As a salted fish, I was forced to become the teacher of all ages

Huamanlou really did not break his promise. In the following days, he appeared in the experimental fields of the Agricultural College every morning, and popularized scientific farming methods to the old farmers—he did not understand the methods of farming, but he understood the scientific methods.

There are several experimental fields. After Huamanlou divides them, some are densely planted and some are sparsely planted; some are relatively barren and some are relatively fertile; Some watered more, some watered less; some fertilized, some did not fertilize.

Hua Manlou squatted in the field, explaining to the old farmers like an agricultural expert: "Nowadays, there are so many combinations of such simple conditions, and in the future, other conditions will definitely be involved, such as different conditions. Different climate conditions, different temperatures, different altitudes...uh, mountains and basins, in short, you have to try all the unexpected conditions."

An old farmer asked: "Master Hou, what's the use of this?"

Huamanlou said: "The purpose is to find the most suitable growing environment for that crop...well, that is to say, to find out where a certain crop grows best, and under what circumstances it will still yield. There are Two meanings, one is to increase the harvest of existing crops, and the other is because we have few fertile fields and many poor fields. Although things like corn and potatoes do not compete for fertile fields, we must confirm under what circumstances they are still It can grow well, and it can also grow food.”

After a pause, Hua Manlou continued: "Also, some crops like shade, and some crops like light. We need to distinguish them, so that we can try to plant the two together. For example, this Corn, as tall as a person when it grows, will affect each other if it is planted too densely, but it will waste land if planted too sparsely, so you can choose to plant some ginger in the middle, which saves land. Secondly, I also harvested both, killing two birds with one stone."

That is to say, there is no condition now, otherwise Huamanlou must let them see what a surprise it is to harvest frogs, rice, and crayfish at the same time in a paddy field-by the way, it seems that the origin of this thing is also the New World?

Well, I have to chat with Xu Banban when I have time, and let Yaqi try to find this thing when he goes to the West.

The old farmers were dumbfounded: Can it still be like this?

To be honest, although the old farmers think that everyone has been farming in this way for generations, so there is no way to improve it, but in fact it is not the case. Just throw the seeds in.

With the development of the times, there will always be some people who will find a more suitable method for planting, and countless farming proverbs will appear, filled with the farming talent trees of the people of the Celestial Dynasty, so that many people will think about it when they see a piece of open land. Plant something...

The blood power is so terrifying.

"Also, we need to record and file what happened every day after planting." Hua Manlou continued to squat on the ground to guide: "The content of the record is not only the conditions we deliberately created, but also the daily weather, The days of germination of the seedlings, the growth status of the crops, the yield of the harvest, etc. all related information..."

Before Huamanlou finished speaking, the old farmer beside him was startled: "Master Hou, I can't read, this..."

"Huh?" Hua Manlou said in astonishment, "I remember organizing everyone to learn how to read before the school was built? At that time, I even tinkered with a copy of "Journey to the West" as a literacy book. What's the situation with you?"

The old farmers felt extremely embarrassed when they heard the words: "Master Hou, at that time we thought that farming did not require literacy, so we didn't go, but "Journey to the West" was read by someone..."

"I just listened to you for fun?" Hua Manlou was a little speechless: "Yeah, it's a bit late for you to learn how to read, I'll find a few people... No! I remember when the group of nerds first came, didn't they Are you fined to farm with you? Those people are theoretically still students of the Agricultural College, where are they going?"

"Master Hou, they are all people with fame and fame, but they are all stars of Wenqu, how can they be allowed to plow the fields?" They're all busy at various colleges."

Hua Manlou sneered: "Wenquxing? They are Wenquxing, what am I?"

"Uh……"

"Come here!" Hua Manlou directly called the soldiers in the distance to come over: "Go, find me all those nerds!"

"Yes!"

You can't get used to the problems, why do you study productivity, and study the unity of knowledge and action, and this is the result?

