Chapter 237: The Emperor was excited
Since that day, he took the whole family out to practice once, Wu Yuanqing has to come here as long as he has spare time, if he is busy, it doesn't matter, the key is that Si Nong Shaoqing is still a person who doesn't care about business, and the existence of idle eggs hurts, that is basically free every day. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info
This can make the martial arts family miserable, every day is tired to death, the song does not stop at night, the story is not listened to, the poker is not played, and the head is asleep after eating dinner and washing.
Wang Ziyu is the same, so that Wu Yuanqing has no chance to have a chance to have a fight with her, everyone is sleepy like that, and Wu Yuanqing is embarrassed.
By the middle of August, Wu Yuanqing finally began to have something to do, in addition to the potatoes planted in the fields in the imperial city that could be harvested, other states and counties also began the autumn harvest work.
What is this Nima autumn harvest, the entire Guanzhong has been gnawed, but the steps that should be carried out still have to be carried out, and the amount that can be picked up from the ground is counted, and it can be counted as a mouthful and a half of rations.
In other places, there was almost no harvest, but the potatoes and corn planted in the imperial city did not suffer any loss, and they grew quite well.
But this is also normal, Wu Yuanqing raised so many chickens and ducks to eat locusts, not only locusts, but other insects also eat cleanly.
There is also a special person to take care of and water, and it is strange if the growth is not good.
At harvest time, Li Shimin came to the scene again to guide the work. I don't know what he has to guide a person who doesn't understand anything, but he knows that he is blind.
However, the leader came, and he was still the ultimate leader, and Wu Yuanqing, the second-in-command of Sinong Temple, could only step aside to watch Li Shimin's performance.
Li Shimin made it quite formal, put on the offering table and first worship the sky in a small way, and then took the imperial hoe, this is not the imperial kitchen for cooking, it is the emperor's imperial hoe, and it is not the gold and silver that the common people are pondering, it is an ordinary hoe, but the workmanship is much better.
Li Shimin solemnly waved the imperial hoe, carefully dug out a potato the size of a child's head, and then the second, the third... It wasn't until the seventh that no more potatoes were found in that pit.
Seven potatoes in a pit may sound like it was commonplace for later generations to grow potatoes, but it would be too rare to know that the smallest of the seven was the size of an adult's fist.
Anyway, Wu Yuanqing followed his parents to dig potatoes many times in his later life, but he has never seen so many such big potatoes at one time.
The seven potatoes weighed a total of twenty-nine catties and seven taels, almost reaching thirty catties.
When the weighing number was reported, Li Shimin's big heart was a little unbearable, fluttering and fluttering, blood pressure rose rapidly, and his head was dizzy for a while, but fortunately, the inner servant hurriedly supported him, otherwise Li Shimin would have become the first emperor who was too excited and caused high blood pressure to hang up.
According to the current plant spacing, an acre of land can be planted with almost 2,000 plants, according to a plant of 30 catties, that is 60,000 catties, this is still the reason for the spacing is too large, if it is smaller, there can be 4,000 plants, that is 120,000 catties.
It's not that he doesn't know, but he was shocked, Li Shimin was about to be scared to death by the numbers he came out, and he was going to die happily.
If he let Wu Yuanqing know about this idea, he might just spit in his face.
Nima really dared to think that even if there were four or five thousand catties of potatoes per acre of land in the future generations, it would be considered a bumper harvest, and even if it could be tens of thousands of catties, it would be considered a record in various places. How dare you think of hundreds of thousands of catties, you are crazy.
You don't know what shit luck is now, and you dig out thirty catties of potatoes in a nest. But you think you can walk this shit luck every time, this Nima can touch an acre of land once, it's amazing, okay.
It's okay for a normal plant to have more than one pound or two pounds, and people can't be insufficient.
Besides, is the plant counted like this, even if you can get twenty seeds according to one catty, and two or three catties per acre, that is, four thousand plants, but Nima can't calculate the seedling rate, it's too dense to have seedlings, and it's also okay to have two or three thousand seedlings per acre.
Do you think anyone can find someone to take care of it like they do now?
Do you think anyone can fertilize so much like the royal family, and the fertilizer of grass and wood ash is not applied now, the yield of an acre of land can reach two or three thousand catties, so why don't you steal it, it depends on whether God gives face, does not give face, drought and waterlogging come to a wave, and it is normal for the yield per mu to be less than 1,000.
Of course, in the Tang Dynasty, the yield per mu was not more than 1,000, which was not a loss, and it was common for the people to plant millet with a yield of less than 100 catties per mu.
Fortunately, Li Shimin came to his senses later, he only dug the first pit, and handed it over to others to do later.
As a result, only three potatoes were dug up in the second pit, a total of more than two catties.
Afterwards, there are many and little dug out, more can have four or five catties and less than one catty, and finally after all the digging is completed, the yield per mu can be almost a little more than 23 stones, and the calculation into catties is that an acre of land can have 3,000 catties.
Although the gap with his own calculation of tens of thousands of catties is a bit too big, Li Shimin is still satisfied with the yield of 3,000 catties per mu.
The subsequent corn, Li Shimin was also the first to break it, of course, he only did it once, and finally finished it all, and this corn can also have a thousand catties after accounting for one acre.
Li Shimin laughed and left with satisfaction, and Wu Yuanqing commanded people to bring the harvested grain back to the courtyard of Sinong Temple to spread it out to dry. It doesn't matter if the potatoes are dried or not, but corn needs to be dried.
Specially made wooden shelves, and then the corn coating was torn open, knotted and hung up.
It only took one day to do this, and Wu Yuanqing originally thought that he would be able to make it easier for the next time, but the emperor assigned him a new task.
Raise food.
What kind of food to raise at this time, why should Lao Tzu do it, and where can I raise food?
Guanzhong is bare and clean, and at the end of the year, the green and yellow are not accepted, and the stored grain does not know when it will be eaten, and it is impossible to receive the new grain, and the people are still hungry and have no food to eat, waiting for the court to help, so where can Lao Tzu raise food.
Besides, even if you ruthlessly take food from the mouths of the people, it is completely impossible, just half a month ago, the emperor just issued an edict saying that Guanzhong has suffered a disaster this year, how unbearable and sorry he is, so he must be exempted from this year's taxes.
But the emperor let go, if you want to raise food, you will raise it, I don't care how you raise it, anyway, I will want it when the time comes, and if you don't have enough money, you will look good.
Wu Yuanqing didn't know what to do in front of him, but fortunately, his top boss woke him up, at this time, the grain transported from Jiangnan had almost reached the boundary of Henan, and in a few months, it would be possible to transfer it along the Yellow River to Weishui waterway and finally transport it to Chang'an.
I went, scared the baby to death, and thought that if I couldn't complete the task, I would be beheaded, but it turned out that the emperor was scaring people.