Section 291 Wheat harvest

In the dead of night, the starlight outside the window falls on the windowsill like hoarfrost.

At the end of summer, the temperature in Guanzhong has become very cool.

Zhang Yue gently closed the window and door, then blew out the oil lamp and sat down on the bed.

"Xiahou Shichang ......," he sighed heavily.

Among the historical materials that go back, there are few records and records about this old Mr. Xiahou, which are a little pitiful.

Now Zhang Yue only knows that he has a nephew named Xiahou Sheng, who was later recruited by Emperor Zhao as a doctor of Taixue and a doctor of Guanglu, who took over the class of the deceased Dong Yue and was the actual host of Taixue.

After the death of Emperor Zhao, Huo Guang and his ministers welcomed Liu He, the king of Changyi.

Thanks to the blessing of the archaeological discovery in Jiangxi in later generations, later generations almost all know that this funny glorious resume and death skills.

But few people know that the person who provided Huo Guang with the theory of abolishing Liu He was the then doctor, sacrificial wine, Guanglu doctor, and the leader of the Ram School.

As for this Mr. Xiahou Shichang, perhaps because he has been active in Chang'an for relatively little time.

Therefore, there are very few relevant records.

On the contrary, Zhang Yue inquired and learned a lot of more detailed information.

This Mr. Xiahou Shichang is a native of Dongping, Lu State, born in the first year of the first emperor, and is about sixty-seven years old this year.

In fact, at the beginning, Mr. Xiahou was not a Confucian at all.

On the contrary, he was born into a yin-yang family, in other words, he was converted by a fortune teller.

But it's not surprising that Dong Zhongshu's "Spring and Autumn Dew" is a classic that mixes yin and yang doctrine and Confucianism, isn't it still considered a classic by the world?

Moreover, even Zhang Tang of the Legalist can take "Ram Spring and Autumn" to find out the theory of the Spring and Autumn Prison Break.

It is not surprising that the onmyologist turned to Confucianism.

After the successful transfer, Mr. Xiahou Shichang devoted his whole life to the study of the idea of obscurity.

He is the brain-dead fan and the most unswerving supporter of Dong Zhongshu's 'heaven and man induction' theory.

It is rumored that this old gentleman accurately predicted the legendary story of the Bailiangtai fire through the Yin-Yang family classic "The Legend of Hong Fan Five Elements".

But......

Thinking of this, the corners of Zhang Yue's mouth twitched slightly.

In the Zou Yan era of the Warring States Period, through the 'Five Virtues and the End of the Beginning Theory', the onmyologist did have a period of time.

But now......

"Do the living yin-yang scholars still have any credibility?" Zhang Yue shook his head, remembering a joke that was widely circulated among the gossip parties in Chang'an City.

It is said that back then, when today's son fell in love with a girl, he planned to be a concubine.

I thought about choosing a good day and asking for good luck, so I summoned the yin-yang scientists in Chang'an City to ask for advice.

As a result, the Five Elements faction said that a certain day was very good, the Kanyu faction thought that it was not good, the Jianjie faction thought that day was probably a little unlucky, the Congchen faction simply thought it was a sign of great evil, and the Li family felt that the big murder was too much, and there might be some small evil, and the Heavenly and Human faction stood on the side of the Five Elements faction after some careful consideration to advocate auspiciousness, and the Taiyi faction simply helped to wave the flag and shout, and it was strongly recommended to choose the day of the Five Elements faction, thinking that it was good luck!

As a result, the various factions argued endlessly, fought in court, and the sky was dark, and the ghosts cried and howled......

This gossip was once spread in Chang'an City.

However, the parties naturally denied it and thought it was nonsense.

Zhang Yue also learned about this by chance when he was backtracking, so he wrote it down.

There is no doubt that the Yin and Yang family should be cold in the world.

In terms of flickering, they are invincible to Xun Xian and asked, claiming to be a warlock who can 'alchemy' to gain immortality.

In terms of backstage, it is easy to fight for the disciples of An Qisheng and the gods of the people of the river.

People of insight have already changed jobs like Xiahou Shichang.

But it is precisely because of this that this Mr. Xiahou Shichang will make Zhang Yue Rusi jealous.

Because......

The classics and ideological expositions of the Yin and Yang family, Zhang Yue is completely unaware.

Even if it is temporarily remedied, it is useless to use the space to solidify some of the Yin-Yang family treatise that can be found.

Space can solidify memories, but it can't be forcibly cracked.

The treatises of the Yin-Yang family are extremely obscure, and they are full of all kinds of allusions and allusions, even if the professor of ancient literature is here, it will probably take more than half a year to read and understand the treatise of the Yin-Yang family in the world.

