Late Tang Dynasty: I

Chapter 135 You don't know the secret

Zhang Chengye couldn't hold back his ecstasy, went to the cotton field and picked a cotton flower with his own hands.

The texture is quite soft, like clouds. I seem to have seen this cotton before. It looked yellow and dirty in the Hu merchants in the Western Regions. Weaving.

It can also be filled with bedding and cotton clothes. It is much better than the smelly duck down. Although it can’t keep up with silk, it is better because of the high output and the price is definitely much cheaper. I am afraid that the output is higher than that of hemp, but the texture is better than hemp. a lot of.

Zhang Chengye grabbed two hands of cotton, walked up to His Majesty the Emperor, and said, "Your Majesty, with this item, the imperial court no longer has to worry about money!"

Li Ye nodded. What Zhang Chengye saw was the huge benefits of cotton, and Li Ye's vision for future generations can naturally go beyond the limitations of the times. The textile industry can help Datang control Hexi economically and control the nomadic peoples in northern Saibei.

Li Ye looked at the farmers all over the field, and ordered the servants to bring cold boiled water, and the wheat and corn were quickly harvested.These grains are harvested and threshed.

At this time, Datang did not have a thresher, but flails and corn beds were used. Put the cut wheat straw on the corn bed and hit it with the flail, and the wheat grains would fall from the holes below.

Seeing His Majesty the Emperor walk in, an old farmer plucked up his courage and stepped forward.

"stop!"

The guard yelled loudly, startling Li Ye, and the old farmer collapsed on the ground, his face pale.

Jun Ye's knife is half drawn!

Fortunately, His Majesty the Emperor stopped it in time.

"Old man, what's the matter?"

The emperor's approachability blinded a group of officials who followed behind him.

"That...that emperor!"

The old farmer swallowed his saliva, took a long breath and said, "Your Majesty, the old man looked at His Majesty's land just now. There are many gaps in the planting, but the yield should not be low!"

Li Ye said with a smile: "I just found out, this crop, it's not that the denser the better, the just right is the best."

"Isn't the denser the better?"

"Your Majesty, is there one thing the old man can't understand?"

Li Ye said: "Old man, tell me!"

After talking to His Majesty the Emperor, the old farmer gradually became less nervous, and said, "Isn't it too late to harvest your Majesty's field? The old man saw that the wheat on the ground has sprouted."

Li Ye looked at Kong Wei, Sun Jun and other people, and said to the ministers: "Han Tuizhi (Han Yu) has a specialization in speech, and none of the officials have seen the wheat seedlings on the ground. The old man has seen it. Someone knows What's the matter?"

All the officials were speechless, including the Secretary of Agriculture, who didn't know.

"Probably the ripe wheat seeds fell into the ground!"

"As it should be!"

Seeing the ecology of all the officials, Li Ye turned his head and said to the old man: "Old man, I let people sow this kind of seed. I just want to know if it is possible to grow grains twice a year in Guanzhong!"

The timing of the two seasons cannot be staggered. What Li Ye thinks is that before the wheat is harvested, the seeds will be sown and the seedlings will emerge. seedling.

His Majesty's words shocked all the officials again, planting two seasons a year, that's not one mu of land can be used as two mu.Is it really possible?

The old farmer said anxiously: "Your Majesty, I'm afraid it won't work. Wheat will freeze to death in winter, and it will be white if planted. It's a waste of seeds."

Li Ye laughed and said, "It's not enough to cover the wheat with a quilt when it's cold. As long as it snows, the wheat will not be afraid of freezing if the snow covers it."

"Cover the quilt?"

"Straw!"

"Cover the wheat with straw?"

Li Ye nodded.

Zhang Chengye really wanted to kneel down.

"Could it be that Your Majesty is a fairy descending from the earth?"

"Such a simple truth, why no one thought of it."

"When it's cold, put on a blanket!"

If the two seasons of this year are successful, it will be a good thing that will benefit generations to come!

The old farmer is also talking to himself slowly, no one can understand better than the farmer, what does it mean to have two seasons a year?
It means to live, means not to starve to death.

The climax brought by His Majesty the Emperor is more than that.

There were also crowds of people in front of the pigsty emitting a strange smell.

Pigs, I've seen them all.

How big the pig grows, not many officials know.

Probably the understanding of pigs, that is, cheap meat, is not tasty, so I am not interested.

Many of them came to join in the fun with His Majesty the Emperor.

The layman watched the excitement.

His Majesty the Emperor invited the old farmer to come and see the way.

"Your Majesty, how long has this pig grown?"

"Half a year!"

"Half a year? I'm afraid it will weigh 150 catties!"

"Could it be food?"

His Majesty the Emperor shook his head and said: "It's mainly rice bran, and pigweed, miscellaneous fish, snails, aquatic plants and so on in the river are also fine, but they must be cooked, and the rice bran must be mixed with boiling water, otherwise pigs will easily get sick." .”

"Your Majesty, don't you think that the old man can grow so big after eating these?"

"Bold, Your Majesty's golden words, how could he lie to you!"

Li Ye frowned, and looked at the speaker, it was indeed Xu Yanruo from Yushitai.

This person will always make discordant voices.

The emperor's eyes were still menacing, Xu Yanruo immediately shut up, but he was still taken out by the guards.

Li Ye said with a smile: "There is another trick, I don't tell ordinary people to him."

The old farmer shook his head and said, "Forget it!"

Li Ye smiled wryly, this person is really real.

"I ordered people to hand over all these pigs."

"What? Is it a gelding?"

Old farmers don't believe it.

"I'm a golden man, what are you doing to lie to you, let's go and have a look!"

"Hey, it really is!"

In the eyes of the peasants, the pork that the nobles despise is rare in a year, and there is no one to be picky about it.

"Old man, I also told you that the meat tastes really good even after the pig is steered. Before leaving, I will give you ten catties of meat alone. Try it and you will know!"

Sun Kui followed suit and said, "It tastes good!" Then he smacked his mouth.

Zhang Jun glanced sideways at Sun Kui. The level of flattery was not good at all, and he teased, "You haven't eaten it, so how do you know it's delicious?"

Sun Kui looked at Zhang Jun and said slowly: "Someone has eaten it!" By the way, he gave Zhang Jun a look and let him experience it for himself.

He ate it, he ate it, Zhang Jun couldn't believe it.

A new prime minister, is the holy family already so prosperous? Looking at the back of Sun Kui's head, he repeatedly smacked Sun Kui's words, and gradually became a little sour.

Only His Majesty the Emperor had the audacity to kill fifty fat pigs in one go.

Every farmer who works has a share, ten catties of meat per person.

After talking to His Majesty the Emperor, the old man's waist became much stiffer.

Only now does the old man know that he is not an ordinary person.

His majesty the emperor told him the secrets of raising pigs, but he couldn't tell ordinary people.

"Yeah, what did His Majesty the Emperor tell you?"

"Go away, this is what you can inquire about?"

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