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Chapter 30 Yangzhou Experimental Field

In the early morning of the second day, Shen Zhizhi bid farewell to Zhu Yuanzhang, and left Yangzhou with his maid and servants.

When Li Shanchang left with Zhu Yuanzhang and the others, he was very proud. He left Liu Bowen in Yangzhou, and he would definitely not come back in ten or eight years.

It's just that I didn't expect His Highness the Crown Prince to stay, which I didn't expect. Afraid of offending the Crown Prince, Li Shanchang coughed lightly and said, "Your Majesty, I think that His Highness the Crown Prince has worked hard, so it's not appropriate to stay in Yangzhou to resume production."

Li Bin also seconded.

Old Zhu frowned and thought to himself, this world belongs to my Zhu family after all, how can we watch the people suffer and let Biaoer return to Beijing.

Zhu Biao, who had been silent all this time, coughed heavily and said, "Father, as a member of the Ming Dynasty, Donggong may stay in Yangzhou to experience the suffering of the people. In the future, he can be a Ming emperor like Father."

Old Zhu felt very comfortable listening to Zhu Biao's words.

Mu Ying knelt down on both knees and said: "My humble minister Mu Ying asks to protect His Highness the Crown Prince. If His Majesty refuses, I will not afford it."

"Let's agree, tell Yu'er not to take care of Zhu Xi and Zhu Yu, and stay and take care of the prince with you."

"Thank you, Your Majesty."

"Thank you, Your Majesty, Yu'er."

Zhu Yuanzhang ordered to leave many soldiers to help the prince to appease the people around Yangzhou and encourage farming.

A letter from Zhu Biao, asked Lao Zhu to bring it to Queen Ma, and asked her to help take care of the Science and Technology Academy in the East Palace.

Ma Shi is very supportive of Zhu Biao, and Zhu Biao reassures her.

Now in the early years of the founding of the People's Republic of China, Zhu Biao didn't think that reforming the system would be enough. Right now, farming needs to be resumed so that the land can produce grain.

The conditions in Yangzhou are very suitable and can be used as the first step in agriculture.

When Lao Zhu returned to Nanjing, he ordered the restoration of Yangzhou to be a major event, fully supported and encouraged immigrants, and ordered that the matter of Yangzhou be decided by Prince Zhu Biao alone.

Migration is not something that can be done easily. You have to leave your hometown, and you have to worry about being bullied by foreigners. You are not acclimatized to the environment, and you have no place to live.

After discussing with Liu Bowen, Zhu Biao asked people to gather and register the refugees and landless people around them, and encouraged them to stay in Yangzhou.

The most difficult thing to solve is the residence. Mu Ying asked the soldiers and the people to clean up the stones and boards in Yangzhou City.

The masons, carpenters and masons in the Daming Institute of Science and Technology were also ordered to rush to Yangzhou overnight.

Lao Zhu was very efficient in his work, and he didn't know how to get a few carts of food, and he even sent someone to send a wad of precious money.

Due to the lack of wood, the people and soldiers picked out the wood from the ruins and used it to make wooden sheds.

Zhu Biao asked people to make it into a simple wooden house for everyone to live in temporarily. Because Lao Zhu felt sorry for him, he gave Zhu Biao the Mingqi No. [-] to use at night.

In the next few days, Lao Zhu gave him another five or six hundred soldiers, first to do labor and second to protect his safety.

The weather is getting hotter, and many soldiers are sleeping in the open air, and they still get up to work during the day.

Mu Ying sat outside the carriage to rest every night, but Zhu Biao sometimes let him sleep in the carriage for a while.

The people of Yangzhou were grateful, and Yang Shen often burst into tears. The crown prince accompanied them to endure hardships, and no one would be moved.

Liu Bowen, Yang Xian and several other craftsmen were arranged by Zhu Biao to study better composting in a simple wooden shed.

The food left behind by Shen Wansan's daughter, Shen Zhifu, was put together with what Lao Zhu brought.

Every afternoon, the ten food places start to distribute porridge, so that those who contribute will not be hungry.

Zhu Biao ordered that there be at least one meal of porridge every day that could stand chopsticks.

