Abandoned Prince Survival Guide

Xiao Yu pondered for a moment: "Procrastinate, procrastinate until you can no longer procrastinate, let's show the cards."

Yao Tao was puzzled: "What is a showdown?"

Xiao Yu remembered that there should be no Pai Gow at this time, so he explained: "It's open, not hidden."

Yao Tao was a little worried: "The imperial court will send troops to come."

"It can be delayed for a while, it should not be so fast."

What Xiao Yu thought was that it would be best to wait until Min Chong came back. By that time, there would be many naval generals who were good at fighting, and the recruits had been training for a while, instead of being completely cannon fodder.

Yao Tao asked: "Then we won't collect food in advance?"

Xiao Yu said: "Let's levy according to the original plan. We have to make some preparations ourselves. The summer harvest is coming soon, and there should be many people paying for food."

"Pearls are not accepted?"

"No more. But we can't leak the news in advance. If there are still people who use pearls to pay taxes, they will still accept pearls." Xiao Yu said.

Yao Tao took a step back, bowed his hands and said, "Your Majesty obeys."

Xiao Yu said: "Lord Yao, don't worry, I will support this matter. If the matter fails, we can guarantee the safety of Master Yao's family, but in the future, we may leave our hometown for a few days."

If he fails, Yao Tao will definitely be involved, and the death penalty is unavoidable, and even the three clans will be implicated. He can't implicate him so far, and it is still possible to send them overseas for refuge.

Yao Tao bowed deeply: "Thank you sir for your compassion. If things fail, I just ask you to settle down my family. Yao is willing to die for his ideals."

Xiao Yu was very moved: "Since Master Yao said so, Xiao will definitely do his best to protect the people of Yazhou."

When Pei Linyi came back, he also went straight to Xiao Yu's study: "Mr. Lang, I received news from the north that King Liang and the imperial court have started a war, and it will be on the first day of May."

Xiao Yu said: "I've already heard the news from Mr. Yao. The imperial court hastened on and sent an urgent letter to requisition a million catties of grain and grass from Yazhou."

"This food and grass cannot be sent." Pei Linzhi said firmly.

"Of course, let's procrastinate. When I can't hide it anymore, I will declare myself king." Xiao Yu said.

Hearing Xiao Yu's resolute tone, Pei Linzhi showed approval in his eyes, and the gentleman's attitude became more and more firm: "Then I will step up my military training and prepare for the battle."

Xiao Yu nodded: "It's hard work for Linzhi and the soldiers."

In fact, if it were not for the sudden war, there would still be many happy events for Xiao Yu to celebrate. The first generation of hybrid rice he sowed could be harvested.

The second batch of hybrid rice has also reached the harvest period, and there are new hybrid varieties.

Judging from the growth status of rice, the offspring of Yazhou rice as the male parent and Champa rice as the female parent are the best, with full grains and the most ears of rice.How exactly, we still have to harvest to know.

Pei Linzhi led the soldiers to practice in full swing, and Yazhou has also entered a season of rice harvesting that races against time.

When harvesting rice this time, many households had more iron sickles, and the harvesting efficiency was obviously much higher.

During the few days of harvesting, Xiao Yu also went to the field in person.But just after going down for a while, he was caught up to the ridge by the big guys. Who could bear to watch the thin-skinned and tender-fleshed Mr. Lang do such rough work.

Standing on the ridge of the field, Xiao Yu watched the harvesters, threshing threshing, and picking of grains in the rice fields, busy but not chaotic, orderly, going by himself would only add to the chaos.

He is very satisfied with the performance of the big guys, but he is not satisfied with the way of threshing. Some of them use a wooden barrel, and the young and vigorous people hold the rice stalk in their hands and beat it hard on the wall of the barrel, and the mature rice falls off one after another.

Others simply cut off the rice, picked it directly to the door of the house, and beat it away with a bamboo pole.

This is not only laborious, but also extremely inefficient.

Xiao Yu frowned, remembering that when he was a child, he went to his grandmother's house during the summer vacation and saw a human-powered threshing machine.Of course, it is not the current one, but a pedal roller threshing machine. At that time, I stepped on it a few times out of curiosity.

The principle seems uncomplicated, but it requires refined iron with relatively high hardness.

Thinking of this, Xiao Yu turned around and went back to the room, and began to draw the design on the paper. After pondering for a long time, he finally decided on it.

Then I called a carpenter and asked him to build a model based on his drawing. After repeated trials and modifications, he finally made a model of a threshing machine that could be stepped on.

Then let the blacksmith build an iron roller based on this wooden model.This process lasted about half a month, and the first roller threshing machine was finally successful.

It's just that most of the rice has been harvested at this time, and the second season of rice has begun to be planted.

But there is still a small portion of rice that matures later in the village, so Xiao Yu lent the new machine to these villagers for trial use.

As expected, the threshing efficiency of this machine is several times that of the beating type. Originally, the whole family had to work hard for two days per acre of land, but now the whole family finished threshing in half a day, and it was easy.

This is simply the gospel of the people in the world. With this, will you be afraid of harvesting rice in the future?

Many villagers in Baisha Village are rich, and they came to inquire how much such a threshing machine costs, and plan to buy one.

Xiao Yu only collected the cost of iron and labor, and tried to keep the price within the range that the common people could afford. After all, this is related to the national economy and the people's livelihood, and the threshing machine must be popularized as soon as possible.

Before the threshing machine was manufactured, the hybrid rice planted by Xiao Yu had already been harvested.

The number of rice hybrids produced for the first time was limited, and only two or three catties of each type were harvested.Two or three catties of seeds are almost the amount of seeds needed for one mu of land, so each type of hybrid rice is almost equal to the area of ​​one mu of land.

