Everyone, led by He Chaoxun and Deputy Qianhu, was excited by Huang Laifu's speech. Everyone felt a sense of courage from Huang Laifu's tone, which made people's hearts so prosperous. If they had doubted such big things in the past, now everyone is full of confidence in what Huang Laifu did.

In addition to continuing to increase the development of agriculture and animal husbandry, various economic crops must also be planted widely. This is the result of Huang Laifu's careful consideration. With agriculture and sufficient food, if various economic crops are operated and a wide range of raw materials are provided for business, a virtuous cycle will be achieved.

In addition to commercial considerations, there is another point when planting various cash crops: if food crops continue to be cultivated, various pests and weaken land fertility will occur.

If the multi-planting and rotational crops are implemented, the legume crops in various nitrogen-fixing fertilizer fields such as peanuts, soybeans, peas, broad beans, wild beans, and alfalfa can improve soil fertility, reduce diseases, and provide excellent feed for herbivores such as pigs, sheep, deer, and rabbits. It will help agriculture to escape the danger of relying entirely on certain crops, bloom in full and diversified development.

In fact, in China, the re-planting and rotation system began in the Warring States Period, while in Europe, it was not until the 1730s that the rotation system appeared in the UK. However, for thousands of years, the mainland prefectures and counties in the Central Plains still dominated by compost-like intensive farming, mainly because the mainland prefectures and counties are crowded and small land, and farmers produce more grain for more land. However, in Wuzhaibao, some land is used to implement the re-planting and rotation method on a large scale.

At the beginning of the year, Wuzhai Fort planted a total of about tens of thousands of acres of alfalfa. Compared with the alfalfa in many places, it can be harvested five or six times a year. Wuzhai Fort can only be harvested twice, but the yield per mu has reached several thousand kilograms, providing excellent feed for many pigs, sheep and other things. By next year, Huang Laifu decided to increase the planting of alfalfa.

At the beginning of the year, some rapeseed was planted in Wuzhaibao, but when it was autumn harvest, Huang Laifu found that the rapeseed yield was very average. Huang Laifu decided to remove the rapeseed and replace it with peanuts and beets.

Peanuts are important economic crops. In addition to improving the soil, the most important thing is that peanuts are rich in oil, with an oil yield of up to 50%, which is more than twice that of soybeans and more than one-fifth higher than rapeseed. They have always been a source of high-quality edible oil and were widely planted throughout the country in later generations. In addition to edible oil pressing, peanuts can also be fried, fried or made into peanut candies, peanut crisps and other candies, pastries, and peanut butter. The stems and leaves can be used as high-quality animal feed, and the seed coat can be used as medicine. It can be said that they are a treasure.

Under general conditions, in later generations, ordinary peanuts in northern regions could plant 10,000 per mu, with a yield of about 500 kilograms per mu. Although I don’t know how much peanuts will produce in Wuzhaibao, Huang Laifu decided to give it a try.

Peanut seeds at this time were not difficult to find, because peanuts native to the Americas were introduced to my country as early as the mid-Ming Dynasty. Peanuts were listed in the products of Jiajing's Changshu County Chronicles. Huangsheng once said that there were growers in Jiading in the "Tao Planting Method". Wanli's Xianju County Chronicles said: Peanuts originally came from Fujian and were planted recently. It can be seen that after peanuts were introduced, they were first promoted in the south and southeast coastal areas, and then spread more and more, becoming an important food and oil crop.

The oil-pressing industry in Wuzhaibao is beet in addition to peanuts. As the saying goes, southern sugarcane and northern beet. Beets were introduced to China as early as the Song Dynasty. By the Ming Dynasty, they were widely planted in the north of the Ming Dynasty. Seeds were not difficult to find, and beets were even more treasures.

First of all, the yield of beets is high. In later generations, the method of lace production was adopted, and the seedling density was 5,000 to 7,000 plants per mu, and the average yield per mu could reach more than 5 tons. Even if Wuzhaibao could not reach the yield of later generations, the average yield per mu would be 2 tons.

Also, beets have high sugar content and purity reaches more than 80%. After beets are harvested, various processes can be made into sucrose products such as white sugar, cotton and white sugar. At this time, white sugar is white silver.

In addition, the stems and leaves of beets are also ideal juicy green feed. In addition to containing the general nutrients required by livestock, they are also rich in carotene, which can supplement the deficiency of A vitamins in the feed. After sugar production, beet residue meal is also an ideal feed for raising pigs and sheep.

Also, the beet meal is heated, hydrolyzed, and mixed with cement, gypsum furnace ash slag, etc., and some insulation materials can be produced, which is optimistic.

In addition to the above oil crops, Huang Laifu will continue to grow some soybeans and other things in Wuzhaibao. In fact, the soybean production in Wuzhaibao is not high this year, with a yield of less than 200 kilograms per mu. The reason why I continue to plant is mainly to fix nitrogen and fertilizer fields and improve soil fertility.

In addition, flax and hemp rayfu also planned to plant some of these two crops. In later generations, the average yield per mu was about 300 kilograms. In addition to weaving cloth, it can also be knotted with ropes and weaving mesh, which is widely used.

