Chapter 633: "Challenge"

While organizing spring farming, Marin did not stop sending troops to Newcastle. Danish pirates have been hired by Marin to launch attacks on the southeast coast of England and have attracted the attention of the English navy. The ships under Marin began to circle around the North Sea quietly, and then transported the soldiers to Newcastle.

In fact, Marin can completely put the 20,000 troops to England for temporary cultivation. After all, these soldiers are all peasant children, and they all cultivate land to do farm work.

However, the action to seize England is very important. Therefore, Marin resisted this temptation and insisted on shipping the 20,000 troops to Newcastle in batches.

Because, in Marin's view, now he has too much food to eat and it is difficult to sell, and he is forced to sell wine. Therefore, the problem of spring farming in the three newly acquired provinces is not so urgent. Big deal, less food.

Moreover, because these three provinces have just arrived at the end of last year, Marin has not even had time to establish large-scale fertilizer processing plants in the three new provinces of West Friesland, Bremen and Jutland. There is not enough fertilizer, even if spring farming has cultivated the newly acquired land, the profit will not be high.

Therefore, temporarily abandoning this year's spring farming and constructing a fertilizer processing plant first, it becomes unhurried. After all, time is now abundant.

The key to the fertilizer processing plant is the uniform collection and treatment of the dung of the residents-it takes a few months to dissipate the odor of the dung and make it into a less delicious fertilizer cake. Then, crushed, and then add the phosphate rock powder transported back from Western Sahara and the potassium salt transported back from the Harz Mountains ... In this way, one kind contains nitrogen fertilizer (feces), phosphate fertilizer (phosphate rock powder) and potash fertilizer ( Potassium salt) These three main fertilizers were born in this way ...

The use of mixed fertilizers with all three major fertilizers can increase the yield of rye per mu to four or five hundred pounds per mu, completely the original European farming method.

Moreover, spring ploughing hosted by Marin is not that simple. The traditional Germanic spring ploughing is nothing more than a Saxon heavy plow pulled with a light plow or a few horses, plowed the land again, loosened the soil, and sprinkled with rye seeds ... After that, water it and it will be OK ... …

If you are pouring water on the top of a large river, you may be able to irrigate it well with a waterwheel (European waterwheel technology is quite advanced). But if it is far away from the river, it will be eaten by the sky ... The serfs would pick up the water on the day when the rye seeds were sown at most. Next, it doesn't matter ...

Fortunately, rye's vitality is as stubborn as that of wild grass, and it can survive like Xiaoqiang. If it is wheat with large water demand, it is impossible to plant it far from the river.

Therefore, in the current German region, rye is the mainstream. And wheat, even in the warm south, is mainly irrigated by the big river growing in the valley. Because the waterwheel can provide enough irrigation water ...

But how precious and scarce is the watering by the big river? Therefore, wheat cultivation in Germany is very small. The price is also five times that of rye. Because of the introduction of Arab ditch irrigation technology in southern Italy, the wheat acreage is much larger. The perfect irrigation system and fertile volcanic ash soil make southern Italy the golden area in the eyes of Europeans. And Sicily, because of the rich production of Duran wheat used for making pasta, is known as the "golden basin" by Europeans ...

It is not so simple for Marin to grow land in the newly acquired three provinces. In addition to the need to use a mixture of three major fertilizers, Marin also needs to dig a large number of ditches and moats in the acres for diversion and irrigation.

The ditch is the main channel for water diversion, and the moat is the key to flood irrigation in wheat fields. In the wheat field, every few meters, there will be a shallow moat. When irrigating, the water flows into the moat ditch. Because the moat between each ridge is only a few meters apart, the irrigation water introduced into the moat can penetrate the root system of the wheat and allow it to drink water. Of course, the key to irrigation is actually when the wheat is first planted, when the water requirement is the largest. Only if the humidity is high enough can the wheat germinate and grow better ...

Although rye is not as delicate as wheat, it does not require much water. However, if there is enough irrigation water, it can also increase the output.

However, although this kind of irrigation technology is nowadays, it is a pity that a large number of ditches and moats need to be excavated, and the workload is very large. Therefore, even if Marin has enough labor to develop those three new provinces, it is too late to dig trenches and moats.

On the contrary, with this year's time buffer, in the months between the end of spring cultivation and the autumn harvest, Marin can completely organize the idle labors of the old provinces to go to three new provinces to dig Ditch and moat. By next spring, new ditches and moats will be ready for use. In addition, fertilizer processing plants can also provide a large amount of mixed fertilizer, and there will be ghosts without increasing production ...

In his last life, Marin ’s father told Marin that in the era when there was no excavator, after the founding of the People ’s Republic of China, the state organized farmers many times to take advantage of agricultural leisure seasons (mainly in winter) to focus on agricultural “conference wars”, specifically At this time, dig trenches and ditches to facilitate irrigation. This kind of "dive battle" for digging trenches and ditches is also called "Challenge the Great Diligence" in Marin's hometown. It is a very labor-intensive activity, and generally only men are levied. The reason why it is called "Choosing Daqin" is because when digging a river, the soil is put in a basket, so that the men pick it up and climb up the river embankment. Therefore, it is called "picking" Daqin. As for the word Qin, it means attendance. Because, in those days, it was a system of work points, and work hours were used to calculate work points. Digging a river is a big thing, so it is called Daqin. The soil is all picked on the river embankment by manpower, so it is also called "picking big diligence" ...

In the era when there were no excavators and dirt trucks, all irrigation rivers were basically dug out by "challenging." In the Jianghuai region where Marin's last life was located, because of the two crops a year and the rotation of rice and wheat, so only winter is considered as a farm break. The "challenging" is generally organized in the winter. It is said that "Challenge the Great Diligence" is particularly hard. In the cold climate like the winter and winter months, peasant uncles, because of the intensity of labor and sweating, many people took off their cotton coats and only picked up soil in single clothes. Moreover, at this time, the men are particularly able to eat, and it is normal for a person to eat a few large bowls of rice. Because they are also very expensive. Coupled with the lack of meat and oil and water at the time, and the lack of a few bowls of brown rice, it couldn't last at all ...

Marin wants to make good use of the land of the Grand Duchy of the North Sea ~ www.wuxiaspot.com ~ is inseparable from this "challenge" model. Why? Because only this kind of "choosing the diligence" that organizes a large number of labor force can dig trenches. If it is usual, which farmer is okay to dig a river? Even a manor can't do it. Therefore, such an important event as digging an irrigation river must be organized by an official organization. Of course, things like digging irrigation ditches and water ditches are not difficult, and each manor can organize its own labor force to do it.

Of course, in order to dig a big diligence to dig an irrigation river, the labor force must be provided with enough food, more than usual. Otherwise, young men can't stand it. Why did Emperor Sui Yang dug the Grand Canal so many people died? Not for nothing, but for less. When digging a canal, the food intake of the labor force is several times that of usual. If you only give the amount of food that is usually nestled at home, it will consume energy in half a day.

Afterwards, the supervisors didn't understand it, thinking that the farmers were lazy-in fact, they had run out of energy, and your whip pump was useless ...

Without the provision of doubled food, and the persecution of the supervisors, so many people will die if they dig the Grand Canal. In other words, this may be a mistake made by a layman. After all, no one wants to die so many people when digging a river. Marin estimated that it was estimated that an inexperienced civil servant had given less food and was not enough to consume so many people died ... after all, the excavation of the Grand Canal is in a temperate zone, not the harsh climate of the Panama Canal. ...