In the field, after the arrival of the people from the Yamen of the Transshipment Division and the people from the Yamen of Chang'an County, Lu Zifei gave an order, and the mighty autumn harvest began.

"It's a little sweet, it's not so dry, is it because it's not ripe yet?"

Lu Zifei found a straw in the ground that was still green, peeled it and chewed it in his mouth like he did when he was a child on the earth, and chewed it like sugar cane, the nostalgic taste was too familiar, and there were no snacks for children at that time, which were one of the few among them.

"I know whether it is ripe or not, you have already eaten corn, I will not introduce it, the ground flour is similar to wheat, the taste is slightly different, today you are here to see the yield per mu, just look at it, talk less."

Pang Ji said: "Why are you still angry about that incident? Although you are smart, but you have experienced less things, what is wrong with the fourth, this time the fourth, the next time you take the first exam, it is not easy for everyone to accept, your identity as a marquis is destined to make your scientific examination not so smooth, I thought deeply, is what I said reasonable. ”

Lu Zifei said: "I'm not so superficial, I'm not thinking about going to the capital, I'm thinking about what the capital is like, it's not much different from Luoyang, the imperial examination is mainly to make some efforts for me to go higher in the future, and of course to make the second elder happy." ”

"I want to know the difference between Luoyang and the capital! You don't have to go far, just ask me, the prosperity of the capital must be incomparable to Luoyang, but I feel that the capital is full of rancid smell, how many idlers do you think the Great Song raised in the capital.

The intricate relationship, every day to circulate between the emperor, the prime minister, and the prime minister, there is a wind and grass The emperor will know clearly, how many people went there with dreams, and finally left disappointed. ”

Lu Zifei said: "The people who left are the same as huge people, if you have strength, I don't believe that anyone can drive you out, in the face of absolute strength, everything is a paper tiger." ”

Pang Ji seems to have seen that when he was twenty years old, everything in his imagination was beautiful, but when you really got in touch, you found that the two are not the same thing at all, and most of the time they can't help themselves!

"It's good to have confidence, you can listen to what I tell you, if you don't experience things personally, you will never know what is hidden under the surface, Da Song still needs you hot-blooded teenagers."

If you really see through everything in this world, then you don't see you to be a monk or a Taoist priest, to put it mildly, power is still tempting, and you can't see through the word 'fame and fortune', you are all losers in the political struggle, that's all.

"Master Hou, why do you want to separate the grain in each field, isn't it convenient for us to count it together?"

Lu Zifei looked at the official who asked him a question, smiled, and asked, "This adult, do you know what factors are needed for a corn plant to grow from seed to now?" I'm pretty sure you don't know, I can tell you. The required factors are;

Sunlight, water, soil, fertility, plus the last factor, it can grow to its current state, different environments, the yield of food is different, what I am doing depends on the environment where the yield of food is the highest, adults understand? ”

The self-inflicted official retreated with a crimson face, Pang Ji didn't care whether his subordinates lost face at all, you a pro-people official lost to a scholar in this regard, and you deserved to lose face.

Pang Ji looked at Shen Kuo and Wu Pan holding the small notebook and said, "What are the two of them doing there?" ”

Lu Zifei said with a smile: "Adults are so curious, why don't you go over and take a look yourself, maybe it can make your eyes shine?" ”

After Pang Ji approached Shen Kuo, he saw that the child was seriously drawing something on a small notebook, not with a brush, but with a fine wood, with a ruler on the white paper with horizontal and vertical lines, what he could understand was No. 1, No. 2, No. 3, and he didn't know any of the other symbols.

"Xiao Kuo, can you tell me what you drew on it?"

Shen Kuo glanced at his husband, and after getting his permission, he said: "My lord doesn't know, these fields are numbered when they are planted, and they are also harvested according to the number when they are harvested now, and I did this to see the difference in the harvest of each land." ”

Pang Ji continued to ask: "Then are these symbols in your book a kind of character?" I don't think I've seen it. ”

Shen Kuo said like a little adult: "They are called Arabic numerals, which are very convenient accounting numbers, and several of my good friends used them when they kept accounts in Luoyang County. ”

Pang Ji still didn't find the benefits of Arabic numerals, Zeng Gongliang has been a treasure since he knew this convenient way of bookkeeping, so Arabic numerals did not spread, he went to Wu Pan and found that the two people were doing the same thing.

Pang Ji said to Lu Zifei: "You two students are well trained, they grow up from a young age, and they are also people who do great things when they grow up." ”

Lu Zifei said: "When they were naughty, you didn't see it, adults! My family is full of chickens and dogs jumping all day long, and today I asked them to come to help, but I promised two delicious meals and was willing to come. ”

"Very spiritual, Xiao Kuo knows my identity and is not timid at all when he sees me talking, and he can still speak the Tao, which is stronger than his father, and his father will roll his tongue when he sees me talking."

