shi Jie, the young man who didn't say a few words by the Jin Mingchi Lake, later became the founder of the "Taishan School", and the pioneer of the origin of Taoist scholars in the Song Dynasty. This era was the last glory of northern Confucianism. Since "Mr. Luolai" Shi Jie, Guan Xueluo Studies have emerged one after another. The "Ruolai" proposed by Shi Jie became a major branch of Song Confucian scholars and had a profound impact on later generations. The "Ruolai Academy" he founded also became one of the four major academies of the Song Dynasty.

After all, Xu Ping was just a half-baked scholar in this era. His reading was extremely utilitarian, just to take the imperial examination, pass the imperial examination, and live a more comfortable life. Xu Ping was not very interested in Confucianism and Taoism. Why do you need to go into the deeper things that have been eliminated in later generations?

This manor, which is more than ten miles outside Kaifeng City, is where Xu Ping is dedicated. Planting tens of thousands of acres of land and producing millions of kilograms of grain is Xu Ping's courage in this era.

By the end of July and early August, the 500 acres of rice by the dam gradually matured, and they were all golden. This rice motivated Zhongmu County. Since the rice began to grow heading in the fields, people came to watch from all over the place. Everyone was waiting for the day when the rice was harvested, and they were planning their own minds.

In terms of government affairs, not only Zhongmu County, but also Kaifeng Prefecture and several surrounding counties have sent people to see it, waiting for Xuping's rice to be successful and promoted in various counties. At the foot of the Kaifeng Prefecture emperor, political achievements are the easiest to be seen by officials in the court, and if they do well, they will reach the top in one step. Increased household registration and collected more money and grain are the two most important aspects of official assessment in this era. Food is the most important thing for the people, and the success of rice cultivation is the most important thing for each chief official.

However, Xu Ping, the magistrate of Zhongmu, had never seen him. He was busy with the chief clerk Guo Zi. Later he learned that this magistrate was a rare official who entered the official position with his grace. He retired only after he had done this position and ignored everything, which aroused dissatisfaction among many people. It is not uncommon for him to become a magistrate, but it is rare for him to become a magistrate in Kaifeng Prefecture. You must know that many magistrates under Kaifeng Prefecture have been magistrates in other states. After this position, they will be magistrates from the Dazhou and become intermediate officials.

On August 20th, Xujiazhuang officially opened the day to harvest rice. The reason I chose today was because on August 17th, the emperor took his ministers to the imperial village to watch the rice harvesting, and dragged it for a few days to show respect.

Since the early morning, the village has been noisy and neighing, and it is very lively. It is several times more people than the last demonstration of agricultural machinery hosted by Guo Zi. Everyone understands that the rice in the imperial village is planted regardless of the quality of the process, while the village in Xuping is an improved saline-alkali land, which has a completely different meaning.

The person in charge this time is even higher, with Zhang Junping, the official official of the county town of Kaifeng Prefecture, and Guo Zi, the chief clerk of Zhongmu County, as the auxiliary. The chief clerk of several other counties also participated.

Xu Ping also made careful preparations, not to please the government, but to take this opportunity to find preferential policies. If you miss a little bit from the official's hands, you will save him a lot of trouble.

Zhang Junping is a thin black man in his sixties with a serious expression. After drinking tea in the farm, he took everyone to the wheat field.

At this time, the farm tools used for rice cutting have been arranged in the wheat field, including a cattle-driven harvester, a human-driven threshing machine, in order to eat new rice at night, a human-driven huller and rice mill, and a donkey-driven cleaning equipment. In addition to the lack of mechanical power, it can also be regarded as a semi-mechanization.

As Xu Ping introduced Sang Yi, he came from Ruzhou the day before yesterday. Zhang Junping was promoted because his father fought with the Khitan and was promoted because of his ability to catch thieves and was good at controlling water. He had a good impression of Sang Yi, who was also good at catching thieves, so Xu Ping asked him to greet him with him.

Looking at the same farm tools, Xu Ping introduced them one by one, what the principle of each piece is and what effect it can achieve. No one can fully understand these things when they are spoken out in this era. Zhang Junping is not proficient in machinery, but just nods politely. However, Guo Zi is a professional talent and runs hard to Xu Ping's village, asking a few questions from time to time.

As for the other officials and the surrounding owners, they could only follow behind and listen obediently, and they didn't even have the chance to interrupt. They could figure out as much as they could.

Seeing the sun rise, Zhang Junping said: "It's getting late, and the dew in the fields must have dried up. The owner of the little manor will arrange for people to start cutting rice."

Xu Ping agreed and asked Xu Chang Gao Daquan and Sun Qilang to come, and asked them to arrange their own personnel to carry five harvesters into the fields. The other farmers were divided into several groups, and they bundled the rice and transported them back to the wheat field.

