"I love the view!"

Empress Zhang looked at the scenery in front of her and said happily: "I like it too, this is the most beautiful scenery I have ever seen!" ”

Empress Zhang is Kaifeng Mansion in Henan, she has not had many opportunities to leave the palace in her life, if it weren't for this time to follow Empress Zhou to Liaodong, she has not left Beijing for nearly fifteen years.

Of course, even if she could leave the Forbidden City in Beijing, she would not have the opportunity to look at the boundless ears of grain, watch the sunset, and watch hundreds of people working together like she does now.

Empress Zhou looked at Empress Zhang's happy appearance and said with a faint smile: "Sister-in-law, I also like this kind of scenery, I hope that the whole Ming Dynasty will be full of such scenery, and such ears of grain can grow on both sides of the Yellow River, so that there will be no famine, and the people will not have to flee!" No more selling sons and daughters. ”

"It's just a shame......"

Empress Zhang looked at Empress Zhou and said puzzledly: "Cheng Qing was born in the twenty-fourth year of Wanli, and in the first year of the Apocalypse, he should be twenty-four years old...... I don't understand why he wasn't reused! ”

"If it weren't for the governor of Denglai who received Cheng Qing's eight thousand taels of silver, Cheng Qing might not even be able to be a thousand households in Dengzhou Weizuo, how could he be reused?"

Empress Zhou sighed and said, "That mediocre official and traitor should be killed!" ”

Empress Zhang looked at Empress Zhou and said, "Can you transfer Cheng Qing to Beizhili as the governor?" ”

The governor of Beizhili, Daming naturally does not have this official position, many official positions in Daming are newly established, in Empress Zhang's view, the four poorest provinces of Beizhili, Henan, Shanxi, and Shaanxi should be handed over to Cheng Shijie for management.

Of course, this Empress Zhang is a little naïve, she knows that Cheng Shijie cannot become the governor of Zhili at all, because Cheng Shijie is not a jinshi, not a Hanlin, nor has he entered the six ministries, and it is okay to serve as the governor of Liaodong, because since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, Liaodong does not belong to the two capitals and thirteen provinces, but a unique system of guards, which belongs to the border states.

Empress Zhou also felt very regretful: "This is also a matter of no choice, the law of the ancestors cannot be violated!" ”

Located not far from the millet field, is a green sweet potato field, a few children took advantage of the adults not paying attention, quietly ran to the sweet potato field to dig sweet potatoes, not long after, dug more than a dozen huge sweet potatoes.

The children dug a fire pit on the spot with the cut straw, then put the straw in it, lit a fire, and as the straw burned, the sweet potatoes with soil slowly ripened.

The adults were horrified when they found a few children playing with fire in the back, knowing that less than a third of the grain had been harvested so far, and they could not afford to lose their fortune if they were allowed to burn a fire.

"Bang Bang Bang ......"

The education of adults was simple and rude, and several children were taken away by their respective adults, and of course, the fire was extinguished with earth.

Empress Zhang looked at this scene, a little familiar, but also a little emotional.

Seeing that the fire in the fire pit did not seem to be completely extinguished, and wisps of green smoke were rising, she was about to go over to extinguish the fire, but someone took the lead.

Cheng Shijie actually saw a few bad boys digging sweet potatoes early in the morning and burning them directly, this scene also evoked Cheng Shijie's childhood memories, and the result was good, it was really the same memory, the same taste.

In particular, a few children were beaten by their parents and walked away, Cheng Shijie pointed to the fire pond and said with a smile: "Wozi, hurry up, let's eat something delicious!" ”

Cheng Shijie took three steps and made two steps, came to the fire pit, picked up a short knife, and pushed away the soil on the grain straw, and with the infiltration of air, the flame that was almost extinguished began to burn rapidly.

After a while, the sweet and greasy aroma of sweet potatoes comes to my nose.

Queen Zhou looked at Cheng Shijie like a child, happily eating sweet potatoes.

