A pie fell from the sky, Tang Ming was not stunned because of this, although for no reason he rose from a civilian of unknown origin to a hundred households in Weihaiwei, but he knew that this was Zheng He, that is, the titular father-in-law operating in the back, slowly improving himself, and then he would have a suitable identity to enter Beijing in a bright and bright way. And in this way, it is precisely because he has been pushed to the bright place, labeled as Zheng He's first line, this pit has to jump even if he doesn't jump, and he has to dance wonderfully and willingly.

March was the time for the crops to be sown, and Li Ba only needed 500 cattle and horses from the island to stay in Weihaiwei for use, and the rest were transported by sea ship to Tianjin Weijiao and Zheng He. The little father-in-law who came to announce the decree also went with the boat, for which he also praised Tang Ming fiercely, and swore that he would definitely be the supervisor and would never bury his credit.

Li Ba had more than 200 ploughing cattle, so he decided to double the cultivated land of Weihaiwei, so he took the sergeants of the guard station to open up the wasteland early in the morning, and he was very busy!

Tang Ming was not idle, when Li Ba was on this island, he once revealed his true feelings and said those words, which made him remember it vividly. Food is the first factor that restricts the Ming Dynasty from becoming stronger, so how to make crops grow the most food with the least amount of land has become Tang Ming's top priority at the moment.

Opening the backpack he had hidden, Tang Ming turned out the remaining small potatoes, probably not stored well, and the potatoes were all rotten. It's a pity to shake his head, but fortunately, during this period, there are already potatoes, corn, sweet potatoes and other crops, but they are not widely planted, and I don't know what to do if I want to find these things?

As a result, Li Ba was brought in to ask, and learned that these foreign things could only be obtained in Guangzhou or Tianjinwei, and the quantity was not large, because these things were used by foreigners as food for sailing, and if you wanted it, you had to find these people to exchange with them.

Only then did Tang Ming learn that it was not that it had not been popularized at all, but that no one had taken it to plant at all, and it was a terrible thing! After beating their chests for a while, they immediately asked Li Ba to send someone to find these things, as many as they wanted. Although Li Ba didn't understand what they wanted these things for, out of trust between brothers, he still sent a boat to find them.

Driving the confused Li Ba out of his residence, Tang Ming immediately took out his mobile phone, and after turning it on, he found that there were still two bars of power. After searching through the previously saved documents on my phone, I finally came across a document with the title 'hybridization'. I clicked in and took a quick glance, and finally breathed a sigh of relief.

This document was inadvertently downloaded by him before, and he had nothing to use for studying, but he didn't expect to use it now. Inside are some methods of hybrid crops and fruits, although the introduction is very simple, but Tang Ming knows that this is enough. Everything is ready and only the east wind is owed, as long as Li Ba brings corn, sweet potatoes, potatoes and other things, he can start experimenting with hybridization.

Tang Ming didn't believe that these crops could be as abundant as in later generations without hybridization, like potatoes in later generations with a yield of about 10,000 catties per mu, but it was also after how many people's research and hybridization had such an amazing yield.

The subordinates sent by Li Ba came back soon, and they couldn't catch up with Tianjin Wei in two days, but these guys brought two boxes of things that Tang Ming wanted, and proudly went to ask Li Ba for credit.

After Tang Ming checked it, he found that these things were indeed not broken, but more than half of the potatoes had sprouted, and the same was true for sweet potatoes, but more than a dozen corn cobs were still very fresh. After some questioning, I learned that these guys had encountered a foreign merchant ship on the way, and when they asked, they really had these things, so they immediately exchanged them and rushed back.

Tang Ming was very satisfied, and directly rewarded these guys with ten taels of silver before sending them away. Li Ba shook his head on the side, looking at the few subordinates who had gone away to receive the reward in distress, he had already spent thirty taels of silver to buy these things, and Tang Ming had rewarded ten taels just now. The forty taels of silver were gone, and the most hateful thing was that the forty taels of silver were still used for the military expenses of the guard.

If Tang Ming didn't explain to himself what he was going to do with these things, it was estimated that Li Ba would cut him with a knife. Fortunately, he understands that they will not do useless things, so he is not as impulsive as before.

"Brother! What do you want all this foreign stuff for? If you like to eat, just buy a little bit to get too addicted, wouldn't it be too wasteful to buy this much. Li Ba saw that Tang Ming was only looking at those crops, and he couldn't hold back his question.

"Tsk...... Tsk, good stuff! ”

After sorting the crops, Tang Ming was very satisfied, judging from the appearance alone, these things were well preserved, and he believed that as long as he succeeded in hybridization, these things would be the foundation of his life in the future. Qian and the addition of officials to the knight are just floating clouds, didn't you say that accompanying the king is like accompanying the tiger? Besides, although Zhu Di is a wise emperor, his temper is as famous as his wisdom.

"It's worth forty taels to buy these things, as long as Brother Li gives me four months, these things will not only increase in value by hundreds of times. Wait and see, you and I will rely on these things in the future to become an official and enter the knighthood, leave me an acre of the best field, and allocate more than a dozen good farmers to farm, brother, I'm ready to do a big job, hahaha....... Tang Ming stared at the sorted crops and laughed.

