The days when I pretended to be a cat in the Forbidden City[Comprehensive]

When the little boys came in again, they all had subtle expressions on their faces. This weird atmosphere almost made Xia Anran think that he was not letting a few brats go out for punishment, but to carry out a secret activity, so now they are bringing Come back with a stomach full of secrets.

The children all saluted him very politely, Xia Anran nodded to signal everyone to sit down and asked the maid to bring snacks.

After Han Yan and the others thanked them, their eyes flicked casually into the plate, and then they immediately moved back and couldn't move away.

This, what is this?

There is a layer of green jelly at the bottom of the bowl, which is very fresh and lovely when the heat suddenly rises. The middle layer is a small piece of bright green fruit, which they know is the kiwi they just ate, and the top is dotted with Several small round red berries.

Although they didn't know what it was, the saliva secreted from their cheeks told them with their biological intuition—it must be delicious!

Xia Anran rarely challenged the patience of a few children, and asked everyone to try the special products of Zhongshan after they were poured sweet syrup.

Liu Zhi hadn't eaten this before, but he knew that his elder brother was good at pouring food, so he took the spoon first without any doubt.I saw him very skilfully spooning all the bottom ingredients into the spoon, and then swallowing it into his mouth.

This is without a doubt the most correct way to eat.

A mouthful of sour juice wins people's attention, making the child's whole face wrinkled, and then the aroma of various fruits bursts together. The fructose from two different fruits is hot and subtle, but they are all taken with them in the end. The mint-flavored jelly is inclusive, and after swallowing it at the end, what remains on the taste buds is only a touch of coolness and the floral fragrance brought by honey.

overtake!it is good!eat!

The child's eyes lit up with a "swish", and he glanced around eagerly, wanting to see who was unwilling to eat so that he could come over and eat. Cubs of food.

Unexpectedly, all of his little friends are very clever. Seeing his gesture, Han Yan swallowed without hesitation, and then her whole face wrinkled. Zhang Qian is not picky at all, he likes to start from the top. Cut back a little bit, savoring the flavors of each layer like digging for treasure.

On the other hand, Ah Qing, he hesitated for a while, seeing Liu She's eyes sweeping, but his hand firmly protecting the bowl, he knew that he liked to eat, so he stretched out his own bowl to give to Liu She.

Then Liu Zhi refused without hesitation.

Liu Zhi said sternly: "Ah Qing, you are too thin! Brother said that good children should not be picky eaters, and only by eating everything can they grow tall and strong."

"I want to be a great general, and you want to play with me. You have to practice martial arts well to become stronger. Although we have known each other since we were young, I will not show favoritism when the time comes. My brother said you can't be nepotism, so you have to Work on your own."

Little Zhengtai's eyes turned around from the child's rice bowl with nostalgia, and then he struggled to land his eyes on the teary-eyed child's face, and said sincerely, "I want you to be my deputy most, and we can also do it in the future." We have been fighting the Huns together, so you must not be picky anymore!"

Xia Anran was stunned.

His rice spoon fell into the bowl with a thud, but the sound didn't bring him back to his senses.In the end, he saw that child Ah Qing was so moved that he ate the dessert mouthful with tears, and was awakened by the tragic color as if he was eating poison.

In the end, Xiao Douding showed the bowl to Liu Zhi. Liu Zhi's eyes turned around in the bowl, and then looked at Xiao Douding's shining eyes. After thinking about it, he actually sent the small bowl he was protecting, Said: "Ah Qing, you seem to be a picky eater at ordinary times, one serving may not be enough, this is also for you."

He proudly puffed out his small chest: "This king is never picky about food, and he can finish it every time, so it doesn't matter if I eat one less time. You have to make up for it in the future. Your thighs are not as thick as my arms... ... No, you have to eat with me in the future, and I will keep an eye on you."

Han Yan cleaned up the desserts in the bowl little by little, and looked at Liu Zhi's bowl with longing eyes. He looked at his thighs... Cough, well, his thighs are still quite thick, but this one is called Qing's child's legs are not too thin...

