Chapter 32: Oat harvest

Cui Qichao scooped Xiaobai out of the tub with a black face. Xiaobai struggled and shivered after pinching her neck, and fell on Cui Qichao's face. Water drops fell from his eyelashes and dripped on his chest.
Xiaobai thought, his heart was poisoned, and he looked good ... and it was OK.
But soon, Xiaobai had no time to worry about the others. Cui Qichao rubbed it in the water with a calm face, wiped it with a cloth until it was dry, and went out of the bath barrel and found a clip. He clamped Xiaobai's back neck, wrapped it in white cloth, and hung it in the window opening to bask in the sun.
Xiaobai looked at Cui Qichao's face, and he felt awful, "Meow ..."
Cui Qichao: "From tomorrow on, catch the mice in the castle and eat."
noob:"!!"
Xiaobai wanted to come down, but the clip was like a pin of the sea god, and it was fixed.
Cui Qichao returned to the bath tub and washed the bath (the water was still polluted by Xiaobai) before putting on his clothes glumly. Fortunately, the water is buoyant, and Xiao Bai is not too heavy, otherwise what should I do to squeeze him out?
Because in the medieval world, Cui Qichao felt that these cats were too miserable, and tolerate Xiaobai more than ever. Who knows that Xiaobai can't be spoiled and can get used to problems.
Cui Qichao put it down when Xiaobai was hung up and screamed until the outsider was discussing what posture the lord used to abuse the cat today.
Xiaobai didn't want to eat mice, he preferred to eat goat's milk to soak peas. It approached Cui Qichao, and he wanted his life to put his belly on Cui Qichao's feet, holding his calf and pretending to be tender.
Cui Qichao said coldly, "Go away, you are not cute at all."
He just didn't take it apart. He already saw that Xiaobai wasn't a cat anymore. This artificial cuteness was as spiritual as industrial saccharin.
noob:"……"
Xiaobai glanced back at the orange cat, and that orange cat had swelled like an air blow since it had enough food.
In the corner, the round orange cat flinched.
Xiaobai was thick-skinned, and continued to pat Cui Qichao with his claw pads, biting his trouser legs.
Cui Qichao stayed for a long time before calming down and saying, "Forget it, rats won't let you eat, and there are many germs."
Xiaobai Yixi.
Cui Qichao: "But in the future you will eat after Dabai and Tangerine, and follow them to learn the rules."
Because of the hardships, although Dabai and Tangerine have not been trained, they are more obedient than Xiaobai, never scratching, Cui Qichao won't let touch or touch, let alone boldly jump into Cui Qichao's bathtub.
The order of eating directly determines the status of a group. In the past, Cui Qichao ate first, Xiaobai ate second, and then white cats and orange cats ate.
Now that Cui Qichao made him eat last, wouldn't it be to manually adjust the rankings, and Xiaobai would no longer be the happiest cat in the Middle Ages, but the third?
Xiaobai finds it hard to accept.
"If you dare to attack Dabai and Tangerine, I'll kick you." Cui Qichao said coldly, he knew Xiaobai could understand.
Sure enough, although Xiao Bai still pretended not to understand, his eyes did not sweep away from Da Bai and Da Tang.
...
Cui Qichao's vegetable garden is next to the grassland, planted with cabbage, carrots, parsnips, pumpkins, etc., and further out in the orchard, but planted with apple trees, blueberries, olives, figs, grapes and so on.
But there is no difference from growing grain. Once planted, except for weed removal, they basically only have the care of God.
This was unacceptable to Cui Qichao. He fixed the serfs and had to carry out cultivating and pruning.
In addition to weeding, in fact, there is still much to do during crop growth. Cui Qichao did not require a one-time request, but considered the physical strength of serfs. The combination of cultivating with irrigation and weeding can aerate and maintain heat and promote root growth.
Before the ditch was dug, Cui Qichao waited for the precious heavy rain to finish before letting the slaves remove the grass and cultivate the fields. However, he also made the craftsman make foot-operated implements for slaves, saving a lot of time.
After plowing, it is necessary to prune. Some people think that cutting off some branches will affect the harvest. In fact, proper pruning can make the crop grow more healthily, and the fruit will not develop poorly.
For example, the fruits and vegetables produced by the main vine will be removed from the side vines. If the side vines are produced, the main vines will be tossed away, and those parts that do not bear fruit will no longer occupy nutrition. The same is true for fruit trees, and the main branches bear the side branches.
Because the vegetable garden and the orchard are next to the pasture, Cui Qichao let the slaves in the castle take care of and graze cattle and sheep, while doing this work, there is no need to rush the work in the castle.
