Lord, he is not a man [infrastructure]

On the White Deer Festival on March [-]rd, the White Deer Collar was lively for a day, and the store entrance was even more crowded. Fortunately, Tang Bo had expected it, and had already arranged rope fences for queuing and personnel to maintain order.

After the White Deer Festival, Bailuling officially entered the spring plowing.

Because the rainy season begins in the middle of spring, and the rain will become heavier and heavier. In order to prevent the seeds from germinating or the sprouts from being too young, being washed away and drowned by the rain, the white deer leader must rush to plant the seeds.

The reward Tang Bo received was winter wheat sown in winter—but it is customary here to call the wheat that matures in spring spring wheat, and the wheat that matures in autumn is autumn wheat.

The fourth-generation spring wheat seeds need to be planted according to the normal season. It is already spring at this time, so naturally they cannot be cultivated, so they can only save the seeds and wait for the autumn wheat to be harvested before planting.

What is being sown now is autumn wheat. In addition to wheat, Tang Bo also asked the people to plant a large amount of soybeans, and promised that he would buy them at the price of one copper coin per ten catties.

In addition, Tang Bo asked serfs and tenant farmers to grow red taro, yellow rice, leeks, garlic, green vegetables, purple radish, pepper, cantaloupe and other crops in his own fields.

All in all, he used all the available seeds in his hands, among which Tang Bo valued the cultivation of yellow rice the most. This product is comparable to autumn wheat in terms of taste and harvest volume, and it can also be used as the staple food of the white deer leader One is farming.

Tang Bo wanted to use the more fertile fields of Sanshuling to grow yellow rice, but the merger was not something that could be resolved with one order. It is not so easy to grow other crops.

At least let the people of the two places see the actual benefits. It will have to wait for a year, but this can't be helped. It will take time to build, and it will take three to five years.

And if you want to gather fertile fields together for cultivation and personnel, it will be even more troublesome. You need to re-plan the city, re-build houses and divide the fields, etc.

But after Gu Ding knew that he had a lot of fertile land under his name, he ordered his farm to allocate half of the land to plant the crops that Tang Bo wanted to grow.

Hurrying quickly, the Bailu leader finally planted all the seeds before the rainy season came.

It was Tang Bo's first experience of the rainy season in Bailuling. From the memory of his original body, he discovered that the rainy season was more in line with the spring rain in his impression at first, but it would turn into heavy rain after ten days and a half months. Summer is about to enter and there will be a period of pouring rain.

It's not that it rains for a while every day, but it rains like this every day, and even a cloudy day is considered good weather.

The severe water and soil erosion in Bailu Territory has a lot to do with this extreme climate. From mid-spring to early summer, a large amount of rain will not only damage the growth of seedlings, but also wash away a layer of soil on the surface to the downstream, forming various depressions to drown crops and plants.When the summer dry season arrives, the soil that lacks plant protection moisture will be extremely dry, causing the soil to crack and a large amount of nutrients to be lost.

With such a vicious circle, the ecological environment of Bailuling is naturally getting worse day by day.

Now Tang Bo has artificially adjusted the ecological environment of Bailuling. The actual effect of the canals and reservoirs depends on the harvest of the first year's crops and people's feelings.

But in the rainy season, the Bailuling people have already realized the benefits of the canals and reservoirs. A large amount of rainwater flows into the two reservoirs along the canals that are lower than the nearby fields, and will no longer easily accumulate in the fields.

And their lord also got wisdom from Bailuling, telling them how to make ridges in the field.

The field ridge is to pile up the soil and plant the crops in the field ridge, which can not only effectively prevent rainwater from flooding, but also gather fertility, and can tidy up the field, making weeding and watering much more convenient.

Before plowing the fields, the lord also taught them to scatter quicklime on the fields, saying that it could kill insects and increase certain fertility.

Plant ash is also acceptable, but the Bailuling people feel that there is not enough firewood every winter, so why would they save the remaining firewood to burn plant ash in spring?

But this also has a little advantage, that is, in the coming spring, the weeds in Bailuling's fields are generally not too luxuriant, and they will disappear if they are pulled casually.Weeds will not flourish until the rainy season.

The Bailu leader was very convinced of Tang Bo at this time, and seeing that the lord's field did the same, they all followed suit.