Chen Zilong actually doesn't like to eat sweet potatoes very much, because it's okay to eat sweet potatoes occasionally, and it's easy to have stomach acid if you eat too much, but now he has long felt hungry, and he eats sweet potatoes regardless of his image.

Empress Zhou and Empress Zhang walked towards Cheng Shijie and Chen Zilong, and several eunuchs around Empress Zhou began to quickly remove the curtain from the cart and set up a huge tent.

Empress Zhou and Empress Zhang entered the tent, and Cheng Shijie and Chen Zilong had to come over to greet them.

Queen Zhou looked at Chen Zilong and Cheng Shijie and said: "Cheng Qing, Chen Qing, although the new grain is good, it's a pity, the Ming Dynasty is too big, and it is impossible to plant millet all the time, and we can't just eat millet, but also have to eat wheat and rice, and the yield of wheat and rice in Daming is very low...... Do you have any way? ”

"This?"

The hybrid millet cultivated by Chen Zilong and the agronomic experts was only cultivated on the technical information given by Cheng Shijie, in fact, it is not too correct to say that they were cultivated, they just restored this hybrid millet according to the information.

Chen Zilong didn't know how to answer Empress Zhang's question.

Cheng Shijie smiled faintly: "This is a good thing, as the so-called universal pass, millet can be hybridized, wheat can also be hybridized, rice can also be hybridized, nothing more than spending time research, with time and money, you can research new seeds with high yield and drought tolerance!" ”

Empress Zhang said: "This breeding ...... I'm afraid it's not easy, right? ”

"It's definitely not easy!"

Cheng Shijie smiled faintly: "Back then, because of his own geographical and climatic problems, his height has always been very short, and the whole nation is a "dwarf race", which is very inferior. In addition, civilization and civilization are relatively late, and there are still great deficiencies in all aspects of intelligence. The place of the small day is very small, and most of the small days are close relatives to marry, resulting in a lot of idiots, fools, and a large number of disabled people who can't take care of themselves, which is a headache, so the small days people spontaneously began to change their inferior genes by borrowing seeds. ”

Empress Zhang had actually heard about this, and the "Qingbo Magazine" recorded: "The boat of the Wa Kingdom was floating on the Song Realm, and there were thirty or twenty people in a line. Women are all sent, meet Zhongzhou (China) people, choose the beautiful one to recommend the bed, the name "cross species". ”

"Did they succeed then?"

"It can be said that it has succeeded, or it can be said that it has not succeeded!"

Cheng Shijie said: "The civilian class of Xiaori has no chance to cross the species, so they are still the same, only the aristocratic or samurai class, and some of them have successfully improved their short genes!" I have to say that Xiaori is a very resilient nation, they have spent hundreds of years to improve the human race, wheat and rice are the same as the human race, we can complete drought-resistant and cold-resistant wheat in a few years at most, as well as high-yield rice! ”

Chen Zilong's eyes have already radiated brilliance, the four sages of the farmer, his teacher Xu Guangqi has a place, and now he has improved the grain seeds, and it is certain that he will leave a name in history, and he will achieve higher achievements if he doesn't do it well in the future.

"What about the yield of hybrid rice and hybrid wheat?"

Empress Zhang asked urgently.

"The yield will definitely be high!"

Cheng Shijie said: "We have done experiments, even with the current wheat seeds, in the case of careful planting, sufficient fertilization, and timely irrigation, there are five or six hundred catties of yield, if the grain varieties are improved, then the future yield of 1,000 catties per mu will not be a problem......

Empress Zhou said in surprise: "This ...... Such a high yield!? Oh my God, two acres of land can feed a large family! ”

"Of course, this is only the yield of intensive seeds, and if it is popularized, it will have to be greatly discounted, but the yield of wheat per mu is no problem of 600 to 800 catties, and the yield of rice per mu is 800 to 1,000 catties."

Empress Zhang said happily: "With such a yield, farmers will wake up with a smile in their dreams!" ”

Cheng Shijie smiled: "I will indeed wake up with a smile......"

