King Jin, who is alias Mu Ziheng, has been in Niutouzhuang since the beginning of spring, personally following Lan Dahai and a group of experienced old farmers to plant seedlings. At this time, he was squatting in the field with a group of old farmers with muddy legs, talking to each other.

In order to earn more credit for himself and live better, Jintong has worked hard. As a mature modern person, she is well aware of the limitations of individual strength, and it is the best practice to be able to make reasonable use of team strength.

The ancients had a lot of wisdom, but in fact, it was not inferior to modern people, but because of the restrictions of the times, they did not expect this kind of operation, so they could not do it.

What Jintong did was to provide ideas, and naturally there were a lot of practical talents to make it for her. Her goal is very clear, to find out the grain with high yield per mu, increase the yield of rice per mu, and then borrow the power of Zheng Qiyan to spread it. And the king of Jin heard Zheng Qiyan say that the Niutouzhuang in Jintong can actually grow rice with a yield of nearly 500 catties per mu, so he disguised himself as the bookkeeper of Zheng Qiyan and the rest of the Zhuangzi, and came to learn from the experience.

Niutouzhuang is only more than 100 miles away from Shangjing, although it is not as cold as the north, but it is also frozen for thousands of miles in winter, and it is impossible to grow crops. After the beginning of spring, the ice and snow melt in March, and rice is only planted in early April, so it can only be harvested once a year, unlike the land of fish and rice in the south of the Yangtze River, which can be harvested twice a year.

Zhao Laosan carefully selected old farmers who were good at farming, selected well-developed farmed rice and wild rice for artificial pollination, and obtained rice with stronger adaptability and higher yield, leaving the seedlings behind. In the second year, the seedlings are planted in fertile soil, and when the seedlings grow to about three inches, they are transplanted.

King Jin followed Lan Dahai throughout the whole process, watching how the farmers took care of the seedlings when they pulled out the first rice stalks, pulled out the weeds in time, and removed the pests. Until the harvest before the Mid-Autumn Festival, the yield per mu was as high as more than 500 catties.

What surprised King Jin even more was that Lan Dahai and others opened up farmland at a high place and planted a crop called "sweet potato", saying that if it is well cared for, it is not a problem to yield more than one or two thousand catties per mu.

The child followed the king of Jin and was overjoyed: it turned out that the king of Jin was in Niutouzhuang, no wonder the Hou Ye wanted to arrange him here! In short, King Jin's safety, he is responsible!

King Jin didn't have time to take care of the child at this time, and his whole mind was on the half acre of land in front of him. Lan Dahai took his two sons, and every time a sweet potato plant came out, he immediately rubbed the soil clean, weighed it, reported the weight, and King Jin personally took the notes.

A vine with more than 20 sweet potatoes grew in the blue sea, and his voice changed with excitement: "Big baby, hurry, hurry, there are ten or twenty catties here!" Boss Lan took the sweet potato, rubbed off the soil with an excited face, and shouted to King Jin: "Mu Ye, twenty-one catties and seven taels, twenty-one catties and seven taels!" ”

The child looked puzzled, and Pan Da, the guard of the King of Jin, explained to the child: "This thing is called sweet potato, and it was brought by the Hou Ye from southern Xinjiang. Mrs. instructed the people in the village to be good at raising them, and a seedling said that it could produce about ten sweet potatoes, weighing seven or eight catties. This year, half an acre of land was planted, and the gross estimate was at least 1,000 catties of yield. ”

"What the hell is this going to do? Eat? ”

"It's just eating! You can eat it! It's filling! Pan Da said and became excited: "One acre of land can produce two thousand catties, Uncle Lan said, this sweet potato is easy to grow, you can grow it anywhere!" Think about it, think about it, if the whole Great Yi Dynasty is planted, who will be hungry? ”

"It's really fake!"

"You're blind! This piece is, you look at the strings of freshly unearthed melons? You can't see it! ”

"No, no, Panda, I was too surprised to react." The child was born hard, so he naturally knew the importance of the people being able to fill their stomachs: "Then, if the entire Great Yi Dynasty planted this sweet potato, wouldn't no one be hungry?" ”

"Needless to say!"

King Jin hurriedly took the time to reply: "Mrs. Jin said that if you take sweet potatoes as the staple food for a long time, people can't stand it, and their bodies are weak and easy to swell. It is still necessary to plant staple foods such as wheat, millet, beans and rice to eat together, and the breeding of chickens, ducks, geese and pigs is also indispensable. ”

Over there, Lan Da shouted: "Nine catties and three taels!" ”

King Jin hurriedly put down the pen to record, and after writing, he continued: "The leaves of this sweet potato can be used as feed for chickens, ducks, pigs, etc., and vigorously promote planting. ”

Lan Dahai took people to carefully pick up all the sweet potatoes, half an acre of land, planted 1,376 plants, at least one plant also produced more than four catties of sweet potatoes, the most of which was about 20 catties, King Jin quickly dialed the abacus: more than 2,763 catties.

With tears in his eyes, he told everyone the number, and immediately cheered.

The old tears of the blue sea fell to the ground, and his hands clenched the soil: "Madam! You said that if this sweet potato is planted successfully, from now on, there will be no hunger in the Great Yi Dynasty! The old slave lived up to your expectations and was done! It's really planted! ”

"There is no more hunger in the Great Yi Dynasty!" King Jin held the counting paper in his hand, and couldn't help but repeat the words of the blue sea, and he also burst into tears.

At night, the whole Niutouzhuang was full of joy.

Zhao Laosan put down ten fat pigs and ten sheep, and the villagers slaughtered pig vegetables in a cauldron while setting up a bonfire to roast the whole sheep.

King Jin took a few personal guards, rolled up his sleeves, and helped the villagers who were already in a hurry even more down-to-earth. In that messy scene, King Jin himself was embarrassed to help any longer, so he paid out of his own pocket and asked Zhao Laosan to add a few more dishes to everyone.

The bursts of meaty fragrance can float for ten miles against the wind, and the tenant farmers who are hungry for Niutouzhuang can't wait to jump in front of Zhao Laosan, and recommend themselves to sign the deed of sale to Jintong as a domestic slave.

After a full meal and wine, a group of people danced, sang and danced until the rooster crowed three times. I don't know who got up, a group of people inexplicably bowed to the rising sun, and praised Jintong in a mess, saying that Jintong was like Guanyin Bodhisattva who saved suffering, beautiful and kind, and omnipotent.

Hearing this, the corners of the child's mouth were grinning, and he couldn't help but complain: "This group of people is crazy, right?" Mrs. Jin is just an introverted woman, how can she be so powerful? ”

King Jin knocked the child with a chestnut: "You have a whole mu of grain of four or five thousand catties!" ”

The child's neck shrank, and he slandered in his heart: That thing was not brought by the Marquis of Pingning from southern Xinjiang! But he didn't dare to show the slightest disrespect on his face.

The seventh master spoiled Jintong's wife in every way, this Niutouzhuang is Jintong's territory, if something is heard by Zheng Qiyan, with Zheng Qiyan's temper, eighty percent of them will rush to beat him. Can't afford to provoke, can afford to hide, he should keep silent.

King Jin sighed with some unfinished feelings: "Mrs. Jin is really a strange woman!" ”