I will never be Renzong

Chapter 51 Auspiciousness
A few days later, a team of Dianqian officials galloped towards Hangzhou. They were going to arrest Bi Sheng. .

Liu E didn't know what Zhao Zhen wanted an unknown person to do, but seeing that Zhao Zhen said that he could help her solve a big problem, she couldn't help but agree.

Bi Sheng, a commoner in the Northern Song Dynasty, was the inventor of movable type printing. However, movable type printing could not be invented until the Qingli period. At this time, he was just a small engraver in Hangzhou.

In the Hall of Funing, Zhao Zhen was staring at the two potatoes and a pound of corn seeds in a daze. He was thinking about how to explain the origin of these two things to everyone, because the season for planting potatoes and corn was coming soon.

If these two high-yield crops can take root and germinate in the Song Dynasty, then in a few years, the people of the Song Dynasty will not suffer from hunger. Right now, the Song Dynasty has a vast land and a population of only 5000 million. Moreover, the potatoes and corn left by the system are the best crops for future generations, so even in the Song Dynasty, where farming technology was still backward, the output is estimated to be amazing enough.

Over the past few days, Zhao Zhen thought of a lot of excuses. The corn is fine, and it won’t germinate if it is not planted, but the potatoes he took out from the storage space have already germinated. If they are not planted, they will be wasted. If you want to get potatoes, you have to go to America thousands of miles away to get them, and what you get back are unimproved potatoes.

"Guan family! How many large vats did you want? The slave family has found them, and the guards are placing them outside the palace?"

Thrush came in panting.

"Hmm! Take these two potatoes, and be careful not to drop the buds that have just sprouted from them!"

Seeing this, Zhao Zhen said to Thrush that he had already collected the corn in advance, because it would be too shocking for the two crops to appear together, so he planned to let the potatoes appear first, so that they would be able to eat potatoes in a short time Burn the beef!
Outside the hall, several guards carrying large vats were leaning against one place to rest. Seeing Zhao Zhen coming out, the leading guard hurriedly knelt down on one knee: "At the end of the day, General Zhou Yong pays his respects to the official!"

"Meet the official!"

Several soldiers said in unison, Thrush had originally asked a few eunuchs to carry the big vat, but after the eunuch lost his masculinity, his strength was much weaker, so he couldn't lift it naturally, so he had to ask the on-duty Forbidden Army to help.

"Get up! You are worthy of being my Da Song Erlang, this body is really strong! Mao Ze will take the soldiers down to eat something good, and each will give ten guan in cash!"

Zhao Zhen stepped forward and looked at these forbidden soldiers carefully, and couldn't help but praise them.

"Swear to serve the officials to the death!"

Several forbidden soldiers didn't expect Zhao Zhen to be so kind to them, and they immediately expressed their loyalty loudly. Although they were true forbidden soldiers, and their treatment was not bad, they were warriors after all, and Song Dynasty valued literature and restrained martial arts, and tattooed words on their faces , when they join the army, their status in life is doomed.

Looking at the soaring loyalty of several people, although Zhao Zhen is satisfied, but more is a kind of involuntary emotion for the warriors of the Great Song Dynasty. There are many famous ministers of the Great Song Dynasty in the history books, but there are very few military generals recorded in the book. The prosperous age is actually just an illusion created by the scholar-bureaucrats.

The Liao Kingdom in the north is covetous, the party members in the northwest are against time, and the barbarians in the south are also ready to move. In addition, the Yellow River burst, natural disasters and man-made disasters continue. The real situation of the Song Dynasty is constant internal and external troubles, so Zhao Zhen must keep a clear head OK.

After watching several imperial guards leave with their heads upright, Zhao Zhen just said to the thrush beside him, "Bring the knife!"

Huamei hurriedly passed the knife prepared in advance to Zhao Zhen, although she didn't know what the official would use it for.

Zhao Zhen picked up a knife in one hand, picked up a potato with the other, and began to cut into pieces along the sprouted part. There are two kinds of planting potatoes, one is to plant the whole potato directly, but one is too big, it will inevitably be wasteful, and more is The second is planting by slicing, cutting the potatoes into pieces, keeping the germinated part, and then burying it. It will take a long time to take root and germinate, and finally bear fruit.

After all, it is the first time for Zhao Zhen to plant potatoes, and he has no experience. It’s just that when he was a child, his parents planted them like this. Looking for memories, he cut them into large pieces. In his words, the chances of sprouting are high if the pieces are large. Of course, the truth is it's not true.

However, even if Zhao Zhen cut it very big, Zhao Zhen finally cut two half-pound potatoes into 12 yuan potato pieces of different sizes, but each piece of potato had a small sprout on it.

The guards brought a total of four large vats with a diameter of nearly one meter, so Zhao Zhen first sprinkled the plant ash prepared in advance, and then carefully buried the potato pieces in it. Seeing this, several maids also expressed embarrassment. Kindly follow Zhao Zhen's method to bury the rest of the potato pieces.

There are three pieces of potatoes buried in each large vat, and after they are buried, they are poured with a little water, and then they are waiting to take root and sprout. Zhao Zhen told Zhang Mao to be optimistic about these four large vats, and told her that the four The things in the big vat can solve the food and clothing of the people.

Zhang Maoze's family all died of famine, so when he heard that the things in these four large tanks could solve the problem of people's food and clothing, he immediately paid attention to it, and carefully watered, tended, caught insects, and fertilized every day. .

Although Zhao Zhen has not yet found a reason for the appearance of potatoes, he finally planted them. In the blink of an eye, in May, the rise of potatoes is amazing. The 12 yuan potatoes have successfully taken root and grown vigorously. It's harvest time.

And Zhao Zhen finally found the opportunity to push the potatoes out. In May of the first year of Tiansheng, a Ganoderma lucidum grew on the pillar of Funing Hall. Zhao Zhen knew that the time had come, so he called the ministers to watch. Even the Empress Dowager Liu E came to watch and couldn't help being amazed.

You must know that the appearance of Ganoderma lucidum in the palace is a sign of auspiciousness, and it is a coincidence that it is the bedroom of the official family, so after the court the next day, all the officials congratulated one after another, saying that the auspicious arrival is a benevolent monarch in the world, but Zhao Zhen is in a few words He gave all the credit to the queen mother Liu E, which made Liu E very satisfied, and even praised the officials for being sensible.

Just when Zhao Zhen was about to push out the potatoes, he didn't want to be the supervisor. It is the old minister who hopes that the officials will regard the introduction of loyal and good people and the rejection of traitors as national treasures, and the training of soldiers and encouragement of farmers and the enrichment of warehouses as auspicious signs. As for the strange phenomena of vegetation, how can they only be admired?"

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