Ancient natural disasters: The whole family traveled through time and was almost wiped out

Chapter 239

But Jiang Yipei and Jiang Suying rushed back overnight and have been busy like tops for half a month. If they don't take a break to replenish their energy, they will really be sacrificed at work.

When little Yutou was one month old, only Qin's family and Old Master Jiang's family in the village were notified, and then the rest of the Jiang family was informed.

The other people in Jiangjia Village were not notified, as they all had to go to work. Even Jiang Xiumian had to be invited by the servants when it was time for dinner.

Early in the morning, the fat chef was busy. After Qin's family came over and had breakfast, little Yutou's grandparents each put a red paper bag around his neck. Old Lady Yang and Jiang Lizheng also gave him one. After saying some auspicious words such as "stay healthy", "grow up quickly", and "get a good score on the imperial examination" -

Old Mrs. Yang carried little Yutou in a sling and tied a pair of Jiang Lizheng's pants outside the sling.

In the dialect of Jiangjia Village, "Ku" and "Fu" are homophones, and the meaning is very clear, which is to hope that the children will grow up to be rich and noble.

——The dreams of ordinary people are so simple.

Then, according to custom, grandpa and grandma would carry the baby to the vegetable garden to pick vegetables, some onions and celery - smart and hardworking.

However, the vegetable gardens were all bare now, so there was no need to go there, so she carried him on her back and strolled around the village. This was considered "lucky", and by the way, she let him see the village where he would grow up in the future.

Ten days after the full moon, there is a local custom that Qin has to take the child back to her parents' home to live for a while. This makes Jiang Yiyu very busy, and he wants to move all his belongings to Qin's house, for fear that his wife and child will be cold and hungry.

Since he couldn't leave, it was great that he could take the time to send the mother and daughter over there.

The Qin family's conditions were indeed not as good as the Jiang family's, but there was no way they would treat a girl who came home to visit her relatives badly, and the Jiang family had sent them a lot of things.

But now that the weather is warmer, it's time to start preparing the land and planting beans.

Plant melons and beans around the time of Grain Rain.

If you miss the best time to plant rice, you can't miss the time to plant beans.

Although bean rice is not as delicious as rice, it can also fill your stomach.

In today's situation, everyone has a sense of crisis, so it is important to store more food at home!

As a result, the Qin family went out early and came back late every day, and really didn't care much about Qin, leaving only a few young ones to accompany her.

Qin also knew how difficult it was to live at her parents' home, so she went home after staying there for six days. She originally wanted to stay for twelve days - the number of days one stays at her parents' home should be an even number.

The people in Jiangjia Village are divided into three groups: one group is building the village wall, one group is working in the brick kiln, and another group is working in the fields. Even the children are busy working in the fields, picking up grass roots and pulling weeds.

Jiang Xiaomi gave the children in her martial arts class a holiday during the busy farming season.

"Grandpa." Jiang Xiaomi went to the field to find Jiang Lizheng, who was hoeing the field. When he saw his granddaughter coming, he hurriedly asked, "What's wrong?"

Jiang Xiaomi asked, "Is there a lot of sand in our house?"

"A lot, all over this area, and also over the hillside, it's all sandy, about 40 to 50 acres, right? What do you want to do?"

In Jiang Yipei's characterization, Jiang Xiaomi learned farming from a doctor in some Lu temple in the capital, and he is a good farmer. Even during floods and frosts, their village still has bean sprouts to eat.

Jiang Xiaomi approached mysteriously and said, "There is a kind of crop in my magical power. If it is planted well, the yield per mu can reach 5000 kilograms!"

"What?!" Jiang Lizheng realized that his voice was too loud, and quickly lowered his voice: "How much did you say?"

"Five thousand kilograms! Conservative! In fact, we can grow eight thousand to ten thousand kilograms!"

Hearing this number, Jiang Lizheng was so happy that he almost fainted.

Although his family has no shortage of food and drink, there is a shortage outside!

Not to mention 10,000 catties, even 5,000 catties per mu is good! Can the war outside still be fought?

Why fight?

The original intention of those refugees to rebel was simply because they were hungry and couldn't survive, so they wanted to steal some food from other people's homes to fill their stomachs, that's all!

If there is food and drink, who would want to rebel? Who would want to put their head on the belt?

"Xiaomi, are you serious? You are not lying to grandpa, right?" Jiang Lizheng was actually willing to believe that this was true, but he couldn't help but confirm it again and again.

"Really, really." Jiang Xiaomi took out a sweet potato as thick as her arm from the space, and after thinking about it, she took out a potato the size of her two fists: "The red one is called sweet potato, and the yellow one is called potato. Potatoes are delicious when stir-fried, but their yield per mu is a little smaller than that of sweet potatoes."

"How much less?" Jiang Lizheng asked.