In fact, I'm also quite thin... This line of words slowly flashed through his mind.

Liu Zhi's actions were stopped by Xia Anran.

His Royal Highness Zhongshan stopped his younger brother from feeding him on the grounds that "Ah Qing doesn't usually eat this, eating too much at one time will hurt his stomach", and let his younger brother eat his own dessert.

The children were stunned after making eye contact, and no one dared to ask for it again.

I always feel that King Zhongshan/Brother’s expression is so scary.

The little king repeated the barrage over and over again in his heart, slandering Liu Xiaozhu in his heart that he deserves to be the number one trotter in ancient and modern times, and his emotional life is so rich that after hundreds of years, someone would write him a fanboy. A set of sweet words, it will make people want to keep it for a few years when they are older.

Even if he was not a few years old, now that he looked at the young man's eyes, he knew that this young man would probably die for his confidant in the future.

So is he too serious in his daily life?How could he not even match his younger brother's heart-buying skills?

So should he also learn the skill of "Corporal Courtesy"?

For example, swim with your arms together, sleep with your feet on your feet, and talk at night while holding a candle?Xia Anran's hesitant gaze slowly turned to Dou Wan, who was eating dessert leisurely. This young boy who was his first poaching target seemed to feel his gaze, and raised his head slightly.

Seeing that the little king was indeed looking at him, Dou Wan was stunned for a moment, he put down the bowl lightly and tilted his head slightly, his eyes were questioning.

Xia Anran only felt that her heart trembled sharply when she was looked at by that gentle gaze, she just felt that she was so sorry for her emotional investment, it was simply too hypocritical!

So he only asked in a low voice if he wanted some snacks, in return the young man smiled and shook his head.

"Wan is not picky about food..." He picked up Liu Zhi's stalk, and then changed the subject, "I am ashamed to say that Wan has traveled to many places with my father, but I have never seen these fruits. Produce?"

Finally someone asked the point!

Xia Anran's eyes lit up, and he pointed to the kiwi fruit and said: "This is produced in the Taihang Mountains. It was originally a wild fruit on the mountain. In spring, the farmers transplanted some of it down the mountain, and then watered and fertilized the fruit. The fruit is extremely sour, but ripe. It has a special fragrance after being transparent, and I plan to try to cultivate it in a large area in the Xunkong area under the mountain."

"It can not only grow on the mountain, but also survive if it wants to move around."

"Pick them off while they are alive, and they can be stored for a long time, and they will slowly ripen later. I just picked some and sent them to Chang'an... I think you missed them."

As Dou Ying, the emperor would definitely reward him with a few fruits after they were delivered to the capital. If Dou Wan was still in the capital, it would be impossible for him not to eat them.

Dou Wan shook his head slightly when he heard the words, he has not yet reached the crown, and at this time he is still combing his hair in a simple hairstyle, this action looks a little cute, "Wan actually thinks that it is because I waited here just in time that I can eat the fruit at its very ripeness"

He smiled and cupped his hands at Xia Anran, "Thanks to Your Highness."

The little king frowned, thinking that Dou Wan came at this time because his father assigned him homework, and thinking about the "argumentative essay" that he hadn't answered yet, his head hurt.

Fortunately, there are sweet fruits that heal his soul. The little king pointed to the red berries, "This is also a wild fruit in the grass. I call it a strawberry. It is sweet and sour, but it is extremely hard to let go."

He sighed and added: "Very delicate."

This kind of wild strawberry native to China is much more difficult to handle than the large-fruited strawberries that have been cultivated and domesticated in later generations. Like the fruit of life.

Even placing it is very difficult. I have tried dustpans and bamboo baskets, and it can even be crushed by its own weight.

In the end, I could only ask Gaoyang County to order a batch of reed-woven bamboo strips. The berries were quickly picked off and placed flat before they were fully ripe, so that they could be transported from the northwest near the mountainous area to Lunu in the middle. county.

