Quick travel: I am bound by the longevity system

No one knows how to grow corn and potatoes better than Lin Jiu. Of the ten acres of land, Lin Jiu planted three acres of potatoes and corn, and the remaining four acres were planted with cotton. She wants to cover the entire Youzhou with corn and potatoes in two years.

Qi Mingjing looked at Lin Jiu's confident look, and suddenly had a strange idea in his mind that Lin Jiu was familiar with these things.

Especially the fortune flower. This plant has appeared in Daqi for many years, but no one has ever found that it can weave cloth to keep out the cold. If it is as good as Lin Jiu said, then the soldiers on the border will not have to worry about it in the future. Winter is hard.

Thinking that the successful planting of these plants would provide food and clothing for Baixin and the soldiers, Qi Mingjing held the basket with corn next to him in his hand, and like Lin Jiu, dropped two grains of corn in each pit.

After the spring planting is over, the strong men return to the military camp to continue training, while the work of weeding and fertilizing is left to the old, weak, women and children.

In addition to handling official duties and taking care of her ten acres of experimental land, Lin Jiu was thinking about how to improve people's lives.

The best way is to encourage people to raise pigs, but today's pork is not as delicious as the most delicious meat in later generations. Although there are pigs among the people, the pigs only weigh about a hundred catties after being fed for a year, and the pork carries It's very irritating, and these pigs don't gain much fat even if they are fed for a year. Ordinary people would not be willing to eat pork at all unless they really have nothing to eat.

Most people in Dingyuan eat mutton, but mutton is only so big. Except during the Chinese New Year, there are really not many families who are willing to kill sheep to eat. In the final analysis, they are still poor and troubled.

On this day, Lin Jiu quietly left the city alone. After getting rid of the secret guards around him, Lin Jiu got into the forest. When the time was almost up, Lin Jiu led a black sow from the forest. Walked out.

On the other side, Qi Mingjing hurried out of the city to look for her after hearing that Lin Jiu was missing. However, when he was halfway there, he saw Lin Jiu holding a big black sow in his hand.

"Ajiu, what is this?"

"This sow wanted to sneak up on me, but I caught her. I saw that she had a lot of babies in her belly, so I just brought her back."

"Ajiu, hog meat is not delicious. If you are greedy for meat, I will hunt some rabbits for you and roast some yellow sheep for you to eat."

Lin Jiu rolled her eyes when she heard Qi Mingjing referring to pig as pig meat. Just hearing this word made her hungry, so how could she eat it later.

Lin Jiu walked up to Qi Mingjing, pointed at the sow and said, "Come on, read after me, pig...meat."

"pork."

"uh-huh."

Lin Jiu took the pig back to the county government office and put it in a pen that had been prepared long ago. She calculated the time and found that the pig should give birth in the next two days.

Sure enough, the sow started to work on the second day. Lin Jiu kept watch from morning to night, and the sow gave birth to a total of sixteen piglets.

One month later, the piglets were also one month old, and Lin Jiu thought that they should also pay for the surgery. The main reason why the pigs today did not grow big and the meat was not delicious was because there was no surgery on the pigs.

Lin Jiu only had theoretical knowledge and had no practical experience in operating pigs, so Lin Jiu thought of Qi Mingjing.

"Ajiu, what happened to you when you were looking for me?"

"Mingjing, there are knife makers in the army."

"Ajiu...you...what do you want the knife maker to do?"

Qi Mingjing instinctively felt his lower body tightening, and asked anxiously.

Swordsmiths are people who perform castration surgeries on men. Some of them will castrate themselves if they can't survive, and then recommend themselves to be eunuchs. Some people can't do it themselves, so they will find someone to take their place. Gradually, among the people, There are more people who specialize in this industry, commonly known as knife makers.

"The piglets are one month old. I asked the knife maker to perform surgery on them so that they will be willing to eat and sleep in the future."

"Perform an operation on a piglet? How about I help you?" Qi Mingjing did not intend to miss any opportunity to get along with Lin Jiu.

"You do it? If this spreads out, aren't you afraid that the censors will impeach you?"

Lin Jiu was impeached once before because she raised pigs in the county government, but the matter was suppressed by Emperor Taikang. If Xie Yao hadn't written to her, she wouldn't have known that some people were so idle. Even she raised pigs. Everyone should take care of it.

"Ajiu doesn't care, so why should I care about this? Besides, if the pig breeding methods can really be improved, this may not be a bad thing for the people."

"Okay, you go change into a bunt, and we're going to do the surgery on Piggy."

Lin Jiu and Qi Mingjing grabbed all the piglets and put them into the cage. Then Lin Jiu prepared a bowl of high-strength white wine and soaked the surgical tools for the piglets in white wine. Then he grabbed a piglet and handed it to Qi Mingjing. Mirror, and showed him how to operate on the piglets.

The screams of piglets suddenly came from the backyard of the county government office.

After the operation, the piglets' wounds were disinfected and put into the pen. As soon as the piglets were free, they went to find comfort in the presence of their mother pigs.

Ten of the sixteen piglets were boars, and the other six were gilts. Lin Jiu planned to use these six sows for breeding, so Qi Mingjing was not allowed to undergo surgery.

Fifty days later, the piglets can separate into separate nests. Lin Jiu raised the ten little boars in another place and hired people to feed them.

Because of raising pigs, the county government accumulated a lot of pig excrement and urine. Lin Jiu asked people to mix the excrement and urine with water and use it to topdress the winter wheat. Now is the time when the wheat is filling, so there must be a shortage of fertilizer.

At the end of May and the beginning of June, the wheat gradually matured. People in the military camp took turns to harvest wheat in the fields. Half of the food here was their military rations. Whether they could keep their stomachs full depended on whether the military rations could be collected in time.

On the other side, Qi Mingjing has also strengthened the border defense. Now that the food harvest is imminent, who knows whether those barbarians will go south to grab food.

"Sir, take a break first. I've cooked mung bean soup. You can drink some." Xing'er handed a bowl of chilled mung bean soup to Lin Jiu.

"Thank you Xing'er."

Forty days after Lin Jiu arrived in Dingyuan, Xing'er and Tingzhu also arrived here with the escort team awarded to Lin Jiu by Emperor Taikang. Because there were cattle and mules that Lin Jiu wanted in the team, the team inevitably moved slower.

After a month of hard work, this batch of winter wheat was finally put into the warehouse. The weather has been good this year, and the wheat yield per mu is much higher than before.

After the wheat was harvested, Lin Jiu asked people to dump the dried livestock manure into these open spaces. This was the breeding land.

There is no problem in achieving two crops a year in the Huaihe Plain, but if a piece of land is planted twice a year without interruption, the quality of the land will definitely decline and eventually become barren land.

So the people here came up with the idea of ​​rotating crops and raising crops. This method indeed increased food production to a certain extent.

"Sir, the governor is looking for you."