Chapter 1176 Burning Mountains and Reclaiming Wasteland

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Seeing the expectant look of the crowd, Tang Feng said without haste: "Xiao Hui said, the traces of the fire are very regular, and at the edge of the fire, there is an extremely straight straight line that draws the entire length of the bamboo forest. The burned part and the unburned part are clearly distinguished."

Xue Rui said "Ah" in surprise again, his face was extremely tangled, as if he couldn't figure it out, and his brows were furrowed.

He touched the stubble on his chin that he had no time to shave in the future, and said slowly: "This kind of situation sounds very strange, this fire is extremely uncontrollable, how can we make it burn to a certain place?" , then extinguished? There must be something unexplainable in it! Mr. Tang, tell me, does this have something to do with the sect that practiced, and they used special methods to do it?"

Xue Panpan also nodded slightly, with a puzzled look on his face, and said, "But what is their purpose for doing this?"

Seeing the appearance of the Xue family siblings, Li Jianming couldn't help laughing and said: "Miss Xue, Master Xue, this matter is not as complicated as you imagined. It is quite easy to do this."

"Easy?" Xue Rui's eyes widened, and he looked at Li Jianming in disbelief.

In his opinion, it is unimaginable to control the fire and let it go out in a certain place.

If Tang Feng said that this matter was simple, he wouldn't think anything of it, but Li Jianming, who had the lowest cultivation level among all the people present, naturally made Xue Rui unbelievable that he would say such a thing.

Li Jianming nodded and said with a smile: "Young Master Xue usually lives in the city, even if he occasionally goes to the countryside, it is definitely not in such a big mountain. It is normal to not know about things like burning mountains and opening up wasteland."

"Burn mountains and open up wasteland?" Xue Rui repeated these four words, and the expression on his face became more and more puzzled.

Rong Guocheng already understood what Li Jianming meant and smiled slightly.

At this moment, Lin Mengjia and Xue Panpan also said in unison: "What is that?"

It can be seen that the daughters or sons of such big families are completely ignorant of such things.

Li Jianming explained with a smile: "In the history of China, agriculture has always been the mainstay. This agricultural country naturally needs a large area of ​​cultivated land as its foundation. However, in the historical changes, most of the The land is concentrated in the hands of a few ruling classes, and the people who do not have land will think of some ways to obtain land, and burning mountains to open up wasteland is one of the means."

Xue Panpan seemed to understand, and said: "Is it just to burn the trees on the mountain, and then plant the land on this mountain?"

Li Jianming nodded, and said: "Ms. Xue is really smart. That's exactly the case. Although the land in the mountain is considered to be owned by the ruler, it is not registered as arable land, so the harvest grown on this unused land There is no need to pay taxes. Many people took risks to come to this barren mountain and set fire to burn down the original mountain forest. There are a lot of mineral elements in the burned plant ash, which is quite beneficial for plant growth. The good thing is that the crops that were planted by burning mountains and clearing up wasteland in the past few years have been quite good, and it has attracted quite a lot of people to flock to it."

Although Xue Rui heard what Li Jianming said, he still had a bit of puzzlement on his face, and said, "This beautiful mountain forest is just burned like this? I think many trees have grown for many years. It’s really a pity to burn it all, and you said that the harvest has been good in the past few years, so it won’t work after that?”

Li Jianming nodded, with a look of regret on his face, and said: "In the past few years, the land has sufficient nutrients. Naturally, the ancients would not have all kinds of chemical fertilizers as they do now. Once the land has insufficient nutrients, they will It is to give up, and then look for barren hills elsewhere to open up wasteland, which is not uncommon in history, burning a piece of land, planting a piece of land, and changing another piece of land.”

Lin Mengjia also couldn't help exclaiming: "So many mountains and forests were destroyed for no reason? Is there no one to care about them?"

Rong Guocheng said: "Of course someone is in charge now. The laws of Huaxia Kingdom expressly prohibit this kind of burning of mountains and land reclamation."

Xie Huo also nodded his head and said, "That's right. Now the official purpose is to prevent the spread of wildfires, and secondly, to protect the environment and reduce air pollution. It is better to manage such things as burning mountains. In recent years, it has been completely eliminated. .”

Li Jianming went on to say: "Although no one has done this in recent years, in history, burning mountains and opening up wasteland emerged endlessly, and people were quite experienced. People at that time also knew that once the wildfires were out of control, they would be destroyed." Burning all the mountains and plains has summed up a lot of experience in practice, and controlling the spread of fire is one of them."

Xue Panpan heard this, and asked curiously: "Is there any way?"

"The reason why the fire spreads is because there are objects that support combustion, such as the trees in the mountain. Under normal circumstances, before burning the mountain, a deep chasm is dug along the range of the land. This deep chasm There is nothing to burn in the ditch, so the fire will naturally stop here."

Li Jianming smiled slightly. He came from an ordinary family. When he was young, his family was in the countryside, so he was quite clear about these things.

Hearing what Li Jianming said, Xue Rui suddenly realized, but he was still a little skeptical and said hesitantly: "So, if you want to leave a straight mark, you just need to dig a ditch?"

The answer was too simple, which made Xue Rui feel quite unbelievable.

Li Jianming nodded with a smile, and said: "When I first heard it, I also thought it was unbelievable. I thought that the fire could burn as it wanted. How could it be blocked by a ditch? After seeing it with my own eyes, I believed it was true. Don’t get me wrong, what I saw was not burning mountains, but farmers burning straw in the fields.”

Hearing the words "burning straw", Lin Mengjia and Xue's siblings showed a bit of curiosity on their faces.

After all, for them, these are completely unheard of, so they will inevitably feel interested.

In order to prevent them from getting entangled in this issue and dragging the topic away, Tang Feng coughed lightly and said: "It is precisely because the scope of the fire is controllable and the method is not too difficult that I decided to I suspect that someone did it on purpose, but I still have doubts about the time when the fire started, so I asked Xiaohui to go back there, collect some burnt ashes and other things, and let me have a look and do it again. care about."