After several discussions, the deacons decided to let the emperor be at ease for a few days, if one day the emperor was forced to abandon the government like the emperor, and jumped out of the palace to look for flowers and ask willows, wouldn't it be worse, and besides, the emperor was doing a good job in Xiangyi. Therefore, the next day, he sent Qiao Kun, the head of the household department, to lead the team, and the Si Nongjian Siqing and a cadre set off to Xiangyi to meet the emperor, of course, they also sent people to send some urgent tasks to be approved, and also brought some daily things.

Zhao Ta and others came to help, demarcated several fields and asked them to record the harvest process throughout the process, weigh the numbers, count the yield, and guide the autumn harvest. And he himself went out early and returned late to soak in the field, personally participated in the harvesting and drying of crops in the field, ate and drank in the field, and he was tired and lost weight, but his mood was very good and his interest was very high, which made people feel that he was happier than being an emperor.

In the absence of modern irrigation facilities, chemical fertilizers and pesticides, the yield of corn reaches between 190 catties and 230 catties, the yield can be said to be very low in later generations, but in ancient times it can be called high yield, which is equivalent to a higher yield in spring millet.

In previous years, most of the dry land was idle, but this year, Zhao asked everyone to reuse the land and plant winter wheat, preparing to change the rice-wheat rotation to wheat and corn rotation. Because the introduction of maize is more significant to improve land utilization, it can become an important crop in rotation with wheat, spring millet or sorghum. At the same time, many mountainous sandy lands that were not conducive to the growth of crops in the past can be developed, thereby increasing the area of cultivated land, and also has a certain effect on improving the yield per unit area.

Combine both. The introduction of maize can promote the increase of total grain production and provide more food for the society. To alleviate the contradictions caused by long-term food shortages. With the expansion of maize cultivation area, the hilly areas south of the Yangtze River basin that used to be idle for a long time and the dry land that are not suitable for rice cultivation have been rapidly developed and utilized. At the same time, in the vast area north of the Yellow River, it can also gradually replace the original low-yield crops and become the main early-ground crops.

The yield of peanuts reached the highest yield per mu of 200 catties, marking the basic success of the introduction, and then the Great Song Dynasty people not only had one more delicacy on the table, but also could provide high-quality vegetable oil and rich protein, and the residues after processing could also be used to make high-quality animal feed. Peanut cultivation is a way to make full use of some wasteland, and it can also improve soil quality, and in many places it can mature twice a year. A lot of potential.

The most surprising thing is the sweet potato, the yield per mu has reached 5,000 catties, which not only makes Zhao Ta very excited, but also the people are very surprised. This kind of thing is best known to the emperor, because sweet potatoes are not contested for land, hillside dry gardens, seaside sand fields can be planted. The yield is high, and it can be used as a substitute for food to satisfy hunger, and it can be used as half a year old food. In bad years, sweet potatoes play a greater role. Its high productivity can save the population from starvation.

The areas where the Great Song Dynasty is located in the south of the Yangtze River, Jiangbei, northwest and southwest can be planted, and planting can be promoted, which not only solves the food problem of the people, but also saves the fertile land for planting grain and replanting cash crops. Develop a commodity economy. In addition to being edible, sweet potatoes can also be used as a raw material for sugar and alcohol, and in some areas the prohibition can be lifted.

Rejoicing. Zhao ordered the selection of improved varieties and the promotion of corn, sweet potatoes and peanuts next year to Gyeonggi 4th Road, Hebei 2nd Road and parts of Jiangnan. Promote in the form of first point and then later. Each state and county should establish demonstration areas and select experienced farmers to plant. Accumulate experience, select and breed good seeds, and then plant them on a large scale. In the implementation, it is necessary to avoid the use of coercive measures, but to encourage farmers to plant by reducing and reducing taxes; At the same time, it is necessary to guard against impatient and blind large-scale planting, so as to avoid a large-scale reduction in grain production caused by lack of experience, resulting in artificial famine and causing panic and turmoil.

Zhao Ta knew that the emergence and development of every new thing would not be smooth sailing, and people would often take a cautious wait-and-see attitude, so while promoting planting, he also organized people to compile the "New Agricultural Classic" under his auspices, and edited and printed the sowing, field management and harvesting of these new crops, as well as storage and several simple and easy ways to eat them.

At the same time, the accompanying imperial chefs had already used these new crops as ingredients to develop new recipes under the guidance of the emperor, because Zhao Ta knew that as long as these things appeared at the imperial banquet, within a few days the ministers in Beijing would appear on the tables of the ministers in Beijing, and these meals would soon become popular in the capital, and then spread throughout the country with the caravans and officials who left the capital, until they reached the dining table of every household. No matter what things are going on in ancient and modern times, the upward and downward effects are the best way to promote them......

