In the eighth and ninth years of Hongzhi, Li Dongyang first entered the cabinet, and then he won many old acquaintances of Cui Xie in the two examinations of the township and society, and later even the prince went out to study in the cabinet. These major events were lively and bustling in the court, but they had little to do with Cui Xie, who was in control of the country.
It was not until the end of April, when the two brothers Cui Heng were full, that he ordered people to get off the carriage and send them to the capital for a few miles.
Cui Heng and his wife rode a carriage, and his brother rode a horse, followed by a caravan carrying luggage, and reluctantly said goodbye to him. Cui Xie sat on the big white horse and looked at them. He said warmly, "Don't be so childish. I'll be back in Beijing next fall, and then I'll have to supervise your writing. You can't look at me less if you want."
Brother Heng and Brother He's faces froze for a moment, then they laughed a few times while holding the venue, and replied, "When we return to Beijing, we will clean up the yard for the eldest brother and wait for the eldest brother to come back."
That's not necessary. Xie Ying cleans up his yard. It must be in his mind. He also thinks these two little ones have no taste.
Cui Xie waved his hand and said to Cui Heng, "I said that day that I would live in the main courtyard of my family. Now that the adults and grandmother have passed away one after another, the grandfather and grandmother's courtyard will be given to your young couple to live in later."
He glanced at Cui He again and arranged: "Brother and brother live in my father's original yard. You are not too young now, I will send Master Shutuo and his wife to look at each other for you, and I will estimate after returning to Beijing. There will be results.”
Cui He's face was reddish, happy and ashamed, secretly happy for a while, then thought of his eldest brother: "Now that both father and grandmother have passed away, it is time for the eldest brother to choose a lady to start a family."
Cui Xie smiled and shook his head: "Forget it, the two of you are taking care of the eldest brother? Go back to Beijing to read and write the composition in Anxin, and I will send it every few days in the future. I want to check it!"
He didn't want to mention the matter of marriage, but Cui Heng summoned the courage to say: "Even brother and brother are going to get married, does the eldest brother really want to guard the cold quilt and pillow, and live alone for a lifetime? If you are afraid of being angry with yourself The luck is too good, it weighed on us, but my brother and I were separated from the family. Anyway, we are so old, we have all passed the exam, we should no longer live by the big brother... "
Cui Xie slammed his face and shouted: "Your brothers have hardened wings and are going to split up with me? Our Cui family has never broken up since our ancestors moved to Jiaxiangdun. As long as I live for one day, our generation will Not even!"
- The Cui family moved to Jiaxiang Village. The children have not been prosperous all the time, and many children died prematurely. It has been passed down for several generations, and there is indeed no chance of breaking the family.
However, he spoke fiercely, as if the two younger brothers were going to be tied up and beaten the next moment, which aroused Cui Heng's fear of being beaten by him back then, so he didn't dare to mention it. He was also the one who played with his elder brother, but seeing his elder brother was more awe-inspiring than his father. He just listened to the elder brother's teaching and didn't dare to reply.
Don't dare, don't distinguish, don't mention it.
The Cui brothers hurried back to the car and took Yang and their family back to Beijing.
After Cui Xie sent a few miles away, he lifted the reins and turned around, but instead of returning directly to Zhuangzi, he asked someone to show him the land of Cui's family - mainly to see his hybrid soybeans.
In the past two years, his most work has been on soybeans.
The broad bean that first did the hybrid experiment had a low pollination rate, and the hybrid variety was less likely to bear fruit. He later tried soybeans instead. In the past two years, their family has bought bean seeds from all over the country, and they have been trying to open a vegetable field in the corner of Zhuangzi for two consecutive years. They finally summed up the pollination experience and hybridized several varieties that can increase production.
Among them, the best one can harvest more than 10% more than the control group, and one mu of land can produce more than 20 to 30 catties of beans.
What if the whole county and the whole prefecture were planted
He read the government records, Qian'an County has 6,157 hectares of land and 120 hectares of military settlements; while Yongping Prefecture has a total of 66,826 hectares of official and civilian land, and the army has 126 hectares of land. Tunze is two thousand and forty-eight hectares…
Cui Xie did the math himself, and felt his heart beat faster. He wanted to rush to the county yamen and force the officials to carry it out.
