Since ancient times, scholars, farmers, industry and commerce have been ranked second, but in fact, no matter which dynasty, the status of farmers is the lowest. Respecting farmers is only an excuse for the national policy of rulers in history to build a country based on agriculture.

To put it nicely, the actual treatment is much worse.

Since the founding of the Song Dynasty, the dynasty has been stable, and the business development in Southeast Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Lingnan has been very rapid. The income from commercial taxes is ten times that of agricultural taxes. Merchants go in and out of the country, and they are angry at the horses and carry big sedans in eight industries. The four major industries are ranked as merchants.

There is a faint trend that surpasses the group of officials.

Zheng Ruoying only regrets that he is a daughter and has lost his career. He has fertile land and shops at home, so he can only work hard on doing business, hoping to achieve some results on this road to satisfy his father. Most of the shops in Fengshan are

Their Zheng family, but no matter how much money they make in these places, they only rely on his father's light. Zheng Ruoying could never get rid of his father's shadow. By chance, she met Liang Chuan and planted sugarcane

A top priority.

Farming is a very boring activity. Zheng Ruoying didn't expect that one day he would go to the fields more frequently than going to shops. Fan Dianyuan and his group of tenants worked in the fields. Zheng Ruoying made a special trip to invite Liang Chuan to guide Fan Dianyuan and others.

Farming.

Liang Chuan hates Zheng Ruoying's elegance of chopping wood every few days. After all, this axe technique can be greatly improved and it will be of infinite benefit for life. It will not be a cold for a day without persisting. If you don't persist, you will definitely not be able to achieve the superb Li Chuyi's kind of superb.

realm.

Fan Dianyuan and the others were indeed diligent and willing to farm the sugarcane fields as Liang Chuan ordered. People like them are the backbone of our country. For thousands of years, they have supported our nation, and only they are worthy of the word "hard work".

A few children followed the adults' butts and played in the fields. They were all children of northern farmers and had never seen a southern species like sugarcane. Children were born to like to put everything in their mouths, but the result was

I found that in the New World, although this sugarcane seedling is only a small piece, it tastes sweet and sweet. The children are greedy. The sugarcane seedling has not been planted yet, but the children secretly put it in their mouths and ate a lot.

Fortunately, the number of seedlings is quite large, and the few pieces that children eat are insignificant.

After Fan Dianyuan found out, he beat a few little babies. The most important quality of the farmers is to be responsible and be at ease. He cannot do the ugly thing about a mouse watching the rice jar. Now the boss treats himself.

If you are not a good friend, you can't do anything randomly.

Liang Chuan looked at the farm tools they used in this era and wanted to improve them, but then he thought that the price of farm tools is quite expensive now, and it would be more burdensome for them to use them. Besides, the farm tools in the Song Dynasty were already very mature.

It didn't change much even in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. Take that plow as an example. It didn't change much in later generations, and the material became iron.

The same farm tool says whether it is easy to use or not depends on whether the person using it is used to it. No matter how convenient the tool is, it will only backfire if it is not used. Therefore, Liang Chuan did not speak much about the farm tool.

Furthermore, the beginning of spring is already here. If they are asked to change their farm tools at this time, it will take some time to adapt. When they fully adapt, they will have to miss the spring plowing, and sugarcane will have to wait for next year to plant it.

After the sugarcane field ridges are reclaimed, the twenty-two trucks of sugarcane seedlings can be planted one after another. Almost after these cane seedlings are planted, you can wait for the next batch of cane seedlings, so that time will not be wasted, and the time efficiency will be the highest

.The depth of the cane seedlings should be one foot in the cane ditch. After putting them in the cane seedlings, it should be more than one finger to return to the soil. After seven days of planting the sugar in the soil, you can slowly fertilize them.

This is relatively simple. Liang Chuan waved his hoe and was more disabled, but these crops were as simple as drinking water.

The more troublesome thing is the irrigation problem.

There were no sluice dams and water pumps in this era. Just like Fan Dianyuan and his hometown in northern Shaanxi, the harvest of crops depends entirely on the will of heaven. When encountering a severe drought, they could only go to flee the famine or go to other places to beg for the weather, because the sky was not down.

If it rains, there will be no water on the ground.

The south is not afraid of severe drought, but is afraid of severe flooding! If the rainy season comes, the water in the fields is not discharged in time, and the crops soaked in the fields will rot and die, and the result will be no harvest.

Liang Chuan said to Zheng Ruoying: "There are several basic problems now, but there is another tricky one?"

“What’s the problem?”

"Although we are close to Nanxi, the water level of Nanxi is much lower than that of the north bank. This water cannot be used without the help of some tools, so we cannot irrigate so many dry fields. Spring is fine, spring rain is continuous, but summer is in full swing.

If there is no typhoon weather, precipitation and high temperatures, the amount of water required for our sugarcane fields with such a large area is not a small amount!"

Zheng Ruoying looked at Liang Chuan's confident face, as if she had expected a problem to happen. She thought you must have a way to deal with it, and every time you pretend to be profound, okay, I won't ask if you don't tell me!

