Emperor Xiaoyao of Tang Dynasty

Chapter 229 "Evil" Hybridization (Part [-])
"Isn't the land where food is grown growing vegetables? Isn't the food enough to satisfy your hunger? Besides, the output of vegetables is large, and the food will be saved between coming and going." Jin Yu is not sure, the output of vegetables this year is really really Unfortunately, the low output of ancient crops determined that the Tang people could only encourage the cultivation of grain and avoid vegetables taking up the space of good fields.

Li Chengqian was not satisfied with Jin Yu's explanation, and the half-grown child frowned. He could understand the conversion between oil and water and grain that Jin Yu said, but he couldn't understand it when it was related to production. "The lonely energy that Dr. Jin mentioned is understandable, but growing vegetables takes up too much fertile land."

Jin Yu sighed helplessly. Li Chengqian was right, and he knew it, but the output couldn't be increased, so what can we do?As far as the eye can see is the lotus pond that Yang Ying dug out in the early spring. The lotus was brought from Li Daozong, the king of Rencheng. Later, Jin Yu appointed someone to stock some fish, so as to add to his table. food or something.Looking at the pond on Zhuangtou, Jin Yu seemed to realize something, patted his forehead, and said: "Actually, there is another way, there is always a wasteland that cannot grow food? Idle is idle, open it to grow lotus vegetables ?”

"Oh? That's a way." Li Chengqian nodded in response.

"You see, opening a pond can not only grow lotus vegetables, but also raise fish in it. This is a way to replace food. This increase in production will save a lot of food." Three-dimensional farming , I have learned it in junior high school textbooks, but I don’t know how to take care of Jin Yu, but I can hire a few people to watch it.

"It's feasible." Li Chengqian's eyes lit up, but then he said worriedly: "It won't be of much use, right? After all, there are limited places where lotus ponds can be opened."

"Then the only way is to cultivate good seeds and increase the yield of vegetables." Jinyu said helplessly. Manpower is sometimes poor, and Jinyu feels that way now.Jinyu loves delicious food, and his family has a village in the mountains. It is not a big problem for the couple to eat vegetables or something, but it is far from enough to open a restaurant.These days, the popularization rate of vegetables like radishes is high. When this winter comes, the common people will eat radish and pickles. Jin Yu has always stayed away from radishes, because the ventilation effect of this thing is too powerful``````
"Cultivating good seeds? This method has been done by Sinong Temple, but it has little effect." Li Chengqian smiled wryly and shook his head.

"How is it possible?" Jin Yu obviously didn't believe what Li Chengqian said. There are many good breeds in later generations, and most of them were cultivated in just ten years. If they can't be cultivated, it can only be said that the method is wrong.

"Sinong Temple has indeed been cultivating good varieties, but the increase in production is very limited. This is the reason why the father restricts farmers from growing vegetables." Li Chengqian's tone was helpless, but his tone was firm.It is because the food production is not increasing that Jinyu's sweet potatoes are so valued.

"Is the method wrong? Have you tried hybridization?" Jin Yu asked tentatively.

"Hybridization? What is hybridization?" Li Chengqian was still a child after all, interested in new things, and asked curiously when he heard a new term.

"Well``````" Jin Yu is hesitating, is it too evil to talk about interbreeding with a child who has no hair?

"Oh, the student made a slip of the tongue." Seeing Jin Yu's hesitant expression, Li Chengqian thought he had asked for some exclusive secret, so he bowed his hands obediently and admitted his mistake.

"It's just that you're too young, it's better not to know some things." Jin Yu waved his hand, telling Li Chengqian not to care.

"Gu is no longer a child. He has practiced the gift of a weak crown." Li Chengqian was a little excited and stood up to argue with Jin Yu.Li Chengqian hates being treated like a child, but it's not convenient for him to attack Jinyu.

"Hehe, I will tell you." Jin Yu patted the grass next to him and asked Li Chengqian to sit down. Anyway, he was in junior high school when he was studying, and he was not a few years older than Li Chengqian. Now that the child matures early, it is not a big problem to talk about it. "The so-called hybridization is a new species produced by mating between different species."

"Ah?" Li Chengqian blushed a little. He didn't expect Jin Yu to tell him this. He had a few picture albums in his private possession, and the paintings in them were people and animals`````` Fortunately, he didn't try it. It's really new. Isn't the species lost to death?
"You are not big, but you have a lot of thoughts!" Jin Yu understood everything when he saw Li Chengqian's appearance. It seemed that he had contacted him before, but it was useless. "There is no relationship between humans and animals. Animals and animals, Plants and plants are fine."

Li Chengqian was a little embarrassed when Jin Yu said it out, and he cupped his hands in embarrassment, motioning for Jin Yu to continue talking.

"Have you ever seen the horse, donkey, and beast in Yiguo's family?" Jin Yu asked Li Chengqian.To say that this horse and donkey beast was named by Qin Qiong, to put it bluntly, it is the mule of later generations.People these days haven't realized the importance of mules. It was Hulei who refuted the evidence left behind by the fierce horse who ran into the donkey pen after he was drunk and committed a brutal brutality against the female donkeys.

