Last year, there was a bumper harvest of rice in autumn, and Zhu Xiang spent the whole winter leading craftsmen to popularize stone grinding in the villages of Guangling City, teaching recipes so that rice could be better popularized.

He also taught farmers how to compost with straw and feed chickens and ducks with chaff.

The mulberry ponds have also increased a lot, and the two types of fertilizers, fish pond mud and straw compost, make the seedlings that broke through the soil in February look thicker than last year.

Due to the humid and hot climate in the Yangtze River Delta, earthworms grow better than Xianyang, and Zhu Xiang promoted the use of earthworms to raise chickens and ducks and compost.

The planting skills that Zhu Xiang came up with were unimaginable at that time.

For example, the simplest fish pond.

In the pre-Qin period, the ancestors had already dug ponds to raise carp. "The Book of Songs, Daya, Lingtai" says, "The king is in the Lingmarsh, and the fish jumps", which is the scene depicting the fish pond.

However, at that time, fish farming only caught fish in ponds to fend for themselves, and the production of fish was very low. For the aristocracy, carp was also a cherished food. Therefore, in the Western Zhou Dynasty, the gift of carp was regarded as a special respect for the other party.

At the end of the Spring and Autumn Period, Tao Zhu Gong Fan Li explored a more refined method of fish farming and made a volume of "Fish Farming Classics".

Later, after the development of Jia Siyi's "Qi Min Yaoshu" in the Northern Wei Dynasty, Huang Shengzeng in the Ming Dynasty and Ma Guohan in the Qing Dynasty, more mature fish farming methods such as fish fry cultivation and adult fish breeding were explored.

Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty began to raise fish in lakes, the Eastern Han Dynasty began to raise fish in rice fields, and in the Tang Dynasty, in order to avoid eating carp, the folk cultivated the four major fish herring carp, grass carp, silver carp and bighead carp...... The number of fish farms and the types of fish they raise is also expanding.

However, before the establishment of the People's Republic of China, freshwater fish farming could only rely on fishing to supplement the nursery, so the production of freshwater fish was still very low.

It was not until after the founding of the People's Republic of China that Mr. Zhong Lin spent eight years cultivating the world's first batch of artificially bred domestic fish fry under the assertion of foreign experts that "it is impossible for domestic fish to be successfully reproduced artificially", ending the history of freshwater aquaculture fry relying on salvage for generations.

Later, through the efforts of Mr. Liu Yun and other scientists, freshwater fish became a common food on the table.

Although Zhu Xiang is only an expert in agronomy, there are many overlaps in the study of agriculture, animal husbandry and fishery, so he knows the basic methods of fish farming.

For example, Mr. Zhong Liang withstood the ridicule of foreign experts and spent eight years researching the cultivation method of freshwater aquaculture fry.

The fish farming technology developed by scientists with the simple desire to let the people have enough food and good food spanned 2,000 years and was taught by Zhu Xiang to the people of the Yangtze River Delta, who were still half of the barbarian land at this time.

Although Zhu Xiang's technique was unimaginably powerful at the time, it did not shock many people, and no scholar praised this feat.

At this time, people didn't know how important this technology was, and just regarded it as a common thing. What's more, although the upper class is heavy on agriculture, most of the scholars and doctors in this world look down on those who are really engaged in agriculture.

Perhaps when people in later generations eat fish, they will probably take it as a common thing. Because 2,000 years ago, our ancestors had already mastered the method of artificially breeding freshwater fish.

Thinking of this, Zhu Xiang was quite happy, and the fatigue on his body was reduced a lot.

Zhu Xiang shuttles between fields and ponds during the day, and lights candles and sharpens ink at night, writing a book about the techniques he has practiced in this era.

Only when he has practiced successful technology can he dare to record it, because agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry and fishery are the most "heavenly" knowledge, and a little difference in climate and geography can turn good technology into bad technology.

Zhu Xiang hopes that what he can record is all the experience that can be used according to the script. Even if there were no scholars who studied agricultural technology in later generations, this book would be able to sustain the arrival of a new era and reduce the famine of the common people.

The planting and cultivation of crops is Zhu Xiang's main job, and he has a little knowledge of other things, such as fish farming, but he doesn't know much.

Zhu Xiang could only rack his brains to figure out the techniques he had seen and heard from his memory, and he didn't know much about them, and then spent a lot of time practicing them in person to verify the authenticity of his memory.

Whenever this happens, Zhu Xiang will always sigh that "when the book is used, there is less hatred".

Even if he has a big hanging, the limit of a person's strength is visible and tangible, and what he wants to do is always much less than what he can do.

By defending the city, Zhu Xiang rose to a high status among the scholars of Guangling City.

