Hanzhong.

The original Great Song Lizhou Road Transfer Division Yamen has now become the Sichuan Gorge Economic and Strategic Yamen.

That's not the point.

The point is that there are large gardens, pavilions, rockeries and ponds, flowers and trees in the back house of the yamen. Today, with the exception of ponds, which are reserved for irrigation, most of the gardens have been leveled for arable land. The rockery and strange stones were all demolished and sold to the wealthy in the city.

Dean Zhu has dozens of acres of experimental fields on the outskirts of the city, of which 20 acres are used to grow rice, and the rest are cultivated with various vegetables and fruits.

But many times, the experimental fields outside the city are handed over to the students to take care of, because Dean Zhu still has official business every day.

The cultivated land opened up in the back house of the Yamen is specially used to cultivate mung beans!

This thing is placed in the north, and it is an extremely important crop.

Song Zhenzong introduced improved varieties in that year, one was to introduce Champa rice from the south, and the other was to introduce large mung beans from India.

In the Northern Song Dynasty, the traditional Chinese mung bean was called mung bean, and the mung bean introduced from India was called plant bean (many beans and large grains).

Now, Dr. Zhu is trying to crossbreed two kinds of mung beans, which not only retains the properties of Chinese mung beans that are fertile fields, but also retains the high-yield attributes of Indian mung beans.

As early as the Northern and Southern Dynasties, the Chinese ancestors knew that beans could fertilize the fields, and also made a ranking: mung beans are the top, small beans are second, and soybeans are the lowest.

Among the leguminous plants, soybean has the most fertile effect. Zhu Ming was widely used in the Nanxiang Basin for reclamation, mainly taking the value of his "strategic material" and using soybeans to provide protein for the soldiers.

Seeing that he was about to occupy the northern roads, Dean Zhu therefore began to cultivate mung bean varieties.

Mung bean is not only extremely good for fertilizing the field, but also has a short production cycle, the root system can loosen the soil, and the drought resistance is comparable to that of corn, which is suitable for intercropping and rotation of various staple crops.

If interplanted with wheat, it can also increase wheat yields – without the use of chemical fertilizers, mung beans can increase wheat yields by 10%-18%.

The mung bean mung bean masking method only appeared in the Yuan Dynasty and matured in the Ming and Qing dynasties.

If it is popularized in the north, you can imagine how great the effect is!

Early morning.

Zhu Guoxiang, the owner of the entire Sichuan, walked in the experimental field in cloth clothes, followed by male and female servants carrying dung buckets.

Shen Yourong and Wen Xiaomei, also wearing cloth clothes, personally watered the mung bean seedlings.

Mung beans don't need much fertility, so the manure is very thin, and it only has a slight smell.

There is also a little concubine, An Niang, who has just given birth, otherwise she must be in the field.

Wen Xiaomei also held a ruler to measure the height of the bean seedlings, leaf width and other data, and was responsible for recording them in a small notebook every day.

Zhu Guoxiang's wife and two concubines, due to long-term exposure to the ears and eyes, have become half of the agricultural experts.

Not only that, the dignitaries and nobles in Hanzhong Mansion learned that Zhu Xianggong had experimental fields inside and outside the city, and took his wife and concubine to cultivate and breed together, so they were also hungry to learn agricultural knowledge.

They don't want anything else but to have more common topics when they meet Zhu Xianggong!

even let the children of the clan go to learn farming at a young age, and claim to the outside world that they want to cultivate and read heirlooms, but in fact, they simply want to do what they like.

"Xianggong, today's data is recorded." Wen Xiaomei handed over the small notebook.

