Chapter 87 New Crops

As soon as the old man heard this, he opened the chat and said to Xiao Tianjian, "This! Then the good man asked the right person! We have everything to say here. The main thing is to grow more sorghum. The fields here are mostly hilly. Most of the time, they can't be watered. They all rely on the harvest from heaven. Sorghum is drought-tolerant, so the harvest of sorghum on the hilly land is guaranteed!

In some small fields, rich people will grow some millet, and the millet will be millet, which is delicious, but this thing! The output is too low! You can't feed too many people! So the poor have a lot of wheat! I dare not do more than cereals!

This wheat is better than the winter wheat planted before winter! The output is larger. If the year is good, one mu of land can produce two or three hundred catties of grain in a good plot, but no one dares to eat it. In the past, it had to be rented, and only some sorghum rice can be left to live! At present, a lot of land is still deserted. In the good land, we have to plough it out quickly and plant spring wheat!

But my old man still has an idea, that is, he can set aside some land and plant some buckwheat at the beginning of spring. This is good! Buckwheat grows and ripens quickly. It will ripen in April. After it is ripen, the spring famine will be solved. It can last until the spring wheat and sorghum are ripe in summer, and then the plot can be vacated, and autumn grains can be planted. For example, soybeans and so on. In that case, there will be many fewer people who starve to death in spring! ......”

The old man told Xiao Tianjian about farming like several treasures. After hearing this, Xiao Tianjian suddenly opened his mind. In fact, before he asked the old man, he also had some ideas, that is, the problem of corn and sweet potatoes.

The reason why Xiao Tianjian remembered these two things is that on his way to Shanxi this time, while passing through Puzhou, he talked about the encounter with the Rebel Army under Luo Rucai's command. In the first battle, the Xingtian Army was suddenly attacked by Luo Rucai's men. Under the battle, he defeated it in one fell swoop and robbed it from Luo Rucai's men. A batch of grain, and when he was count the booty afterwards, Jin Fuzi accidentally found two things that he had never seen, including several bags of corn and some sweet potatoes, and he didn't know where they were snatched from.

In short, these things were immediately regarded as the most precious treasure by Xiao Tianjian. He strictly ordered no one in the army to steal these things, and arranged for Mr. Jin to take good care of them in person. In particular, those bags of sweet potatoes were wrapped in quilts by him to avoid being frozen. After arriving here, he also specifically asked about this matter for those bags. Sweet potatoes are specially dug in the cellar to store these bags of sweet potatoes. You have to go down and turn them every day so that they don't break down.

For Xiao Tianjian, although he lacks knowledge of agriculture, he also knows the origin of the use of corn and sweet potatoes.

These two things also include potatoes, peppers and tobacco, which were transported from the American continent after Columbus discovered the American continent and gradually began to spread to the world for cultivation. These two things will never last too long to enter China, so that many people have never heard of it in the hinterland of China. I haven't seen these two things, so when they were found, some people didn't know them, and they were almost discarded or fed to animals or simply thrown away.

As a result, Jin Fuzi was still curious. Before dealing with these things, he thought of anecdotes that Xiao Tianjian was familiar with. Maybe Xiao Tianjian would know what these two things were, so he took some and showed them to Xiao Tianjian. As a result, when Xiao Tianjian looked at them, he was shocked. So this made Dr. Jin save it properly. If that's not the case, these two things will probably be lost to Xiao Tianjian again.

Corn and sweet potatoes are relatively drought-tolerant and are very suitable for planting in Yangcheng, especially on hilly land.

And there is another advantage of these two things, that is, the yield per mu is high. In later generations, the yield of corn can reach more than 1,000 catties per mu. At this time, corn is not as good as the seeds of later generations, and there is no hybrid corn, but the output will never be lower than that of various food crops commonly grown by Chinese people in this era, especially It is drought-resistant and soil-remand properties, so it is very suitable for promoting planting here. It should be a very rare disaster relief food, and it tastes good.

And there is no need to say that sweet potatoes. This thing does not occupy an area. Find a place to plant it in the field. Compared with many crops today, the output can be described as scary. The yield per mu is less than 10,000 catties. Even if there is no good seed at the time, it is estimated that the yield per mu with the current sweet potatoes on hand should not be underestimated. It is conservatively estimated that there is at least more than a few thousand catties of output, and the existing sweet potatoes can also be quickly expanded, which is definitely a kind of disaster relief food with unlimited prospects.

What's more, this thing is full of treasures all over the body. There is almost no place to eat. The leaves can be eaten, and the stalks can also be eaten as vegetables. Even the dried stem leaves are still good feed, so to some extent, these sweet potatoes are even more valuable than silver of the same weight in Xiao Tianjian's eyes.

