Cultivation of immortals begins with the appearance of ancestors

Chapter 239

Zhang Jian has long noticed that the people in Dagan are not only hungry due to lack of land, but also because of the inefficient farming methods and breeding methods of various food crops.

The same grains and miscellaneous grains, even if the year is good, the land is fertile, and the harvest is only three to four hundred catties.

If the home is a dry land with mountains and fields, the yield will be even lower.

In addition, there is not enough land, and people tax, land tax, various types of corvee, and taxes need to be paid. The young men in the family will be drawn, how can they support so many people.

The suffering of the people is inevitable.

Zhang Jian is currently limited by his power and cannot intervene in the current situation in the court, but if he can improve the varieties of crops and increase their yield, he can also live countless lives.

For him, this is another source of luck.

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The Danong Temple is on the edge of the Shaofusi. It is also glazed and blue tiled, with tall palace walls, but the Mingtang is slightly lower than other yamen, but every official has a red face, which is also a very oily place. enough Yamen.

In fact, Danong Temple is not just as simple as a literal Nongsang Yamen. Although the household department under the command of the Shaofu Division has separately taken away the main powers such as storage accumulation and salary supply for officials at all levels, they hold the warehouse in their hands. Grain transshipment, farming and mulberry examinations in various places, farming, and land rights are enough to make this place a rich and prosperous yamen.

Zhang Jian, the Minister of the Danong Temple, usually only holds a title, and spends most of his time in the Institute of Culture and Sports revising the "Dagan Quanshu". Usually, the Danong Temple is run by the Chancellor of the Danong Temple.

At this time, after Zhang Jian stepped into the bright hall of Danong Temple, Qian Pan, the Chancellor of Danong Temple, hurriedly brought people to pay respects.

"Qian Pan, the Prime Minister of Danong Temple, pays homage to the Da Nong Ling!"

The Chancellor of the Danong Temple was wearing a blue official uniform, which was slightly different from the official uniforms of other fifth-rank officials. On the sleeves, the official uniform was embroidered with a few bunches of golden silk thread woven with millet and rice.

He looked to be in his forties, his face was slightly dark, but his eyes were shrewd.

Zhang Jian waved his hands with a smile on his face.

"I'm just walking around casually, Qian Sicheng doesn't need to care, you go on your own!"

Hearing this, Qian Pan cupped his hands slightly and said with a smile.

"If there is an order from the Da Nong Order, you can call the officials and others at any time!"

Qian Pan was always kind and courteous.

He is very clear that Zhang Jian is different from other officials. This Shangguan who bears the title of Minister of the Danong Temple is very strong in terms of seniority and connections in the court. Even the national teacher is also a frequent visitor to this Shangguan's residence. , He didn't have the confidence to wrestle with him at all, instead he was worried about being found fault, and taking the opportunity to be kicked out of the lucrative position of Danongsi Cheng.

He was worried, but he couldn't go forward to pester him personally, so he could only tell the people around him to be more discerning, not to offend this big farmer.

Zhang Jian went straight to the warehouse next to the Danong Temple.

The warehouse is filled with many "high-yield" crops sent by the Yamen from various places in Dagan.

There are a lot of green and plump Chinese cabbage, as well as many sunflowers, leeks, Huo, scallions and green onions.

Zhang Jian just glanced at it and shook his head. These vegetables are not only small in number, but also low-yield crops.

Except radish and cabbage.

Chinese cabbage is Chinese cabbage.

There are also many seeds stored next to it.

The commissioner in charge of the warehouse stood aside at this time, respectful, but seeing Zhang Jian looking around, he was a little puzzled.

Noticing his expression, he said in a deep voice, "Is there only these things in the warehouse?"

Hearing this, the little official named Zhou Song hurriedly said.

"Reporting to the Da Nong Order, these are just fruits and vegetables sent over from the Gyeonggi region for planting. They were originally prepared for the officials in the temple to be used for trial planting!"

