Chapter 120

The so-called agricultural science institution is an institution with official authority that assists farmers.

Since the seeds should be made public, Wang Shu hopes that all poor people can get benefits through official means in a way that is more beneficial to farmers and the people. Otherwise, it doesn't make sense for this thing to let it out.

Xiao Yanxing's work efficiency is beyond the reach of ordinary people. Wang Shu reached an agreement with him, and his side gathered people in two days and rushed to Lin'an County. There needs to be an open discussion process on how to set up and operate this agricultural science institution, and where Wang Shu needs to inform everyone about her improved seeds.

"I want you to lead the whole process of the establishment of this institution." Xiao Yanxing does not have the gender discrimination of women who are not in charge. As long as he can do practical things, he never cares whether a capable person is a man or a woman.

Wang Shu meant this, so he naturally took the lead: "I am provincial." ”

A few days later, a group of people gathered in Hongfeng Fortress in the southern suburbs of Lin'an County. These people are of different ages, the oldest has a lot of hair, the youngest also has a beautiful hair, and they are not ordinary people in their appearance. Mr. Mu, who lived in the small courtyard of the Wang family, was also among them. At this time, in the study of Beizhuang, everyone whispered greetings, guessing with each other the purpose of the master's establishment of the agricultural genus.

Mr. Mu sat quietly with a teacup, but he smiled silently when others asked. Sometimes I take a sip of tea, and the old god is there and doesn't say anything.

"Mr. Mu doesn't know either?" A bearded old man who was familiar with Mr. Mu moved his drooping eyelids and tilted his head to ask.

Mr. Mu put down the cup with a smile: "The establishment of agricultural genera is naturally for food." ”

When the others heard this, their eyes were cast.

Mr. Mu laughed: "Your Highness has been busy with the livelihood of the people under his rule recently, consolidating the northwest frontier defense, and is very busy. But no matter how busy it is, agriculture is the foundation of the country, and there are so many people in Liangzhou, so naturally the people's livelihood is the priority. Liangzhou has been poor for a long time, and His Royal Highness has now become the master of this land, and he must let the people living in this land have enough to eat. When the people are well fed, they will be stable under the rule......"

As soon as Mr. Mu said this, everyone looked at each other and nodded again and again.

Needless to say, Mr. Mu is full of wealth, and Hua Shengying, who is next to Mr. Mu, is a former big farmer. Many years ago, he was implicated in supporting the abolished prince and exiled to the northwest with his family. The third on the right-hand side, although he has not excelled in the imperial examination, but he has a very talented herding tiger in water conservancy astronomy. The people sitting on the left-hand side are all people who are extremely capable of hard work.

"Your Highness has been suffering from poverty and poverty for a long time, and the war last year suffered heavy casualties, and Liangzhou Mansion was also broken. His Royal Highness has long wanted to rectify it. Old Mr. Mu sighed, "In a while, if Your Highness wants you to give advice, I hope you will do your best." ”

"Don't worry, Mr. Mu, we should do our best!"

"We should do our best to ......"

As soon as Mr. Mu said this, everyone in the study room was hot in their hearts and expressed their positions one after another.

……

After waiting for a while, I heard faint footsteps at the door of the study. After a while, Xiao Yanxing took Wang Shu into the study.

The two stepped into the study and fell into a dead silence for a moment.

You must know that the study is heavy, and women have never been allowed to enter and exit at will. Especially Xiao Yanxing's study has many secrets, and this time it is a major matter to discuss helping farmers, how can there be irrelevant women coming in? However, all of you here are people who have followed Xiao Yanxing for many years, and many people know Xiao Yanxing's temperament. Although they didn't expect a woman to come in, they didn't take the liberty to question it.

Everyone was puzzled, and they stood up one by one to greet them, and watched Xiao Yan walk up to the main seat and sit down. Mo Sui moved a chair and put it next to the main seat, and this stunningly beautiful woman sat down beside Xiao Yanxing in such a grand manner.

"Sit." Xiao Yanxing said lightly.

Everyone exchanged glances with each other and sat down nervously.

"I called you here to set up an agricultural department." Xiao Yanxing has never talked nonsense, and as soon as he opened his mouth, he went straight to the point.

