Chapter 40: The Disaster of Shanglin Yuan
I'm going to go to Shanglin Yuan, and I heard that there are all the strange flowers and plants that the Tang people can collect.
Therefore, Yun Chu planned to go to Shanglin Yuan early in the morning, where to stay all day, enter from the door open, and come out before closing.
Because time is limited, the people who go there must be elite soldiers.
Di Renjie was naturally unanimously elected, and Cui Shi thought that he had done a lot of business related to flowers and trees over the years, and he must be selected.
Yu Xiurong heard that there was an orchid called "Acacia" in Shanglin Garden, and she had long been lovesick for this orchid, and she had to go.
Gongsun felt that she couldn't do without going to the Royal Forest Garden, so she went too.
Liu Yi has been serving the Yun family for many years, and this time it can be regarded as a reward for taking him to Shanglin Yuan.
As for the real experts, that is, the farmers, because of their identity as the head of Qian, people are unlucky and are not allowed to enter.
The Shanglin Garden of the Tang Dynasty is on the edge of Qujiang Pond, because it cannot be compared with Liu Che's Shanglin Garden within a radius of hundreds of miles, I don't know if it is Li Yuan or Li Er, who gave Shanglin Yuan a name called "Yichun Garden" with a slight Qinglou atmosphere.
Datang's Shanglin Garden, that is, Yichun Garden, although it covers an area of more than 1,000 acres, Yun Chu still feels a little childish when he stands in front of the door.
The gatekeeper is Jin Wuwei, and at first glance it is Jin Wuwei, who is not very mixed, and the armor on his body obviously does not fit, as if it was stolen or borrowed.
The Tang knife on his waist looked like it was rusty in the scabbard, and he was slapped twice by Yun Chu, and he hadn't pulled the knife out yet.
What's wrong, a waist card, only one person is allowed to enter, what is the reason, you must know that Lin Ziping will be taking thirty or forty people to feast in Jinchangfang.
After pumping enough mouths, and giving a little more money, the Jin Wuwei guards who were not dressed properly allowed Yun Chu and his party to enter.
In fact, Yun Chu regretted slapping someone's mouth, which caused him to have some snot on his hands, and he washed his hands several times in a sticky way before he felt more comfortable.
I knew that I would be able to pass by giving money, as for letting Lin Ziping's guy take advantage of himself.
"The purpose of our trip is seeds, as long as it is a seed that you think is useful, useful things can be dug up home, just ask for more, not good, I hope you will work harder, and it is best to get all the seeds in Shanglin Yuan home with one or several books."
Yun Chu was in front of the team and made a simple mobilization, and everyone screamed and rushed into the royal garden.
In August, it is a good time for all autumn crops to mature, Yun Chu only walked a few steps, and saw a long soybean clip, the soybean pods here are very different from the soybean pods seen outside, the soybean pods here basically have three beans, not only the pods bear more, but each pod also has an extra bean, I don't have to say, this is a good thing.
The soybean pods have withered and yellowed, which is a sign of maturity, and if they are not picked, these beans will fall into the ground, so Yun Chu burrowed into the soybean field and began to frantically pick the dried pods.
Di Renjie stood in a late-maturing wheat field, the wheat here was different from the wheat in the rest of Chang'an, it matured nearly three months late, and each ear of wheat was full of ripe ears of wheat.
After picking 180 finger-long ears of wheat, Di Renjie found that the words barley were written on the ground.
No wonder the ears of wheat here did not look much like what he saw on a daily basis, so he threw away the ears of barley that he had worked so hard to collect and looked for a new target.
After Yun Chu got half a basket of pods, he got up and went to the grain field, which was obviously also sown after harvesting a crop of wheat.
Thinking of the millet porridge with sticky teeth, Yun Chu used a knife to constantly cut those half-tied ears of grain.
The ripe ears of grain are very modest, always keeping their heads down, Yun Chu fought from the end of the field all the way to the end of the field, as long as it was the ears of grain he fancied, he didn't let go of any of them.
Yu Xiurong went to a place full of flowers early, and Gongsun climbed a fruit tree early, rode on the branch, and did not pick pears, but gnawed on the pears growing on the tree, and finally left only the pear core, and then turned to the battlefield.
Liu Yiguang knew Grandpa Tian, Grandpa Tian's indiscriminate shouting and running around, he wanted everything, but in the end he was reluctant to move anything.
The rice in the rice field was also ripe, and although Cui Shi didn't understand why these rice were ripening so late, her subconscious told her that it was definitely a good thing, so she took off her shoes and socks and went into the rice field, specifically targeting the fattest and plump ears of rice.
As for Naha, she went after the butterflies with her basket.
When Yun Chu came out of the grain field, he saw a snow-white cotton, this thing he was too familiar with, when he was young, he didn't pick cotton less, picking cotton even became an instinct in his life, even if he closed his eyes, he could pick cotton, and he would not be pricked by the sharp thorns of cotton peaches after drying.
