After the palace banquet, even Xingnong, who was in very good physical condition, felt extremely tired.
During the day, she saw Shen Ruoxi was so tired that her legs were weak and she looked like she couldn't walk. In the end, the King of Jin carried her onto the dragon chariot.
She thought of her wedding with Chu Tiankuo, and couldn't help but enter the Lingzhu space to ask someone.
Chu Tiankuo was already waiting for her in the space. He had just returned to his place of residence from the Jin Palace when he received a letter from Chu Guo, telling her good news.
As soon as Xing Nong saw Chu Tiankuo, he asked directly, "Is the wedding and enthronement ceremony of the Crown Prince of Chu also so complicated?"
Chu Tiankuo nodded: "Almost. We still have the bride-welcoming ceremony. In order to have enough time for the heaven sacrifice, we need to welcome the bride in the middle of the night, so we can hardly sleep the night before the wedding."
Xing Nong: "..."
She doesn't even want to get married!
"Why is it so complicated? Can't it be simpler?"
Chu Tiankuo shook his head: "Etiquette cannot be abolished. There are trainings to follow. Besides, there will be envoys from various countries at that time. It would be disrespectful if it is not solemn."
Xing Nong: "Isn't this just a way to save face and suffer?"
Chu Tiankuo smiled and rubbed her head: "Think about it, now we have compressed three days into one day, and you will feel much better if you are tired for only one day!"
"What do you mean by three days changed to one day? Is it two days changed to one day?"
When the King of Jin received the news, the envoys from various countries responded
One day for the wedding and one day for the enthronement.
Chu Tiankuo: "As the Crown Prince's Consecration Ceremony, won't you attend?"
Xing Nong: “… .”
By this calculation, it is indeed a profit!
If I’m tired for three days, it will be terrible!
Chu Tiankuo took out a letter from his sleeve pocket and gave it to her.
Xing Nong took it and asked as he unpacked it, "What?"
"Good news." Chu Tiankuo raised his eyebrows and motioned her to look for herself.
Xing Nong rolled her eyes at him when she heard that, then lowered her head to open the letter.
A good-looking person, even rolling her eyes is so beautiful and lively. Chu Tiankuo likes to see her lively look, and the corners of his mouth unconsciously rise.
Xing Nong glanced up and down and read the contents of the letter.
This letter was sent by Ren Zilin. Winter wheat in Futai County has begun to be harvested. The letter said that the wheat has begun to be harvested. The wheat is growing well, the ears are heavy, and the grains are full. When he went to the villages below to inspect, he found that the people went to the fields every day to see the wheat, with tears of joy in their eyes! Some people were worried that such good wheat would be stolen or destroyed by wild boars in the mountains, so they slept in the wheat fields at night.
People from neighboring counties heard about it and came to see it. They were so envious! They couldn't believe that the wheat could grow so well and have such big grains!
... ...
The letter was very long, and at the end Ren Zilin wrote that he was waiting for a promotion and a raise, and for his name to be passed down through the ages!
The handwriting at the beginning of the letter is relatively formal, but becomes more and more unrestrained and elegant as the letter progresses, which reflects the writer's mood.
Xing Nong raised the corner of his mouth slightly: "It is indeed good news. I really want to see how full the wheat is."
She calculated the time and found that the letter should have been written a few days ago. It was the Grain in Ear season a few days ago, and the farming work in Jin State also started to get busy during these days.
The half month from Grain in Ear to Summer Solstice is the busiest time of the year. Summer crops need to be harvested, summer crops need to be sown, spring crops need to be planted, and crops that have not yet matured need to be managed in the fields. Everything is very busy.
Grain in Ear is a tiring solar term, but it is also a joyful solar term.
When she returned from Jin State, the summer harvest and planting had already been completed.
"You can see it when the autumn harvest comes." Chu Tiankuo looked towards the direction of Chu State with deep eyes. He also wanted to see this special harvest with his own eyes. From now on, Chu State's grain output will no longer be the last among the four countries.
Xing Nong nodded: "When we came, the rice seedlings had already been raised, so we can plant them now! I wonder if the people will adopt the rice transplanting method I taught them."
When planting wheat before, some villagers did not plant it according to the method provided by the government.
They have been farming for a lifetime and feel that their methods are more reliable.
"I'd better write a letter and ask Lord Ren to compare the yields of planting according to the method and not following the method to see if there is any difference in yield."
Even if it is the same kind of wheat, the yield will be different due to different planting and management methods!
There is a method to transplanting rice seedlings. The distance between two seedlings should not be too sparse or too dense. If it is too dense, it will affect the efficiency of photosynthesis when the seedlings grow up, thus reducing the yield. If it is too sparse, it will waste land and reduce the total yield. She had explained all these before.
Chu Tiankuo: "Don't worry, Ren Zilin will do these things. Since the wheat harvest is now good, I believe that all the people in Futai County are willing to listen to the government."
Food is the foundation of the people and the country. He had already instructed Ren Zilin to find the household with the highest wheat yield in the county after the wheat was harvested and record the planting method for reference.
Moreover, during the wheat growing period, he arranged for people to visit each village and record the villagers' field management situation, so as to make comparisons and try to find the best planting method.
Food is the villagers' life, so the villagers cooperated with those people in taking records.
Xingnong also thought that Chu Tiankuo had already made arrangements, so she didn't say anything. She just didn't know whether the villagers of Taohua Village could handle it. She was worried that in order to save money, they would not hire temporary workers to harvest the wheat and would rather take time off from work to harvest the wheat.
The summer rain sometimes comes unexpectedly. If we don’t harvest and dry the crops early, they will get moldy and sprout, which will be bad!
Xing Nong thought about this and decided to write another letter back! She had already written a letter back to remind him before the Grain in Ear Festival.
But she knew very well how frugal the villagers of Taohua Village were. The snack workshop was usually too busy, so she wanted to ask the temporary workers to help out. They all said they could handle it and just finished work at night.
Later, the order volume was so large and the time was too short for them to handle it, so they agreed to let Xingnong hire someone.
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Futai County, Taohua Village, threshing ground.
It was already late at night, but the villagers were still busy in the threshing ground and hadn't even had time to eat dinner.
Village Chief Gu pushed the wheat aside and said, "No, let's hire a few more people tomorrow, don't skimp! The right thing to do is to finish the work as soon as possible! Otherwise, it will delay the work of the workshop and the autumn harvest, which will be a big loss! If we delay any longer, the beginning of summer will come soon!"
The rice seedlings of every household were not even half planted yet. In addition to planting rice seedlings, the corn fields needed watering, inter-cultivation, weeding, and topdressing! The same was true for the cotton fields! These two things were new crops, and they had no experience, so they needed to carefully take care of them according to Xingnong's instructions.
There are also sweet potatoes, peanuts, sorghum, soybeans, sesame... etc.
All these are busy!
This year is different from previous years! Last year, no one had any land, and those who did had only one or two acres. They rented a few acres from the landlords or worked as temporary workers for the landlords. This year, every household has at least 20 acres of land, and there are also workshops to work on. They are so busy!