Can I pick cotton? After knowing the news, Huo Guang was slightly surprised for a while.

I always feel that I still made a suggestion to Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty a few days ago to plant cotton!

Unexpectedly.

In the blink of an eye, it was time to pick cotton.

Looking at Yan Yu, who was proud of his figure in front of him, Huo Guang nodded and said with a smile: "Since you have already spit out cotton, you can naturally pick it. Well... Forget it, it's okay to go and see it today."

"That's... It's a long way off." Yan Yu glanced at Huo Guangxin's carriage with some embarrassment.

This look.

He seemed to be asking if he could carry her with him in a carriage.

The big farmer Ling Yan Yi is an honest official, and the general means of transportation rely on two legs, and there is not even a carriage.

Compared with the imperial historian Zhang Tang, it is still excessive.

At the house of the Imperial Doctor, there is still a tattered carriage!

Seeing Miss Yan Yu like this.

I couldn't help but complain in my heart, I am a big official among the three princes and nine secretaries, why don't you deserve a carriage?

Come to think of it.

Huo Guang shook his head and said to Yan Yu, who was three or four years older than him, "If you don't dislike it, put up with it, can you take my carriage over?"

Yan Yu immediately said, "It would be great if I could take Huo Yilang's carriage."

See here.

Huo Guang smiled and said, "Okay, then I'll help you up." The chassis of my carriage is higher than the others, and you are steady."

"Hmm."

After Yan Yu snorted inaudibly, he immediately got into the carriage with the help of Huo Guang.

Subsequently.

Huo Guang also got into the carriage together.

In the Han Dynasty, to have a carriage of one's own, in addition to money, also required a certain status.

Especially like in Chang'an City, a place where every inch of land is valuable.

Inside the carriage.

Huo Guang and Yan Yu sat opposite each other, looking at Yan Yu's uneven figure, he really couldn't help but want to ask what this big farmer Ling Yan Yi usually eats at home.

But then again.

Although Yan Yu's figure is good, in terms of appearance, it is inferior to Dong Xun and Sang Meiren.

Jiang Wanqiu, who is from the Jiang family, is also more beautiful than Yan Yu.

But in general.

It's still a beauty, but it doesn't have that eye-catching feeling.

"Huo Yilang has been staring at my face, is there something on my face?" Yan Yu found that Huo Guang had been staring at his face, and he was slightly angry in his heart, so he asked out loud on purpose.

But Huo Guang is a thick-skinned master.

Coupled with the fact that the other party was sitting in his carriage, he didn't think he was calling it a peek.

Sit in opposite directions!

That's called normal sight, there's no reason to sit in a carriage by yourself, and you have to turn your neck and twist it to make yourself uncomfortable, right?

Of course.

If you think like this in your heart, you will definitely not say this.

Present.

Huo Guang directly changed the topic and said, "Little Lady Yan's face is pure and flawless, and there is nothing dirty about it. Ben Yilang didn't mean to stare at you, but he was just curious, how did you know that I live in a restaurant and came here to look for me?"

Yan Yu immediately replied, "I first went to the General's Mansion and heard that you haven't been back to the General for a long time."

"That, the general's son, Yichun Hou Weibo said you are here."

"I just came here to take a look."

It turned out that Wei Yan said it, no wonder this big girl knows that she lives here!

Huo Guang nodded.

Forthwith.

He then asked, "The Great Nong Ling usually has to take care of the affairs of the salt and iron official camp, and he is distracted. Once he told me that you keep most of the cotton."

"Oh!"

"By the way, cotton is white stacks

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"What do you know about raising cotton from this breeding field?"

is different from the eldest lady with a merchant family background like Sang Meiren.

Yan Yi is a big farmer, and he is an honest official, so he must do everything himself.

Heard!

After the death of his original wife, Yan Yi had no idea of marrying another one.

After all, honest officials have no oil and water at home. Besides, she is still a lot older, what woman would want to live with such a person?

People are very realistic.

Therefore, Yan Yu, who grew up in such a family environment.

Although he was born in a family of eunuchs!

But in fact, like the children of ordinary people's families, he began to do housework at a very young age, and even shared a lot of things for Yan Yi that he needed to undertake as a big farmer.

In a nutshell.

Yan Yu is a very capable woman.

No way.

Honest officials are serious and responsible for court affairs, and they are also good for the people.

But you can't do it both ways.

For your own family, it will be much worse.

When Yan Yu heard Huo Guang's question, he said bluntly, "Huo Yilang, I think the mold planting method you said will be a little cumbersome. The land of the Han Dynasty is no different, it can be planted directly."

"Your so-called mold seems to be a bit redundant."