If it weren't for the fact that they were already in the fruit-hanging stage when they were discovered, Xia Anran would definitely uproot them and plant them in the city first.

Fortunately, this kind of wild strawberry is similar to the modern strawberry propagation method, and the stolons have grown during the fruit setting period, so Xia Anran asked someone to prepare nutrient soil and put it in a small bowl to catch his stolons.

Strawberries will produce several rhizomes during the peak growth season, and the main stem will continue to supply energy during the growth period. When the leaf points on the stems grow roots, they can take root nearby, and the slowly growing seedlings will be able to obtain energy from the direction of The mother plant provides the transition to self-sufficiency.

The best part of this breeding method is that its traits can be relatively stable, and it is not easy for varieties to vary.

Strawberry pollination relies on wind and insects, and hardly picks powder, so its seeds are highly variable. Of course, humans have cultivated various strawberry varieties for this reason.

However, for Zhongshan people who want to transplant, it is more convenient and stable to breed directly with stolons.

"When those seedlings grow up, they can be moved into the city." Xia Anran said.He pointed to the strawberries: "Although the fruit is not easy to transport, as long as it grows in a pot, the fruit is still very firm. At that time, you can try to bring soil and send it to Chang'an."

It's just that the transportation cost will definitely increase greatly. Anyway, his father is rich, so it's fine.

Dou Wan was sensitive enough to catch the message in the little king's words, he raised his eyebrows: "Your Highness wants to plant this berry on a large scale?"

Xia Anran nodded: "This fruit can be planted on a scaffold, it doesn't need to take up the amount of farmland, and it can also be used as a landscape green plant in normal times."

Although most people think that strawberry is a weak plant when they see it in a greenhouse, on the contrary, wild strawberry is very vigorous, so vigorous that it can be regarded as an alien species in some areas.

It can be said that as long as it is given sunlight, it will be brilliant.

Moreover, strawberry has a shallow root system, which not only brings it the weakness of not being easy to absorb nutrients and is very easy to get fertilizer damage, but also brings the benefits of being potted.

In ordinary strawberry breeding bases, they are basically cultivated with soil, and of course there are also three-dimensional plantings, which are for the purpose of maximizing benefits and facilitating harvesting, but for him...

Xia Anran sighed, "Agriculture is the foundation of a country, and land is the foundation of agriculture. An inch of land is worth an inch of gold. There must be no shortage of cultivated land, so I can only think of other ways."

The children all looked sideways, and Liu Zhi was a little puzzled after savoring the words: "But, we big men have a lot of..."

He traveled eastward all the way, and along the way, he saw many places that had not been felled, but weeds were growing.

Xia Anran smiled, it will take some time to answer this question.Seeing that the children had finished eating, he asked if they were tired. The children had rested in the afternoon, and now they were full of energy, while the only one who hadn't rested, Dou Wan, stood behind him and made a silent statement.

So he immediately ordered someone to prepare the car, and took a few little beans to a small farm in the outskirts of Lunu.

This is an experimental base he set up.

The main experiments are soil collection and modulation experiments.

To do a good job in agriculture, the tool is the auxiliary, and the basic is the soil.Zhongshan itself is rich, but that doesn't mean that every inch of land here is healthy.

Hebei is a member of the list of provinces with serious land salinization in later generations.The rain belt that is still in the north will slowly move south over time, which has led to the fertile hinterland of the Central Plains becoming several provinces in China that are extremely water-scarce.

Water-soluble salt itself exists in the land. Because of the dry weather, the underground salt water is continuously pumped up by the capillary action of the soil, and every time some water is pumped up, it is quickly evaporated.

The water is evaporated, and the salt naturally remains on the surface of the soil. This kind of saline-alkali land is actually very easy to manage.Simply flood with water to wash away or press back the salt on the surface.

The trouble is the saline-alkali soil caused by the geographical environment. For example, the large number of lakes and rivers in Zhongshan bring irrigation water, but also bring about the salinization of riverbank soil.

