Chapter 66: Caofu Night Party
"Zi is silent, strange and confused. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info"Cao Pi can understand Cao Cao's practice of taking away the books in his courtyard. Even in the late Han Dynasty, when science and technology were extremely underdeveloped, as long as they were scholars, they would not believe in these things, but if they really encountered something that could not be explained, they would often rely on the ghosts and gods what they didn't understand, and when they believed, they would be more sure of the unnatural power.
But before that, suspicion and verification are indispensable. Cao Pi is just a general corner child, and most of the time the scope of activities is in a small courtyard in Cao's mansion, and the chair and personal guards are all assigned by Cao Cao. It should be said that Cao Pi lived under Cao Cao's eyelids.
Under such a premise, in addition to the knowledge imparted by the chair, the only way to obtain some unconventional knowledge is the book slips placed in Cao Pi's study. There are incredible things recorded in ancient books, such as the "Book of Han" written by Ban Gu of the Han Dynasty, which records water that can be burned. There are also many miscellaneous books in Cao Pi's room, so Cao Cao suspects that Cao Pi's chess skills and hybrid rice skills are derived from a certain book.
This is a very normal suspicion. At that time, when Cao Pi's chess strength was soaring, Cao Cao did not investigate the matter because the way of the game did not have much impact on the overall situation, and in Cao Cao's eyes, two acres of paddy fields could not turn over big waves, and he never expected that there would be "miracles" in the paddy fields. When things got bigger, he had to investigate.
Cao Pi had long expected such a thing, knowledge comes from books and life, this is the case in any era, Cao Pi's life is all in Cao Cao's control, so books must be the primary target of Cao Cao's investigation, not only the study, but also his yard was searched by Cao Cao's personal guards.
If Cao Cao suspects that hybrid rice technology and chess skills are from the book, the pile of writing is plausible with the man, and the more concise font must not come from the book, the development of the way of writing throughout the ages is a gradual process, and now the simplified Chinese characters written by Cao Pi are undoubtedly more concise and clever than the font of the Han Dynasty, and the people of the world are not completely incomprehensible, and can not fully understand, The obscurity of this ancient scripture font must be that the font on Zuobo's paper is based on the improved font of the Han Dynasty.
Words are the cultural crystallization formed by thousands of readers after continuous practice, and it is almost impossible to rely on one person to create a way of writing on his own, let alone an 11-year-old child with a total horn.
The reality of God's endowment has been confirmed with the simplified characters on Zuo Bo's paper. Cao Pi believes that he has taken the most solid step.
That night, an hour after dinner, Cao Cao came, and there were three people besides Cao Cao. One of them is Guo Jia, and the other two are very tall and very handsome. It is definitely the figure and appearance of the male model, these two people are old and young, the old should be over 40 years old, and the younger one is under 30 years old.
Cao Cao first introduced two handsome guys, old and young, to Cao Pi, and the less one was Xun Yu and Xun Wenruo. The old ones are Xun Yu Xun Gongda, the two outstanding people of the Yingchuan Xun family, and they are also the two extremely important people in the Cao Cao Group.
After Cao Pi greeted the two, several people sat down in the main hall of the small courtyard, Dianman, Hui'er, and Shu'er had all been retired, and Xu Chu personally took the Tiger Guards to guard outside, there was no doubt that this was a private conversation.
Cao Cao looked at Cao Pi, smiled slightly, and asked straight to the point: "Wu'er, how much rice can be produced in those two acres of paddy fields?" He directly skipped the question of whether he could produce rice, and now Cao Cao thinks that those are nonsense, although he did not fully understand the content on Zuo Bo's paper, but he understood Sancheng, which is clearly the method of cultivating rice, this kind of font may not be able to create even if it is a collection of people who are well-educated in the world, but his son has created it, which is beyond the reach of manpower.
Since it is God-granted, how can it not bear seeds?
"There is more than eighty percent of the corn fields with excess yield per mu." For the sake of stability, Cao Pi did not dare to say much, but only said a more conservative figure, that is, the yield per mu was 80 percent more than that of corn.
But it was this conservative number that still moved the other four people. The handsome Xun Yu moved the fingers of his left hand up and down rhythmically on the table, and Cao Pi had seen a young professor in the mathematics department do similar things every time he did mental arithmetic.
