Cutting over the end of the Ming Dynasty: a dog-leg knife at the beginning

Chapter 92 Drought Relief ([-])

When you are the boss, you must find a way to get some benefits for the younger brother. If you have benefits, the younger brother will follow you wholeheartedly.Yang Menglong, who has rich experience in street fights, knows this well, so he provided public bathhouses, schools, clinics and other benefits to his thousands of subordinates as soon as he came up. The subordinates expressed their satisfaction and their morale was greatly boosted!
But as a qualified boss, it is not enough to just seek benefits for the younger brothers, but also to protect them. If you cannot protect them, most of the younger brothers will still leave you.Now that the welfare has been promised, it's time to test whether he can cover it, and the examiner is a pest in the wheat field.

Xiao Yang entered the examination room calmly, without looking for a gunman, bringing no cheating tools, or looking for backup. His character is absolutely trustworthy.He asked everyone to bring buckets and other tools to the fields to wait for him, while he got into the warehouse. The military households went back and prepared the tools according to his instructions and came to the fields.They were surprised to find that overnight, the wheat had been harmed a lot again. There were small blank areas in the wheat field. These inconspicuous bugs were really scary!Everyone looked in the direction of the town and waited anxiously.

Yang Menglong didn't keep them waiting long, and soon ordered several military households to drive over with two ox carts.Everyone surrounded them with a whoosh, their eyes all focused on the bullock cart, Yang Menglong was generous enough to let them see.

One cart was filled with lime, and the other was filled with gallstone.Everyone is familiar with Lime, but this lime...

Yang Menglong said: "Whether those bedbugs can be killed or not depends entirely on them... whoever, let me borrow your bucket."

"That who" immediately handed over the bucket. Yang Menglong asked someone to weigh it, and ran to the river to fetch a bucket of water with the bucket, then weighed about half a catty of bile alum and half a catty of lime, put them in the bucket and stirred vigorously .Under his stirring, the quicklime and alum quickly melted, and the whole bucket of water turned blue.After confirming that there were no residues, he rolled his eyes, took out a talisman and waved it in a serious manner, muttering words, as if he was doing a magic trick... Everyone watched without blinking, and whispered in their hearts: "Could it be that he will Magic? If he knows magic, maybe he can really drive away pests!" Thinking about it, I feel absurd. I have seen a lot of magic sticks for catching ghosts and exorcising evil spirits, but I have never seen one for repelling insects. Who is full enough to learn this? What a thankless spell!

Yang Menglong was even more energetic and had a great time!Xiao Yufang was angry and funny, and gave him a slap in the face: "Stop playing tricks, everyone is impatient, tell them how to deal with the pests in the crop fields!"

Yang Menglong rubbed his head and muttered: "Let me live the addiction of the magic stick!" He threw the talisman aside, pointed at the bucket of blue liquid, and said: "One pound of quicklime, one pound of gall alum, and one hundred kilograms of water, mix it according to this ratio, and then spray it on the crops, it should be able to drive away the pests." It turns out that what he made was Bordeaux mixture, a simple and effective fungicide that even a chemical idiot can make. All you need is gall alum and quicklime.

Chen Baihu was surprised: "It's that simple?"

Yang Menglong asked back: "How complicated do you think it can be?" But he had no idea, because Bordeaux mixture is only a bactericidal drug after all, which is very effective against various germs, but it is not known whether it can kill insects.He prayed in his heart that the pest resistance in this year would not be as strong as that in the 21st century, otherwise he would make the younger brothers laugh out loud.

Everyone didn't quite believe that this thing could deal with those troublesome pests, but it had to be tried. Two young men lifted the bucket of Bordeaux liquid into the field and started spraying. Tian was surrounded by water.Seeing this, many farmers also gathered together to watch the excitement. After all, watching the excitement is human nature and cannot be changed.

A bucket of Bordeaux liquid was sprayed quickly. After a while, the liquid was evaporated by the sun, leaving only a little blue and white stuff remaining on the leaves.Everyone watched with wide eyes, expecting to see a gorgeous scene of pests falling to the ground and dying. However, the Bordeaux liquid disappointed everyone. This gorgeous scene did not happen.Yang Menglong said: "It will take two days for the medicine to take effect. After two days, you will know the difference between spraying and not spraying."

Qi Hu couldn't believe it: "Does this thing really work?"

Yang Menglong said: "Believe it or not! There is only so much quicklime at present, and I can't make more liquid medicine. Since you don't believe it, I have to use it myself! Hurry up, mix the liquid medicine according to the method I just said, and put Spray all my wheat! There are thousands of acres of wheat, if the bugs eat it up, I will cry to someone!"

It is only natural for a general to ask his military households to work for him. The most important thing is that the military households really don’t believe in this thing. They happened to use the fields under Yang Menglong’s name for experiments. Everyone worked together to prepare the medicine. Adjusting the liquid, spraying, dividing the work and cooperating, working in full swing, it took a whole day to finish spraying.After finishing the work, I looked back and saw that there were some blue and white things on the stems and leaves of the thousands of acres of wheat, which looked as weird as possible.