Sometimes when refugees came to loot other people's porridge, they were arrested by the disciplined soldiers arranged by Mu Ying, beat them up, and didn't let them go until they stopped looting.

Under such circumstances, the people and refugees became more honest, because Zhu Biao ensured that everyone would have food to eat, and gradually began to line up for meals.

After half a month, all the stones, waste and wood in Yangzhou City have been cleared, and it doesn't matter if a few carriages pass by.

Yang Xian and Yang Shen supervised well, and the land around Yangzhou was completely loosened under the day and night efforts of soldiers and common people.

Liu Bowen asked people to measure the land outside Yangzhou City, register the number of people, and distribute grain seeds before and after Grain Rain.

On the day of distributing the grain seeds, Yang Xian sent people to a neighboring county to buy a big rooster and let it crow for the farmers.

"Your Highness, these are the plump seeds selected by me and the soldiers." Mu Ying said while carrying two bags of selected seeds.

Liu Bowen stood beside him, and Zhu Biao saw that he, a civil servant, was suffering along with him these days.

"The food left by Miss Shen's family is even better than ours." Liu Bowen asked Yang Xian to untie the bag.

Zhu Biao looked up, and sure enough it was.It seems that the Shen family has a lot of good things.

Yangzhou in May has gradually become sultry, the grain seeds have been planted, and the people are not lazy, they go to the fields before dawn.

Those who were unwilling to farm came back to open up wasteland one after another because of the encouragement of the imperial court.

Weeds grew in the yard, crickets jumped around inside, and the trees planted by Mu Ying outside the house also sprouted.

Yu'er sent meals and clean clothes to Zhu Biao's room every day to take care of his daily life.

Under the wooden corridor where Zhu Biao lives, several craftsmen are polishing the turning plow, rotary plow, five-share plow, and liberation plow.

Mu Ying sent some iron sheets and said: "Your Highness, the blacksmith has made the iron sheets you want."

"This is not a piece of iron, it is used on a plow to turn the soil." Zhu Biao said.

Mu Ying giggled, stood by and looked at Zhu Biao's bottles and cans, and listened to what her highness said was a chemical experiment.

He wondered how it could be called a flower science experiment if it wasn't a flower.

Liu Bowen and Yang Xian recorded by the side.

Zhu Biao said: "Yang Xian, write this down, animal bones can be processed into bone meal, which is the best base fertilizer for plants... Steam the raw animal bones, remove part of the fat, and grind them into fine powder."

"Two percent to six percent, what is this symbol?" Liu Bowen looked at the numbers.

"These are Arabic numerals and chemical elements. I will explain them to you in detail later, so you should write them down first." After Zhu Biao finished speaking, he went on to the next one.

Yang Xian, Liu Bowen and others nodded and wrote down all these strange things, anyway, the crown prince will explain them again.

"Potassium dihydrogen phosphate... plus plant ash, mix the two solutions to get a concentration of... crude liquid."

"Potassium dihydrogen phosphate, it's..." Zhu Biao repeated these words in Ming Dynasty colloquialism.

"Soil ammonia water, sealed with [-] kg of fresh cow dung, soybean flour...slaked lime...the fertilizer effect is higher than ammonia water.

"Use human urine plus plaster of paris...water...mix well, seal it for half a month before use, equal to ammonium sulfate."

"Use... as base fertilizer, top dressing and seed fertilizer. Seed fertilizer should not touch seeds and plant roots."

The common people also collected chicken manure, sheep manure, cow manure and other poultry manure every day, and Zhu Biao ordered the soldiers to ferment it into organic fertilizer.

Most of the time, Zhu Biao wandered around in front of the simple extractor he made, while Mu Ying followed behind.

In the past few months, Lao Zhu will send people what he needs, and by the way, he will bring Ma Shi's letter.

The Arabic numerals taught by Song Lian to Shenjitang are also going on, let them know some chemical elements and meanings, everything is being prepared in an orderly manner, laying a good foundation.

Although the effect of the manufactured soil fertilizer is not as good as that of the later generations of chemical fertilizers, but fortunately everything is constantly improving.

(End of this chapter)