He Yunxi took brothers Fufeng and Mo Ye, as well as brothers Song Jiang and Song He who were waiting at the city gate, to avoid the hottest noon and work hard at other times, arriving in Liaozhou two days later.
They encountered several waves of refugees on the road, but they had nothing to offer and turned a blind eye to them. However, another wave of people took a fancy to their horses and wanted to rob them and take them back. However, Mo Xin and others
Solved quickly.
Cleaning up such robbers can be regarded as eliminating harm to the people.
It was evening when we arrived in Liaozhou. The group did not stop in the city and went directly to Zhuangzi in the suburbs.
What greeted her was Lu Qiu, the head of Zhuangzi, who was hired by Lu Yan to manage Zhuangzi.
"Madam, more than half of the corn has been harvested and has been dried and weighed. The other half will be harvested according to your request when you come back." Lu Qiu said, "Madam, do you want to go see it now or take a rest first and wait for tomorrow?
Go again."
"Let's go now." He Yunxi asked as he walked: "How much was the harvest from drying before?"
Lu Qiu was very excited when he mentioned this, and said: "Madam, the harvest from the first-class land is 1,400 jins, the harvest from the medium-grade land is 1,200 jins, and the harvest from the low-grade land is 950 jins."
The yield was higher than that of other crops, but it was still a little less than she had expected.
"Will the weather still have an impact on the harvest this year?"
"It must have an impact." Lu Qiu responded, "Although everyone has been using water for irrigation in the past two months, there is not much water source after all, so the water used for irrigation is still poor. If the weather is good like in previous years, the output can still increase.
One percent.”
He Yunxi nodded, Lu Qiu was also an expert at farming, so what he said should be right.
When they came to the field, they first saw a field where the corn had been cut off. Because they were too busy, the remaining corn stalks had not been cut down. However, because there was no watering later, the corn stalks were completely yellow.
Walking forward, He Yunxi saw the corn stalks, which were still green. She looked at them on the way and was quite satisfied with the plumpness of the corn. Unfortunately, the corn now was old and could not be used to cook tender corn, which was a bit regretful.
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"I don't have much time to stay here, I can only stay for five days at most. Let's start letting people come over tomorrow to continue harvesting corn, and try to expose it before I leave."
"This should be no problem. The weather is too hot now, three or four days in the sun is enough." Lu Qiu said.
All the long-term workers in this village came to break the corn before dawn the next day. Except Fufeng, everyone else also went to help.
Mo Xin never thought that one day he, a martial arts master, would come to help harvest corn.
After breaking and shucking the corn, he felt how difficult it was for the farmers. There were many of them, and each of the top-grade and medium-grade fields harvested an acre in half a day.
"If it's too late for the others, just break them off first, keep the shells, and then hang them up in the air and dry them." He Yunxi said, "Be sure to collect them all before the Mid-Autumn Festival. Dry and put away everything that can be dried.
Don’t let the harvest get wet.”
Lu Qiu was surprised: "Madam, did you say it will rain after the Mid-Autumn Festival?"
He Yunxi shook his head: "I'm not sure. But the wandering Taoist priest who predicted a cold disaster and drought before said that this drought will last until the Mid-Autumn Festival. For those of us, we would rather believe that it exists, and it would be better to harvest before then."
When Lu Qiu heard that it was said by the Taoist priest Youfang, who predicted cold disasters and severe droughts, he felt that it would be possible to rain during the Mid-Autumn Festival. It seemed that he would have to keep an eye on the corn and quickly take it back, even if it couldn't be peeled.
You can also find a place to hang it to dry.
Four days later, He Yunxi and the others harvested a lot more. The two acres they had just harvested were already dried in the sun. He Yunxi had someone use a scale to weigh them. One weighed 1,420 kilograms, and the other weighed 1,190 kilograms.
The average is about the same.
"Jingjiu." She called softly, and Jingjiu immediately came to her from the darkness.
"Can you pass this data to the emperor?" He Yunxi asked.
"The emperor said that he cannot send your information back without permission, but if you ask for it, he can send it back."
"Okay, then you can pass this back." He Yunxi took out a piece of paper, "There are planting methods and yields on it."
Nowadays, some people are still planting corn, but because of the low yield, fewer and fewer people are planting it. If this planting method is promoted and the output increases significantly, then more and more people will grow it again.
After all, food can save lives.
Jingjiu took the note and left.
After what happened with the ice and the fan, he admired He Yunxi's broad-mindedness. Now that she would share the method of growing corn, he was also surprised, but he admired her even more.
He knew that He Yunxi came back specifically so that he could see the corn yield with his own eyes and then ask himself to report the yield. The emperor knew that he would not lie.
He used an expedited delivery method to send back the corn matter. The emperor was shocked when he received the message. With this, how many more people could be fed!
He continued to look back, and not surprisingly saw a way to increase corn yields.
He brought the Minister of Hubu, the Minister of Hubu, and the head of agriculture into the palace, and asked about corn. He learned that the current planting method wastes more seeds, and the harvest is still low, with only five or six acres of land.
One hundred catties. Many people now no longer plant corn, and they couldn't help but frown.
"If the output is so low, why don't you think of ways to increase it?"
As soon as the emperor got angry, Chief Sinong knelt on the ground, his body trembling, and said tremblingly: "We also thought of ways, but the results are not good."
Seeing the other person's behavior, the emperor thought that he was also an old farmer, so he called the person up and sent him away.
The Minister of Hubu and others were still wondering when they left the palace. The emperor summoned them into the palace, asked them about the corn, and then let them out. What does this mean?
The emperor dismissed the people and said: "These people are too stupid. They are not as smart as a person from Chang'an."
Li Yu echoed from the side, "How can the Lord of Chang'an County not be smart? He is a person born with knowledge!"
However, the character of the chief of Chang'an County is also very good. After meeting these things, he only thinks about the emperor and the common people.
It is precisely because of this that the emperor values him so much.
The emperor then gave the method of planting corn to the chief agricultural officer, without telling him about the yield. He just asked him to experiment next year. The chief agricultural officer saw that only so many seeds were used in one acre of land, and they were so separated, could there be a good yield?
?
But the emperor had spoken, and he didn't dare not listen. He could only wait until next spring to experiment.
He Yunxi rushed back to Fucheng day and night. After changing his clothes, he happened to pick Lu Yan out of the examination room.