Not to mention, as far as Zhang Yue knows, this Mr. Xiahou Shichang specializes in "The Legend of the Five Elements of Hong Fan".

This book is written by a generation of Confucianism, the former Confucian spiritual leader, the successor of Shangshu, and a native of Jinan.

Taking the Hong Fan chapter in the Book of Shang as an introduction, this paper introduces the perspective of an onmyologist to interpret the subtle connection between the changes in the five elements of the universe and the words and deeds of people, as well as the relationship between disasters and the words and deeds of kings.

With Zhang Yue's current literary attainments, he can't even read it, let alone find loopholes.

So......

"Maybe I should keep a low profile, don't make any big news during this time, and gather the attention of others......" Zhang Yue thought in his heart.

For a literary giant of Xiahou Shichang's level, Zhang Yue did not dare to take it lightly.

His position in the Ram School is that of Keynes to classical economics, and with Zhang Yue's current prestige and fame, if he is disgusted or even only noticed, and shows hostility, it will be a great trouble.

It is especially unfavorable to Zhang Yue's future penetration and influence on the Ram School.

"But in case it's ......" Zhang Yue held his cheeks and thought: "I can't be caught with my hands tied, I have to take out the big killing weapon as a background, as a basis!" ”

So what kind of big killer can make a final blow at a critical moment and turn the situation around?

Zhang Yue sank his mind and searched through countless information and countless articles.

Finally, an article emerged.

Reading carefully, the look on Zhang Yue's face became more and more calm.

"With this article in hand, no matter who tries to use any calamity to make my enemy in the future, it will be a dead end!" Zhang Yue read these words, and finally had confidence in his heart.

Even if Xiahou Shichang really wants to embarrass him, Zhang Yue is not afraid!

With confidence in his heart, Zhang Yue started to do things, and he also had self-confidence.

Close your eyes and enter the space.

After this half a month of cultivation, the crops of the space are now completely new.

In particular, the area where the wheat fields are located is verdant.

The wheat seedlings of the third generation have entered the heading stage.

Through the results of observation, experimentation and practice on their paternal lineage, Zhang Yue knew that it was the most economical and effective to use jade fruit during the heading period.

So, in recent days, he has been closely monitoring the growth of these wheat.

He walked back and forth through the wheat fields and finally confirmed that almost all of the wheat had been tasseled.

So, he went to the place where he stored the jade fruits, lifted them up in a small wooden frame, and counted them on his knees.

The total number is about one hundred and thirty.

This is the result of the hundreds of books he recently fed to Jin Yumu in the name of 'checking his studies' and the hundreds of books he had obtained from the admitted scholars in the name of 'checking his studies' (because he wanted to ripen Jin Yumu, he consumed at least the same amount of jade fruit).

These jade fruits are all large in appearance and size, and when held in the hand, they are warm and smooth, like treasures.

"It should be almost enough...... Zhang Yue thought to himself, so he carried this basket of jade fruits, walked to the wheat field, and then dug a small soil pit in the middle, leaving only about five as tinder, and poured the rest into it to cover the soil pit.

A miracle happened!

It may be because Zhang Yue buried so many jade fruits at once, or it may be that some hidden setting of the space has been activated.

In short, at this moment, Zhang Yue felt that the entire space seemed to tremble.

At first, the sensation was faint.

But soon, the tremor began to intensify.

It was as if the massage chair of the later generations had been activated, and the earth of the space seemed to rise and fall several times.

Suddenly, a soft groan came into his ears, and the Jinyu trees under the hill in the distance suddenly bloomed with colorful brilliance.

Then, at a speed visible to the naked eye, they grew without the jade fruit ripening.

And in the place where Zhang Yue didn't pay attention at all, in front of the seven Jinyu trees, there was nothing originally, a place of chaos and nothingness, and a small piece of land gradually took shape in the void.

What's even more amazing is that this small piece of land is expanding very quickly.

Almost in a matter of seconds, it expanded by more than a hundred steps to become a dozen acres of land.

Moreover, this small piece of land seems to be different from the original land of the space.

If you look closely, you can see that the soil is made of gravel, which seems to have drifted from some part of the desert.

And Zhang Yue didn't know anything about all this.

At this moment, he was shocked by the changes in space, and he was a little apprehensive.

Fortunately, this anomaly ended quickly, and it lasted for about ten seconds in total, and everything calmed down.

Then the familiar three-dimensional image appeared in front of Zhang Yue's eyes.