The most fertile field near the creek was occupied by Tang Ming, three cows were busy on it, and more than a dozen farming experts who were coming with Li Ba couldn't be idle for a moment under Tang Ming's command. The whole piece of land was divided into three pieces, all kinds of corn, sweet potatoes and potatoes, for the sake of safety, Tang Ming simply built a grass hut in the field and lived in it.

A dozen soldiers were also sent to guard it at night to prevent it from being spoiled by some animals. Tang Ming is now devoting himself to this great cause, and even Li Ba came here several times to ask him what he was doing with these things, but he was directly coaxed away, and he also told him not to bother him if there was no major matter.

Once people do things seriously, time always flies, and the crops in the field have bloomed unconsciously. Tang Ming now doesn't have to go to the field himself, and all of them are handed over to more than a dozen good farmers to manage. By this time he had stuffed everything he could teach into their heads.

Every day, Tang Ming took Xiaobai to walk around the field and inspect and inspect. In addition, he set up a small table in front of the thatched house where he lived, drank a little wine leisurely, and lived the life of a small landlord.

Li Ba is very happy today, since he has hundreds of cattle and horses, and has cultivated hundreds of acres of land, the wheat planted is growing well, as long as there are no natural disasters and man-made disasters in the next month. There will definitely be a good harvest this year, so for this reason, he specially asked someone to get a few side dishes today to find Tang Mingxiao to have a few drinks.

"Hahaha...... Brother, see what I have brought? From afar, Li Ba laughed and showed the lunch box he was carrying.

Sitting in the rocking chair of his own design basking in the warm sun, hearing this, Tang Ming just raised his eyes to look at Li Ba, and then ignored him. This guy doesn't know if he's addicted to drinking, so he will get some side dishes here every once in a while to drink, and he is afraid that his brother will be lonely to be his companion.

Tang Ming's reaction Li Ba had long been accustomed to it, and after setting up the side dishes well, he went into the house and took out a jar of wine, poured a bowl for each person, and drank it dry without greeting.

"Ahh I said brother, the more you drink this wine, the more energetic you are, next time if the overseer gives us a reward, we must ask him for dozens of more jars of this wine, and drink it energetically! Li Ba wiped his mouth and said with emotion.

Li Ba's amount of alcohol has grown a lot during this time, and he used to get dizzy when he drank half a jar of wine, but now there is no problem with three jars. In order to keep the few remaining jars of wine from being drunk by Li Ba, Tang Ming turned over and got up, and drank half a bowl in one gulp, and then said with disdain: "Don't keep worrying about these jars of wine, the supervisor seems to have gone to the island again recently, don't catch the cattle and horses there at once, I hope he can think of such a thing as killing chickens and taking eggs." I estimate that there should be a holy decree in the next two days, and the identity of you and me, a hundred households, should also be upgraded. ”

"A liter?"

Li Ba was stunned for a moment, shook his head and sighed: "How easy it is to talk about!" Since I joined the army as a teenager, I have followed His Majesty to fight the country, although I have not made any great achievements, but I have fought more than 20 large and small battles in the past ten years. Living with the blood of the enemy is only a small Weihaiwei hundred, and it is not easy to rise to another level. ”

"But brother, why don't you follow the overseer to Jingshi, what's the use of guarding these crops here, if you follow the superintendent in Tianjin, with your wisdom and intelligence, you will definitely be promoted." After Li Ba finished speaking, he sullenly killed another bowl of wine.

Tang Ming smiled when he heard this, stretched out his hand and pointed to the green fields in front of him, and said proudly: "These things are priceless treasures, as long as you wait another month to harvest, if nothing else, these things can make me Ming no hungry people in the future, when the population will grow, the national strength will be unprecedentedly strong." ”

"Smack!"

Li Ba slammed the bowl in his hand on the table, looking incredulous: "Brother, where do you start with this, you dare to say this with these extraneous things!" ”

"Hehe, you think I'm just joking around guarding these things day and night, although you and my brother are the hundred households of Weihaiwei, but in this place where birds don't, everyone is still so poor that they jingle. As long as this thing is successfully planted, it will be presented to His Majesty at that time, let alone money, and it is estimated that it will not be difficult to be knighted. ”

Tang Ming said this, he couldn't wait for Li Ba's response for a long time, and turned his head curiously, only to see this guy suddenly jumped up, jumped directly over the table, stretched out his big hand to grab his neck and shook it fiercely.

After extorting a confession through torture, Li Ba was satisfied to let go of Tang Ming, who was already dying. Patrolling the ground with small square steps, the more he looked, the more excited he became, and suddenly turned around and left, and hurried back after a while. It's just that he had an extra quilt in his hand, threw it on Tang Ming's bed, and muttered to himself: "This thing is more valuable than life, so that you, a powerless person, can guard it, what if there is a case?" ”

Tang Ming lay on the rocking chair and rolled his eyes, he was almost cut off by Li Ba, and he swore fiercely in his heart: "Lao Tzu must exercise, Lao Tzu must exercise!" ”