Liang Chuan was waiting behind Zheng Ruoying behind her back and asked him how to solve it. After waiting for a long time, he didn't hear her say anything. Instead, he turned his head and asked: "Don't you want to know how to solve it?"

Zheng Ruoying tilted her face and said, "I definitely want to know, but I don't want to ask you for anything anymore. It makes each of us like a meal..."

Liang Chuan didn't expect that his way of speaking would make these individuals feel uncomfortable, so he said: "Miss, why are you unhappy? We are just communicating, there is no need to have a psychological burden!"

Zheng Ruoying snorted, turned her head and stopped talking.

Alas, this girl is really strong, not hard.

Liang Chuan smiled wryly and shook his head and said, "The ideal state in the sugarcane field is that when water is needed, there is water to instill, and when water is not needed, the excess water will be discharged in time. To achieve this effect in time, the best way is to diversion and irrigate.

The ditch and drainage ditch must be excavated separately. The irrigated ditch is high on the riverside and low on the ground, so that water can be stored. The ditch used for drainage is high on the fields and low on the riverside. In this way, the rainy season is coming.

When you break the ridge of the field, you can drain the water from the cane field."

Zheng Ruoying nodded repeatedly when she heard this, but thought about Liang Chuan's design and asked, "Where is the water coming from? You also said that the water level in the river is much lower than the bank embankment. How can we lead the river water to the north shore?"

Liang Chuan said: "Have you heard of the water wheel?"

In the Song Dynasty, the development of agricultural tools reached a prosperous period. All kinds of agricultural tools were based on the purpose of serving agriculture and were completely beneficial to the people. The curved plow improved in the late Tang Dynasty had a turnaround in the Song Dynasty, but that thing was

The structure is too complicated and not very practical to use. However, the principle of the water truck is very simple. You can get materials in the countryside. There are also carpenters. Zhao Jinyu is a carpenter. When the carpenters are finished at home, he will tell Zhao Jinyu the structure himself.

, ask Zhao Jinyu to help make a waterwheel.

Several people were confused when they heard this term, and the blind deer interrupted, "Is it a round wooden plate like a wheel, standing by the river that will bring the water up by itself? I know if I know, but I don't know how to do it.

ah."

Liang Chuan continued: "But it's still early to make the water truck. You have to use some other tools first. You can cut two logs of the same length on the mountain, preferably two thick ones, and a hole is made at the top to serve as a bracket.

,The tree is on the high ground by the river, and then find a long bamboo pole, punch a hole in the 37th place, and use a small wooden stick to cross the holes and the holes in the two round trees to make a lever principle

...You can't understand this. In short, ropes are tied to both ends of the bamboo pole, and a wooden barrel is tied to the other end of the short bamboo pole. On the other end, humans can pull the bamboo pole or hang a heavy stone. This tool is called Orange Pole, which can be used to

It saves effort and can also drive low water to the high ground. The high ground can flow directly into the sugarcane field along the dug ditch."

A few people were confused when they heard Liang Chuan's speech, but Liang Chuan drew a model on the ground. The principle of leverage was very simple, but it just made people feel very complicated when talking with their mouths. This leverage was very simple to make, just when fetching water.

It is necessary for two people to cooperate and spend more effort. When the waterwheel is set up, there is no need to do this.

A group of people who can farm and cannot farm surrounded Liang Chuan, all of whom were shocked by the many strange ideas in this young man's mind. Why can birds like He Lu have such knowledgeable and knowledgeable places where birds do not shit

The character?

Logically speaking, people with so many skills should not be willing to stay in such mountains. It is said that this person used to be a little beggar, but he didn't expect that he could talk like this with the eldest lady of Fengshan's first family today.

They all have to act according to their own wishes.

Zheng Ruoying also believes that she has read many books and visited many places. The world she has seen cannot be said to be the one who has seen the most among her peers in Fengshan, but she is also a person with a broad vision. However, her little bit of her is in Liang Chuan's eyes.

It seems to be completely unworthy. No matter which aspect, Liang Chuan can always stand in a more important place than her to point out her shortcomings. Why did he know so much? Where did he learn it from?

If Zheng Ruoying knew that the knowledge Liang Chuan had learned was learned a thousand years later and from extracurricular books in class, he would not understand the real practice, and he would not know what she would feel?

"There is no other major problems now, according to the plan you mentioned. Think about it, are there any other aspects we need to consider in advance?" Zheng Ruoying looked at him in a good mood.

Liang Chuan was also very happy. He was not soaking him in cold water, but asking questions in a realistic way. It would be better to prepare for the future than to sharpen the gun in the face of battle.

"There should be no other problems for the time being. If there is any problem, you have to find a way to solve it. I am not anxious now. Although the sugarcane we plant now is not as good as the refined management in our hometown, looking at this time, it should be

No one can do it, and management is better than us, so we should still have confidence. Even if the harvest does not reach the level of our hometown, at least it should have a good harvest than the cane farmers in other places.

If we can continue to do it, we will definitely do better!" Liang Chuan spoke with confidence and a heroic look on his face. Everyone present was moved to listen to Liang Chuan's words.
Chapter completed!