The ancient farming life of liberal arts scum

After receiving an affirmative answer, the emperor stared at the eunuch, "Let me explain in detail."

The eunuch who grew the vegetables was lying on the ground, his voice trembling slightly, "These vegetables are grown according to the vegetables sent by Mr. Xun, and the method has not been changed at all. There was no canal in the vegetable field, so the servant led people to dig the canal and spread it with straw. Alright, then scoop up rice washing water and mix it with the seeds, and it will indeed grow.”

"Is it possible to plant a new one with other seeds?"

The eunuch was sweating down his cheeks, and he touched his forehead to the ground, "Return to Your Majesty, not yet."

The emperor waved his hand, "Retire." The eunuch next to him immediately winked, and the eunuch planting vegetables stood up, bowed his head and walked backwards to the door.

The emperor put down his chopsticks, with a thoughtful look on his face, he said to the eunuch beside him: "Send Zhang Huaqing."

The eunuch hurriedly made arrangements, and soon, the head of the guards stationed outside walked in, knelt down and saluted the emperor.

"All these things came from Shen Ge's hand?" The emperor nodded to the memorial on the table.

The memorial was being presented by Zhang Huaqing, and he understood immediately when he saw it, and quickly responded respectfully: "Yes, according to our information, this matter is being made by Shen Ge."

"Apart from this, are there any other changes in Nanguan?"

"No, Shen Ge is still running his weird academy, and he often takes his students to plant things on weekdays. After he heard about the two prefectures of Hedong and Heshang, he started to tinker with these seeds. In less than a month, Lord Xun had passed away. Bring up these seeds."

The emperor squinted his eyes, "Chen Ge lost his mother when he was young, and lost his father when he was young. Do you have a wife who is both a teacher and a father?"

"Returning to Your Majesty, it is true that his master's parent-child name is Wu Shiyu, and he was a Jinshi in the same year as Shen Genai."

"Where is Wu Shiyu now?" The emperor glanced at Zhang Qinghua's face, and did not force him to answer, "Forget it, you step back first."

After Zhang Qinghua left, the emperor said to the eunuch next to him: "It is my word that no matter where Wu Yushi is now, he must be transferred to the capital. The minister of the Ministry of Industry is Shen Ge's uncle. Give him one."

"Yes."

There is no need to bother the eunuch with this kind of thing, other eunuchs will run errands.

After the emperor finished speaking, he said: "Shen Ge will be rewarded generously if he can think of this method. Since he doesn't want to be an official, then he will be rewarded with a first-grade imperial order, fifty bolts of silk, one dendrobium bead, and five pairs of jade bi."

The emperor Jinkou Yuyan, he said this, Shen Ge's identity was confirmed, and he could only appear as Mrs. Xun Feiguang in the future, even if he became an official, he would have no future.

The great eunuch saw that the emperor didn't show a happy or angry face, but his heart was awe-inspiring, and he bowed to accept the order and left.

Shen Ge's method of growing vegetables in water has set off a trend in a small area. Kyoto is the first to become popular. In order to catch up with the trend, many people like to use water tanks and water basins to grow a few pots of vegetables at home, especially those whose yards are extremely small or Families without yards prefer to grow a pot of onions or garlic on the windowsill, which can be eaten and cut at any time, which is not only decorative but also affordable.

The two prefectures of Hedong and Heshang also received this method.

Farmers have limited land in their homes. Even if they have suffered disasters, they would not dare to give up growing grain and do other things because the production would be reduced if they planted grain again.

Although the crops have been good in the past few years, each family has a little surplus food, but they are not so rich that they can live without a harvest for a year, especially for families who have added dogs, and their lives will be even worse.

Good fields should still be used to grow grain, and poor fields should be used to grow beans, etc. Barren lands such as the foot of mountains and mountainsides can be used to grow vegetables, but these lands are poor and have limited production.If you can grow vegetables in the water, things will be easier. Everyone has ditches and ditches to drain dirty water. Now one way is to put vegetables in the ditches.

The ditches are relatively clean these days, and the people in the countryside basically don't pour out any dirty things. Even chicken droppings and duck droppings are used to make fertilizer.

Compared with this method of growing vegetables, shiitake mushrooms are rarer in the court, and no one had thought that shiitake mushrooms could be grown before.

Speaking of shiitake mushrooms, Shen Ge presented more than one kind of mushrooms, all of which were fat and fat, with relatively large flowers, which looked very pleasing.

The eunuch who grew vegetables planted two acres of land according to the method proposed by Shen Ge. Under the careful care of several eunuchs, the mushrooms grew very well, almost one after another, and even a little bit of Saturn could be seen not see.

After the first harvest, the eunuchs picked the mushrooms in baskets and placed them there in large boxes, which was very pleasing. If they were replaced with decent grain, such a good harvest would be a sacrifice to the ancestors.

The emperor, Longyan Dayue, directly distributed the mushrooms to the ministers, and even the small officials in Kyoto who failed to go to court could get a share.

The officials of the DPRK and China are considered to be in the light of Shen Ge. For a while, Xun Feiguang and Shen Ge are in the limelight in the capital. Officials who have only heard of Shen Ge's name but are not familiar with him, or have not even heard of his name Now the couple are very familiar with each other.

Even a woman who doesn't know a single word will say when she hears Shen Ge's name, is this Mr. Shen the reincarnation of an agricultural official?Otherwise, how can we make vegetables grow out of the water.

