Cui Heng thought for a moment and shook his head: "At that time, the Jin Dynasty was just beginning, and the heads of various aristocratic families were busy making achievements and did not pay attention to the movements of King Pengcheng."
Furthermore, he was young at the time and couldn't remember what happened.
Xie Yuan pursed his lips.
Fine.
After the Qingming Festival, Xie Yuan and Huo Qubing returned to Longgang Academy.
New sweet potato seedlings and rice have been sown, and the new fields that Xie Yuan ordered the tenant farmers to cultivate earlier are also ready.
After Xie Yuan returned, he took out peanut and cassava seeds and began to cultivate the first generation seedlings.
With his previous experience in cultivating sweet potatoes, Xie Yuan used the manual provided by the system to prepare an ancient version of the nutrient soil, and quickly cultivated peanut seedlings and cassava seedlings.
By the time they were transplanted into the greenhouse, it was already May.
"Lord, what are you planting this time?" Huo Qubing looked at these green crops with a curious look on his face.
"It's peanuts and cassava. Cassava and sweet potato are generally widely planted and can tolerate barrenness. As for peanuts... they can be cooked, fried, steamed, or eaten raw, which is good for the heart and courage. If there is a lot of production this year, they can be used to extract oil."
Huo Qubing: “Extract oil??”
"Yes, use peanuts to squeeze oil." Xie Yuan nodded.
Huo Qubing clicked his tongue.
What they eat is usually flax oil or lard from the Western Regions. This is the first time I have heard of peanut oil.
But since it was cultivated by the Lord, this peanut oil must be very fragrant.
Xie Yuan looked at the groundnut seedlings that had begun to grow and rubbed his chin.
After the economy moved southward and the silk industry in Jiangnan developed, he wanted to go south to do business, and tried to get the spinning wheel out, and then used peanut oil to lubricate silk to spin silk, reducing manpower and increasing output.
Hmm, it feels feasible.
…
On May 5th, a young man wearing a bamboo hat came to the academy and asked to see Xie Yuan.
"Sir, there is a gentleman who claims to be from Longxi. He wants to see you and asks me to pass this to you." The boy handed a plant to Xie Yuan.
It's a sweet potato seedling.
Xie Yuan paused, put down the pen he was practicing on, and looked up at the boy: "Where is that young man now?"
"Go back to Mr. Xiao, he is at the gate of the academy. Please lead him in and bring him to me."
"Here."
…
The young man followed the book boy inside and looked at the plants and trees here, feeling filled with emotion.
After the book boy took him to the small pavilion at the end of the corridor, the young man saw a man in cloth and silk scarf making tea.
The scholar bowed and left.
"Are you okay in Longxi?" Xie Yuan poured two cups of hot tea and placed them on the table, looking at the visitor with a smile.
The person who came was none other than Luo Chen.
Luo Chen took off his bamboo hat, bowed to Xie Yuan, and spoke in an authentic Central Plains official accent: "Thanks to Mr. Xiao, everything in the Luo family is well in Longxi."
Probably because he has been working in the fields for a long time, the boy's originally fair skin has been tanned to the color of wheat, making him look a bit like a tenant farmer with his face turned to the loess and his back to the sky, but there is still a bit of nobility that cannot be concealed between his brows and eyes.
"Why did you think of coming to my academy?" Xie Yuan motioned for him to take a seat.
"My father was grateful to the little gentleman for saving my whole family. He thought that I was still young and could not farm with them all the time, so he asked me to follow the little gentleman and learn the six arts of the Central Plains from him."
Luo Chen touched his head and said, "I'm a little stupid. I don't know if Mr. Xiao is willing to take me in."
"If you are willing to learn, I am naturally willing to teach you." Xie Yuan nodded, and then asked after thinking of something, "I heard that the Li family in Longxi deliberately made things difficult for you after you moved there."
The Li family in Longxi was also a famous family, and they were part of the famous Guanlong Group in later generations.
It's just that they don't seem to have squeezed into the center of power yet.
Half a year ago, the Yu Jiulu family had just changed its name to Luo family, and when they moved into Longxi, the Li family soon knew about it.
They came over to take a look and called him a good guy.
The entire Luo clan is a foreign race, and they are planning to invade the Central Plains.
If Luo Chen and his father hadn't brought out the customs clearance document forged by Xie Yuan and said that they moved here from the Western Regions, the imperial court would have regarded Luo as a Dong Hu spy and sent troops to encircle and suppress them. This chapter has been completed!