After all, Emperor Jingshun has been the master for many years, and after the initial joy subsided, he still had a smile on his face, but his eyes were calm, and he looked at his second son Yang Jingyong and smiled: "It's an imitation, but the craftsman in your house?" ”

Yang Jingyong scratched his head and said with some surprise: "Don't dare to deceive my father, this thing was also given to me by others." Just because I saw a clairvoyant from the West at her place, which was very rare, but I was embarrassed to ask for it, but I didn't expect that she actually used that Western goods to imitate it, no, it was just sent to my house. ”

"Oh?" Emperor Jingshun responded, his gaze turned away from Yang Jingyong, and fell on the brass clairvoyance in his hand.

Taizu also got a clairvoyant from the West at the beginning, and then he also ordered the Ministry of Works and the palace to jointly imitate it, but there were always such and such flaws, and he did not get satisfactory objects. After Taizu, the matter of making clairvoyance was put aside, and the craftsmen who were the supervisors of the Ministry of Industry and the palace were more likely to fire all kinds of glass utensils and even play utensils. But he didn't expect that more than a hundred years later, the unfulfilled wish of Taizu back then was suddenly brought to him so suddenly.

It's just that what kind of role such a sharp weapon will play when used in war can be understood by anyone with a little common sense of warfare. This thing is no less valuable than the technical value of refining steel to forge weapons and armor...... I heard the second child say that the person who made this thing seems to be from the people, so if this logistics falls into the hands of the surrounding tribes and countries...... What the consequences will be, there is no doubt about it!

…… This thing, and even the craftsmen who made it, must not remain in the people. The generals who must be brought into the palace will be the prisoners, and they will make a special trip to make it for the imperial court.

Yang Jingyong looked at the emperor's face with a flash, his heart was not good, and he hurriedly said: "Back to my father, there is one more thing, my son forgot ......"

As he spoke, Yang Jingyong took out a folded piece of paper from under the cushion at the bottom of the long box, and held it in front of Emperor Inshun with both hands: "Father, please see, that person just likes to try to make some things, and this object has made such a total of one, so she turned to making a large piece of glass placed on the window...... This is a detailed recipe for making clairvoyance. ”

Seeing that Emperor Jingshun took the paper and opened it to look at it carefully, Yang Jingyong shook his head helplessly and said: "She also wrote a letter to her son to scold me, saying that for me to be such a clairvoyant, she has cut many pieces of glass, which is enough for her to install the windows of dozens of houses...... What, I also said that I like to make it myself in the future, and she won't do this kind of Rausch anymore......"

Speaking of this, Yang Jingyong shook his head with a wry smile, and added to Emperor Invegu's questioning eyes: "She said that she didn't make money, and she lost money." ”

Emperor Jingshun narrowed his eyes slightly, and then laughed: "Well, well, you kid is asking for benefits for others." Since that man loves money...... How about I reward him with a thousand taels of gold? ”

Yang Jingyong smiled, but there was no thanks.

Emperor Jingshun raised his eyebrows, sank his face and said, "What, a thousand taels of gold is too little?" ”

Yang Jingyong hurriedly bowed down and said: "Father is angry, although there are a lot of gold taels, but she is a sloppy person, although she makes money and loses money, it is just a statement." During the flood and plague last year, although her family was not too rich, she also set up a porridge shed to give porridge relief, and then ...... Oh, my father may also know that after that, she entered the epidemic area alone to diagnose and treat the infected people, and when she entered the epidemic area, she used a car to pull rations, and even a mouthful of food was stained in the epidemic area. ”

Emperor Jingshun really showed a look of surprise this time, "Are you talking about the Yang family?" What are the three orders I have granted? ”

Yang Jingyong grinned and said, "Father remembers clearly, it was her. ”

After a pause, Yang Jingyong continued: "Although Yang has done some business, she is unwilling to pay attention to these business dealings, she prefers to read books and ponder how to make them. For example, in the previous soap making, she was responsible for making prescriptions, and her partners were responsible for making and selling them...... This time the glass ...... Oh, she said that this colorless is far less colorful than glass, gorgeous and graceful, so she took the name of glass...... The glass she fired this time was for the bottle. Her soap-making workshop has recently produced a lotion for bathing and shampooing, and it is not cheap to use ordinary wooden boxes and copper boxes. The clairvoyance that the son said was just made by incident. After the glass burned out this time, she just thought about making bottles for her own workshop, and the rest was just for fun and threw her hands away. ”

