"Good! Joyfully! The second side quest - visit the prodigy and discover the prodigy. ”

"Oh! In this case, I visit myself, and I am considered to have completed the mission! When he said this, Cai Dao raised his head proudly.

"Although this system also wants to flatter you, but if you abandon your identity as a traverser, do you think you are worthy of the word 'prodigy'?" Xiao Cai Keng squinted at Cai Dao, and he could see that he was despising himself without asking.

Prodigy, a term for gifted children.

(1) Refers to children who are particularly intelligent and extraordinarily talented. For example, Yan Shu, this big bull can be said to be the most veritable prodigy in the entire Song Dynasty.

(2) Another name for the imperial examination for children set up in the Tang and Song dynasties. For example, Cai Boyu, a native of Fuqing, Fujian, was given a jinshi by Song Zhenzong at the age of four.

"Cai Keng, do you have a prodigy directory or anything like that?"

"Nope! Visiting is to let you visit those prodigies who have become famous, and discovering is to let you explore or cultivate prodigies who have not yet been discovered. ”

After listening to Cai Keng's explanation, Cai Dao understood that exploring and cultivating prodigies can be done slowly in the future; However, speaking of the famous prodigy of the dynasty, Cai Dao thought about it and had a headache.

Because he suddenly remembered that he had just offended a very famous prodigy - He Zhengchen before, and another prodigy Jiangxi - Fang Zhongyong was also ridiculed by his maternal grandfather Wang Anshi who wrote an eloquent essay satirizing it and became a negative teaching material for prodigies.

Yan Shu must be dead, so I don't know if that fellow Fujian villager Cai Boyu is still alive, but even if he is still alive, he is a Fu Qing person, and I don't know if this old prodigy and Zheng Xia are in the same group.

When he thought of the prodigy of the dynasty, almost all of them were a little contradictory to himself, and Cai Dao's head hurt even more.

The children's imperial examination, Cai Dao suddenly saw these four words, yes, there are very few famous prodigies, but as long as they pass the children's examination, they can be regarded as prodigies!

"Cai Keng, I'm right!"

"That's true, but, such a 'prodigy', you can only complete a task if you visit ten, once a day, three a month, and more than three months to complete a side quest, and more importantly, these people who have passed the children's test are not necessarily in the Beijing Division, are you sure you have time to place them one by one?"

Cai Keng explained it this way, but Cai Dao still didn't give up, so he sent a little eunuch to the palace to send a message to Liang Shicheng, and entrusted Liang Shicheng to copy a copy of the list of boys' exams from the Renzong Dynasty to the present. This thing will also be archived by the Ministry of Rites, but compared to the Imperial Palace, Cai Dao is even more black about the officialdom of the Ministry of Rites.

By the way, the old man Sun Jue, who is good to himself, seems to be a secretary and a young eunuch. In the Tang Dynasty, there was also the post of secretary and supervisor, but in the Song Dynasty, the secretary and young eunuch were actually the person in charge of the secretary province, in charge of ancient and modern books, national historical records, astronomical almanacs and so on. It seems that this official position can also find information related to the boys' examination.

However, Cai Dao still has to wait for Liang Shicheng's news first, what can be solved with money, you must not waste favors, you can make more money if you don't have money, but the more you use it, the less you use it, this is his life perception in later generations.

Unexpectedly, Liang Shicheng did things so well, it only took him half a day to send Cai Dao the information of all the children's exams from the Zhenzong Dynasty to the present. Actually, what Cai Dao didn't know was that Liang Shicheng was powerful! Liang Shicheng told Shi Deyi of Cai Dao's request, and naturally Song Shenzong knew, and the Son of Heaven didn't say a word, and asked Liang Shicheng to send Cai Dao all the original files in the palace.

It's not enough to know the name, but also to know which of these people is still alive, and who among the living people is still an official in Bianliang City or lives in Bianliang City, if it really doesn't work, the surrounding states and counties are also okay. This time, I had to let Shi Deyi's father-in-law help with this, because only the Imperial City Division would have these detailed information to check in the whole world.

