It's October, and it's autumn.

In the last sound of cicadas, a group of horses went out to the south gate of Yanjing, ran on the official road, and staggered with a group of business travelers coming and going from north to south.

"After taking a break from the fighting, it is refreshing to come out occasionally to see the countryside scenery and see the farmers busy in the fields."

After the horse team slowed down, Su Chen sat on the horse's back, looking at the farmland on both sides of the official road, the golden grain was being harvested in the hands of the people, even the children were holding their trouser legs, carefully holding the autumn harvest grain into the borrowed donkey cart and piling it up, and then stood beside the car and watched the dozens of people riding by on the official road.

Wu Zixun teased a few words, causing the villain to make a grimace at him.

Ha ha!

Su Chen immediately laughed when he saw him, and a group of guards behind him also laughed.

The identity of the prince has to be talked about, but in private, Su Chen doesn't have much of a fight with the guards around him, he can laugh when he wants to, and say what he wants, which is a completely different performance from many powerful people in the world.

After walking for more than ten miles, turning the fork in front, you can vaguely see the field surrounded by the guardrail in front, and there are many straw men inserted in the field, and a cloth towel is tied on it, and the cloth towel flutters when the wind blows, driving away the birds and birds wandering nearby.

In the past, there were already patrolling soldiers who stepped forward to check, and when they saw Su Chen, and Dian Wei behind Su Chen, they were about to kneel down and salute when Wu Zixun waved his hand to stop them.

"The king travels lightly, without pomp, you continue to patrol."

There are seven patrol teams of 10 people each, mainly to guard against thieves who mistakenly enter this place thinking that this is the granary of a wealthy gentry.

Walking along the path under the fence of the farmland, you can see the experimental field, where several farmers are busy, and it seems that they are the son and daughter-in-law of the old farmer, as well as a few grandchildren.

Seeing Su Chen and his party coming in, several people in the field were also surprised, and a clever young man reacted and ran barefoot to a house not far ahead.

"Grandpa!"

White walls and green tiles, connected to more than a dozen rooms, two of which are open without doors and windows, placed many wooden frames, and the upper layers are large handfuls of bamboo strips.

An old peasant with neat hair in a neat bun and dressed in coarse linen clothes is sifting through narrow sleeves.

Hearing his grandson's shout, the old man got up and looked up, and following the direction his grandson was pointing, he saw that Su Chen and his party had already walked into the fence courtyard.

"How many?"

The old man could see from his clothes that Su Chen's identity was extraordinary, but it would be difficult for him to guess his identity, so he couldn't help but look at Su Chen a little nervously.

"Don't be nervous."

Su Chen didn't report his identity, but just bowed his hand politely to the old man, "I heard the prime minister say that the old man found a lot of grain and cultivated a few acres of land here, so I have been thinking about coming over to have a look, and I don't have time to come here until today." ”

"This ...... This son, please. ”

I don't know the identity, the old farmer can only observe the age from his face, call Su Chen a son, and invite him to come to the wooden frame in the shed, and tell the big man in front of him about the things in the big basket.

"Childe, this is what the old decay obtained in the mountains and fields, at first I thought it was an ordinary grain, but later when the autumn harvest came, I found that the particles were full, and the hanging seeds were more than ordinary millet, and the old decay took a bunch of steaming, the seeds were expanded, and the food was hidden, and there was a hidden sweetness, so I tried to graft with millet millet and did not want to live a plant, from last year to now, the old decay has hoarded a seed."

Su Chen grabbed the seeds in a handful of dustpans, did not take the shell, some pricked, from the shape, similar to wheat, but plumper than wheat, oval, peel off the shell, you can see that the rice grains inside are white, slightly transparent texture.

"Two crops?"

The old farmer nodded again and again: "You can plant two crops." ”

"How much can an acre of land be produced?"

"Hui Gongzi, this is much more than millet yield, and one acre of land is roughly calculated, about seven to two stones per stone."

Su Chen frowned slightly, one stone seven, the silent calculation in his heart is about nearly three hundred catties, plus the particles of this thing are much larger than ordinary grains, in fact, it should be more than one stone seven.

Seeing Su Chen frowning and silent, the old farmer thought that he was unhappy, and hurriedly explained: "Son, don't worry, this thing must be preferred, and the old man guarantees to cultivate better seeds and seedlings." ”

"Old man, I am not worried, but my heart is happy."

Su Chen patted the old man's hand and told him not to worry too much, and then a smile appeared on his face: "How much corn is there, and this thing in the hands of the old man, once it is ripe, it is planted in the hands of the people below, how many people don't have to starve anymore?" This is the act of thousands of families, a great good. ”

Speaking of this, Su Chen was also a little excited in his heart, and he bowed to the old farmer.