While he was talking, someone rode a war horse and ran over to this side, shouting from afar: "Emergency military situation, urgent military situation." ”

When Cheng Shijie heard this voice, he immediately felt a little bad.

Could it be that Jiannu called?

It's still a bit early, knowing that in addition to the experimental millet that can now be harvested, it will take more than a month for wheat and corn, and two months for the late-planted sweet potatoes and potatoes to be harvested.

"Tell the marshal, there is an abnormality in Jiannu!"

Cheng Shijie didn't feel strange, Huang Taiji can be regarded as the founding emperor, although he was hit by Ning Haijun, he shouldn't be so easy to admit defeat.

When Cheng Shijie returned to the Jinzhou Ning Navy General Military Mansion from Zhenhai City, the staff officers of the General Staff of the Ning Navy had already made a sand table, and on the huge sand table with a square circle, the layout of Jiannu was clearly marked.

"Meet the Commander!"

"Excuse me!"

"How's it going?"

"Not so good!"

Zhou An smiled bitterly: "The Liaodong Capital Division organized three days of attacks, and all of them returned!" ”

Cheng Shijie looked at the annotation on the sand table and asked a little puzzled: "There is no mistake in the intelligence, right?" ”

"Nope!"

Zhou An said seriously: "According to the intelligence of the Liaoyang Dusi, this time the former army of Jiannu was led by Yue Tuo, two white flags, two blue flags each out of one Niu Lu, two red flags and two yellow flags each out of two Niu Lu, a total of twelve Niu Lu, in addition to the Han Army Banner and the Mongolian Left and Right Flag, each out of five hundred people, a total of more than 5,000 people!" ”

"The number of people is less than half of the people of Liaoyang Dusi, how did Shen Ming fight this battle?"

"According to the intelligence, Jiannu learned the fortress tactics of our Ning Navy this time, dug six trenches in front and on the left and right flanks, and built six breastworks, and our artillery is not very effective against their shelling!"

Cheng Shijie can understand, although it is said that although the artillery of the Ning Navy has gone to the forefront of the world, the problem is that this is only the advantage of the naval guns, and the infantry artillery still uses the Franc machine artillery, although the rate of fire of the Franc machine artillery is good, and the effect of striking dense formations is acceptable, but it is very difficult to penetrate into a trench that is no more than two meters wide.

"Does the General Staff have a good response now?"

"Yes!"

Zhou An smiled and said: "If this kind of problem happened a month ago, we really had no way, but now, there is really a way!" ”

"What's the solution?"

"We've got a fire bull bulldozer!"

All right!

This was all led by Cheng Shijie's 500,000 taels of silver, and as the construction of the engineering college in Ninghai City began, and as the fire ox car factory began to put into production, more and more inventions began to come out.

Especially in terms of large machinery for road construction, there are steam mixers, there are also steam rollers, and of course, animal power bulldozers are used in the first place, and the steam engine can be transplanted to the past. Of course, the power of the current steam engine is not very large, and this bulldozer is just barely usable.

"Ben Shuai is bored, get ready, the General Staff will send a part of the staff officers to Liaoyang with Ben Shuai!"

Just when Cheng Shijie was packing his bags and preparing to go to Liaoyang, in the Jiannu camp in Longgang Town, Liaoyang, he rubbed his gurgling stomach, looked up at the battlefield filled with gunpowder smoke in the distance, and muttered a curse.

It is true that the Ning Navy has no way to take Jiannu's trenches and fortresses, but the problem is that they can see the place where the smoke of Jiannu's cooking rises, and as long as they see the smoke rising, the artillery of the Ning Navy will fire at the place where the cooking smoke rises.

With the bombardment, the meal prepared by Jiannu was no longer good, and Yue Tuo had no food to eat, and he had not eaten a hot meal for three days.

Yue Tuo was not the only one who didn't eat, and the more than 5,000 people in the entire army didn't have anything to eat, because in order to prevent them from cooking on fire, the artillery of the Ning Navy fired shells at the place where the smoke rose from them for a long time, but fortunately, they had long been used to it.

