I Love Farming

Cui Qichao carried Xiaobai out of the bathtub with a dark face. The back of Xiaobai's neck was pinched and he struggled to shake his hair. Cui Qichao's face fell, and water droplets fell from his eyelashes and dripped on his chest.

Xiaobai thought to himself, his heart is a bit poisonous, but he looks good... so it's okay.

But soon Xiaobai had no time to worry about other things. Cui Qichao rubbed it in the water with a sullen face, wiped it with a cloth until it was half dry, then got out of the tub naked, and found a clip.He clamped Xiaobai by the back of the neck, wrapped it in a white cloth, and hung it at the window opening to bask in the sun.

Seeing Cui Qichao's face, Xiaobai felt bad, "Meow..."

Cui Qichao: "From tomorrow, you can catch mice and eat them in the castle."

noob:"!!"

Xiaobai wanted to get it down, but the clip was like a pin that held the sea in place.

Cui Qichao returned to the bathtub and finished the bath (the water was still polluted by Xiaobai) before putting on his clothes sullenly.Fortunately, the water has buoyancy, and Xiaobai is not too heavy, otherwise what would happen if he was pushed out?

Because in the medieval world, Cui Qichao felt that these cats were too miserable, and he indulged Xiaobai more than before. Who knew that Xiaobai couldn't be coddled and could make mistakes.

Cui Qichao didn't let Xiaobai down until Xiaobai was hung up until people outside were discussing what posture the lord used to abuse the cat today.

Xiaobai didn't want to eat mice, he would rather eat peas soaked in goat milk.It moved closer to Cui Qichao, wanting to make it put its belly on Cui Qichao's feet, and hugged his calf pretending to be coquettish.

Cui Qichao said coldly: "Go away, you are not as cute as Daju."

He just didn't expose it, he had already seen that Xiaobai was no longer a cat, this kind of artificial cuteness was as devoid of spirituality as industrial saccharine.

noob:"……"

Xiaobai looked back at the orange cat. Since the orange cat had enough food, it swelled up like blowing air.

In the corner, the round orange cat flinched.

With a cheeky face, Xiao Bai continued to pat Cui Qichao with his paw pads, biting his trouser legs.

Cui Qichao stayed there for a long time before calming down, and said, "Forget it, you won't be allowed to eat mice because there are many germs."

Xiaobai was overjoyed.

Cui Qichao: "But in the future, you will eat after Dabai and Daju, and follow them to learn the rules."

Because of hardships, although Dabai and Daju have not received training, they are more obedient than Xiaobai, never grabbing randomly, and Cui Qichao won't let them touch them, let alone jump into Cui Qichao's bathtub boldly.

The order of eating directly determines the status of a group. In the past, Cui Qichao ate first, Xiaobai second, and then the white cat and orange cat.

Now that Cui Qichao let him eat last, wouldn't it be artificially adjusting the ranking, so that Xiaobai would no longer be the happiest cat in the Middle Ages, but the third?

Xiaobai found it hard to accept.

"If you dare to attack Dabai and Daju, I will castrate you." Cui Qichao said coldly, he knew Xiaobai could understand.

Sure enough, although Xiaobai still pretended not to understand, his eyes didn't turn to Dabai and Daju.

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Cui Qichao's vegetable garden is next to the pasture, where cabbage, carrots, parsnip, pumpkins, etc. are planted, and further outside is an orchard, but apple trees, blueberries, olives, figs, etc. are planted.

However, it is no different from growing food. Once it is planted, except for weed removal, they basically only have the care of God.

This was unacceptable to Cui Qichao. He was fixed as a serf and had to cultivate and pruning.

In addition to weeding, there are actually many things to do during the growing period of the crops. Cui Qichao didn't make a one-time request, and he still considered the physical strength of the serfs.Cultivation, irrigation, and weeding work together to aerate, keep warm, and promote root growth.

Before the ditches were dug, Cui Qichao waited until the precious heavy rain fell before letting the slaves weed and cultivate.But he also let craftsmen make foot-operated tillage tools for slaves, which saved a lot of time.

After intertillage, the branches need to be pruned. Some people may think that cutting off some branches will affect the harvest. In fact, proper pruning can make the crops grow healthier and the fruits will not be stunted.

For example, if the main vine bears fruit, the side vines should be removed, and if the side vines bear fruit, the main vine should be topped. Those parts that do not bear fruit will not take up nutrients for nothing.The same is true when it is placed on a fruit tree. When the main trunk bears fruit, the side branches are removed.

Because the vegetable garden and orchard were next to the pasture, Cui Qichao let the slaves in the castle complete the work while guarding and grazing the cattle and sheep, so they didn't have to rush the work in the castle.

To be honest, they are busy in the castle every day, and it is not dirty and dark.This is a problem with the castle. Sooner or later, Cui Qichao will build a house in the sunniest place.

