In addition to personal contacts, Zhou Bai did not stay in the county for so long in vain, he brought back a total of 1,500 taels of silver.

The year's cold set has been sold simultaneously in one county and seven counties, and the current sales situation is good, so Zhou Bai was able to advance the dividend of 1,000 taels of silver.

In addition, Zhou Bai also received the reward for suppressing bandits just issued by the imperial court from Ji Hongzhe, and the fifteen thieves received not only the title, but also the reward that has always been clearly stipulated.

The famous Green Forest Giants are counted separately, and these Jin State cavalry who act as horse thieves are all thirty taels per person.

The bounty of 452 heads, plus the rescue of Hu Yanhe, a robbed "wealthy merchant", was encouraged by the imperial court, so there were an additional fifty taels.

1,500 taels of silver, no matter what, it is enough for the inner government to last for a while, after all, he only eats and shelters the soldiers now, and he has not yet paid a fortune.

With financial support, the government immediately expanded its staff, because Zhou Bai had too many plans for the future.

In addition to the scribes served by Tong Sheng, Chen Zhongbang set up a new agricultural bureau and a Tiangong Institute at the request of Zhou Bai, and recruited a considerable number of farming experts and craftsmen.

The selection criteria for farming experts are the old farmers with the most outstanding grain harvests in previous years, as well as young people who have been literate but have been rolling in the fields since childhood.

The combination of these two can provide pertinent suggestions for the development of the Agricultural Bureau, which does not have many grain varieties of sweet potatoes, bud rice, and artichokes, and needs to be carefully taken care of by the Agricultural Bureau.

With just one harvest, there will be enough seeds to spread in the new fields next year.

There is also hybrid rice, and Zhou Bai will not let go of it in this life.

Lanxing's Yuan Sheng explained the principle of hybrid rice very thoroughly, because of admiration and good biology, Zhou Bai happened to remember how to cultivate the first generation of hybrid rice.

It's just that Zhou Bai discussed with the old farmers of the Agricultural Bureau for three days and three nights before explaining it to them.

The old farmers were speechless, and the patriarch really said that it was so complicated, and they were worried that they would not recognize male and female flowers?

Just by looking at the size of the flower, they can tell the difference.

Finally, the Agricultural Bureau summarized a complete set of procedures, that is, when the rice blooms, remove the immature male flowers to prevent self-inbreeding.

At this time, the remaining female flowers can be used as the female parent and crossed with other paternal parents to produce hybrids.

In order to have more hybrid varieties, Zhou Bai specially told Chen Zhongbang not to be afraid of spending money, and the rice from the southern states should also be bought, and the rice in their north is only drought tolerant, but the yield is much worse than that of the southern rice.

The goal of hybrid rice in the north is to produce high-yielding rice in upland with as little irrigation as possible.

Of course, when it comes to how to make grain yields high, Zhou Bai still has a method that is being tested in the Tiangong Academy, and that is the fertilizer that the traverser always has available.

For example, today's engineering institute does not have the ability to excel in the craftsman, so it does not force itself to climb any firearms technology tree, and temporarily stops at collecting nitrate and sulfur.

Now Zhou Bai only asked them to study two things, one was chemical fertilizer, and the other was to make high-grade wine.

Zhou Bai can provide them with ideas in both directions, nitrogen fertilizer and phosphorus fertilizer, then find someone with this kind of thing to try one by one.

cow dung, soybeans, plaster; Urine, plaster, water...... Closed fermentation.

Anyway, a few combinations were given, one by one, and in the end, which one had a good effect and which one was popularized.

As for high-grade wine, although Zhou Bai doesn't drink alcohol and doesn't know how to brew it, he knows how to purify it.

It is nothing more than the re-steaming of low-alcohol liquor, as well as the emphasis on the distillation process when making wine.

The north is cold, not without spirits, but because food is precious, it is often not too wasteful to make wine.

And as long as Zhou Bai can play a good combination of punches here, there will be no shortage of food in the Zhou family in the future, so he can also brew a high degree of grain wine, and plunder a lot of gold and silver treasures in the cold north.

……

More than a month later.

Next to Zhou Bai's own manor, there are now many more houses, and some yards surrounded by fences and bricks.

With the school field as the core, including the surrounding fields, it has become the exclusive base of the inner government, and the village protection team patrols closely and does not let idle people enter.

On the state beach surrounded by streams, a comprehensive test field was circled here, and Zhou Bai estimated that the time was almost up, so he took a group of henchmen to the test field to check it out.

Wang Liangtian is now in high spirits, because of his relationship with Fu Bo, and Zhou Bai's explanation is really in place, and now he has become the head of the Agricultural Bureau.

He is in charge of a group of old farmers, and he not only has a monthly salary, but also a performance bonus.

Today, Zhou Bai came to accept it, not only about his own bonus, but also about whether he can earn a bonus for his old brothers.

There are so many post-graduates in Yingtian Hall who want to be motivated every day, which makes him very stressed.

However, Wang Liangtian is still very confident in his work, and he is not timid in the face of trouble, and he stepped forward very diligently and loudly to introduce the experimental field to Zhou Bai and them.

"Boss, Chen Zhangshi, you see, these ten acres of rice fields have not been fertilized, and the ten acres here have been applied with a generation of chemical fertilizer in advance."

"The test of the second-generation chemical fertilizer can not catch up with the spring planting, and it has been tested separately in the bud rice field on the other side.

"And here, the same is true for sweet potatoes and artichokes, they all do as you instruct, just what is it called, there must be a contrast!"

As far as the eye can see, the field is green and verdant, but the plants in the fertilizer field are obviously tall and straight, and the rice flowers are obviously fuller.

If the luck of the farmland foundation is also very straightforward, if the ten acres of ordinary rice fields are a trace of pale white and floating luck, then the ten acres of fertilizer rice fields are more and more condensed.

The wisps of white gas seemed to sense Zhou Bai's arrival, and swarmed in, gathering under the clouds, like a thick base dragging the tall tower above.

If luck behaves like this, it means that he has succeeded in his experiment and has done nothing wrong.

The use of grain and chemical fertilizers in Fanbang is an important weapon for him to achieve his great cause in the future, and it is a "heavy treasure" that can consolidate the foundation of luck.

Chen Zhongbang dragged the rice plants of the two rice fields to compare them carefully, and gasped, he was keenly aware of the value.

This can at least increase production by 30%, and if the third and fourth generations of fertilizers are developed in the future, 50% is also predictable.

"Lord Mingming, such secret things must not be leaked, at least according to your plan, not in the last few years." Chen Zhongbang praised his wisdom as he glanced at his followers.

At first, Chen Zhongbang didn't understand why Zhou Bai sent troops to guard the farmland, this was not a waste of manpower, but now he finally understood why the lord was the lord.

"Well, the record, the level of confidentiality is raised to another level, and the formula can only be known by less than five people, but if there is a leak, it will be dealt with according to family law."

"The experimental field of the Agricultural Bureau is well maintained, and the collective third-class merit is recorded once, and the Tiangong Institute has meritorious service in the research and development of chemical fertilizers, and the collective third-class merit is recorded once, and the bonuses are paid in full this month."

At this point, the big calculation of farming is preliminarily formed.

Zhou Yuan, who had been silent, was anxious, and stepped forward to hug his fists and ask for battle: "Young master, our team to protect the village should also give a chance to make meritorious contributions, the county government has just issued an order to suppress bandits, do you think?" ”

In the school field just not far away, the sound of drills was boiling in the sky, and Zhou Bai observed carefully, there was actually a hidden image of military condensation, but it seemed that something was missing.