This thing is the nightmare of Yun Chu's youth.
Obviously, there was not a single tree left on the first day, and when I finally woke up, I looked at the world again, and it was still a white patch, and the cotton peach that had not bloomed last night bloomed again.
Yun Chu found that some cotton had been in full bloom for a long time, and a lot of cotton had not been picked in time, and had turned yellow after being wet by dew and rain.
Just as Di Renjie was passing by, he saw that Yun Chu seemed to want to kill all the cotton on a few acres of land here, so he jumped off the field to help Yun Chu pick it.
"It seems that you have already decided what you want to plant in Wannian County, are you sure you want this thing?"
"That's right, growing cotton should be five times more profitable than growing grain."
"You grow crops that you can sell for money, and you don't want to grow food.
Have you ever thought about the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, a few famous strategies about food? ”
Yun Chu stood up and threw a handful of cotton with cotton seeds into the basket and said, "Are you talking about Guan Zhong's strategy of buying deer and making Chu?"
Or is it Guan Zhong's planned service to reduce Lu Liang?
Or is it Guan Zhong's buying fox fur to descend to the country?
Or is it the technique of Goujian pseudo-seed to destroy Wu? ”
Di Renjie said: "Yes, I'm not worried that you will grow this kind of thing that can be sold for money in Wannian County, but not grow grain, what I'm worried about is that when people find out that you grow cotton and make a fortune, everyone wants to give up grain and plant cotton instead."
When the time comes, there will be a shortage of food and a bumper cotton harvest, how will you deal with it? ”
Yun Chu laughed and said: "At that time, I will exchange grain for cotton, because they have nothing to eat, they can only obediently exchange a lot of cotton for a little grain in my hand." ”
Di Renjie stood up and said, "They are your comrades, not your enemies, you shouldn't deal with them like this." ”
Yun Chu said with a smile: "If you don't eat a trench, you won't be able to grow wise, those stupid people, they will remember it for a long time after a few hungry meals, they will adjust the ratio of cotton fields to grain land, just like now, people have a very good grasp of the ratio of mulberry fields to grain fields, and cotton fields are the same." ”
Di Renjie said sadly: "This is the idea of a dead Taoist friend who is not a dead poor dao." ”
Yun Chu grabbed the cotton casually and said, "No one will remember the lessons of blood that our ancestors summed up in the past.
Such an obvious example, they should not be able to see it, what can I do, even if they are hungry in the future, they will bring it upon themselves.
And I, from the moment the cotton is sown, I will wantonly buy enough food, at least enough food for 470,000 people in Wannian County to eat for a year, and then I will vigorously plant cotton.
Of course, I don't plant cotton on all the fields, I just take turns growing cotton on those lands.
The reason why cotton is planted is because the land in Wannian County has been reclaimed for thousands of years, the fertility has declined, and there is some salinity in the land, and although cotton is not the most salt-tolerant crop, it is also a crop that can effectively absorb the salinity of the land.
When we plant cotton in Wannian County for a few years, let the cotton absorb the salinity in the land almost as much, and then we will go back to planting grain.
At that time, I thought, there must be a lot of people who grow cotton, and we don't grow it, and we buy cotton from them at the reserve price. ”
Di Renjie saw that Yun Chu had already made up his mind, and it didn't seem like a whim, so he called Liu Yi, who was kneeling on the ground and bowing to every royal plant, to pick cotton together.
In a matter of moments, the cotton plucked by the three men was spread all over the ground, and the wet cotton dried quickly under the scorching sun, and then Naha happily threw herself on the pile of things that looked like white clouds...... Roll.
At noon, Yun Chu's eyes still fell on the cotton field, and he was going to come back tomorrow and continue to pick all the cotton.
Yu Xiurong found the empty valley orchid she wanted as she wished, and Gongsun also tasted every kind of fruit in the royal garden with his mouth, especially the fruit called Pinpo fruit was the most popular among her, so she dug up four or five saplings of Pinpo fruit that had not yet grown up on the spot.
Yun Chu also thought that this mother-in-law had found an apple, and after seeing the Pinpo fruit fruit brought by Gongsun, after taking a bite, he found that this thing was not related to the apple, but more like Nai Li, slightly bitter, and not sweet enough.
Cui's came back with a basket on his back, Yun Chu saw the rice in her basket, so he took down a plant, peeled it off and looked at it, and then threw it into his mouth, the rice grains were blue and sticky, this should be a kind of glutinous rice, the yield may not be high, but it should be a very delicious kind of rice.
The Yun family's paddy field on the edge of the Qujiang River should be able to grow this kind of rice.
Just when a group of people were eating all kinds of delicacies from Jinchangfang in the Royal Shanglin Garden, ready to rest and then loot on a larger scale.
Yun Chu saw Emperor Li Zhi get down from the carriage, and then the curtain of the carriage was also lifted, revealing Wu Mei's strange smiling face that seemed to be enthusiastic, but actually rejected thousands of miles away.
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