Jiang Xiaomi: "Conservatively speaking, it's about 3,000 to 4,000 kilogram

It's only one or two thousand pounds less, which is really quite a lot.

But Jiang Lizheng had lived for so many years, and for the first time he didn't dare to make a normal judgment on what was so-called more and less.

If three or four thousand kilograms is not a lot, then what is the more than 300 kilograms of rice in their one acre of good land?

Jiang Lizheng's hands were shaking as he held the heavy sweet potatoes and potatoes. He swallowed hard and found his voice after a long while: "How do I plant this? How much of your magical power do you have? How many acres of land can you plant?"

"If it's potatoes, there are 300 kilograms, which can be used to plant about two mu of land. If it's sweet potatoes, there are 500 kilograms. The last step in planting sweet potatoes is to raise seedlings. When the sweet potatoes grow stems and leaves, they can be used for cuttings. I don't know how many mu of land I can plant."

"Okay, okay, let's plant them first. When we harvest them, we will have at least tens of thousands of kilograms for seeds. Oh, by the way..." Jiang Lizheng asked, "How long does it take to plant and harvest the sweet potatoes and potatoes?"

“It basically takes three to four months.”

"Okay, okay! Tell grandpa how to plant and how to raise seedlings." Jiang Li was very anxious.

"Okay, okay, don't worry." Jiang Xiaomi said, "We have to do it step by step! I have to go home, right?"

"Yes!" Jiang Lizheng slapped his forehead. There were so many people in the fields. He couldn't let his eldest granddaughter suddenly produce hundreds of kilograms of sweet potatoes and potatoes in public!

Jiang Lizheng dropped his hoe and took Jiang Xiaomi home. As they walked, Jiang Xiaomi said, "When people ask you about planting later, do you know what to say?"

"You're even testing your grandfather." Jiang Lizheng laughed and said, "I know, just say your father brought it back."

"Yeah!" Jiang Xiaomi smiled at Jiang Lizheng.

In fact, this excuse was not good. After all, these two crops had never appeared in this era. Did Jiang Yipei buy them? Luoshui County and Chunzhou County didn't have them! Beijing? Then the problem came. Both crops were easy to germinate. When they were promoted to the whole village, this problem would be discovered.

But what does it matter if we find out?

Not to mention, the discovery cycle must be very long, at least one or two years. Everyone has already accepted these two crops and knows their benefits. Will they still dig deeper into the details?

Of course not!

Even if it spreads to other villages or counties, everyone will think that it was spread from Jiangjia Village and will only trace it back to the source of Jiangjia Village. As for which family it belongs to, I believe no one will dig into the details. After all, it is not a monopoly and everyone can grow it!

Why are you asking so many questions?

So, many times, a reasonable excuse is all we need at the moment.

When she got home, Jiang Xiaomi was watched by Jiang Lizheng as she produced a dozen sacks of sweet potatoes and potatoes. These were the limited varieties in Jiang Xiubai's system. They were cold-resistant, heat-resistant and insect-pest resistant. If the fertilizer could keep up, there would be no problem in producing 5,000 kilograms of potatoes per mu and 8,000 kilograms of sweet potatoes per mu.

Speaking of fertility, Jiang Xiaomi slapped her forehead in annoyance.

Jiang Lizheng: "What's wrong? Why are you hitting yourself for no reason?"

"Grandpa, these two things require a lot of fertilizer. If you want to grow them well, the fertilizer must be sufficient."

Jiang Lizheng was also worried: "There are a lot of fertilizer piles in the fields, but because the weather is too cold, they are not piled very well."

The low per-acre yield of crops in ancient times was due not only to the disparity between manpower and machines, but also to another important reason, which was fertilizer.

Nowadays there are all kinds of chemical fertilizers, farmyard manure, and all kinds of herbicides and pesticides, but in ancient times, the only way to get fertilizer was by manpower. How much fertilizer was piled up depended on how many people there were in the family and how many livestock they raised.

"Grandpa, we have to make fertilizer."

"Yes, it's fermenting, it's still fermenting!"

Jiang Xiaomi suddenly thought that grandpa was quite cute. She said, "This time, let's try something different."

Jiang Lizheng never imagined that her eldest granddaughter's so-called different method was to dig black soil all over the mountains, gather leaves, and throw all the black soil and leaves into the fertilizer pit, and also throw some chicken manure from home. After a period of time, the heat would be dissipated, but most of the time it was covered with something. She said that this was fermentation.

Jiang Lizheng: "Is it really possible?"

Jiang Xiaomi spread her hands and said, "I have done everything I can. The rest is up to time."

Jiang Lizheng: "..."

Fertilizer making is a process of microbial fermentation, which cannot be short. During this period, Jiang Xiaomi processed the potatoes and sweet potatoes, and selected those for seeds, all of which were free of disease spots, lesions, and worm eyes. Moreover, each potato seed was soaked in 55°C warm water for about 10 minutes. This can kill the black spot bacteria and some stem nematodes attached to the potato skin.

