After the prosperous Tang Dynasty

After returning to his own yard and changing into light clothes, Xiao Yansui led people out the door directly.

The autumn sun was still scorching, Axiu held an umbrella in her hand, which naturally covered Xiao Yansui's head.

"Liu Niang, where are we going?" A Xiu followed Xiao Yansui step by step, and asked in a low voice.

"Go around the field, it should be the autumn harvest time!" Xiao Yansui replied casually, she doesn't know enough about the seasons for farmers to plant the land, but she just has a rough outline of what to do in each of the 27 solar terms throughout the year .

Axiu nodded.

While speaking, Xiao Yansui thought about the things in the field, and said again: "By the way, send someone to invite the experienced old farmer from last time. I still have something to ask her."

Among the servants who followed, one who was more familiar with this place was naturally separated out, and he went directly to the person Xiao Yansui was looking for first.

Because Xiao Yansui also brought some things like experiment notebooks in her hand, and if there were no accidents, she also planned to go to Zhuangzi to study the feasibility of vegetable greenhouses, and there were quite a lot of other things to take. Therefore, Xiao Yansui did not ride a horse when he went out this time, but took a carriage.

Xiao Yansui started from the Xiao family's old house, and there was a large farmland not far from Shanhai Town.

When Xiao Yansui and his party found the land of the experienced old farmer last time, the servant who had gone to find someone before was already standing there waiting with the old farmer.

The old farmer followed suit and was immediately stopped by Xiao Yansui.

She simply and neatly jumped off the carriage, causing Axiu to say almost subconsciously, "Liu Niang, be careful!"

Xiao Yansui's light clothes flew in the air, and the long hair tied into a simple ponytail at the back of her head also threw a lively arc, and then hung down smoothly along the slender line of her back like a butterfly's wing.

"It's okay," Xiao Yansui waved his hand casually and smiled.

Just standing on the top of the field, Xiao Yansui raised his head, raised his eyebrows looking at the golden harvest scene all over the ground, and smiled at the laborer in a relaxed and happy mood: "This year's harvest seems to be good?"

The lifeblood of farmers is the fields, and the crops in the fields are growing well, and they lasted until the autumn harvest, but the water just fell the day before yesterday, forcing many people to hurry up to harvest the crops immediately, and then Spreading it out to dry, it still hasn't dispelled the satisfaction and joy of these common people who feel that this year is a good harvest year.

It was this old farmer who had quite a lot of experience, and when he talked about this year's harvest with Xiao Yansui, he couldn't help but smile, and tried his best to suppress the tone that obviously had a local accent, and the tone was a little faster than usual Xiang Xiao Yansui said: "This year's rain is sufficient, but it will not be flooded. The crops in the field are not flooded, but filled with water. The soil in the field is also moist. This year must grow well..."

Xiao Yansui remembered that there should be two crops a year in the Jiangnan area, so he continued to ask casually: "After these crops are harvested, should they be planted again?"

Although the old farmer nodded, the content of the detailed explanation was somewhat beyond Xiao Yansui's expectation.

The old farmer said: "It is still possible to plant some more. However, as October passes by, winter will begin in less than two months. After the weather is cold, the ground will also freeze. All the crops that can be planted in winter will be lost Rarely, generally, each family has cultivated a small piece of land and planted a little bit of crops, which will grow the best, if not, we still have to wait for the spring of the next year."

"It's cold in winter, so the crops don't grow well?" Xiao Yansui couldn't help being slightly taken aback when he heard this.

Of course she knew that when the temperature was low, it would definitely affect the crops, but she never thought that according to what the old farmer said, the situation would be so pessimistic.

After pondering secretly for a while, Xiao Yansui stared at the crops in the field that had not yet been harvested, the crops that had a completely different impression from the pictures she saw on TV or pictures in her previous life, a thought suddenly flashed in her mind, It suddenly dawned on me.

Thousands of years later, as a big farming country, except for the mechanized farms in the plains, the basic mode of domestic farming has not changed much. However, the biggest difference between those crops and the past is that apart from the development of chemical fertilizers Besides, it is actually the varieties of the crops themselves that have been sufficiently improved.

Cold resistance, cold resistance, disease resistance, lodging resistance, high yield, taste...

The improvement obtained by the gradual improvement and optimization of these crops may not be obvious to contemporary people, but for Xiao Yansui today, after thousands of years of technological accumulation and variety optimization, the crops she has seen in her previous life The difference between crops and the crops planted in the land today is far beyond imagination.

What Xiao Yansui saw in the field last time was only the seedlings in the process of growth, but they looked a little shorter and thinner. Xiao Yansui didn't understand the growth and changes of crop plants, so naturally he didn't discover this rule. Now, the crops in the field are ripe as they should be, and the difference between the results is obvious.

