Zhao Weiwang in the Warring States Period

Under the command of Zhao Dan, the old farmer who supported the plow pointed down the arrow of the plow, and the plowshare penetrated deeply into this piece of land that had never been plowed before, and large pieces of soil moved forward with the plow Constantly being turned up, then chopped up by the plowwall and turned aside.

The few Zhao Guozhong ministers standing on the sidelines were fine, but the old farmers were obviously completely shocked, and they almost fell to the ground one by one, picking up the pieces of soil that Qu Yuanli had chopped up. , carefully observed it like a treasure.

"This Qu Yuanli can turn the ground so thoroughly!"

"This Quyuanli can break the soil so much. My daily work for a quarter of an hour is not as good as this Quyuanli in an instant!"

While these old farmers were full of admiration, the old farmer holding the plow also said with a smile: "You don't know, the sharp tool used to hold the plow for this curved plow is far less than the plow I usually use. The effort it took! In my opinion, with this plow, I could plow from sunrise to sunset in one go!"

"What?" Several old farmers were even more shocked when they heard the words, and one by one rushed forward to operate.

Finally all convinced.

In less than a quarter of an hour, this acre of land has been completely plowed back and forth by the big green bull pulling the Quyuan plow back and forth.

Zhao Dan smiled and asked the old farmers: "Old men, what do you think of this Quyuanli?"

At this moment, several old farmers were already flushed with excitement, and said to Zhao Dan: "My lord, this thing must be an artifact bestowed by God Taiyi and my lord!"

"Your Majesty, if you have this Quyuanli in your hand, it will definitely be of great help to the farmers in plowing the land!"

"My lord, if we have this curved plow, not only will the time for plowing the land be greatly shortened, but I can plow [-] mu of land by myself!"

Several old farmers praised this Qu Yuanli to the sky.

Zhao Dan turned his head to look at several Zhao Guo's important ministers beside him, and said with a smile: "What do you think of Qu Yuanli?"

At this point, Zhao Guo's important ministers should react even if they are fools.

That's right, it's true that these ministers have never been in the fields, and they don't even have the experience of watching other people plow the land, but the ministers don't know how to do it, and the old farmers do.

Just looking at the excited looks of one or two of these old farmers, who hasn't figured out whether the plow is useful or not?

Zhao Sheng was the first to speak: "Congratulations to your lord, congratulations to your lord. The curved plow created by Degong Shuban is a sharp weapon for farming in our country of Zhao!"

Li Bo also said: "Your Majesty, in my opinion, this Quyuanli should be promoted throughout the country, so that the people of Zhao State can use it as soon as possible!"

When it comes to farming skills, these senior ministers of the State of Zhao are no match for any of the old farmers, but in terms of vision, the old farmers are not as good as any of the ministers of the State of Zhao present.

"That's right!" Zhao Dan said with a smile on his face, "This Quyuanli is indeed an artifact bestowed by the heavens, and we must vigorously promote it! But what I want to tell you is that the good things I have obtained are not limited to this. One thing, gentlemen, old men, come with me."

Zhao Dan excitedly waved to everyone, and walked quickly towards a certain hillside not far away.

Chapter 366 Qu Yuanli's Good Partner (Third Change)

Under the leadership of Zhao Dan, the people of Zhao Guo who were both curious and puzzled soon came to the hillside.

As they walked, the ministers of Zhao State began to frown involuntarily.

Smelly.

It really stinks.

Looking at Zhao Dan who was walking at the front with great interest, Xiangbang Zhao Sheng slowed down his pace, approached Zhao Bao with a bitter face, and said to Zhao Bao in a low voice: "Mr. Pingyang, you can smell what kind of smell this is?" Smell? Why do I feel like it smells like feces?"

Zhao Bao frowned, and also replied in a low voice: "I also think it smells like feces, and it seems that the feces have been left for several days."

Both of their faces were blue and white, a bit ugly.

What made these ministers even more unbearable was that the closer to this hillside, the stronger the stench.

On the contrary, those old farmers have long been accustomed to this smell, and their faces are more curious. They don't know why they can smell such a strong stench in the royal garden.

After everyone turned around the hillside and saw the scene in front of them, they finally understood.

A large pit was dug on the other side of the hillside, and the very strong stench was emitted from it.

Zhao Dan pointed to the big pit and said to the people in front of him: "Everyone, what I want to tell you is this manure!"

Manure, as the name implies, is to use human and animal excrement and other excrement to make fertilizer.

Fertilizers are absolutely and unquestionably important to the cultivation of farmland.

Generally speaking, the land that can be cultivated has fertility in its soil, and the land without fertility cannot grow crops.

But generally speaking, this kind of fertility in the land will start to decline after a few years or even a year or two of cultivation, even the so-called upper field is no exception.

It is said in the Book of Rites: "If the soil is poor, the vegetation will not grow, and if the qi is weak, the living things will fail." This is what is said.

The direct consequence of soil fertility decline is of course the reduction of crop yield and crop yield, which is obviously unacceptable to farmers.

Reducing production means starvation, and may even starve to death.

Therefore, in order to preserve the fertility of the land, farmers can only adopt extremely simple and primitive methods such as fallow and rotation, or two crops in three years, or one crop of wheat and chestnuts and one crop of beans.

Of course, this is a relatively passive countermeasure. It is not that the Chinese ancestors have not taken countermeasures, and they all know that fertilizing the land can maintain its fertility.

For example, Bu Nong Shu once said: "Human and animal dung and stove ashes and foot mud are useless. Once they enter the field, they will be turned into cloth, silk, and millet."

There is another saying that goes well, "A crop has a flower, but it depends entirely on dung to manage the family."

So manure is still very important.

Compared with the ministers of Zhao who stood far away, the performance of the old peasants was obviously much calmer. Not only did they not feel any nausea, but they moved to the side of the pit one by one to observe carefully.

After reading it, an old farmer said to Zhao Dan: "Your Majesty, I have known about this fertile land for a long time. But I don't know why Your Majesty dug a hole to put dung in? Moreover, there seems to be mixed with the dung. other things?"

Zhao Dan laughed and said: "Although you know that this manure can fertilize the land, what I want to tell you is that you only know one thing and don't know the other."

You must know that although this manure can be used as fertilizer, if fresh manure is applied to the field, not only will it not be effective, but it will burn the seedlings.

If you want to apply manure to the field, the premise is that the manure must be decomposed, which is the so-called retting.

Dig a big pit like this, then put human and animal feces into it for retting, add plant ash, burn the animal bones left over at home, and crush the straw, and then put the excrement in the urine bucket Urine is also poured in, then covered and fermented, this is a super primitive version of a biogas digester.

Although this method takes a long time to ferment, the organic matter in the fertilizer is consumed less, and both the residue manure and the biogas slurry are highly fertile, and the biogas slurry can also be used as a pesticide, which can serve multiple purposes.

When Zhao Dan said this, he looked at the group of guys in front of him who were stunned for a while and smiled and said: "What do you think, what is the method of retting dung like this widow?"

"Ouch!" But Yu Xin finally couldn't hold back, and ran to the side to vomit

"Ouch!" Zhao Bao didn't hold back either, and ran to be with Yu Xin

Zhao Dan couldn't help rolling his eyes, and secretly complained in his heart: "What a pampered guy, who doesn't work hard in his limbs and doesn't distinguish between grains and grains!"

But to complain, Zhao Dan quickly left the place with everyone, and asked someone to cover the big hole.

It does smell a bit smoky