Sign-in space: I grew rich in ancient times

Chapter 238
When Chen Boyu said this, he paused deliberately, and sure enough, Prime Minister Si Nongsi had doubts, so he asked, "Please tell me in detail whether this mutation is good or bad."

Chen Boyu nodded, then pointed to the rice field in front of him and said: "The rice in this field was originally made from local upland rice and hybridized with southern rice. We were lucky that there were variations in the new hybrid varieties that year. Variety, the rice of this mutant variety has longer panicles than rice, and has more seeds, and the seeds are also very full.

Our family was very happy at the time, but something went wrong when we milled the rice. The rice yield of this mutant variety was only [-]%. My daughter said that it might be that the southern rice is not suitable for our climate, but we are not without harvest. At least the rice yield of this new variety has improved, and the next step is to increase the rice yield.

Before spring plowing the next day, we used various methods to collect rice grown in more than a dozen different regions and in different environments, and then crossed with the mutated rice again.

Using the method of selecting the best from the best, we have cultivated no less than a dozen new varieties of rice in the past three years, and finally cultivated the high-yielding land-grown rice we want, and the rice production rate is guaranteed to be over [-]%.

After the cultivation of these two types of upland rice, my daughter said that it was not considered a success, and it would take at least three years to plant it. Take a look at the base of the increase and decrease of the yield per mu every year. Upland rice can only be considered successful in cultivation, as for drought-resistant wheat, it is also cultivated in the same way. "

Si Nong Si Cheng listened to Chen Boyu's words, and couldn't help sighing: "No wonder we have made no progress. In terms of innovation, we are not as good as your little lady. By the way, you just said that there are two kinds of high-yield upland rice, and you can take us there. Take a look, there is also a drought-resistant wheat that has been bred."

Chen Boyu was naturally happy, so he took Yu Jun and his party to another field to see the high-yield drought-resistant wheat, and then went to another Zhuangzi to see another high-yield upland rice.

As soon as Si Nong Sicheng saw the seeds of the rice, he knew about the characteristics of the two kinds of rice. He asked Chen Boyu: "The seeds of this kind of upland rice are elliptical. Longer and thinner, the milled rice is more sticky, right?"

Chen Boyu nodded: "My lord is worthy of being an expert, that's true. In addition, in terms of the quality of the rice, the land rice that I saw before, the rice that was milled, was translucent, but the rice that was milled from this piece of land rice is very white and shiny. , like pearls, so the rice milled from the rice in this field is named pearl rice by my daughter.

The rice milled from the rice in that field before, because the rice has a natural turquoise color and a strong rice fragrance, my daughter named it Bixiang rice. "

Hearing this, the Prime Minister of Sinong Temple spoke with anticipation in his eyes: "Hearing what Doctor Chen said, I look forward to tasting these two new rices even more."

Chen Boyu laughed and said, "The rice in this rice field will be harvested in a few days, and I will let the adults eat this new rice."

And the Zuo Shilang of the Ministry of Industry, who has never had a sense of existence, finally found an opportunity to speak at this moment: "Doctor Chen, I don't know who invited to plan and build the water conservancy on your farm?"

Chen Boyu glanced at Yu Jun, seeing him nodding, he smiled and said, "It's my daughter, she really doesn't have talent in female celebrity and cooking, but she is also interested in numerology, mechanism and geography, so I just Plan this Zhuangzi into a circular ecological chain. When she first proposed this theory, my heart was pounding.

But after the reconstruction according to her plan, the circular ecological chain she said really made her revitalize. In this way, the income of Zhuangzi doubled, but the management still had so many people, but it was easier. "

The left servant of the Ministry of Industry eagerly said: "I don't know if I can learn from the little lady. Don't worry, Doctor Chen, when I return to the capital and meet the emperor, I will report the truth and never will." Take credit for the little lady."

At this time, Yu Jun smiled and said: "Master Liu, the young lady of the Chen family has long presented this theory to the court for free, but such a fresh and bold theory, His Majesty has never heard of it, so she has been watching the Zhuangzi of the Chen family.

I sent Master Liu over this time to let Master Liu do an on-the-spot investigation. I originally planned to talk to Master Liu about it after I finished talking about the new crops. I didn’t expect Master Liu to discover the advantages of it himself. Some of my lips and tongue. "

Master Liu heard this, and said to Chen Boyu with admiration: "Your lady, Gao Yi, can I go around by myself?"

"Your Excellency, please go ahead." There is nothing shameful about Zhuangzi, so Chen Boyu is naturally not afraid of people wandering around.

A few days later, there was a busy scene on Chenjiazhuangzi. Yu Jun and several adults personally witnessed the harvesting of rice and wheat, and weighed them before drying. After a few days of drying, the rice and wheat reached the standard for storage. Weigh it again, and the average yield of rice per mu will come out, which is eight stones per mu of land.

The yield of wheat is not as good as that of rice, but the yield per mu is four and a half stones, and the yield has nearly doubled.

However, compared with the yield of wheat, the yield of rice is what really excites Si Nong Sicheng. Although General Yu mentioned that the yield of rice per mu is eight shi, but a number on paper is not the same as what he saw with his own eyes. In the same way, Si Nong Sicheng's eye circles were red with excitement.

He was eager to bring this good news back to Shangdu, so he declined Chen Boyu's persuasion. With this good news, he boarded the boat back to Shangdu with a few bundles of rice ears carefully selected as samples and Chen Huiyin's planting log. .

Three days later, Si Nong Sicheng and his party returned to Shangdu, they didn't even go home, they went directly to the palace to meet the saint.

Emperor Tai'an first looked at the ears of rice in the brocade box, closed the lid, and handed it to the confidant next to him, then picked up the planting plan written by Chen Huiyin and read it before asking about the journey.

After the three adults finished speaking, Emperor Tai'an sent them out of the palace and returned home. He took the brocade box containing rice ears and the thick planting log and went to the harem to share the good news with the queen mother and empress.

The next morning, Emperor Tai'an took out a bunch of rice ears and planting logs, and shared the good news with the ministers first.

Then she mentioned Chen Huiyin's contribution to agriculture over the years, and the high-speed merchant ship that was put into shipping not long ago, and made public her contributions one by one, and then said: "The clear decree made by the ancestors back then, as long as there is a clear order for the court Those who have made great contributions to the family should be rewarded generously.”

Hubu Shangshu was the first to stand up and echoed: "Your Majesty, this young lady of the Chen family who invented many new types of agricultural tools and cultivated high-yielding grain seeds, her contribution is enough to be conferred a knighthood. With such a powerful person, our Daqi Guotai people's safety is just around the corner."

With the Minister of the Ministry of Households leading the battle, ministers have come forward to echo him one after another. The ministers of Yuan Zhi's party have already received Yuan Zhi's instructions, so no one stood up to oppose it.

(End of this chapter)