Saying that, Yang Jingyong looked at Emperor Invesco with a smile and said, "Hehe, don't say that the things she made are really easy to use." Such a good thing, Erchen also wanted to give his father two bottles to try, and he had already brought it over and handed it over to the big brand Deshun of the Qianqing Palace...... Oh, this is also what Yang instructed in the letter, saying that some people's skin will be sensitive to these, so that they can not afford to use the rash without redness. ”

"Oh?" Emperor Jingshun played with brass clairvoyance in his hand, and lazily responded, but did not say anything.

Yang Jingyong swallowed his saliva, bowed down with a smile and retreated, and looked at the clairvoyance in the emperor's hand before leaving: "Wait for my father to make a new clairvoyance, this one, this one ......"

Emperor Jingshun was furious, picked up a book on the side and smashed it over, Yang Jingyong turned around and ran out of the Qianqing Palace.

In the kung fu of stabilizing his mind outside the Qianqing Palace, the great eunuch Han Xi followed, came to Yang Jingyong's side with a smile, and said in a low voice: "King Yong is too bold, and he still wants to come back with the things he respects......

Yang Jingyong shook his head with a bitter face: "I got this one, or someone else made it on purpose, I haven't got it yet......

Looking at the quiet hall, Yang Jingyong asked in a low voice, "Father is not really angry, right?" ”

Han Xi smiled, but didn't answer the words, and said, "I just heard from King Yong that I still have to try bathing and shampooing, I don't know if I can let the old slave try it?" ”

Yang Jingyong straightened his waist, looked at Han Xi with a smile and looked at it for a long time, then nodded and said, "This is your piece of filial piety...... However, it's better for my father to try that thing himself, just take a little bit as a bath bean and wash your hands. It is also that Yang is cautious, since it was made, there are not 10,000 people who have used it, but there are 1,000 people, and I haven't heard of any of them that are not suitable for use. ”

"Oh, that's what the prince said. This is also Yang's careful, there is no big mistake in being careful! Han Xi smiled repeatedly.

Yang Jingyong took two steps forward, didn't look back, only waved his hand and said: "I handed it to Deshun and divided it into two parts, one is respectful, and the other is a share, you can look at it, the people in the Qianqing Palace are clean, and my father is also comfortable." Uh-huh, Sensei sent, Sensei sent......"

As he spoke, he went straight to the wind.

Two days later, Yang Jingyong was summoned to the Qianqing Hall again. It's just that this time it was not in the front hall of the Qianqing Palace, but in the back of the living room - the body and hall.

Emperor Invesco only said one thing when he recalled him, that is, he directly listed soap, shower gel and shampoo as the annual purchases. This year's time is a little late, but now it is about to enter the middle of summer, and there will naturally be more baths, and these things can not be delayed, so immediately go to Nanzhili to ship back the things used in this year.

Yang Jingyong agreed, but took the opportunity to vomit bitter water, only saying that the things in other people's workshops were in short supply, and the order was placed a year earlier...... After the last time, Emperor Jingshun picked up a book and smashed it out, so he breathed a sigh of relief and left quickly.

On the fifth day of the Dragon Boat Festival in early May, the local people in Nanzhili do not attach much importance to this festival, and there are no customs such as dragon boat racing and drinking male yellow in the south, but the local people also have May as evil, and the insects swim around, saying that the weather is getting hotter and hotter in May, and the midsummer of the elderly and children is coming, and snakes, insects, rats and ants move around after the winter, and people are easy to be injured by poisonous insects if they are not careful.

There are no large-scale activities such as dragon boat racing in Nanzhili, but there are some small customs. For example, if you want to eat five poisonous cakes during the Dragon Boat Festival, you should tie a five-color thread on the wrist of a child, and people with a better family background will wear a five-poison pocket for the child, or tie a five-poison purse, and insert wormwood in the doors and windows of the house, all of which are meant to avoid poisonous insects and dispel evil spirits.

