All Heavens and Worlds Modified History System

Chapter 322 Fertilizer
Li Erfeng, who was always known for his calmness, roared for a full quarter of an hour in Lanqiao Inn.

He was so angry and out of control that everyone around him, except Chen Ran, was frightened and stunned.

Until Qin Qiong suddenly said, "Your Majesty's words are vulgar and you have no manners of a monarch."

Li Er, whose voice was hoarse, stopped shouting and cursing abruptly.

After taking a long breath, he glared at Chen Ran angrily, "Do you know how many people in the Tang Dynasty starved to death because they had no food to eat?!"

Chen Ran scratched his ears and said, "I'm not the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty, how would I know?"

"No matter what, I will never allow such a thing as feeding grain to pigs, which is condemned by God!"

Li Yuanji, who finally dared to speak, whispered, "Don't kanglie eat grass?"

"Just eating grass won't provide any nutrition," Chen Ran kindly explained. "If pigs want to gain weight, they need to eat nutritious feed. If they only eat grass, they will only weigh about 100 kilograms after a few years. No matter how good the breed is, it will be useless if the nutrition is not enough."

"Corn is actually very suitable as feed, in my opinion."

"Stop talking." Seeing Li Er's red eyes, Li Jiancheng hurriedly stepped forward to cover Chen Ran's mouth. "This is really not okay!"

"I have announced to the world that the Tang Dynasty has received divine food from heaven. From now on, there will be no more famine in the Tang Dynasty."

If it were someone else, Li Er would have ordered the operation long ago, but this guy had to suppress his anger and explain, "If you feed the divine food to the pigs, wouldn't I be embarrassed in front of the whole world?"

"I ordered people to send more pig grass to you."

"It's no use eating grass." Chen Ran pushed Li Jiancheng away. "How about this, give me all the corn cobs."

Li Er had already eaten the corn and brought it back to the palace to eat.

But he didn't know that corn cobs can be eaten. "Isn't that a stalk? Can it be eaten?"

"No one eats corncobs except corn cobs." Chen Ran simply shook his head. "You won't understand even if I tell you. Just send all the corncobs over here."

Corn certainly can't be used to feed pigs, but corn cobs, which are of little use, can be used.

Li Er, who always got angry every time he came, ordered people to harvest all the cotton fields and then pack and transport them away.

It's not just the cotton in the cotton field, nor is it just the textile equipment prepared for him.

He even took away the textile equipment that was being used and the peasant women who were weaving.

Just as Chen Ran said, if cotton-padded jackets could really have super warmth-keeping capabilities, they would have great strategic value.

Chen Ran didn't care about these things, as they were originally prepared for the people of the Tang Dynasty.

But before Li Er left, he still reminded her, "Don't forget, you are not allowed to marry into a foreign alliance."

Li Er turned around and snorted, then rode away without saying anything.

As the saying goes, you have short hands when you take someone, and you have a short mouth when you eat someone.

Li Er was taking and eating, so naturally he had no room to refuse Chen Ran's request.

Unless you are shameless!

"Okay." After watching Li Er and his group leave in a mighty procession, Chen Ran turned around and clapped his hands to greet everyone, "The fields are vacant and the time is right. Next, let's start planting rapeseed flowers."

“First, prepare the land and add fertilizer to it.”

For people who are used to doing farm work, land preparation is not a problem at all.

But gaining weight is a problem.

It’s not that it doesn’t work, but there is a lack of fertilizer.

You have to know that in this era, manure is a commodity that people fight for, and it is an important source of organic fertilizer.

Growing rapeseed requires a lot of fertilizers, the most important of which is nitrogen fertilizer.

It’s okay not to use fertilizer, but the yield depends on God.

Chen Ran can exchange various fertilizers from the system mall, but large-scale exchange is impossible.

You have to figure it out yourself.

Forget about synthesizing ammonia, as that requires an industrial system.

As for urea, although urine is enough, it also requires a huge scale.

Chen Ran estimated that even if Li Er personally issued an order, it would be impossible to collect the urine of everyone in the world.

In this case, we can only look for it in nature.

The first choice is naturally beans.

Whether it is soybeans, peas, beans or other legumes, rhizobia convert nitrogen in the air into amino acids and other nutrients needed by plants, which is a standard source of natural nitrogen fertilizer.

“When you prepare the soil, plant some beans.”

This amount is definitely not enough, we have to think of other ways.

"After the corn cobs are brought in, some are ground into powder for use as feed, and the rest are chopped up and buried in the soil."

When corn cobs decompose, they become a natural nitrogen fertilizer.

Whether it is the time difference from planting to harvesting or the complementarity of fertilizers, corn and rapeseed are really good partners.

Of course, rainwater in the sky is essentially a nitrogen fertilizer, containing nitrogen elements in the air.

Relying on God for our food does not just mean water, but also the various nutrients brought by rain.

There are many phosphorus fertilizers in nature, such as bone meal, especially fish bone meal, and guano, which was once an important commodity in the Age of Discovery.

Then there is phosphate rock, which after processing becomes a large source of phosphate fertilizer.

Shaanxi has rich phosphate resources, and Chen Ran plans to go out and search for it thoroughly.

As for potash fertilizer, the most famous potash fertilizer in nature is wood ash.