But this time, the reason is that the river poured into the groundwater, which caused the groundwater level along the coast to be too high, and the water-soluble salt was continuously brought to the surface of the soil layer for accumulation, which caused the accumulation of salt on the surface layer of the soil.

"Although the land in Zhongshan is good, there are many problems. Fortunately, there are agronomists in Zhongshan, and they have studied this land for a long time." The little king explained to several children.

Among the hundreds of schools in the Spring and Autumn Period, the Agricultural Sciences had completely declined in the Western Han Dynasty. If they hadn't been attracted by the farm tools frequently modified by the little king this time, Xia Anran would never have believed that the few farmers who had talked to him were actually agricultural students. successor.

These people immediately enjoyed national treasure treatment after revealing their identities.

For this reason, Xia Anran completely entrusted them with the task of hybrid breeding and soil modification, and these agronomists were also very active and cooperative with a boss who believed in agronomy.

After the little king showed his concern for the unusable wet and soft land on the river bank, the farmers immediately picked up the tools and started the road of sampling.

"The countermeasure is to plant mulberry trees?" Several little bean dings were very surprised. Xia Anran nodded, and he pointed to the few mulberry saplings raised in the base. They didn't grow very well, they were a little wilted, and the leaves were not energetic. "The soil used for these mulberry trees is the saline-alkali soil by the river, but only a moderate amount was put in, and they are still adapting slowly."

"Can they adapt?" Liu Zhi looked at these trees that could only be said to be alive with some sympathy, and his small mouth was tightly pursed, feeling that they were only one breath away from death.

In fact, Xia Anran was also a little uncertain. He had heard that someone planted mulberry trees to control salinity, so he brought it up.

But the modern tree is a salt-alkali-resistant variety bred by the Agricultural College. It may not be possible for him to pull out a few trees and plant them, even if he has golden fingers.

[Flower hoe], the plant survival rate increased by 30.00%. The special attribute of six is ​​the reason why these mulberry trees are still alive.This thing is so small that at first glance, I thought it was something for a little girl, Xia Anran insisted on cleaning up these places by herself with this small hoe for the sake of face.

But as long as or is enough, for plants, as long as they are alive, resistance will evolve from generation to generation.Not for this generation, maybe for the next generation and the next generation.

Numerous excellent varieties are produced in the process of forcing plants to evolve.

"Then why is it a mulberry tree?" Zhang Qian was the most curious. He stretched out his hand and squeezed a leaf. It was flat and had a weak texture. If such a mulberry leaf was used to feed the silkworms... probably the silkworms would not be full?

Why use mulberry trees, because in the impression of the little king, there is the concept of "mulberry fish pond" ecological breeding. Although I don't remember where this operation mode was used, but the mulberry leaves feed silkworms, and silkworm sand feeds fish. The operation mode of the fish manure pond is really exciting.

Moreover, mulberry trees love water, so as long as they can withstand the barrier of saline-alkali land, there is no problem in planting them beside rivers.

The mulberry tree has a large crown and deep roots, which can intercept rainwater and conserve water and soil. It basically does not need to be taken care of when planted on the edge of the river, and it can also help prevent river landslides caused by too much rain in a year.

Because there is no fish here, it is also a very good cycle to use the excess silkworm excrement to fertilize the mulberry trees.

Since Zhongshan intends to develop Kesi, it must start breeding silkworms.

The land here is fertile, and it is not cost-effective to use farmland to grow mulberries. However, if mulberry trees and fruit trees are planted in the northwestern rivers and near the mountains, it can just make up for the shortcomings of the lack of grain harvest here and give farmers more income.

"If it is possible, I hope that the economic income of a family in the future will not be mainly based on the output of agricultural products." The little king said to several children, "The single source of economic income is easily affected by the weather, and the ability to resist risks is very low."

Liu Zhi was stunned: "So brother wants to let farmers raise ducklings?"

