Chapter 76 Three signs of symptoms, fertilizers

The 28th day of the first lunar month of the 19th year of Wanli, February 19, 1591.

The Myanmar warrior Yingli led his troops to invade Baoshan, Tengchong and other places in Yunnan. The Ming army deputy general Wanguo set up a torch as a suspicious soldier at night. The Myanmar soldiers retreated in fear and defeated their troops.

February 22, 1591.

He led the northern towns of the Ming Dynasty and led the Minister of War Zheng Luo. When the Mongolian Bushitu tribe attempted to meet with the Huoluo Chi tribe, he suddenly attacked his flanks, intercepted a large number of cattle, sheep and other supplies, and at the same time carried out the clearance of the fields, moved many Hui Tibetan tribes in Qinghai, and burned many Mongolian lama temples. The leader of the Mongolian tribe, Salike, merged the tribes outside the Great Wall to go bankrupt.

February 25, 1591.

Lintao, the Mongolian tribes in Hezhou raised troops to rebel, and Zheng Luo issued an edict to dispatch Ningxia troops to participate in the suppression of the rebellion. Ningxia general led a thousand masters to support the west. When he arrived in Jincheng, he saw that the troops in the army were not as good as him. After suppressing the rebellion, he returned to the army to take the outside of the frontier. When the enemy cavalry met, they all wanted to be careless, and then they became more arrogant and crazy. In the Ningxia rebellion, the three major expeditions of Wanli showed signs!

April 5, 1591 AD, March 12, lunar calendar.

It is the spring plowing season in Qingming again. For Wuzhaibao, the operating procedures of the original ten old farms have been very stable, and it is not necessary to worry much about Huang Laifu. As for the new twenty farms, with the assistance of the old Tun Dians, after several months of construction, farm construction, and farmland reclamation, they have been completed, and complete supporting facilities such as irrigation and ditches have been built. After spring, they can be sown.

Compared with the old farms, most of the new farms are not close to the big river, so they need more Huang Laifu hand press wells and Huang Laifu big irrigation wells. In the past few months, Wuzhaibao Minqifang has made many water trucks to meet the needs of each new farm. Similarly, the twenty new farms also use horse-drawn plows and trolleys like tillage. Each new farm is equipped with five to ten sets of horse-drawn plows and trolleys, as well as horse-drawn hoes for weeding.

If a set of horse-drawn plows, carriages, and horse-drawn hoes require 20 taels of silver, a farm requires at least five sets, a farm alone requires 100 taels of silver, and 20 new farms require 2,000 taels of silver. A farm with such a high cost investment, except Wuzhaibao, no one saved this money in the Ming Dynasty. Ma Jiuying's father-in-law had nothing to say except shocked the high investment in Wuzhaibao farm.

For the current Wuzhai Fort, horses are naturally purchased from Mongolia through merchants, and the ones they buy are all good horses. After a year of exploration, the local Wuzhai Fort can be made by themselves. Save a lot of costs.

There are also the excavation of irrigation wells in each new farm. In the past, the excavation of deep water wells was built with wooden frames and stone. Now, cement has been used. In this way, the excavation cost of irrigation wells is lower, and after the water truck is installed, it can continuously provide water for the dry land.

Like the old farms, the old farms and the old farms were stunned by the operation of the new farms. They watched the large amount of water, which was absorbed by the livestock water trucks from the countless land of the fields, and then flowed into the various farms, and none of them had been irrigated.

No matter how rich the farming experience in my hometown was, I found it incredible. Everyone was talking about it. If there was such a developed irrigation system in my hometown before, everyone would not have left their hometown to escape famine.

As for the use of horse-drawn plows and trolleys, the locals in the Diwuzhaibao farms have rich experience in using them, even in those new farms. Since the station chiefs and small station chiefs were all drawn from the old farms. Under their step-by-step teaching, the station chiefs in the Xindi station chiefs. Naturally, there will be no problem with the use of these farm tools.

Therefore, after the beginning of spring, all the farms in Wuzhaibao entered a busy work.

"Mr. Huang, Eunuch Ma, Team Leader Gu, and Master Yang, all the farms in Wuzhaibao use selected varieties. As long as the irrigation and management can keep up, there will be no problems with this year's bumper harvest."

In April, Wuzhai Fort looked bright and bright, but it was still chilling. At this time, a large group of people gathered at a farm in Wuzhai Fort. Among them, Su Ruibaihu, the leader of the agricultural technology team, said to Huang Laifu affirmatively.

Huang Laifu started his career in Wuzhaibao as agriculture, so he is very concerned about this year's spring plowing. These days, he personally goes to the fields of various farms in Wuzhaibao to check them every day.

Huang Laifu's uncle, Gu Shibao, deputy leader of the grain group, naturally followed him up and down. After several months of hard study, Gu Shibao is now able to take on the work of the grain group alone. Although the grain group still has two deputy leaders in theory, Gu Shibao is currently managing the specific affairs. As for Butler Yang, he is focusing on all the miscellaneous tasks in the garrison.

As for the Jinyiwei Yang Dawei, he is now following Ma Jiuying, wherever his father-in-law, he is naturally very concerned about the food problem of Wuzhai Fort. These days, he has also followed Huang Laifu up and down, and his rosy and smooth face has been blown black by the cold wind. As for Yang Dawei, the Jinyiwei Qianhou, he is now following Ma Jiuying. Wherever his father-in-law goes, he will also go. But sometimes he will disappear for a few days inexplicably, and Huang Laifu doesn’t know where he goes.