After the soldiers left, Hua Manlou didn't speak, and started to drink tea with his special enamel cup. The old farmers didn't dare to speak when they saw him like this, but they had nothing to do right now, so they had to squat on the ground and hold them with mournful faces. The branches are scratched and the ants are playing.

Not long after, a group of scholars ran over in a panic, but when they saw Hua Manlou sitting on the ground with a cold face, they knew something was wrong, but no one dared to say anything, they just lined up and stood quietly waiting Fa Luo—that's right, they all claim to be Hua Man Lou's disciples. They are Neo-Confucianists, so why don't they just stand and listen obediently when the teacher loses his temper?

After all the people arrived, Hua Manlou ignored the group of scholars, but continued to explain to the old farmers in a friendly manner: "Record the daily growth status of each crop in each experimental field, and many things will be accumulated over time. Time can not only avoid many detours in the future, but also provide some help for those who study later..."

When I first listened to this group of scholars, they were even a little confused, but when Hua Manlou emphasized the recording over and over again, they understood: Master Hou is looking for something to do with us?But why record these strange things?

But soon Huamanlou said as if making a point: "Corn and potatoes do not compete for a fertile field, and the yield is huge. Once we understand the temperament of this thing, we can plant it all over Dazhao. This matter is worth living." Wanmin, it can be called a good deed with immeasurable merit, it can also be called a great achievement, and it can even be called a meritorious deed that will go down in history, so..."

Hua Manlou patted the old farmer on the shoulder and said, "Don't think that agricultural colleges can't get grades, and don't think that agriculture is something that can't be put on the table. Compared with those illusory things, people value more whether they can eat enough or not. , yes or no?"

"Uh..." The old farmer nodded stupidly, not knowing why Hua Manlou said this.

"That's it, let's stop here for today, you guys will record today's situation... By the way, remember to record it in plain language, try to make it understandable to the old woman, don't mess with those people."

After Hua Manlou finished speaking, he nodded at the old farmers, and then left without looking back.

After he was far away, the group of scholars came to their senses: These words... seem to be for us?

658. You'll Know When The Time Comes

It is impossible to completely hand over the agricultural college to a few old farmers, because apart from the records involved, sorting out and summarizing existing data is also a big project, including the development of teaching materials for the follow-up agricultural college. It can be done, so the participation of scholars is essential.

Who knows if there will be someone who wrote "Nongzheng Quanshu" or "Qimin Yaoshu" among this group of people?

Speaking of it, there are really too few scholars who are tinkering with agriculture these days, especially in the imperial examination environment like Da Zhao.Many scholars have been playing stereotyped writing all their lives, but in the end they can only play stereotyped writing all their lives. This not only misses their own possibilities, but also makes many useful subjects of Guochao come to a standstill.

From what happened to Mu Wenbin, it can be seen that the whole Zhao searched to find such a geography researcher, and one can imagine how scarce the talents in other disciplines are.

You must know that agriculture is not just agriculture. There are also a series of disciplines that can be separated from agriculture, such as botany, environment and climate, animal husbandry, etc. These all require some elites to study, so then , the participation of scholars is indispensable.

In the future, agricultural colleges will definitely need a large number of manpower, because almost every branch and even every project needs manpower, and many people can't take on multiple jobs like blacksmiths—those who engage in rifling can run on both sides of the gun , but it's a bit pretentious for those who are engaged in potato cultivation to study the postpartum care of **?

To be reasonable, don’t really think that planting potatoes is easy. Huamanlou vaguely remembers that each crop of potatoes is smaller than each crop. There needs to be a special method to solve this problem, otherwise, only finger-sized potatoes will be left in the end. And it seems that rotation is also needed, but he doesn't know how to do it.

In this way, this part alone requires someone to tinker with it for several years and try various solutions, and this is just potato planting, nothing else is involved.

Huamanlou was not so arrogant that he led a group of old farmers to plant corn and potatoes all over Dazhao, and he was not so arrogant that he brought these people to raise Dazhao's sideline agriculture, forestry and animal husbandry by one or two levels, so he attracted Talent matters must be done.

