In fact, Zhu Junyang's Zhuangzi, although it is not recorded in Xiaocao's name, is now similar to hers. Houshan sold it to her at a low price, and the land in Zhuangzi was arranged by her, and the personnel in Zhuangzi were at her disposal. The stewards and subordinates of the manor have secretly respected and obeyed her as a mistress. Of course, this also has a lot to do with her personal ability and personality charm.

Although there are many flowers planted in the back mountain, they are still in short supply, so Xiaocao openly buys all kinds of flowers and petals from all over the country, and even develops to the south of the Yangtze River. Zhu Junyang specially added a boat to the fleet to purchase flowers for Yu Xiaocao.

They discussed that the thousands of acres of fertile land on the Zhuangzi would be planted with greenhouse vegetables and melons and fruits in winter, and all flowers would be planted in the spring. Coupled with the hundreds of acres of sloping land on the back mountain, it should be barely enough, right? If it wasn't enough, Zhu Junyang pondered buying a few nearby Zhuangzi at a high price......

Yu Xiaocao has been busy with the affairs of the beauty and health club all spring, of course, she has not forgotten her responsibilities, and the affairs of the Huangzhuang are also taken into account. At the beginning of spring, the greenhouse was dismantled and early spring vegetables were planted.

Although the vegetable farmers in the suburbs of Beijing also planted vegetables in the spring, they did not know. Huangzhuang doesn't know if it is contaminated with the dragon spirit of the royal family, and the vegetables produced look fresh and lush compared to ordinary vegetable farmers, and the taste is much better.

Therefore, the vegetable shops under Zhu Junyang's name sell vegetables that are much more expensive than ordinary vegetable farmers. Even so, those noisy eunuchs, aristocratic families and wealthy businessmen all competed to buy vegetables from vegetable and fruit shops.

Ordinary people in Beijing are naturally reluctant to spend several times the price to buy the same vegetables. Therefore, there is still a market for the vegetables of vegetable farmers in the suburbs of Beijing. The vegetables produced in Huangzhuang have gradually become "aristocratic vegetables" exclusively for the upper class. It's not about competing with the people.

Gradually, the weather got hot. People changed their jackets and put on light summer clothes. Thousands of acres of winter wheat on the Huangzhuang are full and huge, like a carpet paved with gold bricks. The experienced old tenants in Zhuangzi, guarding the golden wheat fields, smiled so much that the wrinkles in the corners of his eyes deepened.

I have planted crops for most of my life, and I have never seen such a big and full ear of wheat, and this year is definitely a bumper harvest, and their tenants have a better life! Although the wheat in the Zhuangzi was owned by the royal family, the income of the tenants was still linked to the harvest of the fields. The income of the tenants would be converted into other grain or silver money according to the output.

In the past, when Miss Yu didn't come, the tenants in the Huangzhuang were envied, and the emperor was kind and loving to the people, so he naturally would not be harsh to the tenants in the Huangzhuang. Last fall, under the leadership of Ms. Yu, corn production reached a new high, and the income of every household doubled compared to previous years. This spring, looking at the momentum of this winter wheat, it will definitely not be worse than last autumn. In other words, the income in one year is better than in previous two or even three years!

Therefore, when it comes time to harvest the winter wheat, the tenants are full of energy, men, women and children go into battle together, cutting and cutting, tying and picking...... Even the children followed behind with small baskets to pick up ears of wheat. These tenants are all experienced old farmers, and they know that the dealer receives it in the warehouse, and it is his own. This year's winter wheat is growing so well, they can't afford to go wrong during the harvest!

When thousands of acres of winter wheat were cut, dried, and loaded into warehouses, the tenant farmers who were busy harvesting day and night were relieved. Steward Wang and Liu Shangshu of the Household Department, together with the officials in charge of agricultural affairs in the Household Department, could not wait to start calculating the yield of winter wheat.

Liu Shangshu was so excited that his whole body trembled, seven hundred catties!! The average yield per mu actually reached 700 catties, which was a step higher than the output of Tanggu last year. In this era when the average yield per mu is only two or three hundred catties, the yield of seven hundred catties is simply an unimaginable myth!!

When the output statistics were presented to the emperor's imperial case, the yield per mu on Tanggu's side was also counted, which was not much different from Huangzhuang. However, when Xiaocao was harvested last year, some particularly large ears of wheat were selected and planted on a few acres of land. The ears of winter wheat on that field are one-third larger than the normal ears of wheat, and the yield has created a miracle of 900 catties!

Above the court, the emperor held a full and huge ear of wheat, and said excitedly to the civil and military officials: "Have you seen it, this is an ear of wheat with a yield of 900 catties per mu, if you use it as a seed, the yield will definitely not be bad!" Just imagine, if all the wheat in the north reaches such a yield, will we still have hungry people in the Ming Dynasty? Will anyone still be hungry? Will anyone still fall into the grass because they can't survive?? Why are the people of the Ming Dynasty worried about living and working in peace and contentment, and why are the rivers and mountains of the Ming Dynasty not stable like a mountain? The county lord of Jin'an is indeed my capable minister. Now all Aiqing, do you still think that I am disturbing the supergang by sealing a little girl as an official? Aiqing, do you still think that a woman is an official Si Chen? ”

There was silence in the court, and those ministers who strongly opposed Yu Xiaocao as an official at the beginning lowered their heads, feeling that their faces were being beaten! The emperor has always been meritocracy, and at the beginning, he was also opposed by half of the court, and he arbitrarily promoted the little peasant girl from a peasant family, so as not to bury a genius in farming!!