But he resisted the urge and carefully listed the advantages and disadvantages of hybrid soybeans. The advantage is not to bother to elaborate. The disadvantage is that hybrid soybeans are not easy to breed. It is necessary to select robust parents, emasculate the time, prevent self-pollination, and manually pollinate one by one with pollen. And the bean seeds that are produced are not as good as ordinary beans. Even if they grow up smoothly, they can only be harvested for one season. The harvested beans cannot be used for seeding, and a special person must be responsible for hybridization.
He wrote the 20,000-word "Qian'an No. 1 Hybrid Soybean Seed Selection and Cultivation Book", and his mind calmed down. He planned to build a hybrid soybean breeding base and guide the people to buy and plant soybeans from them.
Soybean is a fertile crop that can be intercropped with spring wheat or rotated with winter wheat. In the past two years, the weather has been extremely cold. Most of the spring wheat is grown here in Qian'an. A few rows of soybeans are planted in the wheat fields. As long as the interval is appropriate, irrigation and fertilizers can keep up, which will not affect the wheat yield, but can also produce an extra After harvesting, the bean roots are turned into the soil and the fields can be fertilized...
This was already the best way he could think of to give birth.
The Cui family used high-quality fields for their experiments. This year, the yield per mu was about three bucks and eight buckets of wheat, and three buckets of soybeans per stone. The wheat harvest alone was eight buckets higher than in previous years. Although this experiment has not yet been tried in the middle and lower fields, there are more than 781 hectares of upper fields in Qian'an county.
Including the soybean harvest... Now it will be difficult for him to calm down no matter how many thousands of words he writes.
He settled accounts in a row-and-vertical manner like chicken blood at home, and the farmers in the family also played chicken blood. This year, beans were planted in several fields of the Cui family. Neighbors looked at it very strangely, and secretly asked his tenant if the head of his family had gone crazy, and how he had planted beans in a good wheat field.
The villagers said proudly: "Which village head dares to be the master? This is what my family's Hanlin Gong came up with! His old man is a great talent of Wuyuan Jidi, who can't do anything? The Cui family grows crops in this wheat field. If you get beans, not only will you not damage the soil, nor will you reduce the grain, you will be able to harvest a lot more!"
As a farmer, it is totally unreasonable to tout the master.
In the past two years, Cui Xie's disinfection, manure accumulation, earthworm raising, hybridization, intercropping in the countryside... are all based on his little memory. Hanlin shook the feather fan lightly, took out a kit, and easily increased grain production and kept pigs, sheep, chickens and ducks free from plague.
Although this image seems to be copied from Zhuge Liang, Cui Xie is a champion after all, and Ding Youqian has been a minister of the Imperial Academy again, which is quite credible in the eyes of the common people. Many people saw that his family had such a heavy field, and they quietly carved out a small field, and sprinkled some beans into it.
Some people were afraid that their own crops would not be good, so they secretly brought eggs and rice grains to Cui's house and asked his family how to grow them.
When this crop of spring wheat was planted, not only did the farmers not get tired and thin, but many of them became fatter. Several Zhuangtou saw it in their eyes, and they were angry in their hearts, and they told Cui Xie this group of white-eyed wolves who were eating inside and outside.
However, Cui Xie was obsessed with agriculture, and he didn't care about the servants at all. After hearing about this, he asked the old farmers in the experimental field to walk around to see if someone was planting the wrong thing, and they all helped to correct it.
The stewards and Zhuangtou were heartbroken, and stuck outside his study to persuade them: "How can adults teach people anything! Print books for those relatives and teach them the imperial examinations. This kind of talent doesn't have to be dedicated to the emperor and the patriarch. Are you? How can someone take advantage of it for nothing!"
A group of people seemed to have transformed into Shang Rong and Bi Gan beside King Zhou. After admonishing Cui Xie that he could no longer write his small essay, he reluctantly came out and said, "This is originally to promote the distribution of Northern Zhili and even the surrounding areas. If you want to learn something about the Chief Minister, let them learn it. Could it be that someone can steal the credits of my old disciple and put it on them? If you are too busy, go out and open up a few acres of wasteland to plant quinoa. There is some use for the block outside my door!"
