Chapter five hundred and sixty-eight farming and fertilizer
News of the Yejiazhuang Windmill quickly spread throughout Yangcheng County. This is an important grain-producing town with a large amount of grain output every year. Because of the large amount of grain, grain merchants often transport grain to Yangcheng County.
It is processed and then transported to Tokyo City. Of course, water transportation is usually directly transported to Tokyo City for processing.
Compared with flour, wheat is easier to store. Of course, Yejiazhuang's advantages are also reflected. The faster the grain is processed, the sooner the grain can be transported to the destination, which can reduce the time on the road and
A lot of losses.
This was an unusual temptation for grain merchants. Of course, the news that the Wang family's 100,000 kilograms of grain turned from wheat to white flour in just one day and night spread quickly in Yangcheng County.
Of course, the farmhands in Yejiazhuang also released the news. As long as there is wheat, sorghum and other things that need to be ground, they can be sent to Yejiazhuang. The price is fair, one hundred cents per kilogram is enough!
This is naturally a bit expensive for ordinary people, but if several families send the food together and pay according to the proportion, they can still afford it. The most important thing is that it is fast and does not require the consumption of animal power and fodder.
This big windmill can turn as long as there is wind, and it doesn't require much wind to drive the entire mill to run. It can run day and night, and it is simply a way to make money while lying down.
With the opening of Feng Mo Fang, the newly established Yejiazhuang has already made its first investment. Ye An and Qin Mumu are very satisfied with the current progress. They are not in a hurry to go to Songshan, but plan to make further progress.
Develop Yejiazhuang.
Technology can make industry develop, but it can also make industry powerful. Nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium, and ammonia are almost the basic substances of chemical fertilizers in later generations. As long as they can be synthesized, they will definitely have a very significant transformation on the current land.
The idea of the couple is very simple. If they can produce fertilizer, then they will definitely be able to increase the yield of crops in the land. Although they cannot achieve the amazing yield per mu of later generations, it is enough in this era.
Fertilizer is actually a huge driving force for advancing agricultural civilization. As early as the pre-Qin Dynasty, the ancestors of China had already begun to use manure as fertilizer.
But it would be extremely ridiculous to think that there is only manure. In the Song Dynasty, nearly ten kinds of fertilizers have appeared, such as manure, cake fertilizer, residue fertilizer, bone fertilizer, soil fertilizer, ash fertilizer, miscellaneous fertilizer, etc., and fertilization is not the same.
It's a simple thing. Only those who are proficient in farming can accurately know which land should use which fertilizer. Of course, some land is useless even if fertilizer is used.
Fertilizer can not only provide nutrients to the land, but also protect the land, curb the deterioration of soil moisture, and affect the humidity of the land.
It is very ironic to say that nitrogen fertilizer has the greatest effect on crops, but it is one of the most indispensable elements in the Han family's land. There is money in synthetic chemical fertilizers. The main source of nitrogen is biological nitrogen fixation in farmland and lightning nitrogen fixation. Both of these are needed.
Look at geology and weather.
In the land of the West, nitrogen fertilizer is lacking, but it is different in the land of the Han Dynasty. The ancient Chinese civilization used various fertilizer cakes and distiller's grains, sugar residue, bean residue, oil residue, etc., so in some places, nitrogen fertilizer is not available in the land.
Not only is there no lack of it, there is even more.
As for potassium fertilizer, it can be obtained by burning plant ashes. Burning is one of the traditional methods. Even the land in Yejiazhuang was plowed after burning.
Although the method is simple, spreading it is a big problem. After all, no one will publicize these methods, and they even think it is a family tradition. They hide the "secrets of the land" in their own land. The role of Sinong Temple
It manifested itself.
However, in Ye An's view, Sinong Temple's duties have not been implemented very well. Even a county like Yangcheng County, which is only a few dozen miles away from Tokyo City, does not know these methods. How can we expect Sinong Temple to spread its propaganda to the south?
Go? It’s just a dream!
But Ye An doesn't care about this. What the land in Yejiazhuang lacks is ammonia fertilizer...
Because of the special career issues in his previous life, chemistry is not difficult for Ye An. Ammonia fertilizer can be synthesized using only nitrogen and hydrogen, but the prerequisite is that these two gases are available and processed under high temperature and high pressure. In this era, it is almost impossible.
things accomplished.
Another method is coal coking, which collects ammonia gas through the flue gas eliminated during the coking process. It is not difficult to make coking in the local method. Just pile up the coke, cover it with soil, and light a fire.
Ye An knew that during the period of large-scale steel smelting, this coking technology was widely used in northern rural areas. Of course, it was not very environmentally friendly. Looking around, Ye An didn't think those omnipotent "environmentalists" would jump to him.
Popularize "environmental protection education".
Of course, if you want to increase output, the local coking method can be slightly improved, such as using a higher-temperature kiln. Kilns are definitely a good thing in this era. They can not only be used to bake bricks, but also to bake lime and coal.
Coking.
Although these may seem inconspicuous, they are the basis of industrialization. Ye An is laying the foundation for industrialization by doing this.
Yejiazhuang has a huge labor shortage. It not only has farms and kilns, but also requires windmills and a large number of manpower to lay roads. Compared with the small-scale peasant economy, large farms, which are similar to collective economies, require more manpower.
But fortunately, recruitment is a very simple matter. This era is the era of land annexation. Any natural or man-made disaster or even a disease will cause a family to lose all their wealth and become a farmer.
In the final analysis, the ability of these families to withstand the impact is too weak, and how to resettle these people has always been a headache for dynasties of all dynasties, because once these people are not handled well, they are likely to become the cause of national turmoil.
The dynasties before the Song Dynasty thought more about suppressing land annexation. As long as land annexation was suppressed and the people had their own land to cultivate, they would not rebel.
But it is a pity that the cause of peasant uprisings in the past dynasties was precisely because of land annexation, so the old Zhao family found that suppressing land annexation seemed to be of no use, so why bother to suppress it?!
As long as the economy of the Song Dynasty was prosperous enough and the people could make a living after losing their land, they would not rebel.
This seems to be a reasonable theory, but there is a huge problem. Can the Song Dynasty continue to prosper? Even during the stable period of the Song Dynasty, small-scale local peasant uprisings never stopped.
The entire Song Dynasty was almost the era with the most peasant uprisings among the Han dynasties.
After farmers lose their land reasonably and legally, they either become farm laborers and continue to be exploited, or they enter the city and become part of the army that makes a living, or they become bandits...
Ye An recruited people who had lost their land. This was simply the best help to Wang Wen. It could make Yangcheng County more stable and increase people's income at the same time.
If the people's income has increased, it will definitely make people's lives better! Although he could not explain the economic relationship, Wang Wen cleverly discovered the benefits and encouraged local people to go to Yejiazhuang to "apply for jobs"