"After all, I'm young and lack training!"

Seeing that his disciples had lost the following at the critical moment, Dong Zhongshu couldn't help but sigh in his heart, then he had to shake his head helplessly, rise up, and personally said to Zhang Ran: "Xiaolang, this is what I have been asking for in my life!"

"So, I beg you for your complacent words, please help me to resolve my confusion!"

While speaking, Dong Zhongshu suddenly reached out again, straightened his clothes, bent down at Zhang Ran solemnly, and bowed down again.

"Dong Gong!"

Zhang Ran exclaimed, feeling his scalp numb, his hair stood up all over his body, and he couldn't help but jump up. Before Dong Zhongshu bowed, he grabbed Dong Zhongshu's arm and stopped him from bowing.

He also said to him with a bitter face: "Mr. Dong, we have something to say, but don't worship me? I really can't bear your worship!"

As he said that, Zhang Ran suddenly gritted his teeth and said ruthlessly: "Isn't it just a set of methods for planting maize? I gave it!"

Then, Zhang Ran added with concern and said, "As long as Mr. Dong agrees, stop worshiping me, I will give you all the methods! How about it?"

Dong Zhongshu smiled and stretched out his hand to signal to Zhang Ran, "Good! Then just say one thing?"

"One word is certain!"

Zhang Ran hesitated for a few seconds and also stretched out his hand, slapped Dong Zhongshu's big hand and slapped it together!

...

After the two of them swear to the high-fives, Dong Zhongshu smiled and sat back on the bamboo stool, then calmly asked Zhang Ran: "Xiaolang, as far as I know, this Sumai has never been favored by the common people in Guanzhong. Therefore, there are few places where Sumai are planted in Guanzhong. How did you convince the villagers in the village to plant Sumai?"

"Uh" Zhang Ran hesitated for a moment, and did not directly answer Dong Zhongshu's question. Instead, he asked him with some confusion: "Mr. Dong, before answering your question, I would like to ask why the matter of Sumai planting is in harmony with the meaning of Spring and Autumn?"

Dong Zhongshu pondered and said: "If there is no grain in spring and autumn, I will write it. From this, I will see that the sages are most important in grains and wheat. Now, it is not easy to plant wheat in Guanzhong. This is why it is important to plant wheat in spring and autumn, and it will damage the property of people."

"Oh..." Zhang Ran nodded with no idea and sighed: "It turns out that Sumai had already spread to Qilu in that era!"

Dong Zhongshu smiled slightly and explained: "The sage valued wheat and wheat, but saw that there was a rotational planting between Suma and wheat. For the same piece of land, if Suma and wheat were planted, it could be harvested for two seasons a year, and the grains would double, which would be beneficial to the people. However, most areas in Guanzhong and even in the north do not like Suma, so I have always felt sorry for it!"

"Yes!" After hearing Dong Zhongshu's words, Zhang Ran nodded in agreement. Judging from his later experience, it is normal to rotate between winter wheat and other crops, but in this era, due to the unwillingness of wheat rice and various other reasons, it is really a huge waste for the people in the world to be unwilling to grow wheat!

This is also one of the main reasons why Zhang Ran started promoting wheat cultivation in Zhangli after he made the pasta. It was because he felt disgusted when he saw his own land in winter was abandoned like this.

Just like the Chinese people in later generations, they planted wherever they went, even many old men and mothers in the city couldn't help but use the balcony and corners to grow vegetables. Zhang Ran saw that the land at home was abandoned, and when conditions permit, he couldn't help but want to grow something... It doesn't matter whether he made money or not, but he just couldn't see the land idle and didn't need it...

Seeing Zhang Ran talking and suddenly wandering around, King Wuqiu Shou, who was beside him, couldn't help but remind him: "Brother Ran, you haven't answered my teacher's question yet!"

"Oh..." Zhang Ran suddenly woke up, looked up at the master and apprentice of Dong Zhongshu, and couldn't help but say a little embarrassedly: "That, I just thought about the problem and got distracted. Sorry, sorry!"

Then, Zhang Ran hurriedly said, "Dong Gong, this custom of Guanzhong is not happy with Sumai since ancient times. Our place was the same before, and there is no difference from other places! And I convinced my fellow tribesmen and villagers that it was not just words, but to tell them with practical actions that this kind of planting Sumai is feasible and profitable! This will make the clans believe me and grow Sumai in their own fields with me!"

"Practical action?"

Dong Zhongshu frowned slightly, asked with some doubts and expectation: "Can Xiaolang tell me in detail how you used your actions to convince the people of the village to you?"

When Zhang Ran heard this, he couldn't help but say with a hint of pride: "The reason why the people in Guanzhong don't like to plant wheat in the sky is nothing more than the following:

First, wheat rice was made of coarse rice, which was the food of inferior slaves, and the common people did not like it. For this reason, I improved the stone mill and taught them how to grind wheat and pasta, so that the rough rice was hard to swallow would become delicious and edible, so that the problem of eating wheat was solved.

Second, the land is insufficient fertility.

The fields in the world are divided into three levels: upper, middle and lower. In addition to the upper fertile fields, most of the fields in the middle and lower are relatively barren, and they need to fallow and rotate to ensure grain production.

Therefore, the barren fields in the middle and lower regions may be one in two years or two in three years. In this case, just planting millet is not enough. How can farmers be willing to plant wheat?

To this end, I improved the method of fermenting fertilizer and taught them the techniques of fermenting fertilizer to increase the fertility of the land and avoid everyone's worries.

Third, there is not enough time.

As we all know, this kind of crop planting needs to be closely connected to the farming season, such as spring plowing, summer weeding, autumn harvesting, and winter storage. The four seasons must follow the trend and cannot be confused.

But it just takes a long time to cultivate and harvest.

Take spring plowing and autumn harvest as an example. If the two are carried out at the same time, it will take at least two or three months. If you are ploughing after autumn harvest and planting wheat, you may have already dripped into ice before the seeds of wheat sprout. In such a cold weather, will the wheat seeds in the fields still freeze to death in the fields?

In order to solve the possible shortening of autumn harvest and cultivation time, I invented a threshing machine, which changed the original method of threshing with flails, shortening the threshing time of the grain by more than ten times. Therefore, it only takes more than ten days from harvest to storage in autumn harvest.

In terms of farming, I also made some efforts, improved the old plows, created new plows that could plow faster, and invented piers to speed up the sowing speed and greatly shortened the cultivation time to about half a month.

After this whole process, all kinds of problems have been solved. Farmers have seen it with their own eyes that growing wheat will not have an adverse effect on them, but will be extremely beneficial. Naturally, they will believe what I say!”
Chapter completed!