The "Compendium of the Four Seasons" can be regarded as an agricultural book of considerable value. The information it collects is varied, concise and practical, and has been valued by later generations.

This book had a wide influence on later generations, and in the fourth year of the Northern Song Dynasty, the "Four Seasons Compendium" and "Qi Min Yaoshu" were recommended to the imperial court for printing at the same time, and issued to local agricultural officials. Earlier, there were folk carvings in the second year of the Dao.

The Southern Song Dynasty has been engraved. The Yuan Dynasty's "Compendium of Nongsang" almost all selected its unique materials. It also spread to North Korea and Japan.

"Fuquan, Fuquan, go and let Qingxuzi call Han E to me!" The more Li Ji read this book, the more delighted he became, when the imperial court was employing people, he didn't expect to find such a talent.

Fu Quan had just pulled a cart of potatoes to the cellar, and was panting and running: "Slave and maid, let's go."

As an alchemist, after Zhu Wen was captured, Qingxuzi was snubbed. So he was unwilling to be lonely and wanted to ask for credit in front of the Son of Heaven.

However, there is a man named Han E among the warlocks, and Han E is more inclined to write books than alchemy.

Qing Xuzi found out that he had a lot of research on agriculture and mulberry, so he recommended it to Li Ji.

This Han and Hubei originally belonged to a large family, and the family had hundreds of hectares of fertile land.

In this way, everyone's business is earned little by little by the ancestors of the Han family.

The ancestors of the Han family were not official or businessmen, and they made a fortune with a pair of hard-working hands and wisdom, which is very rare in any dynasty.

Others can get 200 catties of grain per mu of land, which is considered good land, but the ancestors of the Han family can harvest more than 400 catties per acre of land.

In Han E's generation, he was even more obsessed with agricultural research. Just when his family was thriving and expanding, it was a pity that he encountered a military disaster.

The Huangchao rebel army robbed a big family like him, Han E was coerced by the chaotic army to Chang'an, and he almost starved to death all the way.

Fortunately, this kind of person can live wherever he goes, and then he found that even if it was a troubled time, these deceived alchemists would be popular wherever they went. So he became an alchemist.

With his natural intelligence, after reading a few Taoist books, he started his journey of cheating.

People have to live. If you want to live and live comfortably, alchemist is really a good profession. They fooled those nobles who were rich and powerful, and the richer and more powerful the people were, the more obsessed they were with the pill.

Of course, you first have to have some real skills, so that you can bluff people. Just like the Hehuan Pill refined by Qingxuzi, after eating it, it immediately became a pillar of optimus spirit, and people who don't know it will think that this is the elixir, otherwise why would they be so energetic.

Only these alchemists themselves know that these pills are actually overdrawing the body's energy. Many of these pills are lead and mercury seriously exceeded, and countless emperors in history have died on this small pill.

Han E first became Qin Zongquan's alchemist, and then Qin Zongquan was chopped off, and he began to wander again. Later, he came to Bianzhou, and at first Zhu Wen was not interested in alchemy, and when Li Ji Luoyang ascended the throne, he wanted to try his luck in the capital.

It happened that in order to deal with Zhu Wen, Li Ji announced that the world would invite alchemists from all over the world, and Han E felt that the opportunity had come again, so he entered the palace.

In the palace, Han and E behaved well, and did not attract Li Ji's attention. Besides, Li Ji's alchemy is just a pretense, most of these alchemists have nothing to do, and Han E has been idle for a long time, so he wants to write a book about what he has learned in his life.

This matter was known by Qing Xuzi, although Qing Xuzi was a big fool, but he knew that Li Ji was a Ming Jun, and this was the only emperor he met who did not believe in ghosts and gods. As soon as he looked at the books written by Han E, he knew that this kind of agricultural books were of great use to the emperor, and it really aroused Li Ji's great interest.

"Poor Dao Qingxuzi, Han E, meet Your Majesty!" The two of them came to the Ming'an Hall under the recommendation of Fuquan.

Li Ji nodded and said to Han E: "You are Han E, you wrote this book?"

This Han E is about forty years old, and his body is thin, like a Confucian scholar who has read poetry and books.

Han E bowed down and said, "It's the poor road."

"Throne!" Li Ji waved his hand.

"Thank you, Your Majesty." Qing Xuzi was secretly happy in his heart, the emperor had such a good face for these alchemists, and they were all given seats, so it proved that he had bet on this treasure correctly.

Li Ji shook the "Four Seasons Compendium" in his hand: "I want to persuade farmers to push Sang, Han E, your book is very detailed on farming, have you farmed before?"

Han E clenched his fists: "I have planted."

Li Ji was very satisfied: "Very good, I have obtained a new batch of crop seeds from overseas. This thing has never appeared in my Central Plains, and the yield is amazing, and I want you to be in charge of the trial. ”

Hearing this, Han E's eyes lit up. Being an alchemist of Laoshizi is to make a living, and his greatest interest is farming. I didn't expect the Son of Heaven to value himself so much, and he actually arranged a farming errand for himself: "Thank you, Your Majesty."

Li Ji waved his hand: "Don't be busy thanking you first, this thing comes from overseas, but it is rooted." In the spring, the frozen cultivation into the soil will sprout out, and this thing likes loose soil. It needs to be long, to be deep, and when the buds come out of half a foot, cut its buds and cultivate them. I'll show you an example, and you'll take the rest to farm. ”

Rao is Han E's well-informed knowledge of agriculture, and he is still surprised by what Li Ji said. What is this, is it taro?

"Fuquan, present it!" Li Ji ordered to go down, and then Fuquan took the plate, which contained two sweet potatoes and one potato.

Han E and Qing Xuzi were very surprised, and the two couldn't help but stand up, this fat and big lump had indeed never been seen in their lives.

Li Ji said with a smile: "Red skin is called sweet potato, also called sweet potato. Yellow-skinned potatoes, also known as potatoes. ”

Han E picked up a sweet potato and sniffed it, a fresh smell of tuber plants came to his nose, and he sniffed the potato again. He was an expert in farming, and he was overjoyed: "This thing seems to be edible."

At this time, the two little eunuchs carried a charcoal stove, and a small kettle was stewed on the stove, and hot water was placed in the pot.

Li Ji stood up and walked over, and Fuquan lowered his head with a small knife. Li Ji picked up the knife and threw another sweet potato peel and slice it into the pot, and then put the peeled and slice of the potato into it together.

Potatoes boiled sweet potatoes, although they look weird, after a while the aroma begins to diffuse. It didn't taste good to cook like this, but Li Ji just let the two of them know that this thing could be eaten.

When it was almost cooked, Fuquan took out the potato slices and sweet potato slices and put them in a small bowl, and then sent them to Han E.

Han E looked at the yellow and white potato chips and sweet potato chips in the bowl, and carefully picked up a potato slice with chopsticks and tasted it.

Very soft and glutinous. Boiled potatoes aren't delicious, but they're not bad, at least they're much better than those millet millets.

He picked up another piece of sweet potato, which tasted much better than the potato. Sweet and greasy, fragrant and glutinous.

"It's delicious, it's delicious, it's delicious!" Han E was surprised and delighted.

Qing Xuzi next to him couldn't help it for a long time, he grabbed the dishes and chopsticks and tasted them, and sighed a few times: "The taste is really good."

Han E arched his hand and asked, "Your Majesty, what is the yield of this thing?"

"Twenty stones per mu." Li Ji said lightly.