I am the cook, but I am Li Er's son-in-law

There is heated discussion about this.

They all like gossip, let alone such a big gossip.

Duke Zhengyang didn't want to be an official, they could actually understand - in the eyes of most common people, the status of the emperor might not be as good as Duke Zhengyang.

At least…

The emperor is still the emperor, but Lord Zhengyang brought something that should not be in this era.

At least…

Paying homage to the God of Wealth, the family really started to get richer gradually. Ordinary people don't know what the economy is not economical, the market is not the market, they only care about their own pockets.

Rich, easy to earn, cheap things...

This is their most intuitive feeling.

If Duke Zhengyang wants to become an official, he must be under the emperor, and even under other "wine bags and rice bags", who can bear it?

But Xue Rengui is not.

Especially...he had never chosen to be an official before, but now that he has, he resigned so solemnly that many people who don't understand it don't understand.

Of course, Yin Xuan is not thinking about this right now.

Xue Rengui is going to sea.

But... It's not about these few days. He just came back from Persia. No matter how ruthless capitalists can do such oppressive things, take a good rest before continuing to go to sea.

Food is not a matter of a day or two.

Even if Xue Rengui went to the Americas to dig out the corn and potatoes, but... the original ecological things, how can they compare with the good genes of later generations.

Still unavoidable long-term cultivation.

This is bound to be a long and arduous task.

Having said that, Yin Xuan was more or less thinking about it. The current Datang...has developed a little abnormally, and almost all of its food depends on the surrounding countries.

Of course, this is not an absolute bad thing. It is difficult for a country to be able to guarantee self-sufficiency in food production under such a prosperous trend.And it is still under the premise that agriculture has not developed.

It's just an obvious weakness, which makes Yin Xuan a little unhappy.

He started haggling with the system.

But... the system is unwavering. It is just a gourmet system and does not involve any agricultural output. No matter what Yin Xuan says, he just doesn't open the mouth for active seeds.

This made Yin Xuan a little disappointed, but this time he didn't do anything... The things of counting names and burning brands are not within the scope of duties, and it is indeed difficult for some strong systems.

Just when Yin Xuan thought that the dust had settled on this matter and everything could not continue until Xue Rengui went to America.

Good news always comes unexpectedly and suddenly, giving everyone a surprise.

Yi Xin came back from Juzhou.

And a box of grapes.

"Da Lang, look!" Yi Xin held the grape in his hand like a baby. The purple skin was big and the icing was white, but after washing it, it would be as translucent as an amethyst.

"Cultivated?" Yin Xuan picked out a clean one, put it in his mouth, chewed it lightly, and the juice gushed out.

It is still a lot worse than those fine varieties of later generations.

Compared with the grapes at this time...

The purpose of plant fruiting has never been for human consumption. Although... there are certain edible properties, but in essence, this is only for the purpose of spreading seeds.

Animals eat the fruit and excrete the seeds when they excrete. With the help of the first wave of fertile nutrition, the seeds can grow normally without any major problems.

Therefore, most of the fruits in nature exist like this-the fruits are small in size, thick in skin, and have many seeds.

Although grapes are a common fruit that has been with the people in this land for thousands of years, it is not much different from the wild ones that have not been cultivated.

And the grapes cultivated by Yi Xin in the past few years.

A big, thin skin, few seeds.

"According to the method given by Da Lang, it was planted." Yi Xin still smirked, and since the few acres of grapes gradually matured, the smile on his face has not faded.

Even... sometimes, he would wake up in the middle of the night with pain - he was still laughing when he was sleeping, unlike when he was awake, he could still control it, and he often had cramps during sleep.

"Aside from this, is there anything else?" Yin Xuan twisted another grape and fed it to Li Lizhi.

Yi Xin shook his head: "The others didn't make much progress."

"It still takes time to cultivate peaches, plums, apricots, and nai, and the ones grown now have not made breakthroughs like grapes."

"As for the melons, it's the thinning that Da Lang mentioned before. We tried it and made great progress. The melons produced last year were big and juicy."

"It's just... there are a lot of melon seeds in it."

Nai is a kind of apple. Before, Yin Xuan thought that there were no apples in Datang, but in fact there were, but they were rare, and only a small amount was produced in the Hexi area.

In order to cultivate all kinds of fruits, Yi Xin fished out this little-known thing from Hexi, and because Li Lizhi and Li Shu like to eat apples, in Juzhou, apple cultivation occupies the largest area .

but…

This kind of apple called "Nai" is soft in the mouth, and Yin Xuan likes it quite a bit, but the two little girls can make do with it, and they prefer the crisper ones.

certainly…

The point is not Nai, Yin Xuan tapped the table lightly, and said softly: "This thinning seedling is placed in the rice millet, how is it used?"

Yi Xin smiled stupidly again, and nodded: "This time I came to find Dalang, and I also wanted to talk about this matter."

"The thinning method is almost finished."

"In the past few years, we have been doing data and comparisons on good and poor fields, traveling back and forth between Chang'an and Juzhou, and finally came up with a set of practical thinning methods."

"It can be promoted to people everywhere!"

Thinning is a method of planting crops. It sounds a bit contrary to the common sense of people in the Tang Dynasty. The so-called thinning refers to actively pulling out some seedlings before they have developed.

The fertility of a piece of land is limited.

For example, if there is a piece of land that can only support one apple tree to bear one apple, but this tree is left unattended, why should it bear two fruits?
Then these two fruits can only be malnourished fruits.

If it wants to bear three.

That will only make you more malnourished.

This principle is the same when planting rice and millet. The fertility of a piece of land is limited, which can only guarantee the development of a certain number of seedlings. If there are too many, it will only affect those seedlings that should develop.

The thinning method is to distribute the fertility evenly to each seedling under limited conditions.

It sounds very simple, isn't it just pulling seedlings.

Just have a hand.

But... How many seedlings do you need to pull out from different fields?How many seedlings should be kept?Yin Xuan is not clear about these things, and the results can only be obtained through slow experiments.

And now, the results are in.