"Of course, this is a bit presumptuous, and I hope Huo Yilang doesn't mind."

Seeing that he was so straightforward, when he said that there was a problem with the way he planted cotton, Huo Guang also shrugged helplessly.

How can there be a problem with the way that future generations have passed down for thousands of years!

Forthwith.

Huo Guang explained to Yan Yu: "Cotton, like a human when it is young, is very squeamish, and it is not easy to grow in the budding stage when planted directly."

"If Miss Yan Yu doesn't believe it."

"In the coming year, you can try it with cotton seeds, one side can be planted directly in the field, and the other side can be molded and planted."

After hearing this, Yan Yu suddenly laughed and said, "Squeamish? Like a human? The way Huo Yilang spoke was really interesting, how could there be a metaphor for crops to humans, and they have no life!"

"No life? Then why do they blossom and bear fruit, but grow and wither?" Huo Guang asked lightly.

And this sentence asks.

Yan Yu also frowned for a long time, and finally could only sigh and say, "I don't know, maybe Huo Yilang is right!"

Huo Guangzi said to the old god, "It's not that I'm right, but everything in heaven and earth has life!"

「......」

「......」

The two talked and laughed in the carriage, and gradually became acquainted with each other, and they were not as restrained as before.

While talking and laughing, the carriage had arrived at the breeding field where the cotton was planted.

Seeing that a large piece of cotton fruit had dried up and cracked, spitting out white cotton wool, Huo Guang was in a good mood.

If the planting scale is extended to the entire Han Dynasty in the coming year, the cotton harvested will help the people of the Han Dynasty survive the harsh winter, and the population will also rise significantly.

Yan Yu walked up to Huo Guang at this time, pointed to the cotton and asked, "Huo Yilang, you see that the white stacks in this field are already in this situation, can they be picked?"

"Of course you can pick it!" After Huo Guang nodded, he looked around again, but he didn't find Yan Yi's figure, and asked Yan Yu, "What about the Great Agricultural Order, where did your father and the others go?" Didn't you call me over?"

When Yan Yu heard this, he said apologetically: "Father said to come later, now the affairs of the Yantie official camp have not been dealt with, and in addition, there are many problems such as various rice, corn, wheat and so on, so I can't get out for a while."

All right!

A busy man.

Huo Guang was sighing in his heart, when Yan Yusai gave him a basket-shaped bamboo basket and said, "Huo Yilang, it's still early, let's pick some white cotton first!"

"Huh? want

I pick?" Huo Guang looked at Yan Yu for a while, and then complained in a low voice: "If you want Ben Yilang to pick flowers, it's okay to pick cotton."

Yan Yu didn't understand the meaning of picking flowers, and when she saw Huo Guang refusing, she no longer asked Huo Guang to accompany her to pick cotton.

I went down to the cotton field and began to pick it.

Huo Guang squatted next to him and watched.

Picking cotton is a simple but hard job.

There's no need to do it.

And this Yan Yu is indeed very capable of working, the two bamboo baskets were quickly filled, and he laboriously carried them to Huo Guang's side, and said, "Huo Yilang, look at it, is this white cotton made?"

"Yes, of course!"

Huo Guang smiled faintly, took a ball of cotton from the bamboo basket, and sighed: "It's okay to pick cotton, the problem is how to peel the seeds inside from the white cotton, it's not easy to do!"

Yan Yu suddenly frowned and asked, "Huo Yilang can't help it?"

"Nope!"

Huo Guang sighed.

This one.

He really didn't have a good way, after all, in his previous life, the cotton he planted was directly sent to the machine to be milled.

Seeing Huo Guang like this, Yan Yu couldn't help laughing out loud and said, "Ah, it turns out that there are still things that Huo Yilang can't solve, I thought you could solve everything!"

"There's a lot of things I can't solve!" Huo Guang glanced at Yan Yu, but saw that there was a bug crawling in the direction of the ear piercing by the pinna of the other party's ear, presumably a worm that crawled up to his body while picking cotton.

Immediately.

Huo Guang subconsciously reached out to grab it.

It's just that Yan Yu saw Huo Guang stretching out his hand and thought that he was going to do something, so he immediately wanted to hide back with some resistance.

See this scenario.

Huo Guang scolded sharply: "Don't move, there's a bug on you, I'll catch it for you."

"Oh oh..."

A scolding.

Yan Yu really didn't move.

So Huo Guang easily picked off this insect for Yan Yu, and at the same time, in order to prove his innocence, he shook it in front of Yan Yu's eyes and said, "No, I almost crawled into your ear."

"Oh."

