On the plain northwest of Dayuan City, Zhu Qizhe was leading a team of secret guards and a few experienced and capable generals to move forward carefully among the weeds.

Every time he walked a distance, he would squat down, pull up a handful of weeds, and carefully check the grass roots and the soil attached to it.

However, every time he would shake his head slightly, throw away the weeds in his hand, then stand up, take out his telescope, look around, and then choose a direction to lead everyone forward.

I don’t know how far he walked, but he finally found a land with lush weeds, and the soil below was also very fertile.

He walked around again, pulled out a few handfuls of weeds and looked carefully, then waved his hand: "Call someone to come over, pull out all the weeds, and prepare to turn the ground."

After hearing this, several generals and schools rushed to run back.

Not long after, several generals and schools came over with thousands of young and strong men.

Zhuqiu roughly showed a range, and several generals directed their young men to start pulling weeds.

They pulled out very seriously. Each handful of weeds was uprooted without leaving any rhizomes. Moreover, they placed the weeds neatly aside, just like drying fries.

Zhuqi was not idle either. He took advantage of the time when these people pulled weeds and searched carefully nearby. However, this time he was looking for not fertile soil, but water sources.

There are still quite a lot of rivers on this plain. Not long after, he found a considerable river.

He ordered the secret guards to call several generals and take them to carefully plan the direction and size of the drainage canal.

After working hard for most of the day, they pulled all the weeds on more than a hundred acres of wasteland, and the weeds pulled out were piled up with several haystacks that were taller than people.

The next morning, Zhu Qizhe led the thousands of young men, with hoes, plows, rakes and oxen, and began to turn over the ground and dig the drainage canal.

After another day, more than a hundred acres of wasteland were divided into fertile fields like tofu blocks. The water diversion canal also lures the water from the nearby river and flows into the cultivated fertile fields.

Early on the morning of the third day, Zhu Qizhe led everyone to carry a hoe to turn over the already soaked soil carefully. Until all the soil was turned into mud, he asked everyone to raise the soil into mud ridges about half a foot wide.

Immediately afterwards, he led everyone to sprinkle the prepared soil fertilizer evenly on the mud ridges, then evenly sow the good seeds soaked out the buds on the mud ridges, covered them with dried weeds, and inserted bamboo strips on the edges of the mud ridges to bend rows of round arches about one foot high, and then covered the round arches with cheap cotton cloth.

This series of operations took ten days.

If we had planted this way, tens of thousands of young and strong people would probably not have planted ten thousand acres of land.

Why did he make the originally simple rice planting so complicated?

In fact, he is not planting rice, but growing seedlings.

Although it is a little troublesome to cultivate seedlings like this, the seedlings cultivated are much better than those cultivated by people at this time using native methods.

Of course, such a small amount of seedlings is not enough for hundreds of thousands of mu or even millions of mu of land. According to the interval between seedlings, it would be good if more than one hundred mu of seedlings can be inserted into about 5,000 mu of land.

He had to do it because it was only more than a month before the season of planting grains, and more than 10,000 young and strong people and their families had reached less than 20,000. It was impossible to reclaim millions of acres of fertile land in more than a month. At the current migration rate, it would be good to move tens of thousands of young and strong people and their families in the first half of the year.

Therefore, he planned to cultivate a batch of relatively high-quality rice as seedlings for cultivation in the second half of the year, and gradually expand the cultivation area when the people arrive in the second half of the year.

He personally selected this batch of rice seeds from Bengang. The particles are the fullest and the best quality. He believes that after several rounds of optimal breeding, coupled with sufficient fertilizer and reasonable irrigation, doubled the yield will definitely not be a problem.

You know, the average yield per mu of rice is only about two stones at this moment, which is about three hundred kilograms, and it will only be six hundred kilograms if it doubles.

This yield should not be difficult to achieve, because even ordinary rice in later generations, the average yield per mu could reach about 800 kilograms without going through the Mijia family. The rice is even more amazing. The yield per mu is at least 1,500 kilograms, which is normal. The most powerful one is that the yield per mu has reached more than 2,000 kilograms, and these refer to the yield per mass in a single season.

No one may believe it. The so-called yield per mu of two stones is not the single-quarter output, but the annual output!

In other words, the single-season yield of rice is only about 150 kilograms.

This output sounds a bit ridiculous, but that's the case.

I have also carefully understood Zhu Qizhu, which is indeed a fact.

As for why rice yields are so low now, there are many reasons.

First of all, the level of seedling cultivation is limited at this time. We basically let the rice seeds sprout naturally, without being selected, not being cultivated, and without any measures such as insulation, moisture and wind protection.

Then, there is no need to pay attention to fertilizing at this moment. Basically, it is wood ash and human and animal feces, and its fertility is quite limited.

Finally, most importantly, the so-called double-season rice is not the real double-season rice, but intercropping rice, that is, after harvesting early rice, we directly sow late rice. The rhizomes left by early rice in the middle are not cleaned, the farmland has not been turned over again, and there is no compost treatment. In this way, the yield of late rice is even more surprisingly low.

Therefore, if you want to double the yield per mu to about 600 kilograms, it is not a problem at all. 300 kilograms a season, you can achieve it by applying some soil fertilizer. What you want in red waste is not 300 kilograms a season, but 600 kilograms a season, 1,200 kilograms a year.

This yield is quite exaggerated in this era, but it is not very difficult for Zhuqiu garbage. He may not be able to get the rice rice under the current conditions, so he can still make the yield of ordinary rice to reach the normal level in later generations.

To achieve the normal level of the future generations, you can simply breed with the best, apply fertilization reasonably, irrigate on time, pay attention to weeding and insect removal, etc.

These are simply too simple for him, a farmer.

He finally encountered what he was best at, and he was so excited to do it. Every day, he would basically drill into the fields together, and he would not come out of the fields. Even lunch was like his young and strong subordinates, and he would solve it on the edge of the fields.

Zheng Zhilong was idle now because the gunboats of seven tower ships were almost repaired, and the rest was that he couldn't help much.

Originally, he thought about finding Zhu Qizhua to discuss the siege of the Spanish after he came out, but he never thought that this guy was like a possession, keeping himself in the sky, and he couldn't see anyone all day long.

This time, he became even more confused.

Who is this guy?

Logically, it is impossible for children from rich families or officials to like to drill into the fields!
Chapter completed!