The whole family travels through time: escape from famine! No cheat codes yet!

Chapter 503: Start Planting Trees

"Your Highness, I saw it with my own eyes, and it is not false. Moreover, it is very easy to operate. Even the head of the Shen family, a 70-year-old man, can plow the fields easily.

Moreover, these two tools have simple structures and low costs. Even if they do not use steel, some parts can be replaced by wood.

This kind of tillage tool can also be installed with different plowshares to remove weeds, making the fields more intensively cultivated.

Even if farmers do not purchase it from a blacksmith shop, they can easily make it by doing some research on their own.

As for the sowing tools, since most of them are made of plastic, they cannot be made by yourself.

But if you assemble multiple seeding wheels and use oxen to sow seeds, you can multiply the yield several times. This is also worth promoting.”

After hearing the accurate answer, King Yan sighed and said, "This Shen Zhiqiu is indeed a talent, but such a talent does not accept direct appointment and must wait for the imperial examination. He is too stubborn."

These words really touched the heart of the Minister of Industry, because he had been coveting Shen Zhiqiu for a long time, including the plastic cotton machine and other tools, and had wanted to bring him to his Ministry of Industry.

When Director Qin went to Tangjia Village to be in charge of the construction of the workshop, he asked him to hint to Shen Zhiqiu more than once whether he wanted to come to the Ministry of Works, and he could help recommend him.

But Shen Zhiqiu always refused in the name of studying. But according to Qin Zhushi, "I have never seen him study."

So I feel that what King Yan said is just timely relief.

Therefore, he said, "Your Highness is right. It would be a waste of talent if Shen Zhiqiu didn't come to the Ministry of Works. I beg Your Highness to allow this person to join our Ministry of Works."

The Prince of Yan, who was standing by, was amused by what he heard.

Why do these words sound so familiar? It seems that since Tangjia Village was established as a military supply village, Lord Mao from the Ministry of Revenue has said similar words more than once, requesting that Shen Zhiqiu be allowed to go to the Ministry of Revenue.

"Hahaha, father, the two ministers of the Ministry of Revenue and the Ministry of Works are fighting for Shen Zhiqiu. This is going to be difficult."

King Yan also held the blueprint presented to him and nodded with satisfaction: "He can design such an ingenious farming tool and research plastic, a material that is almost omnipotent. Such a talent cannot be missed.

Pass the order down and ask someone to ask Shen Zhiqiu, which department does he want to go to, the Ministry of Revenue or the Ministry of Works?

These words seemed to be spoken casually, and Shen Zhiqiu was allowed to choose for himself, but they were also extremely overbearing, and clearly told the Ministry of Revenue and the Ministry of Works that they must choose one and could not find any excuses to shirk their responsibilities.

In fact, if this matter were to be spread out, many people would probably be jealous to death. How many people want to be officials, and how many officials want to get promoted and make money, but you, Shen Zhiqiu, are different.

What does it mean to push it out? Aren't you too ignorant of the immensity of the world?

Of course, Shen Zhiqiu, who knew nothing about all this for the time being, was still bringing people to help her daughter plant trees.

Shen Youyou has never been a kid who likes to eat alone, so when she was raising seedlings, she also cultivated some extra ones.

Therefore, if anyone in the village wants to plant pepper trees at home, on a slope, or on a barren hilltop, they can ask for some of her extra seedlings to plant.

But she didn't spend any money on the saplings, and she didn't plan to ask anyone for money, so everyone in the village who had free time came to help her plant the trees.

A lot of Chinese prickly ash and sorbifolia seedlings were transported to the base of the adobe bricks laid by the Nine Clans and to the barren mountain bought by Shen Youyou.

Everyone got busy. When the trees were dug out, a large piece of original soil was still preserved at the roots of each one, in order to increase the survival rate of the seedlings.

Master Tang San is the only one in the village who owns a pepper tree.

I was very curious about the seedlings cultivated by Shen Youyou: "Youyou, we collected seeds and planted them before, but they didn't sprout.

Even if some of them sprout, they either grow too slowly and easily die, or even if they grow a little bigger, they don't produce much pepper.

You planted so many pepper seedlings at once, they really can grow, if not you might as well plant more fruit trees.”

"Third Grandpa, my seedlings are different from the ones you plant directly from seeds."

Shen Youyou was very confident when she said this. Her eyes were bright and her long eyelashes were still stained with water drops from her freshly washed face, making her look even more lively.

The corners of her mouth curved, revealing a pair of fangs, and two dimples on her fair face appeared and disappeared as she spoke.

“The shell of the Sichuan pepper seed is very hard, and there is a layer of oil on it that is impermeable to water, so it is difficult for it to germinate. It must first be defatted before sowing.

Then in autumn, you can sow seeds directly without raising seedlings, but you need to soak the seeds in lime water for two days, rub the oil on the seed coat, take them out, rinse them with clean water and then sow them.

As for why I chose to grow seedlings, it is also because it can increase the survival rate of the pepper trees and make them grow faster. "

Now the villagers are no longer surprised by how much Shen Youyou knows.

They didn't even feel envious, jealous or resentful towards Shen Zhiqiu, because in their eyes, his ability was definitely inherited.

Shen Lao San is extremely smart, so shouldn't his children be smart?

Not to mention the older one in their family, even the younger one often listens to his own child coming home to learn to speak.

Talk about how the Master praised Shen Luming.

Shen Luming is so smart that he can remember everything the teacher explains after just one time.

Fortunately, their nine clans now have an unrivaled status in Tangjia Village, and the elders in the village were frightened by the last wild boar hunting.

After returning home, they all reminded their children not to fight with the kids from the Nine Clans:

"Look at their posture. They are the ones who dare to kill."

Therefore, Shen Luming was not excluded or bullied, otherwise, with his appearance of "other people's children", he would probably offend all the children except those from the Nine Clans.

So, everyone believed what Shen Youyou said.

Seeing her extreme confidence, the villagers were very happy. After all, if the peppercorns could really be grown successfully, life in their village would be much better.

Before, Mr. Tang's family had a pepper tree. They knew how expensive this thing was, and they gave a lot of it to Mr. Tang's family to supplement their household expenses.

Thinking of this, everyone worked harder, and they didn't even care about the thorns on the pepper trees.

However, when planting pepper trees, one still has to pay attention to the spacing. Shen Youyou plans to plant about 120 trees per acre of land with a spacing of about three steps.

When the workshop was being built, the people in the Ministry of Industry took into consideration the expansion of the workshop in the future, and they also had to build a new house themselves.

The base built for them was much larger, as much as three hundred acres, but they planted all the pepper trees on the slopes.

Shen Youyou planned to plant 20,000 trees, but the first time she only raised more than 10,000 seedlings of Chinese prickly ash trees and more than 10,000 Xanthoceras sorbifolia.

In addition, the remaining one thousand or so Chinese prickly ash trees and Chinese clary ash trees may not be enough for the villagers to use. She can only seize the time, plant these seedlings as soon as possible, and grow a new wave of seedlings.

There is nothing she can do about it. Her greenhouse is relatively small, and even if it fills up an acre of land, she can only grow about 30,000 seeds.

What's more, she also grows some vegetables in her greenhouse.