Of course, quicklime is not scattered casually, there is a lot of attention to it.

How much to sprinkle and when to sprinkle should be arranged by the leader.

Generally speaking, according to the pH of the soil, about [-] kg to [-] kg of quicklime is needed for one mu of land, and it only needs to be used once every two or three years.It must be noted that the soil must be loosened after sprinkling quicklime. If the soil can be loosened again every other day, the effect will be better. The second is to wait for about seven days before applying base fertilizer and then sowing.

Quicklime is alkaline and not suitable for any soil. It depends on the pH of the soil. Acidic soil is more suitable for spreading quicklime, and the dosage can reach an average of [-] kilograms per mu of land.

Tang Bo taught the villagers how to use a simple method to test the pH. Without the comparison of pH test paper and color chart, the easiest way to distinguish whether the soil is acidic, alkaline or neutral is to look at the source, color, texture and feel of the soil.

Acidic soil can generally be understood as relatively fertile soil, with a darker or darker yellow color, more humus, loose soil, and faster water infiltration.In addition, red soil is also acidic soil.

Alkaline soil is the relatively poor soil in people's impression. The color is yellowish and white, the soil is hard and easy to agglomerate, the water is not easy to infiltrate, and there are white foam and white condensation after watering.

In the end, it was found that most of the land in Bailuling is neutral soil. For this kind of soil, quicklime cannot be used in large quantities.Tang Bo arranged to sprinkle only about [-] kilograms of quicklime per mu of land, and fertilized once seven days later.

These wastes are the fermented excrement accumulated by the public toilets built by Tang Bo at various construction sites, as well as the river mud excavated when the river was widened.

At this time, the White Deer Leaders still have a hazy concept of fertilization. They also know that fertile soil can make crops grow better and yield more, but they don't know how to fertilize. Sometimes just urinating can make crops burn. die.

In the past, the concept of fertilization by Bailu leaders was to pull out the ash from the stove and throw it into the field.There is also the need to clean up the feces in the livestock pen of the lord's mansion. You can throw the stinky dung that has accumulated for a long time in the field, but it can only be thrown in the lord's field.

When using manure, the people of Bailuling didn't know to ferment it, nor did they know to dilute it.

Tang Bo wanted to teach them this point by hand, but was hurriedly stopped by the housekeeper.

The butler was very angry and helpless and said to Tang Bo: You are a lord and a nobleman, how can you let yourself do such a lowly and dirty job?Even what Bai Luling taught would not work.

Tang Bo couldn't hold back the housekeeper, so he could only teach the housekeeper and a few agricultural managers, and let them teach others.

Gu Ding didn't dislike dirty feces, so he followed suit.

Gu Ding learned the method of quicklime and manure to fertilize the field, and turned around and did it again in Sanshuling.He didn't force the leaders of Sanshu to be the same as him, he just informed the leaders that the quicklime had to be bought by the leaders themselves, and he was taught the methods of manure accumulation, fermentation and fertilization for free, and then he Do this in your own field.

If Gu Ding insisted on what to do with the leaders of the three trees, at least [-]% of the leaders of the three trees would oppose it. It is really that their new lord looks too young, and he doesn't seem to be able to farm.

But when the people of the Three Trees learned that this farming method was bought by their lord from the mysterious lord of the White Deer Collar at a huge price, and they were stingy and refused to sell them such treasures as quicklime cheaply, the people of the Three Trees led the way. As long as farmers can spend a little money, they all go to buy quicklime.More people began to cherish their own feces, and it really happened that they wanted to run home to defecate.

The leaders of the Three Trees are still unable to see the benefits of doing so, but the leaders of the White Deer have already deeply realized the benefits of the canals and reservoirs.

Chunyu has changed from small to large, but the Bailu leader is no longer so sad.

Look, all the rainwater has flowed into the canal. This winding canal that looks like a big snail is like a real river that has been regulated, moistening the whole Bailuling.

And the river channel whose water outlet has been widened and deepened does not have to worry about too much rainfall in the rainy season and small floods.Even if there is a large current, it will all flow into the canals and reservoirs.

The bottom of the reservoir designed by Yanren is connected to the underground running water, which can further improve the fluidity of the water flow, reduce the possibility of floods, and purify the water source, significantly improving the water quality of Bailuling.