On the third day of the fifth month, Qiu Chen sent watermelons and glutinous rice for the festival to the workshop, and sent people to send the Dragon Boat Festival ceremony everywhere, Lin Xu went to the military camp again, and visited the two stewards who were stained as fugitives. Lin Xu comforted him for a while and came out. Naturally, he handed over the benefits to the hundred households and entrusted them.

This time, it was the first time that the Lin family gave a gift to the new conductor Xu Xiu Xu Mansion. After inquiring before, it is said that Xu Xiu, the new conductor, is not a woman, only has one wife, and has no concubine. He has a son who is over 10 years old. When the second elder was seriously ill, it happened that Xu Xiu followed the Marquis of Jingbei to expel Beirong, and failed to send the second elder to the end, which became a big regret for Xu Xiu, and therefore, he respected his original wife, and this time he asked for the errand of Anyang to command the servant, so he took his wife and son from his hometown and came to work together.

The Xu family's family background is average, and they used to buy dozens of acres of land with Xu Xiu's salary, and the old and young in the family relied on this little land to live.

After arriving in Anyang Mansion, although he suddenly became a military attache in charge of a mansion, he could be regarded as having a lot of progress, but Xu Xiu was more principled in doing things, and he was cautious and scrupulous during this time, and did not show a face of greed for money.

Thinking about these heard, Qiu Chen sent people to send people to Xufu The Dragon Boat Festival ceremony is neither thick nor thin, with eight horses each of the satin summer clothes on the good silk, two catties of Longjing and melon slices in the Ming Dynasty before the Ming Dynasty, as well as two baskets of green-skinned watermelons produced by himself and two boxes of various colored zongzi wrapped in his own house.

On the afternoon of the third day, the return gifts from various prefectures were also delivered, and they were busy packing up all kinds of gifts, and sent Daxing to go to Yang's shop and Nannuma Lake, and sent Boxing gifts to their parents, eldest brother and sister-in-law.

Early in the morning of the fourth day, Qiu Chen returned to Liujiaao with Lin Xu.

When he came back this time, Qiu Chen didn't say anything unintentional, but he also had a settled mind, so he didn't urge the carriage to hurry, rolled up the door curtain halfway, and looked at the scenery outside through the bamboo curtains on the windows on both sides.

In May, the spring flowers have passed, but everywhere is full of green trees, and the peach blossoms on the side of the road that I noticed last time are now full of green fluffy peaches...... Spring blossoms and autumn fruits, without the blossoms of spring, and not yet the fruits of autumn, but the growth of summer, who can say that it is not another moving scenery!

What's more, in addition to these, there are also large areas of wheat fields in the farmland that are gradually turning yellow, and they can be harvested in a few days, this kind of hope and joy that is close to a bumper harvest, Qiu Chen, who has experienced all manual wheat harvesting, feels far more profound than in modern times.

Wandering all the way, I settled at the inn outside Anping County before noon. After eating, everyone has a short lunch break, and the horses can also eat grass, drink and rest for an hour.

At the end of the day, the most poisonous light of the sun was almost over, and the group returned to the road.

At noon, the sun is the most scorching Chenguang has passed, and on the road at this time, the slightly hot wind blows in along the bamboo curtain, although it is not cool, but it is also comfortable and refreshing.

Lin Xu looked at the wheat fields on both sides of the road through the window, and couldn't help but sigh: "It seems that this year is a good year...... Our family can harvest a lot of wheat this year, right? ”

Qiu Chen smiled and shook his head: "Almost all of the four newly bought Zhuangzi are abandoned wasteland, and there was no autumn sowing last year, so naturally there is no wheat to harvest at this time...... It's our Zhuangzi in Qingshui Town, this year's wheat is said to be growing well, the sky is beautiful, if the wheat harvest is not rainy, it should be able to harvest some. ”

The uncle and sister-in-law were talking, and they didn't feel that the journey was long, and when the sky was still bright, the car had already driven into Liujiaao.

Naturally, there was a group of small leather monkeys at the entrance of the village, cheering and running all the way to the village with the carriage.

