Li Mengxi wanted to plant trees, so people from the Ministry of Agriculture drew up a detailed tree planting plan.

At the City Lord's Mansion, the director of the [Tianshi] Department of the Ministry of Agriculture arrived and began to explain the plan drawn up by their Ministry of Agriculture.

Speaking of which, when the 14th Department of Julu Military and Political Affairs was first established, each department only had a name, not even a framework or content. The framework of each department was slowly compiled by the officials of each department themselves.

In other words, the official titles of officials in various ministries were their own ideas and names given to themselves.

Therefore, the structure of each department has obvious personal understanding, and the naming of various official positions is also quite interesting.

For example, in the Ministry of Personnel, the Ministry of Personnel is the official in charge. Within the scope of the responsibilities of the Ministry of Personnel, there is a duty to announce appointments to various places. Therefore, those who are responsible for moving around are named by the people of the Ministry of Personnel themselves as [Agency Department]

】, such a rustic name makes people want to laugh when they hear it.

There is also the Ministry of Agriculture. The people in the Ministry of Agriculture have set up the Weather Division. This must be because some people think that growing crops depends on the weather, so they have this subordinate of the Weather Division.

There are many weird official titles in various ministries. Every time he encounters them, Li Mengxi wants to laugh.

Now, the head of the Julu Ministry of Agriculture and the [Tianshi Division] is reporting with a detailed tree planting plan.

"Come to the military advisor, after a detailed discussion yesterday, we have discussed the types of trees to plant, the selection of land, rewards and punishments, watering and other matters."

"As we have discussed, wood can be divided into three categories: wood, use, and food.

The types of wood used include tuo, elm, poplar, neem and other materials.

The types of products used include mulberry, tung, wolfberry, willow, poplar, pine, etc. Mulberry leaves are used to feed silkworms; tung seeds are used to obtain tung oil; wolfberry bark is used for papermaking; and poplar and willow materials are desirable.

Heat-clearing powder; pine wax can be used.

For food, use their fruits, including peaches, plums, apricots, jujubes, pears, durians, sophora elms, etc. The fruit eats its fruit, the sophora japonica eats its flowers, and the elm eats its skin.”

“In terms of site selection, trees have deep roots and dense leaves, which block rain and sunshine and are unfavorable to crops, so they cannot be planted around the fields.

We think it can be planted along roads, riverbanks, barren shoals, and rocky and difficult-to-cultivate places."

"It is difficult to see the results of planting trees in a short period of time, and it is also difficult to grow trees. To plant trees all over the country, we need to spread the people all over the country."

At this point, the official of the Tianshi Department put down the paper in his hand and bowed his hand to Li Mengxi, "May I ask the military advisor, how much money can be paid if you use incentives?"

This costs money.

Li Mengxi sat up straight and said that Li Mengxi was very familiar with the method of stimulating rewards.

Once, it was seen that the Yellow Turban refugees did not even have any shoes on their feet. In order to solve the shortage of straw sandals, the method used was to spread the news to the refugees. First, they said that they would buy a thousand pairs of straw sandals and attract the Yellow Turban refugees to make pupae. Then, a thousand pairs of straw sandals would be purchased.

After collecting both pairs, the remaining shoes were left in the hands of the Yellow Turban refugees themselves, directly solving the shoe problem.

Moreover, even if the shoes were no longer collected later, the refugees had already formed a habit. Later, during the march, if there was any grass on the road, the refugees would pull out all the grass and use it to knit shoes.

Taking the previous law as a lesson, Li Mengxi looked at the officials of the Tianshi Department and said, "In this way, we can issue an order throughout the territory to collect a hundred seedlings from each village and settle the payment in money.

After harvesting every month and continuing for several months, the saplings will become increasingly scarce, so people will cultivate their own saplings.

In the long run, if you collect him every three or five times, it will be beneficial to lure him. In the area of ​​giant deer, planting trees will become a common practice."

Detailed implementation methods of the incentive law are available.

The final content discussed by the Ministry of Agriculture is that watering and seedlings are not easy to survive, so they need to be cared for a little bit.

