Chapter 92: Sowing Hope (Please recommend and collect)
Luo Chong judged from the phenomenon of animal hair loss that the temperature had reached the right temperature for sowing. That night, he began to look for various seeds in stock last year, mainly wild rice, peanuts, and peppers. In addition, sisal and man-eating trees need to be planted, but those things will not be planted in the fields, but on the mountains.
Among these seeds, peanuts need to be shelled and then soaked in advance. The four baskets of peanut seeds in the Han tribe need to be processed first. That afternoon, Luo Chong took a few girls to sit in the open space to peel peanuts, and the peeled peanuts were placed in a large water tank.
The rat witch looked puzzled. He didn't know what Luo Chong was doing. Why didn't he eat the peanuts after peeling them, but put them aside. Isn't this thing for eating?
"Chief, what are you doing? Why don't you eat these nuts?" The rat witch came over and squatted beside him and asked.
"Oh, it turns out to be a witch. We are going to plant this kind of nuts now. Also, this thing is called peanuts, and it will be called peanuts in the future." Luo Chong said while working.
"Watson peanuts, peanuts, what is called planting?" The rat witch whispered several times, and then continued to ask.
"Planting means that in the spring, we bury this kind of nut in the soil and pour some water on it. It will grow into a plant. In the fall, the buried peanut will grow dozens or hundreds of peanuts. In that case, if we plant four baskets, it will at least become 400 baskets, or even thousands of baskets." Luo Chong explained to the Rat Wizard while counting on his fingers.
"This, this, is this true?" The Rat Wizard's jaw almost hit his foot in surprise.
"Of course, as long as we can plant it, these four baskets of peanuts will at least become hundreds of baskets. And we not only want to plant peanuts, but also rice. That thing is not only delicious, but also grows more and faster. Plant a grain of rice in the spring, and it will at least multiply by 10,000 times in the fall. This is what I said before, the way to use this land to feed 6,000 people." Luo Chong said affirmatively.
"Rice, 10,000 times, chief, how much is 10,000 times?" The Rat Wizard asked, repeating a few key words Luo Chong said.
"You know 100, right?"
"Yeah."
"Ten 100s equals one thousand." Luo Chong said, stretching out his palms.
"What about ten thousand?"
"Ten 1,000 equals ten thousand, which is one hundred times one hundred." Luo Chong said, still stretching out his palms.
A sound of swallowing saliva was heard around.
"Chief, what else do we need to do? I think we should focus on planting. It's much more important than hunting." Shu Da, who had been eavesdropping beside him, said.
Shu Da used to be a chief. Facts have proved that those who can be chiefs are not stupid. Although he only listened once, he immediately understood the importance of planting. Ten thousand times the food, it is worth it no matter how hard it is to plant.
And this is all true. Luo Chong is not exaggerating at all. When a rice grain matures, it will grow 20 to 40 rice ears. Each rice ear can produce 400 to 600 rice grains. According to a conservative estimate, 25 rice ears, each with 500 rice grains, that is 12,500 rice grains. Luo Chong said that multiplying by 10,000 times is still the most conservative estimate.
"Chief, I remember that we brought a few bags of flowers and peanuts when we moved. Can we plant those too? We are not short of food now. I think we can plant those too." The Rat Wizard suddenly remembered something and asked Luo Chong excitedly.
"Oh? Really! That's great. In this way, you should immediately have someone sort out those peanuts and pick out the intact peanuts. Remember, they must be intact, otherwise they will not grow." Luo Chong said with some surprise.
"Okay, okay, I'll have someone do it right away. I'll go right away." The Rat Wizard leaned on his crutches and quickly found his former tribesman and asked where the peanuts were stored.
"Chief, what about me? What should I do? I can help." Seeing that the Rat Witch left happily, but he did not get the task, Rat Da said anxiously.
"You, call a few people to help me to plough the land." Luo Chong had only asked people to plough the rice fields before, and then went to mine. The peanut and pepper fields were not ploughed. Now that there are people, it is a good time to make up for it.
"Oh, then I will go and call people." Rat Da also left happily.
Before dark that day, Luo Chong marked out 100 mu of peanut fields and 36 mu of pepper fields to the south of the rice fields, totaling 200 mu of three crops.
The next morning, Shu Da and his tribesmen learned to put the bronze plow on the ox. A Han tribe woman who had participated in ploughing before led the ox in front, and Shu Da held the plow behind. He was very surprised and curious to see the soil on the ground turned up as the bronze plow moved forward.
Two oxen and four plows worked together, and the progress was still very fast.
Luo Chong soaked 22 kilograms of rice seeds in a water tank early in the morning, removed the empty grains and shriveled grains floating on the water, and the remaining rice seeds with full grains needed to be soaked for 24 hours.
Taking advantage of the soaking time, Luo Chong chose the westernmost piece of land in the rice field and began to irrigate it, using this field as a seedling field.
As we all know, rice is not a fixed-sowing crop. It has seedling management. From the germination of seeds to the growth of a few leaves, this period is called the seedling period, which is about 20 days. When the seedlings grow to a certain size, they will be pulled out of the seedling field and transplanted into the field. This step is called transplanting.
The sorted peanut seeds were also soaked. Peanuts are fixed crops and can be sown directly in the field, but the field must be plowed first.
In order to achieve the simultaneous sowing of rice, peanuts and peppers, Shu Da led people to plow the land to catch up with the progress.
The workload of 136 acres of land, from dawn to dusk, plowing the land, picking up debris, leveling the plots, people resting but cows not resting, cows resting but plowing not resting, people changing when tired, cows changing when tired, two bronze plows constantly flipping in the soil, everyone's enthusiasm for farming is unprecedentedly high.
It took less than two days to turn over all the planned plots. The soil became loose and breathable, and the weeds were cleared. Now it is the best fertile land. The
soaked seeds were fished out, covered with straw, sprinkled with water and placed next to the charcoal kiln for germination. The mud shell that burned pyrite is still burning, and the surrounding temperature is just right for germinating rice seeds.
On the third day, the sprouted rice seeds were evenly sown in the fields, and then covered with a thin layer of soil. Finally, a gap was dug in the canal and water was poured into the fields for flooding.
Peanut seeds were sown in pits dug in the fields. The row spacing of each row was half a meter wide, and the distance between each plant was 15 centimeters. The person sowing peanuts held a bowl of peanuts in his left hand and a 15-centimeter-long pointed wooden shovel in his right hand. When sowing, he first used the wooden shovel to measure the ground, then dug a small pit, put two peanuts in it, covered it with soil, and continued to the next one. Finally, watering was concentrated.
Two seeds are buried in each hole in case some seeds will not germinate. In this way, at least one will grow out of two seeds. If none grows out, one will be transplanted from another hole with two seeds. This will make the field look very neat.
The remaining peppers are planted in a similar way to peanuts, with a ridge of half a meter (long), that is, the row spacing of each row and the plant spacing of each plant is 30 cm. The process is the same as that of peanuts. Dig a hole and sow a few seeds, cover with soil, and water. The process is the same as peanuts.
During the entire sowing period, all the people in the Han tribe who were over 8 years old, totaling nearly 200 people, were sowing in the fields, and even Luo Chong was no exception. The sowing speed was of course very fast. The farm work of 140 acres of land was completed in just half a day. On average, there were more than one person per acre of land, and no one was very tired.
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