To be honest, they are busy in the castle every day, and they are not dirty and black. This is a castle problem. Sooner or later, Cui Qichao will build a house in the sunniest place.
Compared to what the nobles should do, Cui Qichao is more willing to prune here with the slaves, so as to harvest sweeter fruits. But as a lord lord, he just stares at people to cook. It is not necessary to think about pruning. The normal pastime that he can participate in should be hunting.
The knights watched the butlers go on to show their flattery, and they couldn't help but show their heroism in front of the baron.
The Baron Lord did not seem to like hunting very rarely. After coming to the castle, he never offered to go hunting with them. Until they raised it, the Lord nodded reluctantly.
The knights discussed in private that the master was not the same as an ordinary aristocrat in body shape, not so strong, and even a little showy. Of course, this does not mean that he is not majestic. On the contrary, I do not know why, the master obviously does not have a tall body, but he Frowning and humming is also very scary.
When others go out, bring their own long bow and short bow, spear and dagger, or hounds and falcons.
Cui Qichao went out, took three cats, and tied three ropes together. Although he lowered Xiaobai's identity, the white cat and orange cat still used to follow Xiaobai's head. Xiaobai's accompanying was quite good. The rope did not need to be tightened, and it would follow him obediently.
The knight has been surprised at this scene. People in the castle can see it every day. The master is tied to these cats who are not tired, and they follow them obediently. They are not like ordinary cats who run away when they see people. They will also attack and scratch when captured.
It seems that he was really miserable by the master. If the cat really has a demon attached to it, it may have been subdued by the master. They even suspected that the old man's leftover garlic was stuffed in the cat's stomach.
Cui Qichao lazily rode a horse and became a serval cat. He crossed the farmland to the south and reached the woodland.
The pigs that belonged to him were scattered in the forest and free to eat with acorns. However, after seeing them, Cui Qichao could hardly recognize these pigs.
Most pigs are more like the small and medium-sized dogs that Cui Qichao sees in modern times, at most only 20 kilos. The biggest one is estimated to be thirty or forty pounds, barely able to reach a person's knee. And he was covered with gray-black hair, with cavities, and his cat was not round.
No wonder it's so bad.
Cui Qichao was grieved at the smoldering and stinking pork.
The captain also said, "Lord, the other day we saw deer in the woods. If you are lucky today, maybe you can hunt them down."
Cui Qichao: "Yes."
He noticed that the Knight Knight looked at him hopefully, and couldn't help but look back.
The knight asked shamefully, "Does the eastern country eat venison?"
Cui Qichao: "..."
Cui Qichao: "Eastern countries eat everything."
This is obviously whether Master Baron will lead everyone to eat delicious food.
Not nonsense, just on this land, the knights dare to eat whatever they lay down ...
Cui Qichao did not hunt at all. He flirted twice with his sword, and his attention was attracted by the people who were not far away from the wasteland.
In order to have more arable land, the project of reclamation has been going on. In the woodland and arable land, the slaves felled the trees, cut off the bushes, and plowed the field with four horses and four cows.
Because cattle farming is not enough, it is inevitable for horses to join the arable land. In fact, horses are more efficient than cows. However, horses are hopeful to become excellent war horses, and war is a common occurrence at this time, so Everyone is unavoidable.
When Cui Qichao saw each of them plowing, they stopped and let the animals rest for a while. They always felt that something was wrong. They unknowingly left the team and came close, only to find that the harness used on the horses was the same as that of the cattle ...
It is estimated that the time for using horses to cultivate land is too short. People have not designed a harness specifically for horses and put the cows directly on it. Otherwise, the horses cannot breathe and they have to stop often, otherwise they will be strangled. Danger of death.
The knights rushed over with a fox and a deer, watching the baron leaving the team.
Cui Qichao said to them, "I think we need more artisans in our territory."
He found that people's use of tools is too immature. This is clearly the existence of leading human evolution. Craftsmen have now been forced to build agricultural tools every day. Cui Qichao feels that it is not enough. There are too many things to be improved. one comes.
The knights looked at each other. "That's not easy. The artisans started with their father from elementary school. Otherwise, let's go to another territory to catch some artisans?"
"Yeah, we haven't fought for a long time, we're heading north."
This scene is really a bit funny. There are only two or thirty knights in Northumberland, plus attendants, soldiers serving in the peasants, and so on. There are more than a hundred people when you are full. You ca n’t send everyone out when you go out. ?
This scale of war made Cui Qichao a little serious.