In response to this proposal, Li Mengxi thought of administrative constraints. He could ask each settlement to take care of the seedlings in the countryside. The seedlings planted along the roads could be taken care of by the cavalry when they patrolled the surrounding areas.

If you think about it carefully, wherever people live in settlements, they must also be where fields are concentrated. There are actually not many places to plant trees. And there are many empty places without farmland and no settlements nearby. Therefore, if you want to plant trees in those empty and desolate places,

, the people must be mobilized to work far away.

Considering that planting trees is really not considered farm work, people will be willing to let people farm the land. If people are allowed to go out to plant trees, it is estimated that people will regard it as corvee and deal with it hastily.

Therefore, in order to plant trees efficiently, it is best to set up a separate department with dedicated personnel to cultivate the saplings, then have dedicated personnel go to various places to plant trees, and then have dedicated personnel take care of them.

When it comes to cultivating saplings, trees with seeds are easier to cultivate, so trees with seeds are given priority.

For the purpose of tree planting, a new branch of the Tree Planting Department was established under the Ministry of Agriculture. It was initially staffed with 500 people, and the Ministry of Agriculture itself was asked to recruit people from among the elderly and weak in the city to serve as a tree planting team. One of the needs of the Tree Planting Department.

Vehicle tools and other equipment shall be supplied by all parties.

In addition, in order to cultivate seedlings efficiently, a seedling land was set aside outside Julu City, where fertile soil could be transported to form fields.

Furthermore, the tree planting department also needs an incentive mechanism, which can divide areas and parcels, and then allocate the parcels to everyone, with equal rewards based on the number of surviving trees.

"It takes time to cultivate seedlings. Before that, you can first explore the suitable locations for planting trees and make early preparations." Li Mengxi warned.

The officials from the Tianshi Division nodded in agreement.

Planting trees is not a complicated task. Planting trees is much simpler than planting land. The only trouble is that you need to cultivate a large number of saplings.

Trees with seeds are easy to grow seedlings. The second thing is that some trees can survive by cutting. In my impression, poplars and willows can be cut and cultivated. After talking with the officials of Tianshi Division for a while, they said that there are many trees, not just willows.

All can be planted from branches.

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As expected of an official of the Ministry of Agriculture, he is very familiar with farming.

The only difference between Li Mengxi and the Tianshisi officials was that the Tianshisi officials preferred to plant practical mulberry and tung trees, while Li Mengxi not only valued practical tree species, but also valued fruit trees such as jujube and pear trees.

There are so many children in Julu City. If they don’t plant fruit trees, what should they do if they don’t have any fruit to eat? What should they do if their younger brother doesn’t have any fruit to eat? What should they do if they don’t have any fruit to eat themselves?

In order to be able to eat fruits nearby, and considering the vast open space around Julu City, Li Mengxi decided to plant various fruit trees around Julu City. In this way, if you want to eat fruits, you only have to walk two steps out of the city.

After everything was discussed, he asked the Tianshisi officials to go back and do their own business first. After the other party left, Li Mengxi stood up, thought for a while, and went out.

During the exchange with the officials of the Tianshi Division, they talked about mulberry trees and raising silkworms. This suddenly reminded Li Mengxi that, yes, in ancient times, it was called agricultural mulberry, which not only cultivated the land, but also raised silkworms.

It's already May. According to my experience in raising silkworms when I was a child, silkworm seeds will hatch in spring. So, where are the silkworms? Where did the silkworms go?

Li Mengxi went straight to the women's and children's camp. He looked around for people to ask if there were any silkworms. When he asked, the women all looked regretful. They all said that as early as February, not long after spring, all the silkworm babies came out.

Without mulberry leaves to feed them, they all starved to death.

Li Mengxi understood that when the Yellow Turban refugees fled, they carried precious silkworm seeds with them. As a result, the silkworm seeds could not be separated from each other every year. When spring came, all the silkworms hatched out. Julu City was almost in ruins.

