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Rice Seed Distribution

After the rice harvest, Yue Ming, the magistrate of the county, went to the door of Xie's house with more than a dozen yamen servants.

Ye Yuanxian and Xie Yifeng were still waiting for him in the yard, and after a while, Yue Ming bowed solemnly to salute, before he was stopped by Ye Yuanxian: "My lord, don't be too polite. It’s better to get along as usual.”

Yue Ming was stunned for a moment and then quickly responded: "Yes, thank you two gentlemen."

"My lord, please sit down." Ye Yuanxian beckoned him to sit down, and then handed the wooden plate on the table to Yue Ming. The wooden plate was carved from a single piece of wood and divided into five grids.

The grids hold rice seeds with slightly different shapes. Some rice seeds are slender like a cat’s deciduous teeth, while others are almost round and short and fat.

"This is a high-yielding rice seed." Ye Yuanxian pointed to the rice seeds and introduced them separately: "The one in the middle is the most suitable rice seed for Lekang County, and these two are suitable for planting on mountains with low temperature and water sources; in addition Compared with southern rice, the yield of the two varieties is higher, and the disease resistance rate is also stronger. The yield of these rice varieties has almost increased by more than half on the basis of the original production."

Following Ye Yuanxian's introduction, Yue Ming's breathing gradually became heavy. He clearly knew what these rice seeds meant to him, and he also knew what a great contribution it would be once he reported the existence of these rice seeds. .

"Two gentlemen," Yue Ming took a few deep breaths and calmed down his impatience before saying, "This matter of rice seeds is too important, I'm just a small county magistrate, I'm afraid I can't bear such a big responsibility. "

Ye Yuanxian and Xie Yifeng looked at each other, Xie Yifeng said with a smile: "Your Excellency, don't worry too much, the two of us invited you to come over, it's not to entrust these rice seeds to you."

Only then did Yue Ming relax visibly with the naked eye. It is a good thing for a pie to fall from the sky, but if he does not have the ability to catch the pie, the pie can become a boulder and crush him to death.

"What do you two gentlemen mean?"

Ye Yuanxian looked at the greenhouse that was being built outside the yard: "The rice seeds produced in the Xie family's field can't even moisten the entire Pinghuai Town. If you wait to plant it next year before harvesting, it will be a waste of a year's harvest." time."

Yue Ming also thought of the stakes. Crops are different from other crops. They can only harvest two crops a year at most. If they miss this year and are delayed due to insufficient seeds next year, they will have to wait for the next year to have a good harvest.

But in this way, the loss in just one year is not known how much, not to mention who can guarantee that the next year will still be as smooth as this year, and everything will be safe?

Yue Ming couldn't wait to sit up straight and looked at Ye Yuanxian: "Sir, what's the trick?"

Xie Yifeng was dissatisfied with him and Ye Yuanxian approaching, and separated the distance between the two by pouring tea, and then explained: "Your Excellency must know the greenhouse, since the greenhouse can make flowers that do not belong to winter bloom in the cold winter, Then it is also possible to let the crops grow in the cold winter, but the cost is a bit high."

Yue Ming only felt that a vague door opened in front of him, and all sorts of wonderful thoughts surged in his mind: "If the master is willing to distribute some seeds to the gentry and landlords, it will definitely be possible to build a greenhouse with their ability."

"In this way, the rice seeds of the landlords and gentry, who occupy the largest area in the county, can be cultivated by themselves, and the county government no longer has to worry about it. The rice seeds of ordinary people's homes will be cultivated by the county government in a unified manner, waiting for the next spring will be distributed.”

"In this way, it only takes one winter and a little money and manpower, and the high-yield rice seeds will definitely be popularized in the spring of next year." Yue Ming said with a flush of excitement on his face, as if drunk Like wine, thinking about the possible harvest next year, his expression became more and more excited.

Seeing that he had already figured out the key points, Xie Yifeng said again: "It is early autumn now, although the weather is still hot, but the temperature will definitely get lower and lower in the future, what adults have to do is to use these few days The time should be arranged as soon as possible, and people will plant the seedlings, and after the arrangements are made, they can be transplanted directly, and it is best to enter the earing period before winter."

The maturity time of rice varies from early to late. The maturity cycle of early-maturing rice is about [-] days, while that of late-maturing rice ranges from five to six months to seven or eight months.

The rice cultivated by Ye Yuanxian has a slightly later maturity cycle than the early-maturing rice, about 130 days, which is about four months.

Now that autumn has just arrived, the temperature in autumn is indeed suitable for the early growth of rice.The effect of the greenhouse will not be reflected until the weather is completely cold.

Yue Ming murmured: "I see, you two gentlemen. I'll do it now."

As he spoke, he was about to get up, but then sat down again: "I will buy the rice seeds at a price twice the market price." A somewhat ashamed look appeared on his face: "Although the price is a bit lower, but It is already all that the county government can provide. I promise that as long as the two gentlemen need it, the county government will support the two gentlemen wholeheartedly."

Ye Yuanxian nodded casually, the purpose of the two of them was not in this at all, but Yue Ming knew that he was grateful to them and naturally he felt more at ease.

"As for the other rice seeds..." Yue Ming looked puzzled, Xie Yifeng put away the rice seeds: "Don't bother me with these, I will send someone to send them to the Holy Majesty."

