Chapter 760: The Fundamentals of the Kingdom, On Agricultural Reform!
"Okay! Very good! Very good! Send a messenger, and all the divine priests who participate in struvite research will be rewarded with a salary for one year! Then, several priests with outstanding performance will be selected and all will be promoted to the first level! This fertilization
They must continue to study the big issue of increasing production!"
The camp was warm and the fire was bright. Shulot drank a cup of scented tea and exhaled a long breath. He looked at the documents from the Divine Enlightenment in his hand, just like a farmer looking at the fields, full of hope for a good harvest.
"Food is the foundation of the kingdom! Practices that can increase food production must be studied, promoted, and even popularized in the name of the Lord God!... Eckart, when you encounter documents related to agricultural improvement in the future, you must be the first to do so.
Time is in my hands!"
"Yes, Master! I will definitely do as you say!"
Eckardt, the captain of the guard, bowed his head and stood waiting. Schroeder nodded and took out a booklet from the most important copper box. It was a small book, "On Agricultural Reform", which he had personally summarized. This booklet
, has been roughly sketched out, and will be sent to the Divine Inspiration Institute in the kingdom for completion, and then included in the textbooks of Shenwei University, and spread in the name of Divine Inspiration.
Shulot turned over the pages one by one, and the first chapter talked about the basic needs for crop growth, sunlight, water, nutrition, and temperature, and hinted at the principle of photosynthesis, "The divine light falls from the sky, and in a suitable environment
When it falls, it is absorbed by the green plants, and the divine energy in the light plus the nutrients in the soil are combined into tiny vitality. The gathered vitality is food..."
Later, in Chapter 2, the actual factors that affect yield are listed in detail, including the seeds themselves, soil conditions, weed competition, water and fertilizer supply at different growth stages, changes in outside temperature, insect pests and diseases, birds and
The destruction of beasts...
These are the agricultural common sense of later generations and are the accumulation of thousands of years of agricultural development. Anyone who has spent a little time in the countryside, or has read relevant books, or planted flowers and plants, will have some understanding of it.
"A grain of sand from later generations, falling in this era, is a mountain of scientific accumulation, which can save hundreds of years of detours! And spreading the science of later generations and leaving knowledge to the times is what every time traveler cannot forget.
Vocational duty!..."
During his free time during the siege, Shulot concentrated on searching his past memories and adding whatever he thought of. Then, based on different factors that affected output, he proposed some methods to improve and increase output one by one.
Therefore, the content of the third chapter is the "breeding" that God Qi was previously ordered to do. For the staple food of corn, beans, pumpkins, sweet potatoes, potatoes... the generations are constantly replaced, and the best varieties among them are selected purposefully.
.Just like the epoch-making hybrid rice, the cultivation of this kind of breeding takes a long time and requires the summary of scientific theories. It does not have an immediate effect on increasing grain yield, but it actually increases the upper limit of crop yield!
Of course, His Highness Shenqi is only responsible for putting forward a few words and pointing out relevant concepts. As for the boring and tedious specific breeding work, it is natural to leave it to the specialized experienced farmers and Shenqi priests. After all, the time for breeding research is based on ten years.
, is to truly devote your whole life!
Chapter 4 is "Field Management, Farm Tool Innovation and Farming System". Although it has such a big name, the only chapters that have been actually written are "Deep Plowing and Human Plows", "Irrigation, Water Trucks and Canals",
"Weeding and hoeing", "harvesting and scythe"... Most of these were common scenes in the countryside in later generations, and they had already sprouted in Central America at this time.
Chief of Guard Eckart can still understand these contents, but he is a little confused about the so-called "farming system" that follows. What about "mixed planting of corn, pumpkin and beans", "Chinampa Floating Fields and Texcoco"
"The foundation pond of the lake's fish pond" and even "the farmland and pasture where the oxen are domesticated"....
The captain of the guard, Eckardt, took a quick look and then lowered his head. He found that His Highness didn't seem to be very clear, and just listed some big titles. Under each big title, he wrote a few paragraphs and a few sentences.
Give a rough overview and point out ideas and directions.
"Well, all this divinely inspired knowledge has a direction. As for what it looks like, what its principles are, and how to operate it... let the priests from the Divinely Inspired Institute come to the fields and study hard!"