When everything was ready, the sweet potatoes and potatoes were neatly arranged and buried in two plots of land respectively. They were covered with a layer of soil and then watered thoroughly. The rest was left to time.

Wait for the potatoes to sprout, cut the potatoes into tubers of different sizes at the root buds, then cover the cut surfaces with wood ash to speed up the healing of the potato wounds, and then plant them.

The sandy land for planting potatoes needs to be deeply plowed and ridged to increase the thickness of the planting soil so that the potatoes can grow better. Furrows should be dug on the ridges, and then base fertilizer and wood ash should be applied.

The fertilizer pile at Old Jiang's house was not enough, and Jiang Xiaomi's compost was not ready yet, so she could only quietly add compound fertilizer to Old Jiang's fertilizer pile. After adding the fertilizer, she covered it with a thin layer of soil to prevent the potatoes from direct contact with the fertilizer. Then she planted the potatoes with the buds facing up, and finally covered them with a thin layer of soil. After four or five days, she waited for the potatoes to sprout and then added soil.

The two things to pay attention to when cultivating sweet potatoes are humidity and temperature. They must be transplanted into the soil in time after germination. After the sweet potato seedlings grow three buds, Jiang Xiaomi has them cut and planted.

Sweet potato seedlings can be cultivated sustainably. They grow after being cut and then cut again. They are unlike potatoes, which are disposable products.

After comparing the two, Jiang Lizheng actually had some opinions about potatoes.

Potato:"……"

Only the Jiang family grows sweet potatoes and potatoes. In addition to these two crops, they also grow beans and melon vines.

Lao Jiang's family has a lot of land, and they used to hire many farmhands during the busy farming season. But now every family is busy farming, and those who don't have enough land have to rent it out or reclaim wasteland.

Some families knew that a certain family had no one at home, so they took the other person's land and used it to plant crops.

There is only one rule - plant more, not less.

Fortunately, the harvester was sent back. Jiang Xiumian tinkered with it and turned it into a tiller, which greatly helped the whole village.

This was not the first time Jiang Yida had seen a harvester, but this time he felt it was particularly beautiful and familiar!

Because this is the ancestor's preference for his son!

The climate has warmed up, already exceeding 10 degrees Celsius. The crops planted are growing well, and the fields, mountains and forests are full of green.

Life in Jiangjia Village will soon return to normal.

However, the counties outside had already been thrown into chaos due to the instigation of some people with ulterior motives. The refugees left their homeland and wanted to go back, but they could not.

The Dasheng Kingdom had long been corrupt, but there were still people eyeing it covetously. In addition to County Magistrate Chen, there was also General Chen Qi, who commanded a large number of troops to protect the country.

His ancestors and the Taizu at that time were brothers within the third degree of mourning. Taizu entrusted them with important tasks and held important positions. After so many generations of management, it is not an exaggeration to say that they were second only to the emperor.

By the time of Chen Qi's generation, seeing the cruel emperor, incompetent princes, the ever-increasing military pay cuts and the increasing contempt and insults against military generals, he could no longer hide his desire to replace them.

Floods and snowstorms are opportunities, so the thoughts that cannot be hidden are simply not hidden.

By distributing porridge and spreading rumors, after several months of operation, the General's Mansion of Protector of the Nation was regarded as popular among the people in several major cities in the capital.

And Chen Nuo has the final say in the entire south.

County Magistrate Chen's home base is in Jiangnan. How rich is Jiangnan?! In addition, with Chen Nuo's warning before the rainstorm, their family suffered little loss in Jiangnan, and even took the opportunity to purchase a large amount of supplies.

Whether it was disaster relief or charity, Chen Nuo did it without any pressure, unlike General Chen’s Mansion, which needed to go to other places to "replenish" military supplies.

The disaster in the south was quite serious, especially the snowstorm, which really killed a lot of people. County Magistrate Chen summed up a lot of experience in governing Luoshui County and Chunzhou County, and adapted to local conditions, but his only goal was to get the entire city back up and running.

As long as you work, you will get relief food. The more you work, the more you get.

To be honest, if the weather doesn't warm up now and crops are not planted, County Magistrate Chen will not be able to hold on any longer.

The old emperor was very ill, but he could not die.

As time went on, the two sons, who had always cared for him in every possible way, became hateful and spoke ill of him. Every time they came, they wanted the throne that he was reluctant to give up until his death.

In the end, neither of them came.

No one cares about the emperor.

Later, that bastard from the Chen family's side branch actually came to ask him for the throne!

The throne belongs to him, and everyone wants it!

I won’t give it to you!

I can't possibly give it to you!

I am the emperor, I cannot die!

I will live ten thousand years, and my descendants will live forever!