"Yes," Xia Anran nodded, and he opened the door of a warehouse with a few children.

Today is Xiumu, and all the staff who were shuttling through this room were gone, only the guard at the door was still dedicated to his duties. He opened several windows for ventilation while holding his nose and explained to the children, "Duck eggs, Duck meat is a good source of income, and in the future, when there are more ducks, you can collect duck down to make clothes."

"Duck down?" When hearing this term for the first time, several children tilted their heads to express their curiosity without covering their noses.

Seeing this, Xia Anran casually picked up Duoduo Duck who was following her all the way, and before the latter had time to react, she spread its wings and asked several children to touch the duck's belly one by one, "Is it soft?"

"Soft!" Several children stared at the duck's belly full of desire to touch it again after taking turns to get started. After being repeatedly molested, Duoduo Duck had already flapped its wings and slipped into the arms of Dou Wan, the only one who didn't touch it. inside.

The latter was caught off guard and embraced it, and was a little surprised at the approach of the King Zhongshan pet, so he licked two duck heads.

Finally, before the duck could react, he reached out and rubbed its belly.

Duoduo Duck:! ! ! ! ! ! !

Xia Anran didn't care about the ugly duckling who was crying angry, and asked again: "Is it warm?"

This time, several children recalled it one after another, expressing that they hadn’t noticed just now, and then the docile general ducks were touched by the children again, and everyone’s answers were also very unified.

"The feathers here are used by ducks to incubate their eggs and take care of their ducklings. It's soft and fluffy, so it's very warm."

Liu Zhi showed a dazed expression: "No wonder ducks hatch their eggs with their bellies! I always wondered why they sit and sit instead of lying down to hatch their eggs! At that time, I thought mother duck was too tired and wanted to help The mother duck turned over, and the mother duck became very angry."

After listening to his words, the little king couldn't help but look sideways. He felt as if he knew how the three little generals got here. Looking at the innocent and harassed mother duck, he always felt that she was shining with the magnificence of the Virgin Mary.

The children continued to ask: "So this duck down can also be made into clothes?"

"Wow, aren't we like duck eggs caged by a mother duck?" Xia Anran laughed at the children's childish speech, but Dou Wan's reaction was even more intense, and he stretched out his hand directly. The clown duck rubbed its abdomen a few more times to feel the temperature there, then raised its eyebrows and looked at Xia Anran, "Your Highness, although the hair here is soft, it is relatively short, is it for spinning and weaving?"

"That's fine too, but it's more convenient to cover it directly in the fabric." Xia Anran picked up a duck feather cushion and handed it to several people. Fluffy.

"It's like a reed pillow." Zhang Qian felt it, and he patted the cushion curiously, "It's so soft! Is this made of duck down?"

"It's made of ordinary feathers," Xia Anran repelled the enthusiasm of the children, "Duck down is too thin, and ordinary fabrics can't cover them. There is no silk fabric yet, but the silk fabric will still leak feathers. It doesn’t look good after a long time.”

Therefore, the craftsmen first experimented with common thicker duck feathers, and they also wanted to test whether ordinary duck feathers have the ability to keep warm. waste.

The eyes of the craftsmen here are not limited to ducks, they have taken a fancy to almost all furry creatures!Not only creatures, but even plants.

Before Xia Anran pointed it out, people here only used the thick fur of beasts to keep warm.After all, it looks very warm. Last winter, Xia Anran got a fox fur as a small waistcoat. When it comes to bird feathers, everyone thinks that it is hard and does not seem to have insulation properties.

It wasn't until Xia Anran showed the down feathers that the group of craftsmen went crazy and began to pluck the feathers.

They didn't dislike the strong smell of duck down at all, and even tried chicken feathers.

After all, everyone wants to hatch eggs, and chicken down should not be inferior to duck down. In fact, chicken down is really worse than duck down.

After all, a duck needs to enter the water, and its abdomen needs to touch the water surface. If the warmth retention is not good, the duck’s body temperature will be lost quickly. Let alone swimming, it will freeze to death on the water surface.