The fields will not be flooded, and their mud houses will not collapse, and they will not have to risk heavy rains to fetch water from the river, and they will not have to worry about children falling into the depressions and drowning when they go out. Children run to the canals and reservoirs to play when it rains heavily.

But the lord did a good job with this. He took all the children who had nothing to do to study in the lord's mansion. There were three... now five classrooms, connected to the nursery, and the children had to study every day.

Children under the age of 13 must attend school every day, regardless of gender, even during the busiest time of spring.

Not enough people?The lord brought back all the white deer collar workers and asked them to farm at home.If anyone keeps their children working at home and does not let them go to school, then the adults in the family will not have to do the work assigned by the lord.

For this, Gu Ding, who had just become the lord, agreed with both hands and feet.When people come to use, they hate less and have fewer talents.He wanted to replace some managers, but because he couldn't find a suitable replacement, he could only endure it.If you want to say who is the most urgent for talents in the two territories, I am afraid it is him.

Gu Ding wished that Tang Bo's study class could immediately teach hundreds of talents, so that he could spread them to various places in Sanshu.But Tang Bo himself didn't have enough manpower, let alone lending it to Sanshuling.He has tried his best to speed up the time for crash teaching, but no matter how powerful or smart a person is, he needs at least a year of training before he can barely use it.

Children under the age of 13 are allowed to attend school on alternate days.One day's work, the next day must go to the Lord's Mansion to attend classes.The Lord's Mansion will provide the children with a lunch.

Those above can choose to study freely.

The Lord's Mansion has prepared learning carriages for these busy adults. When these carriages send the children home, they will stop in each village for a period of time, and the best-studied children of the village will teach the villagers some basic knowledge.And these children who are willing to teach are also paid. In each village, this is a very decent thing and a good thing that the whole family can be proud of.

In the past, because of the long distance—don’t look at the diameter of Bailuling’s distance of only ten kilometers, but because the road is difficult to walk, it’s almost the wilderness when you go out, so children who live in distant villages have to walk for more than half a day to go to school.

But now there is a smooth embankment road, and the Lord's Mansion has also produced carriages specially for picking up children to school. These carriages will go to various villages to pick up children from school every time, and will send them back in the evening, which greatly shortens the time. The time children spend on the road to school increases safety.

It is also because the drivers of these carriages can count which school-age children in each village are allowed to go to school by their families and which are not. Go to the Lord's Mansion to study.

Big Dog's younger sister Xiaoya is one of the beneficiaries.

Bai Mingzhu, Aji's older sister, Daya, but Xiaoya is always bullied by her brother's big dog, and every time she goes to school, she will call Xiaoya to accompany her.

Xiaoya especially likes and envies Aji, because her elder brother who dares to shake his fist when he sees anyone, has not dared to bully Aji, who is only five years old, since the beginning of spring.

Xiao Ya didn't know what Aji did to make her elder brother so afraid of him, but as long as she was with Aji and Mingzhu, her elder brother would not dare to trouble her, which made her cling to the Bai family even more.

Mingzhu doesn't hate Xiaoya's stickiness, Xiaoya is careful and obedient, except for being timid, everything else is fine.

"Look, the wheat and soybean seedlings have grown taller." Xiaoya looked out through the window of the carriage and whispered in surprise.

The children all liked the location of the window, and they discussed taking turns to sit.

Hearing Xiaoya's cry of surprise, many children crowded to the window and looked out through the window.

Obviously, it is a situation that can be seen every day, but through the window of the carriage, everything seems to be different.

"That's great. My mother said that we will all have enough to eat this year, and we won't have to go hungry again." A child said expectantly.

"My mother said that this summer I don't have to sleep smelly every day, and I don't have to save water. I can still take a bath every day." This is a child who has a canal in front of his house, and he is very proud.

"Hmph, the teacher said that the lord has said that in the future, the aqueduct will be connected to every household, and every household will have a lot of water, and there will be no need to carry earthen pots to fetch and carry water from far away places." Another child raised his head and said. .

"The lord said that he will give you swimming lessons. I really want to learn how to swim. It must be fun to swim in the river in summer!"

"Be careful to be dragged down by the water ghost and drown!" The big dog suddenly said coldly.

