Xia Ji's wine-making technology has been greatly improved after several experiments, in order to make wine more conveniently, he asked Chen Ke to repair a wine-making workshop in Xia Mansion, with a stove, distillation pot, and cooling recovery pot, all of which are all available in the workshop, and the cooling recovery pot is placed in the secret room of the workshop, locked with a door lock, and only he can enter, so as to ensure that the secret is not leaked out.

Because this time she used a cauldron, Xia Ji ordered a thick copper pipe again, and the previous copper pipe Xia Ji did not discard, because she was worried that her perfume would run out, and she planned to use the thin copper pipe as an accessory to extract the essence from the flower stems by herself, and mix it with the alcohol she made to synthesize the perfume. Because the flowers have not yet bloomed, she will collect flowers for experiments when spring begins.

Seeing that the workshop was built, Xia Ji was just about to try it, when she heard a report from outside, saying that her brother-in-law Mrs. Xia Yuzhi had come to pay New Year's greetings with her three children, and Xia Ji hurriedly went out to greet her.

"An Yu meets her sister-in-law, the New Year is auspicious." An Yu saluted Xia Ji.

"Auntie's New Year is auspicious." The three children also kowtowed.

"My brother and daughter-in-law have an auspicious New Year, and the children have an auspicious New Year." Xia Ji replied, saying that she gave them the New Year's money that had been prepared for the children one by one, and the children were very excited.

"I've been back to my parents' house for the past few days, and I only came back yesterday, so I'm here to see my sister-in-law today." An Yu said and took out the gift for Xia Ji ---- a large bag of local products.

"Thank you, An Yu." Xia Ji knew that Xia Yuzhi, who was a military general, also went out to fortify and did not spend the New Year at home.

"Last time, my sister-in-law saved Xia Yutai, and I told my parents about it, and they are very grateful to you, so I specially asked me to bring words to thank you." An Yu said.

"It's all a family, you don't need to thank you, once you thank you, it's a little raw." Natsuhime said.

"Hmm. Has my sister-in-law been out to play these days? ”

"I went to the street the day before yesterday, and it was very lively."

"Yes, it's a very popular time of year for the kids, and the kids love to go out on the street."

"Speaking of children, An Yu, have you asked Mr. Private School to teach them these three children?"

"There is a Mongolian museum not far from my house, and the two older children go to the Mongolian museum every morning to read and write, but Xia Yutai didn't go there when he was only three years old."

"Well, the education of children is the most important, in addition to learning literacy in the morning in the Mongolian Museum, I think there should be some more, teach them the etiquette of life, and you can also learn a little martial arts, arithmetic and other things."

"Etiquette is to teach by word and deed, martial arts can find a gentleman to teach them, but the gentleman who counts may not be easy to find, and I don't understand it, otherwise it would be better for me to teach it myself."

"When children reach the age where they must be educated, it will be too late if they don't teach."

"Yes, but everyone teaches like this now, we as parents, we don't have any ability, and we can't teach them anything."

Xia Ji actually wanted to teach these children, but when she thought that she had to hide An Yu from An Yu about marrying Uncle Xia Yu with her pregnancy, she had to dispel the idea of teaching children.

"An Yu, why are there so many hungry people and beggars in this wild plant? Was it like this in previous years? Xia Ji asked An Yu.

"It's about the same every year, because there is not enough food to eat by this time."

"How much grain can be produced by planting grain in one acre of land now?"

"As far as I know, if there is a bumper harvest, one acre of land is about three or four hundred catties."

When Xia Ji heard her say this, she calculated in her heart that the output of three or four hundred catties in ancient times was less than two hundred catties in modern society, and she clearly remembered that the grain yield per mu in modern society was nine hundred catties.

The two chatted for a while, and after having lunch together, Xia Ji and An Yu took the children to look at the porridge window, and saw the beggars waiting outside to receive the porridge in a long line under the command of the soldiers, Xia Ji felt a sense of accomplishment.

After An Yu left, thinking of the ancient poverty phenomenon she had seen in the past few days, Xia Ji deeply felt the importance of food. I grew up in a modern society where food and clothing are worry-free, and even though most people are not wealthy, basically everyone has something to eat. She had never seen so many people without food, and the hopeless eyes of those beggars with broken bowls in their hands pierced her heart deeply.

Xia Ji asked Li Miao from the Foreign Affairs Office to be called.

"Li Miao, I came to you to ask about farming and see if we can increase the yield of more than 2,000 acres of fields in our Xia Mansion. Do you have any contact with the farmers these days? ”

"Mrs. Huixia's words, it is still the slack season, and those farmers and tenants in our Xia Mansion are still waiting for planting after the beginning of spring, and winter wheat will not be harvested until summer."

"What do they mainly grow?"

"Most of it is rice and wheat, and some vegetables and fruits are also grown."

"What do you think of the climatic conditions and the crops that are suitable for growing here?"

"The climatic conditions of our country are dry and windy in spring, hot and abundant rain in summer, sunny and sunny in autumn, and cold rain and snow in winter, so the planting of crops is mainly concentrated in summer and autumn, which is suitable for rice growth in summer and winter wheat sowing in autumn."

"Because I don't understand anything at all, that's why I asked you, how is rice grown?"

"Simply put, it's the way of fire cultivation and water raking. In the autumn the grass is burned with fire, so that the land is fertile, and after the spring the water is planted with rice, and the grass grows with the rice, seven or eight inches high, but the rice grows taller than the grass, and the field is irrigated with water, and the grass is drowned, so that only the rice grows until the ears of rice grow. ”

"How many seasons of rice can be planted now?"

"How many seasons? Mrs. Xia, I didn't understand what you meant, rice is bred after the beginning of spring, planted in early summer, and then harvested in autumn. ”

"Oh, I see. Go down and let me think. ”

After Li Miao stepped back, Xia Ji fell into deep thought. In her impression, rice in modern society is two seasons, and Hainan is still three seasons, and Li Miao said that spring breeding and autumn harvesting are obviously one season, if it is two seasons, one acre of land can be used as two acres of land, and the yield is doubled.

Xia Ji thought that in order to plant two crops, it was necessary to compress the planting time of the first season, so as to leave enough time for the growth and maturity of the second season of rice. She remembers going to the countryside when she was a child, and in the spring farmers breed in greenhouses, germinate at the right temperature, grow into seedlings, and the greenhouses extend the planting time of rice, and once spring begins, the seedlings can be planted instead of sown at that time. In ancient times, there were no plastic greenhouses, and there were no conditions for rice seeds to germinate and seedlings to grow as soon as possible.

Natsuki decided that she wanted to learn how to grow rice, so she brought Jiang Lu and asked him to find someone to fence off a piece of land in the backyard vegetable patch, and she wanted to experiment with the cultivation of two crops of rice on this land.