Hongwu Survival Guide

Chapter 110
The appearance of ramie is not the same as the "hemp" in Zhu Yuan's subconscious mind, but rather like a mulberry tree.

Privately, I think it may be a subject similar to mulberry.

This is a ramie field.

Recently, my mind is full of 'ma', so I came here specially today to check it on the spot.

In mid-April, the ramie has grown to waist height. Of course, it is waist height with Zhu Yuan. I heard a farmer beside me carefully introduce it, and Liu Lian also helped translate it. The accent is too heavy.

Ramie is a perennial, so it can be harvested for many years after planting once.

On the southeast side, ramie can be harvested three times a year. In May and June, depending on the growth situation, the first harvest will be harvested, and then every two months will be harvested again.

After harvesting, it should be soaked for seven to ten days, taken out, peeled off, rinsed, and finally dried, and then various fabrics can be made.

Compared with other jute, kenaf, etc., ramie is a kind of hemp with the best texture among all kinds of hemp materials. In many places, the ramie woven ramie is distinguished from ordinary ramie, and is specially called "ramie cloth". Similarly, compared with other hemp species, ramie has the widest planting range, and there are all ramie in the north and south of the river. The difference is that the further south you go, the more times you can harvest each year.

On the southeast side, they are harvested three times a year, and if one mu of land is carefully tended, it can yield hundreds of catties of harvest.

However, farmers usually don’t pay too much attention, and often choose the most barren hills and river beaches. After harvesting, in addition to paying the official tax, it is for their own use. In this case, it is more common to harvest about 50 catties per mu.

Then I went to look at jute, kenaf and other kinds.

Instead, I found the 'hemp' appearance in my memory, that is, the kind with sharp leaves like sharp swords.

However, compared with ramie, the cultivation of other kinds of hemp is not common at present, mainly because the corresponding fiber materials are not as high-quality as ramie, and the output may be higher, but they are only suitable for weaving ropes or sacks.Made into linen, it is relatively rough.

Zhu Yuan selected 'jute' from them and plans to use it as an official promotion crop.

The output of jute is relatively higher, and adult jute can grow to more than one foot. Although it is only an annual, and only one crop can be harvested at a time, the yield per mu can reach the level of one or two hundred catties.As far as jute fibers are coarser than ramie, that's not a problem.

The problem is that people around me say that jute is only suitable for growing in the south, and it will not produce seeds in the north.

This is not a problem either.

Can be bred in the south.

In the north... send a batch to Shandong for trial planting this year.

After walking around in the hemp fields, it was already evening when we returned to Dinghai County.

Today is April seventeenth.

It has been 20 days since the first batch of grain ships arrived in Shandong. Just yesterday, the second batch of grain ships were all assembled and waiting for the wind direction.

Back at Yinghai Envoy's mansion, as soon as he got out of the sedan chair, Zhu Yuan felt a gust of south wind blowing.

God opened his eyes.

However, after a short drive, when they came to the main courtyard where Mingyuantang was located, they saw the worried Liu Laoqi.

Seeing Zhu Yuan's appearance, Liu Laoqi quickly stepped forward, gesticulating indiscriminately: "My lord, you can't go to sea. You can't go to sea these few days."

Zhu Yuan stepped forward to support the old man, came to his office, asked the old man to sit down, and said, "Old Liu, speak slowly."

Liu Laoqi pointed to the outside: "This wind...is not a good wind. I can feel that there is something caught in it. My lord, let everyone go ashore quickly. Also, the south...the south, my three children, And Chao Sheng, they... have to go ashore quickly, these few days... must not go into the sea again."

After Zhu Yuan listened quietly, he looked at an official in charge of weather observation in the Yinghai Division.

The little official shook his head, but he didn't dare to speak rashly.

If something like this is wrong...no one can bear the responsibility.

Liu Lian and Zhu Yuan came back from the outside together, and after listening to Liu Lao Qi roughly speaking, they had already ran out of the house.

Zhu Yuan saw that Liu Lao Qi was incoherent but genuinely terrified, he didn't dare to neglect at all, after thinking about it, he also got up and walked out of the room.

Standing in the yard.

The setting sun came from the west, and there was a warm south wind, and there were not many clouds in the sky.

Look at the anemometer that Ying Haisi set up in the courtyard.

The speed of the three wind bowls is not fast, and the wind direction is south by west, which is excellent.

Feeling the air humidity quietly, Zhu Yuan didn't think there was anything wrong anyway, even the air pressure... seemed to be quite normal.

Liu Laoqi followed.

When Zhu Yuan looked over, the old man just kept shaking his head and muttering, hoping that the food team would miss the gust of wind, wait a little longer, and hope that Yinghai Division would send people to report the news quickly.

