People in Hongwu, from heavenly master to emperor master

Chapter 192 Dung Pill, Daming Jinkela
Grain production is the foundation of the court.

The emperor's so-called policy of emphasizing agriculture and suppressing business is to keep the people locked in the land and increase the world's grain production.

Not to mention a doubling of grain production, it means an increase of [-]%. The emperor estimated that he could wake up from his dream with a smile.

If others say that he can double the grain production, Zhu Yuanzhang will only think of him as a fool who doesn't know the importance, but when it comes to that little guy, Lao Zhu will never underestimate him!
Must see him!

When Zhu Yuanzhang read this secret memorial, he had already made up his mind.

If it wasn't getting late, he would want to leave the city now.

On the second day, Lao Zhu went to court early, and immediately chose to leave the palace to look for Zhang Yi.

With a pure mind, the emperor rushed to nothing...

Because Zhang Yi went out earlier than him, not only did he go out, the gate of the Taoist temple was closed, even Lao Mo and Deng Zhongxiu were not in the Taoist temple.

Zhu Yuanzhang asked the inspectors who were watching around, only to know that Zhang Yi had already gone to work in his field.

"Does he really want to farm? He really cares..."

Zhu Biao came with the emperor and couldn't help talking to himself when he heard the inspection report.

"If I can bind this kid with land, I will give him another hundred hectares, so what about a thousand hectares of land?

It's just that I think this kid's mind is not so much on the harvest as he thinks it's fun! "

Zhu Yuanzhang also understands Zhang Yi, and his words convey Zhang Yi's thoughts.

The father and son naturally knew where Zhang Yi was going, but they couldn't go there directly.

Until Deng Zhongxiu just came back and found Huang and his father and son at the entrance of the Taoist temple, he trotted all the way over:
"Master Huang, Young Master Huang, you are here!"

Lao Zhu made a serious face on purpose and asked:

"Xiao Deng, where did your junior brother go again?"

Deng Zhongxiu laughed:

"Tell Master Huang that my younger brother is farming outside the city?"

He talked in a hurry, so he told Lao Zhu about the emperor's reward and the following things, and he said:
"Junior brother asked me to come back and get some things, master, would you like to go over with me to have a look!

If you want to wait for your junior brother to come back, you probably won't be able to wait any longer. Judging by his posture, he won't be able to come back for a while! "

What Zhu Yuanzhang was waiting for was Deng Zhongxiu's words. He asked Deng Zhongxiu to take the things, and then followed Deng Zhongxiu to Zhang Yi's place.

On the way, under the guidance of Lao Zhu, Deng Zhongxiu, who did not have many cities, almost repeated what Zhang Yi said.

"The food in the world has doubled, he is so proud!"

Lao Zhu's behavior was the same as when Deng Zhongxiu first heard this sentence, he was very angry.

Deng Zhongxiu finally found a sense of identity and nodded frequently:
"Although the younger brother is very smart, I think farming is something he doesn't understand, let alone farming on Longhu Mountain, he has never even touched flowers!

What junior brother is best at is probably burying things he accidentally broke..."

Zhu Yuanzhang and his son rarely heard interesting stories about Zhang Yi, so they immediately became interested.

A group of people chatted one after another, and unknowingly, they also came to the field.

The field used to be the royal field, and it is the best fertile field in the royal family.

Zhu Yuanzhang was very familiar with these fields. For an old farmer, being an owner was his childhood dream.

Lao Zhu is basically clear about the fields belonging to the royal family.

"Father, the location of this field is excellent!"

Zhu Biao also understood that it was very kind of Zhu Yuanzhang to reward Zhang Yi with the land near Yingtianfu.

Moreover, these fields are all cultivated fields, which is even more rare.

Zhu Yuanzhang was silent, Deng Zhongxiu took the words:

"Isn't it? Your Majesty's grace, I said from those tenant households that even if these fields are among the royal fields, they are excellent..."

Lao Zhu didn't speak, but looked for Zhang Yi's small figure in the endless fields with his eyes.

In the rice field that is about to mature, it is not easy to find Zhang Yi.

But after searching for a while, Zhu Yuanzhang still found the target. Zhang Yi was following those tenants at this time, what was he talking about?
He has taken off his Taoist robe and is wearing clothes that are convenient for going to the field.

It's just that those clothes are now covered with mud and look very dirty, but it's just his attire that makes the emperor have an inexplicable sense of intimacy.

When the group walked to Zhang Yi, Zhang Yi was still asking Lao Meng about his farming knowledge.

Weather, temperature...water resources...

Lao Zhu had a weird face, Zhang Yi asked the question he knew he would not be able to farm, but his question was very tricky.

Lao Meng knows how to farm, but many things are not clearly expressed because of his cultural level.

Zhu Yuanzhang took the conversation from behind and answered Zhang Yi's question.

