Winter wheat ripens in late May, more than 10 days later than Hebei south and east of the Taihang Mountains.

The day of the wheat harvest has always been a very important day of the year for the Chinese people.

Once the wheat is ripe, if you don't harvest it in a hurry, a strong wind can reduce the harvest by two or three percent, and if it rains heavily, people will almost start wailing.

At this time, the labor force in various places seems to be somewhat insufficient.

Several royal estates around Taiyuan apparently do not have such worries.

One of them is in the north of Jin, where only one crop is planted every year, and only in the middle of the river will be sown twice a year.

When the winter wheat of the royal estate in Yangqu County was ripe, the wheat in other places had not yet begun to tassel.

Moreover, Li Qi still has 6,000 troops and horses stationed in Tun, and he seems to have been firmly turning these soldiers under his command into militia or engineers, and work is the main business, and as for war training, it is a hobby.

The advantage is that now everyone can eat enough, dress warmly, and have a meal of meat every three or five days.

As for the disadvantages, Li Qi hasn't seen it yet.

In these years, there are not many skills in fighting the war, these goods have eaten well, their bodies have become stronger, and it seems that the level of fighting has also improved significantly......

Since the opening of the wheat field, Bo Caoxin, the lord of Taiyuan, has been stationed in the Yuci Royal Manor on the order of Prime Minister Zhang Xian, focusing on the harvest of wheat.

Moreover, Zhang Xian also specially sent several scribes from Taiyuan Prefecture to help check and verify the harvest of winter wheat.

When the ears of wheat were dried and threshing with Lu Qi pressing, Zhang Xian also rushed over from Jinyang City.

When making noodles, it is not only to put diced mutton, it is best to chop a few pieces of mutton oil and mix it in, so that it will exude a heavy fishy smell. The only regret is that there are no potatoes and no peppers, diced carrots, diced onions and some crushed rape leaves, it always feels like something is missing.

There are several large iron pots in the courtyard of the manor, which are boiling with the juice of the manor, and the manor is filled with a strong smell of meat.

There was only a small table, and Cao Xin was having lunch with the emperor who was patrolling the place.

Several pro-army generals led by Kang Tai had no choice but to squat on the ground like everyone else, holding a large bowl of poured sauce in their hands, and eating noodles.

In this era, everyone eats a lot of food, which is clearly shown in the large bowl that looks like a small basin in everyone's hand.

After Zhang Xian entered the gate of the manor, he was immediately stunned, only to see Li Qi, who was the son of heaven, like a small landlord, sitting on a small stool, pulling noodles into his mouth......

Li Qi saw him come in, so he put down the bowl, stood up, arched his hand and said, "The prime minister came just in time, have you had lunch, why don't you eat some quickly?" ”

Zhang Xian stared at the noodle bowl in Li Qi's hand for a while, as if he was about to persuade him, and suddenly laughed, and then said: "It is a blessing for the old minister to be able to accompany His Majesty to eat." It's okay, please bring a bowl to a certain one, ask for a large bowl, and pour more broth! ”

He was not polite, he sat on Li Qi's side with a golden knife, squeezed Cao Xin aside, brought the meeting slip, picked up the chopsticks and mixed them in the bowl twice, and ate them in a big gulp. While eating, he looked at Cao Xin in his mouth and asked, "What is the yield of winter wheat per mu in this field?" Can you use a scale? ”

Cao Xin said leisurely: "I didn't expect that the big field was actually 412 catties, and my subordinates personally weighed it!" ”

"Hmm......" Zhang Xian's mouth almost didn't squirt out of a mouthful of rice, his face turned black and red, but he still endured it and finally swallowed the food, "Is this true?!" ”

"This can still be fake, I don't believe that Xiangguo can personally test it in the afternoon."

After eating in a hurry, Zhang Xian hurriedly pulled Li Qi to the wheat field.

Unfortunately, the wheat dried in the field had to wait until it was completely dried in the afternoon before it could be crushed.

Seeing that the efficiency of labor was so low, Li Qi felt the need to have the craftsmen put out the thresher.

Zhang Xian asked his entourage to bring a stool and sit under the big tree to enjoy the hot pastoral life, and Li Qi had no choice but to accompany him. I got up too early in the morning, and I was really tired, so I also put a mattress in the shade of the tree, and fell asleep on it.

About an hour later, someone approached and wanted to lift him, Li Qi woke up instantly, but found that the sun had already sunburned his face again. Zhang Xian sat three feet away from him, looked at him with a smile and said, "Your Majesty feels very good, I woke up as soon as someone approached!" ”

Li Qi spit out a piece of wheat grass that somehow got into his mouth, "Pull it off, I woke up the sun!" ”

In the wheat field, a strong Hetao Baguan horse is pulling Lu Qi around the wheat field covered with ears of wheat.

"You don't believe what Master Cao said?" Li Qi ordered someone to bring a stool, moved it to Zhang Xian's side and sat down. Most of the officials of the Jin army were some rough people who killed people and set fires, Lu Bi was stupid to read, and knew that there were not many people who cared about agricultural affairs, and Zhang Xian and Cao Xin were a few good officials.

After one wheat mill, after the wheat below is collected and piled aside, it needs to be milled a second time before the harvest can be cleaned. When the wheat field was re-supplemented and began to be exposed to the sun for the second time, there was a little wind, and the wheat began to be raised in the small field on the other side.

The toiling soldiers used wooden shovels to sprinkle the wheat mixed with a large amount of wheat husks into the air, and the wheat husks were blown away by the wind, and the golden brown wheat grains fell to the ground. This process cannot be completed in one go, and the ears of wheat that have not been crushed thoroughly and the wheat grains that have not been husked have to be collected back, re-rolled, and raised again.

Zhang Xian got up and personally grabbed half a handful of clean wheat grains from the raised wheat pile, put it in his palm and looked at it carefully for a while, then nodded and said: "Compared with other wheat grains, they do look big and full, and they can be used as wheat seeds." ”

Li Qi said: "It has to go through the sieve, and only half of it can be selected as wheat seeds." ”

Zhang Xiandao: "Your Majesty only has this one merit, and it will bless the world, and the merit is immeasurable!" ”

"Is there a bonus?" Li Qi pouted and said, in ancient times, there was a term for bonuses or bounties, but few emperors regarded gold as a reward, but rewarded more with wealth, this word is not commonly used.

It seems that no one in this world will give him a bounty, and suddenly he feels that life seems to be a lot less fun. It's just that if you think about it, the world is all your own, and it seems that this is exactly what you should be. The ancient emperors did not distinguish between public and private, and this was the biggest problem. That's why Liang Qichao said that the emperor regards the country as his private property, so he calls it the dynasty and the world as the public, so that he can call it a country.

"If the production capacity per mu is really four stones, only the surrounding areas of Taiyuan Mansion in northern Jin and the land of the Xin Dynasty can raise an additional 100,000 troops!" Zhang Xian said.

Li Qi said with a smile: "Four stones are far from Geer, if I say that I have seen wheat with a yield of sixteen stones per mu, do you believe it?" ”

Zhang Xian was stunned: "Your Majesty is laughing, where can there be such a thing in this world!" ”

Li Qi was speechless for a while, it is really rare and strange, let me tell you the truth, but you listen to it as a joke, it is really unspeakable......