According to the final data, the yield of these kinds of hybrid rice is higher than that of Yazhou rice, especially the offspring of the male parent of Yazhou rice, Zhancheng rice, whose yield is higher than that of its parent. Yazhou rice is about sixty catties taller.

That is to say, if this offspring can be stabilized, the original yield of 350 catties per mu will reach at least 20.00 catties per mu in the future, which is equivalent to an increase of nearly [-]% in yield.

An increase of [-] to [-] catties per mu may not seem like much, but if it is extended to the whole Yazhou, the rice yield of the whole Yazhou can increase by several million catties, which can almost supply the rations of the people of the whole Yazhou for two months .

What about nationwide?When there is a great famine, how many people will be starved to death.

Seeing this result, Xiao Yu was greatly encouraged, and became more and more passionate about his old profession.

The yield of more than 300 catties per mu is really not worth mentioning to him who has seen the yield of more than 2000 catties per mu, so there is still considerable room for improvement in hybrid rice.

Xiao Yu began to ponder again. Apart from seeds, there are more areas that need to be improved, such as fertilizers and insecticides.

Only farmyard manure can be used as fertilizer, but the amount and fertility of farmyard manure are limited, and only lime can be used as insecticide, and the insecticidal effect of quicklime is also limited.So this output still has to bear a lot of restrictions.

There is no need to think about chemical fertilizers and pesticides. Is there any other way to get more fertilizer?

Although farming is hard work, it is a rewarding job. As long as you sow the seeds, you will be more or less rewarded, and sometimes you will be pleasantly surprised.But Xiao Yu's life is not only farming, he also has to take the initiative to pay attention to the pressure from the north.

The deadline for grain delivery has come, and not a single grain of grain from Yazhou has been sent to the north.

Yao Tao anxiously waited for the imperial edict, but before the imperial edict arrived, Pei Linzhi first received the news of King Liang's defeat.

As expected, Xiao Yi colluded with Xirong, and at the same time sent troops from the east road to the north road to attack the combined army of Liang and Yu.

Liang Wang Xiaoyou misjudged the military situation when he attacked Jingzhou City, and was finally outflanked by the imperial court and Xirong. Most of the 15 soldiers were killed and injured. Except for the [-] soldiers who surrendered, [-] soldiers who had nowhere to retreat jumped into the rolling Yangtze River. Liang Wang Xiaoyou crossed the south of the Yangtze River and entered Xiangzhou, which has been known as the land of southern barbarians since ancient times. His life and death are uncertain.

In this battle, Liang Wang was defeated miserably.The imperial court took the opportunity to collect and pay Liangyu and Jingzhou, but Xiao Yi still had a problem that he didn't expect.The Xibing soldiers occupied all the territory in Liangzhou and were unwilling to withdraw their troops.

Originally, the capital of Xirong was in Chang'an, which was very close to Liangzhou. For Xirong, Liangzhou was not eaten, and they felt unsafe, so they had long wanted to find an opportunity to annex Liangzhou.Now Xiao Yi just sent him a pillow when he was dozing off, how could he not accept it?

Xiao Yi and Liang Wang fought continuously for about two months, and the food and grass were greatly consumed, and the soldiers were exhausted.And the Xibing soldiers are eating the grain and grass of Anguo, and they are getting fat and strong.Xiao Yi knew that it was impossible to have any chance of winning against Xi Rong head-on.

At this time, the civil strife in the Eastern Rong had not stopped, and their vitality was seriously injured, so they had no time to take care of the war between Anguo and Xi Rong.Xiao Yi had no choice but to change his strategy and negotiate peace with Xirong.In fact, it is not a change of strategy, the peace talks have long been within the scope of his plan.

The purpose of the peace talks is to allow Xirong to return some of Liangzhou's land.But the price is also extremely huge, in addition to cede the land, you have to pay a lot of old coins.Xi Rong has a bigger appetite, and their yearly coins are twice as much as those given to Dong Rong by Anguo Gong.

Hearing this, Xiao Yu finally understood why the number of pearls in Yazhou had doubled compared to the previous year, because Xiao Yi had long planned to give Xirong tribute coins, but Xiao Yi did not expect that Xirong's appetite so big.

Anguo has been poor and weak for many years, and the national treasury is empty. Relying on various names and clever tax increases, it can barely supply Dong Rong's old coins.Now there is another Xirong, this is to push the people of Anguo who are already in dire straits to the ground and then ruthlessly peel off two layers of skin.

Xiao Yu sneered: "There is no benefit in seeking skin from a tiger! Xiao Yi is doing his own crimes and cannot live. Just wait, there will definitely be peasant uprisings within this year."

"That's the best, we're safe." Pei Linzhi said.

"That's not necessarily the case. The two states of Guangzhou and Jiaozhou haven't hurt their bones. If they came to deal with us before the civil uprising, we would be in great trouble." Xiao Yu said.

Pei Linzhi shook his head: "Actually, I don't think so. Liang Wang has already fled to Xiangzhou. Xiangzhou has limited troops since ancient times. Xiao Yi should use the troops from Guangzhou and Jiaozhou to contain the remnants of Liang Wang."

"If that's the case, it's our luck. Where do you think King Liang is now?" Xiao Yu asked. He also had a very limited impression of King Liang. King Liang left the palace very early to entrust the land, and the original owner became an adult with him. They haven't met a few times since then, and it's true that they don't have any deep friendship, but they are brothers anyway, and they have a common enemy, so they can be regarded as people on the same front.

Yao Tao did not receive an urgent letter urging grain and grass, but received an urgent letter urging pearls to be handed over, and on the original basis, an additional [-]% was added, saying it was a punishment for Yazhou's ineffective payment of grain.