There are two days left before the Mid-Autumn Festival, and Beijing has sent people to urge the emperor to return to Beijing several times, but Zhao Ta sent them back, without the slightest intention of returning. The two children are already familiar with the children in the house, and they play in the Zhuangzi every day, and Zhao Ta does not prohibit it, and he will not even send his attendants to follow, leaving them to mess around by themselves. Without the restraint of adults, the two children are crazy, and they don't even go home to eat, and of course they won't be hungry.

Several concubines also took advantage of this rare opportunity to go out of the house to the 'commercial street' on the wharf and Zhuangzi, see the liveliness, take a look at the freshness, sit on the restaurant, and taste the local food, Zhao Xin became their tour guide at this time.

"Sister, why do all the restaurants here have more signboards of 'Wangfu Private Cuisine', could it be that the chefs here are all from the Wangfu, and buns and bone broth can also be called Wangfu cuisine?" The Mid-Autumn Festival is the day when the new wine of the Great Song Dynasty is on the market, so all shops and restaurants will be decorated to welcome this day, and it is much more lively than usual.

"It's just a trend of power, and I want to do business in the name of His Majesty!" Zhu Shuzhen pursed her lips and said.

"In fact, these restaurants and restaurants have some relationship with Fuzhong, and some restaurants are the property of Fuzhong." Zhao Xin ignored the queen's disdain and said, "When the official family first came, this was just an abandoned horse farm in the household department, hundreds of tenants who were leaving, dozens of acres of dry land, and extremely desolate. And the official family's rent and tenant rent are only enough to barely maintain the operation of the house, if he wants to do things, he must have enough funds, so he used the money from the queen mother to build the mansion to repair the river and open canals to build a wharf, workshop, and winery! ”

"That doesn't have anything to do with the palace?" Li Xiaoxiao said.

"At that time, when the canal was being built, the official family not only paid the tenants who worked, but also took care of the food. Digging earth and laying stones is heavy physical work, the official family will kill pigs and sheep every day, and boil bones into soup, because he is too young to do heavy work, and he cooks by himself, so it is popular. Later, after the wharf was built, because the state and county here did not dare to set up cards to collect taxes, the merchants stopped here to unload their goods, and gradually prospered, and the official family built shops and restaurants along the street and rented them to merchants. There are craftsmen in the Zhuangzi who also want to do it, but they don't have the money to buy furniture and pay rent, so the official family uses the method of first use and then collect after the decoration is completed, and sends the chefs in the house to teach cooking, and he also creates dozens of new dishes, which are changed to steaming and cooking to stir-frying, so they all hang up the guise of private dishes in the palace! ”

"Oh, I see, the name of private cuisine is not worth it, and the official family had such a good heart when he was a child!" Li Xiaoxiao didn't know much about the emperor's past, and now she said with a sigh.

"Yes, at that time, the official family and our little servants ate the same meal, did everything themselves, and were equally generous to the servants in the house, thinking that he was only the same size as Qian'er at that time, but he knew so many things and did so many big things, which is really admirable from the bottom of my heart, so don't look at the young age of the official family, but no one in the mansion or in the village dares to take the official family as a child, and he is looking for ideas about things!" Zhao Xin thought about what he felt back then, but he had experienced a lot of things, and he had presided over the affairs of Yuanzhou, so he understood how difficult it was for the official family back then.

"Qian'er only grew up in the palace, if you have this opportunity, you will definitely be able to achieve a career!" Zhu Shuzhen said that Zhao Xin's comparison with their father and son seemed to touch her sore spot.

"Yes, dragons give birth to dragons, phoenixes give birth to phoenixes, Qian'er will definitely be able to achieve the atmosphere!" What a character Yu Liyan was, he saw the queen's weakness and said with a smile.

"The official family must have been very funny at that time, and the children had to pretend to be adults, it must have been very funny!" Li Xiaoxiao didn't seem to notice anything, and clapped her hands and laughed without any scheming.

"Shhhh Zhao Xin hurriedly covered Li Xiaoxiao's mouth, looked around nervously and said softly.

"Sister, what's wrong? Not a joke! Li Xiaoxiao said in surprise.

"Hmph, don't you know that Lu Dao was in this restaurant many years ago, and a few famous scholars were almost killed because of a sentence of 'Huangkou Xiaoer', and the people of the entire Zhuangzi flocked to it at that time, if it weren't for the official family to mobilize the personal guards and the society to stop them, those people would have been drowned by spit. So here, you must not say that the official family is bad, even if it is a joke, you can't say it casually, they don't care who you are, if you dare to say bad things about the official, that is their biggest enemy! Zhao Xin nodded at her head and pointed at her and said.

"Oh, it's so serious!" Li Xiaoxiao stuck out her tongue and said, "No wonder the official family is relieved that we can go out of the house casually, the children are in the wild in Zhuangzi, it turns out that the people here can be called the guards of the official family!" ”

"You just know the way, the official family gave an order, even if there is a mountain of swords and a sea of fire in front of them, the old and young here will not frown and rush forward, they have long regarded the official family as their closest person, can you do it if you ask yourself?" Zhao Xin said seriously, and several people were silent after hearing this...... (To be continued......)