Chapter 301: Giving Knowledge to the Prince

When these people heard this, they suddenly became enlightened. www.biquge.info But they are all experienced old farmers, although the truth is simple, but every step of the planting method has to be practiced. Just like how many years has this cotton appeared in foreign countries and in remote places in the Great Song Dynasty, but who came up with this planting method?

Li Xiang was not a farmer in his previous life, but he often traveled on business, plus he was careful to observe and had a good memory, so he saw and remembered those farmers' planting methods, but he didn't expect to use them at this time.

He added: "I have also seen your planting methods, and there is another reason that affects your harvest. Now some people also know that if they want the fruit tree to grow well, cut off the main trunk of the fruit tree and let it flourish on the side branches so that it can grow more fruit. Cotton is also a reason. There are many branches of cotton that do not bear fruit, so the official will call them male branches. These cotton branches waste nutrients in the field and make those mother branches vulnerable, which naturally affects the harvest. So these branches have to be knocked out. You also have to remember my method of selection. After all, this crop has just been introduced, and it is not yet suitable for local climate change. Persist for a long time, and after a few years, it is not a dream to produce thousands of catties of wool cotton per mu. ”

This is what everyone wants to hear the most.

Li Xiang told them the approximate plant spacing and row spacing according to his memory. Then teach them peanut nesting, potato germination, fruit cutting, fruit planting, and transplanting.

Two days later, suddenly the decree came.

Li Xiang didn't know why the emperor summoned him again, it couldn't be because of the matter of these super crops that the emperor knew.

When Li Xiang entered the palace, he learned that this was indeed the case, and the emperor wanted him to read it to the prince.

"Hehe," Emperor Lizong is really happy, Li Xiang is really worthy of being a talent of the Great Song Dynasty, and now he has come up with some effects that are said to have a high yield, if that is the case, the grain and cloth of the Great Song Dynasty will not need to be known. He said to the eunuch who was watching with his head behind him, "Take five hundred taels of gold and enjoy the flowers." ”

Li Xiang knelt down and said, "The minister has already received the love of the saint, and he does not dare to covet any reward. Besides, the minister has to read to His Royal Highness, which is also the duty of the minister. If Your Majesty has to reward you, the summer harvest has not yet arrived, and although the Great Song Dynasty is rich, there are still a few families in a state of hunger, and the emperor can allocate a little money and materials to help those greedy people. ”

Listening to his words, Emperor Lizong and Yan Guifei both glanced at each other, and Yan Guifei said: "It is said that this Tanhualang father and son have a good heart, and they are hard and simple, but they always want others to live a good life. Your Majesty, as he said. ”

The crown prince Zhao Ji said at this time: "Lone now knows that Master Li is also a gentleman, just a different gentleman, a gentleman who makes the monarch happy." ”

"Your Highness complimented you." Li Xiangcai got up from the ground.

"Now Lone officially announces that Master Li is qualified to give Lone a lecture."

Li Xiang didn't know that Zhao Ji was not convinced when he saw this young man as old as himself, but he came to be his teacher, but he also praised Li Xiang's character when he saw it just now.

Li Xiang said: "Then Wei Chen will teach His Highness about arithmetic and geology." ”

Emperor Lizong, Concubine Yan Guifei and Zhao Ji also knew that this Tanhualang almost knew astronomy and geography, as if there was nothing he didn't know, but he was not shocked.

They didn't know that this was deliberately done by Li Xiang, why couldn't Li Xiang say the periodic table. So he used the word conjecture, and the words were written more vaguely, of course, if you are a person with a heart, you can quickly find out all kinds of truths in chemistry by looking for the traces of this book.

Zhao Ji also heard that Li Xiang built a machine cannon based on a few Gewu books, as well as the kind of sailless clipper. He was very interested in these knowledge, but he didn't understand it at all, and of course he was happy to hear Li Xiangken teach him this. But he suddenly burst out with a sentence: "Master Li, I heard you say that the earth is round?" ”

Li Xiang was about to give him a lesson, but he almost choked on this question. Li Xiang said: "Whether this land is round or not, in the future, if we have a big ship in the Great Song Dynasty, we can send a fleet to go to sea and take a walk." ”

Zhao Ji thought for a while and asked: "Master Li, everyone says that you have a good heart, and even your father and mother praised you just now." But if the earth is not round, then the people in the fleet will never come back? And even if they prove that the earth is round, the journey is long, the waves are huge, and many people will die. Is it not because of your words that many people have lost their lives? ”

Li Xiang almost died of anger, he thought to himself, why is this little hairy boy so difficult to wait?

Zhao Ji: This is another acute question. However, Emperor Lizong and Concubine Yan also knew that this young man was full of wit, and they only smiled to see how Li Xiang answered.

Li Xiang replied: "Your Highness's benevolence will be the gospel of the Great Song Dynasty." Keren also has the difference between the benevolence of a king and the benevolence of a woman. ”

"What is the benevolence of a king and the benevolence of a woman?"

"The benevolence of the king is to have the world in mind, and would rather work hard for himself than be the world. And the kindness of a woman is to take care of Xiaoren, or like those women on the street, when they see their dogs and kittens dead, they will shed a few tears. But they didn't know that there were many people who were starving, waiting to be fed, waiting for someone to lend a helping hand. Li Xiang said this, turned around and said to Yan Guifei: "Of course, Weichen doesn't mean that all women are bad, like Queen Weichen, when she heard that Niangniang was benevolent and virtuous, smart and capable, she is better than tens of millions of good men." ”

Yan Guifei smiled and leaned back, she said: "You Tanhualang, don't slap the sycophants of the mourning family anymore, the bones of the mourning family will be patted for you." ”

"Yes," Li Xiang replied, but he thought to himself, this is what I want.

Li Xiang said to Zhao Ji again: "Therefore, in order to make the people of the world no longer suffer from war, Taizu is determined to unify the world, and it is not until Emperor Taizong completes this great cause, how many heroic soldiers have been sacrificed in the middle, this is Daren, in order to achieve Daren, a small number of people must make sacrifices." For example, most of these maritime merchants, most of them will probably not be able to come back and die in a foreign land, but my Great Song Dynasty has added so much rich land. And that's not even if they succeed in circumnavigating the world, they will find many countries. We can sell the surplus things that we can't sell in the cities and villages of the Great Song Dynasty, and then exchange them for what we need, which also makes our Great Song Dynasty have a harvest and social tranquility. In this way, our Great Song will become richer and richer. Liaofan is fierce, but when the gap between the rich and the poor reaches a certain point, they will be stoned to death even if they are smashed with money. ”

"Yes, good smash!" Zhao Ji said hatefully.

Zhao Ji thought for a while and said: "Gu understands, what Master Li said is like playing chess, taking into account the overall situation, sometimes in order to win the whole game of chess, you have to sacrifice some small games." ”

Li Xiang was also happy, of course, deep down he also hoped that the soon-to-be emperor of the crown prince would be as smart as possible, only smart people could accept his theory, and only then could the Great Song Dynasty be prosperous and powerful

Li Xiang thought to himself that he would finally get you, the little ancestor, done.

Zhao Ji said again: "Now Master Li will read to Lone." (To be continued.) )