I have a fortune book

Chapter 73
Apart from his human relations, Zhou Bai's stay in the county was not for nothing. He brought back a total of 500 taels of silver.

Sui Hanji has been sold simultaneously in one county and seven counties, and the current sales are good, so Zhou Bai was able to advance the dividend of a thousand taels of silver.

In addition, Zhou Bai also received the bandit suppression bounty just issued by the imperial court at Ji Hongzhe. The 15 people who killed bandits got not only titles, but also the rewards that have been clearly stipulated all along.

Not counting the famous green forest tycoons, these cavalrymen of the Kingdom of Jin who acted as horse thieves were all top-ranked at 30 taels per person.

A bounty of 450 two heads, plus the rescue of Hu Yanhe, a robbed "luxury businessman", was encouraged by the court, so there was an additional 50 taels.

One thousand five hundred taels of silver is enough to support the inner government for a period of time anyway. After all, the guard of the village is only covered by food and housing, and has not yet been paid.

With financial support, the inner government immediately expanded its manpower, because Zhou Bai had too many plans for the future.

In addition to the civil servants served by Tong Sheng, the Yingtian Office has newly established the Agricultural Bureau and the Tiangong Institute, and has recruited a considerable number of farming experts and craftsmen.

The selection criteria for farming experts are old farmers who have had the most outstanding grain harvests in previous years, and young people who have been educated to read and write, but have been rolling in the fields since childhood.

The combination of the two can provide pertinent suggestions for the development of the Agricultural Bureau. There are not many types of grains such as sweet potatoes, corn, and yams, and the Agricultural Bureau needs to take care of them carefully.

As long as they are harvested once, there will be enough seeds to spread in Xintian next year.

There is also hybrid rice, and Zhou Bai will not let it go in this life.

Yuan Sheng from Blue Star explained the principles of hybrid rice very clearly. Because of admiration and good biology, Zhou Bai happened to remember how to breed the first generation of hybrid rice.

It's just that Zhou Bai talked with the old farmers of the Agricultural Bureau for three days and three nights before explaining the theory of male sterility in rice.

The old farmers were speechless, and the patriarch really said that it was so complicated. Are you still worried that they will not recognize male and female flowers?

They can tell just by looking at the size of the flower.

In the end, the Agriculture Bureau summarized a complete process, which is to remove the immature male flowers when the rice blooms to prevent self-fertilization.

At this time, the remaining female flowers can be used as female parents and crossed with other male parents to produce hybrids.

In order to have more hybrid varieties, Zhou Bai specifically told Chen Zhongbang not to be afraid of spending money, and to buy rice from the southern states. Their northern rice is only drought-tolerant, but its yield is much worse than that of southern rice.

The goal of hybrid rice in the north is to produce high-yielding rice in dry fields with as little irrigation as possible.

Of course, when it comes to how to increase the grain yield, Zhou Bai still has a method to test at the Tiangongyuan, and that is the chemical fertilizer that the traversers always have.

Other directions are still at the level of collecting materials. Now Zhou Bai only asks them to study two things, one is chemical fertilizers, and the other is brewing high-quality wine.

These two Zhou Bai can also provide them with ideas, nitrogen and phosphorus fertilizers, then find those who have such things and try them one by one.

Cow dung, soybeans, plaster; urine, plaster, water...closed fermentation.

Anyway, I gave several combinations, one by one, which one is the most effective and which one is popular in the end.

As for high-grade wine, although Zhou Bai doesn't drink alcohol and doesn't know how to brew it, he knows how to purify it.

It is nothing more than re-steaming of low-alcohol wine, and paying attention to the distillation process when making wine.

The northern region is colder, so it's not that there is no spirits, but because food is precious, it is often not too wasteful to make wine.

As for Zhou Bai, as long as he can play the combined punches well, there will be no shortage of food in the Zhou family in the future. In this way, he can also brew high-quality grain wine and plunder many gold and silver treasures in the cold northern country.

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More than a month later.

Next to Zhou Bai's own manor, there are now many more houses, and some yards surrounded by fences and bricks.

With the school yard as the core, including the surrounding fields, it has become the exclusive base of the Inner Palace, and the village guard team strictly patrols and no one else is allowed to enter.

On the state beach surrounded by streams, a comprehensive experimental field was circled here. Zhou Bai estimated that the time was almost up, so he brought a group of confidants to the experimental field to check it out.

Wang Liangtian is now in high spirits, because of his relationship with Uncle Fu, and because Zhou Bai's instructions have been done in place, he is now the farm envoy of the Agricultural Bureau.

He manages a group of old farmers under him, and not only receives a monthly salary, but also a performance bonus.

Zhou Bai came to check and accept today, not only about his own bonus, but also about whether he can earn bonus for his old brothers.

There are so many young people in Yingtian hall who want to make progress every day, which puts him under a lot of pressure.

However, Wang Liangtian is still very confident about his work, and he is not timid when encountering difficulties. He stepped forward and introduced the experimental field to Zhou Bai and the others very loudly.

"Boss, Mr. Chen, look, these ten acres of paddy fields have not been fertilized, while the ten acres here have been fertilized a generation in advance."

"The test of the second-generation chemical fertilizer can't catch up with the spring seed, and it has been tested separately in the corn field on the other side. You see, these Fanbang grain seeds are not acclimatized at all."

"And here, the same is true for sweet potatoes and yams. They are all done according to your instructions. They are called that, so there must be a comparison!"

Looking around, the field is lush and green, but the plants in the fertilizer field are obviously taller and taller, and the rice flowers are obviously more full.

The Qi luck of the farmland foundation is also very straightforward. If the ten-acre ordinary rice field shows a trace of pale and floating Qi luck, then the ten-acre chemical fertilizer rice field has more and more solid Qi luck.

The wisps of white air seemed to have sensed Zhou Bai's arrival, and they swarmed in. They gathered under the clouds, like a thick base dragging the tall tower above.

The performance of luck in this way shows that he succeeded in the experiment and did nothing wrong.

Arousing Fanbang's grain seeds and the use of chemical fertilizers are important weapons for him to achieve his great cause in the future, and are "treasures" that can consolidate the foundation of luck.

Chen Zhongbang picked up the rice plants of the two paddy fields and compared them carefully. He took a deep breath, and he was keenly aware of the value of them.

This can at least increase production by [-]%. If the third and fourth generations of fertilizers are developed in the future, [-]% is also foreseeable.

"Master Yingming, these secrets must not be leaked, at least according to your plan, not in the past few years." Chen Zhongbang clasped his hands in praise of Yingming, and glanced at the subordinates who followed him.

At first Chen Zhongbang didn't understand why Zhou Bai sent troops to guard the farmland, it was not a waste of manpower, but now he finally understands why the lord is the lord.

"Well, for the record, the confidentiality level has been increased to one level. The formula can only be known to less than five people, but anyone who leaks it will be dealt with according to family law."

"The experimental field of the Agricultural Bureau is well managed, and the collective third-class merit will be awarded once. The Tiangong Institute has contributed to the research and development of chemical fertilizers, and the collective third-class merit will be recorded once. This month's bonuses will be paid in full."

So far, the big calculation of farming has taken shape.

Zhou Yuan, who had been silent all this time, became anxious, and stepped forward to fight with his hands clasped: "Master, our village guard team should give us a chance to make meritorious deeds. The county government has just issued an order to suppress bandits, don't you think so?"

In the school field not far away, the sound of drills filled the sky. Zhou Bai observed carefully, and there was a hidden sense of military spirit, but it seemed that something was missing.

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(End of this chapter)