The emperor also asked people to spread the method of growing shiitake mushrooms to Hedong and Heshang Mansions. This method is simpler than growing vegetables. You don’t need to worry about seeds. You just need to go up the mountain to dig the soil where mushrooms have grown, and if you dig one, mushrooms may grow. .

It doesn't matter if there are few places to grow mushrooms. After planting once, mix in new soil and sawdust and plant again. Mushrooms can also grow on the new soil and sawdust.

Most mushrooms like warmth and humidity. As long as the method is right, it is very easy to grow, and every household can grow a piece. Although it is not as hungry as food, eating some from time to time can also save some food.

Shen Ge didn't know about the trend in Beijing, but even if he knew, he wouldn't care too much.

The new Qing Lingwei has been training under the leadership of the old Qing Lingwei for nearly half a year, and he is also familiar with life in the army. Shen Ge suggested that Xun Feiguang take them to a real training with swords and guns.

Coincidentally, the Qinglingwei students of the Feiguang Academy Military Academy have been enrolled for more than half a year. They already have experience, and now they are learning from Xun Feiguang, Shaoxin and others, and they are making great progress. They also need to return to the army to train a training.

After the people are in place, it is necessary to consider the matter of food and weapons.

There was no shortage of food, and Xun Feiguang was rich. Even though Bailiyi was suppressed by the imperial court and his income decreased, his monthly profits were still considerable.

Most of the things can be solved with money. If you pay more money, the food and grass will be in place soon.

What is more troublesome is the ordnance.

These days, everything that has anything to do with ordnance is controlled by the imperial court, such as iron and tung oil.

Tung oil is mainly used to make rattan armor, cowhide is rare, and all the soldiers of Qing Lingwei wore rattan armor.

Teng Nai chooses flexible and high-quality good Teng, and after tanning, weaves it into fine and dense armor. It is light and cheap, and it is no problem to block a few knives.These nails can be replaced in time after damage, and it is also convenient to do.

Rattan armor has many advantages and disadvantages, one of which is that it is not durable, afraid of fire, water, and insects, so tung oil is very important.

Brush a layer of tung oil on the finished nails, which is waterproof, moth-proof and mildew-proof.

Tung oil is not easy to buy, so if you pay a little more money, it is not difficult to get it thanks to the Xun family's many years of operation. The same is true for iron. The difficulty is to turn them into finished products.

These days, limited by technology, the ironware is not very exquisite. Most of the iron ore can't be melted into molten iron. They can only be boiled in brown sauce until it becomes soft, and then forged to make it into a spongy shape, and the weapon is slowly shot out.In this way, the carbon content of iron goes down, and the quality also goes down.

Iron ore is hard to come by, so weapons made in this way are a bit wasteful.

Faced with this situation, Shen Ge went back and thought for a long time, read many books, and finally remembered a forging method he heard in his previous life.

He had people prepare pig iron and forged wrought iron. The two were softened, and the wrought iron was sandwiched between the pig iron and repeatedly forged. Finally, the two were fused together. of steel.

When this kind of iron is punched out, it will eventually have a rose-like pattern. It looks very beautiful, so Shen Ge was too lazy to name it, and directly named it rose-pattern iron.

Blacksmiths in the army are hard to find, and this job is not complicated, so Shen Ge simply asked the soldiers of Qing Lingwei to directly forge the weapons he wanted to use.

It's not that they are completely asked to make it themselves, it's just the initial forging of iron. When the two kinds of iron are fused, let the sergeants fight. This is also a kind of training program. While training everyone's strength, they also get some by-products.

After they punched out the rough embryos, they handed over the embryos to the blacksmith to adjust the center of gravity and then sharpen the blade.In this way, the blacksmith's work is greatly reduced, and a hundred or so blacksmiths are enough.

Both Xun Feiguang and Shao Xin attached great importance to this matter, and Shen Ge took them to see it in the iron shed.

There are countless furnaces working in the iron shed. Shen Ge specially found a blower improved by the craftsman to send oxygen into the furnace, and the temperature inside the furnace rose again and again, and the temperature in the whole open shed also rose. Makes you sweat.

The sergeants were in groups of three, most of them took off their jackets and only wore a pair of coarse trousers, their muscles were tense, and they were struggling to hit the iron.

There was tinkling sound of hammering irons in the shed, everyone was very focused, only few people saw Shen Ge and the others coming.

Shen Ge led the two of them to one of the blacksmithing teams, and the blacksmithing soldiers hurriedly stopped when they saw Shen Ge, "Master, Second Master, Commander."

Shen Ge nodded to him, "Stand aside for a while, let your leader try it."

Shen Ge's strength has grown a lot over the years, and he has personally tried this blacksmithing. He took over the work of the sergeant holding the iron, and signaled Xun Feiguang and Shao Xin to try to strike iron with a hammer.

Xun Feiguang and Shaoxin didn't care about it, and went to battle to fight the iron.Both of them have martial arts, their strength is extraordinary, even if they strike iron, they still look good.

Gradually, the sergeants around noticed their arrival, they all stopped their movements and looked aside.

Shen Ge is more familiar with blacksmithing than ordinary sergeants. He can change irons with ease, put them on the iron felt for two people to strike, and can change positions accordingly. He really looks like a blacksmith for a while, but he is extraordinarily handsome.