Qiao Lan wiped the glass sign dry and stuffed it into her arms, ready to take it home with her.
Since it is a relic of our ancestors, it must be properly kept.
Although she didn't know who deliberately arranged her to live in such a broken house, Qiao Lan was still happy that she discovered a fellow villager in this world by accident.
Thank you to that kind person and wish her good health!
Now that the prayers have ended, it is time for His Majesty to take the courtiers back to Beijing.
The etiquette when going back is different from when you came out. You have to follow His Majesty to get into the carriage first, and they can wait outside to see His Majesty off before they can set off.
Qiao Lan got up early in the morning and was about to go to see off His Majesty outside the Ancestral Temple, but she heard that something had happened to Concubine Sang and she was not in good health, so His Majesty returned to the palace early and did not need them to see her off.
After listening to the eunuch's message, Qiao Lan felt a little sad!
She sincerely wishes her blessings! How could this happen?
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Your Majesty takes the first step, so there is no need for them to go out to see him off.
Aunt Xiang was packing her things in the hall in a hurry, while Qiao Lan and Duan Mingqing slowly walked around the hall.
Qiao Lan wandered around, her eyes filled with the desolation of winter.
Maybe this area has been sealed for too long and no one has taken care of it. Now the snowdrift next to it has been shoveled, and the dirty snow and dead firewood are piled together, revealing the traces of weeds growing in disorder around it, making it very desolate.
If we insist on talking about some scenery, maybe it is only the red plums sticking out from the wall that bring a bit of life.
Qiao Lan picked up a red plum that had been blown down by the wind, twirled it between her fingertips and looked at it for a few times.
The servants in the Ancestral Temple entered the courtyard one after another. When they saw Qiao Lan standing here, they all came over to pay their respects.
Qiao Lan nodded and let them in.
During the past few days in the Imperial Ancestral Temple, Qiao Lan kept the system map open. Qiao Lan could see that many slaves had been hired into other courtyards to take care of these temples.
But in other courtyards, four people entered, but here six people entered?
Qiao Lan looked at the backs of the slaves with curiosity.
What do these two extra people do?
Qiao Lan asked the system to put a light-colored mark on them.
What if it works?
After admiring the unattractive scenery in the yard for a while, Qiao Lan took Duan Mingqing into the carriage and went home.
The family is still waiting for them.
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As the saying goes, a year is another year.
As long as we get through the coldest part of the year, next spring will be filled with endless vitality.
It was just the New Year, and Qiao Lan took a look at her accumulated points and began to vacillate between cotton and pepper.
The emergence of the Little Ice Age was accompanied by various extreme climate activities, which led to a significant reduction in crop yields.
The cooling is a great problem for people in the north and south, but not every winter will be very cold.
Severe winter is not the main problem, but reduced grain production is. Rye can solve the problem of food shortage, followed by keeping warm.
Cold-repelling peppers are useful, and cotton is also useful. Qiao Lan struggled between the two options for a long time and came to a conclusion. The main reason is that she is too poor. If she were not so poor, it might not be a problem. She has the
Points can't buy anything.
Let's just spend some prestige points with peace of mind and wait for He Lanfeng to get her out of the capital before thinking about what to plant.
Qiao Lan gave part of the rye seeds to the nobles as agreed last year.
In addition, some rye seeds were sent to each state capital at the request, and the rest was distributed to the people around the capital, leaving only about a hundred acres of land for his own village.
Because it was unpalatable, there was little demand for rye in the palace.
As the number of Beijing rye seeds increases, the number of rye seeds in the system decreases accordingly.
One pound only costs 4 points, which is approximately equivalent to two taels of silver.
Although it was much cheaper than the first purchase price, Qiao Lan still felt it was very expensive!
If you could resell the rye you grow to the mall at this price, it would not be a dream to directly earn hundreds of thousands of points a year, but unfortunately you can't!
We have to work hard for another year.
As soon as the weather got a little warmer, Qiao Lan took her men back to the village to prepare for next year's spring plowing.
After Qiao Lan went to look around the fields, she started writing this year's planting plan.
After finishing writing, she planned to compare it with the report given by the system. She wanted to see how different what she had learned in the past few years was from the scientific statistics of the system.
The smaller the gap, the greater her progress.
After finishing writing, Qiao Lan compared it, just like a top student who finished his winter vacation homework comparing the reference answers at the end of the homework.
Quite satisfied.
The biggest difference between her and the system data is this year's pest rate.
The pest rate has dropped a lot this year, perhaps because of the heavy snowfall in winter.
Snowstorms are a bad thing for people, but not for crops in the fields. If the snow falls hard enough, many insect eggs in the fields will freeze to death in the winter, thus reducing insect damage next year.
The vigorous growth of natural crops has a certain relationship with human activities, and has the greatest relationship with natural climate changes.
Qiao Lan supplemented this year's planting plan and handed it over to the farmers below.
By the way, I recalled my few students, and it was time to teach them something useful.
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It is not an easy task to cultivate high-yielding and pest-resistant crops in Beijing. This involves some genetic issues. Qiao Lan does not have various scientific instruments in his hands, so he can do nothing but teach them some slow and efficient methods.
, and a slightly dumber way.
For example, colchicine is used to induce polyploidy.
Colchicine is an alkaloid that widely exists in plants in nature. Because the first plant to be extracted was colchicine, it is called colchicine.
Colchicine can induce polyploidy, and breeding with polyploidy can change grain yield. The disadvantage is that it does not retain seeds.
Seedless watermelons are cultivated from polyploids.
Qiao Lan's first experimental subject is lilies, and he plans to extract colchicine from lilies because lilies are easily available in Beijing.
At first, Qiao Lan followed the method in the book and used ethanol to extract colchicine, so she distilled some high-concentration wine.
But by some strange combination of circumstances, someone brought ethanol to the palace, which even caused quite a stir.
In addition, the subsequent ethanol experiment took more time than she imagined, and the experimental results were not satisfactory.
It was very common for cultivation to fail. The direction of cultivation was difficult to control, and all experiments had to be carried out secretly. Qiao Lan quickly gave up on this plan.
No matter how hard she tries to cultivate, the polyploid she creates will still need to be crossed again, and no seeds will be retained. She cannot be counted on to cultivate this kind of thing forever.
Generally speaking, it cannot be said that the system provides good seeds.
But things are different now. The nobles have tried their best to get a group of disciples for her, and they are here for their own breeding skills.
It makes no sense not to teach them. Besides, if they learn it, it will be beneficial to Beijing's planting industry.
So Qiao Lan planned to teach them how to cultivate polyploids.