Dress to be a celebrity

Xiong Yushi took the testimonies of Song Shi's father and several family members who accompanied him to the south, and took a copy of each of Song Shi's family's pesticides, organic fertilizers, soap, crayons, glass, cement, etc., and used wax paper Wrap it up and present it to the imperial court.

He led people to build glass, cement, fertilizer, and insecticide workshops in Nanfang, and persuaded the local people to open mountains to build terraced fields and divert water from the mountains to irrigate the fields.At that time, it also made local rice harvests abundant.However, the rice he planted in the south also had a slightly higher harvest and fuller ears, and indeed there was no Jiahe with thirteen ears like it was in Hanzhong.

He has been able to make these things in the south, it seems that he is born to love these practical things, and it is not because he followed the King of Zhou that he got it.

While listening to the censor's report, Emperor Xintai glanced roughly at the things on the tray, frowned and asked, "Didn't Huan Ling present a note on planting Jiahe when King Zhou entered Beijing? What's the difference between his family? Why can it be auspicious in Hanzhong, but not in the fertile land in the south?"

Eunuch Wang responded, "The notes have been handed over to the household department for study, may your majesty send someone from the household department to deal with it?"

The emperor nodded, and he immediately asked the chief eunuch of the Hall of Mental Cultivation to go to the household department's left servant, Guo Dun, to enter the palace, and arranged for someone to lead Gu Zongxian and Xiong Yushi to retreat to the side hall to rest, waiting for the summons from the saint.

After a while, Guo Shilang went to the hall, and the eunuch Wang brought everyone the transcripts and things inquired by the Metropolitan Procuratorate in front of him, interrogating on behalf of the emperor, and asked him to check whether the things in front of him were related to the fertilizers and medicines recorded in the notes of the Song Dynasty. What similarities and differences.

Fortunately, Guo Shilang is not the kind who waits for everything and only leaves it to the subordinates. He studied Song Shi's notes early on, picked a few times among the trays in front of him, and said, "It's almost these things. It's just that there is a difference in the fertilizer. 'Phosphate fertilizer' is the same as 'plant ash essence', and there is also a kind of 'fertilizer powder'. In his notes, he said that the fertilizer powder is made by refining yellow iron essence into acid solution and rinsing the flue gas of iron-making coal. It is not easy to make, but You can also not use it, just use farmyard manure that has been piled up at high temperature."

Eunuch Wang was as careful as a hair, and asked immediately: "Our family also heard that the ashes from the stove at the bottom of the pot can fertilize the field. No matter how refined he is, he can't burn the ashes into elixir, so he grows Jiahe because he uses 'phosphate fertilizer'. Or do you want to add another fat field powder?"

Guo Dundao: "It should be just phosphate fertilizer. No one has used this kind of fertilizer before. He found it in the mountains. He saw that kind of rocks are rugged, so he named it 'phosphorus'."

The word phosphorus was specially created by him for this fertilizer, which shows how precious this fertilizer is.

This kind of fertilizer has been produced in Hanzhong for thousands of years, and I have never met him until Song Shifa, the sage general, came to Hanzhong. He was called a disciple of the emperor and a talented man of three yuan to bump into phosphate fertilizer, resulting in dozens of copies of auspicious Jiahe harvested last autumn. vision.

This is due to the holy virtue, and the destiny is determined by heaven, so that Dazheng got this good person, this good mine, and this good law.

When Mr. Guo praised the sage, even the eunuch Wang was willing to bow down. With a few words, he blamed the reason for Jiahe's existence on the emperor, and stripped away this auspicious sign and the king of Zhou.

Emperor Xintai was noncommittal, and only asked him: "If there is phosphate fertilizer, can the household department grow Jiahe at this time?"

If there is phosphate fertilizer, if you farm according to the method taught by him, you should be able to get Jiahe.

In his notes, he recorded a comparison of the growth of rice with and without phosphorus fertilizers. The Ministry of Finance had people try planting in the official field, and the results were similar to what he wrote in his notes.If you can use bean dregs, fish and shrimp scales, animal hair, hoof horns, viscera, broken bones, etc. It is useless for farming.

Guo Shilang sighed: "But I don't know if there are phosphate fertilizers elsewhere. It would be great if there are such fertilizer mines in Jiangnan and other places."

Eunuch Wang falsely said: "Let Master Song and the others dig out more phosphate fertilizers and send them to all provinces in the world. Wouldn't it be possible to have a good harvest everywhere?"

Jiangnan, Huguang and other places are the granary of the world, where two crops a year and three crops every two years.If there are phosphate fertilizer mines in those places, the Jiahe planted will be several times that of Hanzhong. Wouldn't this new Thai Dynasty become the prosperous Kaiyuan?

Although Guo Shilang is good at praising the saint, he didn't dare to go along with it at this time, instead he poured cold water on him:

It is not as good as asking them to run on the spot if the household department is running.

Now there is a shortage of food at the frontiers, and Shanxi and other prefectures are the places where military supplies are transported. If phosphorus fertilizers are distributed to all places and planted according to the method of the Song Dynasty, the famine on the nine borders will be solved, and the matter of forcing good people to serve in the army will naturally be solved. It can be solved easily.