After a while, Hua Gao arrived, followed by Wu Zhen, the deputy governor of the navy, and Tongzhi Changdu, the commander of the battalion sea guard who was about to lead the team to sea this time.

After asking in detail, everyone gathered at the conference table in Mingyuan Hall.

look at each other.

Some things, we dare not believe it.

But, time waits for no one.If you miss this gust of wind, you don't know how many days you will have to wait next time.However, if you really ignore Liu Laoqi's reminder, once you encounter it, the result will be even more serious.

In the end, it was Zhu Yuan who made the decision.

Wait!
Not only did he have to wait, but he also had to follow Liu Laoqi's predictions.

It's like a storm is coming.

Do a drill.

The decision was made, and that night, the entire Dinghai, the Naval Governor's Mansion, the Yinghai Division and even the government offices at all levels were all in motion.

The Naval Governor's Mansion and the Yinghai Division issued notices overnight, and dispatched officers, soldiers and officials to issue orders everywhere, requiring all military ships, fishing boats, and merchant ships to suspend going to sea. Not only that, but also urging all kinds of ships to park in inland rivers and stay as far away from the coast as possible.

Around Dinghai, all military camps, shipbuilding, ship repairing, and net weaving workshops were all shut down for safety checks.All the cables stocked by all parties were distributed to reinforce the ships under construction in the open-air shipyard.

At the same time, the clippers were dispatched, on the one hand to replenish supplies for each lighthouse port, and on the other hand to issue orders.

That night, from the Zhaobaoshan lighthouse in Dinghai to the lighthouse port of the Shengsi archipelago two hundred miles away, all were replaced with three piles of lights. The next day, when the sky brightened, the three piles of flames turned into three pillars of smoke.

According to the rules formulated in advance by the Ying Hai Division, three fireworks will go up together, implying that there will be wind and rain, and any ships in the open sea need to dock as soon as possible, and no ships in any port are allowed to go out to sea without authorization.

The news of the fireworks was like a beacon, and it reached Hepu Harbor in the south of Xiangshan on the same day.

Li Gui, who planned to organize the last fishing trip before returning to sea, discussed with everyone, but decided to stop going to sea according to the firework news. Afterwards, the post office of the Navy's Governor's Mansion and Yinghai Division also arrived at Hepu Harbor.

The two major yamen strictly ordered not only to prohibit going to sea again, but also to do a good job in preventing storms.

The entire Xiangshan Mountain is also busy.

The next day, the south wind was still there, and it was still an excellent southwest wind direction.

If you can take advantage of this gust of wind and set off, it will only take one day for the grain transport ship to reach the Shengsi Islands area.

Liu Lian also continued to lead the team to observe everywhere.

Except for Liu Laoqi who was even more disturbed, he still didn't find any abnormalities.

The third day, April nineteenth.

The sky is clear and bright, and the south wind is still there.

The fourth day, April [-]th.

Liu Laoqi came to Ying Haishi's mansion early in the morning, and he could see that the old man was under a lot of pressure.

If there is no storm, it will not only make the officials miss a good wind direction, but also toss the whole Mingzhou for several days.

Liu Laoqi felt that he should resign from his official position.

Zhu Yuan just reassured the old man.

At the same time, Liu Lian was sent again to take people to check the wind and water conditions in person, and Liu Lian hurried back before noon.

Discovered something.

Not only are there no traces of shellfish and crabs on the tidal flats, but today, there are far fewer seabirds in the sky.

Although the whole day is still a sunny day that is very suitable for going out to sea, but the little things that fly in the sky and swim in the sea, these little things that are quite sensitive to nature, will not lie.

Hearing the news, even some people who thought Ying Haisi made such a decision to miss the gust because of the words of an old man before did not have any doubts, and began to rejoice that if there was no early warning from Liu Laoqi, perhaps, Two days before, the fleet had already set off.

What's more, today happened to be out of the Shengsi Archipelago area and to the open sea.

That is, there is no open sea where you can dock for hundreds of miles and look around. If you get there and encounter a storm... no one dares to think about certain results.

That night, the wind changed abruptly and became easterly.

At this moment, anyone with a little bit of seaside knowledge understands that the strong wind is really coming.Otherwise, the wind direction would not have become so sudden.

April [-]st.

Waking up early was still a sunny day, but Zhu Yuan, an ordinary person, could feel the changes in air pressure, and the air obviously had a slight earthy smell.

In the morning, he wanted to go out for inspection, but was stopped by a group of people, so he could only stay in the mansion.

Instead, everyone else dispersed.