Compared with what nobles should do, Cui Qichao is more willing to prune branches here with the slaves, so as to reap sweeter fruits.But as a lord, it's fine for him to watch people cook, and he doesn't need to think about pruning. The normal pastime he can participate in is hunting.

The knights saw the stewards fawning on them one after another, and couldn't help themselves, they wanted to show their prowess in front of the baron.

The baron seemed to be a rare person who didn't like hunting very much. After coming to the castle, he didn't ask to go hunting with them. When they asked, the master nodded reluctantly.

The knights discussed privately that the master was different from ordinary nobles in terms of body shape, not so strong, and even a little delicate. Of course, this does not mean that he has no majesty. On the contrary, for some reason, the master obviously does not have a tall body, but he always Frowning, snorting, also makes people very frightened.

When others go out, they bring their own long bows and short bows, long spears and short swords, or hounds and falcons.

Cui Qichao went out with three cats, tied together with three ropes.Although he lowered Xiaobai's identity, the white cat and the orange cat still followed Xiaobai habitually, and Xiaobai's accompanying was quite good, basically there was no need to tighten the rope, and it would follow obediently.

The knight was used to this scene, and everyone in the castle could see it every day. The master walked around with these hard-wearing cats on a leash, and they followed obediently, not like ordinary cats that run away when they see people. When caught, it will attack and scratch.

It seems that he was really beaten badly by the master.If the cat was really possessed by a demon, it must have been beaten by the master.They even suspected that the leftover garlic the master had eaten had been stuffed into the cat's stomach.

Cui Qichao rode lazily on his horse as if he were walking a cat. He passed through the cultivated land in the south and arrived at the woodland.

His herd of pigs were scattered in the forest, gnawing acorns freely.But when Cui Qichao saw them, he almost couldn't recognize them as pigs.

Most of the pigs were more like the small and medium-sized dogs that Cui Qichao saw in modern times, weighing no more than [-] catties.And the biggest one is estimated to weigh only thirty or forty kilograms, barely reaching a person's knee.And it was covered in gray-black fur, with long fangs, and its figure was not as round as his cat.

No wonder it was so unpalatable.

Cui Qichao was obsessed with the angry and smelly pork.

The knight commander was still talking aside: "Lord, we saw a deer in the woods a few days ago. If we are lucky today, we might be able to hunt it down."

Cui Qichao: "Yes."

He found that the knight commander was looking at him expectantly, and he couldn't help but look back suspiciously.

The knight commander asked shyly, "Do the eastern countries eat venison?"

Cui Qichao: "..."

Cui Qichao: "Countries in the East eat everything."

This is obviously worried about whether the baron will lead everyone to eat delicious food.

It's not nonsense, as far as this land is concerned, he dares to eat whatever the knights lay down later...

Cui Qichao didn't know how to hunt at all, so he waved his sword twice, and his attention was attracted by the people who opened up wasteland not far away.

In order to have more arable land, the project of land reclamation has been going on.Where woodlands and plowed fields are, slaves fell wood, cut down undergrowth, and plow with four horses and four oxen.

Because there are not enough cattle, it is inevitable for horses to join the cultivated land. In fact, the efficiency of horses is a little higher than that of cattle. However, horses have the hope of becoming excellent war horses, and wars are common at this time, so Everyone is inevitably reluctant.

When Cui Qichao saw them plowing a section, he stopped to let the livestock rest for a while. He always felt that something was wrong. Unknowingly, he left the team and came closer, only to find that the harnesses used by the horses were the same as those of the cattle...

It is estimated that the time for using horses to cultivate land is too short. People have not yet designed a harness specially for horses. They directly put the cows on it, which will cause the horses to be unable to breathe and have to stop frequently, otherwise they will be strangled. danger of death.

The knights rushed over with a fox and a deer, and looked at the baron who was leaving.

Cui Qichao said to them: "I think we need more craftsmen in our territory."

He found that people's use of tools is too immature. This is obviously the existence that leads human evolution. Craftsmen are now forced to make farm tools every day. Cui Qichao still feels that it is not enough. There are too many things that need to be improved. one comes.

The knights looked at each other in blank dismay, "That's not an easy task. Craftsmen have followed their father since elementary school. Otherwise, let's go to another territory to catch some craftsmen and bring them back?"

"Yeah, we haven't fought for a long time, and we're heading north."

This scene is really funny. There are only 100 or [-] knights in Northumberland, plus attendants, soldiers serving in tenant farmers, etc., and there are only more than [-] people. You can’t send everyone out when you go out, can you?

Cui Qichao couldn't be serious about a war of this scale.

"The wheat will be harvested soon, and there is still so much work to do, let's forget it, I will not offend if I am not offended." Cui Qichao said a concept that made everyone puzzled.

