Chapter 109: The Second Lesson of Strengthening the Country
Ordinary crops, such as peas, etc. One acre of land requires 5-6 pounds of peas as seeds. This is a direct cost. Subsequent watering and fertilization are not included in the cost. Only the latter one summarizes the difficulty of planting.
Pea is on Normal difficulty.
Qiao Lan looked around and found that peas, rape, sesame, rice, soybeans, etc. were all of normal difficulty, medium difficulty were wolfberry, buckwheat, cotton, taro, highland barley, grapes, etc., and advanced difficulty were some peppercorns, sugar cane, and rubber.
, pepper and other crops.
Wow, can we grow sugar cane in this environment? Wouldn't it be very profitable to grow sugar cane and sell it for sugar?
Qiao Lan is moved!
But after looking at the price of seeds and the difficulty of cultivation, I immediately stopped the idea that had just emerged in my heart.
The cost of planting is so high. If you have the time to grow sugar cane, wouldn’t it be nice to keep the money and spend it on yourself?
It’s cheaper to just go to the street and buy a jar of sugar than to grow sugar cane here!
Qiao Lan sorted out some of the crops that he would eat every day. The only staple foods he could eat were rice, noodles and steamed buns, so there was no need to worry too much.
The vegetables were too poor compared to the vegetable markets that Qiao Lan had seen, so Qiao Lan chose those with medium difficulty in planting. For fruits, she picked some citrus, pears, plums, jujubes, persimmons, bayberries, loquats, and grapes that could be grown locally.
, pomegranate, grapefruit.
Even if the fruit period is only half a month, it is enough for the family to eat for more than half a year.
After Qiao Lan completed the questionnaire and submitted it, the system took three or four seconds to read the progress bar and directly give a large planting plan.
Qiao Lan took a look and saw that there were more than 800 pages, and her eyes suddenly went dark.
This is thicker than the tool dictionary she used when she was studying! It’s obviously in the style of the 1980s! Can’t you learn a simple textbook?
No matter how helpless Qiao Lan was, she could only accept her fate and stay up late studying hard.
Immediately afterwards, the system popped up another electronic sound, [The latest Qiangguo class has been opened, please host to attend class in time and actively complete homework!]
After listening to this, Qiao Lan looked through the updated list and saw the new name of the strong country course "Section 2: Seeds".
The content of the second section is only much more than that of the first section, and the video is even several times longer, not to mention the homework.
She thought that more than 800 pages of information would be enough to make her eyes darken, but the system always came up with things that made her eyesight even darker.
Are you here to travel through time, or are you here to learn?
Complaints are complaints, Qiao Lan is still determined to study. The reward for completing the second class is extraordinary, it is a pound of any high-quality species!
You don’t say it with your mouth, but your body is very honest! After all, the system gives you too much!
The lesson on strengthening the country cannot be left behind, and the land planning provided by the system must be read. Qiao Lan studied and took notes at the same time.
In order to prevent her family members from having too many doubts, Qiao Lan also asked Duan Mingqing to help with some agricultural books.
Ordinary bookstores these days do not sell agricultural books. Firstly, it is because they are not easy to sell. Which farmer knows how to read and write? Even if they want to farm, ordinary people will just let the people below to farm instead of going to the farm.
Read books and study the principles.
Although officials attach great importance to farming and mulberry cultivation, they focus on land taxation and the people's food and clothing issues, rather than studying the principles of farming. To write an agricultural book, you must not only have the talent to write books, but also have the skills to
Years of farmland observation experience, combined with the two, make it even more difficult, so there are very few agricultural books handed down from generation to generation.
There are only two or three copies kept in the yamen, and they are said to be cherished but no one cares about them.
Fortunately, the Duan family still has some money. If you have money, you can make all the devils go around, let alone people.
Rare books rarely sell these days, and most of them are excerpts. The agricultural book in Qiao Lan's hand was copied by Duan Mingqing.
Duan Mingqing took the book home and handed it to Qiao Lan without saying much.
Qiao Lan looked at the two thin books in her hands, curious in her heart.
When I took it back to my room and opened it, I saw it read on the book: "The foundation of all farming is to harmonize the soil at the right time, work in the manure, hoe early and harvest early."
The general idea is to plant the land at the right time, sow early and reap early.
There is some truth to this statement but it is not very useful, just like the preface of the book.
Qiao Lan scrolled down, "If the spring air is not flowing, the soil will not be suitable for crops, and it will not be suitable for crops all year round. It is not due to manure. Be careful not to do dry farming. Grass must grow. When it is plowable, plow when there is rain, and the soil is close to each other."
, the seedlings only grow, and the grass is dirty and rotten, all of them become fertile fields. This plowing should be done five times. If it is not done in this way, the dry land will be hard, and the seedlings and dirt will come out of the holes. It cannot be hoeed, but it will become a ruined field."
She seemed to understand this classical Chinese text, but she seemed not to understand it.
Qiao Lan continued to turn back, "Zhu Guanglu was in Jian'an County [2]. There were oranges in the courtyard. The winter moon covered the trees. By next spring and summer, the color would turn green and black, and the taste would be particularly delicious. "Shanglin Fu" said
: 'Lu oranges are ripe in summer', so it means it is close."
…
I really can't understand it now.
Qiao Lan finally closed the book and put it aside. It was just for show, forget it, if you don't force it, it's useless even if you understand it.
The old lady was so dedicated to studying, studying the books every day, and running in the fields more than ten times a day, which gave the Duan family a hint of something unusual.
When the seeds in the Duan family's field began to germinate, Mrs. Liu told Duan Mingqing about this matter. Duan Mingqing had been working outside early in the morning and came home late at night, and he didn't see the old lady taking her studies seriously. Mrs. Liu felt that the family's
Affairs should be explained to the husband.
Ms. Liu recounted what her mother-in-law had been doing these days, and also shared some words she had heard from the villagers.
It's just that the old lady watered and fertilized too frequently, and even turned some paddy fields into dry land, and some planned to plant fruit trees.
After hearing this, Duan Mingqing thought for a moment, then objected to Mrs. Liu and asked, "Do you think my mother is good at farming?"
Ms. Liu has never farmed before, but she knows that farming is hard work. The old lady doesn't have to hoe the grass herself, but her daily workload is no less than that of a farmer.
Mrs. Liu: "The food grown by my mother should be better than that of the people in the village."
It should be, not necessarily.
Duan Mingqing patted his wife's hand gently and said, "Have you seen the chickens in the chicken coop in the backyard?"
After Duan Mingqing's suggestion, Mrs. Liu suddenly became enlightened and said with a smile: "I've seen it. Two days ago, the chess player said that chickens laid eggs, so he picked up several eggs and took them home."
The first chicken the Duan family raised is already four months old!
When the chicks gradually shed their down and grew neat wings, Qiao Lan asked Duan Mingjing to move the chickens out of the brooding room and into the chicken coop nearby. They fed the chickens twice a day at regular intervals and put the chickens outside the rest of the time.
Let them grow freely.
The winter in Tongzhou is not cold. It snowed three or four times throughout the winter, and it all melted away the next day. Except for the cloudy and rainy days when it was very cold, when the sun was shining brightly, the farmers in the fields were so hot that they took off their winter clothes.
Working with a coat is nothing to a chick who brings his own sweater.
The chicken came out of the basket and saw the vast world outside the house, running happily all over the mountains and plains.
Anyone who sees them will praise them, Duan's chickens are very energetic!
As expected of the Duan family who has become an official, raising chickens is better than ordinary people!