"It's going to be harvesting wheat soon, and there is so much work to do. Forget it, people don't offend me, I don't offend people." Cui Qichao said a concept that makes everyone confused.
What makes people not offend me? I don't offend? There is no such knowledge in their concept.
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Cui Qichao did not agree with the request of the knights to go out and grab people, but ordered the people in the castle to buy a few shepherd dogs in other territories, so as to liberate some of the slave ’s labor force so that the slaves could produce agricultural tools for him, especially horses. Harness. There were not enough people in the Middle Ages, serfs were often exhausted and starved, and no one was planted.
For the nobles, slaves were not as valuable as shepherds, and those shepherds had to trade wheat. They were bred by herders with large grassy slopes in their territories, and they can share the same worries as their hounds.
The southern dogs obtained from other territories have smooth short hair and a solid body. Cui Qichao looked at them a bit like the Australian Shepherd, but the hair was not as long.
These dogs are very clever and can even observe who is the boss in this new group. When they see Cui Qichao, they bow their heads to sniff his hands.
Xiao Bai was dragged by the rope, and he looked back behind Cui Qichao's legs. He was not treated so well now, and he could sit on Cui Qichao's shoulder. He looked at the shepherds and was very jealous.
It ’s not what it wants-but if cats are n’t discriminated against in this era, it ’s a shepherd cat-and again, it really does n’t want to do it-they do n’t know where to go better than these shepherds, these dogs look silly, business ability It should be bad.
And the shepherds don't seem to like Xiaobai very much. They may notice its unfriendly atmosphere. After they licked Cui Qichao, this unfriendlyness broke out completely.
Xiaobai "meowed" with a claw to scratch the sheepdog, and the sheepdog growled. The frightened slave held the rope tightly, almost thinking that they were about to attack people.
Cui Qichao also tightened the rope in amazement, seeing that Xiaobai and the shepherd dog, who had no long forearms, roared away from each other, and the rope almost stood up.
The attendants also stayed. In their concept, this situation usually only appeared between two dogs.
Cui Qichao raised Xiaobai embarrassingly. "Well, let the dogs go down and let them go to the castle less."
As soon as the shepherd dog left, Xiao Bai calmed down immediately.
No one was looking around, Cui Qichao lifted Xiaobai and looked at his furry face against the light. "Your jealousy is a bit heavy."
noob:"……"
It's not, it doesn't, it just looks down on the dog's business capabilities.
For Xiaobai's presumptuousness earlier, Cui Qichao felt relieved a lot. Although he was not a real cat, he was still cute, and he went up and touched his nose with it.
noob:"………………"
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The growth period of oats is very short, and they can mature in three months.
A few days after the completion of Cui Qichao's water conservancy project, the serfs envied and praised the self-irrigated arable land within a few days. His oats entered the heading stage.
For the serfs who stay in the field all day, the crops are the most familiar to them. They know how many days and shapes are in each period.
The earliest found was the slave of the castle.
These private slaves have to take care of the cows and sheep of the master. This year, the master said that everyone should cut oat grass during the heading period as feed for cows and sheep.
Oatgrass had the highest protein content during this period, and the grass yield was good. In fact, when the oat grass grows, everyone in the manor can see that the master's wheat straw seems to be better than everyone, higher, and more grass.
But this is only grass, none of them associates with the fruit.
Until now, heading, the private slave looked at the ears of oatgrass for a long time, and felt that it was different from before. The oats were hard and each one was heavy. The ears were curved and drooping. More importantly, Seven veins, more spikes.
The slave's mouth widened. Is this ... increased production? Although it is not yet possible to determine how much an acre of land can increase production with his arithmetical ability, it is definitely more.
The slave didn't even want to continue mowing the grass. He crossed the fence and ran to the serfs' place to watch.
No, these oats did not increase yield, as before. In comparison, the shorter plants have only five or six veins and no more than ten grains per spike.
The effect of two fields is very obvious.
The slave sat on the field at once, oh my god, he looked at these fields every day, and we can be sure that the difference between them is that, except for more watering these days, the master instructed people to plant some grass on private land— —The grass masters also said that they could feed cattle and sheep, which led them to think that it was really just that.
But now, slaves can easily link the two directly, and planting grass is equivalent to increasing yield.
Isn't it obvious that the cabbages are better than before, but they didn't wake up until the heading.
"You lazy pig, what are you doing?" The inspecting Zhuangtou saw the slave sitting on the field bark, and the stick in his hand was quickly pulled out.
The slave quickly got up and said quickly: "I'm just looking at the master's wheat. They seem to have more."
