Jinyang.

Ma Chao finally looked forward to his ten-day holiday again. Early in the morning, without even eating breakfast, he hurried to the earth building outside the city to see Lu Bu.

The guard had a headache when he saw him, so he stopped him and said, "Your Majesty has ordered that before the sun rises, unless it is urgent, no one is allowed to go in and disturb."

Ma Chao said, "I just have something urgent to report."

The guard obviously didn't believe it and reminded him, "The young general is also a member of the army. You know that lying about military information will result in beheading."

Ma Chao shouted impatiently, "Whatever you do with my head, just go in and report it to me."

"Okay! Wait!"

The guard turned around and entered the earth building. After a while, he came out and said to Ma Chao angrily, "The king asked you to wait outside!"

Ma Chao looked depressed. After all, he still didn't dare to break in. The last time he tried to break in, if he hadn't reacted quickly and retreated in time, the corpses would have become a hornet's nest. These guards were as reckless as Xu Chu. No matter who broke into the building, they would dare to break in. Make a killing move.

Ma Chao sat on the stone pier outside the door, waiting boredly until Xu You came to pay his respects, and then he went in with him.

Lu Bu came down from the second floor and cursed Ma Chao when he saw him, "You kid, how many times has this happened to you when it's Xiu Mu's turn? Come as soon as you come. Can you be a little later? How dare you lie and claim that it's urgent?" Who gave you the courage?"

Ma Chao stood in the courtyard and looked up at him with a stubborn look on his face, "You let me lead the troops to Pingliang Prefecture, and I will take care not to disturb you again."

"How many times have I told you, if there is no food or food, what can we do to calm it down?"

Ma Chao snorted, "Don't lie to me. I've visited all parts of Bingzhou these days. None of the people are hungry. How can there be no food?"

As he spoke, he walked straight to the stone bench in the pavilion and sat down, "My mother and brother are all staying in Jinyang as hostages. What does the king have to worry about?"

Lu Bu didn't bother to explain too much to him and said, "When you defeat Zhong Kang and can defeat him in the art of war, I will allow you to go."

Speaking of this, Ma Chao suddenly lost his arrogance. Not only was Xu Chu a brave man with great martial arts skills, but he could also read various military art books at random. Although he had learned a little in the past, he was far inferior to him. He could not argue about the art of war, nor could he fight in a fight. , it’s really depressing.

Not only Xu Chu, he also competed with Yan Xing, and found that the very low-key young man beside Han Sui was also a master, and Hua Xiong could not beat him. He, the number one in Xiliang, suddenly became a master when he arrived in Bingzhou. Ma Chao was very dissatisfied when he became third.

Lu Bu ignored Ma Chao and said to Xu You, "Ziyuan came early. Go sit in the hall first. Amo will be here soon."

Xu You bowed his hands and went inside to drink tea and read the newspaper while Ma Chao pestered Lu Bu to practice martial arts with him.

"Where do I get this free time?" Lu Bu chased him out like a fly, "Go and play with Yingwei!"

"Yingwei doesn't know how to teach. Zhong Kang said that you taught them before." Ma Chao remained stubborn and refused to leave.

"That was in the past, how can I have time to teach you now? Martial arts are acquired through practice, and they will naturally improve if you let Zhong Kang and Yingwei beat them a few times."

Lu Bu said casually, and looked up to see the door of Xiao Tangyuan's room opened. He quickly climbed up the stairs and took his daughter down. A servant brought warm water over. Lu Bu personally fed his daughter a glass of water, washed her little face, and then Take her to ride the merry-go-round.

The wooden horse could only be rotated by human power. Lu Bu took the trouble to rotate it over and over again, having a great time playing with his daughter. Ma Chao looked at it with black lines on his face. Who would have thought that this majestic His Royal Highness the Prince of Tang turned out to be a daughter? Slave? Every time I come here, I can see him hugging his daughter and not letting go.

At this time, Zhang Mo also came downstairs with his two sons. Knowing that Ma Chao must have come without breakfast again, he invited him to come in and eat together.

After breakfast, Lu Bu entrusted Lu Zhen and Lu Xuan to Aunt Xu. He and Zhang Mo took their eldest son Lu Gan and Xu You to inspect the experimental field. Xu Chu led a few guards to follow him. Ma Chao was bored, so he just followed. Let's go and join in the fun together.