Zhu Guoxiang roughly browsed it, nodded and smiled: "It's hard work." ”

"It's not hard," Wen Xiaomei brushed up her hanging hair and said with a smile, "In the past, the plantation only contained flowers and strange bamboos on the concubine's body. After marrying Xianggong, I learned that growing grain and vegetables is also quite interesting, and the knowledge is complicated and profound, no less than reading the books of sages. ”

Shen Yourong had also washed his hands, and walked over and teased: "The yamen next door can often smell the smell of dung, and the officials all jokingly call the husband 'farming father'." ”

Wen Xiaomei spread out her hands, looked at the tender cocoons born in her palms, and couldn't help but smile: "I didn't think that I would farm the land myself one day." ”

Zhu Guoxiang was in a happy mood: "In his old age, he went to the countryside to find a piece of land, and the men and women weaved and traveled in the mountains and forests, and they were very happy in those days." ”

"This huge foundation, Xianggong will let go?" Wen Xiaomei asked.

Zhu Guoxiang said: "The mundane affairs are annoying, I don't like it, leave it to the rabbit cub to worry about." ”

Wen Xiaomei Wan'er: "Xianggong is really a person who came out of the dust, no wonder some people rumor that Xianggong is the reincarnation of an immortal." ”

"This immortal is a toiling life, and I am afraid that he also lives on crops in the sky." Shen Yourong complained.

Zhu Guoxiang couldn't stop laughing, went back to the room and changed into an official uniform, and then walked to the front hall to deal with official business.

Shen Yourong and Wen Xiaomei also changed their clothes and went to teach their children to read first. While the children memorize the texts and practice calligraphy, they sit together and play double land.

Zhu's improved version of chess is popular in Hanzhong, but Shen Yourong always loses, so he simply plays double-back, which can be won by luck.

In the afternoon, Mrs. Yan sent someone to invite them to watch the play together.

So they went to Vasher together.

Mrs. Yan doesn't like elegance, so she loves the kind of low-grade washer, because there are many people, and the acrobatics are also close to the lives of the people.

With its own servants and guards to follow, it is a mixed bag, and security work is extremely difficult.

Mrs. Yan also likes to chat with people, which makes the guards even more headaches, and every time she goes out, it's like going to war.

There is already a group of old men and old ladies who come to Vashe every day to hang out and wait.

As soon as she saw Grandma Yan appear, she immediately stepped forward to speak. The children and grandchildren of these old people are all working in various yamen, and they clearly want to climb the relationship with Yan's wife.

As soon as she saw Grandma Yan appear, she immediately stepped forward to speak. The children and grandchildren of these old people are all working in various yamen, and they clearly want to climb the relationship with Yan's wife.

The guards didn't stop them, because they were all familiar with each other, and they had secretly investigated the details and knew that their family background was innocent.

"Grandma is here to listen to the play again!" A few old men and old ladies took the initiative to say hello.

Mrs. Yan smiled: "I am idle at home, and my children and grandchildren don't have to worry about it." ”

"The eldest mother is still blessed, her children and grandchildren are all out of luck, and several daughters-in-law are also filial."

"That's right, my daughter-in-law is not filial, and she still puts a face on my face at the dinner table."

"Then you don't teach a lesson?"

"Her mother's family is strong, how dare I teach a lesson? So he said more seriously, and went to his mother's house, and did not come back for ten days and a half months. “

"If you want to talk about filial piety, you have to count the daughter-in-law of Mrs. Liu's family in Jinhuafang. Just passed the door last year, with a big pie face and pockmarks, they all said that they were not worthy of her son's good talents. But after people enter the door, not to mention taking care of the housework, they can also go to the shop to help, and they can say pleasing things to attract guests, and Mrs. Liu's steamed bun shop has a better business. ”

"Then she is really blessed. If you want to marry a wife, what is the use of being good-looking? A good daughter-in-law who can talk and do things is a good daughter-in-law. ”

"Isn't it? also said that in the Golden Flower Workshop, there is a family surnamed Yang, who marries a daughter-in-law and is born like a fox, and causes some prodigal gangsters on weekdays......"

Mrs. Yan likes to listen to this kind of gossip, and the Li family is short.

She didn't do this in the countryside before, especially when she was in Shangbai Village, after all, there were two widows in the family with a child, and she had to be cautious in what she said and did.

