After Gu Zhong withdrew, the emperor asked Wei Zhi, "What happened to make my dear wife brave the poisonous weather to enter the palace?"

After Wei Zhi saluted, he presented the box and said, "Your Majesty, this is sent back by Bai Shan from Beihai County. It is a congratulatory gift to Your Majesty and Da Jin."

The emperor took the box and opened it while asking, "What gift? My birthday has not come yet."

Wei Zhi didn't say anything, but the emperor had already opened it and saw the rice ear and the fold inside. He passed the fold, first picked up the rice ear curiously and looked at it, saying wordlessly: "You have come so far away to give me just one rice ear?

Don’t you know how expensive it is to send letters?”

Looking at it, he realized something was wrong. He picked up the rice ears and looked at them carefully. He even weighed them. He felt the heavy weight and narrowed his eyes slightly.

The emperor attached great importance to farming. Every year, the emperor would plow the fields, offer sacrifices to heaven, and pray for blessings. Naturally, he would often go to the imperial farm to see the harvest of crops in autumn.

He himself has been working in the fields, and the rice ears he has seen before do not seem to be this long, with so many grains and plump, right?

Seeing that he had discovered it, Wei Zhi bent over and said, "Your Majesty, this is a new rice seed that the Zhou family spent six years cultivating. Now the yield per mu in Beihai County in Qingzhou and Luojiang County in Mianzhou is six stones."

The emperor stood up from his seat in shock. His eyes were dizzy for a moment before he regained his composure. He raised his head, rubbed his forehead, and asked excitedly: "Really?"

Wei Zhi lowered his head and did not see it. He lowered his head and said loudly: "Your Majesty, Bai Shan will not lie about this matter. It is clearly written in his book."

The emperor quickly picked up the book and read it.

Wei Zhi then raised his head to look at him, and saw that his eyes were getting brighter and brighter, and his face was flushed. He waited for him to read the book and introduced: "Master Zhou has a nephew who is now a magistrate of Luojiang County, Mianzhou. He is planted in Luojiang.

He brought the county's fine seeds back, and he and his father had cultivated them over the past six years. When the letter was sent, they had only harvested one piece of land and weighed the raw rice. The yield per mu was six and a half stones. If it was dried in the sun,

It's about five stone worth."

The emperor had already read Bai Shan's excerpt at a glance, which also recorded in detail the testing process of the Pucun Experimental Field.

He could no longer hear what Wei Zhi was saying, and his eyes were fixed on the test data on the fold.

When Wei Zhi saw that the emperor had not spoken for a long time, he took one look and knew what he was looking at, so he said: "Your Majesty, Your Majesty——"

The emperor raised his eyes, glanced at him secretly with disgust, and then continued to look down at the book, "What is it called? I can hear you, so tell me."

"Your Majesty, although the test data on Bai Shan's book is good-looking, it is just a test. According to what Zhuang Shi said, they will pay more attention to the test field. They will not only provide the best fertilizer, but also always ensure enough water, weeding and catching insects.

The energy consumed is more than five times that of ordinary rice fields, so I think that the experimental field can be used for breeding, but its yield cannot be used as a standard, and it must at least be reduced."

The emperor said: "The data above shows that the dried rice weighs seven shi and is 22 kilograms more, which means that the raw rice may reach nine shi. Even if the ordinary paddy field is not as good as the experimental field, it should not be directly less."

Let’s go to Three Stones? One-third.”

It makes me sad just thinking about it.

Wei Zhi knew that the emperor's old habit had relapsed, and he had to travel to Shu.

He said: "Your Majesty, the yield of this new rice seed is twice as high as the current one. In other words, if it can be planted in the world, the world's rice harvest will be twice as high as it is now..."

Just thinking about it makes you excited, okay?

The emperor clenched the fold in his hand, his eyes shining, "If we continue to cultivate improved seeds and make the seeds even better, so that the harvest of ordinary farmland can be as good as the current data of the experimental field, it will be three times as high as now..."

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

The emperor was so excited that he couldn't sit still as long as he thought about the various consequences of the increase in grain production. He wished he could go to Xineiyuan for three horse rides.

He stood up excitedly, turned around twice and then 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."

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

At that time, Yang Heshu also wrote a letter to ask for merit 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 hint before entering the palace. He paused and said: "I heard that the Zhou family's best at farming are the eldest son of the Zhou family and the third son of the Zhou family. However, because they are not very literate, the experimental field master

It is Zhou Dalang's son Zhou Li who is responsible for management and testing, and all the test data comes from his hands."

The emperor hurriedly asked: "Does this mean that Zhou Li has learned to read and write again?"

"Yes, I remember that Zhou Man has two nephews who passed the Ming Jing exam two years ago. Who is one of them?"

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

Emperor: "En Yin went in?"

Zhou Man achieved this position, Enyin's nephew and a small official could still achieve it.

"No, he got in by himself."

The emperor nodded appreciatively, "You are quite ambitious."

He paused and then said: "Servant Xuanzhuang is coming in."

Wei Zhi then went out to find Gu Zhong.

Gu Zhong quickly invited Mr. Zhuang over.

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

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

"Does Pucun have this new rice seed? Have they all been harvested, or..."

"Harvesting has begun, but it has not been completed." Mr. Zhuang said: "This new rice seed has been planted in the paddy fields in Puchun Village this year."

The emperor immediately stood up and said, "Let's go out of the palace and take a look."

Wei Zhi was stunned, "Now?"

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

Although the emperor didn't think Bai Shan could 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 Zhi thought so, and he also wanted to go and see it in person.

So he agreed, "Your Majesty, do you want a guard of honor, or..."

"The ceremony guard is too troublesome. When they are ready, I will arrive in Pucun immediately. 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 and saluted: "Your Majesty, even if you have to be incognito, you cannot leave the palace privately. The Queen and the clan are together..."

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

?? I saw everyone’s message in the previous chapter, but you do n’t just look at the beauty. The previous chapter is two foreshadowing. The protagonist is the emperor and Gu Zhong. I did n’t even give her the name.

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