Chapter 541: The Empress Dowager Wants to Abolish the Emperor (19)

The next day's court meeting was very short, because everyone knew that the most important thing of the day was the autumn harvest ceremony, and not to say anything else at the court meeting.

Therefore, the court meeting ended in less than a quarter of an hour, and then all the ministers went to Huangzhuang to participate in the autumn harvest under the leadership of Wen Renlian.

Arbor did not go.

Because she has not seen high-yield grain varieties, and it is not that she has not presided over the autumn harvest ceremony.

I'm not interested in this kind of thing at all.

Why go out and bask in the sun for a day.

However, in the eyes of some literati, the relationship between the Empress Dowager and the Empress Dowager is not good, and even such an important autumn harvest ceremony is unwilling to come forward at the same time, so several important ministers of the court and the central government glanced at each other and nodded their heads one after another, thinking that the plan discussed overnight yesterday was still a head.

Maybe it will be successful.

Of course, there are heads and there are heads.

At this time, it was obviously not appropriate to make such a suggestion suddenly, so they could only put the plan aside for the time being and honestly participate in the autumn harvest ceremony.

Although the autumn harvest ceremony this time is quite important, the specific process is still similar to the past, which is to let people say words of gratitude to heaven and earth and the emperor's sage, and then announce the start.

The only difference is that the people who harvest are different, in the past, all kinds of crops in the Huangzhuang were harvested by the hired farmers of the Huangzhuang itself, but this time, in order to facilitate the promotion and planting of improved varieties in the second half of the year, Wen Renlian specially spent the price of 20 Wen a day, and hired thousands of ordinary farmers from around the capital to participate.

In order to let them see the high yield of these grains, so that as long as they go back and publicize it a little, then the promotion of new high-yield grains will be much smoother, at least in the area of the imperial capital.

In this way, it will not take a few years to spread high-yield grain to the whole country.

With the announcement of the start of the harvest, the hired farmers were allowed to enter the field, and saw the sea of rice fluttering in the wind like golden waves up close, these farmers are relatively old, over thirty or forty years old, at least ten years of farming farmers, other abilities may not have, but there is still farming experience.

Therefore, they only got a little closer, and after a little look, they all opened their mouths in surprise, because they knew by looking at the golden ears of rice with their naked eyes that the yield must be extremely high, and anyway, it must be far more than what they had grown themselves.

The first reaction of several people was not to take a sickle to harvest, but to hold the heavy ears of rice with surprise on their faces, carefully groping for the grains on the ears of rice, and estimating the yield per mu.

In many cases, even if some people don't know how to count at all, as long as they have enough experience, they can still estimate the yield per mu of land by weighing at hand and the experience of adulthood.

These old farmers are obviously such people.

After weighing the weight of a whole ear of rice, and then looking at the other ears of rice around him, he immediately understood that the rice yield in this field was at least more than double the yield of their family's rice, and the yield per mu could reach six or seven stones, or even as high as eight stones.

For a while, the harvest had not yet begun.

The old farmer laughed out loud.

Or laugh and cry.

There are even people who want to secretly pick a few handfuls of rice ears into their pockets and take them home to plant.

Although the guards on the side saw it, they only stepped forward to stop it, and said that after the harvest and weighing were completed, they would sell a batch of rice seeds to them at a low price.

Of course, the reason why these guards are so gentle and also explained, obviously because someone told Wen Renlian that she has not forgotten to check the people's feelings in recent years, so she still has some understanding of the psychology of many people, so she has long predicted in advance that there may be old farmers who are worried that these grains will not be spread, so she wants to sneak some back, so as to increase their own mu yield, so she has already notified the guards in advance.

The guards had already been told in advance not to do anything to the peasants, and only reminded them.

After that, it's time to grab it.

With the cooperation of thousands of people, it took less than an hour to harvest nearly 5,000 acres of land, and at the same time, one acre of land was evenly produced from it, and all the rice grown on that acre of land was beaten down and weighed directly.

The weight of this kind of wet rice will definitely not be too accurate, but they can't wait here for a few days to wait for the wet rice to dry before weighing, so they can weigh it first, and then estimate it according to the weight ratio of normal wet and dry rice, and naturally they can smoothly get the approximate number.

Although the process may be a bit wrong.

But this error is not too big.

Soon, the person in charge of weighing reported the total yield of one acre of land with a trembling voice:

"Niangniang, the yield per mu ...... Nine and a half stones.

If it is dried, it should be able to weigh nearly eight stones, far exceeding the current average yield of three stones per mu. ”

"Dashan, let's sell a little bit of this rice to the people who come to harvest this time.

Don't divide too much per person, just give them enough seeds to plant an acre of land, and sell them at the normal price of seeds. ”

When Wen Renlian heard this data, the corners of her mouth immediately rose involuntarily, she knew that as soon as the news came out, many of her future plans would be stable, so she was naturally very happy.

At this time, the hundred officials also shouted three times for face, and praised her saintliness.

Of course, ordinary people give more face.

The knock on that head is very real, if it weren't for the dirt, it would have been broken.

After the harvest was completed, the yield per mu of rice was determined, and a large number of rainbow farts were harvested, Wen Renlian quickly ended the autumn harvest ceremony and returned to the palace with the relevant people.

In order to expand the scale of cultivation.

The queen mother hugged the little emperor and left, and those ministers and the people who were hired to help naturally would not stay here for a long time, and the ministers all left quickly, each went back to discuss the changes in the next plan, and those people were hugged one by one as treasures after each of them shared an acre of grain, and quickly went home.

After a while, probably not long after lunch, Huangzhuang grew a lot of high-yield grains, and the news that Huangzhuang still had high-yield grains for sale had spread throughout the imperial capital, and even the small villages around the imperial capital.

Everybody's talking about it.

Very lively.