Zhuangzi's harvest this year is much better than in previous years, in addition to the wind and rain, but also thanks to the princess for the manure recipe.

After harvesting and weighing, Uncle Wang's face was wrinkled.

"The yield of rice per mu is three stones, and the fields are fertile, and those full of three stones are about to overflow. That's almost a stone more than in previous years. All right! There is hope for such a day! ”

When Xu Yin heard this, the corners of her mouth twitched slightly:

With a yield of 300 catties per mu, it is said that there is hope? In the future, the peasant uncle will cry.

It is still her experimental field to compete for qi, three acres of rice field, planted six kinds of rice, namely glutinous rice, long-grain fragrant, green stem rice, rouge rice, pearl rice and Panjin royal rice.

Of course, the imperial rice she planted is a high-yield and high-quality seed produced by the system, and it has nothing to do with the imperial rice eaten by the emperor of the current dynasty.

Therefore, she omitted the word Yumi and called it Panjin Rice.

After harvesting, they are threshed, and weighed after threshing.

The highest yield is undoubtedly pearl rice, which seems to be very suitable for southern farming, with five and a half stones harvested in just half an acre.

The second was the rouge rice that surprised her, and half an acre of land was harvested full of five stones.

She remembered that the yield of rouge rice in the world was not very high, and it seemed that the yield per mu was only five or six hundred catties.

She tried planting this time, mainly because she wanted to eat it herself, and she was hungry.

Unexpectedly, the yield per mu broke the record, and the harvest of half an acre of field reached the yield of one mu in later generations.

Knowing that the seeds produced by the system are high-yielding, but even she didn't expect such a high yield.

Looking at glutinous rice, long-grain incense, and Panjin rice, half an acre of land is harvested with four stones, four and a half stones, and five stones.

Converted into a yield per mu, it is almost between 800 and 1,000 catties.

Panjin rice is said to be co-cultivated with lake crabs, and has the same principle as rice fish: rice crab protection, crab eating insect bait, and crab manure fertilizing the field.

Xu Yin pondered that she could try it next time, maybe she could increase her output a little more.

In contrast, the yield of Bijiao rice is the lowest, with only three and a half stones harvested in half an acre.

But Rao felt that the yield was low, and Uncle Wang and the others on the side were collectively dumbfounded.

The harvest of half an acre of land actually caught up with the output of their one acre!

So what pearl rice, rouge rice has doubled!

What is this concept?

After a long moment of silly silence, it boiled.

The yield per mu is more than 10 stones!

Not to mention the Nanban, the vast Central Plains has never heard of such a high yield of rice.

Looking at the whole Yanhua, it must be unique!

"Princess......

Uncle Wang was so excited that tears flickered, and he stopped talking.

I want to ask if there is any mystery in this, and I am afraid that if I say the wrong thing, I will displease the nobles.

Xu Yin smiled: "Do you want to know how such a high yield is grown?" In fact, this is not the grain with the highest yield, and when the autumn harvest is completed, sweet potatoes and potatoes are harvested, you will be even more surprised. ”

As soon as the sweet potatoes and 4,000 catties of potatoes with a yield of up to 3,000 catties per mu came out, they were shocked by every minute, and they didn't feel how brilliant the rice was.

"At the end of the day, it's the seed." Xu Yin explained to them, "The high yield has a lot to do with the seeds. ”

"The seeds in my experimental field were bought at a high price from Hu Shang, and the high-yielding seeds were selected and cultivated among the best. In addition, the fertilizer from the new manure method is nutritious for crops and is not easy to grow insects.

But don't worry, after screening these high-yielding rice, leave a big and full one for you to make the next crop of rice, some more, you can also exchange some to the villages outside.

The rice harvested in the next season will also be screened according to this method and promoted one by one, and one day, our land in Nanban will be planted with high-yield seeds. The people of the Nanban will soon be able to eat enough and will no longer worry about food. ”

Wang Bo and the others listened proudly, as if they saw the blueprint drawn by Xu Yin.

Immediately afterwards, they knelt down and kowtowed to thank him.

At this time, everyone felt in their hearts that the princess must be a fairy sent by God to save them.

Xu Yin came this time, not only to see the yield per mu of rice to boost morale, but also to try the waterwheel.

There is a river in the middle of Zhuangzi, and the river is still relatively open, which provides her with convenience.

She asked the accompanying carpenter to direct the men to install the waterwheel, assemble the scrapers and the bucket, and the motor was still on the wagon, guarded by the guards, and then let them move it down when it was almost time.

In fact, the waterwheel can run without an electric motor, but it requires rickshaw water, and with an electric motor, there is still a solar motor that can store energy and work with sunlight, which completely liberates manpower.

The motor is equipped with a strong and weak two-speed control switch, which can control the irrigation speed and time at any time.

The ten-meter-high waterwheel took half a day to install, and Xu Yin didn't go back to the palace at noon, so she had a light meal in Zhuangzi.

There is a courtyard for the lord's family to rest, and there are flowers and fruit trees planted in the front yard and behind the house, and there is a delicate swing under the pomegranate tree.

It's said to be a light meal, but it's actually quite hearty.

Uncle Wang's wife and two daughters-in-law made a table of good dishes, the main dishes were stewed chicken with mixed mushrooms, fish in sour soup, pan-fried pork belly, and a few stir-fried seasonal vegetables.

Ordinary and not ordinary peasant dishes, but they have a hometown flavor that the imperial chef can't make.

After eating, I was a little lazy, and I thought it was stuffy in the house when I took a nap, so I simply asked Dongxue to move the recliner to the shade of the tree in the backyard, squinted and took a nap.

Half-asleep, half-awake, I heard a cheer.

"Mama, what's going on out there?"

"Princess, the thing you brought with you called a waterwheel has been installed."

Mama Feng took a look halfway, and was shocked by the tall waterwheel erected, and her eyes were still hard to hide her excitement when she spoke.

She had been wondering before: why did the princess like farming?

This has to be shelved in Beijing, I am afraid that it will become the laughing stock of the palace. As a princess, the dignified mother of Jinnan Palace, she should ......

Mama Feng thought about the daily life of those noble ladies with heads and faces in Beijing, and it seemed that they were all guarding the back house and fighting openly and secretly with the jealous concubines.

But there is no side room in the Jinnan Mansion so far, and every time the prince returns to the house from outside, he goes to the main courtyard to see the princess for the first time, and the most discussed thing with the princess is farming.

Thinking about it this way, there is nothing wrong with her own princess liking farming.

From this moment on, Mama Feng no longer used the style of those noblewomen in Beijing to persuade the princess with all her heart.

Xu Yin heard from her grandmother that the waterwheel had been installed and couldn't wait to go over and see it.

Uncle Wang and the others were looking at the strange thing around the waterwheel, and when they saw her coming, they hurriedly stepped forward and asked, "Princess, can you use it?" ”

"Hmm."

Xu Yin taught him how to control the motor and made him press the switch.

The waterwheel then started slowly.

Buckets are then filled with water and raised step by step, reaching the highest position, when they tilt and pour water into the aqueduct, which flows down the aqueduct into the fields to be irrigated.

The whole process is hands-free.

The only thing that needs to be done is to turn it on and off, or adjust the speed or slowness.

People were freed from carrying water for irrigation, and the quyuan plough was also being promoted, so that there was more time to reclaim wasteland.

Once again, the tenant farmers were stunned.