"Well, I've seen it. Is that the new species produced by hybridization that Dr. Jin said?" Li Chengqian looked better. Mules appeared as early as the Spring and Autumn and Warring States Periods, but they were not used for farming, but as a breeding ground between nobles. Items for showing off.

"Well, that's the one. It's just that the horse and donkey in Yiguo's family is useless and can only be used for viewing. If a donkey and horse are crossed, it will be of great use. We call it a 'mule' in our hometown. It has the characteristics of a donkey. It has the load-bearing capacity and resistance ability, has the flexibility and running ability of a horse, eats less than a horse, and has more strength than a horse. It belongs to a kind of raw and capable animal. In our hometown, mules are used for farm work, but they are barren. "Jin Yu's words are not lying. In the rural areas of later generations, many households use mules. They have a long lifespan and great strength. They belong to the kind that are easy to use.

"There are such animals?" Li Chengqian's eyes lit up, excited.Now farmers who have money use cattle, those who have no money use donkeys, and those who are poor can only use human labor.Donkeys are cheap, but they are not as strong as cattle. If it is true what Jin Yu said, those mares that are still able to give birth after retirement can still use their waste heat to benefit the people of Datang.

"You'll know if you try it? Can you still deceive you?" Jin Yu took a piece of horsetail grass and put it in his mouth. It was a little tender, and he spit it out after lying on the ground.

"I'll try it when I get back alone." Li Chengqian said eagerly.

"Mules have quick results, which can be proven in less than a year, but vegetables are different, and it often takes several generations of hybridization between different vegetable species to make a difference." Speaking of vegetables, Jinyu has a headache, and he misses the cabbage dumplings of later generations. .I remember that in winter when he went to the kitchen and asked Xueniang if there was any cabbage, Xueniang pointed to the dry little cabbage at the bottom of the wall and said that it was cabbage``````
The Chinese cabbage that costs a dime a catty in the later generations is actually impossible to buy even if you have money in Chang'an!Because cabbage has not been cultivated at this time!The hateful thing is that the textbooks say that China existed during the Warring States period. Isn't this misleading?If I had known earlier, I would have brought some cabbage seeds``````For his own stomach, Jin Yu decided to pass on the concept of "hybridization" to Li Chengqian, maybe he could eat the familiar cabbage dumplings a few years in advance.

"Can vegetables also be hybridized?" Li Chengqian was even more surprised when he heard this. He could understand among animals, after all, what organs they have, but plants ``````
"Why do you look down on vegetables? Vegetables are also divided into male and female! It's just that some plants are monoecious, and some are dioecious." Jin Yu turned sideways, grabbed a wild flower, and handed it to Li Chengqian and began to talk.

Li Chengqian felt that his eyes were really opened, he did not expect that plants also have so much knowledge``````
"The hybridization between plants is much more complicated than that between animals. Try more among various dishes. For animals, a jackass and a mare are enough. Others are successful hybrids, and they are just a dish, which is not very useful. " Jin Yu gave Li Chengqian a golden finger and instructed him.

"Students remember Dr. Jin's teaching!" Li Chengqian stood up and saluted Jin Yu who was lying on the ground respectfully.He really understands the value of these things Jin Yu said, and they have a great effect on improving the lives of farmers!After all, there was no mechanical power transportation at this time, and there were basically three types of animals on land: cattle, horses, and donkeys.

"What to teach and not to teach, pay more attention to the matter of vegetable hybridization, I still expect to be able to taste fresh vegetables as soon as possible." Jin Yu sat up and stretched his waist and replied.

"Yeah." Li Chengqian nodded and agreed. He was young, and he was not as affordable as Empress Changsun. He asked hesitantly, "Dr. Jin, is it true that the method of raising pigs cannot be promoted?"

"That's enough for the time being, why don't you walk around Zhuangzi more, see more, and understand it?" Jin Yu's selfishness in throwing out the method of hybridization is true, but he also wants Li Chengqian to have something to do, after all There is no profound knowledge in planting sweet potatoes. It is strange that an imposing prince is busy working in his study or on the field. Now that Li Chengqian feels that hybridization alone is not enough, let him add more workload.

"Success, thank you Dr. Jin." Li Chengqian was overjoyed, he had finally completed half of the task assigned by Empress Changsun.

"Don't be so polite." Jin Yu stood up, suddenly remembered something, and asked Li Chengqian: "Do Guo Yu and Zhang Peng have any special background?"

"Special background?" Li Chengqian frowned and thought for a moment, then said without any concealment: "Guo Yu is the eighth-generation grandson of Sikong Jijiu and Weiyang Zhenhou Guo Jia No. 20, right? Zhang Peng is just a small official with no background."

"Oh, that's good." Jin Yu nodded, Guo Jia, a character in the Three Kingdoms period, no matter how awesome they are, they can't affect the Tang Dynasty, right?It seems that Li Erting will arrange to find two people with no big names to learn from him.I still prefer this kind of thing, next time if Li Er comes to visit my micro-service privately, I must entertain him with good wine and good food!

(End of this chapter)