As soon as this truth is said, the waterfowl in Zhongshan Country will suffer.

The craftsmen's "crazy" move is actually to get this thing out before this year's cold winter, at least to be able to produce it in small batches. Before the winter ducks are replaced with thick fur, they have to prepare the outer layer of the material. .

It is also necessary to solve the fishy smell of duck down, which the little king asked them to put at the top priority.

Fleeing wool is a great thing to add two layers of cloth, but there is a peculiar smell, which is definitely an unacceptable flaw for the nobles.

Between temperature and demeanor, the big Han Yan control party will definitely lose the temperature without hesitation.

Liu Zhi touched the mat and looked around again. He seemed to have realized something, and said with his fingers: "Brother wants to raise mulberry trees. Mulberry trees can manage the land and intercept river water, and then the leaves of the mulberry trees can be used to feed silkworms. The poo of silkworm babies can be fed to fish or trees. The cocoons of silkworm babies can be used to make silk thread, which can be used to make silk, and the silk can be used to wrap duck down.”

Zhang Qian went on to say: "The ducks can eat the fish in the pond to grow up, and the excrement of the fish can supply the mulberry trees. The bigger the mulberry trees can control the saline-alkali land, the land will be better after a long time, and it can be done again. farmland."

"Wow——" Several children felt very interesting about this logical series of questions, and spoke enthusiastically one by one.

"Among them, farmers raise ducks and raw eggs, and duck eggs can be used as salted eggs!" This is what Aqing, a child who has lived in Zhongshan for a while, said.He has already eaten the taste of salted eggs, it is delicious!

"Duck manure can also be used as fertilizer to fertilize the fields, and ducks and small fish can also help grow rice." Liu Zhi added, "That is to say, if a family follows this planting method, his one-year-old harvest will be more than Rice, and ducks, eggs, duck down, silk, and possibly fish?"

Xia Anran nodded, "This is the best, in fact it is impossible to have so many. If the year is not good, at least there will be another harvest to supplement the family."

"It's just that all farmers have time to do so." Dou Wan raised a very realistic question at this time.

And this is also Xia Anran's most distressing question.

——How to liberate the labor force while ensuring the quality of production.

The author has something to say:

Mulberry fishponds are planted in the Pearl River Delta~ Of course, the best tree to control saline-alkali land is not mulberry, but mulberry has a certain ability to tolerate salt and alkali.

The current location of Zhongshan in Hebei...is a modern rain-deficient zone, because the rain is blocked by the Taihang Mountains, and it itself is inland, so the water vapor blown from the sea cannot reach here.

So now this area is basically irrigated by pumping groundwater.

However, in ancient times, since the rain belt was still along the Yellow River, there were no such problems here.

Questions about saline-alkali land: Insufficient rainfall, too much rainfall, too low groundwater, too high groundwater, and proximity to rivers will all cause soil salinization.

Every governance method is different. Now that the country has a dedicated governance team, the governance in this article is particularly superficial.

Of course the easiest way is to flush the salt.

But for some lands that are inherently drought-stricken, it is easy to say, where does the water come from?Even if the salt is pressed back to the land now, as long as the climate is dry for a few months, it will be sucked up again. If the general environment does not change and the small environment does not change, we must pay great attention to it.

But there is no way, I can only keep trying.

Ahem, it's not that chicken down is not warm, the problem is that it's not waterproof, so it's disposable.In fact, it can also be used.

The government has been encouraging farmers to diversify their income, which is why they now promote ecological farming. All income depends on the land, even if there is insurance, it is too dangerous.What's more, most farmers will not take the initiative to buy insurance.

To add, wild strawberries and big fruit strawberries are not the same thing!Whether there were wild strawberries in ancient China has not been determined yet, because China is not a nation that likes to eat berries, so there are basically no records. This article defaults to it!

Former author Jun: Liu Han is my original intention!

The current author: um……………