Chapter 3181 Surprise

After Gu Zhong retired, the emperor asked Wei Zhi, "What happened, so tired that Aiqing braved the poisonous day to enter the palace?"

After saluting, Wei Zhi presented the box, "Your Majesty, this is what Bai Shan brought back from Beihai County. It is a congratulatory gift for Your Majesty and Da Jin."

The emperor took the box, opened it and asked, "What gift? My birthday hasn't arrived yet."

Wei Zhi didn't say a word, the emperor had already opened it and saw the rice ear and the booklet inside, he skipped the booklet, first picked up the rice ear and looked at it curiously, and said silently, "You can give me a rice ear from a thousand miles away? Don't you know that correspondence is expensive?"

Looking at him, he realized that something was wrong. He took the rice ear and looked carefully, and even weighed it. Feeling the heavy weight, his eyes narrowed slightly.

The emperor attached great importance to farming. Every year when the dragon raised his head, he would go down to the ground to plough, worship the sky, and pray for blessings. Naturally, in autumn, he would often go to the Huangzhuang to see the harvesting of the crops.

He himself is also a farmer. The rice ears he has seen in the past don't seem to be so long, so many grains and plump, right?

When Wei Zhi saw that he had discovered it, he bowed his hands and said, "Your Majesty, this is a new rice seed that the Zhou family spent six years cultivating. Now Beihai County of Qingzhou and Luojiang County of Mianzhou have six stones per mu."

The emperor stood up from the seat in shock, his eyes dazzled before he calmed down, he raised his head and rubbed his forehead, and asked excitedly, "Really?"

Wei Zhi lowered his head and didn't see it, he lowered his head and said loudly, "Your Majesty, Bai Shan will not cheat on this matter. His booklet is clearly written."

The emperor quickly picked up the book and looked at it.

Only then did Wei Zhi raise his head to look at him, seeing his eyes getting brighter and brighter and his face flushed, he waited for him to read the book and introduced: "Master Zhou has a nephew who is now a county official in Luojiang, Mianzhou, and is planted in Luojiang. He brought back the good seeds from the county, and he and his father had cultivated them for the past six years. When the letter was sent, they only harvested a piece of land and called it raw rice. The yield per mu was six and a half stones. About five stone."

The emperor has already read Bai Shan's book at a glance and ten lines, and it also records in detail the test process of the Pu Village test field.

He couldn't hear what Wei Zhi was saying after that, and his eyes were fixed on the test data on Zhezi.

Wei Zhi saw that the emperor didn't speak for a long time, and at a glance he knew what he was looking at, so he said, "Your Majesty, Your Majesty—"

The emperor lifted his eyes, glanced at him secretly with disgust, and then continued to look down at Zhezi, "What's it called, I can hear it, tell me."

"Your Majesty, although the test data on Bai Shanzhe is good, it's a test. According to Zhuang Shi, they will pay more attention to the test field. They will not only give the best fertilizer, but also always ensure enough water, weeding and catching insects. The energy expended is more than five times that of ordinary paddy fields, so I feel that the experimental field can be bred, but its yield cannot be used as a standard, at least it has to be reduced."

The emperor said: "The above data, the dried rice can have seven stones and an extra 22 catties, which means that the raw rice may reach nine stones, even if the ordinary paddy field is not as good as the experimental field, it should not be directly less. Go to Three Stones? One third."

It hurts to think about it.

Wei Zhi knew that the emperor's old problem had been committed again.

He said: "Your Majesty, the yield of this new rice seed is twice as high as the current one. That is to say, if it can be sown in the world, the next year's rice harvest will be twice as high as it is now..."

Excited to think about it, okay?

The emperor clenched the fold in his hand, his eyes lit up, "If we continue to cultivate better seeds, make the seeds even better, and make the harvest of ordinary farmland as the current data of the experimental field, then it will be three times the current amount..."

Wei Zhi: "...That's right." It's just that this ambition is too big. If the seeds were so well cultivated, the yield per mu of rice would not have been so low over the years.

The emperor was very excited. As long as he thought about the various results after the increase in grain production, he was so excited that he couldn't sit still, and could not wait to go to the Xi Nei Yuan to run three horses.

He got up excitedly, turned around twice and looked back at Wei Zhi, "It seems that the Zhou family is very talented in farming. I vaguely remember that the new wheat seeds were also planted by the Zhou family back then."

Wei Zhi lowered his head and replied, "Yes."

At that time, Yang Heshu also wrote a letter to ask for credit for the Zhou family, but the situation was complicated at that time, and the court only rewarded some property and no other rewards.

Because Yang Heshu is the main promoter, the credit mainly falls on him.

Wei Zhi thought of Mr. Zhuang's suggestion before entering the palace, he paused and said: "I heard that the Zhou family is best at farming, the first is the Zhou family's Dalang, and the second is the Zhou family's Saburo, but because they are not very literate, the main experimental field is It is Zhou Dalang's son Zhou Li who is in charge of management and experiments, and all the experimental data are from his hands."

The emperor hurriedly asked, "That means Zhou Lizhong is literate and read?"

"Also, I remember that Zhou Man has two nephews, and he passed the Mingjing exam two years ago. Are they among them?"

"No," Wei Zhi was speechless for a moment, and he said that the emperor didn't hear what he said just now, so he could only say it again, "Zhou Lizhong is only an official in Luojiang County now."

Emperor: "Enyin went in?"

Zhou Man has achieved this position, and Enyin's nephew, a small official, can still do it.

"No, he passed the test himself."

The emperor nodded in admiration, "I have ambition."

He paused and said: "Xuanzhuang Shi come in."

Wei Zhi went out to find Gu Zhong.

Gu Zhong quickly invited Mr. Zhuang over.

The emperor asked enthusiastically: "Since the experimental field is in Pu Village, it should still be there now, right?"

Mr. Zhuang replied with a smile: "Yes."

"Does Pu Village have this new rice seed? Is it all harvested, or..."

"The harvest has started, but it's not finished yet." Mr. Zhuang said, "This new rice seed was planted in the paddy fields in Pu village this year."

The emperor got up immediately, "Come on, let's go out of the palace to have a look."

Wei Zhi was taken aback, "Now?"

The emperor was impatient, "If you don't go now, what will you do when they finish cutting them tomorrow? I want to see it with my own eyes."

Although the emperor didn't think Bai Shan would lie, he still wanted to see it with his own eyes, mainly because the rice seed appeared suddenly to him, and he couldn't believe it.

Wei Zhiyi thought about it too, and he also wanted to see it for himself.

So I agreed, "Your Majesty wants a guard of honor, or..."

"The guard of honor is too troublesome. When they are ready, I will soon arrive at Pu Village. Let Yin Li prepare, and we will leave the city immediately."

Mr. Zhuang lowered his eyes and thought for a moment, then raised his hand to salute and said: "Your Majesty, even if you want to be in a low profile, you can't go out of the palace without permission. The queen and the imperial family are in the same place..."

The emperor waved his hand in disgust and wanted to refute it, but Wei Zhi had already said: "Zhuang Shi is right, the clan is all, but the queen has to say it."

I saw everyone's comments in the last chapter, but don't just look at the beauties, the last chapter is two foreshadowing, the protagonists are the emperor and Gu Zhong, I didn't even give her a name