In order to set an example in modern agricultural planting, Chen Xu himself planned a total of twenty acres of wheat fields on the river beach downstream of Qinghe Town as his agricultural demonstration field.

It was originally a farmland, but it was abandoned for many years because of the war, so it was already covered with weeds and thorns. Chen Xu asked Niu Dashi to hire seven or eight villagers to clean up the land, and hired two experienced old farmers to plow it out. Now a large flat wheat field has been formed. A group of students in the primary school have a task after school every day to pick up cow manure and horse manure and even leaves everywhere to ferment in the fields. Moreover, for the fertility of the land, Chen Xu also dried the cut grass and thorns and piled it into the wheat field and burned several piles of fire manure.

The so-called fire manure is to pile up weeds, thorns and soil layer by layer, then ignite them and burn them slowly, and finally form a large pile of wood ash. The main component of wood ash is potassium carbonate. When you want to plant wheat, mix these wood ash and compost into the soil evenly, which will increase the fertility of the soil. Of course, farmers also have their own methods, that is, burning the straw left in the ground can achieve the same goal.

After patrolling the test field, several piles of huge fire manure were burning. Niu Dashi and several villagers were digging drainage ditches with hoes in the wheat field.

Wheat is a dry land crop. It likes drying but not flooding. As long as there is shallow soil moisture in the soil, it can grow well. If the moisture is too sufficient, it will not grow well. The roots will fall down if they rot.

This land is next to Xiaoqing River, and it will not be too drought anyway, so we must prepare for flood prevention in advance. Chen Xu of this test field is prepared to follow the planting method of later generations, deeply cultivate the land, put the ground into fertilizer, sow the row distance of ten centimeters, and ridges between six rows, which is convenient for weeding and water-permeable ventilation.

Chen Xu, a child, watched his father planting. He usually sowed the peanuts after harvesting them, and used rakes to sow them, so he remembered them very clearly.

There are no peanuts yet, and it seems that they were also from the Americas later.

Many people probably don’t know about the rake. It also has a name called the rake. It is actually a seed machine with a bucket on top and three plow teeth below. It is pulled forward by a man or a ox or horse. The plow teeth turn the flat soil about two inches deep. The seeds fall from the small hole behind the plow teeth and fall into the ditches. There is an oblique crossbar behind the three plow teeth and push the opened soil back and cover the seeds.

This process is to dig ditches, sow seeds and cover soil together.

If there is no rake, this process requires three people to complete together, and one row of sowing can be completed at one time. The rake only requires one person, one cattle or two people to sow three rows at the same time. Therefore, the efficiency of rakes is more than ten times higher than that of pure manual labor.

The history of rakes is also very long in China's agricultural production, and it seems to be invented in the Han Dynasty. Therefore, in Chen Xu's view, the wisdom of Chinese ancestors is indeed the world's number one.

The production of a rake is slightly more complicated than a curved plow, but it is not difficult to make it. After mastering it skillfully, the sowing area can reach hundreds of acres in a day, and it is estimated that the land of a family will be completed in half a day.

"Brother Xu, isn't it a waste of energy to dig so many ditches in the field?"

Niu Dashi was shirtless and looked similar to Chen Xu. He was black and thin and had all his ribs. However, he had buns and steamed buns in the elementary school cafeteria three times a day, so he looked very good and looked completely incomparable to the whispers of Japanese than what Chen Xu saw when he woke up. He seemed to have grown a lot taller.

"This is called preventing problems before they happen. If it rains suddenly, the roots will rot after soaking for a few days. Therefore, the drainage ditch must be dug!" Chen Xu said.

"Li Dian said it well. Flood prevention and drainage must be done well, otherwise it may be a waste of time. I remember that one year, Xiaoqing River flooded the fields on both sides of the river. It took five days to soak the flood before the flood receded. Then dozens of people starved to death in the town that year, and hundreds of people fled to famine and never came back. More children starved to death. My younger brother and sister were all starved to death that year, and the county magistrate didn't care. It was miserable! It was so miserable!"

An old villager had sad memories on his face.

"Farming depends on the heaven to make a living, and natural disasters and man-made disasters are inevitable. When winter comes, the water in Xiaoqing River will be smaller, and see if you can organize a man to build a river embankment to fence the river bank. That may be much safer!" Chen Xu sighed.

"Don't worry, Lord Lidian, as long as you speak, our Qinghe Town will be happy, both men, women, and young. Many people have mentioned the construction of river embankments many times before, but they have all been rejected by him. Now with Lord Lidian, our Qinghe Town will have a happy life!" Several villagers who dug the trenches were very excited.

"Okay, the most important thing now is to harvest autumn grains and then sow winter wheat, so this matter can be delayed for a while. You can continue to dig trenches in this way. The soil will turn over and form a ridge, which can also block water!" Chen Xu waved his hand and said.