Then there is the potash salt mine.

The nearest large-scale potash salt mine is the Xia Suiyin area where Liang Shidu was entrenched.

Because of the abundance of minerals, the land there is considered barren. In fact, there are treasures all underground, but people just don't know how to use them.

"I really need to go out for a walk when I have time." At the beginning of the first year of Zhenguan, Luo Yi rebelled.

However, he was killed not long after and his head was sent to Guanzhong.

Li Er ordered his men to spread the head in all directions to deter lawless elements.

I don't know what he was thinking, but he even sent someone to Lanqiao Station for a visit.

Luo Yi was given the surname Li by Li Yuan, so he should actually be called Li Yi.

He was a follower of Li Jiancheng, and the two had a very good relationship.

There is no doubt that it was sent here for Li Jiancheng to see.

Seeing Luo Yi's hideous head that had been saltpetered, Li Jiancheng sighed for a long time.

"He is just a fool who wants to dominate the world but has no ability or vision."

Chen Ran consoled her and asked Li Yuanji, who was standing beside her, "Have you memorized the book "Postpartum Care for Sows"?"

Li Yuanji nodded with a bitter face and replied in a low voice, "I have memorized it."

"It just so happens that the pair of folk pigs have given birth to a litter of piglets. You can go and take care of them."

Li Yuanji was very angry. "I am His Royal Highness the Prince of Qi, and you want me to raise pigs? I won't do it!"

"Not working? You can not work, but you won't have food to eat." Chen Ran responded calmly, "You can choose to challenge me. As long as you can beat me, you can do whatever you want."

During this period of time, Li Yuanji had resisted.

But when facing Chen Ran, he easily dealt with him with just one hand.

If you want to use cold violence and refuse to cooperate, that’s fine, then just don’t give me food.

Li Yuanji, who had never been hungry since he was a child, felt for the first time how terrible the feeling of hunger was.

He looked at Li Jiancheng for help, but the former prince didn't even look at him.

Li Jiancheng also rebelled, but the result was the same for both brothers.

"Don't dare?" Chen Ran raised his eyebrows and kicked him. "If you don't dare, go and do nursing!"

When Li Yuanji went to work as a nurse in disgrace, Chen Ran told Li Jiancheng to "follow me."

He took Li Jiancheng on horseback and headed straight for Chang'an City.

This caused a big commotion.

The people who were following him from all sides seemed to have stirred up a hornet's nest, with hundreds of them chasing him all the way.

Chen Ran easily defeated all the interceptions along the way, and took Li Jiancheng straight into Chang'an City and rushed to the palace along Suzaku Street.

When they arrived at the gate of the palace, a large number of soldiers were already lined up waiting.

The gatekeeper today was Duan Zhixuan. When he saw the former crown prince appear in front of the palace gate, his scalp went numb and he felt like something big was going to happen.

"Go and inform Li Er and tell him that I have something important to discuss with him."

As if Duan Zhixuan had been pardoned, he quickly ordered someone to inform the emperor and threw this hot issue to the emperor to resolve.

After a long time, the news came out that Chen Ran and Li Jiancheng were allowed to enter the palace to meet the emperor.

Under the protection of a group of soldiers, the two men came to a side hall.

Apart from the soldiers, there was only Li Er in the hall.

His eyes flickered. "You came to me today, are you planning a rebellion?"

"It's just being an emperor. I'm so nervous all day long, as if everyone wants to take this chair."

Chen Ran, who had worked in this position before, was not surprised by this. "Don't think too much. I came here for business today."

Li Er stroked his beard and said, "Speak."

"I plan to take him to Shannan Road (Hanzhong)."

"Why?"

"Looking for minerals."

Li Er was surprised and doubtful, "I have never heard of gold and silver mines in Shannan Road."

"Can you open your eyes a little bit?" Chen Ran was speechless. "You only have eyes for gold and silver. Those things can't be eaten or worn. They are useless."

"What kind of mine is that? What's the purpose? Are you going to make an elixir?"

Chen Ran didn't want to waste time talking to him, so he simply said, "Looking for phosphate ore is a kind of fertilizer. It can increase the yield of various crops, and it can increase the yield of one stone per acre."

"what?!"

Li Er was shocked. "One dan of yield per mu increased? How is that possible?"

"Whether it is possible or not, we will know once we find the phosphate mine and use it."

Chen Ran pointed at Li Jiancheng who was standing beside him and said, "If you don't want him to be shot by dozens of arrows and commit suicide, then let him go for a walk. I'll be watching over him, and nothing will go wrong."

"What if something goes wrong?"

"I'm a man of my word, and I stick to my words!" Chen Ran responded confidently, "If something goes wrong, I'll do whatever you want! Even destroying the Turks won't be a difficult task!"

"Oh, by the way, immortality is not an option. I can't do that."

When others said this, Li Er just thought they were crazy.

But when Chen Ran said this, he believed it to some extent.

After all, corn and cotton have proven that they are really good things!

Moreover, new things have been planted at Lanqiao Station, and he is full of anticipation.

After a moment of silence, Li Er said, "I will send someone to follow you."

"It's not possible not to send someone. Someone has to do the odd jobs."

(End of this chapter)