Now she is free of herself, especially chatting about gossip, and she is clear about the news of the entire Hanzhong Mansion City.

Shen Yourong and Wen Xiaomei were quite helpless, they were not long-tongued women, and they had no interest in this kind of thing. But when the old lady goes out, she always likes to let them accompany her, as if she is leading them to be the second general.

After talking about the gossip, the old men and the old ladies began to change the topic again, saying all kinds of good things about the Zhu family's father and son.

The guards were all dressed in civilian clothes, and Mrs. Yan did not reveal her true identity, she thought that others did not know who she was.

"Last year's wind and rain were smooth, it was really God's eyes, and this year's food prices have dropped again."

"It also depends on who is the official, Zhu Xianggong won Sichuan, God bless it. If Zhu Xianggong became the emperor, wouldn't there be no disasters every year? ”

"That's right, but the emperor in Tokyo can't. It's a faint king, and God doesn't bless him. ”

"What are those fields on the outskirts of the city called?"

"Test Field!"

"Yes, it's the test field. This year, the seedlings are growing so well, I heard that last year there was a field that harvested five stone grains. ”

"I heard that I received ten stones."

"Where are the ten stones? The rice planted by Zhu Xianggong was harvested for twenty stones! ”

“……”

Mrs. Yan is already smiling from ear to ear, she likes to hear people praise the Zhu family's father and son, she really regards the father and son as her own sons and grandsons.

It wasn't until the performance began on stage that the old men finally shut up.

Shen Yourong and Wen Xiaomei took the opportunity to slip away, took two maids and two guards to go shopping, and came back when the performance here was almost over.

Dean Zhu is quite capable of "Qi family", this wife and concubine, the relationship is as good as a sister, and even shopping is hand in hand.

In fact, it is also very understandable that the two daughters have been widowed for many years, and they don't like to fight, so they live under the same roof all day, so they naturally become close - the main thing is that Dean Zhu will be her husband, and both daughters feel that they are more favored.

In addition to playing at home and farming with Zhu Guoxiang, Shen Yourong also taught Wen Xiaomei to be popular, and Wen Xiaomei taught Shen Yourong calligraphy and painting.

After shopping for half an afternoon, they each carried some things to Vashe and took Mrs. Yan home for dinner.

Halfway through, Mrs. Yan smiled and said, "This year's rice price has dropped to 600 Wen, and the common people say that Yuanzhang is well governed." If you change to the faint gentleman in Tokyo, I'm afraid that the price of rice is still more than 1,000 yuan. If you want me to say, Yuan Zhang should be the emperor. I'm not thinking about the position of the old lady, I'm thinking about the people in this world. ”

"Xianggong has indeed governed Sichuan well, and the people can live a good life." The two girls immediately agreed, and they didn't break anything, anyway, the old lady was happy.

"I don't know what happened to Brother Qi," Mrs. Yan said worriedly, "The daughter-in-law he married can't be a fox, I'm really worried." ”

This is too much gossip in the market, and he brought other family's affairs into his grandson.

Shen Yourong immediately comforted: "Brother Qi'er's wife is from a big family in Shuzhong, and everyone is virtuous. ”

Mrs. Yan said again: "It's been more than a year since we got married, why haven't there been any moves?" If you don't want to take a concubine for Brother Qi'er, Mr. will have a son and a half daughter. ”

"Don't worry, old lady, maybe the family letter to report the good news is already on the way." Wen Xiaomei said.

Grandma Yan thought for a while: "Go to the temple another day to make incense, and ask the Bodhisattva to bless Brother Qi to have a son as soon as possible." ”

The three of them were escorted back by the guards, and before they arrived at Jingluo Mansion, they saw a fast horse galloping over.

The messenger showed his waist card, went straight to the gate of Jingluo Mansion, and saw Zhu Guoxiang, who had already gotten off work: "Zhu Xianggong, the generalissimo sent an urgent secret letter!" ”

(End of chapter)