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Almost half of the food brought back from Dengzhou was gone in one go.

This is the rent for the land rented by Yankai.

When the people saw that they could really get so much food, they felt a lot more relieved.

Only Zheng Zhixun was a little worried: "Mr. Yan, I'm afraid the remaining grain won't be able to sustain the summer harvest."

"It's okay, just buy some more." Yan Kai said with a smile: "As long as the harvest from these rented fields is good, we won't lose money."

After that, he whispered to Zheng Zhixun: "We are going to start planting wheat soon. You go to Dengzhou and buy some wheat seeds. You don't have to buy too much, but you have to pretend to buy a lot, at least enough for tens of thousands of acres of land." .”

Zheng Zhixun looked at Yan Kai with wide eyes. What do you mean you don't need to buy too much, but you have to pretend to buy a lot?

"You have to buy wheat seeds, but you can just buy a little. When you bring it back, you can top it up with other things. You should do this in person, and be sure not to let others know."

"Okay, disciple understands!"

Although I still don't know the reason why Yan Kai did this, he just does it first.

Yan Kai actually plans to plant some self-saved seeds bought from Hyundai. This kind of self-saved seeds are not hybrids.

When I read novels, what if the protagonist travels through time and directly buys hybrid rice and wheat seeds for the common people to plant, and then has a great harvest?

In Yan Kai's opinion, they are all nonsense.

Hybrids can be planted once, and if you want to use the harvested grain as seeds again, you can just stop growing it.

Only self-saved seeds can be planted continuously for several years.

In the past, when there were no seed companies and hybrid technology, farmers in our country used self-saved seeds.

Although there aren't many of them nowadays, you can still find them if you look for them.

Yan Kai also discovered a bug, that is, he could ask Zeng Xianyu from the live broadcast company to buy what he wanted, then directly list it on the online store, and then buy it himself.

Although he didn't know how the live broadcast room got those things from modern times to the Tang Dynasty, he tried a few times anyway, and Zeng Xianyu only said that logistics came to take the things away, and nothing went wrong.

This time, he asked Zeng Xianyu to harvest a lot of wheat seeds for his own use, which could probably cover 2 acres of land.

The yield of this kind of wheat seeds is definitely not as good as that of hybrids, but it is still much higher than the wheat yield per mu in Datang.

As for potatoes, sweet potatoes and corn, they must be planted, but it is impossible to plant so many at once.

How else to explain where the seeds come from? You must know that if you plant tens of thousands of acres at once, you will need a lot of seeds.

Li Shimin made people stare at him. If he mixed modern wheat seeds with the wheat seeds of this era, he would be able to do so without being noticed.

But if you take one or two tons of potatoes, sweet potatoes, corn, etc. and use them as seeds, how do you explain it?

There may not be scientists in this era who would slice you up for research, but who knows if Li Shimin would have any other "research" methods?

Therefore, if you want to plant these things, you can only plant one or two acres first, which are some new crops found in the mountains and fields.

Then when mature, they can be used for breeding.

Zheng Zhixun was sent out, and Yan Kai came to Houya.

Now the county government office has been basically repaired, and at least the courtyard of the back office is ready for use.

The craftsmen he hired were also paid well this time and are currently helping him pack things in the back office.

Seeing Yan Kai coming, he raised his hands and saluted: "Your Majesty the County Magistrate."

Yan Kai smiled: "I told you a long time ago that you don't need to be polite. It turns out that you all call me Brother Yan. Even if you don't call me that way now, you don't need to be so polite."

Several craftsmen all sneered. Who knew that a little kid like you could become a county magistrate?

In their eyes, this is basically a high-ranking official.

"Lord Magistrate, does the thing you asked us to hit this time feel so much like a plow?"

asked one of the craftsmen.

"That's right, it's a plow. This kind is called a Quyuan plow." Yan Kai nodded and admitted.

The Quyuan plow appeared in the middle and late Tang Dynasty and was first popularized and used in Suzhou and other places, so it is also called Jiangdong plow.

Compared with the straight shaft plow, the straight shaft and long shaft were changed to curved shaft and short shaft, and a freely rotating plow disc was installed on the plow head.

Therefore, the plow frame becomes smaller and lighter, making it easier to turn around.

The plow that Zeng Xianyu took out was improved and perfected on the basis of the curved shaft plow of the Tang Dynasty. The plow shaft was shortened and bent, and the parts such as the forehead and the pressing hoe (chan) were reduced. The plow body structure was lighter, flexible to use, and easier to cultivate. Efficiency is also higher.

Several craftsmen had never seen such a plow before, so they just followed the drawings provided by Yan Kai. However, they were all skeptical about whether the plow was easy to use.

Yan Kai could tell what they were thinking at a glance and said with a smile: "The ground will be dug in a few days. You will know when you come and take a look."

"This plow, when the court knows about it, it will definitely be promoted. How about I recommend you to the Ministry of Industry?"

But they never thought that when Yan Kai suggested this, several craftsmen looked bitter.

"Lord County Magistrate, can you not become a master craftsman?"

"Being a craftsman?" Yan Kai was stunned. This was the first time he heard this statement. After questioning, he realized that the craftsman system of the Tang Dynasty was very different from what he thought.

Ordinary craftsmen are called short-handed craftsmen. If the court wants to make something and there is not enough manpower, they must be recruited.

However, if the short-term craftsman is unwilling to serve at this time, he can pay for it.

But if the Ministry of Works takes a fancy to them, they will keep them and pay them the wages collected from short-term craftsmen as wages, thus becoming "senior craftsmen."

Being a craftsman doesn't pay much, and you can only work in the government. In many cases, you have to leave your hometown and be separated from your family.

So most craftsmen are naturally unwilling.

Yan Kai sighed, no wonder it was so difficult to develop engineering in ancient my country. Under layers of shackles, how could these craftsmen have any enthusiasm for creation?

Even the Tang Dynasty, which is known as the most enlightened, is like this.

"I'm sorry, I don't know this." Yan Kai said, "In this case, if the court wants this curved shaft plow, I will just ask someone to send the drawings and physical objects to His Majesty."

As soon as Quyuanli came out, the woman following him would definitely report it to Li Shimin. He couldn't keep this thing in his hands, and Yan Kai had no intention of keeping it in his hands.

He started using it here first, just because he wanted to spread it. The more he knew about the suffering of the people in this era, the more he wanted to do something within his own capabilities.

"Thank you, Lord Magistrate!" Several craftsmen were overjoyed. It's great to work with Yan Kai now. They have good food, high wages, and their children can study with them.

Yan Kai is kind to people and never criticizes them harshly. Moreover, he can learn a lot of new things from Yan Kai.

So they didn't want to go to the Ministry of Industry or anything like that.