Three Kingdoms: From Hulaoguan to Global Hegemony

Chapter 119

The Fanglin Garden is ventilated on all sides, and the light is also very good. There is a keel waterwheel next to a reservoir on the west side of the garden.

Light, ventilation and water are just some of the external conditions needed for the growth of crops.

"This is really a good place to set up an experimental field!" Liu Yu nodded in satisfaction, thinking that the conditions here are so good, why not try to grow some other high-yielding crops.

So in addition to buying potatoes and sweet potatoes in the system supermarket, he also got peanuts, soybeans and corn.

Peanuts and corn originated in the Americas, and they are both high-yielding and easy-to-grow crops. As for soybeans, they are special products in the Central Plains, but at that time people called them bean.

However, the soybean grains that Liu Yu bought from the system supermarket are more plump. After all, they are fine varieties cultivated after thousands of years of seed selection, and they will definitely be more productive than the current soybeans.

Peanuts can be used to extract oil, soybeans can be made into various soy products, and corn will become the gospel of mountain people because of its stubborn growth.

Once these three species can be mass-produced, they will definitely bring a new revolution to the dining tables of the common people!

And this change will directly affect the physique of the Han people.

Liu Yu believes that "satisfaction" is fundamental, but "eating well" is the key to strengthening the body's physique. Only when the people are strong can the big man be really strong!
Walking into the garden, I saw Yang Xiu leading people to dig the ground again.

Yang Xiu was not allowed to join Liu Yu's sect because of a failed bet, and what Liu Yu was going to teach him was to grow these new crops.

In order to make it easier for Yang Xiu to enter and exit Taicang, Liu Yu hired him as Taicang Chancellor and gave him the badge of Taicang Order.

At the beginning, Yang Xiu was still a little reluctant. He thought he was the wisest of the younger generation, and he really didn't want to farm!

But when he got home and told his father about it, his father Yang Biao ordered him to learn how to grow potatoes and sweet potatoes from Liu Yu.

Although it is still uncertain whether those new crops can adapt to the Dahan's land, if they do, then the Yang family can be considered to have mastered the future of Dahan's agriculture.

"The student has met the teacher!" Yang Xiu respectfully bowed to the disciple, and the five Taicang government officials who had turned the ground rushed forward to pay respects to the new Taicang order.

There was no food in Taicang, so the former government servants left the job, but the Taicang and Fanglin Gardens of Nuoda had to be taken care of, so these five people were kept.

Liu Yu glanced at them and motioned for them to get up and talk.

Through Yang Xiu's introduction, he learned that Feng Mingli, the oldest of the five, and his brother-in-law Zhou Heng used to grow vegetables for the royal family in Fanglin Garden, and they are very experienced in farming.

The other three were all guards of Taicang. These three had never done farm work. Since there was nothing to guard in Taicang, they were dragged by Yang Xiu in the name of Taicang Prime Minister to dig the land.

It's just that the three of them have never done farm work, and they have been busy all morning before they want to give up their picks. Just now, the three of them discussed that they would resign tomorrow.

"Everyone has worked hard, here are thirty copper coins, which are your wages today!" After Liu Yu finished speaking, he handed the money to Yang Xiu and asked him to distribute it to five people immediately.

In fact, Liu Yu discovered the dissatisfaction of the three of them just now, and it was inevitable that they were hired to farm the fields after they were warehouse managers.

However, there must be brave men under the heavy rewards. I believe that after receiving the rewards, they will no longer feel the pain of farming.

Sure enough, the five yamen servants all looked overjoyed after receiving the copper coins. They all said that the new official took office three fires, but they never thought that Liu Yuyi would reward five people heavily when he came up, and said that as long as he worked hard in the future, he would be rewarded every day. award.

The five of them are the lowest-level personnel in the imperial city, and their monthly salary is only more than [-] catties of coarse grain, but Liu Yu can buy several catties of grain with one reward.

If they could get these rewards every day, their little days would be changed drastically, so how could they not be moved.

"Thank you Master Taicang Ling, we will all obey your orders in the future!" Feng Li and the others kowtowed in gratitude.

And the three people who wanted to resign before have also changed their minds, and they can get a lot of rewards for farming every day. Where can I find such a good job!
Seeing that several people had tasted the sweetness, Liu Yu's expression gradually became serious.

"The rewards will be distributed on time every day, but the five of you must strictly follow my rules. If anyone breaks the rules, don't blame me for being rude!"

Liu Yu's prestige outside Hulao Pass has long spread throughout Luoyang, but now that he is only slightly stricter, these five people feel pressured.

In just a cup of tea, Liu Yu crushed the five yamen servants to death, which benefited Yang Xiu a lot.

It is also a carrot with a whip, giving some sweetness first and then waving the whip, which is always more deeply rooted in the hearts of the people than scolding first and then praising.

After beating the five yamen servants, Liu Yu handed the bag to Yang Xiu.

Liu Yu said: "Here are the seeds of some new crops. In the future, Dezu will have to worry more about things in Fanglin Garden!"

Yang Xiu took the bag solemnly and replied that the teacher should rest assured.

Then Liu Yu briefly talked about the experimental field and the planting of new crops.

Liu Yu is very confident in the planting of new crops, because these crops have long been verified in later generations to adapt to the soil of China.

So he kept cheering Yang Xiu up and letting him do whatever he wanted.

And Yang Xiu is a trustworthy person, since he is willing to gamble and lose, he can only set up a test field for Liu Yu, and Liu Yu also said that as long as these new species bear fruit, then their master-student relationship can be dissolved.

"Students will definitely do their best for the experimental field, but there is a slight shortage of manpower, and I have checked that among the five people, there is also a senior farmer. I am afraid that if the experimental field really has a bumper harvest, there may be someone Came here to take credit."

Da Sinong is a scholar, Sun Rui, who is still loyal to the Han court. Liu Yu believes that he will not destroy the experimental field in Fanglin Garden for his own self-interest.

But Yang Xiu's reminder is not unreasonable. Bao Buqi will attract the attention of others after the experimental field produces results.

In fact, it is precisely because of this consideration that Liu Yu wants to set up a test field in the imperial city. On the one hand, it can reduce the prying eyes of more idlers, and on the other hand, it can temporarily divert everyone's attention from the plantation outside Hulao Pass. come here.

Hulaoguan sowed more than half a month earlier than Fanglin Garden, so they could harvest ahead of time under the cover of Fanglin Garden, so that they would not be afraid of being missed by others.

After all, Liu Yu invested more in Hulaoguan, but whether it was Hulaoguan or the experimental field of Fanglin Garden, they were all for cultivating more seeds.

In his plan, the output of the first three years will be treated as seeds, and no one can taste and leak it at will during this period.

"Dezu will solve the manpower problem by himself. As for the security and confidentiality of the garden, I will let Liu Bei lead some people to take care of it!"

In the end, out of some considerations, Liu Yu asked Yang Xiu to keep the five yamen servants.

(End of this chapter)