"This matter is related to the general trend of the world, don't talk about it." Cao Cao said.
"Father, eighty percent, no more." Cao Pi seems to have returned to his calmness and calmness above the court.
Xun You couldn't help but say: "If this is the case, next year, all the rice will be planted in Juntun and Mintun, and our army will be exempted from all taxes in Yu and Yan." ”
Xun Yu said: "Even if the society is opened, it is not impossible to gather the displaced people to enrich the households. ”
Cao Cao groaned for a while, and then asked, "This.... Does Gu Ling have a preference for arable land? ”
Cao Pi replied: "Ordinary paddy fields are enough. ”
"If my son is in charge of the army's farming, will all the paddy fields be harvested, and will they all be able to harvest eighty percent more corn?"
"Eighty percent more!"
Xun Yu and Xun Yu looked at each other, not knowing what to say. Guo Jia, who had not said a word, suddenly spoke: "This rice can be planted in the coming year without going to its clothes, if the people of Juntun and Mintun take it out and sell it privately, wouldn't it be that all the heroes in the world can get more than eighty percent of the fields." ”
Cao Cao glanced at Guo Jia approvingly and said, "The rice is small and easy to hide, if it is carried out, it is really difficult to guard against." Nor can we lock up the people in the tun. ”
Cao Pi shook his head and said: "If you want to increase the yield, you still need to sacrifice the first agricultural altar when the rice flowers are in full bloom to ask for blessings. Even if the farmers do not check for a while and let them get the harvest, two years later, the harvest of the paddy fields will be greatly reduced. ”
Of course, Cao Pi would not tell the people in front of him that the male sterile line and the maintainer line of the three-line hybrid rice could not be self-pollinated to complete seed setting because the female flowers were sterilized. If there is no female pollination, sterile lines of rice will be aborted. It is necessary to manually pollinate restorer lines with female flowers in the field, and pollinate male flowers of sterile lines and maintainer lines to set seeds. If artificial pollination is not carried out, the probability of natural hybridization will not exceed 10%, because natural hybridization can only be carried by insects and wind blowing to carry female pollen to the male flowers of sterile lines and maintainer lines, which is inevitably very low.
At that time, Cao Pi's hybrid rice next to the Xiannongtan was not artificially pollinated because the rice covered a small area, and the sterilized rice and the non-sterilized rice Cao Pi were planted in a one-to-one position, and this method would have a great chance of natural hybridization, but in the face of patches of rice, it was impossible to distinguish between sterile lines, maintenance lines, and restoration lines, and the method of one-to-one breeding could not be completed at all. Artificial pollination must be relied upon.
Even if someone else is lucky enough to buy the seeds of the restorer line and get the rice with hybrid advantage and its offspring can be self-pollinated, if the hybridization is not continued, the hybrid advantage of its ancestors will weaken with the generation of seeds, and the speed of this weakening is very fast. Especially on land where there are no organic fertilizers.
That's why Cao Pi has a blessing and a big reduction in the harvest in two years. In fact, artificial pollination is very easy, but Cao Pi wants to deify this process, so it is called asking for the blessing of Xiannong.
Guo Jia smiled when he heard this: "If this is the case, I hope that Yuan Shao will buy the rice that the first farmers overlooked." Let it have two years of good harvest, and then restore it to its original state. ”
As soon as these words came out, everyone laughed.
Cao Cao asked at this time: "Do those two acres of paddy fields also need to be blessed by the first farmers?" ”
Cao Pi replied: "Exactly, and it needs my father to preside over the sacrifice." This is the meaning of the immortals in the dream. "At this time, if Cao Cao is not brought in and let him gain some prestige, then Cao Pi's follow-up plan will be a little difficult to promote.
"Oh? I don't know when the immortals will be sacrificed? ”
"When tomorrow is ugly, the people who participate in the sacrifice will be the father's confidants, and they will not be allowed to reveal half a sentence about the events of the evening, and they will not be allowed to be watched by idle people." When it's ugly, it's actually from 1 to 3 a.m. The people of the Han Dynasty had no nightlife, and they all slept at this time, but artificial pollination was the key to hybrid rice, and he didn't want too many people to see it.
"Just according to my words." Cao Cao immediately agreed.