After a slight pause, seeing Zhang Jian's gaze, he quickly said: "In the other warehouses, there are some fruits and vegetables seeds from various counties, but they are similar, I don't know what the Da Nong Ling is looking for. The villain might be able to help!"

"The villain has been in charge of this warehouse for four or five years, and he knows all the seeds in the warehouse!"

Zhang Jian nodded, his eyes fluctuated immediately, and he said again.

"I heard that there are many foreign species enshrined in the warehouse, is there such a thing?"

Zhang Jian frowned at this time. He looked at the seeds in the warehouse, and most of them did not have much improvement value. It may be possible to increase some scale by changing them, but many of them either have strict requirements on the land, or cannot As a staple food, it cannot be widely promoted.

Zhou Song was a little apprehensive when he heard the words, he lowered his head and said.

"Reporting to the Da Nong Order, there may be a batch, but there was a plague of rats in the warehouse in the past few years, and many seeds were eaten by rats and ruined. I hope the Da Nong Order will forgive me!"

As he spoke, he couldn't help but knelt down.

Zhang Jian's expression darkened, and he reprimanded: "Why are you so careless?!"

He originally thought about whether he could find a way to open the situation from the seeds of tribute from these foreign countries, but he never thought that it would end before it even started.

"I also ask Da Nong Ling to forgive me!"

Zhou Song was terrified, and quickly kowtowed, and the servants around the many warehouses also bowed their heads quickly when they saw this.

Zhou Song knocked his head with a bang, blood gradually appeared on his forehead.

Zhang Jian stopped him after a few breaths.

Zhang Jian glanced at him and asked with a cold snort. "The tribute should be kept carefully, how can you be careless?"

Zhou Song hurriedly said again: "It's the lower official's dereliction of duty!"

He was really worried. If the big farmer wanted to pursue him, he might not only lose his official position, but he might even go to jail.

Zhang Jian's expression slowed down at this time, he just snorted coldly. "I don't like the people under my command to neglect their duties. If something is lost in the warehouse next time, you have to be careful of the black hat on your head!"

Zhang Jian beat Zhou Song a bit, which was regarded as a warning to other officials.

He stepped out of the warehouse, knowing in his heart that he might need to ask Zhang Qi's family or some brothers in the sect for help in this kind of matter, maybe there is a clue.

After all, he is not an ordinary official, limited by his vision, unable to break the situation.

For the next period of time, Zhang Jian asked his family to pay attention to the past Fanbang merchants in the city of Haojing, as well as all kinds of rare and weird crops that appeared on the market.

As the Yin God Venerable, if he is determined to improve the fruiting rate of crops and bring out their hidden advantages, he still has a certain way.

Soon after, the family really got something.

One day, a young family member of the Zhang family came in with some special things. Zhang Jian took a look at some of them. They were nothing more than some rare fruits and vegetable seeds.

One of the red fruits surprised Zhang Jian.

"Isn't this a small wild tomato, such a small one..."

Zhang Jian looked at this thumb-sized tomato, and the corners of his mouth twitched slightly. He had read related articles in his previous life. The tomato itself is indeed only this big. After generations of sages' research and experiments, it gradually increased in size and production. .

Just a glance, Zhang Jian became interested, this thing has a lot of potential.

It's not bad if it can be researched.

"Where did this thing come from? There are seeds!"

The young family member hurriedly said: "My lord, this thing was picked by a villain beside the West Mountain Temple, and a large area was planted beside the West Mountain Temple!"

"West Mountain View?"

Zhang Jian squeezed the little tomato in his hand, his eyes were a little surprised.

Xishan Temple is located in the suburbs of Haojing City, behind it is a large area of ​​royal gardens, and further away are some Huangzhuang.

Xishan Temple was originally a royal Taoist temple, and it was also the place where the royal princesses and concubines became monks. Some criminal concubines, or concubines who were seriously ill were inconvenient to stay in the palace, and they would also retire here to recuperate.

After those concubines entered here, to some extent it was like being thrown into limbo.

(End of this chapter)