In addition to Xu You, Sima Yi and others also came upon hearing the news and were already waiting at the intersection outside.

It has now entered mid-May, and the first rice seedling cultivation trial this year has entered the heading stage. Zhang Mo must go to see the results.

Due to the serious food shortage, Zhang Mo has been thinking about how to survive this year's famine when he surrendered the Black Mountain bandits last year.

Naturally, her first thought was to rob, but the economic situation was so bad that after much thought, except for a few states in the south, there was really no place to rob in the north. The water network in the south was extensive, so there was no way for navy troops to rob there. It was unrealistic and there was really no other way, so she wanted to advance the planting time this year.

However, every crop has its own season, and if the time is advanced arbitrarily, all the crops will freeze to death, so she thought of the method of raising rice seedlings in later generations, first using a greenhouse to raise the rice seedlings and then transplanting the rice seedlings.

In this era, there was no such thing as raising seedlings. When the season came, the seeds were simply sown in the fields and allowed to sprout and grow freely.

For seedling cultivation, the seeds are cultivated in a greenhouse about one month in advance, so that when the time comes, the seedlings can be directly inserted into the paddy field. Compared with spreading, the time is one month earlier, and the harvest period is naturally earlier.

How many more people will starve to death without food in one month, so after the success of the seedling-raising experiment, Zhang Mo asked people to build multiple greenhouses in sunny, headwind, low-altitude places with sufficient water sources, so that Jinyang and Several surrounding counties use seedlings for planting.

Everyone rode horses and cars to the experimental field by the Fenshui River. Looking up, the lush rice vines were like a vast grassland stretching as far as the eye can see, which made people feel particularly comfortable.

Xu You said with a happy face, "I came to the field yesterday to see it. I heard from several farmers that this method of planting not only brings the harvest period earlier, but also has better yields than spreading."

"Can we increase production?" Zhang Mo wondered.

She didn't know much about agriculture. Some of the methods she knew were learned from working with her mother in her previous life. If the famine hadn't been severe this year, she wouldn't have thought of using the seedling cultivation method to grow rice, because even if she harvested it a month in advance, there wouldn't be enough fertility. Under the circumstances, the north can still only grow one season of food a year, plus the cost of building a greenhouse and burning a stove. It makes no sense if it is not raised in advance.

Xu You squatted down and lifted up a rice plant for everyone to see, "This rice seedling is strong and has strong tillering ability. It can obtain more effective ears than the scattered plants. I did a little pre-evaluation. Judging from the number of ears, every acre

Under the same fertility, the yield can be increased by about 30%."

"Yesterday, I visited several rice fields, and they all found the same situation. I also asked several farmers, and they told me that in previous years, when planting, weeds often grew wildly before the seeds germinated. Not only were the soil resources robbed by weeds, but many seedlings were also destroyed.

It won't even grow if covered, but now farmers will pull out the weeds when transplanting rice seedlings, and the rice seedlings will obviously grow stronger.

Then there is the spacing between plants. When sowing, the seeds are unevenly dispersed, or they gather together in a bunch, or the gaps are too large. Some seeds simply do not germinate, or even the time interval before and after germination is too long, resulting in uneven height of the plants, which can be avoided by transplanting.

When these conditions occur, this is the reason why planting seedlings in advance can increase yields."

Xu You pointed at this large piece of farmland and said with a smile, "Although rice transplanting is more labor-intensive, with the curved shaft plow, waterwheel, and ear-removing machine invented by the princess, and the additional steps of raising and transplanting rice seedlings, it is actually more labor-saving than before. And

Each acre can increase production by 30%. How much more food can be added to the world every year?"

As he spoke, he bowed his hands to Zhang Mo and said, "The princess is really the reincarnation of an immortal. My respect for you is like the endless waves of rice. This year's famine problem can be solved by more than half."

Zhang Mo couldn't help but smile, "When did Ziyuan learn to pat a horse?"

Xu You said, "It's not flattery, it's sincerity!"

Lu Bu smiled and said, "As long as you are sincerely convinced, my Amo is an immortal, specially here to save the common people..." Save me.

Sima Yi followed, "No, none of our Bingzhou people are pious when it comes to my sister. If anyone dares to say anything bad about my sister, it will be terrible and he will be drowned in everyone's saliva."
Chapter completed!