Forty-sixth Great Harvest
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Although Li Er was not free to come, he often received secret letters, which was itchy. Just in case, the sixteen guards who had guarded Kyoto were sent to closely monitor the rice fields. Except for more than a dozen people in the village who specialize in taking care of the rice fields, no idle people were allowed to approach.
According to the growth cycle of super rice, it is two months and twenty days. Perhaps due to climate and regional restrictions, eighty days have passed, and the rice in the rice fields is still a little green. Changsun Chong thought that apart from accidents, he squatted on the ground every day and started harvesting as soon as it is ripe.
Because he was far away, Li Er could not come often. When he saw the following news every day, he felt itchy and wanted to put on his wings and fly over to feast his eyes.
Finally, when I received a note about Changsun Chong's rice ripe rice, I received Changsun Chong picked a rice ear with his own hands and wrapped it in a veil. Li Er held the full rice ears and laughed to the sky. The laughter continued for a long time, which scared the concubines and the children were trembling.
When he was in the morning court, Li Er took out the rice ears and asked the court officials to see the immortal grain and hope that they loved the Tang Dynasty.
Fang Xuanling was in charge of people's livelihood and was very familiar with grains. When he got the rice ears, he was excitedly crawling on the ground and said, "Congratulations to Your Majesty for obtaining this immortal grain. I just counted it. There were 298 rice ears in the whole rice ear, and each one, and each one was half larger than the rice before our Tang Dynasty. When I visited Lao Du before, I followed Lao Du to calculate how many rice seedlings and branches they could have in one acre of land. According to the weight of the rice ear today, the yield per mu of ten stones is not a problem. One acre of land can support the family."
"I congratulate Your Majesty on getting this immortal grain. In just a few years, our Tang Dynasty will definitely be without hungry people!" Dai Zhou, the Minister of Revenue, said that when the people have a good harvest, he can collect taxes and the national treasury is full. Never think about the empty treasury to death by starving rats this year.
"With this kind of immortal grain, I will take revenge in the Tang Dynasty and kill Jie Li with my hand. Tu Li's two bastards can be put on the agenda as soon as possible. I ask for my order and I am willing to serve Your Majesty and the people of the Tang Dynasty!" Li Jing, the Minister of War, considered that he had food, so naturally there was food and grass to fight.
Lord Li Wei, the Si Nongqing, felt that such immortal grains must be vigorously promoted and planted everywhere in the Tang Dynasty.
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There are many different opinions, and there are rarely such a lively time in the court. Wang Gui, the Minister of Rites, was anxious. The other five departments could not be snatched away. How could such a major event be without paying the sacrifices to heaven and earth and report to our ancestors? He quickly set out: "Your Majesty, this is a time of benefiting the country and the people, and the achievements are for thousands of years. I beg for sacrifices to heaven and earth to harvest them again, and pray that God will give me more protection from the Tang Dynasty."
The calmest person in the court was Changsun Wuji. This guy has always pretended to be deep. This rice seed was made by his son. Even if he didn't give up a single fart in the court, His Majesty would not forget the contributions of their Changsun family. It is no problem to be promoted.
Li Er touched the mustache on his lips and laughed: "What Wang Aiqing said is that I have asked Yuan Tiangang to choose an auspicious day. Tomorrow we will worship the fields in the rice fields of Changsun's family."
When everyone heard this, their hearts were stuttering. They thought that rice promotion could benefit the country and the people, but they forgot who cultivated the rice. They all looked at Changsun Wuji with envy and jealousy.
Cheng Yaojin is the biggest alien in the court. When he walked to Changsun Wuji, he said sourly: "Brother Fuji, where did you get the rice seeds from nephew? Why don't you get more so that we can have more rice seeds next year."
Although Changsun Wuji was ready to speak, he was not distracted when he heard Cheng Yaojin's annoying question and said, "Everyone wants good things, but there are only so many, how can I do? Besides, where did my son get good things from, it is naturally the secret of our Changsun family. If you know too, your five bastard sons would not crawl onto my son's head. Don't forget that I haven't settled the score with you when your second child does bastard in my village."
Cheng Yaojin smiled embarrassedly and touched his nose. What he was most reluctant to do this year was when others mentioned that Cheng Chuliang had slept with the daughter of Changsun Village, and said, "Hehe, for brother, I envy you for having a good son!"