In fact, Huang Laifu wanted to develop an intelligence organization in Wuzhai Fort to monitor everything in Wuzhai Fort. However, considering the pervasiveness of the Jinyiwei of the Ming Dynasty, whether it is appropriate to develop an intelligence organization by himself? Will the Jinyiwei detect it and think that he has ulterior motives? So Huang Laifu has been hesitating.

Last year, Su Rui was appointed as the leader of the agricultural technology team, responsible for the purchase and cultivation of varieties of various farms, vegetable gardens, orchards of Wuzhaibao, as well as the prevention and control of various insect pests. After receiving the funds, Su Rui lived up to expectations and achieved a series of achievements.

Because of the bumper harvest last year, the wheat grains were full and the quality was good, it was naturally a good seedling to keep. Two years ago, I had to spend a lot of money to buy wheat seeds from outside, but after the wheat produced last year was carefully selected by Su Ruibai, the seeds left were all good.

The wheat seeds in Wuzhai Fort are now self-sufficient. Moreover, the local military forts and counties around Wuzhai Fort admire the great harvest of Wuzhai Fort last year, and many people come specifically to buy excellent seeds from Wuzhai Fort.

In addition, Su Rui also sent people to various places to buy different wheat seeds, specially opened seed fields in Wuzhaibao, carefully sowed manure on the ground, carefully preserved and raised seeds, observed the adaptability of each seed and the matching of planted varieties, etc. To select the best and most suitable seeds for Wuzhaibao, the strength is so great that it is like breeding imperial rice.

In addition, Su Rui also went to Taiyuan to buy many land and farming books on farmland and water conservancy, and hired some experienced old farmers from other places to come to Wuzhaibao at high prices and asked them to explain their years of farming experience. After these experiences were left, Su Rui asked someone to organize them into documents and leave them for future inquiries.

"very good!"

Huang Laifu smiled on his face, and Eunuch Ma was also very happy. If Wuzhai Fort had a great harvest this year, the dividends would naturally be more distributed to Emperor Wanli. The more dividends, for Eunuch Ma, his impression of doing good work in Wuzhai Fort would be more serious in the emperor's heart.

“Where are the seeds of the vegetable garden and orchard?”

"Sir, please tell me, these seeds. Wuzhaibao is still being bred. The seeds used now are all purchased from other places. Bei Zhiji bought the best vegetable and fruit seeds from Taiyuan, but the cost is also quite large."

"Money is not a problem. The most important thing is to have good seeds. If your agricultural technology team is insufficient, I will allocate it to you. If you want to do a good job, you must first sharpen your tools."

"Sir wise."

"By the way." Huang Laifu remembered something, "Have the pesticides and fertilizers been made?"

Su Rui said: "It was made earlier, but after experiments, the effect was good. Now the agricultural technology group has made a large number of pesticides and fertilizers. Do you need to use it now?"

At this time, the wheat seedlings and pests in the Ming Dynasty were mostly wheat straw flies and other insects. If the land was cultivated for a few years, there would be these problems. At this time, there were most of them no methods, or manual damage removal. Or some local methods were used to eliminate damage. After Huang Laifu checked the agricultural knowledge of the land in the computer, he concluded that the cultivation measures for the strong and dense growth of wheat plants will help control the damage of wheat straw flies. Therefore, it is necessary to sow early, deeply cultivate, and apply enough water and fertilizer.

At present, the cheap and affordable insecticide of the Ming Dynasty is lime, but Wuzhaibao is yellow land, so sulfur must be added to the lime. Therefore, last year, Huang Laifu told Su Rui to make this soil pesticide. Huang Laifu planned to use lime plus sulfur to make land pesticides before deep cultivation and sowing, and spray the farmland in each farm of Wuzhaibao first to kill insects.

As for fertilizers, in the Ming Dynasty, accumulation of fertilizer has always been the top priority for farmers.

The fertilizers at this time are usually human manure, animal manure, various debris and stinky mud, and various fallen leaves, rotten grass and ditch mud. These traditional fertilizers from the Ming Dynasty cannot be thrown away. At present, some of the large livestock farms in Wuzhaibao are pig manure, chicken manure, duck manure, etc. These manures are naturally treasures of the farmlands of Wuzhaibao. In addition to these, the land seed cakes, bean cakes, hawt cakes, fruit oil residues, sesame oil residues, etc. in the workshops in Wuzhaibao are also good materials for making compost, and they also need to be collected.

In addition, there are nitrogen fertilizers and phosphorus fertilizers from later generations. Huang Laifu gave a method and asked the agricultural technology team to develop them. The crude method of nitrogen fertilizer is to make it with rotten animals and plants. Phosphorus fertilizer is to grind the bones of animals into bone meal, and after appropriate amounts of sulfuric acid, it can be made into phosphorus fertilizer.

In fact, some iron plant waste can also be used to make phosphorus fertilizer, but this method is too alternative and does not suit the concept of the Ming people, and the process is relatively complicated, so Huang Laifu gave up.

For Huang Laifu, at this time, as long as the traditional fertilizer was sufficient and the crude method could be used to make nitrogen and phosphorus fertilizer, it would be enough to greatly increase the farmland output.

"No, I need to use it now!"

After hearing Su Rui's words, Huang Laifu was very happy. He ordered Gu Shibao, who was beside him, and said: "Team Leader Gu, you instruct the chiefs of each farm to get pesticides and fertilizers from the agricultural technology team today. When you are deeply cultivating and sowing, pesticides and fertilizers must be used at the same time."

Gu Shibao said respectfully: "As for the order of humble duties."
Chapter completed!