In order to get more talents to join the Agricultural College, some bait needs to be used to attract these people.There must be pure material rewards and social status. In addition, these scholars must see greater temptations, such as being famous in history.

Therefore, Hua Manlou planned to make a memorial to Emperor Guangxing in a few days, suggesting that he add an official position to Mu Wenbin, such as a member of the Ministry of Rites, and spread it out, so that scholars can see another way to get promoted and get rich.In addition, this group of contributing backbones of the University of Science and Technology must find a way to get some official positions such as "classics" and "xuezheng" like Guozijian, so that the University of Science and Technology will at least become a unit at the same level as Guozijian. Things just fell into place.

Of course, there will be no small resistance to doing so. After all, all the officials of the state except Xing Jin, the military officer, and Xungui were admitted through serious imperial examinations. Naturally, the civil official group is not happy that such an uncontrolled promotion road suddenly appeared.

But...

The Senglu Division, the Daolu Division, and even the weird Jiaofang Division can become serious yamen, but those engaged in agriculture and military affairs are excluded. Isn't this outrageous?

Of course, this is all for the future. Now Huamanlou can only use the big cake method to give these scholars a dream, and wait until they have achieved some results. Anyway, there is no end in sight for them to be punished in Xishan. Social garbage and dung-making machines might as well be pulled over to do something serious.

Therefore, Huamanlou plans to start with corn and potatoes, and first work out a research and development process and framework, and then slowly separate out some scientific research directions like the Metallurgical Academy, or separate out a separate academy—— For example, in the next step, Huamanlou plans to completely separate military engineering from civilian use, and establish a military engineering academy or completely divide it into a new military academy.

After all, the Smelting Academy is considered a success no matter how you look at it. They can develop all kinds of ancient weapons such as 'RPG' and 'anti-ship missiles' under such simple conditions. Isn't that considered a success?

So in the same way, Huamanlou only needs to take the lead in the early stage like tinkering with the smelting academy. After planting the corn and potatoes in the past two days, he will raise some other topics to the agricultural college, such as the hand-operated threshing machine and rice seeds. Improvement, plant grafting, poultry breeding, boar sterilization, postpartum care of pigs, etc., and then recruit more people to participate in it, and finally inject capital and wait for the results.

Besides...

"What are you planting?" Wan Chengyanran searched around the house, and finally found Huamanlou who was digging a hole in the back garden.

"Hey, good stuff." Hua Manlou straightened his waist, and carefully picked up a small bag beside him: "Here, that's all."

Miss Baimao took the small bag, opened it, took a look, and smelled it: "What is this? It smells a little pungent, can it be used as medicine?"

Hua Manlou smiled and said: "Yes, this thing can eliminate food, relieve stagnant qi, whet the appetite, dispel cold and relieve depression, and the most important thing is that it can season."

That's right, chili peppers can also be used as medicine, and it's not surprising that Miss Baimao asked about this in the first sentence.

"Can I..."

"No." Hua Manlou immediately interrupted Wan Cheng Yanran's words, and said with a speechless face: "It's not that I'm stingy and didn't give it to you, it's just that He Qing brought back such a small bag, so even if you want to study, you have to wait a few moon."

"Can it be planted?" Wan Chengyan watched Huamanlou pull out the well-planted peonies in the garden, and couldn't help laughing: "Speaking of which, you have been busy at the Agricultural College for the past two days, why don't you ask those people to help you?" ?”

"They have their own business, I have to do it myself." Hua Manlou carefully put the chili seeds into the hole and filled it with a thin layer of soil, then sighed: "Actually, I don't even know about this thing myself. Can these seeds be planted? Some conditions are still difficult to achieve, so I plan to plant some here, and then find some flowerpots and plant some in the house..."

Peppers are much more delicate than corn and potatoes. They need well-drained and well-ventilated soil, and they cannot be the land where eggplants and vegetables have been planted in recent years.

