Quick travel to save a miserable life

Now all the Lin family's properties are under the control of Lin Hui, and they have implemented the new "double-entry accounting method", using Arabic numerals for records, and tables, a new registration method for the ancients, although there was some disharmony in the early days. However, because Lin Hui handled it well and had the support of Mr. Lin behind him, it was successfully implemented.

In addition to trialling "movable type printing" at the bookstore Lin Hui and submitting it to the court, which provided a layer of protection for the Lin family, Lin Hui was also thinking about innovating and improving elsewhere.

Over at Jinyulou, she took the time to draw a few jewelry looks in the early days and stopped worrying about it. She had always been careless about dressing up, and what little vision and insight she had were emptied by these drawings. She lacked New ideas.

Moreover, her daily affairs are complicated now. In addition to the affairs in the palace, she also has matters in the shop and the village to take care of. The matters at the Salesian Bureau also need her to intervene from time to time to prevent the people below from slacking off, so even Bai Jinyulou The shopkeeper carefully looked at her with hopeful eyes every time, and it was difficult for her to hand over any new works.

Time flies, and it is late May in the blink of an eye. The corn cobs that Lin Hui asked to plant in the backyard are already big. It is estimated that they will be harvested in another twenty days at most. However, the sweet potatoes will also take some time, but the potatoes can be harvested now. .

Lin Hui sent someone to find a woman to cut off most of the potato seedlings exposed on the surface. After two days, she carefully dug out the potatoes from the ground with a shovel. Lin Hui planned to keep these potatoes. They are the seeds of autumn, so people should be careful not to dig them up.

After everything was harvested, they were weighed. A total of four rows were planted. The total amount of potatoes was less than one cent, and nearly 300 kilograms of potatoes were harvested. Mr. Lin was watching curiously, but in the end he was shocked by the yield.

If this crop is edible as his daughter guessed, then the yield is so amazing that Mr. Lin's heart can't help but beat fast.

Even though they were careful enough when harvesting, damaged potatoes still inevitably appeared. Lin Hui had these potatoes washed and cooked. First, she found two cats and dogs to feed them. After a day, the two cats and dogs were still alive and kicking. If there is no abnormality, feel free to try it.

In fact, these are all to deceive others. Lin Hui naturally knows that potatoes can be eaten, and there are many ways to do it, but she can't tell others carelessly. She can only pretend to know nothing about this crop and experiment step by step.

After a few servants had eaten and found no problem, Mr. Lin and his daughter started to taste the potatoes. Since they were boiled, they had no special taste other than being soft and glutinous. It was just because of the high starch content that they tasted carefully. Sometimes there will be a hint of sweetness.

Master Lin was half full after eating a potato. After thinking for a long time, he said to Lin Hui: "If this thing is promoted in my great cause, there will be no hungry people in the world!"

Lin Hui nodded in agreement. This was her original intention, but now is not a good time. At least she has to wait until she can plant it again on her own farm and get definite results before she can promote it on a large scale. Moreover, she cannot plant silently at home. She must plant it in her own house silently. If these three crops are presented together, it can be better promoted in the world, and it can also provide a higher guarantee for the Lin family.

Because potatoes have been proven to be edible and have such high yields, Mr. Lin also began to pay attention to the remaining sweet potatoes and corn.

After the corn cobs were broken off and manually threshed, the net weight obtained by weighing was 120 kilograms, which is also one part of the land. Although this yield cannot be compared with potatoes, it is still much higher than today's grain yield.

At Lin Hui's suggestion, the corn kernels were ground into corn flour. According to the method of wheat flour, corn flour cakes and corn flour steamed buns were made. Because the flour was ground relatively fine, it tasted quite good.

Mr. Lin was very excited after trying it. He felt that although the yield of this yellow stick was not as high as the "potatoes" Huihui said, it seemed more suitable as a staple food. Thinking of this, he couldn't help but be more interested in the only unharvested sweet potato. I am somewhat looking forward to it. I don’t know how much this crop will yield after harvesting and how it will taste.

On the second day of August, the twins' first birthday, Mr. Lin indeed held a banquet for guests. Everyone in the city who had contact with them received invitations and came to the banquet.

In addition to the banquets in the mansion, the Lin family also opened more than a dozen tables of running water banquets on the street outside the gate of the Lin mansion. No matter who came, they could sit down and eat, but they were not allowed to take them away. Therefore, the people nearby came to their homes one after another. People with mouths came to have a feast, so the inside and outside of the Lin Mansion seemed particularly lively that day.

Because Lin Hui adopted scientific feeding methods and the servants took good care of them, the two children never got sick once from the time they were born to one year old. They are very strong, but they are only one year old and can already walk without support. Very stable.

During the dinner, Mr. Lin couldn't help bragging to his old friends, saying how smart, strong and lively his grandchildren were. Others saw that the two children were indeed more dexterous than ordinary one-year-old children, so they couldn't help but praise them a few times. This made Mr. Lin was even more proud.

As soon as the two children turned one year old, it was almost time to harvest the sweet potatoes in the backyard.

The harvested sweet potatoes weighed more than 400 kilograms after being dried for two days, which made Mr. Lin speechless again.

After tasting the cooked sweet potatoes, Mr. Lin was full of praise for this sweet and soft food. For a while, sweet potatoes had surpassed the status of potatoes and corn in Mr. Lin's mind and jumped to the first place.

When all three crops were harvested, Mr. Lin couldn't help but sit down with Lin Hui and plan carefully.

In the end, the two of them agreed to set aside more than ten acres of land in Zhuangzi this autumn to try to grow these three crops. They would then save the seeds after harvesting and replant them next spring. If the farming is done properly, it is impossible for the Lin family to rely on these three crops to advance to the Jin Dynasty. He left the ranks of merchants and became an official.

Now that it is determined, we need to mark the land on Zhuangzi and find reliable people to take charge of it. We also need to record the various changes during the planting period. When to sow, when to water and fertilize, we need to record carefully as a reference when presenting. .

Fortunately, the Lin family's literacy class for servants has been running for more than half a year, and many of the people in it have achieved great results. Some of them can read thousands of words, and can even write simple letters for others.

Lin Hui selected a person who had always been reliable and promoted him to be a steward, and asked him to go to Zhuangzi to take charge of this matter. Even the farmers who tended the fields did not use ordinary tenants, but chose people who were familiar with farming from the family. , in order to keep it as secret as possible, at least until the Lin family prepares to present it to the court.

Because Lin Hui's previous trial of planting was just to choose an open space in the backyard garden, and two strong women were responsible for the care and harvesting. Others thought they had found fresh flowers and plants somewhere and did not pay much attention. Even the trial of several crops was only on a small scale, so most people in the Lin Mansion did not know that these crops in their house were edible food.

Cold comes and summer comes, spring passes and autumn comes, and in the blink of an eye it’s August of the following year.

After a year of trial planting in Zhuangzi, the reserves of these three crops were already considerable. Both Master Lin and Lin Hui felt that it was time. Therefore, they invited Magistrate Huang to come to Zhuangzi for a banquet in three days.