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There is a ditch in front of Luo's yard. Opposite this ditch is a grassy slope with many rocks, which is not easy to grow crops.

In this place last spring, Luo Yong picked up a small field along the side of the ditch, sprinkled a lot of soil and manure on it, and then planted a lot of various seeds he had collected before, but the result was And nothing was gained.

In the past two years, those merchants who often come and go to Xipo Village, if they find any novel seeds outside, they will often bring some of them to him. Luo Yong is always generous to these people. In order to express his gratitude, he Often invite people to dinner.

Then the people in their Xipo village were very worried, worried that Luo Sanlang would be deceived by someone, and some individuals would do what they liked, and specially get some wild flowers and weed seeds to fool him.

Judging from the current development of the situation, they all feel that their worries have indeed come true.

Those Rush seeds, after they are planted, none of them are decent. They are either half-dead and dying after a while, or they are simply unknown weeds, and there are small saplings. When they first grow, they can’t tell what they are. , Wait for them to grow up a bit, okay, isn't this a kind of bush that they often see on the hillside?

After the beginning of spring this year, Luo Yong started to raise seedlings again. He filled open clay pots with soil, buried seeds in them, poured enough water, and covered the mouth of the pots with oiled paper.

After the seeds germinate there, except for the oil paper, they are kept inside the house when the weather is cold, and taken outside to dry in the sun when the sun comes out.

"Why are you playing with this again this year? I have been playing with it for a year last year, and the seventh valley has not grown." When the people in the village passed by the Luo family yard, they saw the ones that Luo Yong was drying in the yard one by one. I couldn't help but want to tease him a few words.

"If you don't plant one, how do you know there is no seventh valley?" Luo Yong laughed.

"I see that none of your seeds look like millet." Many people in the treasure collection village used by Luo have seen it, and none of them look like grain. At most, they are vegetables. More and less the same, everyone is not very concerned.

The seventh valley that the villagers talk about, Luo Yong really has it in that space, but the limelight of the corn has not passed yet, so there is no rush to get other grain seeds out at this time.

The corn seeds have to be digested, and it is not something that can be done in a short time if a grain variety is to be promoted nationwide.

Besides, as soon as the sixth valley came out, the current sage became the undisputed Ninth Five-Year Supreme, and the original remarks that were used to criticize him were not self-defeating.

If Luo Yong creates another sixth valley at this time, what is he trying to do?Do you want to say that you are also the Ninth Five-Year Master, or do you want to say that the previous Sixth Valley is not a big deal, and he, a country boy, can grow it... This is purely looking for death.

In addition to these seedlings, this year's tree seedling cultivation has also begun to enter the preparation work.

Last spring, Luo Yong directly buried the seeds of the Du species tree on the hillside. As a result, the germination rate was relatively low in the end. During this year, he searched for a lot of information in his own space, and finally he found something useful. Information.

This year's batch of eucommia seeds should be soaked in early spring, and then stored with moist yellow sand to achieve the purpose of germination.

With the eucommia seeds sown last year and this year's batch, there is basically not much land left for Luo to use on the hillside. In this way, it can save a lot of work in taking care of the fields.

In early spring, everyone is looking at the seasons, and they just wait for the air to clear before they can start plowing the land. Last autumn, many people in the nearby villages borrowed corn seeds from Luo Yong, and they waited for the season to sow the seeds. to the field.

Xu Erlang and the others didn't know where they were going at this time. Tang Jian and the craftsmen who came from Chang'an City had already left. Most of the craftsmen hired by Luo Yong did not leave, only a few said they wanted to go home. First busy with spring plowing.

These remaining craftsmen are still busy making threshing machines every day. His Majesty the Emperor asked Tang Jian and the others to bring some of the refined iron they brought from Chang'an City. Before leaving, Tang Jian did not let anyone take this On the way, just take those craftsmen and pack lightly.

Speaking of which, when Tang Jian first came to Lishi County earlier, he came here with the mentality of leisure and vacation, but after arriving here, he either studied arithmetic in Xu's guest house, or wandered around various villages with Hao Cishi.

He is particularly interested in the local bobbin cart irrigation method in Shizhou. He even made a bobbin cart model himself and put it on the desk. For a short while, he didn't know what was going on in his mind.

Luo Yong here, even if those people leave, he still has to continue to make threshing machines. The preparation of one threshing machine for each village is far from meeting the needs of the people for this kind of agricultural equipment, let alone People outside of Hedong Road didn't get any threshing machines at all.