But then Zhu Xiang threw himself into the fields and ponds even more "intensified", making himself gray every day, not pulling a few soils, and having no appearance at all, which made these scholars very uncomfortable, and remembered the origin of Zhu Xiangshu.

It's not that there are nobles who farm by themselves, but it's really hard for them to accept that Zhu Xiang goes to the company of the dirtiest maggots, sludge, grass clippings and even feces all day long.

The scholars who originally wanted to befriend Zhu Xiang, or wanted to be a guest for Zhu Xiang, couldn't help but retreat.

When he learned that there were many scholars and rangers in Guangling City who belonged to him, Zhu Xiang thought about how he would refuse if someone defected to him.

Although he and Xia Tong are friends, he also knows that he is too powerful now, and the high-ranking officials and generals in the court are all his friends, so he must try to keep a low profile. Doorman or something, don't come.

Seeing that those people had retreated by themselves, Zhu Xiang breathed a sigh of relief and felt a little bitter in his heart.

Even now, even in his previous life, the respect of the professors of agriculture who rolled in the fields all day was not particularly great.

Maybe some people will praise them when they show their results, but the people around them will always cover their noses in disgust when they see them rolling in the fields.

Thinking like this, the bitterness in Zhu Xiang's heart disappeared again.

People are still like this two thousand years later, so it is normal for him to be reprimanded as an alien in this era, and there is no need to be wronged.

The compilation of agricultural books was not Zhu Xiang's business alone.

Although Xu Ming left Zhu Xiang and served as a professor in the Xianyang Academy, there were still many former peasant disciples who followed Zhu Xiang.

Like Zhu Xiang, they also wrote their own opinions while practicing, and with Zhu Xiang's help, they chose the direction they wanted to study.

Some of them are full-time researching seeds, some are full-time researching fertilizers, some are full-time researching fish farming, and some are full-time researching how to cultivate better silkworm babies...... Others have changed careers directly, from agronomy to water conservancy, or to the development of agricultural tools.

Zhu Xiang encouraged them to write down their experiences, and engraved and printed them at their own expense to give them to literate scholars.

Now the peasants are illiterate, and the only way to pass on books is to rely on these scholars. Therefore, the scholars of the Warring States period are very important, and therefore the world does not pay attention to those ignorant peasants.

Zhu Xiang also opened an academy in Guangling City, wanting to train more scholars.

But as elsewhere, the people who came to study were from well-to-do families, most of whom were nobles or scholars from low-ranking families. Even if Zhu Xiang pays for a reduction or exemption of school fees, the school-age children in the peasant families are all laborers and cannot afford to provide for a person who is out of work.

I don't know for 10 years, 20 years...... A hundred years later, can a real commoner scholar enter the court as an official?

Zhu Xiang thought about it for a long time, and began to help establish villagers' self-governing organizations such as ancestral halls in the countryside, just like a basic rural commune, which could share production tools such as stone mills and ploughing cattle, encourage wealthy families in the village to open private schools, and support the children of ordinary farmers in the village who were willing to study.

Ancient villager self-government and clan organization would breed the gentry class, if only after 2,000 years, it would be the most decaying existence. However, at this time, it may be a manifestation of the advanced nature to be able to cultivate a group of small and medium-sized landlord classes.

Zhu Xiang thought uncertainly.

Many of the things he did, he was not sure of the result, and he could only look at the conclusion of the coffin.

Anyway, it won't be worse than the death of Qin II in the previous life.

Ying Xiaozheng saw that his uncle worked so hard, but he was pointed at by those scholars, and he was very angry.

He remembered that when he was in Xianyang, there were also Confucians who pointed fingers at his uncle.

At this time, the mainstream thought is as Mencius said, "Those who work hard govern people, and those who work hard govern people; He who governs eats man, and he who governs eats man". And the peasant family "wants to make the monarch and the minister plough together, contrary to the order of the upper and lower", which will make the world unstable.

Zhu Xiang commented that the idea of the peasant family is a simple "common prosperity" and a wish that is difficult to realize. But this is the same as the Confucian aspiration of "Datong Society", and a vision that is so beautiful that it is difficult to realize is called a wish. As long as you don't hurt other people, why not dream and live your ideals?

Ying Xiaozheng originally listened to it, but now his temper has come up, and he wrote it down in his small notebook, and when he becomes the emperor in the future, he must stipulate that the emperor and ministers will personally cultivate the fields during the spring ploughing every year, which has become one of the most important national sacrifices in the Qin State.

He also summoned 100 people to write a biography for his uncle, praising his uncle's work and guiding agriculture and mulberry as a saint's behavior, and erecting meritorious monuments for his uncle at famous mountain god worship sites such as Mount Tai and Huiji Mountain.

