Reborn on the day of marriage! After the marriage exchange, the elder sister went crazy

After Lu Bozhou got the job, he went home to say goodbye to Li Jinglan.

"Your Majesty asked me and Zhou Jin to go to Jiangsu and Zhejiang first, and then to Henan, Shandong and other places north of the Huai River. We will first inspect agricultural production, and then check the grain transport. We will not be able to return home until the twelfth lunar month."

People in the south love to eat rice. Suzhou and Huzhou in the Taihu Lake Basin rank first in the country in rice production.

People in the north love to eat wheat, and Henan and Shandong north of the Huaihe River are the main wheat producing areas.

As a large number of officials from the south came to Beijing to serve as officials, the eating habits of the south gradually influenced the capital.

People in the capital now like to eat wheat and rice.

"Zhou Jin's marriage has been delayed again and again." Li Jinglan sighed.

Zhou Jin is older than Lu Bozhou. Now Lu Bozhou has a child, but Zhou Jin is still unmarried.

Always delayed by various things.

After expressing emotion about Zhou Jin's marriage, Li Jinglan talked about grain planting.

"I heard that Jiaozhi has three-season rice, as well as sweet potatoes, corn, and potatoes that don't compete with other grains for land. We can buy some seeds and bring them back."

"Your Majesty has just granted us several hundred hectares of land, which is perfect for planting and experimenting."

Lu Bozhou nodded repeatedly after hearing this: "Don't worry, I'll keep an eye on it."

At that time, corn was called western wheat, also known as maize. Later, common people called it corn.

"Bowuzhi" says: "If corn is planted in the land, there will be many snakes for a long time." Corn is foreign wheat, which tastes sweet and has a neutral nature.

Maize is native to the west and is rarely grown. Its seedlings and leaves are similar to maize but are shorter and fatter, and also similar to Job's tears.

The seedlings are three or four feet tall, and they bloom in June and July and become ears, which look like barren wheat. A bud grows in the center of the seedling, which looks like a fish, and white whiskers hang down from the buds. After a long time, the buds will open and the seeds will come out, clustered together. The seeds are also as big as rice, yellow-white, and can be fried and eaten. The fried white flowers look like fried glutinous rice.

The corn yield at that time was relatively low, only about two stones per mu, which is not as high as the current wheat yield per mu.

The advantages are that it is drought-resistant and water-loving, easy to store, and can be planted in fields or vegetable gardens without occupying wheat fields.

What Li Jinglan wanted most was sweet potatoes with a yield of ten dan per mu and potatoes with a yield of nearly one hundred dan per mu, which were truly high yields.

There are two disadvantages of sweet potatoes and potatoes. One is that they cannot be stored well, and the other is that long-term planting will cause soil fertility to deteriorate.

The crops can be stored in cellars, and soil decline can be compensated by fertilizers.

Potatoes and sweet potatoes can be made into starch or vermicelli, which are not only durable in storage but can also satisfy hunger.

But there is no rush for these. After the seeds arrive, Li Jinglan plans to take the planting reward model of Xishui Village to Shiyi.

Improve planting enthusiasm through rewards.

Encourage research on fertilizers and increase the yield of food crops through rewards.

The high yield of grain grown in the Peiwangfu fiefdom and the diverse ways of eating the food can drive the development of surrounding farmers.

Gradually, everyone realized that sweet potatoes and potatoes are high-yielding and can be eaten in many ways, so the whole country started to grow them.

But these things cannot be accomplished in one or two years.

It will probably take a lifetime.

People live in this world and are reborn twice.

Li Jinglan doesn't want to limit her attention to the backyard.

Create wealth for society and make people prosperous.

This is the highest pursuit of a time traveler and reborn person.

Otherwise, she would feel sorry for the compulsory education and university education she received before traveling through time.

I'm also sorry for the five red stars.

……

A few days later, Lu Bozhou took Zhou Jin away.

Lu Bozhou was traveling on the emperor's orders. The sign at the head of the team read: "Touring on Behalf of the Emperor."

There were three official ships, with several thousand people accompanying them.

The emperor also sent 500 Black Iron Army light cavalry for protection.

……

In the East Palace, the prince was teasing a parrot.

It is very hot in midsummer.

The prince was wearing a cotton coat.

There was an abnormal flush on his face.

Prince Wei stepped forward and bowed: "Greetings, Your Highness the Crown Prince."

Then he asked about the prince's health: "Your Highness seems to be wearing too much."

"Not bad." The prince smiled and asked Prince Wei to sit down, and asked him directly, "Have you dealt with the Huaihe issue?"

Prince Wei smiled and said, "There is nothing wrong in the first place, why should we talk about dealing with it?"

The prince didn't believe it and talked about the canal ships: "I heard that more than a thousand canal ships were damaged. How can there be nothing wrong?"

Prince Wei couldn't help but smile: "In short, Your Highness, please rest assured. If I say that the Huai River is fine, then it is fine."

The Crown Prince doesn’t understand this kind of thing, but Prince Wei knows it very well.

River transport boats are usually made of 400-ton materials, mostly nanmu, fir, and inferior pine.

The bottom of the inland grain boat is 5 feet long and the stern is 2 feet 9 inches long. Each boat can carry more than 5 dan of grain.

The cost of building an inland canal boat is about 120 taels for nanmu wood and about 105 taels for new fir wood.