Yan Yu seemed to be frightened by Huo Guang's harsh scolding just now, and snorted a little dumbfounded.

But.

She's not afraid of bugs.

After all, she is the daughter of a big farmer, how can she be afraid of insects.

Coincidentally.

The big farmer Ling Yanyi just came over at this time.

And just now!

He heard Huo Guang yelling at his daughter not to move, and now he found that the other party was pinching a small insect to show Yan Yu, he immediately frowned, and said, "Cough! Why does Huo Yilang want to take a worm and scare my daughter?"

"Huh?"

Da Nong Ling said that he scared Yan Yu with insects?

What the heck!

Huo Guang immediately threw away the insect in his hand and moved his throat, thinking about explaining.

This way.

Yan Yu explained for him first: "No, father, Huo Yilang didn't scare me, but just now when I was picking cotton, a bug ran on me, and Huo Yilang took it down for me."

"Body?"

The big farmer's brows were visibly tighter.

Yan Yu saw that his father thought of something that he shouldn't have thought about, and hurriedly defended, "It's not what you think."

However.

The big farmer in the autumn harvest season, how can he have time to care about this, so he waved his hand and said, "As a father, I don't know what you think? In short, don't go beyond the rules."

"Huo Yilang, it's time to get down to business."

"From planting to picking, this white stack can already adapt to the soil of the Han Dynasty."

"Isn't that what you mean?"

"Can we plant nationwide next year?"

Promoting nationwide planting? Next year?

Can be poured

Yes, you can!

But he still needs to be cautious, and then Huo Guang said: "Next year, let's conduct a nationwide pilot, including those counties. The pilot program uses the same method as cotton in Chang'an."

"We now know that the temperature in Chang'an City and the soil in various places are suitable for growing cotton."

"But the temperature conditions are not yet known."

"The territory of our Han Dynasty is vast, and the temperature difference is different from place to place. Presumably, the Great Agricultural Order is also very clear that the temperature difference also has a great impact on the cultivation of crops."

In the beginning.

Huo Guang's cultivation and planting of cotton is three years.

First year!

Chang'an City planted in a small area, try.

The second year!

The entire Han Dynasty was piloted throughout the country.

Year 3!

After finding out the impact of the differences in planting environment on cotton, we can improve the planting methods of cotton in different aspects according to local conditions.

After listening to Huo Guang's words, Da Nong Ling immediately frowned, and said in confusion: "You just said, cotton?"

"Oh, the cotton is the white stack, I took it. I think cotton sounds better than white stacks." Huo Guang said very shamelessly.

But Yan Yi is not a modern person after all.

Listen to Huo Guang's flicker.

He also believed it, and even nodded, saying, "Cotton does sound better than white stacks."

"And."

"Huo Yilang's analysis just now is also very reasonable."

"In this way, I am busy during the day, and Huo Yilang comes to my house as a guest at night, and we talk about this while drinking, how about it?"

At night? He's fine!

Simply.

Huo Guang replied, "Then it's better to be respectful than to obey your fate."

Yan Yi nodded, and then began to dispatch the subordinates of the Great Farmer Order to start picking cotton crops.

Although it is a test field.

However, the land of the Han Dynasty was vast and sparsely populated, and this cotton field was far away from Chang'an City, so the enclosure was very large and a lot of cotton was planted.

And.

There are three experimental fields like this.

Autumn harvest season.

There are not many officials under the Great Farmer Order, so there is naturally a shortage of manpower in picking cotton.

Three fields!

Only two were picked, and the sky was already dark.

At that time, in the northwest border area on the other side, the people of the Han Dynasty were also busy with the autumn harvest.

Although this year's drought is severe.

However, this does not mean that all the northwest regions have no crops, and even some areas where the drought is not severe, under the conditions of sufficient sunshine, the growth of cereals is more abundant than in previous years.

Some old farmers with their dolls and women are busy harvesting or plowing in the fields.

Autumn days.

There is still the scorching heat of summer, so some smart old farmers will wait until the evening to rush to the autumn harvest before the scorching heat fades.

It stands to reason!

As the biggest hidden danger in the border area of the Han Dynasty, the Huns have been sent by the wise and martial Han Emperor Liu Che to drive the army to the depths of Mobei.

There is no longer a royal court of the Huns in Monan.

So.

They were not at all worried that there would be Hun cavalry robbing them of their food.

It's just that?

Is that really the case?

These big men who were busy grabbing the autumn harvest did not notice it.

Under the afterglow of the setting sun.

A group of Hun cavalry with scimitars on their waists, with a hideous expression on their faces, plundered towards the people of the Han Dynasty in the autumn harvest without any scruples.