Although Changsun Wuji practices Tai Chi and does not tell everyone about rice seeds, they are old foxes who have been immersed in the officialdom for so many years. They have long had plans in their hearts. From then on, they will stare at the eldest son of the Changsun family. They will do whatever he does. No, what the younger generations in the family do! If they don’t take everyone to play, they will stick to them even if they are pestering them.
Li Er asked Yuan Tiangang to personally find him to observe the celestial phenomena at night. After that, the autumn weather was bright and clear, and the weather was clear and clear. It was a good weather for the sun and the harvest was started after the sacrifice.
Changsun Chong was extremely surprised when he received a reply from Li Er. Yuan Tiangang calculated with his fingers. Could it be that the weather forecast in the 21st century? If you can see the weather conditions for ten days, you should know that later generations have put a lot of effort into launching satellites, taking photos of atmospheric satellites in space, and analyzing countless theoretical events can only make relatively accurate predictions.
Li Er led all civil and military officials to the village of Changsun’s family, and went directly to the land, preparing in advance to pay tribute to the things needed by heaven and earth.
In the golden autumn season, the rice is fragrant, and the orange rice fields are surging with golden waves. They come quietly with hope and joy of harvest. The golden rice fields and heavy rice ears are full of Changsun Chong's sustenance and hope.
Finally mature and finally harvested.
Soon Li Er completed the tribute and the village household had prepared a long time ago, sharpening his knife and heading towards the rice fields. Li Er snatched the sickle from Changsun Chong's hand and bent down to cut the rice. Although his movements were not as skilled as those who had been doing farm work for many years, he was very serious and focused.
Seeing that Li Er had started working, the other people could not be idle, the ministers took sickles to cut rice.
Fortunately, in order to save time on sharpening the knife, Changsun Chong prepared many sharp sickles overnight. Otherwise, if this group of old guys would be asked to cut the rice, the farmers would watch, when will it be finished?
Generals like Cheng Yaojin and Li Er are better off, they are more powerful and will not be embarrassed; but those civil servants are not able to cut a few meters away, so they have to hold the rice ears, chant, recite poems and do their best.
Li Er was busy working in the fields for a long time, so he put down his sickle and saw some rice scattered in the fields, squatting on the ground, picking them up one by one.
"Your Majesty, there are so many here. Don't take time to pick up the few that fell on the ground." Yuchi Gong asked in confusion, wonderingly, just a rice grain.
Li Er glared at Yuchi Gong and scolded angrily: "This is a rice grain, which can produce a rice seedling. One rice seedling grows eight branches. Each rice ear has 300 rice ears, and there will be 2,400 grains; next year, the 2,400 grains will be used as seeds for the next year, and it will become countless rice seeds every year."
Yuchi Gong quickly said respectfully: "It's the last general!" He squatted down and sturdy body, followed Li Er to pick up rice ears, trying not to waste a grain of rice seed.
The farmers cut rice. Under the leadership of Cheng Yaojin, the soldiers of the Sixteen Guards carried bundles of rice to the cart, pulled the crushed threshing ground and spread it flat on the ground. The skilled farmers drove the donkey to pull the stone rollers and pressed the rice ears in circles until the rice grains were pressed off from the rice seedlings.
On the contrary, Changsun Chong, who was in charge, had nothing to do at the beginning, sat on the haystack and watched everyone busy.
Li Er and his ministers wanted to verify this historical moment with their own eyes, and were preparing to live in the Changsun family's village, waiting for the harvest to come out. There were many people and the threshing was completed in just two days. Lord Li Wei, the Si Nongqing, personally claimed to measure the number of rice in front of Li Er.
The twenty acres of land were collected in total, with an average yield of 1,550 kilograms per mu. According to 120 kilograms per stone, the grain yield was as high as twelve s. Even if you bask in a few suns, you will have at least eleven s.
Li Er was excited, and held up a handful of newly-beared rice with both hands, and watched eagerly as the plump rice fall from the fingers. This is just one season, if it is two seasons or three seasons, it would not be a yield of three thousand kilograms per mu or four thousand kilograms. Oh my god, how much grain will you have to harvest this year!
Chapter completed!