"Uncle Huang, why are you here? No, you still farm?"

Zhang Yi turned around and saw that it was Lao Zhu, and shouted in surprise.

Zhu Yuanzhang gave Zhang Yi a blank look:
"Do you think you are the only one who has suffered?"

Although Lao Zhu has not farmed for many years, some life skills are integrated into his bones.

His education level is higher than that of ordinary tenants, and he is more comfortable in explaining problems.

While others were stunned, the two landowners stood on the edge of the field and began to study farming.

Zhang Yi got many answers from Zhu Yuanzhang that he could not ask from Lao Meng.

The two gradually walked away, and the others deliberately distanced themselves from the emperor.

Only Zhu Biao followed suit, following Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhang Yi.

"I can finally live a peaceful life, Zhang Yi, do you know that in the previous dynasty, this piece of land was something I couldn't even dream of? At that time, people like us would be driven away when we passed the rice fields hungry...

When people are lowly, even if you walk past, people will hate ghosts! "

"So after my uncle got rich, he must have bought a lot of land..."

Zhang Yi chuckled, businessmen in the farming society still cannot escape their attachment to the land.

No matter which of the four classes of scholars, farmers, businessmen, and businessmen becomes rich, they will eventually become landlords.

Land is the root of farming society and the destination of all people.

In the era when Zhang Yi lived, he couldn't empathize with Lao Zhu's feelings, but it didn't prevent him from understanding Lao Zhu's emotions.

"Hey, of course... I wish all the land in the world belonged to my family..."

"Hush, Uncle, this is rebellious speech!"

"Hahaha!"

Seeing Zhang Yi's cautious appearance, Zhu Yuanzhang was very happy.

Seeing Zhang Yi's dirty appearance rolling through the farmland, the more he looked at it, the more pleasing it was to his eyes.

The foreshadowing is almost done, and Lao Zhu gets straight to the point:

"Just now I heard from Xiao Deng that you have a method to increase food production? If you really have a method, you can teach me..."

Zhang Yi laughed when he heard the words:
"I'm not experimenting. Although I know the results, I don't know much about agriculture, so I need to experiment step by step..."

"Know the result?"

Zhu Yuanzhang's expression remained unchanged, but there was doubt in his tone.

"That's right, if it's done well, it's no problem to double the grain output in this world, no, if you put it more strictly, it will double the rice output!
Uncle, do you know that for a hundred years after this time, the yield of rice in the fertile fields around me should be three stones per mu? "

"impossible……"

Old Zhu's tone was full of doubts. If Zhang Yi was talking about the magical world hundreds of years later, he would probably believe what Zhang Yi said, but a hundred years later?
A hundred years from now, won't the world still be the Ming Dynasty?
Could it be that his descendants can make greater changes in this world?

"Could it be because of a new species?"

Ever since he heard about the Great Voyage, Lao Zhu has learned many new terms from Zhang Yi. Although the term "new species" is not accurate enough, Zhang Yi shook his head and denied it.

"We should still focus on Champa rice in the future of Ming Dynasty, and there is no difference in other things now!
I'm also not sure what the specific reason for the big change in the output of future generations is, and I'm currently experimenting!
I estimate that it is most likely related to planting technology and retting technology. After the Ming Dynasty, many organic fertilizers that are commonly used in later generations have been applied from now on!

Although the previous farmers also fertilized, but the fertilization technique was too single, which led to the fact that the ratio of nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium was not reasonable even though fertilization was applied during cultivation!

So when the [Dung Pill] appeared in the future, our Daming would be much better than the previous dynasty in terms of fertilizer technology alone..."

Zhang Yi recalled many farming techniques in the middle and late Ming Dynasty, and felt emotional.

The grain output of the Ming Dynasty was even higher than that of the Republic of China in the later generations...

In the middle and late Ming Dynasty, there was a small outbreak of farming.

Dung Dan comes from Xu Guangqi in the Ming Dynasty. He added human dung, animal dung, poultry dung, sesame cakes, bean cakes, black beans, animal carcasses and viscera, hairy blood, etc., plus inorganic fertilizers, such as black alum, arsenic and sulfur. After mixing, put it in a soil pit and seal it up, or put it in a tank and seal it up and bury it underground. After it is decomposed, dry it and smash it into pieces for later use.

The effectiveness of this fertilizer is much better than that of ordinary people's simple retting. Every bucket of dung pellets can be used as ten stones of dung. This is actually recorded in historical materials.

When Zhang Yi told Lao Zhu about the effect of the dung pill, the DNA in Lao Zhu's body was moved. As an old farmer, he couldn't wait to try it now.

"Look, this is the change brought about by knowledge. In fact, farmers should be the first group to discover this kind of knowledge, but because they are illiterate, many things still need to be promoted by scholars!
Of course, if you want to meet a scholar who not only reads the books of sages and sages, but also puts down his body to study mathematics, calendars, and farming, that is luck..."

