After Zheng Xiu finished talking about what he knew about corn, he saw that the empress's eyes began to light up.

Immediately, there was a joy in my heart, and there was a play.

However, since he has said the benefits of corn, he must also talk about the disadvantages and let the empress pay attention to it.

After all, corn is more complex in genetics, and there are many variations.

Moreover, in the conventional breeding process, there is a long cycle and a large coefficient of variation, which will affect the growth and development of offspring.

And corn is a crop that's too susceptible to disease compared to potatoes.

Corn large spot, corn small spot, corn round spot, corn brown spot, corn sheath blight, etc......

The types of diseases that can occur in corn vary depending on the environment.

And Zheng Xiu is not sure that the corn in this imperial garden is the kind of improved corn in later generations.

If it is a corn variety that has been improved by later generations, then it is very convenient to grow, and there is no need to be afraid of large-scale insect plagues and genetic diseases.

But if it is not an improved variety in later generations, for the sake of safety, it is necessary to send more people to ensure that there is no problem with these corns.

After Zheng Xiu finally introduced the advantages and disadvantages of corn to the empress, the empress also called someone to summon the gardener who took care of the corn.

This time, when the gardeners who cultivated the corn were gathered, there was not as bizarre and twisted the story as the last time.

The gardener only explained his care methods and planting experience, and then withdrew.

Because his most important task is not to take care of the corn, but to take care of the longevity flower, and even take care of the corn is still incidental.

But before he left, he said that he had collected a lot of corn kernels over the years.

But because after all, it was a royal crop that grew from the Imperial Garden, so he didn't dare to take it without permission, and kept it in the warehouse of the Imperial Garden.

If the empress is in a hurry, she can send someone to bring the corn kernels that she had collected before, without waiting for the plants to mature.

When the empress heard this, she was overjoyed, and immediately sent someone to follow him to the warehouse to get the corn kernels that he had collected.

really waited until a handful of corn kernels were sent to the empress and Zheng Xiu, and the two of them were about to close their mouths in surprise.

Because the gardener said he liked to collect the by-products of those plants, the leaves, the roots, the fallen petals, and so on.

So it would be impossible if the gardener would save some corn kernels, but those corn kernels were about to fill a vat.

I know how much this gardener has collected, which is likely to be the accumulation of more than ten years by this gardener.

The empress was overjoyed when she saw it, and with these seeds, even if the survival rate of some of them was relatively long, it was not high.

But it can also greatly reduce the time for breeding and planting, and the promotion of this crop can be accelerated.

So the empress rewarded the gardener with a batch of silver on the spot, and by the way promoted him to a small manager, who could manage part of the affairs of the imperial garden.

After rewarding the gardener, the empress immediately asked the peasant bachelor who studied flowers and plants in the imperial garden to come here, and told them all the things Zheng Xiu had said before.

Those peasant scholars had never heard of this crop before, and they were stunned one by one.

There are even two direct empresses, don't be delusional, you should take care of the dragon body, don't overwork.

With the act of potatoes, it is already a blessing for all the people in the world, and the empress is the king of a country.

Please don't be too ambitious, think that any plant in your imperial garden can bring amazing yields per acre, and don't have such unnecessary illusions.

Before they could finish speaking, the gardener who had just finished the reward immediately appeared and said.

After answering some of the doubts they had just raised, they made those peasant scholars believe what the empress said.

But when they did find out that the gardener might be right, they went crazy again.

After all, it is a new type of crop that can benefit all people.

As the cultivators of this crop, they will definitely go down in history when the time comes, and other farmer bachelors will be impressed by their farm bachelors in Daxia.

From now on, they don't have to stare at the life-prolonging flower that they don't know if it's useful or not.

Instead, they can study this new crop, and even they can name those diseases with their own names, and name those cultivation methods.

Famous in history, forever, in the present, in the present!

At this moment, whether it is those elderly farmer bachelors, or those who have just begun to study.

All of them had a passion that they had never had before, even when they faced potatoes before.

The empress was also very satisfied to see them so excited and excited, the current Great Xia was no longer the previous Great Xia.

The current Great Xia does not raise idlers, since they are willing to study, then they will add some rewards.

Those who can take the lead in cultivating plant seedlings, those who can take the lead in studying the law of growth, and those who can increase crop yields.

Anyway, this time let them plant these corn kernels.

By the way, carefully study the habits of these plants, and summarize a set of effective methods as much as possible.

To make sure that by the time we get next year, we can grow as many of these crops as possible and then distribute them to the people.

Presumably, even if it is not possible to plant potatoes and corn throughout the summer after a year, it should not be a problem for farmers near Jingshi to plant this.

When the time comes, the grain will be purchased at market prices and then distributed to more remote areas.

At that time, there should not be so many people in Great Xia who died of hunger.

Even when the time comes, Great Xia can give birth to more people, feed more soldiers, eat the demographic dividend, and have more people available, forming a virtuous circle and constantly expanding outward.

After the empress arranged everything, she turned her eyes to Zheng Xiu on the side, ready to reward herself for Aiqing, who gave up her small family to take care of everyone and sacrifice herself to achieve all the people.

Then I found that the dishes on the table had been eaten cleanly.

And then for a moment I didn't want to reward him.

He really loves the people, he doesn't take me seriously, and he really doesn't take me seriously.

Zheng Xiu saw that the empress was staring at those empty plates, and instantly thought that the empress could say nothing and didn't eat anything just now.

"Why don't I treat you to something rare."

"Rare things? Okay, I also want to see if Aiqing's rare things can be compared to this table of food. ”

The empress was in a good mood, and it was rare to joke with Zheng Xiu.

When Zheng Xiu heard the empress say this, he asked someone to borrow a large iron pot from the imperial dining room, and put hot oil in it, plus some sugar, and put some corn kernels in it.

Then put the lid on the pot and start waiting quietly.

The empress was distressed on the side, Zheng Xiu's dozens of corn kernels went down, and there would be some areas where corn could not be planted next year.

It's just that after the pot began to crackle, the empress couldn't stop looking curiously.

Then she found that the corn kernels in the pot kept exploding, from small yellow corn kernels to white popcorn.

By the time Zheng Xiu lifted the lid of the pot, the popcorn came out of the oven with the steaming steam.

The sweet smell instantly filled the surroundings, and the empress was not too hot, so she picked up one and put it in her mouth.

"It is indeed a rare object, presumably only Zheng Qing can continue to discover these rare objects."

"In that case, Zheng Xiu might as well take a look at what else can be used in my imperial garden."

After Zheng Xiu heard this, he immediately searched in the Imperial Garden, after all, he hadn't forgotten it.

In addition to two food crops, he also had a cash crop that he didn't find.

If cotton can be found and planted in large quantities, then it can ensure the cold protection of the people of Great Xia.

So Zheng Xiu searched in this imperial garden several times, but this time even if he had already searched very carefully.

But I still haven't found those white flowers.