So, Cai Dao personally entered the palace to visit Shi Deyi, and the powerful father-in-law agreed to this request in front of Cai Dao, and the results of the investigation were passed on to Cai Dao that night.

It's a pity that the conclusion is indeed as Cai Keng said, in Bianliang City and its surrounding prefectures and counties, all the officials who have passed the children's test and are still alive are only nine people combined. Coupled with the inconvenience of information transmission in this era, it is not surprising that one or two of them suddenly die of one or two, after all, people who are too smart often do not live long.

The boy tried this road and was not needed for the time being. From this point of view, it is necessary for him to go back to his hometown in Fujian recently, because according to the information of the Imperial City Division, Cai Boyu is still alive, and Fang Zhongyong and his maternal grandfather Wang Anshi are about the same age. If you don't hurry, these two famous prodigies are likely to return to the West at any time. Fortunately, Jinxi, where Fang Zhongyong is located, is on Jiangnan West Road, which is the eastern part of Fuzhou on the border with Fujian.

In order to reward, Cai Dao wiped his face and tried to visit He Zhengchen's house in Bianliang City first, who knew that this old guy didn't give any face, and directly asked the porter to throw his worship post in his face.

Many people, including Song Shenzong, don't understand Cai Dao's reason for doing this, but they also re-acquainted themselves with this old prodigy He Zhengchen, who was praised by Song Renzong's poems. Compared with Yan Shulai, these two are far from each other in terms of fame or deeds, that Cai Boyu is just thick-skinned, but he knows how to retreat humbly, and he often brings up his juniors, but this one is so narrow-minded, I really didn't expect it!

Therefore, after Cai Dao returned to the nursery, he immediately packed his bags and asked someone to send a letter to Mizhou, explaining that he would return to his hometown within half a month. There are permanent personnel of the shipyard run by Cai Dao, first, it is convenient for him to exchange news with his family, and secondly, it is one of the shipyards in Dasong City after all, which is convenient for business contacts.

After arranging all this, Cai Dao also made up his mind to prepare for the day of plowing the fields after the solar term.

Before that, he had to complete the preliminary preparations for spring ploughing step by step according to the plan he had made.

Because the land of Genyue is located in the northeast of the imperial city, if the water is diverted from the Jinshui River that crosses the imperial city, it will not affect the imperial city, so Song Shenzong originally planned to completely open up the land of Genyue into a paddy field.

However, Cai Dao knew that in the Northern Song Dynasty, the waterlogging in Bianliang City was serious, and if the situation was serious, the damage would be very serious, so he planned to divide the land into two areas, the north was dry land, and later soybeans, wheat, alfalfa and sorghum were planted, accounting for roughly seventy percent, and the south was planted with early rice, which roughly accounted for thirty percent of the land.

However, because the land is located in the inner city and has always been a homestead, most of the land here is raw land, and Cai Dao is worried that the first year's production will be affected. Therefore, during this time, Cai Dao sent Hua Xianqi and his brothers to search for carpenters and blacksmiths who did not return to the prison and the Ministry of Works, and Cai Dao hired them at a high price.

First, steelmaking.

Recruiting these blacksmiths was naturally to let them make more steel agricultural tools.

The Quyuan plough had already been invented in the Tang Dynasty, so Cai Dao exchanged side quests for the highest iron-making technology of the Tang and Song dynasties, plus some of the knowledge he had learned from chemistry in middle school, such as coking, and selecting suitable refractory bricks to build a blast furnace...... He believes that with the help of many craftsmen, he will be able to refine better quality steel.

Second, it is naturally a manure truck.

Bianliang City is not comparable to Xianyou County, until now, even if someone has discovered the wonderful use of those pickled things, they have not used them on a large scale. Cai Dao wanted to take advantage of this opportunity to add a large amount of fertilizer to the raw land of Genyue. He believes that within a year or two, these raw lands will be converted into cooked land, and the yield will definitely increase year by year.

As for whether Song Shenzong will take back Genyue in the future, it will be a few years later, maybe he will already travel west by then.

Third, arrange manpower to process seeds and cultivate seedlings.