As soon as these words came out, everyone present looked at the main seat. Some of them are straighter, and they muttered on the spot. Obviously, I don't understand why a little woman was allowed to come in and listen to it because it was for the sake of agriculture. How can such a serious occasion be such a child's play?

Everyone was talking to each other, a little anxious.

Xiao Yanxing didn't explain immediately, but just asked Mo Sui to prepare all the things that should be prepared.

Speaking of which, you have received news from Lin'an County before you came, so you naturally know the purpose of this trip. Many people have made full preparations before coming. It is to speak freely today and provide the most appropriate and applicable advice.

Regarding the livelihood of the people in Liangzhou Mansion, many years ago, Xiao Yanxing had already paid attention to the current situation of the people here as soon as he arrived in the northwest. At the beginning, he was full of enthusiasm and specially recruited a group of talents who understood agricultural science and people's livelihood. However, because they did not have the right to rule, they had to postpone all political opinions, and let these people infiltrate all positions in the bureaucracy first, and wait for the right time in the future to come in handy.

Xiao Yanxing glanced at Wang Shu, who turned a deaf ear to these discussions. After a pause, she raised her voice and called out the door, 'Come in.'

The door creaked open, and Lin Er came in with a sack of things without squinting.

Another person came in, and the crowd was even more puzzled. Mr. Hua Shengying, the bearded old man next to Mr. Mu, bumped his arm, and glanced upwards with his eyes. Mr. Mu looked at his nose and nose and heart, but he pretended to be deaf and dumb.

Hua Shengying was in a hurry, and when she saw a group of people behind her, Mo Sui pulled over a large vertical white cardboard and a long table at some point. This was specially ordered by Wang Shu to be transformed according to the blackboard of later generations, and he also prepared a carbon rod that was easy to take. Lin Er placed the contents of the sack on the table one by one, and then placed a wooden triangle in front of the things.

The crowd was puzzled, and they didn't know what the woman was doing. There was a lot of talk about each other.

Wang Shu didn't care about the eyes of others, and only focused on thinking about how to explain everything in an easy-to-understand way.

She is a person who likes to back up her claims with reports. Xu has formed a habit of giving reports to his mentor in his current life, and Wang Shu does not like to have no physical description. In order to make people understand more clearly and intuitively, she prefers to use real things to tell on the spot. The content to be expressed is conveyed through physical objects, feature annotations, board reports, and on-site explanations.

I have to say that even though she has lived twice in this world, Wang Shu has not been assimilated, and she still stubbornly retains many habits of later generations professionally. For example, it is a good habit to write a report every time you do scientific research. The data is a one-size-fits-all approach.

"Please be calm."

Gently reached out and knocked on the table, quieting the surroundings.

"Look, everybody." Wang Shu got up and walked to the long table, pointing to a small handful of rice and a complete ear of rice on the long table, "This is the rice of the most fertile paddy field in the southern suburbs of Lin'an County. “

With this opening, the study was completely quiet. Not only did Mr. Hua Shengying's expression change, but even Mr. Mu, who had been there all the time, was instantly startled and turned up.

The reason why Mu Laosheng was able to sit so steadily before was because he knew that Wang Shu was very smart. Although Concubine Wang is a woman in the back house, she has extraordinary wisdom. has long had the experience of transferring Han Jiajun, and Mr. Mu has a deep impression of her. But admiring Wang Shu, I didn't know that Wang Shu also had insights in agricultural science. He sat up straight and pricked up his ears.

A person is talented, but it does not mean that he can do everything. Wang Shu obviously wanted to meddle in the construction of the agricultural genus at this time, and Mr. Mu listened for a long time and was shocked to find that there was a certain discrepancy in his perception of Wang Shu.

"Master Wang wants to make a suggestion on the construction of agricultural science?" Other things can be let go and tossed, and people's livelihood events cannot be ambiguous. Mr. Mu stood up and asked first.

"Yes." Wang Shu nodded and admitted his speculation, "In fact, it was my idea to propose the construction of the Agricultural Science Genus. ”

Mr. Mu's eyes widened instantly, and he looked at Wang Shu in surprise.

Wang Shu was not in the mood to make a tirade at this time, in order to show how much he loved the country and the people, or to take the opportunity to boast about his noble personality or morality. She brought this up only because of the original intention of an agronomist. It is the ultimate ideal of an agronomist who is willing to take root in the soil all his life, facing the loess with his back to the sky. Not for the sake of momentary vanity.

