These days, Zhu Xiaoqi has understood his basic situation. After Zhu Youxiao's mother died, his emperor's grandfather entrusted him to his father's attendant, the Li family. My father has two Li Xuanshou, and I don't know how to divide them, one is called Dong Li and the other is called Xi Li. It was Xi Li who raised him. Xi Li is good to him, and she agrees to any request, but her energy is mainly focused on his prince father, so in fact, it is his nurse Keshi who cares about him.

He has been staying in the East Palace for the past few days, and the East Palace is not very big, called Ciqing Palace. He was already familiar with the basic structure of the East Palace, and now his goal was to go out of the East Palace to have a look. On this day, he told the Hakka family that he wanted to go out for a walk, but the Hakka family was not at ease, so he asked Li Jinzhong, the eunuch in Xili's room, to bring two little eunuchs and the palace maid Chuntao to follow.

Li Jinzhong is in his forties, burly, and does not have the feminine appearance that eunuchs are used to. As soon as he saw Zhu Xiaoqi, he bent down and cried: "His Royal Highness Taisun's filial piety touches the heavens and the earth, which is enough to comfort the souls of talented people in the sky." Talented people should have great blessings in the next life. Jin Zhong received great favor from talents, and in the future, he should be loyal to His Royal Highness the Grand Sun. Zhu Youxiao cried for three days and fainted, and these days he has nightmares, and everyone thinks he is sad and his mother is mourned. This Li Jinzhong's original name was Wei Si, he only entered the palace when he became an adult, and he was the eunuch in Zhu Xiaoqi's mother's Wang Cairen's room. Wang Cairen knew that after he changed his surname to enter the palace, he was allowed to restore his original surname, but now he is still called Li Jinzhong, and he has always been Wang Cairen's confidant eunuch. After Wang Cairen's death, he became the eunuch of Xi Li Xuanzhi with Zhu Youxiao. A few days ago, I had been busy outside about the aftermath of Wang Cairen's death, and when I saw Zhu Xiaoqi, tears flowed.

Zhu Xiaoqi was also a little moved, and said, "Li Banban, you have a heart." "I thought to myself, when I first arrived here, a person must always have his own confidants. This Li Jinzhong is deeply trusted by his mother, and he is loyal to his mother and himself, and his heart seems to be good. It should be someone you can trust in this world for the time being.

Zhu Xiaoqi took four people and went to the gate of the East Palace. An official in his fifties happened to come over, saw Zhu Xiaoqi, avoided the side of the road and saluted: "I have seen His Royal Highness Taisun." Zhu Xiaoqi looked at Li Jinzhong, and Li Jinzhong said: "Lord Xu Guangqi, the young Zhan of the East Palace." Zhu Xiaoqi arched his hand and said, "Hello Lord Xu." Looking carefully, I saw that his popularity was very high, and his beard was extremely good, so I was afraid that he would have a fight with Guan Yu. It's just that there is a sense of sorrow between the eyebrows.

"I don't know what happened to Lord Xu in the East Palace." Suddenly, there was a thrill, this person's name is familiar. In his previous life, he didn't know much about the Ming Dynasty, but Xu Guangqi learned it when he was a student and was a famous scientist. Wrote a book that seems to be related to agriculture. So he immediately said, "I don't know how Gu might help." "Since this person has appeared in middle school textbooks, it should be very powerful, and wooing is the first thing. didn't expect that he was just a teenager, and his prince father wanted power or not, and he wanted to be favored or not. How could Xu Guangqi ask him for help?

Sure enough, Xu Guangqi saluted again: "Don't dare to be His Royal Highness the grandson." Xia Guan trained in Tongzhou, returned to Beijing today to meet the prince, and then went to the military department on business. Thank you, Your Royal Highness. Zhu Xiaoqi had already figured it out at this time, and immediately changed his strategy and said: "Lord Xu is good at farming, there is something to ask, does Lord Xu know about corn, sweet potatoes and potatoes?" ”

Xu Guangqi's eyes lit up: "Corn, is it maize?" Zhu Xiaoqi didn't know, so he briefly said what the corn looked like, and Xu Guangqi nodded: "Listening to what His Highness said, it should be maize." The sweet potato knows, but what is this potato? ”

Zhu Xiaoqi said: "The ground grows almost like sweet potatoes, but the underground part is smaller than sweet potatoes and is round, so it is called potatoes." ”

Xu Guangqi suddenly realized: "What His Highness said should be a taro, this subordinate has seen it." I don't know what His Highness said about these three things? ”

"I want to ask Lord Xu for one thing, living alone in the deep palace, wearing brocade clothes and jade food and not knowing the suffering of agriculture. I am always ashamed. It is said that these three things can be born in cold and drought conditions, and the yield per mu is more than that of rice and wheat. I once heard the old man say that if today is drier and colder than before, the harvest of ordinary grains will be greatly reduced or even eliminated. If rice and wheat can be replaced by these three things, wouldn't it save the people of the world from the suffering of famine? If Lord Xu can obtain the seeds of these three things, he is willing to try the seeds in Huangzhuang, clarify the method of planting, and understand the debate between water and soil, so as to promote them in various places in the future. ”

Xu Guangqi didn't think about corn taro, because the yield per mu of corn was not high at this time, and the potato was just a relatively novel vegetable in his opinion. But he knows sweet potatoes well, sweet potatoes, also known as sweet potatoes, are easy to grow and have high yields, which can be used as vegetables and food. The benefits are numerous. He once wrote an article called "Sweet Potato Shu", which explained in detail the benefits of sweet potatoes and how to grow them. It is also proposed that a certain crop can only adapt to a certain environment, and that the crop will adapt to the new environment under the action of manpower after changing the environment. Zhu Xiaoqi's words just scratched his itch. made his opinion of Zhu Xiaoqi quickly change from a gentleman who didn't know anything to a wise emperor's grandson who cherished the people of the world and knew the world well.

So his attitude was more respectful: "The lower official does not dare to be His Royal Highness the Taisun, sweet potatoes are also known as sweet potatoes, and the lower officials just have them, and there is a foolish article "Sweet Potato Shu", a simple work, which can be used to throw bricks and lead to jade for His Royal Highness the Taisun. As for the other two, corn can be found everywhere, and the lower official should send someone to fetch the potatoes and send them to His Highness as soon as possible. ”

Zhu Xiaoqi was overjoyed, crops fell second, and he should be able to find others if he didn't look for him, but since he is a scientist who appears in textbooks, of course he will not just be good at agronomy, and he can be found in all aspects in the future. If you want to climb the tech tree, this person should be a good helper. "It's great that Lord Xu is willing to help. Lonely weekdays try to learn the truth of tomorrow's people, because of young ignorance, often have questions. Hearing that Master Xu is rich in five cars, he has time to come to the door to ask for advice. Xu Guangqi didn't dare to do it.

Zhu Xiaoqi arched his hand again and took the lead towards the door. Li Jinzhong also gave Xu Guangqi a salute and quickly followed.