In the new year, in the tenth year of Zhenguan, the first decree announced by the imperial court was a comprehensive reform of the eunuch system and the partial restriction on the opening of women as officials.

Such an earth-shattering thing, if it was in the past, it would have been almost impossible to execute, however, he passed it collectively in the court smoothly.

The Central Plains Dynasty has followed the eunuch system for thousands of years, and finally in the Zhenguan Dynasty, it was ended.

For the time being, it seems that some of the restrictions on women as officials were only a compromise that had to be made to meet the end of the eunuch system, because the royal family did have such a need, and the ministers did not feel that it could have much impact on this patriarchal era.

After all, in addition to the Taile Division and the Tai Hospital, that is, the inner chamberlain, female officials are needed in the management and security of the inner palace of the palace, and there are basically no core political issues involved.

Of course, these two reforms are also related to the opening up and open-minded atmosphere of the Tang Dynasty in recent years.

As a result, the inner chamberlain announced a series of appointments of female officials, and signed labor contracts with all active palace maids with a new palace employment model, and also issued various salary and welfare conditions to recruit people from the society.

And the commander of the Nanya Forbidden Army, Dugumou, also posted an announcement to recruit women and form the Inner Palace Guard, for a time, all over the country, women with aspiring military ranks or official careers, have longed for it, you know, go to the palace to be a palace maid, if you perform well, it can be directly promoted to be a female official, and the highest can even be the inner chamberlain, that is the level of the third grade, comparable to the inner phase of the ten Shangshu, than the Taile Order from the third grade, and the level of the Taiyi Order from the third grade are one level higher.

As for the female guards of the inner palace, although there are only 5,000 people, the level of the commander is equivalent to that of the deputy commander of the Nanya Forbidden Army, and he is also a military attache from the third rank, which is only one level lower than the generals of the group armies.

This year is undoubtedly the happiest year for all women in Datang, even if they are officials, basically not involving political power, but this is also a manifestation of women's progress.

Li Tang has been established for less than 20 years, and women have gone from not being an official to being able to achieve a maximum of three grades, and three official positions from the three grades, who knows if they will go straight to the court to discuss politics in the future, and even become a real prime minister, after all, at the beginning of the founding of the People's Republic of China, there was an old example of Princess Pingyang leading troops to fight and participate in politics.

At present, the number of women in Datang is far more than that of men, especially after Datang opened the restrictions on commoners' concubines, and there was a large influx of foreign women.

Of course, these major events of the imperial court have little to do with Sun Xiangfu, who devoted himself to teaching agricultural students in Lingnan Province, and those who engage in scientific research are destined to be lonely, and people prefer to see them come up with research results, but they will not ask them how many setbacks and failures they have experienced in the process of research.

"Shovel all the saplings on this high slope! The water is not up to standard, the soil permeability is not good, and even if you barely rely on manual watering and continue to plant, the saplings will not grow well. After you are done, you can tell me some more thoughts. ”

Under the command of Sun Xiangfu, more than 500 agricultural students began to use their own tools to shovel and dig saplings, and in their years of study in the agricultural college, they have mastered all kinds of farm work skills, and even the work of shoveling and digging is different from that of ordinary people.

Sun Xiangfu watched while nodding again and again, and after a while, nearly a thousand small saplings less than one meter high were dug up by them by the roots, as long as they were not confirmed dead, they kept the entire root system very intact, and it could be transplanted to other places.

"Very well, you all know that these saplings that are not dead are still useful and cannot be wasted, so can anyone tell me why it can't be planted well, and what adjustments should we make to ensure that these saplings survive well? You can raise your hand to answer, say a little when you think of a point, and put your hand down if someone else says it first. ”

On the high slope, as soon as Sun Xiangfu's words fell, many students suddenly raised their hands.

Sun Xiangfu pointed to a Turkic student from Shanyang named Qiu Sili, and he immediately replied, "Although the saplings on the high slope are about a foot shorter than the saplings by the stream below the slope on average, their leaves are more dark green.

Although the color of the branches and leaves of the sapling under the slope is not as good as that on the slope, the thickness and height of the trunk are obviously stronger than those on the slope, which shows that the rubber tree is more dependent on water. ”

Sun Xiangfu nodded, put up two fingers and said, "Water, light, has anyone found anything else?" ”

After Qiu Sili said these two points, many of the students who had raised their hands before put their hands down. Obviously, the question they found just now was the same as Qiu Sili's, however, when Sun Xiangfu asked this question, many students still raised their hands.

He pointed to one of the Murowei students named Mo Duojie, who immediately came out and said, "I have just noticed that the saplings on the banks of the river at the bottom of the slope are not the closest to the stream, and those that are often washed away by the stream, or drown their roots, have even died.