Unfortunately, potatoes can't be found now. If there are more potatoes, it will be more perfect. Together, these high-yield crops will be promoted in large quantities, which will soon solve the food problem.

After chatting with the old man for a while, Xiao Tianjian also found that the old man is indeed not bragging. He has rich experience in farming, including farming, fertilizing, fertilizing, and irrigation, so he is even more happy. No wonder that the three people must have my teacher. Everyone in the world has his strengths, as long as he is good. Yes, they are all talents.

"My father-in-law! Please say something better than reading for ten years! I'm lucky to meet my father-in-law today, which is my luck!" Xiao Tianjian sighed and said to the old man.

Although the old man was a little proud, he did not dare to forget. He quickly said humbly, "Where is it! The good man is giving me an old man's face! I also know how to do farming. How can I be as powerful as the good man said! On the contrary, I would like to thank the good man. These cakes you gave me are enough for our grandchildren to eat for several days! Old man, I don't dare to delay the matter of the good man. I'm leaving!"

"Hail! Since I can meet a capable person like you, how can I let my father-in-law leave like this! No, no! I think so! This father-in-law, I don't think you will go back to the village in the future. Let's go to our Xing Tianjun to help me! We have also reserved some land for military use after the beginning of spring. It is necessary for someone to give us some advice. My father-in-law doesn't have to go back and suffer. Take your grandchildren and grandchildren and move to our Lianhua Village! In the future, I promise you won't be hungry. As for the land originally given to you, we won't take it back, but leave it to your remaining two sons. When you arrive at our Lotus Village, I will arrange someone to teach your grandchildren to read. What do you think? Xiao Tianjian said to the old man.

When the old man heard this, he was shocked and thought why Xiao Tianjian didn't let him go! Later, after hearing Xiao Tianjian finish his words, he was overjoyed. At that time, he was so excited that he didn't know what to say. He covered his chest and sat on the ground, gasping for half a day and didn't recover.

It scared Xiao Tianjian and quickly helped the old man to let him lie flat. What he said just now made the old man very happy. He almost made the good thing bad and made the old man happy to death. If the old man was happy to death because of this, then he would be very guilty! So he hurriedly fed the old man water and asked him to stroke the old man's chest. It took him a lot of work to slow down.

"Ouch! Does the good man make a count of words? It's not to deceive my old man to make me happy! A good man, are you...?" As soon as the old man recovered, he quickly got up and knelt down for Xiao Tianjian, and asked Xiao Tianjian eagerly.

A personal soldier who supported him immediately smiled and said, "You have met a noble man today. This is the general of our Xing Tianjun. According to what we said before, it is a big palm plate!"

The old man was even more surprised. Looking at Xiao Tianjian, he actually forgot the etiquette. He stared at Xiao Tianjian with wide eyes. He couldn't believe it and said, "Are you... you... General Xiao?"

"That's right, it's right!" Xiao Tianjian looked at the old man with a smile.

The old man said, quickly bent down again, kowtowed his head hard at Xiao Tianjian, and shouted, "My benefactor! You are the benefactor of us ordinary people! The old man, I didn't know it was the general just now, but he actually sat with the general and gave it to the general. Please forgive me!"

"My father-in-law taught me so many things, how can I blame you!" Get up! Go back and clean up. I will arrange someone to escort you to Lianhua Village!" Xiao Tianjian held the old man with both hands, and Wen Yan said to him.

The old man saw Fan Yutong standing not far away and looking at them, so he immediately struggled to get up and said to Fan Yutong, "This must be the general's wife!" The little old man kowtowed to his wife!"

Fan Yutong, who was watching with great interest, suddenly had no mental preparation. He almost instinctively stretched out his hand and said, "My father-in-law is free of courtesy... Ouch! ... Pooh! Who is the general's wife? I'm not his wife! Don't talk nonsense! What a shame! I won't talk to you!"

As soon as Fan Yutong said something, he realized that the old man had misunderstood. I think she was a yellow girl. Why is this old man's eyes so bad? Don't you see that she hasn't opened her face yet? So at that time, he was ashamed and ashamed. After taking a sip, he took a small step. Regardless of whether the wasteland under his feet was clean or not, he lifted his skirt and rushed to the roadside carriage.

Everyone looked at Fan Yutong, who was as shocked as a bird, and fled, so they all laughed one after another. Xiao Tianjian also pulled a black line on his face, stared at the soldiers around him, and shouted, "Why don't you send your father-in-law back to clean up? What are you waiting for?"

Several soldiers, including the iron head, immediately made a scattered shape, the old man with the old man, and the little girl with the little girl. Then the group of people went on the road and walked towards the village in front of them.