Wanli Youming

Chapter 468 Farming Fujiang

Chapter 468 Farming Fujiang

New farmers, new fields, and new agricultural productivity began to appear in Daming Dongxuan.

For example, after an early autumn rain in the 14th year of Wanli, Gao Zijia, a new farmer, carried a wooden ox and walked to his new field in the Yuanjing Mansion of Dongying Chief Secretary.

The Japanese girl named Wu Qian by him also followed him barefoot with a basket on her back.

Not long after, a cock crow called out the red sun.

Facing the red sun, Gao Zijia put the wooden ox on the field ridge, and first asked Wu Qian to give him the basket, and then he took out a cloth bag from the basket.

The cloth bag contained ashes, the bones of various chickens, ducks, and other birds and animals that Gao Zijia collected after he was on the boat. Now they are burned and used as fertilizer.

At this time Gao Zijia had begun to spread the ashes evenly on the field.

And Wu Qian, a Japanese girl, skillfully went to the pond above the field ridge.

The pond was newly dug by Gao Zijia, drawing water from the Tanabe Mountain Stream.

There is a wooden chicken coop on the pond, in which there are chicks that Gao Zijia bought from the market recently.

The reason why the chicken coop is set up on the pond is to be able to use chicken manure as feed for fish, so that the fish in the pond can also be raised while raising chickens.

The pond is not only for fish farming, but also as a water storage tank, so that the fields can use water when there is a shortage of water.

This is the comprehensive agriculture that has emerged in the Ming Dynasty.

The earliest record of comprehensive agricultural management comes from the "Zhaochang Hezhi Manuscript" in the middle of the Ming Dynasty. It is mentioned that Tan Xiao and Tan Zhaoliang brothers transformed low-lying wasteland into large ponds to raise chickens and fish, making them fat and rich.

Now this kind of business model has been gradually promoted in the Wanli Dynasty.

Gao Zijia also knows this method, and although it is not the time for rice planting, he has already started to plant maize, which is the corn of later generations.

Corn had been introduced to Ming Dynasty during this era, and it was introduced mainly through two routes, one was from Yunnan and Burma to Yunnan, and the other was from the southeast coast to Zhejiang.

After Zhu Yijun ascended the throne, he vigorously promoted the promotion of new crops, so Gao Zijia knew maize even though he was from the north.

The task of Wu Qian, a Japanese girl, is to take care of these chicks, clean the chicken coop, take away the sick chicks and dispose of them in time, and sweep the excrement into the pond.

In addition, she had to follow Gao Zijia to learn how to harvest corn, rice, wheat, sweet potatoes, beans, etc. As for the seeds, she could go to Yuanjing Prefecture and buy them from local seed merchants in Ming Dynasty.

According to the "Liuhe County Chronicles", in the era of the Ming Dynasty, in terms of crop types, there were as many as [-] kinds of rice, more than [-] kinds of beans, and more than [-] kinds of wheat, which were suitable for different types of fields. The exotic crops introduced by each.

It can be said that because the agricultural civilization of the Ming Dynasty has a wider area than the native farming civilization of the Japanese country, and has more channels to contact the outside world, it also allows Daming to produce a richer variety of crops and a higher land utilization rate.

Therefore, Gao Zijia naturally needs to grow a lot of crops, and there are more types of land that can be used.

In short, because Gao Zijia, a Han Chinese, has richer agricultural experience and technology, and Wu Qian, a Japanese girl, helped them to grow [-] acres of land by hard work on the basis of the original [-] acres of land. land.

And because the land was managed to be more fertile, he actually harvested [-] shi rice and more than [-] shi miscellaneous grains in the first year!Increase the output of Wotian, which can only produce one stone per mu, to two stones and five buckets per mu, and there is no shortage of chicken and fish, so that many products can be sold in the market to promote commercial development.

According to the "Nongzheng Quanshu", in the middle of the Ming Dynasty, good land could be managed to a maximum of three stones, and the poorer ones were more than two stones and five buckets.

But here, Gao Zijia has only raised the land for the first year, so it is not bad to be able to earn two stones and five buckets per mu.

However, in any case, Gao Zijia, an ordinary Han peasant farmer, has become a refugee and disaster victim that dragged down the country's finances due to natural disasters and intensified land annexation in China, but once he came out, he did become a real sharp edge for Ming's external expansion!

What moved to the Ming Dynasty was not the people, but the advanced productive forces.

According to historical records, because the agricultural production of the Japanese was not as good as that of the Ming Dynasty during this period, and they generally could only guarantee one stone per mu, the Han people who moved from the Ming Dynasty could at least make the agricultural production here appear, and one Han could be the second Japanese or The situation of Sanwo.

Perhaps in the Han Dynasty, one Han being the Five Hus was not only a comparison of force, but also a comparison of productivity.

Anyway, for Ming Dynasty, the Han people can indeed create more wealth than the Japanese people.

Perhaps this is also why the foreign races around the Ming Dynasty, whether they were Mongols, Jurchen, or Southwest chieftains, liked to plunder the population when they plundered the Han land.

The most valuable thing in Ming Dynasty may actually be people, that is, the domesticated Han people who are hardworking and good at farming.

It's just that the rulers who upheld the old etiquette only wanted to squeeze them and exploit them, but never organized them to expand their civilization to the outside world. Therefore, it seems that their contribution to civilization did not seem to be that great, and even after being squeezed too much, because of showing Most of the educated people in their own group despise the huge destructive power that comes out.

The Han people are indeed better at managing and farming but weaker at fighting and plundering.

When Gao Zijia managed his own agriculture well in his new homeland and started to enter into business by selling agricultural products, he also aroused the covetousness of the surrounding Japanese landlord class.

The Japanese landlord class is basically aristocrats, there is no such thing as commoner landlords, and the lowest-level landlords are basically samurai working for daimyo.

Human greed is unstoppable. For the warriors belonging to the Japanese landlord class, after seeing the more developed agriculture run by Han people like Gao Zijia, the first thing they thought of was not learning, but the most primitive and brutal plundering.

this day.

At dawn, Japanese warriors rushed into Gao Zijia's village and killed several Han people who had just migrated.

For a while, screams and dogs barked continuously.

Gao Zijia also hurriedly got up with Wu Qian, and then he saw several Japanese warriors rushing towards him with knives. Several Japanese warriors were already destroying Gao Zijia's chicken coop and took his chicken away.

"You stop!"

Gao Zijia shouted.

But as soon as he finished shouting, the Japanese warriors in front of him walked towards him with smirks, and one warrior kicked him down, then pulled Wu Qian over, hugged him and started to mess around touch.

This Wu Qian was so frightened that Huarong turned pale, desperately shouted Japanese language at Gao Zijia, begging him to save her.

Snapped!

Hearing that Wu Qian was still a Japanese, the samurai who was holding him slapped her, scolded her a few words, and then began to pull down her skirt to force her.

Seeing this, Gao Zijia went back to the house and pulled out the Yanling saber, and directly pierced the chest of the Japanese warrior who was about to be raped: "Damn it!"

The Japanese warrior couldn't help but fell to the ground in a daze.

Several other Japanese warriors were smiling and preparing to watch a live show, but they were also stunned because of this, and immediately couldn't help being furious, they all drew their knives and slashed at Gao Zijia.

boom!

boom!

boom!

Suddenly, there was a loud gunshot.

These Japanese warriors couldn't help being taken aback.

(End of this chapter)