On the contrary, there is a certain distance from the stream, and the saplings rooted in the sand soil that have been washed out by the stream in the past are the best among them, so it can be seen that although this rubber tree likes water, it is afraid of waterlogging, and it may be better if it can be planted in the soft sand soil with a lot of rain and good drainage. ”

Hearing Mo Duojie's explanation, Sun Xiangfu nodded again, raised two more fingers, and said, "I'm afraid of waterlogging, I like pine and soft sand." Has anyone else found any other problems? ”

When he said this, Sun Xiangfu saw a student running down the slope, spitting mud and sand while running up the slope, his mouth was 'Bah, Bah, Bah'.

Sun Xiangfu knew that his name was Xie Junyi, and he was also a student of Shanyang, but he was a Han child who moved from Guanzhong, and when he saw him and raised his hand, Sun Xiangfu pointed at him.

Xie Junyi hurriedly said, "Teacher, I have just tasted the soil of the sediment layer under the slope, which is the taste of acidic soil, and on the slope, it is a typical Lingnan red soil, which is only suitable for planting fir trees, bamboo, persimmons, grapefruit and some common fruit trees in Lingnan. ”

Sun Xiangfu nodded, spread out all the five fingers of his right hand and said, "I like acidic soil, has anyone else found it?" ”

At this time, there were still a few students raising their hands, and Sun Xiangfu pointed to one of the students from Jiuyuan County named Guo Changlin, and he came out and said, "Teacher, the students found that this rubber tree has very opposite requirements for the growth environment, that is, it likes strong light and water, but at the same time, it is afraid of waterlogging.

Obviously, a wet location like the bottom of the slope is not suitable for its growth in the long run, and once it comes in April and May, when the rainstorm weather in Lingnan comes, these saplings planted along the creek are afraid that all of them will be waterlogged.

This can only force us to choose to plant in the sandy soil zone of the hillside with abundant sunshine and more rainfall, such a place makes students think of some sandy beaches near the sea, perhaps, Yazhou, which is more suitable for planting. ”

Hearing this, Sun Xiangfu nodded and said, "Indeed, the land that meets the problems you have found is easier to find on an island like Yazhou, which is dominated by sand, and I found a large island off the coast of Jiaozhi County before, this island is called Zhonghong Island, which is very suitable for planting this kind of rubber trees."

Last year, I have asked the Duke of Dian to send more than 20,000 people to clean up the land on the island, and also do some housing infrastructure, this year, Li Tai sent people to the island to set up the county government office, a few of you, go to the island to be an adjutant to the county order, and lead the people to plant this rubber tree!

Note that this rubber tree is poisonous, and you should remind the people on the island to take anti-poison measures. ”

Hearing that Sun Xiangfu had sent a task to several of them, and that it was the task of leading 20,000 people to develop a large island, they were suddenly a little happy.

However, there are also some questions, among which Guo Changlin asked, "Teacher, since this tree is poisonous, what are we going to do with so much effort to plant it?" Wouldn't the more you planted, the more insecure the people of the South became? ”

Sun Xiangfu smiled and said, "Because it can promote the development of industry, when you participated in the imperial examination in Jiangling City, did you find any changes in the tires of the new rickshaw that the prince was riding?" ”

"Tires? When the teacher said this, the student remembered that the tire didn't seem to be made of fish gelatin, the color was a little black, and it was more tough, could it be made of this rubber tree? Guo Changlin said a little suddenly.

"It is the rubber tree resin produced by the rubber tree, after the firing process, can be applied to many aspects, and the price is much cheaper than the price of fish gelatin, before, those rickshaws, the cost of one, is as high as dozens of hundreds, is because the cost of collecting fish gelatin to make tires is higher, several times more expensive than steel, so, this kind of good car with tires, can not always be mass-produced, so that ordinary people, can only buy comfortable, lightweight poor wooden wheeled vehicles.

And if our rubber tree production is large, the situation is different, the cost of tires made of rubber is more than 30% lower than that of fish glue, and the comfort, lightness, and durability of the tires will also be greatly improved, which is a kind of progress.

Of course, the usefulness of rubber is not only to make tires, its plasticity, insulation, sealing, wear resistance, etc., can be widely used in industry, our Datang's industrial production technology level wants to progress, it is inseparable from it, so ah! Not only your group went to Zhonghong Island, but the rest of the people, I will divide at least ten groups to plant this rubber tree.

As you just mentioned, planting in Yazhou is a must, we not only want to pursue artificial planting there, but also need to promote its natural reproduction and become a natural rubber plantation. ”

Rubber resources, during World War II, but the major powers robbed each other of important resources, it is not an exaggeration to say that it is the basis of industry, in Sun Xiangfu's explanation, many students, they understand the meaning, and the slope is easy to be waterlogged rubber saplings also dug out.

Of course, Lingnan is planted not only a number of rubber trees, in addition to some fruit trees in South America, there are many trees with a relatively high fat yield, some of which are suitable for processing into high-temperature resistant materials. ()

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