"I can't do it, I can't help it!"

The old farmer hurriedly stepped forward to support Su Chen's hands, after all, his identity was there, even if the old man did these things that could be described as feats, he didn't dare to let people with noble status bow down at will.

"There is no need for a big gift from the son, the old man has it, the grain here, after two or three years, the seed selection and breeding will mature, and it will not disappoint the people of Yan Kingdom."

"The old man has confidence?"

"Haha, several generations of the old man's family are farmers, this is the ability to eat." When it came to farming, the old man smiled with a red face.

"I don't know the old man's name?"

"Wang Taiping."

When Su Chen heard the old man's name, he nodded and wrote it down, and talked a lot to the old man under the eaves, imagining that in the future, when this kind of grain is planted in the north and even the Central Plains, it is very likely that the famine will be far away from this world.

"When the time comes, the old man will be a Buddha in ten thousand families."

"Don't dare, don't dare, the son is too flattering to the little old man, this is not appropriate."

"If I say it's appropriate, it's appropriate!" Su Chen fell heavily with affirmation, with a tone that could not be refused, "No one can take this away, the old man will be able to cultivate seeds." ”

After speaking, Su Chen also said goodbye to him and left the old farmer's family to send it to the intersection in person, watching the group go away, the old farmer's son and daughter-in-law couldn't help but ask who this group of people was, it seemed that they had a lot of origins.

"I don't know...... He didn't say anything. Wang Taiping replied honestly.

The patrol on the side, standing not far away, heard their words, and couldn't help but interject in, and one of the soldiers said: "That's our Dayan's Xia King, you don't even know each other." ”

"Huh?"

Hearing this, the old farmer's family suddenly turned pale with fright, but thinking of the easy-going Xia King, they gradually calmed down, walked to the middle of the road, and bowed down to the distant group of horses.

Da Da Da ......

On the official road, Su Chen, who went to the farm, recruited Wu Zixun to get closer, "Go back and give a message to the officials, and get an official position for Wang Taiping under the order of the big farmer." ”

"Yes!" Wu Zixun gave up on horseback.

"Let's go, go to the north of the city to see the workshop, drive!"

Su Chen raised his horsewhip and galloped up, and the rest of the people followed with their horses, only Dian Wei pursed his lips, looked down at his big feet, and shouted: "Wait for me!" "Running wild with a pair of halberds.

The weapons and armor workshops in the north of the city are the plans made by Zhuge Liang before, after saying these things from Ding'an City and Xun Yu, and visiting the workshop in the west of Ding'an City, Yanjing will reorganize the planning here, as if the fertile field is divided neatly, and each area has its own road.

At present, the mass forging here is all conventional standard weapons, and the Mo knife that Su Chen asked forged from the south to the Central Plains at this time, it was only worth more than 500 in five months, and the repeater crossbow is relatively simple, each workshop divides labor to make parts, and then assembles them in a unified manner, and there is no need to keep forging like the Mo knife.

Su Chen took a few repeaters one after another and shot them at the wooden man a few times, and the effect was not much different.

"These crossbows are all delivered to the white horse Yicong, and the longbow is used for long-distance riding and shooting, and after the arrows are used up, the crossbow is used to approach the other party, which is a fully armed light horse."

"My lord, this is to shoot people into a sieve." Dian Wei picked up a repeater and tried it, and was very satisfied, "In the future, I will also match the shield halberdier." Standing behind the big shield and shooting like a repeater is definitely enjoyable! ”

In fact, Su Chen didn't say it, he still wanted to ask Zheng He and Zhang Yu if they were familiar with the firearms drawings of the Ming Dynasty Shenji Battalion.

"By the way, a large number of six-wheeled wheels should be made, the body should be lengthened, and it should be distributed to the folk workshops, and the horses and donkeys should also be cultivated more, and there are still a lot of horses compensated by the Wei State before, write to Xun Yu and ask him to send people to drive these livestock to Yanjing."

Wu Zixun kept writing it down with a pen behind him, and asked from time to time: "Why do you need so many horses to build so many cars?" ”

"If you take the official road, these chariots are used to transport troops for rapid support, which can not only save the physical strength of the soldiers, but also speed up a lot, which can have a great impact on the entire battlefield situation."

Su Chen said his opinion, after all, this impression came from later generations, and transporting troops was a crucial part.

As he spoke, he visited the workshop here accompanied by the master craftsman, and when it came out, it was already dark, and when he returned to Yanjing Xia Wangfu, it was already late at night.

Thinking of Fang Xuejun, who was mourning for his grandfather in Yunyao County, he couldn't help but take a pen and ink and write a letter to his family.

……

At this time, far south of the Central Plains, the war in the land of Sanzhou was in full swing.

(End of chapter)