Fenghou

Chapter 1329
It's late August, and the hottest season in Jingzhao City has passed. It will be cooler in the morning and evening, and the daytime will not be so hot. This morning, dozens of cavalry escorted Chen Qing's carriage and walked slowly in Jingzhao City. .

In Jingzhao City, there are many carriages guarded by cavalry, and there are [-] cavalry guards for several counselors when they go out, as well as high-level generals above the Dutong. They all have their own soldiers. Chen Qing allows them to take two Ten personal soldiers.

Therefore, Chen Qing's carriage is not eye-catching in Jingzhao. In addition, his carriage is not gorgeous. It is only drawn by two horses. The body is wide and strong.

When Chen Qing was bored or was thinking about important matters, he would get in a carriage and walk around Jingzhao City, and his thoughts would gradually broaden.

Through the car window, Chen Qing looks at the street view outside the window. On the left are shops lined up with various goods, while on the right is a Caohe River. There will be a weeping willow every ten steps on the bank, and many people are sitting under the weeping willow. Resting and chatting, there is also a small street on the right bank of the Cao River, and there are rows of residential houses on the opposite side of the street. This layout looks very neat and orderly.

At this time, Chen Qing suddenly saw something and shouted: "Stop!"

The carriage stopped, Chen Qing looked towards a small courtyard, and saw a vine growing in the courtyard, reaching to the roof, and a few round melons grew on the vine, and after a closer look, it turned out to be a pumpkin.

Chen Qing was really surprised that there was a family that grew pumpkins. He said to his soldiers: "Go and find out, what kind of family is that that grows pumpkins?"

Several soldiers laughed and said: "Your Highness, there is no need to inquire!"

"why?"

"There are a lot of pumpkin growers in the city, but His Highness didn't notice it. Here! There are two other pumpkin growers in front of us."

Chen Qing looked in the direction of the soldiers' fingers, and sure enough, there were also pumpkins and vines coiled on the two roofs in front.

"When did this start?" Chen Qing asked with great interest.

"It was planted this year. It is said that thousands of families have planted it. We also opened a pumpkin garden in the military camp, and hundreds of pumpkins grew."

"Is it popular?" Chen Qing asked again with a smile.

"I don't know! We won't know until after the harvest, but we all guess that it should be very popular. It is very sweet. It can be eaten as a snack after steaming, and it can be stored as grain after drying. Winter melon and gourd are not as sweet as it. gone."

Chen Qing nodded. The popularity of pumpkins has a huge effect on reducing famine, which is also the main reason why he attaches great importance to pumpkins and corn.

Chen Qing suddenly had an idea, and immediately ordered: "Turn around and go to Taixue!"

The carriage turned around and accelerated towards Taixue.

Taixue and Guozixue are the two universities in Jingzhao. One is biased towards workers and peasants, and the other is biased towards literature. Guozixue is located in the east of the city. It was originally renamed from Jingzhaofuxue. It is biased towards engineering and agriculture, and it is safe to walk on two legs, so Guozixue was established.

There are currently 2000 students in Guozixue, and they are admitted by students from various prefectures. The main purpose is to train assistant teachers for prefectural studies, which is equivalent to a higher normal school.

However, today Chen Qing did not go to Guozixue, but went to Taixue. This is a school of engineering and agronomy that Chen Qing has spared no effort to build, eliminating all objections.

There are more than 500 disciplines in military, water control, mining, smelting, casting, shipbuilding, textiles, printing, agronomy, animal husbandry, calendar, etc., with 200 students and nearly [-] professors and part-time professors.

The headmaster was none other than Orihiko. Orihiko had quit the military, but he felt that he still had a little more energy, so he proposed to Chen Qing to devote himself to education. It happened that Taixue did not have Xuezheng, so Chen Qing appointed him as Taixue. Learn positively.

Hearing that His Royal Highness King Yong was coming, Orihiko hurriedly went to the steps of the main hall to greet him.

After Chen Qing got off the carriage, Orihiko and his associate student Zheng Liu Xiangyang stepped forward to welcome His Royal Highness King Yong.

"See His Royal Highness King Yong!"

"You two are free!"

Chen Qing smiled slightly: "I just wanted to take a look at it temporarily, and I didn't notify you in advance."

"Your Highness can come to Taixue for guidance, we welcome you!"

"Don't bother the students, I just want to know a few things about agronomy."

Orihiko smiled and said: "This is Liu Xuezheng's specialty!"

Originally, Liu Xiangyang was persuading the Deputy Commissioner of the Agricultural Department, but Zhe Yanzhi was old after all, and he didn't care about the specific affairs of Taixue. Liu Xiangyang was responsible for all kinds of trivial matters of Taixue, and he was also in charge of agriculture.

The crowd surrounded Chen Qing and walked towards the South College. The South College is mainly about agriculture. It covers an area of ​​two hundred acres and is full of various crops. Rotating, the water is continuously lifted and poured into the fields.

"It's corn!"

Before Chen Qing came to a corn field, the corn had grown to the height of a person, and there were corn buds under his armpits, almost two of them, and the harvest would be ready in more than a month.

Chen Qing squatted down and looked at it carefully for a while, then asked, "Is this the seed from last year?"

"Exactly!"

"Is there any one with three buds?"

"Yes! There are five plants with three buds, here."

Liu Xiangyang pointed to several corn plants, Chen Qing looked closely, and sure enough, three buds formed, "Did this happen by chance?" Chen Qing asked again.

"No! This is the seed that produced three bracts last year. We tried to plant [-] seeds in this corner, but only five plants produced three bracts. We plan to continue trial planting next year or so for about five years. , stabilize the seeds with three bracts."

Chen Qing praised: "That's why I came to Taixue today. I saw many people growing pumpkins on the road, and I was thinking, can we grow that kind of big, round, golden pumpkin?
But it is obvious that special people are needed to do this kind of thing, so I thought of Taixue, which is actually the main purpose of my running Taixue, to continuously research, improve the technical level, and cultivate high-yield crops in agriculture.

Seeing that you are cultivating three-bud corn now makes me feel very relieved, which shows that the direction of my school is completely correct. "

Orihiko quickly said: "Thank you for your highness's instruction. Taixue has been running for several years, and we have slowly figured out the direction by ourselves. Taixue trains students in two directions, one is to research technology, and the other is to promote technology. , promoting technology is actually going to various places to be a technical officer, but researching technology requires a calm heart. Cultivating and planting year after year is the most difficult thing, and usually it takes a lifetime of research, but some people like to do such things, the key is to solve their problems. Worry about the future."

Chen Qing nodded, "Professors who specialize in research should be given positions and generous salaries, and they should also have official houses and courts like other officials to solve their housing worries. If they make achievements, I will pay them back. Give a big reward!"

A group of professors at the back were all beaming. His Highness wanted to give the official residence and the official courtyard, which was what they were most looking forward to.

"Thank you for your kindness, Your Highness, we can rest assured with His Highness's words!"

Chen Qing was surrounded by the crowd again and came to the pumpkin garden. There were two acres of land, and the pumpkins inside were the size of a basketball, much larger than the roof pumpkins seen on the road. , of course the seeds are different.

Chen Qing walked into the field and carefully inspected the pumpkins, which were bigger than the pumpkins he had planted before, and they grew gratifyingly, and it seemed that they would grow very big in the end, Chen Qing turned around and asked, "Who planted this pumpkin? "

(End of this chapter)