In the evening, Chen Qing returned to his mansion and heard that Yao Mei was also pregnant. He was overjoyed and immediately decided that if she was pregnant with a boy, he would call her Chen Xiang.
Chen Qing chatted with his wife Lu Xiu for a while, and then called his son Chen Ji to the study. Chen Ji was fourteen years old this year. He knelt down and saluted respectfully, "A child sees his father and sees his mother!"
"Get up!"
Chen Ji stood up and stood aside with his hands down. Chen Qing asked, "Are you still studying with Master recently?"
"Reporting to my father, starting from next year, the master wants my son to learn to read, but he may not have told his father yet."
Chen Qing smiled and said: "You still have read the Four Books and Five Classics in government studies. Haven't you read enough?"
"Master said that my child did not understand the saint's explanations in the scriptures thoroughly enough, especially Mr. Banshan's annotations on the scriptures. My child needs to study it carefully again, so I want my child to study at the Guozi School for another three years."
Chen Qing was a little unhappy. Lu Cunyi wanted to teach his son to be a nerd. Of course he understood Lu Cunyi's intention. They, the great scholars, wanted to mold their son into the king they wanted. This was not acceptable.
Next to him, Lu Xiu smiled and asked, "What about you? Do you want to go to Guozixue to continue studying?"
Chen Ji thought for a while and said, "My child wants to study in Guozi, but he doesn't want to read the Four Books and Five Classics anymore."
"Go! Go to bed early and get up early tomorrow."
"My child obeys!"
"Can this wooden house be built?" Chen Qing asked.
"Other craftsmen are responsible for installing the glazed glass. You just build the wooden house. Can you build it in two days?"
"But if my husband takes him to Taixue tomorrow, won't everyone in Taixue know his identity? Is that possible?"
Everyone exclaimed, "The yield per mu is three thousand kilograms, which is simply terrible."
Liu Xiangyang took Chen Qing to the Agricultural College. Liu Xiangyang asked someone to take out a box of potatoes from the warehouse. Chen Qing knelt down to select them. He found that most of them were black and rotten, which really made him feel distressed. After selecting them, he finally...
Only fifteen potatoes are left intact, but if they are not planted, all this batch of potatoes will be destroyed. I don’t know if the Yuezhou batch of potatoes can survive.
"What trouble?"
Several craftsmen discussed it and said: "Reporting to Your Highness, it is very simple to build a wooden house, but we will not install this kind of transparent glass."
Chen Ji bowed and left. Lu Xiu said to her husband, "Do you not want Ji'er to go to school in the government?"
Chen Qing said to Liu Xiangyang again: "You can find a piece of farmland with fertile land, broad views, and plenty of sunshine. Use the pumpkin field from last year to build wooden houses for them. The Liulic Fang I require must be completed within three days.
"
Chen Qing drew another simple picture and asked Liu Xiangyang to find a few old carpenters in Taixue who knew how to build wooden houses, and showed them the drawing, "Do you understand this house?"
Chen Qing further explained: "Actually, its roof and walls are made of windows one by one, and then transparent glazed glass is installed on all the windows. Do you know about transparent glazed windows?"
"Okay! After the construction is completed, each person will be rewarded with ten coins!"
"After the six departments are pushed back, quickly transport all the transparent glass to Taixue. If it is needed urgently, we will also find all the craftsmen who install the windows!"
"Take me to see it."
Chen Qing added: "The key is that it can be grown anywhere, even in the mountains. Unlike wheat and rice, which have to be grown in the plains, it is of great significance to the mountainous areas. From now on, people in the mountainous areas will also have their own food."
"Don't worry, everyone, maybe I have a solution."
Chen Qing nodded, "Tomorrow morning, my father is going to inspect the Imperial College. You can go with me!"
Liu Xiangyang accompanied Chen Qing to the Agricultural College. Chen Qing asked: "I asked Liu Dajiang to send a batch of potatoes before, did you get them?"
Chen Qing also came to this land. This land is indeed very suitable for growing potatoes in a sun house. It is flat, open, has fertile soil and has plenty of sunshine.