When the crowd arrived at the field, they divided into groups of people around the rice fields, savoring them.

Zhang Junping saw the rice fields covered with watering canals and deep drainage ditches. His eyes lit up and said to Xu Ping: "You have a lot of ditches in your land, what's the saying?"

Xu Ping replied respectfully: "The five hundred acres of land here were originally covered with braised water, with only reeds and weeds growing. The canals opened were to irrigate rice fields, and the other was to wash the braised water with clean water to make it easier to cultivate. Those deep ditches were used to drain the brine deep underground, otherwise it would be useless to wash it with clean water."

Zhang Junping nodded repeatedly: "The owner of the little manor is an expert! I have managed rivers and canals over the years and know that brine is the most difficult to control, so you can understand it in just a few words."

Xu Ping hurriedly said that he didn't dare.

Zhang Junping asked again: "In the Hebei area, many people are diverting river water to silt and irrigate to treat saline, which is called silt fields, and the results are also significant. Have you heard of it?"

When it comes to the management of saline-alkali land in China, we must talk about the silt fields of the Yellow River, Haihe River and its tributaries. How could Xu Ping not know? Especially in ancient China, the most significant scale and effect was that the Yellow River and Bian River water was silted during the reform of Wang Anshi, causing fertile fields to be spread all over Kaifeng. This was an important test point in the history course that year, and Xu Ping still remembered a little. But at this time, it was still long before Wang Anshi reform, and even Xu Ping didn't know that Wang Anshi was born, but the effect on silting fields was not accurate. To know that the management of saline-alkali land must be combined with If drainage is combined, otherwise they will only benefit temporarily. In fact, it is precisely because Zhang Junping and his successor vigorously manage the flooding in the Kaifeng area and digging drainage ditches to create conditions for Wang Anshi's silting fields. Zhang Junping had just started this work for a year or two, and the effect was not obvious. The silting fields in the Kaifeng area are still inappropriate. The working people are not fools. Hebei's silting fields have long had mature technology. If feasible, Kaifeng and its surrounding areas have already started. Wang Anshi only accelerated the process of silting fields, and could not make any mistakes.

After thinking for a while, Xu Ping replied carefully: "I have also heard of the silting technology. There are only two points: one is to wash away the surface saline and alkali with clean water, and the other is to cover the surface after the water recedes, forming a good field. However, the brine is repelled into the ground and will spread again in a short time. To cure the root cause, you must dig deep trenches and drain the underground brine so that you can get it once and for all."

Zhang Junping sighed: "That's true! Without deep trenches drainage, salt can't be eradicated. But it's not easy to dig a trench!"

At this time, he was working on digging ditches to manage rivers. From Kaifeng Prefecture to the east and south, more than a dozen prefectures received orders from the court to cooperate with him to discharge the water from Kaifeng Prefecture to the Huaihe River Basin. Although it was very disturbing and there were many civilians who used it, it was still full of difficulties.

Seeing that Xu Chang had already brought his men into the field, five big yellow cows were ready to pull the harvester, Xu Ping asked Zhang Junping: "Thank you something, will it start now?"

Zhang Junping looked at the golden rice waves in the field, but didn't say the beginning, but asked Xu Ping: "Assess the yield in this field, how much new rice can be produced per mu of land?"

Xu Ping said: "It doesn't need to be estimated. I have already taken people to calculate the average yield per mu is about two stones and three dou of rice, which is higher than planting wheat. However, this is the first year of planting, and in two years, it will be able to grow after growing it in the place. At that time, the yield per mu should be as high as three stones to four stones, which is quite impressive."

Zhang Junpingqi said: "Can yield per mu be calculated? How do you calculate it?"

He never became a low-level civil servant, and he was not familiar with the estimation of yield per mu. Of course, the method of estimating yield per mu at this time is also very simple and cannot be compared with Xu Ping's previous life. Guo Zi understood a lot. After hearing Xu Ping's talk about it, he had already promoted a new estimation method in Zhongmu to use it as a basis for evaluating land levels and judging the year of disasters. Because at this time, as long as the farmland is affected, it can be reported and asked for exemption of money and grain, and false reporting is everywhere. This is a practical technology.

Xu Ping then told Zhang Junping about the method of estimating his production in his previous life. As for choosing a plot, it is not difficult to understand how to count the seedlings and carefully weigh them. It is that after obtaining the data, it is beyond the knowledge of this era. Zhang Junping understood it halfway, so he just nodded.

After finishing this, Zhang Junping let go of his curiosity and said to Xu Ping: "Let's start now."

With Xu Ping's order, five big yellow oxen in the field walked forward together, and the rice behind them fell to the side in a row, much faster than a person cutting it with a sickle.
Chapter completed!