Zhang Yi lamented the importance of reducing the illiteracy rate to the world, but Lao Zhu didn't think much about it.

His thoughts are all on the dung pills, because he has been farming, he can probably tell the difference between Xu Guangqi's dung pills.

Before the Ming Dynasty, it was not uncommon to use bean cakes and sesame cakes as fertilizers, but they were extremely rare.

It was used on a large scale after the Ming Dynasty.

When Lao Zhu was farming, he had never heard of these fertilizers.

As for the use of inorganic substances such as arsenic, black alum, and sulfur as fertilizers, they are even less used by ordinary people.

"why?"

He didn't understand that mixing these things together could produce such a powerful effect?
Is this some secret recipe?
He raised this question to Zhang Yi, who smiled and said:

"If you ask why, Xu Guangqi probably won't be able to answer it, but I can answer it!

Because manure is a pure nitrogen fertilizer, and Xu Guangqi added various things to fertilize, the effect is much better than the fertilizers we commonly use, and it is a kind of compound fertilizer.

For example, black alum, arsenic, and sulfur are probably used to adjust the pH of the soil. For seedlings that are "sitting dead" or "turning yellow", they can turn green after 3-5 days of applying sulfur fertilizer!

Hair is essentially a kind of phosphate fertilizer, which is simply used to preserve flowers and promote fruits!
Viscera is also phosphate fertilizer, and there is a weak potassium fertilizer, nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium. Is this effect better than simply using feces"? "

Zhang Yi just talked to himself, but when he turned around, he found that Zhu Yuanzhang and his son were dumbfounded.

No wonder they are ignorant, they have never heard of the chemical knowledge of nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium.

As for what compound fertilizer is, Lao Zhu and the others don't understand either.

Zhang Yi explained with traditional Chinese medicine, a single fertilizer is compared to a blind medicine, and compound fertilizer is a prescription prescribed by a doctor.

Having said that, the Zhu family father and son suddenly realized.

A single drug has its effect, but if it is prescribed by a doctor, multiple drugs will complement each other, and the natural effect will be doubled!
"In fact, the same is true for science. Knowing the function of each medicine, you can form various magical formulas...

However, if Xu Guangqi's [Dung Pill] is placed in the eyes of people who don't understand, they can only copy it. If we know the mechanism of fertilizer function, we can make more targeted fertilizers according to these formulas!

For example, phosphate fertilizer is found in hair and internal organs, and also in bird droppings...

Potassium fertilizer is plant ash, charcoal...

And things like sulfur can actually be replaced with lime..."

Zhang Yi counted all kinds of materials one by one, and Lao Zhu and his son could only listen to the lecture with an open mind.

From the beginning to the end, Zhang Yi's words and deeds are practicing his own principles, the so-called small skills are the great way.

Summarizing knowledge from experience is what he has been doing.

"What is NPK?"

"It is a result of later generations pursuing and separating the original substances of the world through chemical methods, similar to what our ancestors said about gold, wood, water, fire, and earth...

The respective functions of nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium in agriculture are..."

Zhang Yi told Zhu Yuanzhang and his son about the application of fertilizers.

Although I don't understand it very well, but Zhu Biao and his son understand the role of nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium.

These theories, if you don't pursue too advanced things, they are much easier than Chinese medicine theories.

Plus, you can get started in no time!
"The so-called artificial fertilizers, compound fertilizers...it's that simple!
In the future, I will come up with a formula myself, which should be no worse than Mr. Xu Guangqi's dung pill!

Well, what do you think of Jinkela? "

Zhang Yi played a trick on Lao Zhu, but Lao Zhu was puzzled.

"Why is it called Jinkela?"

"Because the fertilizer is mixed with Jinkela! One bag can cover two bags!"

In order to prevent Lao Zhu from beating him, Zhang Yi continued to explain: "Golden man, dung is also...Kela, which means dry soil in a northern dialect...Xiaodao picked up the name casually!
Look at the dung pill, isn't it just a dry clod..."

"What a crooked way! But the name Dung Pill is really indecent, and it's not bad to be called Jinkela, it's down-to-earth!"

Old Zhu snorted coldly, he knew he was played by this little guy.

"If you come up with a recipe later, give me a copy, and I'll let my tenants follow suit!

With your method, can you double the food in the world? "

"Of course it's not the only one, but it's about the same...

If we develop new rice species, we might be able to increase the yield, but hybrid rice won't be possible for a while...

It should be almost enough to improve production technology, improve fertilizers, and move rice northward! "

"Hybrid rice? Rice moved north?"

Although Zhu's father and son worked very hard, they still couldn't keep up with Zhang Yi's brain circuit.

(End of this chapter)