Fortunately, Huamanlou had grown peppers on the balcony in his previous life, so he knows how to do it, so now he plans to plant some in the garden, and then dig some pond mud and peat soil and mix them into flower pots to plant some in the house——Pepper Hi Warmth, afraid of frost, afraid of high temperature, if the summer is too hot, the only seeds will be in vain.

Wan Cheng Yanran suddenly couldn't understand: "It's just a condiment, why are you so...cautious?"

Hua Manlou smiled and said, "You will know when the time comes."

For those who stutter, be careful, have a question?

659. I'll Follow You Tomorrow!

As we all know, my dynasty is rich in gourmet food, as well as foodies.

In the era of Huamanlou's previous life, this matter can be regarded as romantic, but as long as you go forward a few decades, you will find that the vast majority of people in history have worked hard for stuttering, saying that it was human food Death is not too much.

You can't get enough to eat, let alone eat well?

Although there is already a saying in this era that you can’t get tired of food, it’s just a privilege for a very few rich people. , Over time, the standard for everyone to judge the value of an animal or plant has become like this: Can it be eaten?taste good or not?How can it taste better?Braised or fried?

Although it is a joke, it is a kind of helplessness to be true.

But the so-called hundred causes must bear fruit. It is precisely because of the inherent deficiencies in the country that it promotes everyone's research on food to be the best in the world. Only……

Oh, the concept must be clarified first, the good-looking ones are called foodies, and the unsightly ones may... be called rice buckets?

In short, after Miss Baimao left thoughtfully, another snack came.

After she came over, Hua Manlou had to explain the matter of the pepper again, and Qin'er's eyes lit up when she heard it: "It's really edible! Is it delicious?"

"Pay attention to the question, I already said that it's a condiment... well, anyway, let me tell you this, if it can be grown, you may not be able to live without it in the future." Hua Manlou pinched her nose, with a look of helplessness.

"Then I'll help!" The little girl couldn't help but rolled up her sleeves and began to imitate Huamanlou's practice, mixing pond mud and peat soil into pots, and then carefully planted a few pepper seeds, chirping with flowers while busy Manlou complained: "I said earlier that we should grow some fruits and vegetables in this garden, which are beautiful and edible, but they insisted that we should grow flowers here. What's so good about flowers? They can't be eaten..."

The "them" in Qin'er's mouth refers to Xiaodong and the others. They were the ones who helped plan the Xishanbo Mansion when it was built.

After complaining a few words, Qin'er babbled again: "Young master, when the house was built, the young master had not been conferred a title, but now he is already a marquis, so this yard seems a little small, right? Others said, we This is not at all like the mansion of Lord Marquis."

Hua Manlou took a flower pot, and said cheerfully while busying: "The mansion where Lord Hou lives is Lord Hou's mansion, so what's wrong with being small? Besides, our house is bigger than the old house at home, isn't it?"

The old house is the Huai’an Bo’s Mansion. I don’t know whether it’s because the Hua family’s low-key past generations or because the Hua family’s ancestors couldn’t afford it, so the Huai’an Bo’s Mansion is just a courtyard with three entrances. Qin’er used to be in the Huamanlou’s courtyard. Planted a bunch of melons...

Qin'er was dissatisfied and said, "But compared to those Hou Ye's mansions in the capital, they are a little smaller!"

Hua Manlou pretended not to understand what she said, but just smiled and said: "There are only a few people in the house. If it is too big, it will be difficult to clean up. More people need to be hired, and the expansion will be troublesome, so let's forget it."

Qin'er was a little sluggish when she heard the words, and after a while she murmured unwillingly: "Then...then why don't we expand the back garden and plant these peppers, okay?"

Hua Manlou smiled and said, "Tell me honestly, do you really think the house is too small, or do you think you have no land to plant fruit trees and that's why you're making noise?"