If phosphate fertilizers are transported to rich and affluent lands, transporting fertilizers is an expense at first, and transporting grain is another expenditure.Even if it is transported to a place in the south where there are two or three crops a year, only one third of the grain will be transported to the border, and the rest will be used up on the way.

It would be better to farm on the spot, even if the harvested grain is only one-third of the south of the Yangtze River, it will save the cost of sending fertilizer.

The Son of Heaven nodded slightly: "The color and shape of this phosphorus rock are no different from ordinary mountain rocks. If Song Qinghui hadn't recognized it with eyes, no one would have known that Tiantai Mountain had such a beautiful thing in tens of thousands of years. Other places in the mountains It may not happen that this thing doesn't happen, you can send people who are good at prospecting to Tiantai Mountain to recognize this time, and look for it in various mountains."

This matter is the job of the Ministry of Industry, and now there are three members of the Ministry of Industry, Wailang, who are learning how to make fertilizer with Mr. Song in Hanzhong. Let them pay attention to the prospecting of mines first, and then send some special personnel to go.

Guo Shilang even claimed it was.

But this prospecting is under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Industry. As the Minister of the Ministry of Household Affairs, he is not allowed to act on his behalf, so he should step down at this time.He wanted to plead guilty and leave, but the emperor suddenly ordered someone to call Gu Zuo and Xiong Hui to the hall, and asked them: "The Hanzhong mansion was not very outstanding at first, but recently I read the books from Shaanxi, why do they all praise the wealth of Hanzhong?" ?”

Is it because he planted Jiahe and made the people abundant?Is it because the business in his economic park is booming, making money every day?

Guo Shilang just praised the effect of phosphate fertilizer on increasing income for a long time. It seems that as long as he can find a few phosphate mines and grow Jiahe in Jiangnan and Huguang, he will be able to "send to Jun Yao and Shun" immediately.But when it came to the benefits of farming, he didn't exaggerate, so he could only answer in a low voice: "The chapter of "Chang Yan·Profit and Loss" has 'ten times the benefits of farming, and a hundred times the benefits of doing business', Mr. Song's fields are scattered all over the place. , and the total amount of land is only thirty or forty mu of small land, which is not enough for the people of a rich province."

The emperor's eyes fell on Xiong Yushi's face, and he personally asked the little Yushi, who was private for the first time.

Xiong Yushi's face was flushed with excitement, and he was about to pass over.Fortunately, their president stepped forward to block Shengyan, and told him to calm down and not lose face in front of the emperor.

Xiong Yushi came to his senses, and returned to Bing according to the order: "Based on the results of the investigation by the Metropolitan Procuratorate, the Song family is not considered an extremely wealthy family. Not only is it not comparable to the family of the Daigongqing family, it is even inferior to those local wealthy families. It’s just Nakagami.”

I heard that when Song Shi and his father were in the south, they also opened these factories, and they didn't necessarily make much money. It's just that after they arrived in Hanzhong and built an economic park...

After careful inspection, the only thing that is different from what he did when he was young is the large scale of his economic park, not to mention the dolomite, phosphorus fertilizer and other special products in Hanzhong.

Not only are there many people employed, but the workshops are large, and the materials coming in and going out of those factory rooms are linked together: the coal from one kiln goes to the other kiln chamber for fire; It can also burn refractory bricks; after the refractory bricks are fired and put into the furnace, crystal clear glass can be produced; glass panels can be used to raise seedlings in advance, and early planting and early harvest can be achieved when the glass plate is built into a greenhouse...

His economic park is so frugal that even the smoke is not wasted!One is passed into the ground for human heating, and the other is washed with sulfuric acid to make chemical fertilizers, which is another way to save money and enrich farmers.

I'm afraid that his economic park is running well because he has the ability to make arrangements from the overall situation and make the best use of all raw materials, outputs, and waste in the park.

——The things produced in the garden are just the details, and his practical skills of observing the nature of things and making the best use of them are the foundation.You can pass an order to the ten officials who went to Hanzhong to learn how to grow Jiahe, not only to learn how he farms, how to make fertilizers, pesticides, etc., but also how to arrange and operate an economic park, so as to enrich life and comfort the people.

The emperor asked lightly: "Do you mean what you said, or the meaning of the Metropolitan Procuratorate?"

Xiong Yushi didn't dare to answer for a while, Gu Zongxian responded on his behalf: "Returning to Your Majesty, I think there is nothing wrong with what Xiong Chi, the Yushi of Fujian Province, said. I do things for the court, nothing but sincerity and integrity. If it is right, then even if it is wrong, it can be corrected; if it is chaotic, even if it builds workshops and produces medicinal stones, it is only a foreign thing after all, and cannot enrich the country and stabilize the people.”

Emperor Xintai seemed to have smiled very lightly: "You all value Song Qing very much in the procuratorate."

Isn't it because... Song Shi was also a member of the Procuratorate... a member of them.

Those two "people" are definitely not because he hesitated, let alone because he stuttered when he thought about something, but a progressive tone——

They are all members of [Youqian Capital Censor Huanling] of the procuratorate.