Luo used them to make threshing machines now, which is naturally used to sell money. After having the experience of making more than 2000 threshing machines before, these craftsmen are now building threshing machines, which is completely familiar. They are familiar with the way, especially the local craftsmen, they have learned something from those craftsmen from Chang'an in the past few months, which can be regarded as increasing their skills.

As the weather gets warmer day by day, more and more people from all over the world come to Xipo Village to buy threshing machines. Some of them are servants sent by big families to buy them back for use in their own manors, and some are bought by merchants. to buy goods, and some are teams of farmers from all over the country.

Luo Yong's threshing machine workshop here has been in continuous production from last winter to this year's spring, without interruption, so there is no shortage of goods in early spring, as long as they come here, most of them can be bought in time go back.

"Cunzheng, look, those merchants who traveled with us earlier said that as long as they entered the boundary of Lishi, it would basically be a cement road. This is really true." On this day, I came from Mengmen Pass A group of farmers.

These people came from the Jiaolibao area of ​​Tongzhou on Guannei Road, which is relatively close to Chang'an City. On the opposite side of their village is the boundary of Hedong Road, which happens to be the confluence of Fen River and Yellow River.

In places like Baoding and Sangquan on the other side of the Yellow River, the threshing machine was allocated in the fall of last year, and the people on their side of Guannei Road are very greedy.

Helplessly, they were busy with the autumn harvest at that time, and after the autumn harvest, they were conscripted into corvee again. The [-]-odd days of corvee plus the round-trip journey took up more than half of the winter. Several people in the village quickly organized a team to buy threshing machines in Xipo Village.

If they don't come to buy by themselves, after a while, some merchants will bring goods to them to sell. After all, places like Jiaolibao have relatively developed commerce, which is different from those remote and bitter cold places.

It's just that in this way, those merchants will inevitably make a fortune again. The money in the hands of the farmers is hard to come by, and everyone is reluctant to give up the money, so each family gathers together to prepare for the villagers who go out. Some dry food, and some money from the porters, and told them to come to Xipo Village to buy a threshing machine.

"The place of Lishi is really different from the previous few years." The old man who was called the village official said.

"Cunzheng has been here before." A young man immediately asked.

"More than ten years ago, there were still wars. Many people in our area were conscripted as civilian husbands. They walked from the east side of the river and delivered grain and grass all the way to Mengmen Pass. During the period, they passed through the Lishi area." The village official said. .

"What was Lishi County like at that time, comparable to our Jiaolibao?" Someone asked from the side.

"More than ten years ago, there was a battle here today, and there was a rebellion there tomorrow. At that time, the world was almost the same, and it was not much better. Our side is not too far from Chang'an City, and it is somewhat stronger than here. .” The villager was quite reserved when speaking.

"Now it seems that it is better than ours." When I said this, I felt a little bit disappointed. Who doesn't want their hometown to be better.

"Who doesn't know that there is a Luo Sanlang in Lishi County." Someone beside him said with a smile.

How can such a thing be envied.That Luo Sanlang was not recommended by anyone, nor did he follow any famous teacher, he was completely born and raised, such a character, I am afraid it is rare to find one in hundreds of years.

The group of people were walking on the main road, when suddenly someone shouted: "What do you think is that on the slope? How can you turn around by yourself?"

They had never seen this kind of thing before, and no one could tell what it was at this time, so they parked the scooter on the side of the road and ran up the slope to see what it was. , this big wheel is used to draw water, it can draw clear water from low places to high places, and then pass some ditches to lead these clear water to various fields.

These people were amazed and at the same time very puzzled, such an easy-to-use method of drawing water for irrigation, how could they have never heard of it...

At the same time, because Tang Jian boasted about the irrigation method of this barrel cart in the court hall, a document came from Chang'an City, Hao Cishi had no choice but to ride his horse and rushed to Chang'an City for several days.

In the court hall, the sage carefully asked him about the principle of the barrel-cart irrigation method, and learned about the effect of his local promotion in Shizhou, and then praised him.

As a result, at this time, someone stepped forward and questioned Hao Jianping, saying: "Since this irrigation method is so useful, why didn't you report it to the court, but you are greedy for merit?"

This is really wronging Governor Hao. He had clearly written a document and reported this matter to the court before, but no one paid attention to it.

However, he couldn't say this. Once he said this, wouldn't it involve others?What if His Majesty the Emperor himself checked that document?Do you want to continue to be an official?He doesn't have a powerful family to back him up.

However, Hao Jianping couldn't hold back his breath just to be so slumped and let others question him. Thinking of the last time he offered the threshing machine, his heart became even more angry, and he just opened his mouth and said:

"I'm afraid that you will say that this is a monster again, so you dare not use it."