Does this thing actually work?

Everyone had a question mark in their hearts.

Believe it or not, Yang Menglong does his own thing, sending the entire Qianhusuo people around, chopping bamboo, building waterwheels, building bathhouses, no one is lazy!The money he had on hand was spent like water, in exchange for a large number of craftsmen, food, cloth, lime, wood and other things he urgently needed now.The cloth he promised was distributed on the third day. It was not too much, and it was enough for each military household to make two sets of adult clothes, but it was enough.Wearing brand-new clothes, looking at the plasterers who are busy building bathhouses, clinics, and schools, and looking at the Fengshui master who is working hard to find a well in the field, all the military households firmly believe that General Yang did not To fool them, he promised to give them nothing less.Encouraged by such good news, everyone worked with great enthusiasm. After a day of picking water in the fields, they were not as tired as before.

Chen Lei found a few Fengshui masters from the county town and asked them to find a well site. Those guys pretended to be mysterious and asked Yang Menglong to set up an incense table. .He stared at these magic wands, and said, "I don't have so much American time to waste with you! Put away your tricks, and show me your housekeeping skills to find me a well! Find a well that can produce six wells per hour. I’ll give you ten taels of silver for a well with hundreds of tans of water, and it’s your ability to take out all the money in my pocket! But if you dare to play tricks and waste time again, I’ll throw you into the well!” These gods He was intimidated by the sticks. Under the threat of the dog's leg knife and the temptation of the silver, they tried their best to find a well site for Wuyang Qianhu, lest they fall behind.

Li Lin failed to hand in the report, and it was simply too difficult for someone who didn't know a basket of characters to write a detailed and specific report.However, what is the material used for each waterwheel, what method is used to make it the most durable, and where is the most convenient place to lift water? After that, let Li Lin sign it, and then allocate funds.Fortunately, Li Lin still knew his own name, so he didn't use two circles to replace it, but his calligraphy was terrible, so he insisted on writing the character "Lin" as "Mumu". Handwriting, Yang Menglong felt sorry for him, and secretly sighed that he had found a confidant.He deliberately gave Li Lin an extra sum of money, which was the food expenses of the craftsmen.He noticed that when he took the money, the lovely Li Mumu's hands shook violently. Could it be that his brother has never seen the money?
He guessed right, Li Lin has never touched silver in his life, what's more, what this old man received now is not a few taels of silver, but hundreds of taels of silver, you would be trembling if it were you.

Afterwards, the entire craftsman's workshop was busy, the hammers and chisels kept ringing, and they were still busy late at night, and they were desperate.

The task of purchasing lime was completed first. In Wuyang, the production of lime was not small, and Chen Baihu easily bought tens of thousands of catties.There is nothing to say, Yang Menglong waved his hand, and quickly sprayed the crops with Bordeaux mixture.As for moso bamboo, it is even simpler. There are some on the mountain, which can grow to a height of more than 20 meters in two months. The vitality is so strong that it is quite scary. Everyone hates it, because it can be used for chopsticks, bamboo rafts and bamboo shoots. There is no other use, and it is expanding wildly, grabbing land, and it can't be shoveled!Everyone has a share in this thing, just chop it up. Hundreds of people hacked wildly, and the golden cudgel-like bamboos were transported back one after another.Yang Menglong was also unambiguous, and asked people to saw the bamboo into four or five meter long sections, split them in half, remove the bamboo joints, and lay them all along the canal. The bamboo dragons started from the riverside and stretched rapidly.As for the joints between the bamboo canals, it is even simpler, just paste it with clay.After the bamboo canal was laid out for a mile, Yang Menglong jumped into the river and poured a bucket of water into the canal with a wooden barrel. Smoke in the wheat field.The military households were amazed and thought it was amazing. If there was no bamboo canal, the water they worked so hard to bring ashore would not be enough to moisten the canal!

"Use your brains, and you will find that there are too many ways to solve the problem!" Putting down the bucket, Yang Menglong said very arrogantly.

After discovering that the bamboo canal really worked, all the military households in the guard went into a frenzy, chopping down the moso bamboo so fiercely that they wished they could wipe out all the bamboo forests in Wuyang!

Xu Gong, who was in charge of buying the chickens and ducks, was even more domineering. He swept away the chickens and ducks in Wuyang and Biyang. He also likes to use the public to help private interests. Yang Menglong said that during the Chinese New Year, he would give chickens and ducks to everyone to add to the dishes, so he took the chicken feathers as arrows and bought them desperately so that he could get a few more during the Chinese New Year.Yang Menglong looked at the thousands of chickens and ducks and exclaimed, "I can even open a farm!"

Xiao Yufang said: "There are so many chickens and ducks, how much food do we have to eat, where can we find so many food for them to eat!"

Yang Menglong said: "It doesn't matter, I have a solution!"

He also raises chickens and ducks?

Xiao Yufang was quite surprised and wondered if there was anything else he didn't know!

(End of this chapter)