Farmer’s Little Girl

  Chapter 3181 Surprise

After Gu Zhong retired, the emperor asked Wei Zhi, "What happened, so tired that Ai Qing entered the palace on a poisonous day?"

  Wei Zhi gave the box after giving the gift, "Your Majesty, this is Bai Shan sent back from Beihai County. It is a gift to your Majesty and Da Jin."

  The emperor took the box and asked as he opened it, "What gift? My birthday has not arrived."

Wei Zhi didn't speak. The emperor had already opened it and saw the ear of rice and the fold inside. He skipped the fold, first curiously picked up the ear of rice and looked at it, and said speechlessly: "Would you give me a ear of rice from a thousand miles away? Don’t you know how expensive it is to exchange letters?"

  Looking at him, he saw that there was something wrong. He looked carefully with the ears of rice, and he squinted his eyes slightly when he felt the heavy weight.

  The emperor attached great importance to farming. Every year the dragon raised his head, he would go down to plow the ground, worship the heavens, and pray for blessings. In autumn, he would naturally go to the imperial farm to see the harvest of the crops.

  He also farmed the fields. The rice ears he had seen in the past did not seem to be so long, with so many grains and fullness, right?

   Seeing that he had discovered it, Wei Zhi bent over and said, "Your Majesty, this is a new rice seed cultivated by the Zhou family in six years. Now Beihai County, Qingzhou and Luojiang County, Mianzhou each have six stones per acre."

  The emperor got up from the seat with a start, and he dazzled before his eyes. He raised his head and rubbed his forehead, and asked excitedly: "Really?"

  Wei Zhi lowered his head, did not see it, lowered his head and said loudly: "Your Majesty, Bai Shan will not cheat on this matter, he wrote clearly in the booklet."

  The emperor quickly picked up the folder and looked at it.

Wei Zhi then raised his head to look at him. Seeing that his eyes were getting brighter and his face flushed, he waited for him to look at Zhezi while introducing: "Master Zhou has a nephew who is now an official of Luojiang County in Mianzhou. He is planted in Luojiang. The county’s fine seeds were brought back by him, and he and his father cultivated them for the past six years. When the letter was sent, they only harvested a piece of land and weighed the raw rice. The yield per mu is six and a half stones. If it is dried, It's about five stones."

  The emperor has read Bai Shan's folds in a glance and ten lines, which also records the test process in the Putun test field in detail.

  He couldn't hear what Wei Zhi was saying behind him, so he fixed his eyes on the last test data of the Zhezi.

  Wei Zhi saw that the emperor was silent for a long time, and he knew what he was looking at after a glance, so he said: "Your Majesty, Your Majesty——"

  The emperor raised his eyes and glanced at him in disgust, then continued to look down at Zhezi, "What is it called, I can hear you, let's talk about it."

"Your Majesty, although the experimental data on Bai Shanzhezi is good-looking, it is an experiment. According to Zhuang Shixiang, they will pay more attention to the experimental field. Not only do they give the best fertilizer, they always ensure enough water, weeding and catching insects. The energy consumed is more than five times that of ordinary rice fields, so the minister thinks that the experimental field can be bred, but its yield cannot be used as a standard, at least it has to be reduced."

The emperor said: "The above data shows that the dried rice can have seven stones and it is more than 22 kilograms. That is to say, raw rice may reach nine stones. Even if the average paddy field is not as good as the experimental field, it should not be directly less. Shall we go to Three Rocks? One third."

  It hurts to think about it.

  Wei Zhi knew that the emperor’s old problems had committed again.

  He said: "Your Majesty, the output of this new rice seed is twice as high as the current one. That is to say, if it can be planted in the world, the harvest of rice in the world in the coming year will be twice the current..."

  I get excited just thinking about it, okay?

  The emperor clenched the folder in his hand, his eyes brightened, "If we continue to cultivate improved seeds to make the seeds even better, so that the harvest of ordinary farmland can be as good as the current experimental field data, it will be three times the current..."

  Wei Zhi: "...that's right." This ambition is too big. If the seeds are cultivated so well, the rice yield per mu will not be so low for so many years.

  The emperor was very excited. As long as he thought about the various results after the increase in grain production, he was so excited that he could not sit still, wishing to run three horses in the Xi Neiyuan.

  He got up excitedly, turned around two times and looked back at Wei Zhi, “It seems that the Zhou family is very talented in farming. I vaguely remember that the new wheat seeds were also planted by the Zhou family.”

  Wei Zhi bowed his head and responded: "Yes."

  At that time, Yang Heshu also wrote a letter to ask for credit for the Zhou family, but the situation was complicated at that time, and the court only rewarded some property, but no other rewards.

  Because Yang Heshu is the main promoter, the credit mainly falls on him.

Wei Zhi thought of Mr. Zhuang’s suggestion from entering the palace, he paused and said, “I heard that the Zhou family is best at farming, one is Zhou Jia Dalang, and the other is Zhou Jia Saburo. It is Zhou Li, the son of Zhou Dalang, who focuses on management and experimentation, and all the experiment data comes from his hands."

  The emperor hurriedly asked, "That means Zhou Li is literate and studying?"

   "Yes, I remember that Zhou Man had two nephews who passed the Mingjing exam two years ago. Is that one of them?"

   "No," Wei Zhi was speechless. He said that the emperor hadn't heard him just now, and he could only say it again, "Zhou Lizhong is only an official in Luojiang County now."

  Emperor: "Eun Yin went in?"

   Zhou Man has achieved this position, and Enyin’s nephew can still do it.

   "No, he did it himself."

  The emperor nodded appreciatively, "I am ambitious."

  He paused and said: "Xuanzhuang Servant comes in."

  Wei Zhi went out to find Gu Zhong.

  Gu Zhong soon invited Mr. Zhuang over.

  The emperor asked enthusiastically: "Since the test field is in Pucun, should it still be there now?"

  Mr. Zhuang smiled and replied: "Yes."

   "Can there be this new rice seed in Napu Village? Has it all been harvested, or..."

  "The harvest has begun, but it has not been finished." Mr. Zhuang said: "This new rice plant has been planted in the paddy fields in the village of Pu this year."

  The emperor immediately got up, "Go, let's go out of the palace and have a look."

  Wei Zhi was taken aback, "Now?"

  The emperor was anxious, "If you don’t go now, what should I do when they are all cut off tomorrow? I want to see it with my own eyes."

  Although the emperor didn't think Bai Shan could lie, he still wanted to see it with his own eyes, mainly because the rice seed appeared suddenly to him, and he couldn't believe it.

  Wei Zhi also thought about it, he also wanted to see it in person.

   then agreed, "Does your majesty want honor, or..."

  "The ceremonial battle is too troublesome. When they are ready, I will almost arrive at Pucun. Let Yinli prepare and we will leave the city immediately."

  Mr. Zhuang looked down and thought for a moment, then raised his hand to salute and said: "Your Majesty, even if you want to wear micro clothes, you can't go out of the palace privately, the queen and the clan..."

  The emperor waved his hand in disgust, and wanted to dismiss it. Wei Zhi already said: "The servant Zhuang is right, so the clan is right, but the queen has to say it."

  　 I saw everyone’s comments in the last chapter, but don’t just look at the beauties. The last chapter is two foreshadowings. The protagonist is the emperor and Gu Zhong. I didn’t even give her a name.

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