Not caring about Mr. Mu's looking eyes, Wang Shu said to himself: "If you can't see it from behind, you can get up and come closer to see." ”

Xiao Yanxing's indifferent gaze swept down the person who looked down, light, but as if under pressure.

The crowd stood up suspiciously and came closer.

When I got closer, I found that in addition to the origin and variety of rice marked in large letters, there was also a small print below describing the situation of the field. and the characteristics and shape of the crop plant itself.

The wooden plaque that Wang Shu pointed to was written on the rice seeds of the fertile paddy fields in the northern suburbs of Liangzhou Prefecture. Everyone was puzzled and looked up at Wang Shu. Wang Shu looked at Lin Er. Lin Er then stepped forward and stood in front of everyone, so that it was convenient for everyone to make a show. He first picked up the ears of rice that were placed aside, placed them horizontally in the palm of his hand, and showed them to everyone. Then he plucked two more from the ears of rice and crushed them for you to see.

Everyone was puzzled, not knowing what Wang Shu meant by this.

Xiao Yanxing sat aside, his eyes also staring at Lin Shuangshang's movements. In the past, he had seen Wang Shu do such actions in the experimental field. You can roughly guess that this is looking at the quality of the rice seeds.

"Generally, rice is harvested in early October. It's late August, and all the rice that should be bearing fruit has already been set. Wang Shu slowly walked to Lin Er's side, everyone let go of a gap, she stood still and pointed to Lin Er's palm and said lightly, "But even in a fertile field, the fruit of the rice ears is not ideal." Nearly half of the grains on an ear of rice are empty. The plump particles are crushed, and there is not much pulp. ”

"What is pulping?" Hua Shengying is very good at grasping the key points.

Wang Shu glanced at him and let Lin Er crush another one.

When everyone saw the milky white slurry seeping out of the rice husk, they immediately understood the meaning of the slurry.

"That's the pulp." Wang Shu's tone was neither salty nor light, but the hearts of everyone present were captured: "There is not much pulp, which means that the quality of the grain is not good." In other words, if you eat it, the satiety effect is poor. ”

As soon as this sentence landed, everyone's hearts were chuckled.

In fact, all of you have been to the farm, but going to the farmland and being able to farm are two different things. They claim to know a lot about agriculture, but they have never heard of this argument. But the first time I heard it today, everyone inexplicably believed this statement.

"This is corn near Xiahe Village," Wang Shu said, pointing to the second crop, and the same operation was repeated again. ”

Wang Shu is very patient, and in order to convince everyone to realize the importance of this matter from the bottom of their hearts, all the facts must be put in front of them. Wang Shu didn't talk much, and only gave the necessary explanation when he took out the real thing. A long table with nearly sixty piles of grain crops from left to right. There is rice, there is wheat, there is bud rice, and there is corn. In short, it covers more than half of the land in Liangzhou Prefecture.

There is no doubt that the crop yield in all regions is not mentioned first, and the results of light fruiting are all unqualified in Wang Shu's description.

After Wang Shu said this, naturally some people raised objections. If the harvest of one crop is poor and the rest of the crop is good, it is a problem with planting. If all the seeds are harvested in this way, it only means that this is the norm. That's the reality.

The one with the most objections is naturally the former Grand Si Nong Hua Shengying.

Hua Shengying has really collected grain crops in all regions of Daqing, and has also observed the yield and variety of crops in various places. Although the quality of these crops presented by Wang Shu at this time is not as good as that of the rich areas in the south of the Yangtze River, it is not the worst batch. The results are a little worse, but not so bad that they have to be labeled as 'problematic'.

"Mr. Hua is right, it is indeed a common status quo." After listening to his refutation, Wang Shu did not rush to deny it, nodded and said, "My original intention is not to criticize the poor planting effect here, but to clearly express the current situation." ”

Hua Shengying didn't mean to pick Wang Shu's reason, he just didn't like some people who didn't know how to make nonsense, and he hated to talk empty words without facts.

"This is the case with the variety of grain, and it is not something that you can avoid by changing a field of fertilizer. It is impossible to want the ears of rice to be full without an empty husk. As soon as Hua Shengying said this, Wang Shu knew that this was a person who had done practical things.