In fact, Qin'er had planted fruit trees earlier, but at that time she had to plant them outside the mansion because of Xiaodong and others' dissuasion, but soon she became very depressed: there were many bear children in Xishan, and they were absent from school. Afterwards, this group of children jumped up and down to play everywhere, and they brought disaster to the few green fruits that Qin'er had planted on the peach tree in the first year...

It's okay to arrive in one year or two, but now there are more and more people in Xishan, and the poor little fruit trees of Qin'er are tossed a little bit, and even two of them died - Xiongzi playing around When the bark is peeled off...

Hua Manlou knew this, so when Qin'er opened her mouth, he instantly saw through the little girl's 'sinister intentions'.

The movements of Qin'er's hands froze, and then she said awkwardly: "The mansion... There is not even a peach tree planted in the mansion, and there are no pear trees... But peach blossoms and pear blossoms are also pretty, so..."

Hua Manlou deliberately said: "It's beautiful, but it only looks good for a few days, right? It's not like this back garden, when the flowers bloom, the flowers bloom..."

"Flowers can't be eaten..."

"Who said that Sophora japonica can be eaten, wrapped in some flour and sprinkled with salt, steamed in a pot and eaten. If you want it to be more delicious, you can use some oil to cook it. It's delicious..."

Qin'er broke the can and threw it: "That's not as good as peaches and crispy pears, is it?"

Hua Manlou continued to attack Qin'er: "If you want to eat, go buy it. I still remember that I specifically asked Qiaoqiao to give you more pocket money every month, and the fruit in the house has never been cut off. Is this not enough for you?"

Qin'er stopped talking completely, and stuffed the chili seeds into the flowerpot in aggrieved manner.

Hua Manlou looked at it with a smile, and said after a while, "Qin'er, why don't you go to the Agricultural College?"

"Huh?" Qin'er was dumbfounded.

"When you go to the Agricultural College, you can study how to grow fruit trees, how to make the fruit bear more and taste better, and how to make new varieties." Huamanlou said casually, as if what he said was just to let her Go to the freehand brushwork like soy sauce: "Since you are interested, why not do it specifically?"

Qin'er looked at Huamanlou stupidly and said, "But...but I'm a servant, and the young master still needs to serve..."

"Who in the house sees you as the current person?" Hua Manlou interrupted her, and said with a smile: "And there are fewer people serving me?"

This is true, even though Qin'er was a servant girl bought by Uncle Huai'an in the past, and even the deed of sale is still in the mansion - before Huamanlou took her into the house, it was considered a little girl's identity certificate - But even the two eldest ladies in the house didn't take her seriously.

But when it comes to serving Qin'er, he instantly gets angry: "Master, Xiaobei is robbing me of my work again. It's just that she can take care of the young lady..."

Hua Manlou said speechlessly: "...No, let's talk about your going to the Agricultural College. Where did you go?"

Qin'er was a little moved, but when she thought that Xiaobei, who couldn't get married, was still in the house, she couldn't feel relieved. After all, Hua Manlou treated her very kindly, Qin'er always felt that her status was not guaranteed, and the vixen had to guard against it...

Hua Manlou didn't know anything about it. Seeing that Qin'er didn't speak, he continued: "Anyway, look, if you really like tinkering with those fruit trees, you can follow me to the Agricultural College tomorrow, and let's do it seriously. Research... oh, you can also study the method of growing melons and fruits in winter, when the time comes..."

When Qin'er heard this, she forgot everything: "Don't talk about Young Master, I'll follow you tomorrow!"

660. Take Some Melon Seeds by the Way

Huamanlou has always thought that he is not a hypocritical person, and really does not need someone to take care of him, but when the little girl and Xiaobei explain the daily things that should be paid attention to in the same way, Huamanlou is a little silly: so I am so A troublesome person?

"This is the tea bowl for the young master. This is tea. You must always pay attention to whether there is hot water in the pot, or the young master will be lazy and drink cold water."

"Uh-huh!"

Hua Manlou was speechless: Warm tea...can't be called cold water, right?