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Chapter 701 The flowers are blooming and the world is warm

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    At the beginning of September, a large field in front of Muna Mountain has turned into a piece of snow-white.  Large tracts of cotton are like white clouds falling from the sky to the world. Looking around, the cotton fields blooming with thousands of cottons are like big quilts, like layers of white waves, like groups of marshmallows, all competing to bloom and competing for beauty.  .

    Huang Mingyuan walked among the cotton ridges, touching this one and looking at that one. He couldn't put it down these long-lost cottons.

    In the past few days, Huang Mingyuan has come to Muna Mountain many times just for these cottons.

    Although woolen cloth has appeared in Fengzhou, occupying a large amount of the winter clothing market, and the warm sheepskin fur that has always been loved by the people in the north is also being suppressed, but until later generations, cotton-padded jackets have always been the most important clothing for ordinary people to keep out the cold.

    Cotton is more convenient to dispose than wool, and most areas are suitable for cultivation, with abundant yields. Its existence is still irreplaceable.

    It¡¯s September now, and it¡¯s already a little late for cotton to grow.  In later generations, the Yellow River Basin was mostly sown from March to April in the Gregorian calendar. It went through the seedling stage, seedling stage, bud stage, and flowering stage, and was almost harvested in September to October.  Moreover, cotton is not harvested all at once. It takes about two months from the time when the cotton is spun to the end of the harvest. Because the growth of each plant is different, it takes several intermittently during this period to completely pick it.

    Because this year¡¯s cotton was planted later and grew later, the entire cotton planting cycle will extend until November. It will be cold and wintery, and the cotton yield in the last period will definitely not be optimistic.

    There is no way around this. Huang Mingyuan is not a professional agricultural expert, and there is still a gap between the current climate and the weather more than a thousand years ago. The planting time of many new plants requires multiple comparisons to get a relatively accurate time.

    This year is considered a tuition fee, and it will be improved next year.

    There are not many cotton seeds this year. Huang Mingyuan planted them from the end of April to the beginning of June, and divided them into seven or eight waves to test the accurate planting time of cotton.  In addition, Huang Mingyuan also arranged for people to observe the growth of cotton every day and make detailed records.

    Planting cotton requires raising seedlings. Li Min gave Huang Mingyuan a total of fifty kilograms of cotton seeds, which is equivalent to about 33 kilograms. Huang Mingyuan didn't know how to raise seedlings, so Li Min found two more southwest people for guidance.  This seedling is grown.

    Huang Mingyuan planted about 20 acres of cotton at an amount of about 1.5 kilograms per acre.  In later generations, cotton fields in the Yellow River Basin required about 3,000 cotton plants per acre, while in Xinjiang the cotton fields were between 8,000 and 15,000. Fengzhou was located further north, so Huang Mingyuan chose to plant about 4,000 cotton plants per acre.

    There is no way, no one else understands the growth of cotton. Huang Mingyuan is so busy with government affairs, he has to take time to tend this field personally, fearing that this batch of cotton seeds will be wasted.  Although many experienced farmers are trying to learn it, it is a pity that even the best crop masters really don¡¯t know how to grow cotton, so they can only try it.

    I saw the cotton growing season before my eyes, and the entire cotton field turned into a sea of ??white.  Everyone didn't know what the cotton Huang Mingyuan was talking about was, and they were all waiting for these white flowers to fall and bear fruit.

    Huang Mingyuan couldn't laugh or cry when he saw it. It would be October when the cotton fell off, so there would be no fruits.  However, if they don¡¯t know how to pick such white flowers, these farmers would really not dare to get started.

    Huang Mingyuan had picked cotton before, and he still picked it every day. He didn't have to pick up all of them one by one, but he had to be selective and only pick up the large cotton that had matured and bloomed.  When I was in elementary school, the school had designated fields of responsibility for teachers, and their class teacher had a field to grow cotton.  They pick up cotton for the class teacher every afternoon after reading at night. Whoever picks up a full bag will be released from school. Therefore, Huang Mingyuan has rich experience in picking up cotton and can also use tools to pull cotton sticks.

    "Zhimou, we must organize manpower to collect cotton as soon as possible. This is not a day or two work. People must be trained in advance, and at the same time, remember not to dirty the cotton."

    Cotton is easily contaminated with dirt, and there is not much technology available to clean cotton at this time.

    Since he decided to establish the Huyan Valley area as the core of Fengzhou, Huang Mingyuan transferred Yongfeng County Magistrate Deng Yi to the Huyan Valley area to be responsible for the government affairs here.  Deng Yi was an internal affairs talent second only to Li Zixiao in terms of government affairs under his command. Although he was considered a big official in Yongfeng, it was a bit of a waste.

    Huyan Valley will be the core area of ??Fengzhou in the future. Although it has not yet established a county, it can be regarded as the capital.

    Huang Mingyuan is also helpless. He really lacks talents on hand, especially those in government affairs.

    ??Look carefully, the ones that can be used now are Li Zixiao, Deng Yi, Xia Anxun, Jiang Yunhui, and Yu ChongxuAs a person, Fengzhou is so big and needs people who can stand alone in all directions. Huang Mingyuan is really stretched.

    Now Huang Mingyuan misses Wang Xin a little bit. Although his personality is a bit awkward, after all, talents are rare and he is also a good hand in government affairs.

    Of course, this is related to the fact that Fengzhou itself is backward in education and has no talents to cultivate. Moreover, Fengzhou itself is remote and real talents are unwilling to come.

    ¡°Education is the foundation of a century-old plan. This is really not an empty talk.

    Huang Mingyuan has already started opening county schools, but it will take some time to see results.

    Deng Yi did not dare to delay and organized hundreds of women to quickly complete the first harvest.  To Huang Mingyuan's expectation, the output was quite large, about three hundred kilograms (200 kilograms in later generations) from twenty acres of land. Looking at the situation, one mu of land could produce as much as thirty or forty kilograms.

    These cottons were originally experimental products. In Huang Mingyuan's imagination, it would be good to have a yield of fifty kilograms per mu.

    Of course, in later generations, a yield of thirty or forty kilograms per mu would make people laugh. The yield per mu is related to soil fertility, planting level, and planting area. Among them, the yield of cotton per mu in low-yield fields is about 180 to 230 kilograms.  The yield of thirty or forty kilograms is only a fraction, which is not suitable for planting areas.

    But now there are no compound fertilizers or pesticides. The fields are fertilized with manure. The cotton yield in Fengzhou is only thanks to God.

    Of course, there is still a long way to go, and Huang Mingyuan is not complacent about this output. He is lucky this year, and his cotton has not even encountered insect pests.  He plans to establish a cottonseed training institute and organize a group of agricultural talents and experienced farmers to optimize cottonseed and strive to increase cotton production.

    The entire cotton harvest lasted for more than a month, and Huang Mingyuan was overjoyed by the final statistics.  Twenty-three acres of cotton land produces a total of 1,000 kilograms of cotton, and the yield per mu exceeds 40 kilograms. We are happy to welcome a bumper harvest. These days, people are so bold and the land is so productive.

    The treasury in Beining City has accumulated a whole warehouse of cotton and a warehouse of cotton seeds. These are the seeds for expanded production next year.  (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com
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