According to Zhu Yuan's request, while further strengthening the workshops in the west of the city, the peasants who could only live in tents before must be moved to strong houses that are strong enough to withstand strong winds.Vessels of all sizes entering the Yongjiang River must also be re-inspected, especially the second batch of more than 200 grain vessels that were supposed to go to sea.

So in the afternoon, the wind gradually picked up.

Dark clouds overwhelm the city.

When the thick clouds seemed to come from nowhere, or seemed to suddenly cover the entire Dinghai County, Zhu Yuan, who was standing in the courtyard of the inner house looking at the sky, suddenly deserted and thought of an epilogue.

A sack in a bellyband - menacing!
Big drops of rain fell, and the first hurricane on the coast of eastern Zhejiang in the first year of Hongwu arrived earlier than the rainy season.

Speaking of which, in this day and age, typhoons are also called 'hurricanes'.

There are records of coastal 'hurricanes' in various history books.

For some reason, later, the name of the storm along the coast of China was changed to 'Typhoon', and the name of the storm in the West was called 'Hurricane' instead.

It's raining heavily outdoors, it's not suitable to go out, and suddenly I'm idle.

There are still some discomforts.

Occasionally, it is inevitable to ridicule myself, time travel, originally intended to enjoy, but unknowingly, just like the previous life, life has become a toil.

Zhu Yuan felt that this might be another example that time travel cannot change fate.

What kind of person, after time travel, there is a high probability that it will still be what kind of person, and it is unlikely to change.

In the study on the west side of the main house of the inner house.

The rain kept falling, and the atmosphere was very harmonious. Zhu Yuan's still thin body was nestled in the armchair wrapped in thick cushions.

Another class is being organized.

This time also gave an interesting name: what we can't see.

This is the association caused by Liu Laoqi's prediction a few days ago but others didn't feel it. In fact, not only Liu Laoqi made the prediction, but also those little things like seabirds and conch. predicted.

According to Zhu Yuan's later knowledge, it should be that the sound from the hurricane in the far sea spread to the near sea ahead of time, causing all creatures, big and small, to respond.

For example, infrasound.

Zhu Yuan clearly remembered that before the earthquake, there were infrasound waves. However, the so-called infrasound waves are just sound waves with a frequency lower than human perception. Hurricanes should also appear to shake the sky and earth.Moreover, the characteristic of infrasound is its ultra-long-distance transmission, which can be regarded as sending signals to various creatures in advance.

Therefore, as a beginning, Zhu Yuan intends to talk about infrasound waves, ultrasonic waves, and various invisible lights beyond the recognition of human eyes.In addition to light and sound, there is geomagnetism, which is also invisible to human beings and affects various natural phenomena everywhere.

There are other.

Just as he was racking his brains, someone beside him brought water, and it was Luoshui who looked up.

Zhu Yuan patted his knees: "Come on, draw something for me."

Luo Shui put down the glass, sat down obediently, squeezed and squeezed, and it turned into Zhu Yuan sitting on the woman's lap, full of fragrance...well, full of fragrance...it's not right.

The woman behind picked up the charcoal pencil, poked her face from the side, put her pointed chin carefully on the shoulder of her little official, and said softly: "Officer, what do you want to draw?"

Zhu Yuan turned his head and stuck the woman's smooth face: "Let's draw a face first, I want to save face."

Luo Shui chuckled: "There is no outsider."

Ok……

Zhu Geer thought it made sense, so he leaned back again, found a more comfortable position, and said, "Draw a bat, I want to demonstrate ultrasound, ultrasound, do you know what it is?"

Following the guidance of his little official, Luo Shui outlined a bat with a few strokes, and said, "I don't know, can the official tell me?"

Saying so, the other hand came over.

Student Zhu Robin: "..."

Something doesn't feel right.

I'm just under my age.

You woman, you are still taking the initiative.

A stronger wind came from the outside, and the sound of rustling tiles broke the current charming atmosphere, and the voice of blank space sounded: "Little official, what do you want to eat for lunch, should you prepare it?"

Zhu Yuan turned his head and looked over.

The women sitting around the round table next to them had blank mouths and pouting. The young lady had an envious expression and raised her hand to slap the girl next to her. baby look.

Zhu Yuan gestured to a curious baby: "Yu'er, come and save your little official, Luoshui bullied me."

Sack laughed.

Eyebrows crooked.

As a joke, Zhu Yuan opened the little hand restlessly around his waist, took the charcoal pencil, and drew a few strokes in front of a bat completed by Luoshui, demonstrating the ultrasonic wave.

Luo Shui didn't want to get up, so he continued to hang on, looking for a topic: "Officer, recently I drew another auspicious beast in the 'Shan Hai Jing', which is 'Dangkang', do you want to see it?"

(End of this chapter)