In July of the fifth year of Tiansheng, during the season of fire, the fruits planted in the spring have begun to grow vigorously, and bunches of rhizomes have grown under the buds in the ground. The farmers are full of joy, even if they are in the fields.
Farm boys also know how amazing the yield of these roots is.
Summer harvest is generally something that only happens in the south, but Tokyo City ushered in a summer harvest that attracted worldwide attention this year. With a memorial from Sinong Temple, Zhao Zhen and Liu E personally drove to the outskirts of Tokyo City.
Also coming with him were all the civil and military officials.
It's one thing to know about good seeds, but it's another thing to see the harvest with your own eyes.
The farmers outside Tokyo were shocked by this scene. Many of them could hardly see the sky even during the Chinese New Year, but this time they could really see it, not from a high tower.
Just standing in the field of my home.
Of course, not only the civil and military officials came with the car, but also a large number of people from the city of Tokyo. People from the inner and outer cities followed the imperial car and swarmed in after it passed by.
Usually people from outside the city flock to the city, but today it was just the opposite. The soldiers outside Nanxun Gate stood straight, watching the emperor pass by and shouting "Long live".
Liu E now enjoys such courtesy more and more. She is now not only the queen mother with real power, but also the nominal head of the Song Dynasty. Zhao Zhen's young age means that she still has many years to control the Song Dynasty.
Moreover, Liu E also discovered that as long as she did things that were beneficial to the people, her reputation would get better and better in the Song Dynasty. Originally, she was in a deep palace and would not come into contact with the people at the lowest level in the Song Dynasty, but now
Differently, several appearances in Tokyo made her truly feel the "public opinion".
Because of the pacification of the Huanzhou Rebellion and the promotion of improved breeding, Liu E now has a very good reputation among the people. In addition, Buddhism has suffered a series of blows, and many people are even willing to set up immortality tablets for her at home.
This made the courtiers increasingly worried about Zhao Zhen's status and worried that Liu E had crossed the insurmountable "red line."
The old farmer tremblingly held up a bunch of potatoes and presented them to Zhao Zhen, who was wearing red uniforms. He said compliments, and the peasant woman next to him also presented the potatoes in her hands to Liu E.
Such a picture was so impactful that the people around him cheered and many even cried. These bunches of potatoes represented everything. No one dared to lie in front of the public, and no one dared to lie in public again.
False auspiciousness deceives the world.
"Officials, give the order!"
Even if Liu E has today's status, she still has to let Zhao Zhen do the things on the surface. After all, she still has to protect Zhao Zhen's face when Zhao Zhen is around, otherwise the officials will not agree.
"Declaration, summer harvest begins in the suburbs of Tokyo!" With Zhao Zhen's childish voice, an unprecedented summer harvest began on the land closest to Tokyo.
There are not only farmers in the fields, but also a large number of officials. The Third Division has sent officials who are responsible for grain statistics. These people were previously responsible for the distribution of lumi by Beijing officials, and Sinong Temple is also responsible for the output of each mu of land.
officials to ensure that the data is accurate and error-free.
Different from previous summer harvests, this unprecedented summer harvest was carried out on an acre-by-acre basis, with officials responsible for each acre of land, and even farmers could receive help and guidance during harvesting.
Officials from Sinong Temple went to the fields in person to participate in the summer harvest, which was simply impossible in the past.
The people of Tokyo came to see the excitement, and they also wanted to know whether the improved seeds that had been rumored for a long time really existed, but soon screams of exclamation sounded in the fields, and more and more potatoes were dug out.
Ye An stood on the ridge of the field and looked at the huge potatoes in front of him without saying a word for a long time. He clearly remembered that the potatoes he brought were all yellow potatoes. These potatoes were not very large in size and very yellow in color, but now these yellow potatoes were all different.
As if on stimulants, it grows as big as a white potato, but the color is still orange-yellow.
Cut one open with a knife, and the yellow inside was even more obvious. For a moment, Ye An wondered if he had remembered it wrong. Other than that, the only explanation was that after these potatoes arrived in the land of Song Dynasty, they lost potassium fertilizer in the land.
Most of the reasons are that they grow big and yellow.
Yellow potatoes have an excellent taste and are soft, waxy and mellow after being roasted. However, the potatoes harvested in the palace and Yangcheng County were not as big as this, but growing big is not a bad thing.
At least the people around were cheering. In their opinion, the bigger the edible crops, the better.
When the people watching from a distance saw that the potatoes harvested from one acre of land were enough to pile up a hill, they all exclaimed in amazement, and the sound of breathing could be heard even while standing in the field.
High-yielding grain has always been what the Han people have longed for, and they have never stopped pursuing it. Zhenzong's incident of Zhancheng rice caused the Song Dynasty's grain output to increase rapidly, but the increase in rice output was still unable to satisfy the Song Dynasty's increasing demand.
population.
Now the emergence of potatoes can almost make up for this shortcoming, and potatoes can not only be used as rations, but also become dishes on the table. They have varied tastes and can be eaten in many ways. Together with sweet potatoes, they can almost meet the per capita rations of the Song Dynasty in this era.
required.
As long as there is enough food and people have no worries, they will focus on material life, and all kinds of commodities will spring up like mushrooms after a rain.
Even Ye An, who was doing business, hoped that the agriculture of the Song Dynasty would be prosperous and solid. In this era, agriculture will always be the foundation, while commerce has become the "superstructure".
Ye An does not have the so-called lofty vision, he only has eyes that can clearly see the objective laws of the development of things.
The mountains of potatoes were piled together, which was shocking and also broke everyone's doubts. Facts are always tenable.
The suspicions and speculations about Ye An and the good seed in the court were instantly wiped out. Those censors who had impeached Ye An before immediately apologized to Ye An after seeing the results. They didn't care about their previous doubts about Ye An, let alone in public.
Admit their mistake, all they care about is what these improved seeds can bring to the people of the Song Dynasty.
Ye An sighed in his heart, these censors are actually a group of quite pure people. Of course, it is their rights and responsibilities to stick to their duties within the reasonable scope of their authority.
The censors trained under the political system of the Song Dynasty were hardly the kind of young people who were slightly angry and concerned about their own future. They had their own ambitions and hoped to realize their ambitions by supervising courtiers to combat corruption and successfully rise to power.
The rank of the censor was not high, but he had the power to supervise all officials. The censors of the Song Dynasty followed the Tang system, and there were many types.
Together they formed the Yushitai.
The most powerful one among them is Liu Yun, the censor Zhongcheng who is having a "cordial" conversation with Ye An.
"I know very well who you Ye An are, and you want to disturb the court by yourself? I advise you to proceed with caution..." Liu Jun took the potato in his hand and looked at it repeatedly, but he said completely unrelated words.
Facing this old man, Ye An had no power to resist him at all. He originally planned to find an excuse to escape, but he didn't know that he didn't like it at all.