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The sea ships were opened, and the first person to get on the thief ship was Li Chengqian.

The boy also threw all the money on the boat.

Silly!

What's even more stupid is that this kid even thought of opening a new project at this time, or using the name of the imperial court to pay for it himself.

At first, Lao Li was surprised that after Li Chengqian's money was used by the thief ship, he was still so rich?

Now that Li Chengqian himself has been exposed, it turns out that he is also short of money, but just now he opened Haikou and said that he did not need the court to pay for it, and now it is difficult to talk about money, so he has to talk about land.

Lao Li sneered twice, hum, see if you are impulsive in the future.

The court is like this, if you help them work for free, then they will be happy.

If you want money and land, then they will have to negotiate.

For such a face, Li Chengqian despised it.

At this time, a eunuch ran in and said a few words in Li Chengqian's ear.

When he heard this, his eyes couldn't help but be happy, it was great.

After the eunuch went down, Li Chengqian stood up and said to Lao Li:

"Back to my father, my mother just asked the inner servant to pass the word, and in the future, the funds of the Agricultural College will be borne by the East Palace and the Inner Mansion on behalf of the royal family. In addition, the Hanlian Courtyard next to the Hibiscus Pond has been empty, so why not be used as a campus for the College of Agriculture? ”

Well, it's better to be a mother, knowing that Li Chengqian was short of money at this time, he actually came to send money and land.

After listening to Li Chengqian's words, the Hanlian Yuan is also royal, so in this way, the money does not need to be from the court, and the land does not need to be from the court, so there is no need to negotiate.

The ministers all looked at Lao Li, and Lao Li saw that "everyone is looking forward to it". So I agreed.

In this way, the matter of the Agricultural College is finalized.

After going down to the court. Li Chengqian followed Duan Lun to inspect the departments in charge of agriculture and crop research under the Ministry of Industry.

Duan Lun looked very shy all the way. Li Chengqian was very strange, but when he arrived at the agricultural department, he realized why he was shy.

It's like the worst building in the slums of prosperous Chang'an, the roof tiles are in tatters, and I'm afraid that it will leak on rainy days, so the people who live here patch the roof with thatch!

"This, this...... Is it a department of the imperial court? Li Chengqian's eyes widened and he said in surprise.

Duan Lun nodded shyly.

When I walked in again, I happened to meet two old farmers with mud legs. When they saw Duan Lun Shangshu and Li Chengqian, the crown prince, the two of them couldn't help but be stunned, and their eyes showed confusion.

"Are you ......," asked an old farmer.

Another farmer's eyes were startled, and he said in surprise: "You are Duan Shangshu!?" ”

Duan Lun was also stunned, and when he heard that someone finally recognized him, he hurriedly responded: "Well, I am Duan Lun." ”

"Ahh - "I didn't expect it to be really Shangshu coming."

The two of them hurriedly saluted.

"Fan has seen Duan Shangshu!"

"Chai has seen Duan Shangshu!"

Duan Lun hurriedly waved his hand and said, "In front of you, this is His Royal Highness the Crown Prince!" ”

Fan Chai and the others were even more surprised at this time, after Duan Lun coughed. They hurriedly saluted.

Li Chengqian's surprise at this time was no less than theirs.

He asked in disbelief: "The two peasant uncles are officials of the Ministry of Industry?" ”

Fan nodded and said, "I'm just a small official who makes crops." ”

Hearing the affirmative reply, Li Chengqian turned his head. Looking at Duan Lun in disbelief, you, the secretary of the Ministry of Industry, don't even know you. You're good enough!

Duan Lun opened his mouth to explain to Li Chengqian.

Li Chengqian waved his hand, but peeked at the peasants and said that he wanted to go inside and take a look.

Got inside. Li Chengqian met seven or eight people, who were still in the agricultural genus. Some of them went out to work. Most of the people I saw were old and thin, and they looked uglier than the officials outside.

In the corner of the yard, there are rows of seeds of crops, and when I look at it, they are rice seeds.

Li Chengqian nodded.

"What seeds are these?" Li Chengqian asked.

"These are good seeds that were harvested in various parts of the country a year ago, and after planting, they must be planted to determine that they are really good, and then they will be distributed to others to plant." A person in charge surnamed Wei said to Li Chengqian.

"What's your name?" Li Chengqian asked.

"Single name Suo." He said.

Hearing this name, Li Chengqian almost laughed. But I managed to hold back.

He went on to ask, "What about these seeds?" ”

"They are all excellent seeds, and the yield per mu is one or two percent more than that of the rice planted now."

One or two percent, ten percent and twenty percent, that's pretty good!

