Section 4 White 03 The Emperor's Duck

There were many superstitions imposed on the emperor in ancient China, and Zhu Jinglun had already appeared countless in him, and he didn't care about this more, but this was not his own idea. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info

Of course, in this country of heavy agriculture, no matter how much everyone disagrees with it in private, but on the surface, we still have to support it, but it is just the symbolic farming of the emperors of the past dynasties has become a real farming.

But in fact, many people disagree, especially Chen Zhiting, the prime minister's Shang Shuling, because Zhu Jinglun pressed more and more state affairs on him and made him make decisions, which made him very unaccustomed to it, and Zhu Jinglun went to farm, he felt that the emperor was not doing serious things, and running to plant that little land without regard to state affairs was completely worth the loss.

For this reason, many courtiers actually wrote folds, and Chen Zhiting also transferred these twists and turns to Zhu Jinglun, but Zhu Jinglun didn't read them, since he had decided to train the government, he could really let go.

Therefore, he had no idea what the ministers who had been instructed by Chen Zhiting to write were thinking.

Zhu Jinglun's own thoughts, very simple, is to promote the only few kinds of advanced agriculture that he knows, the technology of throwing seedlings, greatly reducing the labor intensity of farmers, in the past a seedling must bend down once, it is too tired, many farmers are a little older and can not straighten their waists and this kind of frequent bending labor has an absolute relationship.

Throwing seedlings is different, standing on the seedlings to throw out, eliminating the action of bending over, not only to protect the waist of farmers, the most practical significance is to improve efficiency.

The traditional way of transplanting seedlings, even if it is a strong laborer, cultivating seven or eight acres of land will be fatal, but this kind of seedling throwing, according to the exaggerated description of experts, a child can throw 30 acres of seedlings a day.

Of course, Zhu Jinglun's purpose is really just to reduce the burden on the peasants, because in China, where there is more than one mu of land per capita, there is no 30 mu of land for people to cultivate.

As for raising ducks and fish, it is only a subsidiary technology with the seedling throwing technology, because the seedling throwing has a big defect, that is, it cannot do the horizontal and vertical transplanting of seedlings, and each seedling can not be neatly and neatly, and it cannot be lined up, so it is impossible for traditional agriculture to weed, remove insects and turn the soil.

Raising ducks just solves this problem, ducks in the paddy field constantly catch insects, eat weeds, instead of the farmer's pesticide, weeding work, equal to free labor, and finally can lay duck eggs, produce duck meat to eat, duck manure can finally fertilize the field.

In short, it is a labor-saving and efficient operation method.

But who would have thought that in the end, he would add another layer of mysterious aura to his head.

This kind of mysterious aura Zhu Jinglun doesn't care, and even resents it, he doesn't resent himself to being a prestige emperor, but if prestige is obtained through this superstitious way, then he would rather not. He knew all too well what rancid fruit could produce from the soil of superstition.

The first leader of the republic is a rare high-prestige leader in Chinese history, coupled with modern propaganda, so that his prestige surpassed any emperor in history during his lifetime, but the common people in some remote areas are superstitious and reverence for the leader, which is not a bad thing, but when the leader is old, there are some ignorant people, because they don't want the leader to leave them, they use all kinds of superstitious ways to increase the life of the leader, many of which are unacceptable, such as replacing them with their children's lives.

Zhu Jinglun hopes to gain prestige through legitimate means, he doesn't want the people to be superstitious because he is the Son of Heaven, he hopes that he has brought happiness and pride to the people, so that they can love him.

So he was going to explain, until one of the guards made a request to him, and he decided not to explain it to the outside world for a while, and they decided to keep it mysterious for a while.

The guards were very embarrassed, although Zhu Jinglun had always been approachable, so that he would not be honestly afraid, but it was still difficult for him to say that the emperor wanted something. He asked for it for his younger brother, who heard that the emperor's ducks did not eat seedlings, so he was curious and drove his own ducks into the rice field. As a result, his father lost his hand in anger and broke his younger brother's legs.

The young guard felt that his brother's leg was broken because of him, and he was very guilty, so he quietly bought his brother a lot of delicious food, but the younger brother made a request to him for a few ducks from the emperor's family.

"Okay, well, when my ducklings hatch, I'll give you ten. You take it back to your brother, and his legs should be healed by then. Tell him that the ducks will be driven to the field and promise not to eat rice seedlings. ”

The situation of the guard's family made Zhu Jinglun feel that using this sense of mystery might be able to promote these technologies faster.

As the days passed, the paddy fields were headed, bearing abundant grains, and a bumper harvest was ushered in in mid-November.

Before the harvest, the water is released to dry the fields, and when the water is released, the fish raised in the paddy fields can also be caught, and these fish are sent to many people, mainly important ministers in the court. After the rice fields were dried and the rice was dry, he cut a bundle of rice, threshed and threshed, and finally Zhu Jinglun distributed the rice grown by himself to the important ministers of the court, leaving only enough rations and seeds for one year.