"Nonsense, the water ghost won't drag me. If you don't listen to the teacher, you will be drowned." The boy who was told jumped up.

Seeing that a fight was about to start in the car, the driver of this car, Bai Mingzhu, raised his voice: "Fighting will result in deductions of points, and if you deduct three points, you won't have free lunch. Think about it clearly."

The big dog and the boy murmured a few words, but they both fell silent.No one wants to go to class hungry, and the parents will be notified of the deduction of points, and they will be beaten up!

The little girl shrank her neck and acted as an invisible person after the big dog spoke, and she regretted making that cry.

Aji patted her and pointed out the window: "Look, it's the lord and my boss!"

Aji's boss is Gu Ding, the lord and first-class baron of the Three Trees.

Since the big dog knew the identity of Aji's boss, he never dared to bully Aji again.Bullying civilian children is fine, but bullying nobles or the lord's younger brother, is it courting death or courting death?

Big Dog is also very jealous of Aji because of this, and he even spoke ill of Aji's family to his father-because Aji's family is reused by the lord, but Dagou's parents, who are the neighbors next door, are still the same.But his father beat him up and scolded him for being incompetent and not studying well. He was far inferior to the little Aji next door, and even the girl's big girl.

Big Dog hates Aji and Aji's family even more, and he even hates his parents. He hates his sister who can go to school even more.In the past, he was the most important thing in the family, but now his parents were bewitched by the neighbors and agreed to send that dead girl to study in the lord's mansion.

However, this younger sister who was very stupid in his eyes actually did well in her studies, and was rewarded with a copper coin in this month's exam.

Although the parents didn't particularly praise Xiaoya, they also gave Xiaoya a good look.

Big Dog was furious.

"Is the lord going out? Look, he brought the cook, Shu, with him." A child said very understandingly.

The adults in this child's family are in charge, and sometimes their parents are not too scrupulous about speaking in front of him. He will inevitably know more. For example, he knows that if Ah Shu also follows the lord, then the lord must be traveling far away.

"The lord wants to go far away? Where are you going?" The children chirped, all curious.

The big dog wished that both the lord and the three tree lords would leave, and it was best to leave and never come back!

Tang Bo is indeed going to travel far away, and he is going to completely solve the problem of the salt mine.

The spring plowing has been successfully completed, and the canals and reservoirs are running well. Stewards, Donglin, Baihu, Baihe, Tian Min, and Jia Dou are also managing their respective affairs very well.

Originally, Tang Bo was worried that the red taro collar would come to trouble him, and the red taro collar did notice the disappearance of the villagers in the two villages, but they did not find the white deer collar. Instead, because of the traces left by Tang Bo, they suspected To the Mozu.

Tang Bo repeated his old trick and dug a very deep hole near the two villages.

After the beginning of spring, he asked people to pay attention to the movement of the red taro collar, and soon found that a farming manager went to the two villages to find people to work, but when he arrived at the village, he found that the two villages were empty, like ghost villages, scary. Didn't dare to stay any longer.

Later, the steward saw the deep hole leading to the ground under the reminder of the servants, and trembled with fright, and fled back with the servants desperately.

After that, no one visited those two villages again, and the lord of the red taro seemed to have forgotten that this was still his territory. He even asked someone to urgently build a wooden fence wall between the two villages and his field. There are many evil spirits hanging on it.

This made Tang Bo have to thank the local people for their superstition, and it also allowed him to set off for Wuyunling in advance.

This time, the same people who traveled with him were Gu Ding, Ah Shu, Yan Ren, Bai Dou and Pijie.

Bringing Pijie along was because Gu Ding was worried that this guy would not die, and secretly seize power and make trouble while he and Tang Bo were away.

Moreover, Piglet has been in business for many years, he is experienced and experienced, and it is much more useful to bring him than to bring other people.

Tian Min and Jia Dou wanted to travel with Tang Bo very much, but Tang Bo lacked management talents, so he could only let them leave the post of guards to undertake other tasks.

Tian Min and Jia Dou originally wanted to insist, but Tang Bo said that they were the ones he trusted most. If he was not around, he would entrust both territories to them and the housekeeper.Feeling the weight of the burden on their shoulders, the two stopped pestering immediately, and both expressed that they would stay and assist the butler to take good care of the two territories.