After leaving the Ma Family Trading Company, he went to buy a few more farm tools. Luo Yong drove the donkey cart out of the city. From here to Xipo Village, it is still half a day away. If he didn't go back early, he would have to walk until midnight tonight.

When I passed by Tian Chonghu's stinky tofu stall, I saw a few customers in front of the stall. The boy was busy, so he didn't come over to talk to him.

At the entrance of the nearby alley, there were a few little dolls playing there with stone pottery bowls. From time to time, they looked out. Luo Yong guessed that they were waiting for the sauce on the stinky tofu stall. They just passed lunch time and started waiting.

Think about it, many people can’t even eat oil at this time. But he collects so much fatty meat and oil every day to go back to make soap, which is also quite a bit of a sin.

However, Luo Yong thought to himself that as long as their place can gradually become rich, everyone's living standards will also improve. Regardless of pork and mutton, they will definitely eat them at that time.

Lishi County in March is no longer as cold as in winter. The sun is coming out during the day, and the bright shines in the sky. It is sunny until this afternoon, and the air is warm and melted, but it still needs to freeze at night.

Their altitude of Lishi County is relatively high, so the temperature is lower than that of some surrounding plains of the same latitude.

The soil in the field is frozen and melted, and it becomes more and more fluffy.

Before winter last year, experienced farmers would lay a wooden stake in the ground. The wooden stake was about one foot or two inches long, and one foot was pushed into the ground and two inches were left on the ground.

After spring begins, the soil becomes fluffy and swells like the fermented dough. The two-inch wooden stakes that were originally exposed on the ground will also be buried in the soil. Dig a little out of it and pull it out gently, and the entire wooden stake can be easily pulled out of the soil. So the villagers ran around and told me that the earth was ventilated and the spring plowing of this year could be started.

The Luo family also had a lot of land to plow and farm tools were purchased, but there were no oxen plows, so he went to discuss the matter of renting cattle with the merchants living in the Xu family's guest house.

Luo Sanlang has a good reputation. Although many merchants also feel sorry for the cattle they use to transport goods and do not want them to overwork, they all agree to renting cattle, but they have to give a few words of advice and not be too cruel. The cattle brought goods all the way to Lishi County, and was already tired, and now they should be cultivated.

Luo Yong also loves animals. When he rented these buffaloes back, he also told his disciples that he would rather plow less fields than exhaust other people's buffaloes.

Every day, he also mixes some feed for the cows, using his own bean dregs and wheat bran. Sometimes he will beat a few eggs to put them on. It is not easy for those cows to work, so it is inevitable to add some nutrition at least.

In addition to mixing feed for the cattle, Luo Yong did not participate in agricultural labor. The Luo family also had a lot of things. They collected meat, boiled oil and made soap every day, and did not have much leisure time all day long.

These disciples were unwilling to collect wages for him. Luo Yong had to work hard on food. Last spring, these people helped him do farm work for him, and they ate at the Luo family during the few days they helped him do farm work. This year, Luo Yong had no time to arrange food himself. Fortunately, he now has a Xu family guest house, not to mention the convenience, but the price is also affordable.

Earlier, when his disciples just returned, Wang Dang and others said they wanted to make room for a while. Luo Yong told them not to worry about it. They would live there first. After digging the 60,000 tree pits, when will they be freed up? Let's worry about the house.

It is great for these disciples to live in the Xu family yard. Every day after work, they have ready-made bath water, some people clean the house, and all the food is ready-made. These people work hard to help him work, and Luo Yong naturally cannot be too stingy in food and accommodation.

There are meat and vegetables every day, and there is enough mixed noodles and cakes to eat. There is corn porridge every day, and you can often eat fine pasta. The oil residue left over from the lard boiled from the Luo family is even put into this place one pot after another.

In just a few days, some people looked round, and the gastrointestinal absorption function of people at this time is still quite good.

Nearly noon that day, Luo Yong's disciples were lying on the ridge to cultivate land, and from a distance he saw a ox cart heading towards the entrance of Xipo Village.

"There are saplings again. In the afternoon, a few people are still plowing the land here. Everyone else will go to plant trees." Xu Erlang's eyes were sharp, and he saw the saplings on the ox cart at a glance.