Wang Shu was not in a hurry when he snatched the white with a blank face, but asked everyone present a question: "Do you know the yield per mu of various crops?" ”

Everyone looked at each other and answered the figures counted by the official office one by one.

As Wang Shu said to Xiao Yanxing before, the official yield of rice per mu is less than one stone, about 200 catties. Wheat is lower, about 120 catties per mu. Corn and buds are even lower, and when you remove things like husks and stems, you can really fill your stomach with less than 90 pounds. What is this concept? The people planted the land for a year, but they did not receive much, and they had to pay 20 to 30 percent of the tax. In other words, even if you are tired and tired all year round, the family may not be able to eat all the food.

"This is the number given by the government, and it is not the same as the real existence."

Wang Shu knew that if they didn't speak with real data, they still didn't have a clear concept, "The number given by the official government is calculated by Daqing according to the standards of Jiangnan. In fact, the grain harvest in the northwest is worse than that in the south of the Yangtze River. The difference in soil and climate, etc., may only be half. ”

These words were like a hammer hammer in the hearts of everyone present.

Xiao Yanxing, who was silent on the side, suddenly raised his eyes, and looked at Wang Shu's eyes a lot darker.

Wang Shu took the carbon rod in Lin Shuang's hand and wrote the number on the white paper erected at the back.

She took rice as an example, how many ears will be drawn from each rice plant, and how many grains will be planted per minute or centimeter to make a very complex but clear number operation. Nine chapters of arithmetic, readers may not all understand. But those who know how to do arithmetic are more convinced of the accuracy of numbers.

These include Xiao Yanxing, Mr. Mu, and Mr. Hua Shengying. Some of the slow responses, relying on the explanations of others, also slowly got a vague number.

"This means that if you keep using the old seeds, the people of Daqing will never be full."

Wang Shu's words were shocking, which made everyone's faces change.

"Nonsense!" Although Hua Shengying knew that what Wang Shu said was right, he believed that as long as the people were industrious enough and planted enough land, no one would starve to death. Seeds are given by God, and if the yield is small, then there are many varieties, is it because the yield is small, and you don't eat?

Wang Shu didn't care about Mr. Hua Shengying's anger, she just asked him lightly: "It's true that there are many kinds that can increase yields, but do everyone have so many fields?" If you have a field, are they all fertile? What if there is no land? ”

"That's what we are going to do." Others were indignant, "This is the purpose of setting up the genus of agriculture." ”

…… That's right.

The peasants have land to plant, and as long as people cultivate more land diligently, there will always be surplus grain.

But there are only so many lands in the world, and most of them are controlled by the government and the big families. A small part of the fertile land was also occupied by wealthy families. In the hands of the lower classes, there was only a small amount of poor land and heavy taxes. This is a complex and comprehensive issue that involves reforms in all its aspects. But there is nothing Wang Shu can do about other problems, what she can do is to do her best under the existing conditions.

"There are a lot of things to do in the agricultural genus." In terms of policy, Wang Shu will not be involved," Lin Er. ”

Lin Er then took out the rice and wheat taken from the experimental field.

As soon as the rice seeds were brought out, they attracted everyone's attention. I saw the golden color and the full ears of rice, and the heavy ears of rice were drawn three or four ears at a time. And every fruit is full, without an empty shell.

"This, this!" Hua Shengying's excited face quickly turned red.

On the side, Mr. Mu also stood up, and the two old men approached: "This is rice?" This rice grows so well! ”

Mo Sui was afraid that the two of them would get too close to squeeze Wang Shu, so he stretched out his arm to block the two excited old men. The others were also a little excited, even if they didn't know as much about agriculture as Hua Shengying. But after listening to Wang Shu's profound and clear explanation, I am also deeply aware of the difference between rice seeds and rice seeds. Xiao Yanxing also stood up, and stood beside Wang Shu at some point.

His body was half close to Wang Shu's shoulder, and he was half-surrounded and protected in his arms.

Wang Shu didn't pay attention to this, and called 'Lin Er' again.

Lin Er then pulled out a rice seed in public and crushed it in the palm of his hand in front of everyone. The milky white slurry oozes out, and you can see the white essence inside. And this crushing situation is very different from the previous crushing of rice seeds collected within the jurisdiction of the Liangzhou Prefecture. Even if they don't have knowledge, they know the difference in quality.