Riding and chopping: Overlord of the Han and Hungarians

Chapter 99. The Plow and the Field

"Hey, Your Majesty."

Hu Er foolishly scratched the back of his head, although he didn't understand why he changed the name of Zhang Qi, but he was obedient.

Zhang Qi sized up Hu Er and saw that he was in good health and ready for training. He also knew that the injury caused to him by the tiger last time was almost healed, but his arm still needed some time to recuperate.

Gently patted him on the shoulder: "Okay, listen to your sister's words, take good care of your injuries, and when your injuries recover, Junshang will take you out to play."

"Yeah!" Hu Er nodded like a pest: "Be obedient, hehe, Hu Er is the most obedient."

Amused by his silly appearance, the haze in Zhang Qi's heart dissipated a lot, and after a few words of advice, he and Hu Ling left.

"Everything is going well in the small workshop."

Zhang Qi put his hands behind his back.

Hu Ling obediently followed. In fact, these wolf cubs have a lot of things to do every day, but in front of Zhang Qi, Zhang Qi is also the first priority.

"Hu San is in charge there. Except for the necessary homework every day, he guards the stove."

The small workshop is an experimental site established by Zhang Xun with modern knowledge. Although he has not developed his tribe in the outside world, it is because he does not have a suitable site. Now that he has won the Xianbei Grassland, he must take care In order to develop, we must also consider how to liberate the labor force.

Walked to the small workshop located less than four or five miles outside the city of Silonia. The outside of the workshop was surrounded by a log wall, and the space inside was not small.

Outside the log city wall, there are several mu of farmland being reclaimed, which is the experimental field.

Even though the farm in Suotai Village can grow a batch of crops in a month, it is because of the power of the system, or the running track of the game.

The crops harvested from the farm, whether it is size, style, scale, or anything else, are all carved out of the same mold, and there is no slight difference at all, so there is no need to select improved varieties among them for crop improvement.

That's why Zhang Qi asked people to reclaim the experimental fields, and used the difference in flow rate between the riding and hacking world and the outside world to cultivate crops, and selected high-quality, healthy, and high-yielding seeds from them for cultivation, and selected and bred suitable varieties year after year.

Of course, this selection method is just a more detailed survival of the fittest, and it cannot be compared with the improved technology optimized at the genetic level in modern society.

But doing it is better than doing nothing.

Now several generations have been selected, and many high-quality varieties have been selected. The yield of sorghum has basically stabilized at [-] to [-] catties per mu.

With the use of farmyard manure and phosphorus and potassium fertilizers, the yield per mu of mature land has been stabilized at about 430 catties.

Phosphate and potassium fertilizers are vague, but refining is not difficult.

Regardless of the purity, plant ash mixed with rice washing water is the best potassium fertilizer, and the leftover meat bones, fish bones, and cattle and sheep hoof horns ground into powder and fermented after eating meat every day are the best phosphate fertilizers.

This is already a high-yield in this era. Zhang Qi thought that with the blessing of the fertile black soil on the Northeast Plain, it should not be difficult to feed the tens of thousands of people with sorghum.

Not to mention pumpkin, a naturally productive food.

Walk into the log ramparts.

There was a constant sound of tinkling and banging irons inside.

There are not many wolf cubs here, only a dozen or so, and judging by their age, they should be the second batch of children who have not been implanted into the spirit point.

Now they are almost eight or nine years old, and in this environment, each of them looks like a little adult.

"Your Majesty!"

Seeing Zhang Qi's arrival, all the cubs saluted Zhang Qi eagerly. Don't look at the fact that the second batch of children who came in didn't have spiritual powers, but in terms of fanaticism, they were no better than the first batch of children who had grown up. The pups are bad.

This is the effect of belief brainwashing.

Zhang Qi waved his hands and nodded with a smile, indicating that they should continue to do what they should do.

Looking around the small workshop, dozens of plows were neatly arranged beside the wooden pillars with the roof.

Zhang Qi went up to check and found that these plows were of different styles, ranging from the angle plow at the beginning to the single plow, but gradually the styles of these plows gradually evolved into one type, that is, the Quyuan plow.

Qu Yuanli is no stranger to the peasants of later generations, but he wanted to reproduce him one-to-one. Zhang Qi said that he did not have the ability. All he did was give a rough appearance, and then let the craftsman We groped a little bit and moved in this direction.

In the beginning, the speed of improving the plow was naturally slow, but as the wolf cubs grew up day by day, those cubs who were extremely talented in crafts were able to get Zhang Qi's memorized Quyuanli.

Zhang Qi had also tried farming before, and both the feel and the degree of effort were in line with what Zhang Qi remembered.

Starting with one, Zhang Qi separated the plowshare from the plow frame.

These plows are not integrated, and both the plowshare and the plow frame can be disassembled, which is very convenient for transportation and replacement of damaged parts.

Hu Ling followed behind him, and asked cautiously, "Your Majesty, is there... any problem?"

Zhang Qi glanced at Hu Ling and smiled: "No problem, you go and tell Hu San that those who can blacksmith can come to forge plowshares when they have time. I need three thousand plowshares."

Hu Ling was stunned for a moment, then realized immediately, and bowed her hands to accept the order: "Yes, Your Majesty."

"Then..." Hu Ling thought for a while, then continued, "Then Your Majesty, the iron materials here may not be enough."

Most of the materials for the small workshop are smelted from the iron ore purchased by the caravan, and part of it is the crude iron left over from the smelted materials in Sokal.

The use of small blast furnaces is now very mature. Although there are many steps to increase the temperature if there is less coal and only charcoal can be used as fuel, the more difficult it is, the easier it is for their technology to improve.

The output of the small blast furnace is not large, and only about a hundred catties of molten iron or molten steel can be dissolved at one time. However, as long as the small blast furnace is scaled up, not to mention the impracticality of tens of thousands of catties at a time, it can still be achieved with hundreds of thousands of catties alone. of.

The process of liberating the productive forces is the process of the birth of science. In this regard, Zhang Qi's enlightenment education has been very successful.

At least after he won Xianbei's territory, he didn't create something from scratch, but already had a foundation.

"I know this." Zhang Qi put down the plowshare and moved the plow frame aside. He wanted to take the plow frame out and let outsiders process the plow frame. When the time came, he would directly bring out the plowshare, which would not only save a fortune Gnar can also perform miracles in front of the Xianbei people.

"Don't worry about the iron thing. Suojiaer has accumulated a lot of materials. You can just move them. He won't stop him."

"In addition, let someone send this plow frame to the hall, and let the craftsmen go there, I have a new task for them."

Zhang Qi patted the dust on his hands and said softly.

In ancient society, farming civilization was inherently more stable than nomadic civilization. Of course, this does not mean that nomadism is not desirable, but Zhang Qi, who has the knowledge of later generations, naturally prefers the development process of farming as the main and nomadic as the supplement.

The Northeast Plain has a natural advantage in this area. Although the Northeast Plain is swampy today because of the water system, these can be overcome. Moreover, with the current population of Zhang Qi, a farmland of [-] mu or even tens of thousands of mu is needed. That's enough to feed them.

As for the future, take your time.

(End of this chapter)