"So many people have come here at once, and the store should be too busy. You brothers and I will go back and help." The other disciples persuaded.

The Xu family's house is close to this place. The three Xu brothers have been helping their master with farm work and taking care of the business in the store.

Generally, as long as there are not many people coming at once, Old Man Xu and his daughter-in-law will do their best to receive them, and there are many grandchildren who have errands to help. However, today's scenes are related to Du Zhongshu Seedling, so Xu Erlang and others will not be present.

Luo Yong had already received the news at this time and rushed to the Xu family's guesthouse to receive merchants who were sending saplings. While counting the saplings, the Xu family asked the Xu family to prepare meals.

Speaking of which, Luo Yong is now a big customer of the Xu family's guesthouse. Not to mention the large group of disciples who have been living here recently, every time someone sends saplings, he will invite them to have a meal and express his gratitude to them for transporting saplings from thousands of miles away.

These people came all the way from Lishi County to this side, and naturally had already heard about the smelly soap and soap. At this time, they naturally had to mention this matter with Luo Sanlang. Only when the ordering matter was determined, they felt relieved and feasted.

As for the effectiveness of the smelly soap, there are cut into small pieces for sale at the Xu family store. The mahjong grains are bigger, and they are sold well for a dollar and a penny. They are often out of stock.

That afternoon, Luo Yong threw the soap making matters to Erniang and the others, and ran to the slope to plant seedlings.

Because the tree pit has been dug, you just need to fill in the tree pit first, then plant the seedlings, fill them with soil and step on them, and then water them in some fixed root water.

The work of carrying water is not easy. In some flat places, you can also use a ox cart to transport water. Most of the slopes can only be carried by hand and shoulders.

Luo Sanlang's small body is now much stronger, and it can withstand the hard work of carrying water and watering trees.

"This is another seedling. How many trees have been brought today?" There were several villagers carrying hoes over there who were planning to go to the field to work. When they saw Luo Yong carrying water, an older villager walked over a few steps and took the burden on his shoulders.

"No, no, I'll do it myself." Now it's not as important as usual. It's the time for spring plowing, so how can Luo Yong delay their work?

"It's not a day or half, you guys go first, I'll go home to get a bucket." Another villager next to him said, carrying a hoe and walking back.

"Hey, why are you doing so urgently when you go? Wait for us." The two behind quickly followed and wanted to go back to get the bucket.

"How can you be so embarrassed?" Luo Yong said to the villager who was helping him carry water.

"It's not hindering the matter." The villager said repeatedly. He was used to farm work. He carried two buckets of water and walked up to the slope next to him with brisk steps.

On the way, the villagers told Luo Yong about their recent discovery.

It turned out that everyone was busy plowing and turning the fields recently, and then they found that this year's land seemed to be softer and more fertile than in previous years. Everyone gathered together to talk about this matter, and they all thought it must have something to do with the fact that they put a lot of dirt into the fields last year.

In this era, people's impression of land is that it becomes more and more barren as the soil is too poor. As the saying goes, the grass and trees do not grow, and the energy is weak, and the organisms do not go as expected.

This prompts them to constantly open up new land to grow food. In the long run, the environmental damage will naturally be very serious, and the process of opening up wasteland is not easy, and it will take a lot of time and energy.

It was also later that with the continuous development of agricultural technology, more and more experience was accumulated and many methods of fertilizing fields were developed.

After entering the Song Dynasty, the "Chen Funong Book" proposed the idea of ​​the prosperity of land power, believing that as long as the management is properly managed, the land will not become poorer. When the Qing Dynasty, the "Zhiben Outline" pointed out: "Although the land is barren, if it is often added with fertile manure, it can be transformed into fertile land."

From the original planting becomes poorer, to the rapid growth of the ground abilities in the middle, to the later poor land-to-development of fertile fields, this is the process of continuous progress in farming technology.

Originally, this process took more than a thousand years, but because of Luo Yong's appearance, a seemingly inconspicuous method of burning dirt and manure, would have a great impact on the entire farming society.

People from Xipo Village have now tasted the benefits of advanced agricultural technology. Not only did they have good grain harvests last year, but when they took a closer look at the cultivated land this year, they felt that their fields were a little fertile than before.
Chapter completed!