"Lidian, I heard from Dashi that your experimental field may produce six or seven stones per mu. Is it true?" A villager asked excitedly.

"It's okay to reason, but it depends on the weather and seeds. Even if it doesn't reach it next year, as long as you continue to cultivate well, it will definitely be able to reach it in three to five years, so don't be lazy!" Chen Xu said with a smile.

"Don't worry, I will never be lazy. We will definitely help you grow four or five stones of grain next year!" Several farmers quickly agreed.

"Lidian, Lidian!" A child ran over from a distance.

"What's the matter?" Chen Xu asked loudly.

"Go to elementary school quickly, the county magistrate is here!" the child shouted in panting.

For no reason, what are you doing in Qinghe Town when Jiangbeiting runs to Qinghe Town?

Although Chen Xu was inexplicably surprised, he still told Niu Dashi to talk to a few villagers and followed the child to hurried to the elementary school.

When he arrived at the elementary school, he saw Jiang Beiting sitting in the elementary school cafeteria drinking tea, chatting with two old men. Next to him were his son Jiang Chuxing and daughter Jiang Chuyue, and several soldiers stood outside the classroom watching the class inside.

"Chen Xu has met Lord Jiang!" Chen Xu hurried over and bowed, and greeted Jiang Chuxing and Jiang Chuyue slightly.

"Nephew, I have been waiting for you in the county town for so long, and you haven't visited me. Do you have any objections to me?" Jiang Beiting said bluntly.

"Uh, that... County Magistrate, I have been busy lately and there are too many things to do! Please forgive me." Chen Xu had no choice but to apologize with a dry smile.

"Hmph, it's the slack season now, so where can I be busy? I think you are deliberately ruling and not wanting to see me!" Jiang Beiting obviously had a lot of objections to Chen Xu's release of his pigeons. After the last time he suppressed the bandits, he invited Chen Xu to go to the county town to play with his daughter. As a result, Chen Xu had no birds at all. He made wine and built a health center, and supervised the farming field. He was busy every day, and he had to forget all this.

What's more... Chen Xu glanced at Jiang Chuyue, who was looking around with his light, couldn't help but twitch his face a few times. This willful little girl was not his favorite dish. She hugged her legs and ate her teeth, which was simply incomparable to water Qingru. She felt that she was in the way of serving tea and folding her quilt.

"What do you think I'm doing?"

Sure enough, Jiang Chuyue instantly felt Chen Xu's disgusting eyes, so she immediately replied with a hard sentence, and rolled her eyes hard.

"Sister three, don't be rude!" Jiang Chuxing quickly whispered.

"Oh~" Jiang Beiting sighed leisurely and put down the teacup and said, "You all leave for a while, I have something to say to Chen Lidian!"

"Sister Three, let's go and see the primary school teacher attending class!" Jiang Chuxing stood up and pulled Jiang Chuyue away. The two old men who were chatting also stood up and bowed to leave. Then only Chen Xu and Jiang Beiting were left in the awning.

"What is the county magistrate's order? Xu listened carefully!" Chen Xu felt a hint of seriousness from Jiang Beiting's face, so his face calmed down.

"That incident last time has already come to an end, and Zhao Zhe has been sent back to Xianyang by the county magistrate. You don't have to worry about that incident in the future!" Jiang Beiting said, stroking his beard.

"That's good, that's good." Chen Xu breathed a sigh of relief. Although it had been a month since Zhao Zhe colluded with bandits to rob summer grain tax, he was still like a huge rock that made him breathless. The main reason was that Zhao Zhe's father's identity was too scary, and he castrated his son. This kind of hatred of having no son and grandson was definitely not as relaxed as Jiang Beiting said.

This matter is probably only temporarily suppressed. Zhao Gao held a grudge. Maybe one day he would be trampled to death by him. For his own safety, he still had to find out the inside clearly. So Chen Xu bowed and said, "Mr. County Magistrate, can Xu ask about the specific process!"

Jiang Beiting looked at Chen Xu with his eyes straight and said, "Someone assassinated Zhao Gao on the street in Xianyang!"

"What?" Chen Xu shook his hand and fell onto the table and splashed tea. He was stunned for a while before he wiped his face clean with his sleeves and helped him up.

"Does my nephew know the inside story?" Jiang Beiting said playfully.

"Haha, how is that possible? I have been staying in Qinghe Town. How could I know about the fact that Xianyang is so far away!" Chen Xu laughed dryly and concealed.

"Last time I remember you had a sergeant in black who had excellent sword skills and made great contributions in the suppression of bandits. Zhao Zhe was injured in his hands. I also heard that the person who assassinated Zhao Gao was also an agile man in black. He held a black iron sword and looked 70% similar to your sergeant!" Jiang Beiting said expressionlessly.
Chapter completed!