In the early morning of mid-September, the weather was already a bit cool.

In mid-September of the lunar calendar, it is almost mid-October of the Gregorian calendar, and the surrounding farmland has basically completed its autumn harvest.

Shi Zhongkui was at the Jianguogong Farm in Daxing at this time, waiting for Yu Honggao, Gao Yongmin from the Ministry of Industry and other officials who had been paying attention to rice fields and fish farming.

It is also foreseeable that the surrounding squires will arrive in large numbers.

At about 8 o'clock in the morning, Yu Honggao's sedan arrived at the farm accompanied by a group of government servants.

When he got off the sedan, he saw Shi Zhongkui with Xue Pan and Jia Lian waiting for him.

He first bowed his hand to Jia Lian, and the panicked Jia Lian hurriedly bowed in return and repeatedly said he didn't dare. Only then did the atmosphere become normal.

"Is Bo Qian sure?"

This was the first time the master and apprentice met after the provincial examination to avoid suspicion.

Shi Zhongkui smiled and shook his head, "I am absolutely sure about the Four Books and Five Classics, poems and official letters. But I am not sure about the time, articles, and policies.

But it should be fine if you win the exam. As for the rest, it depends on God’s will.”

"Hahaha", Yu Honggao immediately remembered the heavy rain five days ago, "God's will, it is really God's will."

And as long as you can win the examination, it means you have a chance to take the examination in February next year, so it is not considered a defeat.

When Xue Pan and Jia Lian heard this, they couldn't help but look strange in their eyes when they looked at Shi Zhongkui.

After a little inquiry, I found out that during this provincial examination, there were cries from the homes of many scholars who had been favored before.

Don't think about it, there must be stains on the paper, so you can only wait until spring one and a half years later to take the test again.

Shi Zhongkui was actually very uneasy at first, but when he saw that the number in the farm space representing the merit column was still 110, he felt relieved.

Since my merits have not been reduced, then the matter has nothing to do with me. It must be just an autumn rain.

An hour later, the area around the farm was packed with people. If it hadn't been for the presence of more than 30 government officials and 140 field soldiers, something might have happened.

Shi Zhongkui hurriedly asked Xue Pan, Jia Lian, Shi Guangzhu, who came to watch the excitement, and some noble disciples to organize the servants, and then the order at the scene was stabilized.

When Gao Yongmin and other officials saw him, they spoke a few words to him and gave him a secret book on rice field and fish farming written by himself, attracting more than a dozen distinguished disciples.

Then he mobilized these young masters to come forward and lead a total of hundreds of servants from each family to help maintain law and order, which made me even more satisfied with him.

But thinking of some rumors, Gao Yongmin sighed in his heart again.

The honorable nobles and the Supreme Emperor are not stupid, and there is no reason to let the emperor and civil servants take all the credit for themselves.

Maybe one day the Supreme Emperor will find a reason and decree a knighthood, and Shi Zhongkui will have to side with the nobles.

Of course, he could take the risk and refuse to accept the offer, but even if the Supreme Emperor did not answer the question, Shi Zhongkui would have no chance to become an official or do anything before the Supreme Emperor died.

Around 11 a.m., the sun was high in the sky.

First they worshiped, and then with an order, hundreds of farmers took sickles, divided into ten groups, carefully went to the fields, and began to harvest rice.

Ten people harvest one acre of land. For these farmers, who have at least ten years of farming experience, the harvest is done after a little sweat.

Two threshing machines were placed in the harvested farmland and began to thresh the grain in front of countless people, and then were weighed by people from the Ministry of Works.

When someone yelled "four stones three" in surprise, the scene suddenly burst into gasps and noises.

Shi Zhongkui was even more stunned, his mind was filled with the numbers that were constantly beating on the merit bar in the farm space.

Two hundred, five hundred, one thousand, until 1110 hours, it stopped.

In the heavenly court, Zhao Gongcao, Chen Dianbo and a kind of heavenly soldiers and generals who were paying attention to the list of heavenly court officials were so fiercely stabbed by a dazzling golden light that they could hardly open their eyes.

Then, the list of officials in Heaven, which had been suspended in the main hall of Shengxian Pond, shook a few times and disappeared.

Zhao Gongcao, Chen Dianbo and others instantly understood that Shi Zhongkui had achieved a certain level of merit and was protected by the immortal list.

Chen Dianbo looked at Zhao Gongcao with envy, and asked in a trembling voice, "Sir, when Shi Zhongkui returns to Heaven, will he be my colleague?"

Zhao Gongcao glared at Chen Dianbo, "Isn't this nonsense!"

Incense can become a god, and merit can become a saint.

As long as the merit is sufficient, let alone the ninth-grade sesame official, if you come back and do some preparation, you will be able to become the seventh-grade immortal official.

Zhao Gongcao felt jealous when he thought that he had been in heaven for countless years and was only a seventh-grade immortal official.

Fortunately, there is a big difference between officials and positions. Some people are of high rank but have no rights. They are just mascots in heaven. Zhao Gongcao felt at ease again.

However, it was heard that Bima Wen, who had rebelled against heaven, was recruiting troops and training monkeys in the lower world. Zhao Gongcao secretly lamented that Shi Zhongkui was so lucky.

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"Boqian, Boqian,,,."

Hearing someone calling him, Shi Zhongkui came back to his senses and saw that Yu Honggao couldn't care less about the appearance and demeanor of a sixth-grade official at this moment.

With a look of ecstasy on his face, he reached out to grab his own hand and laughed loudly, "The average yield of ten acres of land is more than one stone per mu. In the capital region alone, hundreds of thousands of stones of rice can be increased. Bo Qian's success in this work is in Sheji.

The benefits lie in the future.

I will definitely report it and ask the imperial court to reward you."

Shi Zhongkui hurriedly bowed and saluted, saying "lucky".

While those around me were envious, they were also thinking more about how much food and income they could increase in the future.

And that's just for the rice. The fish in the fish ditch have long been frightened by the nearby crowds and are running around in the fish ditch.

Some fish, weighing about seven to eight taels, even jumped out of the fish ditch, causing the surprised crowd to continuously let out exclamations of exclamation.

Then fishing became easier. A dozen farmers took bamboo strips and inserted them into the fish ditch to drive the fish into the large fish baskets that had been placed in advance.

Soon the ten fish baskets were surrounded by water splashes, and even the fish baskets were shaking from side to side as the fish had nowhere to escape.

Everyone can tell at a glance that the delivery is definitely not small.

After picking up the fish baskets, draining the water and weighing them, someone shouted and counted, "The ten fish baskets total 736 kilograms."

Then the servants, government servants and field soldiers shouted and spread the news to the outer circle, and the atmosphere became even more heated.

Some people even lit firecrackers to celebrate.

I put down the fish basket again and received another 385 kilograms. Although the third and fourth times dropped suddenly, the total amount directly exceeded 1,500 kilograms.

Shi Zhongkui knew that Liu Yu'er must be responsible for this. After all, with her as a carp spirit, not to mention diseases, water snakes, weasels, toads and other animals that come out to look for food at night could not even get close.

Coupled with the care of farmers and 140 field soldiers, the survival rate of fry has reached about 10%.
Chapter completed!