Chapter 209: Le is crazy
When Li Shimin came to Linjiazhuang, he looked at the battle with a light car and was not sincere, it seems that the recent battle with the family has not developed to the point of being out of control, so he can come out so casually.
Of course, it may also be that Zhongnan Mountain, especially the Lin family Zhuangzi, is more reassuring, there is really something discordant, he took some guards to Lin Sen's earthen building to hide, and he can always hold on for a while.
And whether it is the Lin family's Zhuangzi, or the Zhuangzi of several confidants and generals around him, there is no shortage of masters, unless the army in Chang'an City has changed, otherwise the enemy really can't make any waves.
In addition, Li Shimin has always been a confident person, which is why he is so bold.
And he came at the right time, the Lin family Zhuangzi was in full swing to harvest, and it was really a busy scene. The golden wheat was cut down by the jubilant farmers one by one, and they were bundled with grass at will, and a pile was bundled, which was called a "tall", and it was convenient to pick it up with a flat pole when he turned around.
And Li Shimin didn't bother everyone after he came, but just found a field that had not been harvested, dragged down a few ears of wheat, and studied it carefully.
The ears of wheat on the Lin family's Zhuangzi are obviously much larger than those he has seen on weekdays, and the wheat grains are much fuller. It's just that Li Shimin doesn't have a clear idea of how much more it can be.
But after changing a few pieces of land, and seeing that the ears of wheat were almost all so heavy, the smile on his face couldn't be hidden.
Zhang Ananda also congratulated him next to him, making the field look like the emperor's own.
At this time, Lin Sen, who had received the news from the villager, had just rushed over from the tulou, although it was often said that the king had no jokes, but he really didn't expect that Li Shimin would really drill into this mountain again, just to see the scene of his own grain harvest.
Supposedly, shouldn't he have gone to his particularly delicate royal reserve field, which was cooked by the farmer's master, to perform a gesture of merry with the people?
"Do you know how much the yield of this wheat is per mu, and it may be more than one stone?" Li Shimin held back his excitement and asked, but the joy in his words and the eagerness could not be concealed.
However, this is also in front of Lin Sen, he believes that this kid is sincere, and naturally he doesn't mind revealing some of his true temperament.
"The kid doesn't know, wait until they finish harvesting, and then calculate the average yield per mu to be more accurate, after all, the ground conditions are different, and the level of care for crops is not the same.
However, I think it is not impossible to increase by 50% or even double, and I am very confident in this new wheat seed that I have cultivated. ”
Lin Sen once again took the credit to himself without hesitation, and Li Shimin was already a little excited when he heard this output.
"Of course, thanks to His Majesty's care, they can have such a good growth."
Lin Sen's turn was too blunt, and the sycophants were also insincere, but Li Shimin was still very satisfied with the smile, mainly because the face of these wheates was relatively large, who made him feel good when he saw it, and even with Lin Sen's unclever sycophants became cute.
"Your Majesty should go to the tulou with the kid to sit down first, and I can't know how much production there is at this time, and the farmers are still busy."
Lin Sen hurriedly let the emperor go home, and just let Li Shimin go outside to show off the way of hospitality, in case of a bad show, he couldn't bear his head.
Seeing that the matter with Cheng Huaiyu has finally come to an end, it can't go wrong at this time, if Cheng Huaiyu becomes a widow, he doesn't want to go, although most of the time he can't think about it.
"No, so-and-so is watching here, let these sergeants measure out an acre of land, and you can call some farmers to come over and harvest this together, and I want to know how much the yield per mu is as soon as possible." Li Shimin didn't have the patience, so he simply asked people to get it out now.
"Okay, boy, I'm going to call someone over." Lin Sen naturally didn't say anything, he gave Li Shimin a shock in person, and he was even more confident to look back and take advantage of it.
The personal guards brought by Li Shimin meticulously measured out the whole acre of land, and then stared so carefully at a large group of farmers who came to harvest, and then all of them got to the threshing floor on the Zhuangzi, and began to beat and thresh on the spot.
Then all the wheat grains were carefully collected, sifted out of debris and dust, and the guards personally stepped forward to weigh them, and according to Li Shimin's requirements, they carefully weighed them several times before finally determining the yield.
"Is it really three kills with one stone? Was there a miscalculation? Li Shimin was a little suspicious of his ears, although it had been confirmed many times before this data was obtained, but he was still a little suspicious in his dream, it was really too sudden that happiness came.
You must know what was the yield per mu of general land in the early Tang Dynasty? On average, it's one stone! Of course, this yield is a combination of several major food products such as millet, wheat, and rice, and the yield may be slightly higher in places with better conditions, but the good ones are still limited.
As for wheat, because wheat was planted in the early Tang Dynasty, it was not too common even in the north, and millet was the mainstream at this time, but the yield of wheat was definitely not high, and it was basically in the shape of a stone.
A stone in the Tang Dynasty was converted to later generations, about one hundred and six catties, and at this time, an acre of land was smaller than a city mu in later generations, considering that when the later generations were just liberated, the yield per mu seemed to be a hundred catties, mainly because there was no blessing of chemical fertilizers and pesticides, and there were not so many good varieties in later generations, so it is not surprising that the yield of the Tang Dynasty would not be much different.
And what Lin Sen took out can be said to be super wheat seeds, even if there is no chemical fertilizer and pesticide two artifacts to protect it, isn't there still compost and earthworms to help, reaching this yield of less than 400 catties per mu, in his opinion, it is not so surprising.
But in Li Shimin's eyes, it is not a feeling at all, it is really a earth-shaking change, it suddenly makes him feel like a pie in the sky, and he is smashing his head, if it weren't for Zhang Ananda just taking a step forward and helping him, Li Shimin is afraid that he will have to faint.
"Okay, good, good, hahaha......" secretly pinched himself, after making sure that it was a real thing and not a dream, Li Shimin's smile could no longer be hidden, and he was happy like a child of more than 200 pounds.
As for why you said that this wheat is weighed directly, and it does not need to be ground into white flour and then counted as a mu yield? That's really a lot of thinking, in the early days, people ate wheat whole grains together, just like eating rice, and later there were stone mills and the like, and then they were ground into flour to make steamed buns, noodles, and so on.
As for peeling, that is, removing bran, that is completely non-existent. This is not millet, that is, millet, it still needs to be hulled, how can there be such a luxury that you don't eat whole wheat flour, even the emperor doesn't have this treatment. The so-called fine noodles that the emperor ate were not the kind of white flour of later generations, but glutinous rice flour.
Therefore, the weight of the wheat grains can be regarded as the entire mu yield, so Li Shimin will be crazy.
The yield per mu almost doubled, and it rose two and a half times, and he was not really crazy, so it can be said that he has a big heart. I didn't see the group of Zilin family villagers who knew the result, and they couldn't see it happily. Except for the one who didn't go to fruition, it was really embarrassing, which made Lin Sen a little crying and laughing.