"Reporting to Your Highness, we have just burned a batch and are going to replace the windows for the Sixth Department of Shangshu Province. It costs about several thousand yuan."
Liu Xiangyang said quickly: "Report to Your Highness, I got it. I have sent my humble post to the Agricultural College, but now I am in a bit of trouble."
Liu Xiangyang suddenly became anxious, "What should we do? It happens to be winter now. If we plant it, it will freeze to death."
"We have all seen it, like crystal, completely transparent, much brighter than the previous colored glaze."
The craftsmen were overjoyed and agreed repeatedly.
Half an hour later, Luo Zhenyu, the chief registrar of Shaofu Temple, hurried over and said, "I'm sorry to see you, Your Highness!"
The leader of the old craftsmen nodded and said: "This is a wooden house, one foot wide and five feet long. It is actually a frame, with no walls and no tiles. Do you understand correctly?"
Chen Qing sighed, "Everyone, it is a kind of grain. The yield of three thousand kilograms of grain per mu, do you think the weight is important?"
Chen Qing frowned, "Are the things still there?"
Several craftsmen nodded, "The materials are all ready, so it's not a big problem!"
Chen Qing thought for a while and gave a few instructions to a soldier. The soldier got on his horse and galloped away.
Although Liu Xiangyang was confused, he did not dare to neglect and quickly agreed to let a few old craftsmen go to see the land.
If we don't remedy it, it will be too late. Chen Qing felt a little anxious and said to Liu Xiangyang and the teachers and students present: "These potatoes are shipped from Nanyang, and it is difficult to find them in Nanyang. It may be just such an opportunity. If you lose it,
, will make everyone regret it.”
"My child, please leave!"
Chen Qing himself went to Taixue. The Xuezheng of Taixue is now Liu Xiangyang. The former Xuezheng Zheyanzhi has now become a Privy Council member and will no longer succeed Xuezheng of Taixue.
Chen Qing shook his head, "If he continues to study, he will become a nerd. He will say poems all day long. The real talents who help the world will not know how to do it. They do not know the sufferings of the people and the ways of the world. I am not asking him to be the county magistrate. He wants to
To control hundreds of officials and an army of millions, to rule the world, I want him to go to Taixue to study agriculture."
"When he brought it, half of the potatoes had sprouted, but it's winter now and we can't plant them in the soil. They will definitely be frozen."
Chen Qing asked: "Let me ask you, how much transparent glass is left in the warehouse, which is the flat transparent glass used to install windows in Yongwang Palace? How much is left?"
"Still there!"
Early the next morning, Chen Qing brought his son Chen Ji to the Internal Affairs Hall and handed him over to Zhou Kuan, so that he could understand the government affairs.
Chen Qing thought about it and it was right. His son had to hide his identity to study. "My wife reminded me, forget it tomorrow, I will go to Taixue by myself, and Ji'er will go to the Internal Affairs Hall to study government affairs."
The solution Chen Qing came up with was to build a glass greenhouse so that potatoes could be grown even in winter.
"Exactly!"
Luo Zhenyu was promoted to the chief registrar of Shaofu Temple because of his success in making transparent colored glaze, but he was also in charge of transparent colored glaze.
Everyone was puzzled, and Liu Xiangyang asked: "Your Highness, what are the characteristics of this kind of potato?"
Chen Qing asked Liu Xiangyang to cooperate with the craftsmen in building wooden houses and provide them with all the materials and transportation tools they needed. He then asked the agriculture professor in charge of growing pumpkins: "Can you grow yam eggs?"
Yams are a specialty of Guanzhong, and yam eggs are also produced in many places. They are a dish for ordinary people and are very common in Guanzhong.
The agriculture professor nodded, "In my humble job, I grow yam eggs."
"This potato is grown in the same way as yams and yam eggs. After the glazed house is built and the sun shines in, although it is cold outside, the house is warmer than spring and it will not be cold at night. Just plant potatoes inside.
, it will be harvested next spring, and then widely planted. If the planting is successful, I will be promoted to a doctorate in your agricultural college."
"Please rest assured, Your Highness, we can produce three thousand kilograms of grain per acre. Even if we work hard to grow it successfully, we will risk our lives!"