Chapter 2 In order to take good care of His Highness the Princess, he ordered people to vacate the Wenqiu Pavilion, the largest courtyard in the mansion, for her to live in, and appointed two well-behaved and clever maids to serve her. Only then did he put his heart at ease.
Although Kaifeng City now belongs to the Great Chu, if King Kang leads his troops, it will still be the Kaifeng City of the Great Song Dynasty in the near future.
If the princess can be kept safe, the merits and demerits will be balanced in the future, and the future of wealth and wealth will be preserved.
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After having a stable place to live, Zhao Yingluo lay on the soft bed and began to figure out what to plant in this acre of land.
In the Central Plains region, corn is the most suitable replacement for planting after wheat matures!Corn and soybeans can also be interplanted to increase the yield per acre of land.
And... sweet potatoes, people in this era cannot eat roasted sweet potatoes, it would be really unpalatable.
There are also potatoes. Watching a movie with French fries is so delicious.
Chili peppers are indispensable, a must for hot pot.
After some calculations, Zhao Yingluo, who had not slept peacefully for several days, quickly fell asleep, and she slept until three o'clock in the morning.
Zhao Yingluo, who was sleeping contentedly, drowsily touched the mobile phone on the pillow to check the time. After touching it for a long time, she suddenly remembered that she was in the Northern Song Dynasty, where could she still have a mobile phone! After rubbing her messy hair, she got up and went to the ground. There was a brand new underskirt next to her. The workmanship seemed quite expensive.
Although Zhao Yingluo wanted to put it on to look beautiful, she thought she had to work in the fields today, so she put it back with some reluctance.
"Chuntao! Green radish!"
"Here we go, girl!"
Chuntao, who had been waiting outside the door for a long time, hurriedly picked up the copper basin. The hot water used for washing in the copper basin had been changed several times by her.
"Go and find me some coarse cloth clothes with narrow sleeves! After dinner, we went to the ground. You also changed clothes. Then call Luluo and Feng Jing up. Also, ask the housekeeper to go to the blacksmith shop to customize a batch of guillotines. The better.”
Luluo asked with some confusion, "Why does the girl want a guillotine?"
Zhao Yingluo said while washing, "I have my own uses."
Chuntao then said, "There are more than a dozen in the farm."
"Not enough! I want a hundred."
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A bowl of white fungus and lotus seed porridge, a portion of sesame seed cakes, and four plates of meat and vegetable stir-fries are a complete breakfast.
After eating breakfast, Zhao Yingluo put on her indigo coarse cloth clothes, got into the carriage with Chuntao and Feng Jing, and headed west.
After leaving Baojin Gate and walking another two miles, Zhao Yingluo and her party finally arrived at Lu Haowen's farm also has a spacious house, but Lu Haowen usually lives in the city mansion and rarely comes here.
Jiang Laosi, who was responsible for taking care of the house, saw someone coming from the house and hurried out of the house to greet them.
Jiang Laosi was a tenant farmer for generations. Because he was the fourth in the family, his parents casually named him Lao Si. Because he was diligent and honest, Lu Haowen asked him to manage the house and the farmers.
"Why is Miss Chuntao free to come to the village today?"
Jiang Laosi's smile was filled with compliments. He was a little confused when he saw Chuntao helping a young lady about seventeen or eighteen years old to get out of the car.
"Fourth brother Jiang, hurry up and clean the house. My girl wants to rest here temporarily."
"Girl?" "Our girl is the master's niece. The master has specifically told us that everyone in the house must listen to her."
When Jiang Laosi heard this, he hurriedly bowed and saluted.
"Excuse me, how many farmers are there in this farm?"
"As for girls, there are 120 households."
"Gather them all here, I have something to say to them."
"Young man, let's go."
After Jiang Laosi left, Zhao Yingluo ordered Chuntao and Luluo to clean up the room. She also made an excuse that she wanted to drive for fun, pushed the coachman away, and drove away from the farm alone.
It wasn't until they were out of sight that she dug into the void, and ten twenty-kilogram bags of corn seeds suddenly appeared, followed closely by bags of potatoes and sweet potatoes, which almost filled the carriage.
But she didn't immediately take out the tomatoes, peppers and other seeds of this , her energy is limited, and second, the high yields of these three crops can save more people from hunger.
After taking out the seeds, Zhao Yingluo drove back to the farm.
At this time, Chuntao was complaining that the driver should not let the girl drive alone. Seeing that she came back safely, he happily said, "Girl, Fourth Brother Jiang has summoned all the farmers."
Zhao Yingluo looked inside and saw that the whole courtyard was already full of people, men and women, old and young.
Seeing Chuntao calling her girl, the farmers automatically moved out of the way.
Zhao Yingluo sighed when she saw that all of them were sallow and skinny and poorly dressed. The so-called peaceful and prosperous times in ancient times only provided food and clothing for the people.
Nowadays, wars are happening frequently, which is just adding insult to injury for them.
"I've seen the girl!" The farmers, who had been instructed by Jiang Laosi long ago, all saluted when they saw their master standing still.
"You don't need to be polite. I asked you to come here today to announce something. From this year onwards, after harvesting the wheat, no other crops will be planted."
As soon as the farmers heard that they were not allowed to plant crops, they immediately started talking. Now is the early summer. After the wheat harvest is completed, it is time to plant other crops to increase the yield of the we are not allowed to plant crops, how can we fill our stomachs?How to pay ground rent?
After Zhao Yingluo waited for their discussion to subside, she cleared her throat and said, "The yield of those crops is too low! If you want to have enough food and clothing, you have to change to crops with high yields. Fortunately, there are several crops with high yields in the Western Regions. It’s very high, I asked someone to bring back a lot of it, Jiang Laosi, you can take a few strong people to the carriage and unload all the seeds inside.”
Jiang Laosi and Feng Jing followed their instructions and asked a few servants to take out a total of thirty bags of corn seeds, potatoes and sweet potatoes from the carriage.
After Jiang Laosi moved the last bag of sweet potatoes, he asked doubtfully, "Girl, this... what is this? It looks like taro, but not quite like it. And these two. I grow them." I have never seen anything like this in 30 years."
Zhao Yingluo smiled slightly. These crops were only introduced from overseas after the Ming and Qing Dynasties. How could he have seen them before? She raised her eyebrows and said, "You will all know later."
Then, she turned her attention to the farmers, "I would like to ask you, what is the wheat yield per acre?"
Jiang Laosi, a veteran in agricultural planting, replied without hesitation, "In normal years, the yield per mu can reach one stone or more. If the weather is good, it can be two stones. If there is a famine, the yield may be only half a stone or even no grains." .”
Zhao Yingluo calculated in her mind that one stone in this era is equivalent to about 150 kilograms. It may not be bad in this era, but if this output is left to future generations, it will probably mean no harvest.
She then opened a bag of corn seeds and ordered Jiang Laosi and others to distribute the seeds to every farmer.
After receiving the seeds, the farmers all observed them curiously.
(End of this chapter)