What does it mean that people don't offend me and I don't offend others?There is no such knowledge in their concepts.

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Cui Qichao did not agree to the knights' request to go out to rob people, but ordered the people in the castle to go to other territories to buy a few shepherd dogs, so as to free some of the labor force of the slaves, so that the slaves could produce agricultural tools for him, especially horses. harness.There were not enough people in the Middle Ages, and serfs often died of exhaustion and starvation, and there were no one to cultivate the land.

For the nobles, slaves are not as valuable as shepherd dogs, and those shepherd dogs have to be exchanged for wheat.They were bred by herdsmen with large grassy slopes in their territory, and they can share the worries of their owners just like hounds.

The southern dogs bought from other territories had smooth short hair and a stocky build. Cui Qichao looked at them a bit like Australian Shepherds, but the hair was not as long.

These dogs were so clever that they could even spot who was the boss in this new group. When they saw Cui Qichao, they lowered their heads and sniffed his hand.

Xiaobai was led by the rope, staring at the back of Cui Qichao's legs. Now that he was not treated so well, he could sit on Cui Qichao's shoulders.It looked at these sheepdogs and was very jealous.

It’s not that it wants to—but if this era doesn’t discriminate against cats, it acts as a shepherd cat—again, it really doesn’t want to do it—it’s better than these shepherd dogs. These dogs look stupid and have professional capabilities Should be poor.

And the shepherds didn't seem to like Xiaobai very much, and they might have sensed his unfriendly aura. After they licked Cui Qichao, this unfriendliness broke out completely.

Xiaobai "meowed" and stretched out his paws to scratch the shepherd dog, and the shepherd dog roared. The terrified slaves held the rope tightly, almost thinking that they were going to attack people.

Cui Qichao also tightened the rope in astonishment, seeing Xiaobai, who was not as long as his forearm, and the shepherd dog yelling at each other at a distance of one person, and almost stood up under the tight rope.

The attendants were also stunned. In their concept, such a situation usually only occurs between two dogs.

Cui Qichao lifted Xiaobai up in embarrassment, "Okay, let's take the dogs down, and don't let them come into the castle."

As soon as the shepherd dog left, Xiao Bai immediately calmed down.

There was no one around, Cui Qichao lifted Xiaobai up and looked at its furry face against the light, "You're a little jealous."

noob:"……"

It's not, it doesn't, it just looks down on the dog's business ability.

Cui Qichao felt a lot relieved about Xiaobai's earlier presumptuousness. Although it wasn't a real cat, it was still cute. He moved up to touch noses with it.

noob:"………………"

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The growing period of oats is very short, and they can mature in three months.

A few days after the completion of Cui Qichao's water conservancy project, and within a few days of the serfs surrounding the automatically irrigated farmland admiring and praising him, his oats entered the earing stage.

For the serfs who stayed in the fields all day long, the crops were the most familiar to them, and they knew how many days each period was and what form they were in.

The first ones to be discovered were the slaves of the castle.

These private slaves have to take care of the master's cattle and sheep. This year, the master said that everyone should cut the oat grass at the earing stage and use it as feed for the cattle and sheep.

The protein content of oat grass during this period is the highest, and the grass yield is also good.In fact, when the oat grass grows, everyone in the manor can see that the master's wheat grass seems to grow better, taller, and more grassy than everyone else's.

But it's just grass, they didn't think of the fruit.

Until now, when the ears are eared, the private slave held the ears of oat grass and looked at them for a long time, and felt that they were different from before. There are seven veins and more grains.

The slave's mouth opened wide, is this...increased production?Although he can't determine how much an acre of land can increase with his arithmetic ability, it is definitely too much.

The slave didn't even have the heart to continue mowing the grass. He jumped over the fence and ran to the serfs' allotment to look.

No, the yield of these oats has not increased, and it is still the same as before. Compared with the smaller plants, there are only five or six veins, and there are no more than ten grains in each vein.

Two fields, the effect is very obvious.

The slave sat on the ridge of the field all of a sudden, my God, he looked at these fields every day, and he was sure that the difference between them was that they had been watered more these days, and that the master ordered someone to plant some grass on the private land— — Those grass masters also said that they can feed cattle and sheep, which led them to think that it was really just that.

But now, slaves can easily connect the two directly, and planting grass equals increasing production.

Isn't it obvious that those cabbages are growing better than before, but they didn't wake up until they were earing.

"You lazy pig, what are you doing?" The inspector saw the slave sitting on the ridge, and quickly pulled the stick from his hand.

The slave quickly got up and said quickly: "I'm just looking at the master's wheat, they seem to have increased."

Zhuangtou lowered his head suspiciously, and immediately recognized that, really, there were too many!I couldn't see it a few days ago, but today it's very obvious, there are more pulses and spikes!