The emperor personally farmed the fields, and the cultivated rice was given to the loyal ministers, and the courtiers wrote to thank them, and the gratitude in their tones was beyond words, and the emperor was lifted to the sky. As for how many of them are sincere and how many are false, Zhu Jinglun doesn't care, if there are so many ministers who are sincerely moved, he will be content if they become desperate.

But the great atmosphere created by this is the biggest harvest, throughout the ages, the king rewarded the courtiers with a little gadget, which was touted by the ministers, and there are really those who are grateful for it, Zhu Jinglun's behavior is not ordinary, he is not giving a little favor, this is really weighing ten acres of land with his own hands, and giving food to the ministers, this behavior has directly caused heated discussions across the country, and newspapers have reported it. Many ministers have publicly stated that Jun's grace is like the sea, and it is difficult to repay the grass.

In this general atmosphere, if there are really ministers who do inappropriate actions in the future, their reputation will be stinky.

Of course, Zhu Jinglun really doesn't care too much, let the ministers perform their duties, he used a whole set of assessment system, there is a ministry of officials responsible for the assessment every year, so that the minister does not bend the law for bribes, and there is another set of system constraints, the highest is Hurd's latest formation, strict modern inspection department, although it has been privately called Jinyiwei, so that many officials hate it, but it also shows the inspection intensity of this inspection organ.

With these systems, Zhu Jinglun doesn't need to start from the hearts of the people at all, so he doesn't care, giving things to the ministers, it's just a matter of convenience, anyway, he can't eat it all, if he takes it out and sells it, it's not very suitable, because with the emperor's halo, some people are willing to buy it at a high price, I'm afraid many people will think that eating the rice grown by the emperor can prolong life, and then there will be fake goods if they don't get it right, he doesn't want to promote this business model.

As the rice fields are harvested, the ducks in the rice fields also grow up and lay eggs. Zhu Jinglun gave the first batch of corrupted ducklings to the guard, Huang Dafeng of Shajing, Xin'an County.

Huang Dafeng gave the ducks to his younger brother Huang Erfeng, who drove the ducks into his own rice field again, and this time none of the ducks were willing to eat their rice seedlings.

This matter spread at a faster speed, and everyone spread that the emperor's duck was really humane and knew not to eat the rice seedlings of the peasants. What they don't know is that the cordyceps in Huang Erfeng's ten ducks in the rice field are enough to eat, and the seedlings have been growing for a while, and the rice seedlings are already relatively hard, which does not meet the taste of the ducklings at all, and of course they will not eat them.

Seeing that Huang Dafeng asked for some ducklings from the emperor, the other guards were also greedy, and they all begged for it cheekily, they were all children of peasant families, and most of them were farming, Zhu Jinglun responded to his requests, and he sent ten ducklings to no family.

When they went home, they put these ducklings in their own paddy fields, and the influence became bigger and bigger, and the peasants in all the towns and villages all ran to see the excitement, but whoever said that the emperor's ducks did not eat rice seedlings, they must run to see the excitement, and even some newspaper reporters ran to see them, and they were also very curious about why the emperor's ducks did not eat rice seedlings.

Of course, around these ducks, there are also a lot of ridiculous stories, such as some people say that eating the emperor's duck can cure the disease, there are people who come to care about the families of these soldiers, and there are those who try to steal and rob, and the people who get these ducks are all regarded as treasures, for fear of being stolen, some people simply raise ducks directly by their beds when they sleep.

When public opinion became a hot topic for a while, Zhu Jinglun chose to refute the rumors, he invited some big newspapers to accept interviews with their reporters, telling reporters that why ducks don't eat rice seedlings is not because they are the emperor's ducks, but because ducks prefer to eat insects compared to rice seedlings, and if there are no insects, they will eat tender grass, and finally choose to eat rice seedlings.

Therefore, as long as there are no more than ten ducks on an acre of land, and the tender grass and insects are basically enough, the ducks will not eat rice seedlings. At the same time, the newspaper publicized the benefits of the combination of duck farming, fish farming and seedling throwing technology in rice fields, and called on the common people to learn how to throw seedlings and plant.

With the help of this craze, Zhu Jinglun's technology of combining seedling throwing and rice field breeding has indeed made a large number of people known in a short period of time, but the refutation of the rumors itself has not been completely successful, even if some newspapers seriously do demonstration experiments, and even invite farmers to visit the ordinary ducks they raise in the rice fields, but there are still many people who insist that the emperor's ducks are different from ordinary ducks, and some people swear that eating the emperor's duck eggs cured his old mother's asthma for many years.

In short, before the common people were educated by scientific knowledge, this superstitious story would still be passed down from generation to generation.

That's not what Zhu Jinglun cares about, he has to think about his family affairs now, seeing that the end of the year is approaching, his wedding date is coming. (To be continued.) )