After the emperor ascended the throne, in order to save the treasury expenses, the palace has been using the previous dynasty, and some remote palaces have been deserted, and they are reluctant to take silver to repair. In order not to waste money and money, even the triennial draft has been canceled, and the harem even has the queen, no more than ten masters! The longevity of the emperor and the queen can be simplified, and the cost is no more than 1,000 taels of silver, which is not as good as the birthday of a wealthy businessman.

The reason why the royal family is so frugal is naturally because the treasury is not abundant. In the nearly ten years since the emperor ascended the throne, he has been diligent in government and loving the people, encouraging land reclamation, attaching importance to farming, and reducing taxes again and again, giving the people who have suffered from the disasters of war a chance to breathe. Even so, people in many places still can't fill their stomachs. At the end of the day, the yield of grain is too low! At the end of the year, after paying the rent of the acre, the rest can only barely eat, and if there is a natural or man-made disaster, there is no surplus food and you must not go hungry.

If the yield per mu is increased by three or even four times, even if the tenants who rent the land for planting, after paying the rent, they will not be able to eat the rest. Isn't this exactly what the rulers are looking for? The hundreds of officials in the court, the military generals set the country, and the civil ministers ruled the country, but what can really stabilize the country is precisely a little girl that everyone has not been able to look up to!!

Now, the ministers are really not convinced! Lord Xiaoyu used her extraordinary ability to win the recognition of civil and military officials, and gradually became well-known to the people!

The high-yielding wheat seeds were initially reserved for cultivation in Huangzhuang next year, and the rest were sold to the poor people in the north at the price of ordinary grains. In order to prevent it from being monopolized by some landlords and gentry, the imperial court sent ministers to preside over the sale of grain varieties in various places.

The total land of Huangzhuang and Tang Guyu's Zhuangzi is only four or five thousand mu, and the yield per mu is only more than three million catties of seeds according to an average of 700. One mu of land can only supply more than 200,000 mu of land according to the sowing amount of 15 catties. For the 600 million acres of cultivated land in the Ming Dynasty, it is not enough, far from enough!!

The emperor asked the secret guard to quietly count the suburbs of Beijing and the surrounding states and counties, the Zhuangzi belonging to officials and wealthy businessmen, the total cultivated area is more than 100,000 mu, if these Zhuangzi are united to breed, then the good seeds produced next year can supply more than 9 million mu of land!! In this way, the popularization of high-yield grain cultivation in the north is one step closer!

The emperor asked the chief governor of Su Ran to gather these people and announce that the imperial court would expropriate their land. Of course, they are not used in vain, the grain is distributed by the imperial court, and the harvested grain can only be sold to the imperial court, and the imperial court purchases them uniformly at the price of ten wen and one catty.

The price of wheat on the market is only five cents a catty, and the owners of these Zhuangzi are profitable, so what else do they disagree with? The imperial court signed a ten-year agreement with the master of Zhuangzi, and what to plant and how to plant in these ten years is up to the court. At harvest time, the imperial court will send commissioners to go over to make unified purchases.

Due to the different crops planted by each village, there are winter wheat and spring sowing, which is more messy. Therefore, the contract time is calculated from the time when the season is harvested in the autumn and the winter wheat is sown.

After the winter wheat harvest, both Huangzhuang and Tanggu Zhuangzi were in full swing to plant corn and potatoes. In the northeast and northwest where the climate environment is harsh and the land is poor, these crops are more experimental. Last year, many villages on the outskirts of Beijing came to Beijing to buy corn seeds, and in the spring, they were anxious to sow them. Feedback was received that the corn was growing well and that the exact yield would not be known until autumn.

The Zhuangzi in the two places already had experience in planting corn, and Yu Xiaocao walked around the well at the head of the Zhuangzi field before planting, raised the concentration of the aura that had been lightened in it, and pretended to walk a few laps on the ridge with his hands behind his back. Mission accomplished!

At this time, the peaches and plums in the mountains behind Zhuangzi began to ripen one after another. Due to the urgency of the fruit tree seedlings, the varieties of peaches are different, and a few peach branches are grafted from Dongshan Village, and the peaches produced are large and sweet. Others include sweet, crisp and delicious white peaches, red and juicy blood peaches, and crisp and sweet yellow peaches. Regardless of the variety, the peaches bear so much that they bend the branches.

As soon as the peaches are ripe, they are transported to Yangjun Wang's boutique fruit and vegetable store, where they are packaged in gift boxes and sold at a high price. Fortunately, those who are willing to buy vegetables and fruits in boutique fruit and vegetable stores are not bad for money. The peaches in the back mountain of Huangzhuang, no matter what kind of type, are bigger than the fists of adult men, not to mention the taste.