The Zhang family now has a lot of land, not counting the land in Hebei or other prefectures and counties in the capital. The Zhang family in Ningmin County alone has less than 3,000 acres of land.

Among them are 1,600 acres of rice terraces bought from the Zhao family, 1,000 acres of rice terraces in the bathing ditch that the Zhang family spent a lot of manpower and material resources last winter, and more than 500 acres of land in Bailu Township.

This year, the Zhang family planted all the land itself. In addition to some of the land, there are also winter wheat, which can only be handed over to the fields after harvesting in summer. However, most of the fields will be cultivated this spring.

One thousand acres of terraced fields are fully grown with rice, and the other hundreds of acres are fully grown with millet. After the fields that plant winter wheat are harvested in the summer, Zhang Chao plans to plant beans.

The Zhang family did not rent out these lands, but hired long-term workers to farm. During the busy farming period, they also hired some short-term workers.

The sun is just right and the spring breeze is swaying.

Zhang Chao and his family ploughed the fields in the fields, and the whole family went to fight together.

Of course, the Zhang family does not need to farm in person now, but today is the first day of spring plowing. According to custom, the emperor has to hold a spring plowing ceremony and personally support the plows. The landlords below will also go to the fields in person. This is also an education for their children, and land is the foundation.

Zhang Chao's six students were all taken to the field by him today.

The land that the Zhang family personally plowed was only three parts of the land, and it was not very large. Zhang Chao quickly plowed the land with the plow. After the plow, he had to use a knife to rake and smash the soil that had been turned over again.

The plowed mud is all large pieces, frozen for a winter, which is very solid.

Knife and rake are specially used to break soil, like a small wooden raft, but on several cross-timbers, rows of oblique rake knives are installed, almost four fingers wide. When raking the ground, people stand on the rake and the cow drags it away. The rake knife cuts through the soil and can break the mud. Rake a few more times, and the large pieces of soil will be raked into small pieces.

A group of women in the Zhang family were picking up grass in the field with baskets.

Although many grasses are frozen to death after winter, many grasses are still alive, and many grasses are still alive, although many grasses are dead, their roots are still alive. Once spring begins, they will resurrection and sprout.

There were no herbicides in the Tang Dynasty, so they could only use manual weeding.

When arable land, picking off grass roots and grass is also a very important part.

After raking the ground with a horse, Zhang Chao continued to tram with the tram.

After stowing and raking, the stoop made a thinner farm tool with a horizontal bar handrail on top and a large horizontal comb-like stoop.

Some use bamboo as teeth, and those with conditions use iron teeth.

The trunk is like combing the ground. It can not only break the ground into thinner, but also break out the weeds and grass roots in the ground.

The teeth will bring up the grass roots and so on. Zhang Chao will lift the jungle one by one each time, leaving the grass behind. Then he asked Shisanniang and the others to come over with a basket, shake the grass clean up the soil, and then put it up and lift it to the edge of the ridges of the fields.

As a technical guide today, Lao Niu has been following Zhang Chao to guide how to hold the plow, how to use a cattle rope to teach the cow to stop and turn, etc.

"I did a good job. I didn't expect that Saburo was so talented and he could do it. He was very good at farming."

Zhang Chao wiped the sweat from his forehead and left a piece of grass and mud.

"This cow is well-trained, and this land is also better."

Zhang Chao was so tired that he was thirsty. He looked relaxed, but in fact, holding the plow, stepping on the rake, and holding the plow are quite tiring. There are two oxen pulling the plow, and they use the modified short-curved plow. The plow is lighter, otherwise it will be even more tiring.

It’s not easy for a landlord, and you have to do a show from time to time.

It is probably even more difficult for ordinary people to think about it. Without a cattle, someone has to pull the plow and his shoulders will be worn out. Especially since there are no advanced ploughing tools like curved plows, the old-style plows are too low and ordinary people can't pull them. Deep and shallow plows are difficult to control.

In addition, many people's plows are made of wood, and they are reluctant to use iron for plowing, and they dare not imagine how the field is plowed out. Some people simply don't use plows and use tread plows.

A plow is called a plow, but it is actually a shovel, but it is more efficient than an ordinary shovel. Use your feet to step the plow into the ground and then turn the ground up, which is not much faster than digging one by one.

It’s terrible to think about how dozens of acres of land are cultivated in this way. No wonder the yield is so low, and it takes so much time to cultivate.

The set of tillage tools, plows, knives, rakes, and iron-toothed trunks used by Zhang Chao are all made of iron, and they are even used as steel, which is both light and sharp, and only landlords like Zhang Chao can use them.

Moreover, it is even easier for Zhang Chao to pull the plow when two oxen are not in the family.

Others can’t even work hard, and there is no condition.

"Six of you come here."

Zhang Chao called Lai Heng and other six students over. These little guys were standing on the ridge of the field to watch the show, and Zhang Chao ignored them. However, he called these six people to come today, not for the spring outing.

Today, I have to go downstairs to experience these six people, doing farming.

Anyway, they are all Zhang Chao's disciples, so Zhang Chao doesn't care whether their father was a general, the current crown prince, or the mother was a princess.

Princess Pingyang has said that if you don’t obey, you will be beaten.