Qiu Chen asked Yuegui to take the sugar for the children. Looking back at Lin Xu smiling at the children running with the car outside through the window, he didn't mean to get out of the car, and then looked at Lin Xu's snow-white middle coat azure yarn, and couldn't help laughing.

All the way to the gate of the Lin family, the carriage had not stopped, and Yang Shumeng took Zhao Jiu and the rest of the family out of the courtyard to greet him. The children are practicing late at this time, so they can't rush back to meet them as soon as possible.

Everyone saw the ceremony, laughed and hugged Qiu Chen's uncle and sister-in-law into the door, sat down in the hall for a while, and after laughing for a while, everyone dispersed, and Qiu Chen and Lin Xu went back to their rooms to freshen up and bathe, and changed into homely plain silk clothes and pants.

Just as Yufeng was standing behind her, twisting her hair, she heard a commotion and laughter outside, and Junli pulled Ah Fu to run in first.

Qiu Chen squinted his eyes slightly, stretched out his hand to take the two sweaty children into his arms, hugged one with one hand and kissed him, and accepted the courtesy of Junwen and others, then he smiled and sent a group of boys to wash and change clothes. It was hot at this time, and the children were almost soaking wet after exercising.

"Go wash it, change into dry clothes, look at the sweat on this body, I can't stand it after wearing it for a long time!" The Daxing family was already driving a few small followers at the door.

Qiu Chen smiled and asked Ah Fu and his brothers to take a bath, and then motioned for Yufeng to put on the simplest bun, save a boxwood hairpin, get up and walk out.

When I came to the hall, the Daxing family was already waiting at the door.

Seeing Qiu Chen, the Daxing family curtsied, and then asked with a smile: "The shrimp brought by Mrs. today is fresh, I'll come and ask, how to do it...... These seafood have been made less ...... before."

Daxingjia inquired and added an explanation.

Qiu Chen waved his hand and said with a smile: "There are a lot of shrimp brought back today, you have people send some to the West Courtyard and a few gentlemen, and then send a little to Aunt Wang and the third grandmother and a few old people, and the rest is done, blanched one, and then make a hibiscus shrimp ball, that child loves to eat." Don't lose the shrimp head and shell peeled off the hibiscus shrimp balls, the one that makes the shrimp paste is the best. ”

"Shrimp paste?" Daxingjia was a little stunned, and asked with a puzzled face.

Before, Haipu also sent a few jars of shrimp paste, but it seems that it should be made of small shrimp like small shrimp rice pier, this shrimp meat is peeled out, and it can be eaten as long as the shrimp shell and shrimp head are made?

Qiu Chen smiled and waved his hand: "You do what I say, this season, the shrimp head is full of huang'er, and the shrimp paste is better than the shrimp meat, and it's a pity to throw it away." ”

Since his wife said it so firmly, the Daxing family naturally no longer hesitated, nodded again and again, and went down to prepare dinner.

Qiu Chen didn't finish a cup of tea, and Qingxing Yuegui and Chen also finished washing.

Qiu Chen instructed Yufeng: "You and Qingxing go and put the things you brought back in the place, see what the old people in the village have changed, and send them at dawn." ”

Yufeng and Qingxing agreed. Zhao Jiu also went to the door to reply.

Zhao Jiuhui was about the exchanges between Qingshui Town and Anping County, Qiu Chen listened to them one by one, and felt that the disposal was quite appropriate, so he put his hand down. just instructed Chen: "You pack up the table you brought back, one of the four horses for each gentleman, and then put on some things for the festival, just now I told the Daxing family, shrimp are rare here, and some are also divided for the gentlemen to try, you look at the distribution, let Zhao Jiu send someone to send it over." Ming'er is the main festival, and Mr. Ding has to go home to take a look, Zhao Jiu remembers to prepare the car early and send the appropriate people to follow. ”

Chen and Zhao Jiu agreed and retreated one after another.

Qiu Chen pondered for a while, and felt that there was nothing missing, so he let go of his hand, turned around and walked out of the door, and walked straight to the back.

