Chapter 273: Changing the Crops of the Ming Dynasty (Happy New Year!) )
Great thing that has never been heard of!
"Since it's a great thing, then call Ru Mo, let's go over together!"
Shousuke had an order, and everyone naturally obeyed. Because it was outside the city, the four of them took two two-wheeled light carriages to Shitaizhuang outside the city. Zhang Juzheng is no stranger to this kind of single-wheeled two-wheeled light carriage, after all, this is the most fashionable carriage in the capital now, but Zhang Siwei's car is still different from other cars.
"Ziwei, your car, it's good, the inside of this car is very transparent, open the window, the scenery outside the window can be seen clearly......"
Through the transparent window next to the car, Zhang Juzheng asked curiously.
"What's embedded in this window?"
Looking back, this is called "glass" and "glass" the same, different from ordinary glass, this kind of glass is very transparent, not shading, whether it is installed in the car window or the window of the study, it is very transparent, and the official asked people to replace the window of the first auxiliary public house with this glass. ”
As he spoke, Zhang Siwei said to him as if he had thought of something again.
"Shoufu, this glass is produced by the Yaohua Glass Factory in Lugou, and I heard that it is also Shi Zhiyuan's business."
"This Shi Zhiyuan is quite good at trading!"
Zhang Juzheng said casually, and then asked.
"Ziwei, what do you think is the great thing that Ti Qian said?"
"Isn't it another cabbage?"
Zhang Siwei laughed casually.
"This year's Chinese cabbage doesn't seem to be selling at a high price, and there are a lot of people who grow Chinese cabbage in the suburbs of Beijing."
"Last year was just a novelty."
Zhang Juzheng said casually, in his heart, he was very curious about this so-called good thing, after all, a person like Ma Ziqiang, who is old and stable, can be excited to look like that, but it is very rare.
Surrounded by the snow, Shi Yiwen's expression changed from time to time.
"It's still too late to plant!"
Looking at the snow falling all over the ground, Shi Yiwen's mood seemed a little helpless, the current winter came early, when the potatoes were ripe, it was already snowing, and the potatoes dug out were in danger of being frozen, but if they were not dug out, once they were frozen, the potatoes in the ground would also be frozen. So send it to the cellar as soon as possible.
"Is the cellar ready?"
"Young Master, everything is ready according to your orders."
"Well, that's good, this potato is not frozen, and now it's snowing, and if it's weighed here, I'll send it to the cellar over there, and I'll plant it tomorrow after the spring begins."
Perhaps, this is an ordinary day for Daming, but in Shi Yiwen's view, today is a big day.
It's the day of the potato harvest!
High-yielding potatoes will change the Ming Dynasty and change everyone's lives.
It is precisely because of this that Shi Yiwen specially invited Ma Ziqiang to come over, not only to be a witness, but also because...... Well, Shaanxi needs potatoes even more! As a native of Shaanxi, Ma Ziqiang will definitely send potatoes to his hometown and promote them in his hometown.
"Is the old man coming?"
Again, Shi Yiwen asked anxiously. If it is delayed any longer, the potatoes will freeze and spoil, although they still have dozens of catties left in the space as seed potatoes, but then they will definitely have to postpone a year if they want to promote it on a large scale.
"When Fang Cai Huzi came back, he said that the elder Ge would come over in a while."
Just as Liu Yu was replying, a fast horse flew in the distance, and Tian Liu, who was on the horse, shouted as he ran.
"The rook, the cart came, two carriages, and a few horses followed......"
Two carriages?
Who will it be?
A moment later, when he saw the visitor coming down from the carriage, Shi Yiwen looked a little surprised, why did he come.
"Zhiyuan, let me introduce you."
Without waiting for Ma Ziqiang to speak, Shi Yiwen hurriedly said.
"The lower officials see the first assistant, the second assistant and all the elders!"
Good boy!
Almost at the moment when the visitor got off the car, Wu Cai was stunned, the four pavilion elders came, which is almost equivalent to the entire imperial court to Shitaizhuang, this is really, really......
"Excuse me, Zhiyuan, I said that you have a good thing to invite him to come and see, what kind of good thing is it, I don't know if I have the honor?"
As he spoke, Zhang Juzheng looked left and right, and there were many tenant farmers standing at the head of the grange, and when he looked into the field, he saw that the withered grass in the field was something he had never seen, so he smiled.
"Is it in this field that good things are in the field?"
"Shousuke is wise!"
Hearing this, Shi Yiwen hurriedly complimented.
"Great things are indeed in this field!"
As he spoke, he walked to the field, then turned to look at the elders and said.
As we all know, the yield of rice planted in the south of the Yangtze River is only two to three stones, and the millet sorghum planted in the north is one and a half stones, and the potatoes planted by Xiaguan can reach more than three thousand catties per mu! That's more than thirty stones! ”
Almost at the moment when Shi Yiwen's voice fell, the people around him all gasped, not to mention the tenant farmers in Zhuangzi, that is, Zhang Juzheng, Zhang Siwei, Shen Shixing, and Ma Ziqiang, they are well-informed, but they are also unheard of and unheard of, Zhang Juzheng, who originally looked talkative, said excitedly.
"Really? It can really produce more than 30 stones! ”
"That's right, Zhiyuan, this, you can't talk nonsense!"
Despite his excitement, Ma Ziqiang appeared very cautious.
"That's why the lower officials invited Ma Ge Lao to come over and testify, since all the Pavilion elders are here today, just to testify together."
"Zhiyuan, what about the potatoes you are talking about?"
Zhang Siwei looked left and right, but he didn't see potatoes in the field.
"As the old saying goes, potatoes grow in the ground like turnips, so you can't fake them."
Then Shi Yiwen turned to Zhang Juzheng and said.
"Shousuke, see if you can excavate. Xiaguan is not familiar with the solar terms in the capital, so it is a few days late, and it snows, and if it goes down later, I am afraid that it will freeze. ”
Hearing Shi Yiwen say this, Zhang Juzheng hurriedly said.
"So what's the delay? Dig it out quickly. ”
Here Shoufu spoke, Shi Yiwen nodded to Liu Yu, the tenant farmers in the village over there were busy, and soon dug up a bunch of potatoes, those potatoes were as big as two fists, even the small ones were the size of a fist, looking at the piles of potatoes in the field after a while, Zhang Juzheng looked a little excited, he deliberately walked to the field, took the farm tools from the hands of the tenant farmers, and dug them up with his own hands. He was worried that Shi Yiwen would be buried in the ground first, but the snow in the field could not be faked.
Because of the large number of people doing the work, soon an acre of potatoes was dug up, and in the eyes of everyone, a basket of potatoes was lifted and weighed.
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