Zhou Yang was surprised, and the taste in his heart was very complicated. However, after all, he was reluctant to accept the treatment of the emperor, accepted the task, and did a good job.

Later, Yu Xiaocao's orchards spread all over the mountain, and the fruits were sold to the north and south of the Ming Dynasty, when they became famous. Zhou Yang resigned from the errand of Huangzhuang and became the chief steward of the orchard, and his salary was more than twice as high as that of Huangzhuang, and the master also shared half of his profits.

Don't underestimate this half of the profit, many people are poor all their lives, and it is difficult to earn his dividends for a year. made the original colleagues of Huangzhuang very envious! Of course, that's all for later.

The stewards of Huangzhuang are honest and perform their duties, and the fruit trees are also served by special personnel, so Yu Xiaocao concentrates on serving the watermelons on Wang Zhuangzi of Yangjun next door. Because the seedlings were raised late, she asked Xiao Tianshi to shorten the seedling period by one-third. Anyway, there are not many watermelons planted in the suburbs of Beijing, and there is no one like her who grows them by grafting.

When grafting, she asked King Yangjun to choose trustworthy people and teach them the grafting method hand in hand. These people are not tenants recruited by Zhuangzi, but servants of King Jing's mansion, not to mention anything else, loyalty can still be guaranteed.

The watermelon seedlings grafted onto the gourd seedlings are transplanted into the melon fields, and they are irrigated with well water with spiritual power, and the growth is naturally good. Those who secretly laughed at Yu Xiaocao in their hearts for not understanding agriculture and messing around have long lost their contempt. Look at people, break the agricultural time in time, and you can also plant fruit trees and watermelons well, I have to say that you are very good at planting. The emperor made her a farmer, which was indeed a wise decision.

I don't know how many people are in the capital, staring at Huangzhuang. More than two months later, the tenants of Huangzhuang, under the leadership of the steward, were harvesting corn in full swing. can stand in the imperial village, isn't that the old crop style of the old crop? The corn tenants, their faces filled with the joy of the harvest, talked about this year's year.

Liu Shangshu led people to garrison Huangzhuang early in the morning, and when he saw the corn cobs that had been collected, his old face was so smiling that the folds came out. The corn cob is much larger than last year, and the corn grains are full, not to mention that compared with last year's harvest, it is really not a grade.

The corn of the one-acre experimental field was harvested first, and Liu Shangshu personally led people to rub the corn kernels down, and couldn't wait to weigh them on the scale. Hertz! One acre of land actually produced 2,000 catties of grain!! I thought that last year's output of more than 1,000 catties was already a high yield. Compared with this year, I was abused into scum last year. Sure enough, it was a wise decision to let Miss Yu serve as a farmer to manage Huangzhuang!

The officials who were staring at the Huangzhuang and waiting to see the excitement closed their mouths. Most of the officials in the court were opposed to appointing a little girl as a household official. However, the emperor's attitude was resolute, and with the help of the Hubu Shangshu and the King of Yangjun, they did not resolutely oppose it, and they were all waiting for changes.

If this year's output of Huangzhuang is similar to last year, or even worse than last year. They have something to say. After all, the annual scenery is different and the climate is different, so there is a saying that "the common people rely on the sky to eat".

This year's year is not very good, it rarely rains after the beginning of summer, and even the water level of the deep well in Huangzhuang is low to a minimum. After the autumn, there were several heavy rains, which definitely had a certain impact on the growth of crops. The people in the suburbs of Beijing have reduced their grain production by 30% or more, and they thought that the little girl must have been planted.

Unexpectedly, Huangzhuang was not affected by the climate, and the output was much higher than last year. The officials sent by the household department also surprised them with the data they got back. Those farmers who bought corn seeds and went back to plant them also produced more than 1,000 catties. As a result, corn will soon spread in the Northland as a high-yielding crop. Next year, those who line up to buy seeds will probably crowd the grain stores in the capital!

The data from Tang Gu's side was also sent, and the Yu family had nearly 1,000 mu (800 mu of the king of Yangjun was given to Yu Xiaocao, which naturally belonged to the Yu family's Zhuangzi), and more than 1.8 million catties of grain were harvested. In other words, the yield per mu is close to 2,000. Hearing about Tanggu and the surrounding villages, he sent a representative to negotiate with Yu Hai and asked for a high price to buy corn seeds. If the Yu family agrees, corn, a high-yield crop, will be the first to spread in Tangu!

Tanggu is the fief of the king of Yangjun, and the credit for popularizing high-yield crops cannot let the king of Yangjun be monopolized. As a result, in the past few days, the court has become lively, discussing the popularization of corn cultivation in the suburbs of Beijing and surrounding prefectures and counties.

The disturbances in the court really have little to do with Yu Xiaocao, a six-grade petty official. Now she is making a fortune in a muffled voice!

In the summer, Yu Xiaocao tried to plant 100 acres of watermelons in the Zhuangzi next door, and now it is on the market. She roughly estimated that the yield of watermelons per mu this season was more than 8,000 catties. The grafted watermelon seedlings have improved ability to resist diseases and pests, coupled with the spiritual power contained in the soil, so that the people who specialize in serving watermelons on Zhuangzi are very worry-free.

