Datang romantic little landlord

Don't look at the [-] acres of rice fields that now belong to the Li family, but Li Wangyou's excessive demands, the old village is daring to stand up to Li Wangyou.

"Little baby of the Li family, aren't you fooling around? Although the old man has never planted rice, he also knows how to plant rice seedlings. Why are you acting so foolishly?"

Li Wangyou was speechless. Of course, he had his reasons for letting the farmers throw seedlings.

Planting rice seedlings by throwing seedlings does not need to be planted one by one by hand, but goes through a process from throwing to falling. The seedlings are thrown with soil, the roots of the seedlings are shallow into the soil, and there is no row-to-plant spacing specification in the field.

Throwing seedlings is an advanced rice planting method in later generations.

It saves time and effort, and the seedling survival rate is high.One or two days after throwing the seedlings, the seedlings will basically take root, and new leaves will start to grow in three days.

The most important thing is that the yield per mu of paddy fields using throwing seedlings can be about [-]% higher than that of paddy fields with hand-planted seedlings.

But in Datang, in the old village's eyes, Li Wangyou asked farmers to throw seedlings and plant them, which was nothing but nonsense.

"Old villager, I'm not fooling around. The rice yield is high." Li Wangyou also wanted to convince this stubborn old man.

"Xiao Lang, let's forget about other things, but I dare not do this in this farm work. I have been farming all my life. If I dare to say a word, such nonsense will be punished by God!"

Li Heng and the others also spoke out to dissuade him, but Su Changqing just covered his mouth and laughed, and didn't say anything to help Li Wangyou out.

The beautiful boss is not stupid, she knows that although Li Wangyou is right, traditional concepts are not so easy to change.Especially in an agricultural society like the Tang Dynasty, if people change the farming method indiscriminately, they will be condemned by everyone.

Li Wangyou forced people to dig ditches in the fields before, which had already aroused a lot of discussion in the village. If he followed his method now, the old villager would probably go to the county government to file a complaint in a fit of anger.

Regarding this, Li Wangyou could only look up to the sky and sigh.

Sure enough, it may not be a good thing that everyone is drunk and I am alone. Forget it, I don’t bother arguing with Lao Muramasa and the others, it’s just a matter of increasing production by [-]%.

If the stalemate continued, the old village would have to get angry, and the loss would not be worth the gain.

So Li Wangyou sighed, nodded and agreed to follow the advice of Lao Cunzheng and the others, and still use the traditional method of transplanting rice seedlings.

Seeing that Li Wangyou followed the good example and accepted the old villager's protest, everyone immediately cheered, and the farmers began to take a handful of seedlings to the field to plant.

"Old villager, I will do everything else according to you, but how about letting someone plant the two acres of land here by throwing seedlings as I said?"

When he said these words, Lao Cunzheng was about to blow his beard and stare again.But the old man thought about it again, forget it, this land originally belonged to the Li family.

Since Xiaolang of the Li family has refuted the face today, the young man thinks that he has lost face and can't bear it. If he wants to save a little bit of face with these two acres of land, then let him do as he pleases.

After thinking this through, Lao Muramasa nodded and agreed with a smile.

In his opinion, this is nothing more than a young man's petty temper.On the contrary, the old man felt that although Li Wangyou was smart, he was still a young man at heart.

Not only the old village is thinking this way, including Li Heng, the Niu brothers, Qiu Kun, and even the farmers who help transplant rice seedlings and plant the land.

Just to make Xiao Langjun happy, several farmer men laughed and threw the seedlings to the two acres of rice fields.

The seedlings in the two-acre paddy field were planted by throwing seedlings, while the traditional rice field next to it was only planted in less than one mu of land.

Li Wangyou shook his head secretly, pulling and planting rice seedlings with his face facing the loess soil and his back facing the sky really took time and effort.

Forget it, let's wait until the autumn harvest.

When the rice fields started to transplant rice seedlings, Li Wangyou began to think about raising fish in the rice fields.

Huaxia has the habit of eating fish since ancient times.

The so-called fresh character is half fish and half sheep, which is called fresh.

However, due to the limitation of fishing technology, eating fish in ancient times was not an easy task. In "24 Filial Piety", there are even stories like lying on ice and begging carp, which shows that eating fish is not easy.

The allusion of "fish and bear's paw" in "Mencius·Gaozi [-]" shows how high the status of fish was in the life of ancient Chinese people at that time, equal to that of bear's paw.

Moreover, Tang people love to eat fish, especially raw fish fillets.

The sashimi of later generations in Japan was actually learned from the Tang Dynasty, and "sashimi" refers to the practice of sashimi.

Large-scale artificial fish farming began after the Tang and Song Dynasties.

It was not until the Song Dynasty that the cultivation of the four major species of fish had formed a scale and system. At that time, artificial fish farming was called "fish breeding".

However, Li Wangyou wanted to "grow fish", but it was very troublesome, because Datang didn't have fish fry for sale...

In this regard, Li Wangyou can only buy all kinds of small fish caught from the fishermen on the river at a high price, as well as fish with eggs and put them in the rice fields.

He doesn't pick the species of fish, he wants whatever fish the fishermen catch, including catfish, silver carp, silver carp, crucian carp, carp, and eel.

When Li Wangyou harvested the fish, Lao Cunzheng and the others figured out why they dug so many ditches in the rice fields.

"Xiao Lang, do you want to grow fish in the rice fields?"

"Yes, that's it."

Lao Cunzheng kept shaking his head: "How can fish be grown in this rice field? Isn't it afraid that the fish will eat the rice seedlings?"

"No, Lao Cunzheng, don't worry, growing fish in this rice field can also increase production." Li Wangyou replied confidently.

Artificial fish farming was not popular among the folks in Tang Dynasty at this time, and Laocunzheng didn't know about it, so he didn't make further entanglements.

However, the old man still felt that Li Wangyou was messing around. It was unheard of to raise fish in rice fields.It's okay to raise fish, but Li Wangyou raises carp, which makes Lao Cunzheng have another opinion.

"But it's all for you to grow other fish. Why do you still grow this red crocodile? Don't dare to sell this fish. The government will catch it and beat it."

Red Chigong is a carp.

Carp and Li have the same pronunciation. In order to avoid taboos, carp was called Red Chigong in Tang Dynasty.

Li Wangyou smiled at what Lao Cunzheng said.It is said that if the Tang Dynasty sells carp, if it is caught by the government, it will be severely punished by the sixty boards. This is actually a rumor spread by the people.

Wang Wei of the Tang Dynasty wrote in "Luoyang Daughter's Journey", "The beloved Yule rides a horse, and the maid Jinpan carp carp", which shows that eating carp is not illegal in the Tang Dynasty.

Li Wangyou just laughed at what Old Village said, and it was inconvenient to explain this kind of thing, and they would know when the carp was sold in the future.

The work in the rice fields was over, and the chicken and duck vendors in the county town also drove the ox carts to deliver the ducks that Li Wangyou ordered.

099 Duck in Trouble

Thousands of ducks were delivered, and the Dingzhou village was bustling for a while.

The men, mothers-in-law, old people, and children who had finished their farm work all gathered around the duck shed to watch the fun.

Li Wangyou asked the Niu family brothers to move the two boxes of copper coins directly to the duck shed, and settle the copper coins with the chicken and duck vendors on the spot.

These chicken and duck traders, at most, brought hundreds of ducks, and at least dozens of ducks.Su Changqing helped count and pay the money, while the twenty duck-herding girls selected by the old village were busy driving the ducks into the duck shed.

The two boxes of shiny copper coins caused a burst of exclamation from the spectators.