This time, she still has a very important thing to do, which is to harvest the first crop of potatoes. It's been two months since the corn was planted, and it should have been pollinated by now, but it shouldn't have been filled yet...... It's still early to want to eat tender corn.

All the way into the back garden, the sky was already a little hazy. The two servants who were in charge of cleaning up the garden were busy in the garden, and when they saw Qiu Chen coming over with Laurel Chunxiang, they hurriedly lowered their hands and saluted.

Qiu Chen raised his hand and said with a smile: "You don't need so many courtesies in your own home, I just came over to take a look, you guys are busy!" ”

The two servants agreed in succession, and went into the garden again to get busy, Qiu Chen paid a little attention, and saw that one was pulling weeds, and the other was squatting on the tomato seedlings that had been erected and didn't know what he was doing.

Qiu Chen skipped the two of them, went straight to the potato furrow, looked at the bulging bags at the root of the potatoes, and then looked at the deep and wide cracks, and his heart was full of joy.

She had already prepared before she came, carrying a small picket in her hand, squatting down and starting to pick up potatoes with the pickle. At first, she didn't count in her heart, because most of the potatoes had to be kept for seeding, and she was afraid that they would not be able to be used if they were damaged, so she was very careful with her movements, using a small pickle to pick up the soil on the skin little by little, and then the first potato she saw was the size of a goose egg.

"Hey, it's not small!" Qiu Chen was satisfied with picking out one and putting it aside, and then began to pick up the second ......

After a while, a large potato at the root of a potato was stripped by her. In the lower part of the root, there were some smaller than eggs, even the size of dates, which she left in the soil, and covered them again with soil to cover the exposed potato roots. She vaguely remembered that the potatoes could be harvested several times, and after the large potatoes were harvested, the smaller potatoes would continue to grow and expand, and as long as the land was not waiting to be used, the harvest period could be extended and a second harvest could be obtained. Of course, the second harvest is a little less than the first, which is also normal.

Qiu Chen didn't notice how much he had picked up, but after picking up a tree, he turned around and found that a potato had picked up a bunch of potatoes, and counted, there were fourteen large and small pieces, the smallest one was the size of a duck egg, and the largest one was the size of a half-goose egg...... According to Qiu Chen's estimates, there are more than ten catties.

Qiu Chen was full of joy and excitement, he didn't notice that Yuegui was gone, and after counting at this time, he was thinking about how to get it back, when he saw Yuegui panting and carrying back a basket, "Madam, use the basket to hold it!" ”

"This girl is very thoughtful!" Qiu Chen smiled, watching Yuegui and Chunxiang put a bunch of potatoes into the basket, Qiu Chen carried the basket again this time and estimated, and further confirmed his previous guess, which should be more than ten catties. This is still a clean harvest, if the second harvest can be harvested another three or four catties, then the yield of a potato plant is enough for thirteen or fourteen catties. The plant spacing of potatoes is one foot to one and a half feet, that is, the plant spacing is about 40 centimeters, and an acre of field can probably plant more than 4,000 plants.

Qiu Chen felt that something was wrong, and after thinking about it carefully, the things planted in the garden should be taken care of more carefully, and the water and fertilizer management should be done sufficiently, and the yield will naturally be higher. What's more, now only the outermost one is picked, and there may be a relatively small harvest inside, and several situations are neutralized, and if you go to the field to plant, the yield per mu is definitely not so high. Of course, as long as you take care of it, 3,000 catties should be fine.

The popularization of potatoes with a yield of 3,000 gold per mu is really high compared with wheat, the main grain crop with a yield of only 400 catties per mu in this era. Moreover, potato planting can be intercropped in the wheat field, and after the wheat is harvested, the potato just enters the vigorous growth period, which is not delayed at all, but there are many more things that can satisfy the stomach...... Regardless of how I taste and how nutritious I am, at least, with the promotion of potatoes, so many people will no longer suffer from hunger or even starve to death......

------Off topic------

Yesterday, I lost two kilograms...... Looking at the numbers on the scale, I don't know whether to cry or laugh......

It hurts badly.,I couldn't code the word last night.,It's been coded until now.,Relatives will just look at it.,Tomorrow.,Tomorrow will be fine......