There were no mulberry trees anywhere in the city, so the sericulture industry was completely discontinued.

(How come no one told me about this?) Li Mengxi was heartbroken.

Mr. Li was not familiar with many things in ancient times, but others, whether they were refugees or soldiers, whether they were old, weak, women and children, or Liu Guanzhang, they all knew about silkworm breeding and silkworm raising, but after a few months, they were stunned.

Someone mention something.

Li Mengxi searched around and finally found out. There was a woman who raised a small amount of silkworms. When Li Mengxi went to look for it, he saw the silkworms. The silkworms were raised in a basket. There were only a few mulberry leaves in the basket.

It has grown to the size of a caterpillar.

Li Mengxi originally wanted to get some silkworm babies to raise and play with, but the silkworms grew too big and looked like they were about to form cocoons, so he had to give up.

I asked the sericulture woman where she got the mulberry leaves. The woman said there was a mulberry seedling near the city wall and she got the mulberry leaves there.

This also explains why others can't raise silkworms alive, but some people can raise a few.

When Li Mengxi left, the woman chased him out and asked. She carefully asked if she could find some land to plant some mulberry trees. After two years, the mulberry trees would be big and she wanted to raise some silkworms. Other women also came over and looked at Li Mengxi eagerly.

I didn’t know about it before and ignored it before, but now I know that silkworms are also an important means of production.

It just so happened that we had already planned with the Ministry of Commerce to plant trees all over the territory, so we just planted mulberry trees together.

Li Mengxi looked around and saw not a single tree in sight. Then he recalled that Julu City was in ruins and there were not many trees in the whole city. It just so happened that with the size of Julu City, how many mulberries could be planted in the courtyards?

There are as many as a thousand trees.

Li Mengxi suggested that if women wanted to plant mulberry trees, they could find some seedlings and plant them in the yard.

In fact, if you want to plant mulberry, you can go find seedlings and plant them long ago. The reason why the city is empty and not a single mulberry plant has been planted is because since the rebel army set foot on the giant deer last winter, until now,

For several months, people moved here and there, living outside the city today, moving inside the city tomorrow, in the east of the city today, and in the west tomorrow. Everyone in the army had no fixed place to live, and their hearts were still unsettled.

I can’t think of planting mulberry trees and think about the future.

On the way back, Li Mengxi was thinking about how to cultivate mulberry seedlings. Mulberry trees have mulberries. Could they be cultivated from seeds?

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On this day, Julu Ministry of Agriculture officials gathered manpower from all over the place and gathered 500 manpower. At the same time, the Rangers began to search for desolate land unsuitable for farming in all directions with Julu City as the center.

Outside Julu City, a company had laid out a large area of ​​seedling land, preparing to establish a nursery base nearby. When there were no seedlings yet, a tree-planting team of 500 people happened to be pulling a truck to dig and transport soil to fill the fields nearby.

Officials from the Ministry of Justice in Julu began to go everywhere to read out the decree. The order was that each village should collect 100 seedlings, and each one could be exchanged for two coins.

As soon as the order was conveyed, people from all over the countryside would definitely go to look for seedlings. Although seedlings can be found everywhere, there would always be times when they were dug out and collected three or five times. Soon the seedlings in the countryside would be empty.

Soon the common people began to raise seedlings spontaneously.

A ranger found reeds from various places. Following the order, someone took the reeds to Dalu Ze and planted the reeds one by one by the lake. Reeds are wild animals and no one has planted them deliberately. Li Mengxi ordered them to be planted.

Reeds also caused a lot of interesting conversations.

Among all wood species, willow was the first to be planted. Planting willow is simple. You only need to break off the willow branches with buds and insert them into the mud at the river. The willow branches are easy to survive and will take root in a short time.

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There are not many officials in the Ministry of Agriculture, so many things have to be done by oneself. One official went to the river, broke off a lot of willow branches, and rode his horse down the river bank, inserting willow branches wherever they went.

, thousands of willow branches are planted in one day, and if all the roots survive, there will be thousands of willow trees.
Chapter completed!