Shulot concentrated on it, thinking while reading, and quickly turned to Chapter 5. Chapter 5 is "Water and Fertilizer Supply at Different Stages". It first puts forward an empirical concept, that is, crops grow from small to large, from budding to fruiting.
The demand and ability to accept water and fertilizer are definitely different.
As for the specific differences and how much different crops are needed, Shulot left them all blank. These tedious practical tasks would take years, and they had to be planted by experienced farmers who were familiar with the fields, and the divine priests would do the statistics.
Calculate and write it down in the book.
Shulot paused for a moment, then looked behind him to see the specific management of water and fertilizer, which was also the focus of the Kingdom's grand plan and the implementation of Divine Enlightenment.
"Water" is very simple, which means repairing water conservancy facilities and regulating water volume, including repairing canals, reservoirs, and water trucks. But this is easy to say, but it requires a lot of manpower and material resources to be done! The construction of the kingdom is huge.
One of the plans is to dredge the rivers in the south, build a series of water conservancy facilities, improve irrigation conditions in the two southern counties, and regulate floods.
As for "fertilizer", what the Kingdom is currently doing is promoting "compost", encouraging "river mud dredging", experimenting with "cattle husbandry", and the most important natural fertilizer "struvite"!
Hulot picked up a pen and wrote down the newly obtained report in the "Struvite" column.
"God bless you! Grinding 1 ton of struvite stone into the field will continuously release fertility over a long period of time. It can increase the production of at least 4 tons of grain in the first year, and we don't know yet in the second year... These stone fertilizers are real grain.
!The coastal trade route to the northern continent must be expanded as soon as possible to bring back more struvite!"
As for the final sixth chapter, it is "Other Factors Affecting Yield." Shulot has already listed temperature, insect pests, diseases, and animal damage, but in fact, these factors cannot be improved by the kingdom.
rare.
In this era, crops were usually "sturdier" and not as high-yield and expensive as in later generations, and they were relatively resistant to diseases. As for insect pests, before the arrival of the European fleet, there were no records of locusts in the Americas, and the only troublesome ones were red fire ants.
, and still stayed obediently in the Paraná River Basin of South America, which was later known as Paraguay. As for the beasts, the villagers would live in the fields during the autumn harvest to drive away the birds and beasts. These are all they can do. As for what
The mobilization and killing capabilities of "eliminating the four pests" are truly unimaginable in this era!
Therefore, the only topic that Shulot wrote down was "Agricultural Response to the Cold Wave in the Northern Continent." This topic is related to the future of the kingdom, farming and expansion in the North American continent. Therefore, Shulot wrote to the priests of the Divine Enlightenment
First, a direction was proposed, which is to cultivate cold- and frost-resistant crops, giving priority to potatoes, and sweet potatoes can also be tried.
"It's a pity...the sea route to the Incas has never been opened. The existing potato varieties in the kingdom were brought back by the Mayans from Chibucha hundreds of years ago...The truly cold-resistant and high-yielding potato crops still have to go to South America.
Mainland, go to the Andes!”
Shulot pondered for a moment and looked towards the south. He had already arranged new navigation explorations, both in the north and south directions. However, given the kingdom's navigation level, all these explorations must be done in years, so there is no rush yet.
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"Cultivation of seeds, promotion of new agricultural tools, improvement of field management, construction of water conservancy facilities, promotion of compost dredging, application of struvite fertilizer... These six contents are the important tasks that are being implemented on a large scale in the Kingdom's agricultural reform, which can enable
The kingdom’s food production has increased significantly!”
Thinking of this, a confident smile appeared on Shulot's face. Then, the smile turned into expectation, with a little anxiety, and finally turned into resolute fearlessness!
"Of course, there is still a lot of blank space in the content of agricultural reform. The most critical and urgent one is the large livestock from the Old World! Cows, sheep, pigs, horses..."
"In two months, it will be 1490... Come on, come on, they are almost here! I have been waiting for too long... Waiting for me to personally lead the troops to defeat the Totonac people in Golden Bay City,
The sea route to Cuba will be opened! And the large group of kingdom warriors will be able to go to Cuba...wait for their arrival!