The news of the increase in oat production on the master's private land soon spread throughout the manor with the wind.

Everyone ran to look at the oats in the old man's field, and their eyes were almost red.

"see it?"

"Of course I saw it! I counted them one by one, and there are a total of twelve! Seven veins!"

"Tsk tsk tsk... How much oats do you need?"

"My God, if my family's allotment of wheat can grow so much!!"

"I have to say, there are a lot of grass next to my house that the master planted, but they were eaten up by sheep..."

"Who knows, they still have such a role."

"Think about it! The master knows how to give wheat insect-killing herbs, and of course he also knows what medicine to give them so that they can grow taller!"

What kind of fairy grass and elixir is this? No wonder the master insists on planting it in the ground, and he is also tight on his own land.

God, these grasslands grow in the wild, and anyone can pick them off, even the head of the village doesn't care.

If the yield of oats has increased and the kale has grown larger, will the yield of wheat also increase when there is a bumper harvest?Wheat, after all, is much more valuable than oats.

The serfs were discussing head to head, their expressions distorted with envy, and they couldn't help but have a question: Will the benevolent master allow his serfs to plant grass in the field?

The answer is yes, not only out of optimism, after all they have to pay rent, if there are enough grass seeds, why not my lord?Judging from the master's behavior of inviting everyone to eat beans, he is still a generous and generous person, and these lands are all his in the final analysis.

Now when they look at those oats again, their mood is much better, and they are not so envious, and they start to fantasize about getting grass seeds from the master—yes, it will definitely not be free—and then sow the seeds and harvest, it’s simply Wonderful.

Stewards, most of them thumped their chests like extinct serfs.Only a few people wake up laughing from their dreams.

Because at the beginning, only the housekeeper and the tax collector, who were bold and eager to flatter, begged the master to plant grass in the field with the master.Now, as expected, their oats have grown too!

Why, why didn't they follow and ask the master?

Although I didn't lose anything, but my colleagues took advantage of it, it was even more uncomfortable than losing wheat at home.

However, they couldn't complain about the master, so they could only keep asking the master, would it be effective to plant grass in the wheat field now?

Cui Qichao, the baron master, was actually not very satisfied with this result. The people in the Middle Ages could not calculate it, but he could calculate it. The increase rate was about [-]%.

The main reason is that he came a little late, and there were not enough types of fertilizers, only green manure, which was intercropped.Otherwise, he can increase production by 30.00% this year!

Not to mention the future, just in the 21st century after the widespread use of fertilizers, the yield of oats per mu is more than 20 kilograms, and oat grass can be harvested with [-] to [-] kilograms.There are more than [-] single-vein grains, and nine-vein is the basic operation.

The yield of oats is generally lower than that of wheat. At this time, an acre of oats is only more than 30 kilograms in a normal year.

Cui Qichao was still resentful, but the serfs were all talking and beaming, because the master's tone had been revealed, he would provide grass seeds and planting methods to all the farmers in the territory, and he would only receive some compensation after the harvest.

Compared with what everyone might get, it is nothing at all. I simply don't know where the master is an angel.

When it was time to harvest oats, both sides harvested an acre and counted. Sure enough, the oats in the master's field were more than those of the serfs and free people. They only had more than 30 kilograms, while the master's land had more than [-] kilograms per mu.

In this way, the accumulation of less makes more, and it is simply a lot of acres of oats!

Moreover, this year's oat grass is also a bumper harvest. The palatability of cattle and sheep is particularly good, and they love those fresh grasses very much.

Because of the encouragement of increased production, the serfs worked harder to do the work ordered by the master, because this matter itself is beneficial to them-the grass has been covered like a green carpet, and the master asked them to mow part of the grass and bury it. Go to your own field and nourish the unharvested wheat.

Compared with oats, there is basically no need for topdressing during the growth period. Wheat can be topdressed if it shows insufficient fertility during the greening stage, jointing stage, and booting stage.Even after heading, some NPK fertilizer is still needed.

If fertilization is done well, the yield will be high.Those serfs didn't even apply base fertilizer. Needless to say, the wheat must be deficient in fertilizer. The green manure can be cut a few times, and it has grown to about ten centimeters in three months. It happens to be plowed into their soil once.

In more than a month, the fallow land will start to be plowed to prepare for autumn sowing.At this time, you can also sow green manure sweet potatoes, and the compost made by retting is almost ready for use. One can imagine how fertile the land can be enjoyed by winter crops.

Now Cui Qichao can conclude that the barley planted this year will have a very good yield when harvested next spring.

The author has something to say:

Xiaobai: In order to survive, I endured discomfort and pretended to be cute, and acted like a baby in embarrassment

Cui Qichao: You are the most contrived and uninnocent cat I have ever seen