Hearing this, Li Chengqian asked strangely: "Why don't you distribute such good seeds so that the people's crops can be more productive?" ”

Wei Suo said helplessly: "These seeds can't be retained, and if they are retained, there will be no first yield, but I'm afraid that they will be worse than ordinary rice!" ”

Then he explained, it turns out that Datang has high-yield rice, and Datang is agriculture-oriented, so he is still very concerned about agriculture, and any good seeds in the country will be sent to Chang'an.

The previous three crops of rice have all been there.

But for the crops to be promoted in the Tang Dynasty, high yield is a standard, and stability is the most important.

This is not like in later generations, when farmers want to plant rice, they go to the seed station to buy a bag of seeds, and go straight home to plant them. But this was not the case in the Tang Dynasty, and after they planted the first year, they had to keep a batch of rice for their own planting as seeds for the second planting.

After planting these excellent seeds sent from all over the country for one year, the seeds left behind will not have the yield of the first year, and after a few years, the yield will be even worse than that of ordinary rice.

This also becomes that the court has excellent seeds, but the people can't enjoy them.

"Then you can't let the people come here once a year to buy seeds?" Li Chengqian asked.

Wei Suo sighed and said, "There are not enough seeds to sell here, and a large area needs to sell seeds together. This requires a lot of manpower and material resources, which is not something that a few of us can do. ”

Oh. In this way, there is a lack of manpower and material resources!

"Looks like that's what I need to do!" Li Chengqian said with emotion.

Wei Suo listened confused. What is Your Highness talking about?

Duan Lun finally had the time to exert his sense of presence at this time.

He told Li Chengqian that he was going to set up an agricultural college, and at this moment, he was shocked by Wei Suo, and by the group of old, ugly, dark, and thin peasant uncles behind Wei Suo.

Here we have to talk about the constituents of the genus Agricultural.

The Tang Dynasty elected officials and judged people by their appearance. Often, only learning is secondary, and appearance is put first.

This idea is very strange, but they do it like this, thinking that to be an official is to have a good image, and not to have a good image. Which common people would like it, being so ugly that people are disgusted or disgusted at first sight, and what prestige is there?

Therefore, the talented and good-looking group of people went up to become officials. And even if there are high-level talents and high learning, no one looks good, they are all hidden by the snow.

And the agricultural genus has become a place where Xue hides one of these bad-looking officials with great talents.

So when Li Chengqian saw these people, he couldn't help but want to say that this was really a concentration camp for ugly people.

It was such a concentration camp. Wei Suo never thought that Li Chengqian, the crown prince, would come to manage them?

As for the important task of how to explain to these uncivilized ugly people in the sub-concentration camp, Li Chengqian handed it over to Duan Lun. Let him explain.

Li Chengqian walked to the seed bag and touched it.

Wei Suo followed him, and Li Chengqian asked, "Did Taizhou send the seeds of the three crops of rice over?" ”

"Yes. Yes, it was delivered in early spring. Wei Suo nodded.

Li Chengqian pointed to a row of bags in the corner of the wall. "Which ones?" he asked. ”

"Back to Your Highness, I'm not here. In the warehouse. "These are just a small number of seeds sent from some small places, and more seeds are in the warehouse." ”

Hearing this, Li Chengqian nodded.

He had a plan in mind.

Over there, Duan Lun had already roughly explained the establishment of the Agricultural College and the whereabouts of the agricultural genera in the future.

"Huh? ――Are we all going to move to the Agricultural College? The old men exclaimed.

Duan Lun nodded: "Yes, that's it." ”

For a while, the old men all felt pleasantly surprised.

It used to be a forgotten department, but now it is a direct subordinate of the prince. It's like a sparrow turning into a phoenix!

When they were happy, Li Chengqian told them that after the Hanlian Courtyard was cleaned up, all the people and things here were moved over.

Furong Garden is a royal garden, and it is a very famous place in Chang'an. In later generations, Lao Li gave this place to the dead fat man King Wei, and he built a beautiful hibiscus pond embankment, which became a scene in Chang'an, "King Wei Embankment". Of course, the people here know that place.

Moving from this leaky slum to live in the beautiful hibiscus pond is a real sparrow turned into a phoenix!

"Everyone, prepare well, from now on, you are a member of the Agricultural College, I am your superintendent, you can tell me if you have any needs in the future. And what we have to do is the same thing that everyone is doing now, which is to find good seeds for the people, and let the people plant high-yield crops. Li Chengqian said impassionedly, "I heard that you have already preserved some excellent seeds, I don't know what the quality of these seeds is, Wei Suo, you pick out one or two of the excellent seeds, as well as the three seasons of rice seeds, and hand them over to me, I will plant one myself, and see if the seeds are good!" ”

The old men were very excited to hear the previous words, and the latter words, the old men thought that His Royal Highness was a person who did practical things.

However, Wei Suo was stunned, they are all doing this experimental field, isn't His Highness repeating it now?

"Your Highness, the ministers will definitely do a good job in the test field, please rest assured!"

"You're wrong!"

…… (To be continued......)

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