Yue Ming bowed his head deeply: "Yes, then there will be Mr. Lao."

When the county magistrate and the yamen servants left, they pulled three carriages worth of rice seeds. The people in the village watched the team of yamen servants go away as if they were watching the excitement. Only the village head realized that maybe the Xie family had messed up something else. That's why people from the county came here in such a big battle.

After the magistrate left, without anyone noticing, two more people came to the door quietly. They wore jade pendants around their waists, shiny and square.

When the leader saw Xie Yifeng, he immediately knelt down and kowtowed: "Dark Twelve has met Lord Junshi, and this Lord." He didn't know how to address Ye Yuanxian, so he could only lead him by kowtowing. .

"Get up." Xie Yifeng introduced to Ye Yuanxian: "He is the No. 12 consolation of Ming and Qing subordinates, and he will be stationed here for a long time in the future for us to drive."

There are tens of thousands of secret guards under the kings of a generation, and those who can be ranked in the top [-] have good abilities. Only in this way can Ming and Qing rest assured that the emperor who taught him since childhood to stay here.

Xie Yifeng handed the confidential handwritten letter to An Twelve, and at the same time arranged: "Tomorrow there will be an extra batch of rice seeds in Xie's drugstore, and your contact person will send the rice seeds to Ming and Qing hands as soon as possible. Remember there must be no mistakes.”

"Yes, my lord." Dark Twelve immediately promised.

After arranging all kinds of things, Ye Yuanxian and Xie Yifeng didn't relax, especially Ye Yuanxian, who still immersed himself in his experiment of hybridization to increase yield, but the object of the experiment changed from rice to wheat.

Another half month passed, and there was a small turmoil in the court. After the turmoil, the household department became busy.Others didn't know exactly what Hubu was busy with, but there was a vague rumor that he got a good seed.

It turned out to be a new seed, so it didn't have much to do with them, so everyone stopped paying attention to this matter, and turned to investigate the source of the turmoil.

And the source of the turmoil was Prince Zheng's awakening.

Prince Zheng is deeply trusted by the emperor, and holds the military power of a [-] army on the border in his hands, and there are not many people who can stand shoulder to shoulder with him in the court.He is upright, vigorous and resolute, and he can't understand the meddlesome things in the court the most. For a family that likes to study the art of the emperor's heart, Prince Zheng is simply a nightmare existence.

It’s just that this nightmare dissipated last year. The prince’s disease caused the bloodline of the descendants left by him to be persecuted by the offshoots of the prince’s mansion who had been blessed by him. The bloodline was almost cut off.

But now, after Prince Zheng wakes up, the first thing to do is to thoroughly investigate the palace, beheading those who have different intentions, and those who are not guilty of death are also put in prison. Completely clean up and down.

It's just that the methods are too iron-blooded, which makes people shudder.

Many people wrote letters one after another to convict the prince, disregarding his life and mutilating his clan.However, the young emperor did not care about this, and even specially sent the imperial guards to strengthen the martial law. In name, he was afraid that Prince Zheng would hurt the innocent, but in fact, anyone with a discerning eye could see that the emperor was taking the opportunity to help palace.

What shocked them even more was that Prince Zheng presented a secret decree to the current emperor right after he recovered, and several sets of teacups were broken in the Qianqing Palace not long after the secret decree was presented.

People in the imperial court are fluctuating, and the secret contacts are getting closer.

It's just that all of this has nothing to do with the Xie family in a remote county town. Youluo Village and Xie's family have ushered in a new round of bumper harvest.

The corn in the village has matured, and the output is much better than they expected. People who work hard and take care of it carefully have reached more than one thousand catties per mu.

Those with slightly barren or poorly maintained soil can have a yield of more than [-] catties per mu. Except for potatoes and sweet potatoes, it is the first time that the villagers have seen that one mu of land can produce so much grain.

Moreover, corn is different from rice and wheat. There is no need to shell the corn after threshing. As long as it is finely ground, it can be eaten. Except that the taste is slightly worse than the first two, there is nothing to say about it.

The village was full of joy, and they also knew that this kind of seed was the best seed that the village chief asked Xie's family to buy with a shy old face, and they felt a little more grateful to Xie's family.

Xie’s family also had a bumper harvest of corn. Xie Yi asked the old man in the village who is good at weaving bamboo to weave a special sieve for sifting seeds. The hole in the sieve is half the size of a fingernail. .

Only the plump and moist seeds are left in the sieve, and finally packed together.

Both Ye Yuanxian and Xie Yifeng seldom eat bread flour, and Xie Yi and the others only eat once every two or three days, so [-]% of the bread grains produced by Xie's family except those small ones are shaved. Saved for sale as seeds.

The other three achievements were Xie Yi's rations. As for those small grains that were not enough to make seeds, they were ground and mixed with weeds to make the most delicious feed for the donkey and the two horses.

The stone mill in the village creaked non-stop. Every household was grinding corn flour. For everyone in Youluo Village, this corn flour was really delicious.

After a short rest, Ye Yuanxian and Xie Yifeng took the newly harvested corn seeds to the shop in the town, and they wanted to sell all these corn seeds before winter came.