After Ying Xiaozheng remembered it, he patted Zhu Xiang's chest and took credit.

Zhu Xiang couldn't cry or laugh. Although he knows that he can do what he says, but now that you haven't done anything, do you have to show off your merits first?

What kind of first emperor cub did you raise, really crooked?

"Well, Uncle is so happy. Before Zheng'er returned to Xianyang, his uncle made Zheng'er a snack that you had never eaten before as a thank you. Zhu Xiang patted Ying Xiaozheng's head like coaxing a child.

Ying Xiaozheng was not only not happy, but also very dissatisfied: "What?! My uncle still hid the snacks and didn't make them for me! Uncle, you are so hateful! ”

Zhu Xiang: "......" He pinched his nephew's Xiaojun face, and went to the kitchen to make snacks for Ying Xiaozheng very speechlessly.

Ying Xiaozheng put his hands behind Zhu Xiang's back, chattering crookedly all the way, complaining that his uncle actually made food on his back. It's so hateful, I've never seen such an unkind uncle.

Because Jiao Yun performed very well on the battlefield, Li Mu was in the kitchen to persuade Jiao Yun, who had already unloaded his armor and returned to the kitchen, to join the army.

When the two saw Zhu Xiang bring Ying Xiaozheng to the kitchen, they tacitly stopped pulling and pulling, rolled up their sleeves and helped cook.

"Do what?"

"See that basket of cauliflower? I'm going to boil it into glue and make custard for Zheng'er. ”

"Teacher, Mr. Jiao, listen, isn't my uncle very hateful? He never made me a custard! I didn't even know there was such a snack as custard! ”

"Uh......"

Ying Xiaozheng was still chattering there, and that look was indeed really wronged.

Zhu Xiang pinched Ying Xiaozheng's two horn lips like a duck's beak: "Shut up, hurry up and help me carry a bucket of buffalo milk." ”

Li Mu came back from catching a few buffaloes from South Vietnam, and wanted Zhu Xiang to see the difference between the cattle in South Vietnam and the cattle in the Central Plains.

Buffalo milk has a higher fat content than regular milk, so it is suitable for making custard.

Panna cotta is a paraphrase of pudding. In addition to custard, buffalo milk can also be used as ginger milk and double skin milk. Zhu Xiang saw that Ying Xiaozheng was really wronged, so he arranged it for him.

When Ying Xiaozheng was eating happily, Zhu Xiang realized a problem.

You're a fart! Isn't it normal for me to suddenly come up with a new dish? What do you mean by deliberately not giving you food?

He was pinched by his nephew again, alas.

……

"Uncle, my aunt and I went to Xianyang, you have to take care of yourself!" The satisfied Ying Xiaozheng boarded the big boat back, waved to Zhu Xiang, and his expression was not reluctant to separate at all, and he even wanted to row the boat away immediately.

Zhu Xiang prepared a large box of air-dried snacks for Ying Xiaozheng that could be eaten for a long time, prepared different kinds of preserved fruits for Xue Ji, and handed over the book he had recently written to Ying Xiaozheng, and asked Ying Xiaozheng to find someone to print in Xianyang.

Seeing Ying Xiaozheng's expression of "I want to go on a long voyage", he sighed and said, "Don't be naughty after going to Xianyang, listen to your aunt." Yukihime, be careful on the road. ”

Ying Xiaozheng said impatiently: "I know, I know, when have I ever been naughty?" ”

Xue Ji nodded to Zhu Xiang: "Take care of your beloved." ”

The boat sailed away from the shore.

Zhu Xiang was very reluctant to watch the sail go away, and smiled bitterly at Li Mu: "For so many years, Zheng'er has been living by my side. Now I'm leaving suddenly, and I'm really uncomfortable. Zheng'er looked like she couldn't wait to put on her wings and fly away immediately, and it was really annoying to watch. ”

Li Mu replied, "Really? Why do I think you often leave Zheng'er alone and run around? ”

Li Mu helped Zhu Xiang count. I went to Changping to see the King of Qin, and I just went to Guangling to defend the city, and Zhu Xiang had no choice but to do it. But when Zhu Xiang took Zheng'er to Shudi, he left the young Zheng'er alone in Chengdu, and he went to Qianzhong County by himself.

Leaving Zheng'er to work in the county guard mansion and running around by himself, Zhu Xiang has done this kind of thing a lot.

Zhu Xiang: "......"

Sometimes Li Mu is also very angry with people!

Chapter 198: The Travels of the First Emperor's Cub

After Ying Xiaozheng and Xue Ji left, Zhu Xiang didn't have time to think about it, and he was crushed by the heavy work again.

He looked at the mountains of official documents and looked incredulous: "This, this is Zheng'er's usual job?" ”

Han Fei nodded: "Yes!" ”