Almost without thinking, Zhang Yue directly chose to continue to strengthen the root capacity and yield of wheat.

As soon as the selection ended, in a blink of an eye, the entire wheat field suddenly seemed to enter a time accelerator.

They grow rapidly, heading and filling.

The stalk grows taller, and then the leaves begin to thicken, eventually turning from cyan to golden yellow.

And the ears of wheat hung down heavily.

Each ear was incomparably fuller, larger and heavier than the ears of high-yielding wheat that Zhang Yue had seen in later generations, so much so that the wheat stalks were slightly bent.

Zhang Yue stretched out his hand to pick an ear of wheat, this ear had almost forty or fifty full grains of wheat, and weighed it in his hand, Zhang Yue felt that this ear was almost twenty or thirty grams!

It's nothing short of a miracle!

Incredible miracles!

Even if it is a high-yielding wheat seed in later generations, I am afraid that it may not be able to have such a yield!

In this way, the yield per mu of this empty third-generation wheat in space can already be close to the yield of wheat seeds in later generations!

That's a yield of hundreds of kilograms per mu!

After transplanting to the outside world, even if you fold it in half, even if you can only retain 30% of the yield.

As long as it can be stabilized like this, the grain production of the Han Empire will take off!

Because, this means that in the Han dynasty before the Western Era, the wheat production was more than that of the late Qing Dynasty!

Zhang Yue was so excited that he couldn't help himself, and he was almost about to dance and jump.

After the excitement, Zhang Yue immediately began to be busy.

It took most of the night to be busy until the early morning of the second day, when the morning sun rose, and Zhang Yue completed the harvest.

This time, the ears of wheat he harvested were piled up into a small mountain in the space.

Zhang Yue roughly estimated that there were at least two or three hundred stones!

It is enough to be used as a food seed for large-scale promotion!

After all, it is true that the people of Guanzhong do not like to grow wheat.

Zhang Yue can't force the cow's head to drink water, right?

So the farmers who are willing to plant wheat in Xinfeng this winter are probably the landless poor who rent tenant land – these people can't decide what they can plant.

The county road ordered them to grow wheat, but did they dare to plant corn instead?

Of course, Zhang Yue will not let them suffer, and will agree with them that when the harvest day comes, all the wheat will be recovered by the county government at a high price.

The price is as good as corn.

In this way, there is no fear that these tenant farmers will complain - it is reasonable that everyone knows that the yield of wheat is higher than that of corn, and if the purchase price of wheat is the same as that of corn, no farmer will refuse such a good thing!

The total number of Xinfeng public fields is about 7,000 mu, and about 70 stone (the sowing amount in the Han Dynasty is about one liter per mu).

For the rest of the wheat, Zhang Yue planned to leave thirty or fifty stones as a tribute to brush up on today's favor.

From time to time, a little is sent into the palace to firmly grasp the stomach of this majesty.

In this way, you are not afraid of being stuffed with rags.

As for the remaining 100 or so, it can be given to farmers and landlords who are willing to grow wheat to sow seeds.

Of course, the wheat harvested by the Xinfeng County Ya was also repurchased.

In this case, there should be farmers, landlords, and other initiatives willing to plant winter wheat.

It's really not good, you can still play apportionment.

Zhang Yue is sure that the planting area of winter wheat will be expanded to 10,000 to 20,000 mu this winter.

The only problem is that if the wheat harvest is over next year, the people will probably refuse to sell it to the county government at the agreed price......

So this ...... Zheng and Zhang Yue's mind.

Thinking of this, Zhang Yue stood up and pushed open the door.

At this moment, the sun has risen, but there is still some morning dew in the courtyard that has not dispersed, and the time is about the hour (about eight o'clock in the morning).

Zhang Yue walked to the main hall of the county government and asked people to inform Chen Wannian, Sang Jun, Hu Jian and others to come to the county government for a meeting.

He will go back to Chang'an with Liu Jin in two days, and he may go back to Nanling by the way.

The big and small affairs in Xinfeng County must be arranged.

In addition, the scholars recruited by the public examination also need to be assigned positions and positions.

Originally, this matter alone, with ordinary people, even if it was just a walk through the form and procedure, it might take more than a month to get it done.

However, Zhang Yue opened and hung up, and under the strengthening of the solidification function of the space, after more than ten days of military training contact and understanding, he had a concept and cognition of the character, characteristics and abilities of every public examination recruiter in his mind.

With this kind of understanding, it becomes possible to know how to make good use of people and make them different from person to person.

So, as early as yesterday when he returned, he had already made a distribution plan.

Accurately tailor a suitable position for each scholar.