Falling quinoa is a ash vegetable. It can be eaten as a wild vegetable when it comes down, and it can be sold for money when it is burned into ashes in autumn. Qian'an County has two water veins, Luan River and Sanli River, which are not short of water, but there are also large areas of saline-alkali land. A large area of northern Zhili is such a wasteland, where no food can be grown, only some ash vegetables and artemisia seeds that are resistant to salt and alkali grow naturally. Furnace ash can also make alkali.
The snow-white peach alkaloid blocks sold in Jinrongtang Cosmetics Store were purchased by farmers during their slack farming season.
He used to ask people to buy alkaline soil to extract soda ash, but now he is addicted to farming, so he wants to try making another alkali block with quinoa ash. The quinoa ash is precipitated with water, and then mixed with some flour to make an alkali block that is whiter than sodium carbonate. This alkali mainly contains potassium carbonate, which can also make soap, wash clothes, and cook porridge, but it cannot make noodles, and can only be mixed with noodles. According to the book, the noodles mixed with alkali seem to taste good.
If a soda ash processing industry can be built in such a place with a large area of saline-alkali land, and more employment opportunities can be provided, the people will be able to live better.
In fact, Cui Xie thought more than that, but with limited knowledge and limited conditions, he had to keep everything simple.
Who told him that he couldn't study the technology of diverting water to wash saline-alkali land and turning wasteland into paddy fields for a while? Not to mention the harsh environment and climate of the Little Ice Age, which cannot be changed by manpower. As long as he can't make Jinkela, no matter how he engages in grain production, the output is still not enough. It is better to urge Teacher Li and the others to open the sea ban after returning to the dynasty and buy grain from Champaign and Annan.
He looked towards the capital through the window, sighed, and picked up the pen again.
As soon as one starts writing a paper, time flies very fast.
In late October, Cui He sent him a letter saying that Li Ge had helped him choose a lady who would serve in Nanjing Guozijian as a sacrifice to Xie Duo's family. However, the Xie family's ancestral home is in Wenling, Zhejiang. After Xie Jijiu became an official, he has been running a school and teaching in the village. He wanted to see this future grandson-in-law with his own eyes and asked him to go to Jiangnan to marry.
Wang Shouren got married at his father-in-law's house, and Cui Heng also went back to his bride's house to live for two or three months. It didn't matter, as long as the relatives were good.
Cui Xie replied to his brother with a pen, and wrote a letter to thank Li Dongyang for choosing such a good marriage for his family, and happily gave his third brother to the Xie family.
Because there was a township exam in the eleventh year of Hongzhi, Cui He had to come back to take the exam, and the two married in August next year. Cui Xie wrote a letter instructing Cui Liangdong to prepare a betrothal gift for his third brother, and he collected his own private house and gave him a few good jades and toys, and let him take them to please the father and sons of Xie Jijiu.
This year, there were no two younger brothers who got in the way, and it was more convenient when Xie Ying came to live. Instead of bringing Xie Shan with him, he rode to Qian'an alone, and spent five days in Jiaxiang Tun. On the night of the Lantern Festival, he went out to watch the lanterns brightly. At night, when there was no one in the yard, he returned to Cui Xie's room with seven or eight lanterns and secretly lit them in the house.
Cui Xie looked at the puzzles displayed by the lamp and asked with a smile, "Aren't these lamps won by Brother Xie? As expected of Xie Zhenfu, who has a clear understanding of Qiuhao, everything in the world can't help you, so you can win so quickly. Here come these lanterns."
"Where, it's just some old mysteries that I've played. There aren't as many talented people in the capital as there are in Jiaxiangtun, so I've won a few times occasionally."
Xie Ying also stood at the place where the lights converged, but what he watched was not the lights, but the people under the lights. The whole room was illuminated by the lights, and it was like daylight in the room, and everything could be seen clearly. He took a step behind Cui Xie, his eyes fell on the back collar that was not fastened tightly, and he clearly saw the colorful marks printed there.
I'm afraid he got a little carried away last night, and he has to be careful next time, not to make such easily visible traces.
He thought about it, but walked up involuntarily, lowered his head and sniffed the slightly open neckline. The clear soapy fragrance inside seemed to be dyed with the fragrance of his clothes, tempting him to pull it apart, and said softly, "I haven't seen you in such a bright place for a long time. Tell me to take a closer look, Can our Brother Xie pay off in the past two years?"