Parents these days are very respectful to their children's teachers. It is normal for them to be disobedient and physically punished. There will never be any situation where they are beaten by the teacher and complain to their parents. If they dare to complain, they may have to be beaten by their parents again. Being beaten by the teacher only means that you should be beaten.

Six disciples, the older one is twelve years old and the younger one is only three years old.

But they are all the same, wearing robes and boots, which are incompatible with the field.

When the few people heard Zhang Chao's scream, they were still a little hesitant. They had clean boots on their feet, and they were going to get dirty when they went down to the ground.

"Take off your boots, put your robe and feet into your belt, and come over barefoot."

Several teenagers looked at each other in surprise.

The sun is out today, but it is still a little cold. The most important thing is that some little guys are not rich and frugal, so they are hesitant to let them walk barefoot in the mud.

"Can't you scream, are you?" Zhang Chao's tone heavier.

Laiheng Laiji brothers were the first to be obedient. They took off their boots and socks, lifted their robe and feet, clamped them to their waists, and tied up their trousers.

Stepping barefoot in the newly plowed fields, my feet felt the soft soil and the coldness.

"ah!"

Chai Zhewei suddenly shouted and retreated to the ridge of the field.

"What's wrong?"

"Something bites my foot, snake!"

When Zhang Chao was shocked when he heard a snake bit Chai Zhewei. He taught several students labor classes, so there must be no accident. He hurried over, but he didn't see any snake at all.

"Where is the snake?"

"Where did you bite?"

Zhang Chao asked Chai Zhewei.

"Bite the soles of my feet." Chai Zhewei shines his soles of his feet to Zhang Chao, but Zhang Chao looks at it for a long time and doesn't see any wounds.

"The snake is there, still there!"

Chai Zhewei shouted loudly at the ground in front of him.

Zhang Chao turned his head and looked, "Damn it, there is no snake, it's just a relatively fat earthworm. The earthworm has been in the soil for a winter, but now it's overturned. It's still twisting in the mud, but it's really fat, at least as thick as a chopstick."

Zhang Chao let go of his heart and breathed a sigh of relief.

"Damn, I almost scared me to death by lying about military information. These noble children are really, they are just an earthworm, and he can treat them as a snake."

"You said it was a snake?"

Zhang Chao grabbed the earthworm directly in his hand and took it to Chai Zhewei. He was so scared that he quickly retreated.

"Do you think this is a snake?" Zhang Chao asked the other five.

A group of little guys nodded.

"What do you read all day long? You don't even distinguish between grains, snakes and earthworms?"

Lan'er and Lian'er were laughing and laughing at these children, not even recognizing the earthworms.

Lai Heng and his face were blushed with laughter, "Is this an earthworm?"

"That's right, earthworms are good things. They drill holes in the soil and eat mud. Then the mud discharged by the earthworms will make the field fat. Chicken and duck also like to eat earthworms the most, and they can lay more eggs after eating them. Now, I will give you the first task. Everyone goes to the field and catch twenty earthworms and hand them over. If you can't complete the task, catch one less, and catch the three-character classic once!"

"You must grab it with your hands!" Zhang Chao added another one.

Zhang Chao also asked them to take turns to put the earthworm in their palms. The little guys were so scared that they cried, but Zhang Chao ignored them at all.

In the nearby fields, the Zhang family's long-time workers were arable land. When they saw the movement here, they couldn't help but come over to watch the excitement. Why did a group of young men go to the field and make them cry? I heard that one of them was the eldest son of the prince, who was the eldest grandson of the emperor.

There were guards from the East Palace in the distance, standing not far away, but did not come. They were ordered to follow the King of Taiyuan to protect their safety. But the prince had said that as long as there was no danger, they had no right to interfere with the way Zhang Sanlang taught the King of Taiyuan.

My father was a little embarrassed when he saw the young masters crying at his parents. "Sanlang, why not forget it, they are not ordinary people's children, just learn to learn well, so how can they understand these things?"

Zhang Chao said plainly, "If you don't read the grains and treat earthworms as snakes, what will happen to such a person? Since their parents handed them to me, I will naturally teach them well. It's education, but I can't even lose common sense in life."

Zhang Chao ignored their crying, "Why are you crying? It's useless for you to cry for the sky."

The children cried for a while, but found that no one came to pay attention to them, so they couldn't cry anymore. Lai Heng Lai Ji and Li Chengzong performed well. Although their faces were not very good, they also gritted their teeth and went down to the ground and began to look for earthworms in the soil.

In the end, even Pei Xingjian followed the Laiji brothers to catch earthworms, but the Chai brothers performed the worst.

After getting off the ground, I didn't really catch the earthworms. In the end, Lai Ji brothers and Li Chengzong helped them catch the full amount.

Zhang Chao checked it.

"Okay, you have passed the test. Now, go and spread fat!"

Spreading fertilizer means sprinkling fertilizer made of slag, stove ash, straw, etc. into the field. Combine the slurry and serve as the base fertilizer for the field.

Although the fertilizer was added with stove ash and straw, it was still a little bit dry and unwet.

Several boys knew how the slag in the fertilizer came from, and they all stood there with an ugly look on their faces.

"Each person has sprinkled a basket of fat, but can't sprinkle it all. I copied the Three Character Classic three times!" Zhang Chao threatened with rudeness! To be continued.
Chapter completed!