In addition to the above cash crops, Huang Laifu decided to start growing vegetables next year, mainly including cabbage, cabbage, cabbage, spinach, celery, cucumber, carrot, eggplant, green onions, garlic, green beans, etc. These vegetables are now available in the Ming Dynasty, and in later generations, all yielded thousands of kilograms per mu. In particular, pumpkin yielded 20,000 kilograms per mu. Of course, this requires pumpkin grafting, but the technical content is not high. Huang Laifu will study it carefully when he has time.

Of course, many of the vegetables at this time were not found in winter. Although China has had greenhouse cultivation technology since the Western Han Dynasty, by the Ming Dynasty, greenhouse cultivation technology was greatly promoted, but greenhouse cultivation was obviously a little late for Wuzhaibao at this time, so let's talk about it until next winter.

At this time, Wuzhaibao was always regarded as a winter vegetable, fennel was white. It was not only large in size, tight in the head, but also sweet and crisp in taste and high nutritional value. Its vitamin C content was second only to chili peppers, but higher than general vegetables such as spinach and radish. Huang Laifu decided to vigorously plant it.

In addition to vegetables, Wuzhaibao also needs to plant various fruit trees. Huang Laifu has checked it. The fruit trees suitable for Wuzhaibao should be: apples, grapes, pears and cherries. These fruits are easy to store and transport, can be made of wine, and can partially replace grain. In later generations, the average yield of these fruits per mu reached thousands of kilograms. Although Wuzhaibao does not know how much the yield will be, Huang Laifu decided to give it a try.

In addition, using wheat straw as raw material to produce edible flower mushrooms, as well as small things such as chestnuts, red dates, sea buckthorn, wolfberry, etc. You can also try planting some.

Finally, Huang Laifu's decision was also about raising deer and rabbits.

Huang Laifu has checked some computer information. At this time, the Ming Dynasty usually mainly used deer antlers to raise deer. If the sword takes a deer in a different way and is used to produce venison, it will be very profitable.

Moreover, feeding deer is not difficult, and its digestive system efficiency is more than 20% higher than that of cattle. If you feed deer wheat straw, you only need to add bran, bran, bean cakes, vegetable cakes, etc. to feed it. Moreover, the meat production is high. The same 60 kilograms of dry grass can get goat meat, 1 kilogram of beef, and 3 kilograms of venison. In later Nordic Europe produced hundreds of thousands of tons of venison annually. Of course, the only prerequisite for free-range deer is that the breeder must be close to the deer, otherwise the deer will not pay attention to you.

There are also rabbits, and the digestibility rate of rabbits is much higher than that of cattle and sheep. The protein of rabbit meat is still very high, and rabbits reproduce quickly. They can feed wheat straw and wild grass. Just don’t feed fresh grass with dew. However, unlike pigs and sheep, rabbits are not suitable for captives. If they are captive, there are many diseases and they can only be freely stocked.

But to be honest, you said that pigs and sheep are fine. When it comes to raising deer and rabbits, no one in Wuzhai Fort has any experience in feeding them. They can only introduce a group first and explore slowly.

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Listening to Huang Laifu coming one by one, everyone here was excited and talked a lot.

Huang Laifu introduced some preliminary goals to achieve in the development of Wuzhai Fort next year, and said: "Everyone sees the development of Wuzhai Fort this year, and next year's development can also be expected. However, our Wuzhai Fort is developing faster and faster now, so some of the original personnel and affairs can no longer keep up with the needs of development. They must be improved and subdivided so that everyone understands what they will do in the future. Some idle people must also take care of things. Now we are mainly here to study this matter."

After hearing what Huang Laifu said, everyone immediately became energetic, especially a few idle households. According to the meaning of the Thousand Houses, it seemed that they wanted to send work for them, which made them pay more attention.

Nowadays, except for He Chaoxun, He Deputy Qianhu, Yang Anzhang and Yang Baihu, the others are idle and semi-retired. Although they know that the Qianhu will give them dividends at the end of the year, they are idle when they see that the Wuhuxun and the Wuhuxun are out of the way, and they are excluded from the power of the Qianhuxun, and they are worried and disappointed. After hearing Huang Laifu's words, everyone is excited.

Huang Laifu said: "Now there are many chores of military farming in Wuzhaibao, and it is so chaotic that I decided to subdivide it into grain group, vegetable group, fruit tree group, animal husbandry group, agricultural technology group, etc...."

"I personally served as the team leader of the grain group, and I was the deputy team leader of my uncle Gu Shibao and Mr. Yang. They mainly reclaim wasteland, manage grain from various farms, and build various farmland water conservancy..."

After hearing Huang Laifu's words, Gu Shibao and Butler Yang stood up and bowed to everyone. Especially Gu Shibao was so excited that his face turned red. Although he was the deputy team leader, Butler Yang was old and had to be busy with the affairs of thousands of households. Huang Laifu was even more busy with his affairs. When he became familiar with the affairs, he was the grain team in charge.

He has been dreaming about this day, and he was naturally very excited when he saw that his dream had come true. Everyone here looked at him, and everyone knew that Gu Shibao's uncle had nothing to say when he saw Huang Laifu's arrangement. (To be continued. If you want to know what happens next, please log in to www.qidian.com for more chapters, support the author and support genuine reading!) (To be continued)
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