Having lived in the Tang Dynasty for so many years, Xiao Yansui always went for novelty when eating, coupled with the lack of cooking habits and seasonings, and she herself is not that picky about food, Therefore, she subconsciously ignored the most essential thing—grains and vegetables with the same name. Those in the Tang Dynasty at this moment and those in later generations are actually two completely different varieties, and the differences in attributes are so huge that it makes people feel uncomfortable. People suspect that cross-species variation may have occurred between them...

Seeing Xiao Yansui frowned slightly, the old farmer closed his mouth somewhat uneasy. Axiu knew Xiao Yansui very well, and knew that the change in her face was probably not because of the old farmer. After returning a smile, he turned directly to Xiao Yansui and reminded in a low voice, "Liu Niang?"

"I'm thinking about something." Xiao Yansui responded casually.

When he came back to his senses, seeing the old farmer looking a little uneasy, he also said something to comfort him, and then said with a smile: "Take me to see the crops in the field, what are the harvests every year?"

Naturally, the old farmer nodded in agreement hastily.

Going all the way like this, what Xiao Yansui saw the most was rice.

As for things like potatoes, sweet potatoes, and corn that she is more familiar with, they have never appeared on the land of China...

Realizing this problem, Xiao Yansui couldn't help but frowned slightly.

He usually eats a lot of food, and the Xiao family's kitchen is naturally quite particular. Xiao Yansui never cared too much about it before. These common varieties of later generations did not exist in the country at this moment in the Tang Dynasty...

Xiao Yansui thought about it for a long time, and she always felt that these things seemed to come from the American continent, and they might have something to do with Columbus's discovery of the New World. They took advantage of the opportunity of the great voyage, and then spread in the world.

However, Xiao Yansui couldn't figure out the exact time of such a species migration process.In her impression, the age of great voyages may have been in the past ten centuries, and it will not be too far away from the modern age of later generations. In other words, it is far away from the present of the Tang Dynasty.

Thinking of this, Xiao Yansui didn't have too much expectation for finding these crops, but, thinking that the Tang Dynasty didn't have big ships going out at the moment, maybe they could get something from any island they encountered. On a sudden whim, he gave an order: "There should be a big pier near Lanling County, right? Turn around and ask people to wait on the pier to see if they can buy something that looks fresh."

Xiao Yansui's order could be said to have come without thinking, but Axiu, who had always obeyed Xiao Yansui's words, replied immediately: "Liu Niang, there is also a shop at the wharf, let the shopkeeper pay more attention to it." That's all, there's no need to go to people to watch..."

Xiao Yansui suddenly realized, "Oh, then I'll say hello to the manager when I get home."

After inspecting the monotonous farmland, Xiao Yansui quickly focused on the surface and how to build a vegetable greenhouse in such a place.

There are not enough varieties, let's add some off-season vegetables!Moreover, the temperature in the south of the Yangtze River is relatively mild. Even without the plastic film of polyethylene material, Xiao Yansui feels that vegetable greenhouses are still somewhat feasible-after all, the winter in the south of the Yangtze River is better than that in the really cold north. Thicker, thicker grass mats and the materials used to make yurts should also be used as substitutes.

Xiao Yansui waited until the sky was full of sunset and the sun finally set. Xiao Yansui finally put down the experiment notebook in his hand, and asked someone to send the old farmer who had explained the farming to her all afternoon. He also turned around and got into the carriage. After stretching in the extra soft and comfortable compartment, I had the time to drink a saliva.

"Go home, I have to think about what happened today." Xiao Yansui casually said to Axiu.

Facing Xiao Yansui who seemed to be mild but was actually very strong in carrying out her own plan, Axiu couldn't answer anything other than saying yes.

Lying comfortably on the cushion in the carriage, Xiao Yansui was slowly flipping through the gains he had recorded today, while also thinking about some other related things recently.

She has drawn the blueprints for the floor heating, or the Kang Kang, and she can give Wang Sili a copy later. It will definitely be useful in the winter in the Northwest camp. Of course, in return, Xiao Yansui hopes that Wang Sili, who is far away in the northwest border, will also Being able to help her find some reliable crops, she always felt that some crops passed down from the Northwest generation, and even from the Western Regions, seemed to be promoted in later generations...

In addition, there is Chang'an City, too busy building a house for the past few days and not caring about anything else, I should also write a family letter to my mother Pei, father Xiao Hua and the two elder brothers to report the relationship between myself and my grandfather What's going on now.

During this period of time, Xiao Yansui, who had completely written family letters as work reports, didn't even realize that there was something wrong with her instinctive desire to report work progress...