Great Tang’s Talented Little Landlord

Since Dingzhou Village does not grow rice, naturally there is no seedling breeding.

Li Wangyou ran to surrounding towns and villages on horseback and bought seedlings enough for 300 mu of rice fields.

When it was time to plant the seedlings, Li Wangyou actually asked the farmers to throw the seedlings into the rice fields at will, and then just straighten them with their hands.

These words made Old Village Head directly angry.

China is a country founded on agriculture. Since ancient times, it has attached great importance to agriculture, and planting rice should never be treated carelessly.

Dont look at the three hundred acres of rice fields that are now owned by Li Family, but Li Wangyou is so demanding that Old Village Head dares to fight with Li Wangyou.

“Li Family Xiaowa, aren’t you fooling around? Although the old man has never planted rice, he still knows how to plant rice seedlings. Where did you do it like this?”

Li Wangyou is speechless. The reason why he let farmers throw seedlings is of course his reason.

To plant rice seedlings by throwing seedlings, you dont need to plant the seedlings by hand, but go through a process from throwing to falling. The seedlings are thrown with soil, the roots are shallow in the soil, and there is no row spacing in the field. .

Throwing seedlings is an advanced rice planting method for later generations.

Save time and effort, and the seedling survival rate is high. The seedlings will basically take root within one or two days after throwing the seedlings, and new leaves will begin to grow within three days.

The most important thing is that the yield per mu of rice fields with throwing seedlings can be about 10% higher than that of rice fields with hand-planted seedlings.

In the view of Great Tang and Old Village Head, Li Wangyou asked the farmers to throw seedlings for planting, which is simply a mess.

“Old Village Head, I am not a fool. The yield of rice is high.” Li Wangyou also wanted to convince this stubborn old man.

“Small master, forget about the things next to it, but this farm work is absolutely dare not to do this. The old man has been planting his life for a lifetime, so he dared to say the last sentence. Such nonsense will be condemned by God! “

Li Heng and the others also spoke out to persuade them, but Su Changqing on the side just covered his mouth and snickered, and did not say anything to help Li Wangyou in the rescue.

The beauty boss is not stupid. She knows that although Li Wangyou is right, traditional concepts are not so easy to change. Especially in an agricultural society such as Great Tang, random changes in farming methods will be rejected by the crowd.

Before Li Wangyou forced people to dig ditches in the fields, and the villagers have been discussing spiritedly. At this time, if you follow his method, I am afraid that Old Village Head will run to the County Official to complain. Up.

For this, Li Wangyou can only look up to sky and heave a deep sigh.

Sure enough, it may not be a good thing that everyone is drunk and I am alone. Forget it, I dont bother to argue with Old Village Head and the others, but it is only about 10% increase in output.

If the stalemate continues, this Old Village Head has to be angry, and it will not be worth the loss.

So Li Wangyou sighed then said, nodded agreed to follow the advice of Old Village Head and still use the traditional method of planting rice.

Seeing Li Wangyou’s good faith and accepting Old Village Head’s protest, everyone immediately cheered, and the farmers began to plant with a bunch of seedlings.

“Old Village Head, I follow you for the rest, but here are two acres of fields, you let people plant them by throwing seedlings as I said, how about?”

When he said this, Old Village Head would blow his beard and stare again. But the old man thought about it, forget it, this place originally belonged to Li Family.

Since I have refuted the face of Li Family small master today, I feel that I have lost face when I want to come to the young official. If I want to save a little face with these two acres of land, let him be happy.

Understanding this point, Old Village Head was also nodded and agreed with a smile.

In his opinion, this is nothing but the young official’s tricks that’s all. On the contrary, the old man felt that Li Wangyou was smart, but he was still the young official temperament.

Not only Old Village Head thinks this way, but also Li Heng, Niu Family brother, Qiu Kun, and even those farmers who help planting rice seedlings.

Quan Dang teasing the small master is happy, and several farmers, hehe haha, threw the seedlings to the two acres of rice fields.

The seedlings in the two acres of rice fields are planted by the method of throwing seedlings. The traditional rice fields next to them are less than one acre.

Li Wangyou shook his head secretly, pulling and planting seedlings with his face facing the loess and back to the sky, it really took time and effort.

Forget it, wait until the autumn harvest.

Since the rice fields began to plant seedlings, Li Wangyou began to ponder the matter of raising fish in the rice fields.

China has a habit of eating fish since ancient times.

The so-called fresh character means half fish and half sheep, which is called fresh.

But because of the limitations of fishing technology, eating fish in ancient times was not easy. “Twenty-Four Filial Piety” even has stories like Wo Bingqiu Li, which shows that eating fish is not easy.

The allusion of “fish and bear’s paw” in “Mencius _ Gaozi Shang”, we can know how high the status of fish in the life of the ancient Chinese people at that time was, equal to that of bear’s paw.

Moreover, Chinese people love to eat fish, especially raw fish.

The sashimi of later generations in Japan was actually learned from Great Tang. “” refers to the practice of sashimi.

Large-scale artificial fish farming started after the Tang and Song dynasties.

In the Song Dynasty, the farming of the four major home fishes formed a scale and system. At that time, artificial fish farming was called “fish breeding”.

But Li Wangyou wants to “grow fish”, but it is very troublesome, because Great Tang does not have fry for sale…

For this, Li Wangyou can only fish in the river at a high price. Fishermen buy all kinds of small fish that have been caught, and put the fish with eggs into the rice fields.

He doesn’t choose the species of fish. The fisherman catches whatever fish he wants. Catfish, silver carp, silver carp, crucian carp, carp, eel are all acceptable.

When Li Wangyou was collecting fish, Old Village Head and the others figured out what they were doing before digging that many ditches in the rice fields.

“Small master, do you want to grow fish in the rice fields?”

“Yes, that’s it.”

Old Village Head shook his head: “How can you grow fish in this rice field? Isn’t it afraid that the fish will eat the rice seedlings?”

“No, Old Village Head, don’t worry, growing fish in this rice field can also increase production. “Li Wangyou replied with confidence.

Man-made fish farming is not popular among the people of Great Tang, and Old Village Head doesn’t understand this, so there is no more entanglement.

However, the old man still thinks that Li Wangyou is fooling around, raising fish in the rice fields, unheard-of. It’s fine to raise fish, but Li Wangyou raises carp, so Old Village Head has another opinion.

“But the other fish you grow are also that’s all. Why do you still grow this red man? Don’t you dare to sell this fish. The government has seized it to hit the board.”

Duke Chiya is a carp.

The carp and Li Tongyin, in order to avoid taboo, the carp is called the red male in Great Tang.

Old Village Head’s statement, Li Wangyou smiled. It is said that Great Tang sells carp, and being caught by the government is to blame for sixty bans. In fact, this is simply the folks increasingly distort the truth, and the Great Tang law is not at all.

Wang Wei’s “Luoyang Daughter’s Trip” in the Tang Dynasty wrote, “The beloved Yule rides on the horse, and the maid Jinpan carp.” It can be seen that eating carp is not illegal in Great Tang.

For Old Village Head, Li Wangyou is just laughed. It is not easy to explain this kind of thing. They will know when the carp is sold later.

The rice field business was almost over, and the chicken and duck vendors in the county also drove the cattle cart, and delivered the ducks ordered by Li Wangyou.