mesbooks Chapter 278: The temperature on this mountain is so high, is there any hot spring water coming out f
Chapter 278: The temperature on this mountain is so high, is there any hot spring water coming out f
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Yun Duo asked Jinsheng to drive the carriage and accompany Yunhe to the town to find Li Zheng to handle the village registration of Xiangyun Village.
The household registration of each family in Xiangyun Village was registered with the town government, and they received one tael of resettlement silver and half an acre of land per person as a certificate for building houses from the court.
Each person can use the half acre of land entirely to build a house, or use half for building a house and the other half for other purposes, such as building a livestock shed, a chicken and duck pen, or as a courtyard or vegetable garden. The total area owned will be marked on the title deed.
If someone does not have enough spare space and wants to expand the area of their house, they can spend an additional three taels of silver per acre to purchase additional land.
After the house is built, the government will send someone to measure it. If there is extra money, you can go to the government and pay the money to get the land deed.
While Yunhe went to the town to handle the formalities, Yunduo was not idle either. She took several farming experts nominated by the villagers to conduct field investigations on the wastelands and mountains.
She looked up some information on space last night about what crops can be grown in various soils.
So today she wanted to do some on-site investigation. As for farming and soil conditions, she only knew a little bit from books and some materials.
So she brought along the farming experts in the village. They had been dealing with the land for almost their entire lives, and they knew more about soil and soil quality than Yun Duo. As long as these people determined the quality of the soil, Yun Duo would be able to find the right seeds for cultivation.
Yun Dachuan and Yun Dashun were worried and followed them.
They first went to the wasteland near Yunjia Village, where weeds grew in profusion, and because the soil was not fertile and lacked water, they were all yellow and sallow. They were also covered with the kind of weeds that hurt when you prick.
Yun Duo was afraid that there might be snakes in the grass, so before coming, she had the special forces clear a path and a piece of open space here so that the villagers could check the soil conditions. They collected some soil.
Chief Yun held the soil in his hands and looked at it carefully. He squeezed the soil tightly, then opened his palms and smiled with relief: "This wasteland is sandy soil, not sandy soil. It's better than I thought."
The sand content of sandy loam is lower than that of sandy land. Although the soil fertility is not as good as that of black soil and loess soil, it is much stronger than sandy land.
"Fifth uncle, the water in this land is easily lost, so we can only grow some drought-resistant crops. If we grow corn and sorghum in a flood year, it might be enough, but if it is a drought year, I'm afraid we won't even be able to harvest the seeds." Yun Chunwang's father, Yun Changgeng, was not as optimistic as the old patriarch.
Chu Liang also looked at the soil in his hand and said, "I heard that peanuts are grown in this kind of sandy soil. We can plant some peanuts, but I heard that peanuts cannot be planted again, otherwise the yield will be very low in the second year."
"Then we can plant soybeans every other year to nourish the land. It is also drought-resistant. But it can't be eaten as food. This land cannot grow rice and corn." Cui Fugui also expressed his opinion.
Yun Duo looked at the villagers and observed their micro-expressions. They were all thinking hard about what crops to grow on this land, and they were all actively trying to come up with suggestions. None of them were dissatisfied or secretly complained about coming here because this land could not grow high-yield crops.
She was very satisfied with their performance and said to them, "Fifth Master, Sixth Master, all the grandfathers and uncles, let's go to the mountain to have a look, and then go to the river and West Mountain to have a look."
"Okay, let's go up to the hillside and take a look at the green mountains! Don't forget to bring back the soil here when you come back." said Chief Yun.
Zuo Qingshan nodded: "I understand, Fifth Master."
The hillside is not very high, it is just uphill all the way, the slope is not very steep and it goes up gently. Because the veterans here rarely go into the mountains, and no villagers nearby come here, there is almost no road.
The special forces team has cleared a path up the mountain.
A group of people went up the hillside, which slowly went up. There were few trees on the hill and there were rocks everywhere. They stopped halfway up the hill. The further they went up, the hotter they felt.
Feng Mutou, an old soldier who was missing an arm and came to lead them, said: "Maybe there are too many rocks here, the temperature is higher than other places, even in winter it is warmer than other places. There are many rocks and not many trees on the mountain, and even weeds are pitifully few here. It's not so bad here. The higher you go, the hotter it gets, and sometimes the rocks are so hot that you can't even touch them."
Yun Duo was moved when she heard this. She suppressed her surprise and asked Feng Mutou with a smile: "Uncle Feng, the temperature on this mountain is so high, is there any hot spring coming out of the ground?"
"Miss Yun, you are talking about that kind of hot spring, right? Some people have suspected that there are hot springs here before and have come here to see. Later, they walked all over the mountain but didn't see hot water coming out anywhere." Feng Mutou said embarrassedly.