Zhuangtou bowed his head suspiciously and distinguished, really, more! I ca n’t see it a few days ago, it ’s so obvious today, there are more veins and spikes!
The news that the oat production increased on the master's private land soon spread to the manor with the wind.
Everyone went to see the oats in the old man's field, and his eyes were red.
"see it?"
"Of course I saw it! I counted it, there were twelve! Seven veins!"
"Well ... how much more oats is this."
"My God, if my home has more wheat, that's more !!"
"I have to say, there are still many grasses planted by my master, but they have been wiped out by the sheep ..."
"Who knows, they have such a role."
"Think about it! The master knows how to give wheat insecticidal herbs, and of course he knows what medicine to give them, and they can grow taller!"
What kind of elixir is this? No wonder the master has to plant in the ground, but also keep his own ground tight.
God, these grasslands have grown in the wild, and anyone can pick them off, not even Zhuangtou.
If the yield of oats has increased and the cabbage has also grown, will it also increase the yield when the wheat harvest is good? Wheat, after all, is more valuable than oats.
The serfs talked head to head, their expressions were a little distorted with envy, and they could not help but ask a question: Will the benevolent masters allow his serfs to plant grass in the field?
The answer is yes, not only because of optimism. After all, they have to pay rent. If the grass seeds are enough, why isn't the master? According to the behavior of the master asking everyone to eat beans, he is still a generous and generous person, and in the final analysis these are his.
Now they look at those oats again, and their mood is much better, and they are not so envious, they start to dream of switching from the master to the grass seed-yes, that will certainly not be free-and then planting, harvest, it is simply just perfect.
The stewards, most of them were bare-footed, like dead serfs. Only a few people wake up laughing when they dream.
At first, there were only the daring but impatient butlers and tax collectors who asked the master to plant grass in the field with the master. Now, sure enough, their oats have increased!
Why, why didn't they follow the request to the master?
Although I haven't lost anything, my colleagues have taken advantage, which is even more uncomfortable than losing my own wheat.
However, they can't complain to the master. They can only keep asking the master. Is it still effective to plant grass in the wheat field now?
Lord Baron Cui Qichao was not very satisfied with the result. The medieval people could not calculate it, but he could calculate it. The yield increase was about 10%.
The main reason is that he came a little late, and the type of fertilizer was not enough. Only green fertilizer was used, and it was intercropped. Otherwise, he can increase production by 30% this year!
Regardless of the future, only in the 21st century after fertilizers are commonly used, the yield of oats per mu will be more than 200 kilograms, and the oats grass can be harvested 3,000 to 4,000 kilograms. There are more than twenty grains in a single vein, and nine veins are the basic operation.
The yield of oats is generally lower than that of wheat. At this time, an average acre of oats is only over 30 kilograms.
Cui Qichao is still resentful, but the serfs are talking a lot, cheerful, because the master's tone has been revealed, he will provide grass seeds and planting methods to all farmers in the territory, and will only receive some compensation after the harvest.
Compared to what everyone may get, it's nothing at all, and I really don't know where the angel came from.
When the oats were harvested, one acre was collected on both sides and the statistics were collected. Sure enough, there were more oats in the land than the serfs and free people. They only had more than 30 kilograms. .
This way, you can accumulate a lot of acres of oats!
In addition, this year's oat grass is also a good harvest. Cattle and sheep have a particularly good palatability, and they love to eat fresh grass.
Because of the encouragement to increase production, the serfs worked harder to do the work that the master told them, because this thing was in their favor-the grass was already covered like a green carpet, and the master asked them to cut some of the grass and bury it. Go to your own land and nourish the wheat that has not yet been harvested.
Compared to oats, fertilization is basically not required during the growth period. Wheat can be fertilized during the period of greening, jointing, booting, etc. if the performance is insufficient. Even after heading, some N, P and K fertilizers are still needed.
If fertilization is applied well, the yield will be high. Those serfs did not even apply basal fertilizer. Needless to say, the wheat was definitely deficient. Green manure could be cut a few times, and it was almost ten centimeters in three months. It was cut into their soil once.
After more than a month, the fallow arable land will begin to be cultivated, preparing for the autumn sowing. At this time, green mandarin dumplings can also be planted, and the compost used for composting is almost ready for use. It is conceivable how fertile land winter crops can enjoy.
Cui Qichao can now conclude that the yield of barley planted this year will be quite pleasing when harvested next spring.
The author has something to say: Xiao Xiaobai: To survive, tolerate discomfort, cute, embarrassed
Cui Qichao: You are the most pretentious and least pure cat I have ever seen
Thank you for your overlord ticket:
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