There were more than 16,000 canal vessels for inland waterway transportation.

According to the maintenance method of three years of minor repairs and six years of major repairs, more than 21 canal boats need to be replaced every year, and the cost of replacing the ships is about taels.

Sea-going ships are called "yang-shaking ships", and are also called "qian liang", which means their carrying capacity is over 1,000 dan.

Falsifying the amount of replacement and loss in grain transport is one of the ways that the Duke of Wei's Mansion makes money.

Of course, the Prince of Wei could not explain the matter in detail to the Crown Prince.

After leaving the East Palace, Prince Wei got on the carriage.

As soon as the stage was set, the protagonist ran away.

How can I continue singing?

Once the stage is set up, the performance must proceed step by step.

Fortunately, his main target was still there and hadn't run away.

Thinking of this, Prince Wei's heart suddenly skipped a beat.

Did the emperor see something?

Send Lu Bozhou away?

After returning home, Prince Wei went to the study to find his father, Duke Wei.

The father and son sat in the study and talked for a long time.

"… During the morning court session, Your Majesty asked Prince Pei about the grain transport issue. Prince Pei went to the grain transport office to seek advice. A few days later, he wrote a proposal, which was praised by Your Majesty and Lord Wang." The Duke of Wei explained the whole story.

The Crown Prince of Wei is just a crown prince, he does not hold a formal official position and cannot attend the morning court.

After hearing his father's words, Prince Wei hesitated for a moment and asked, "Is it just a coincidence?"

Duke Wei shook his head: "Your Majesty is suspicious by nature, but he is also very patient. If Your Majesty doesn't want to talk about something, no one can dig anything out of it."

Duke Wei mentioned the King of Jin again, saying, "Now that the King of Jin is not in the capital, we can't find out anything even if we want to."

"Could it be that the King of Jin noticed something? And hid himself in advance?" said the Prince of Wei.

Duke Wei thought for a while and said, "The King of Jin is a very cunning man. No one can tell what he is thinking."

Duke Wei really couldn't understand what the King of Jin did.

The prince is the biological son of King Jin.

As a result, when the prince was reprimanded by the emperor, Prince Jin not only did not help the prince, but also helped the emperor to stop the prince.

I heard that Prince Jin also intercepted the Crown Princess's letter asking for help from her natal family, and sent someone to put it next to her pillow late at night.

Thinking of this, Duke Wei sighed softly: "We all know these things, and Your Majesty must also know that the Crown Princess asked her family for help. The Crown Prince... is not keeping secrets, but he blames others for not helping him."

It’s no wonder that Your Majesty never lets the Crown Prince handle state affairs.

It was with great difficulty that the prince was allowed to handle the salt administration.

As a result, the prince saw the huge profits from salt and became greedy.

Being in the position of a crown prince, money actually plays a smaller role than people.

What use does the prince have for silver?

There are countless people in the world who are waving silver coins to want to see the prince, just to ask him for a word.

He was filial to the Emperor and Empress, and treated his subjects with respect and kindness.

The right thing to do is to learn how to handle government affairs.

The emperor is over fifty years old, and the prince does not need any trouble at all.

Duke Wei also frowned when he thought of the silver.

What does the prince need so much silver for?

Is it possible that besides the Duke of Wei’s Mansion, there are other people under the prince’s command?

"On the other side of the Huai River?..." asked Prince Wei.

Duke Wei laughed and said, "Your Majesty must be informed of the false report of the loss of the grain ship."

As a minister, how can the emperor feel at ease if I don’t take some money?

But what about the Huaihe River flood?

"Is everything arranged?" Duke Wei looked at his son.

Prince Wei said: "The arrangements have been made, but the protagonist ran away, so we have to reschedule it."

"I just don't know if the Princess of Pei in the Prince of Pei's Mansion has the ability to unravel the mystery."

When Prince Wei said this, he laughed.

This scene is just waiting for Li Jinglan to take the lead in singing.

A woman in the back house?

How smart can you be?

He had put the evidence right under Li Jinglan's nose, but Li Jinglan refused to see it.

Even with this, you dare to call yourself smart?

Ha ha!

*--*The following is all information, you can go directly to the next chapter*-*

Corn and sweet potatoes come from "The Impact of the Introduction and Cultivation of Sweet Potatoes in the Qing Dynasty on the Cultivation Industry in Western Hunan" written by Zhang Minbo and Liu Feng.

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Potatoes come from the book “A Brief Analysis of the Possible Reasons for the Drastic Population Increase in my country in the Early Qing Dynasty” written by Ge Guangyao and others.

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According to Baidu, the current potato yield per mu generally reaches more than 3,000 kilograms and the highest is more than 8,000 kilograms.

The one stone in the picture is equivalent to about 120 jin (about 60 kilograms).

By the way, before liberation, the wheat yield per mu in Henan ranged from 200 to 400 catties (same as the wheat yield per mu in the Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties, which means that the wheat yield per mu has not increased for one or two thousand years, with the lowest being one stone and the highest being no more than three stones). The wheat yield per mu in the Japanese-occupied area of ​​Gongyi City was only more than 80 catties per mu. The data comes from the "Henan Provincial Annals".

The wheat yield per mu that everyone sees now is mostly around 800 jin, which is achieved after decades of consistent selection of excellent seeds by the academicians. You can search Zhoumai (a variety of Zhoukou Academy of Agricultural Sciences) on Baidu.