Yun Duo was not disappointed when she heard this. She had a detector in her space that could detect the metal content underground and the groundwater layer. She would come over to check it out when she was no longer busy.
When they reached the top of the mountain, they saw that this area was not a rocky mountain.
After crossing this mountain, the situation on the other side is completely different from this side. The trees on the other side are lush and green, and it looks full of vitality.
Yun Duo took out a telescope and looked into the distance. She could clearly see that the peach trees on the distant mountain were filled with peaches that were about to ripen.
"Uncle Feng, when do peaches usually ripen?"
Feng Mutou thought for a while and said: "It should be late May. Now it is early May, it should be soon." Yun Duo knew that he was talking about the lunar calendar.
Yun Duo got the answer and thought about it. The climate around this capital city should be similar to that of modern Kyoto in late June of the Gregorian calendar.
There were fields of wheat and corn at the foot of the mountain, but none of them had scions. Yun Duo remembered that her college classmate was from the countryside, and they lived in the same dormitory at that time. She said that the wheat harvest should be in early June, right? That is the fifth month of the lunar calendar, isn't that now?
She was a little surprised and asked again: "Uncle Feng, isn't it time to harvest the wheat? Why haven't the wheat ears formed yet?"
"Miss Yun, you may have remembered it wrongly. This wheat was only planted in late March or early April. How could it mature so quickly?"
Yun Duo understood: "Maybe they don't have the same concept of planting two seasons a year as in later generations."
Yun Duo saw that the chief was anxious, so she handed her the telescope and said, "Fifth Master, look over there, it's only 20 to 30 miles away from us. The forests and fields over there are growing well, and the soil should be different from ours."
After hearing what Yun Duo said, Feng Mutou continued to explain: "The soil over there is very fertile! But most of the fields and forests have long been turned into farms and orchards of the powerful families in the capital.
It was not easy for the common people living in those villages. In the surrounding areas of the capital, the land that ordinary people could own was very small! And the fertile land was mostly monopolized by the rich and powerful.
In order to survive, the common people could only work as tenants for the owners of the farms. Even if they worked hard for a year, after deducting the harvest from the owner's income, they could only barely make ends meet.
But the good thing is that because it is close to the capital, they can go to the city to do some odd jobs during the slack season and earn a little money to supplement the family expenses. "
Yun Duo thought that no matter where they were, the common people suffered the most. All they wanted was to have enough food and warm clothes.
After looking at it, Chief Yun returned the telescope to Yun Duo, then slowly squatted down, trying to move the stones on the surface to look at the soil under the stones.
After moving several stones, we finally saw the sandy soil layer underneath. This place is not as good as the sandy land at the foot of the mountain. It is all stone. It is so hot under the sun that most crops cannot survive. When the villagers have free time, they can find some drought-resistant saplings to plant, to prevent the stones from being washed down the mountain when it rains heavily.
Yun Duo also admired the wisdom of the ancients. Although the slope of the hillside here is relatively small, the probability of extreme situations such as mudslides and flooding the entire village may not be high, but as the saying goes, "be prepared for danger in times of peace" and "prevent trouble before it happens", it is always good to maintain a high degree of vigilance and prevention awareness. After all, the power of nature is often beyond our imagination, and any negligence may lead to unexpected consequences.
After descending the mountain, the group went to the small river in the west to have a look. The river was about 200 to 300 meters away from the old barracks, flowing slowly from south to north at the foot of the west mountain. The source of the river led directly to the depths of the mountain range.
Everyone looked at the soil by the river again. It was better than the soil in the east and had less sand. Chief Yun asked the young man with a shovel to dig down a few times and found that there was black soil underneath that had good water-retaining properties.
"The terrain here is very suitable for growing rice, but the terrain is higher than the river and is difficult to irrigate. Planting wheat or corn is afraid of floods in years with heavy rain. Moreover, it is too close to your house, brother Feng. I'm afraid there won't be much land to cultivate if we go to your house." Patriarch Yun said with a frown.
"Originally, there weren't many houses built on the west side of the road. There were only a few houses with doors facing east, next to the road. I heard from the old soldiers who came earlier that when the Ministry of Works was being built, they built a few houses on the west side of the road for the convenience of water for soldiers with limited mobility. We didn't dare to get too close to the river, for one thing, it was damp, but the main thing was that we were afraid of the river flooding after a heavy rain. Now there are only a few dozen of us old brothers left, and for the convenience of water, we all live on the west side of the road."
Chief Yun nodded, "I see."
"Fifth Master, let's go back. I have a plan in mind. Let's go back and talk about it.
When everyone heard Yun Duo say that there were rules, they felt relieved. They knew that this girl had learned skills from her master. Her master's place was not an ordinary place, it was where gods lived.