Lu Zifei smiled bitterly: "I didn't let you praise them, you didn't find out the key points I asked you to see." ”

Pang Ji said: "Are you talking about the pen or the Arabic numerals that Xiao Kuo said?" ”

Lu Zifei recalled for a moment and said: "My lord has been in Shaanxi for nearly five years from the general judgment to the transfer envoy!" ”

Pang Ji said: "A little more than four years, less than five years, what's wrong." ”

Lu Zifei said: "Then the adults have known about the caravan since the day it was established, and the adults have not found out that the accounts of the caravan to the yamen have never been missed, not even a penny." ”

Pang Ji thought for a while and said: "Indeed, I have personally checked it several times without any problem, I used to wonder if you were making fake accounts inside, and then let the outside account room verify it a few times, and there is indeed no mistake." ”

Lu Zifei said: "To say a big disrespectful word, the bookkeeper under your hand is not as good as my two students, I taught Master Zeng when I was in Luoyang, he has nothing to do all day long, but none of the people under his hands dare to make false accounts in front of him." ”

"Is it as amazing as you say? Do I have people under my hands who have come out of the household? Don't blow the hide. ”

Lu Zifei said: "I just told you that I thought you were good, do you think I will tell him if you see ordinary people?" This belongs to our Guiguzi lineage, and now it belongs to our Lu family's family to learn well, in terms of mathematics, I have the confidence to say that the four words are unique in the world, don't go out and tell people that you are a reader. ”

Pang Ji is serious now, family learning is a unique knowledge, it is impossible for outsiders to learn it, after Lu Zifei taught him ten numbers, the huge people indulged in it, and he discovered the benefits of this Arabic numeral.

Lu Zifei brought back about 50 acres of corn seeds from India, half of them were left for Luoyang this year, and half of them were brought to Shaanxi by himself, and the people who harvested the corn were all hired by Lu Zifei to hire nearby villagers, because at this time they had nothing to do, and the price was two meals a day, Lu Zifei was not stingy, killed two pigs and two sheep, you eat well.

Before the harvest, the simple people who ate a belly of meat did not have much effort to do this little work, looking at the corn cob, Lu Zifei said: "Everyone help me peel off the skin on the cob, and rub off this grain one by one." ”

Fifty or sixty people piled up more than a dozen piles of corn kernels at noon, Shen Kuo and Wu Pan were busy recording the data, and the idle people asked boldly: "Master Hou, can you let us plant some grain next year, this yield is at least twice that of wheat, we secretly tasted it, we can eat it, we can pay for it." ”

Lu Zifei said with a smile: "You don't need to buy it, I'll lend you seeds, and you can return it to me when the harvest is harvested next year, but it's only limited to people nearby, you see, there are more people and there are not enough seeds, and whoever wants to plant it in a few years can do it." ”

The villagers thanked him and said: "Lord Lu is a good person, and he will definitely return twice as much to the Lu family next year." ”

Lu Zifei said: "You don't need to double, just borrow as much as you want, and you will help me harvest another kind of crop in a while, and bring a little for the children to eat when I go back, I tell you that this kind of crop can produce more than ten stones per acre." ”

"Master Hou said with a smile, the old man has never seen an acre of grain that can produce more than a dozen stones in his life?"

Lu Zifei said with a smile: "You will start digging immediately, at this time, if I lie to you, won't I lift a stone and shoot myself in the foot?" Again, I tell you, this crop does not pick the ground, but it can produce so much in the sand. ”

These people don't know whether to believe it or not, they asked Lu Zifei to take them to dig without resting, after Lu Zifei gave them a demonstration, the old farmer who has been planting crops all his life has worked much better than him, and the exclamation attracted many people to come over, Xue Ning put Jun Xiang in his son's hand and went to see it.

Without a quiet environment, huge people can't learn, he cried after seeing the yield of sweet potatoes, he really cried, and shouted: "God bless Da Song, Da Song is saved." ”

The common people asked Lu Zifei how to eat sweet potatoes, and after Lu Zifei patiently told them various ways to eat, they begged Lu Zifei to give them some on credit, and Lu Zifei told them that sweet potatoes are to be raised, and everyone can come to Zhuangzi to buy seedlings in the spring of next year, and a seedling costs three dollars to ensure that everyone can afford it.

Hearing Hou Ye say this, they worked more energetically, Lu Zifei smiled and looked at them while hearing a voice he heard in his dream, looking at the son in his arms, he said excitedly: "Call again"

"Daddy"

Lu Zifei kept kissing his son's face, this little man called himself father.

"Mother, did you hear that? He called me Daddy. ”

"Like you, you're a conscienceless, and I'm holding him all day." Xue Ning said jealously.