By the time the first batch of watermelons was ripe, the watermelons on the market had already been taken off the market. When the big, sweet watermelons hit the market, they were quickly sold out. In the aftermath of the autumn tiger, what an incomparable feeling it is to eat a piece of sweet and cool watermelon!

In addition, the watermelon on Wang Zhuangzi of Yangjun is not only larger than ordinary watermelon, but the red gourd inside is not separated by those disappointing green and white melon pulps, which is more enjoyable to eat. If this kind of watermelon is put on the market in the summer, there will definitely be no market for those ordinary watermelons. There are sweeter and juicier watermelons, who would be rare that kind of melon buttons that are not enjoyable to eat?

A hundred acres of watermelons is still less, and it is not enough to supply the dignitaries and nobles in the capital. Whether it is a literati party, a drink with friends, a flower viewing party for ladies, or a banquet for ladies, if there is a plate of watermelon fruit plate missing from the table, others will secretly complain in their hearts that the host has neglected them (them). Gradually, the host of the house will find that when the banquet is set up again, the object of the banquet will be pushed back and found all kinds of excuses to shirk. His or her friends are not as close as they used to be......

The sales of watermelons were booming, and Yu Xiaocao was happy for a few days, and he began to get busy again. The plastic film of the Ministry of Industry finally met her requirements, not only with enough toughness, but also with good transparency. Vegetable greenhouses are in full swing.

There are busy figures everywhere in the Imperial Village. In the experimental field, the corn stalks were cut down, the roots of the corn had to be picked out one by one, and the ground had to be deeply ploughed. Yu Xiaocao was directing the construction of vegetable greenhouses while busy breeding winter wheat. It's said to be breeding, but it's just a cat that makes the little mending stone transform and run back and forth in the warehouse a few times to soak the aura into the seeds.

The vegetable greenhouse is also to ask some people from the Ministry of Industry to cooperate, and the support of the roof of the shed has kept the personnel of the Ministry of Industry busy for a while. For vegetable greenhouses, Yu Xiaocao only knows a little about it, relying on the experience of working in a vegetable greenhouse for half a year in her previous life, she is thinking about it while building, and the progress is very slow.

Under the ironmaking technology of this era, the production of steel was even lower. Therefore, don't think about the skeleton of the steel structure, you can only choose bamboo as the skeleton. Bamboo poles and wood are used as arch materials, and after the skeleton is supported, it is covered with plastic film. In winter, the base layer is covered with a good warmth effect.

By the time the winter wheat has been sown, the vegetable greenhouse has been built. In the first year, I lacked experience and only got 100 acres of greenhouse farming. On the Zhuangzi next door, rows of greenhouses have also been built, but people are not used to grow vegetables, but to grow out-of-season watermelons and melons.

What's the most lacking thing in winter? Vegetables and fruits, of course. Vegetables other than radish are cabbage, except cabbage is still radish. As for the fruits, they are dried apples and pears that are stored in the fall. In the past, no matter how rich you were, you couldn't get fresh fruit. Not necessarily this winter!

After the greenhouse was built, Yu Xiaocao paid out of his own pocket to invite experienced vegetable farmers in the neighborhood to serve the vegetables in the greenhouse. Green leafy vegetables have a short growth period, and after sowing seeds, especially seeds with spiritual power, they grow well, and a batch can be harvested in a month.

As for vegetables such as cucumbers, eggplants, beans, tomatoes, etc., they grow faster and better in special greenhouses than in spring. Those hired vegetable farmers were amazed. However, they thought that this was the effect of the greenhouse, and while they were surprised and envious, they also desperately hoped that the imperial court would open up the trade of plastic film, and whether they could also grow such vegetables in the future?

Every year at the end of autumn, when the frost falls, it is the time for people to store autumn vegetables, and the cabbage and radishes are piled up in a cellar to eat for a whole winter. The dignitaries and nobles in Beijing, as soon as this season arrives, try to minimize the banquet, because the dishes are too simple and they can't eat any tricks.

But this year is different! The pattern of the capital is rich in the east and rich in the west, poor in the north and cheap in the south. King Jing's Mansion is in the east and west of the city, and five vegetable and fruit shops have been added. Generally speaking, in late autumn and early winter, such shops will either switch to dry preserved fruits or close their doors. Because there are really no fruits and vegetables to sell! But King Jing's Mansion has opened a lot of new vegetable and fruit shops.

Thinking of the vegetable greenhouses and watermelon greenhouses in Huangzhuang on the outskirts of Beijing, the eyes of dignitaries and wealthy businessmen in Beijing have focused on these shops. Because everyone knows that there are not many vegetables in greenhouses this year, I don't know if they can supply the vegetable consumption of the entire capital.

The fruit and vegetable shop finally opened in anticipation. The first batch to hit the shelves were leafy greens. Fresh spinach, fresh and tender oily lettuce, crisp raw celery, green lettuce, as well as shepherd's cabbage, amaranth, fungus cabbage, pea seedlings, etc., are piled up on the shelves, and the emerald green color makes people love it and want to buy them back.

On the first day of opening, the business of these fruit and vegetable shops was booming. Because it is a limited sale, the purchase of those dignitaries and nobles almost didn't start. Fortunately, the king of Yangjun had seen the pomp and circumstance of the braised vegetable shop, and had the foresight to send guards over to maintain order, so that there was no violent conflict.

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