Since the day the Ning Navy occupied Liaoyang, the entire Dajin Kingdom has been short of food, and it has become a very common thing to run out of food, and people will starve to death at both ends in three days.

This situation has lasted from Chongzhen's fifth year to the present, and they have become accustomed to it, but they don't know when it will be the same as before.

In Yue Tuo's opinion, the Ning Navy is really hateful, they will do everything to blockade the Dajin Kingdom, there are originally eight Jin Shang families, they can send materials to them through Zhangjiakou, and their lives can be maintained, however, since the Jin Shang Eight families were raided and wiped out, there are also merchants who are not afraid of death who want to fill the power gap of the Jin Shang Eight families.

But the problem is that the Ning Navy is a dog and a mouse, they sent some soldiers, pretending to be bandits, stuck on the grassland outside the pass, ambushing, night attacking, planting mines, catching businessmen who dare to do business with Dajin Kingdom, and putting them on sharpened wooden sticks, this kind of death is very cruel.

For more than three years, more than 100 caravans of caravans were executed on these two trade routes, and gradually no one dared to do business with Dajinguo.

Yue Tuo was a rare strategic talent in the Dajin Kingdom, and when he saw that the fundamental problems could not be solved militarily, he once proposed Huang Taiji and sent envoys to the capital to take the initiative to sue for peace. Dajin can follow the example of the Mongolian king Shunyi and claim to be a vassal to the Ming Dynasty, and pay tribute.

But the problem is that Huang Taiji does not agree to bow to Emperor Chongzhen, Huang Taiji is angry with Emperor Chongzhen, and they are the ones who are unlucky.

At this time, Zhepo Ma Gu bent over and ran over, he took two children's fist-sized beef jerky and handed one to Yue Tuo and said, "Master, eat it." ”

Yue Tuo took it and asked, "Where did you come from?" ”

"Last month, the cow in the family died of illness and made beef jerky, and the last two pieces were made."

Yue Tuo directly took a bite. The taste of boiled beef jerky is not very good, but for him who is hungry, it is tantamount to the delicacies of the mountains and the sea.

A deafening cheer suddenly came from the opposite side: "Long live the handsome!" Long live the handsome! ”

Jiannu, who was huddled in the trenches and suffering from hunger, trembled with fright.

Yue Tuo's gobbling movements also paused, and quietly poked his head out, he frowned and asked, "What kind of nerves do these Ming people have?" ”

Zhepo didn't lift his bones, and his mind was to gnaw on potatoes: "The ghost knows!" ”

Yue Tuo misunderstood, General Ning really didn't want to toss any tricks, he was just too happy.

Because they heard a great news from the newspaper———— yes, not only the officers and men of the Liaoyang Ning Navy got the news, in fact, the entire Liaodong has already gotten the news.

The new grain cultivated by the Agricultural College of Zhenhai City has a bumper harvest in the experimental field of Zhenhai, and the new grain varieties have performed very well, with a yield of more than 650 catties per mu!

In the first two years, the soldiers of the Ning Navy were satisfied with potatoes and sweet potatoes to eat, but the problem was that after eating potatoes and sweet potatoes for several years in a row, they still missed the taste of millet.

Of course, when there is no choice, some eat it is good, but in the case of choice, they still prefer to eat millet, almost all the soldiers of the Ning Navy are small landlords, they know how difficult it is for farmers to dig food in the field, and now there are grain seeds that can yield more than 600 catties per mu, these soldiers are so excited that they don't want to, cheer loudly!

All the immature or cold faces showed happy smiles: "One acre of land can harvest more than six hundred catties?" Then in the future, if we plant hundreds of acres of land in one go, won't we be able to sleep in the grain pile! ”

The supervisors of the Ning Navy took the opportunity to boost their morale: "Next year, Liaodong will carry out larger-scale planting, and we must also work hard to take Shenyang City...... Lots of millet! ”

The soldiers of the Ning Navy cheered: "Take Shenyang City, a variety of grains!" (End of chapter)