Wear ancient times with a house

Chapter 345 Promoting Potatoes
The Qin family wanted to treat their guests well, even though they didn't know the identity of this pedestrian, they vaguely felt that he was a "big man".

It's just that it's hard for a smart woman to cook without rice. The second wife of Qin went to the kitchen to see, except for half a basket of dried vegetables, a bottomless grain, and a piece of jerky that was given to her in-laws during the Chinese New Year and was sent back by her in-laws, there was nothing else. up.

It is the time when green leaves are not harvested, and it is impossible to clean up a few plates of green leafy vegetables.
Mrs. Shen had long expected the Qin family's embarrassment, so after Qin Erniang entered the kitchen, she followed in and handed over a string of money.

It's not much, but if it's too much, the Qin family will be afraid to accept it, that is, to support them to buy enough wine, meat and food for a group of people, and there are dozens of cash left, which should be regarded as hard money.

While the women were shopping for food, Song Nian also started chatting with old man Qin and Erzhuzi Qin.

The son is not good at words, and the probability of becoming a father is also the same. Old man Qin didn't know what to say with his big rough hands.

It wasn't until Song Nian asked about things in the field that Lao Zhuangjia's sense of pride overwhelmed his acquaintance, and he began to talk in vain.

How to store seeds, how to grow seedlings, how to judge the weather, how to choose the time, how to plant, how to weed, how to fertilize and water, these things, most of you here don't understand.

The knowledge of the field cannot be learned by burying it in the pile of old papers. It depends on the dedication of sweat dripping eight petals into the ground without hearing the sound. It depends on bending over to pick up every grain Get up and cherish.

The more Song Nian listened, the more he admired him. A person who can study a matter so thoroughly, even if he is just an old farmer, is worthy of respect.

He originally wanted to find a few local farmers to analyze the planting mode of potatoes after changing the soil and climate. Although the Tian family brothers were also doing this, no locals knew better.

Meeting Old Man Qin at this time was considered fate, and it happened that he was indeed a good farmer, so we might as well add him.

At this time, the villagers who were shocked by Qin Erniang's big purchase of food, heard that the Qin family had a distinguished guest, and they were very kind. They rushed over to watch, but they didn't dare to enter the door. look.

Song Nian saw that there were people watching, so he amplified his voice and tried to use more straightforward language to publicize:
"It's a kind of grain imported from abroad, called potatoes. It grows in the soil and is as big as a fist."

There was an old man with broken teeth who was impatient. Seeing Song Nian's good attitude, he poked his head and asked:
"My lord, can this foreign food grow in our field?"

This is a good joke. Song Nian was very happy that someone listened carefully to what he said and thought about it, so he quickly explained:

"That's right, when we first discovered potatoes, we were afraid that we wouldn't be able to grow them, so we tried to grow them on purpose. Now we have planted more than three rounds in Jinju Prefecture. We plant them in spring and grow them in autumn, or we plant them in autumn and grow them in winter. Both will do. But our Qinxi County is a bit colder, so I guess it can only be planted in spring."

For this situation, the farmers in Baizhuang Village have no objection. They have never been a land of fish and rice that grows two or three times a year. They have never owned it, so naturally there is no gap.

Rather than planting a few rounds a year, they are more concerned about yield.

No, when others saw Song Nian answering questions patiently, they also enthusiastically asked questions:
"Officer, how much can you produce? Are there more soybeans?"

Finally we got to the point, Song Nian didn't need to talk about it, Mrs. Song hurriedly answered:

"A lot, more than soybeans, two or three times that of wheat. And except for the need for more watering in the early stage, you don't need to worry about it at other times.

Get out of the ground, wipe off the mud and throw it directly into the stove to bake. The pot above can also cook porridge and boil water.After the water is boiled, the potatoes are cooked, and the thin layer of skin can be peeled off to eat. "

Mrs. Song can understand the feelings of these people very well, and she can guess how exciting the production of potatoes will be. Of course, she wants to enjoy such an honor.

Sure enough, when they heard that it was so easy to make with so much output, everyone whispered to each other and started discussing it.

At this time, the credibility of the imperial court is still quite strong, and no one thinks that Song Nian is deceiving people. They are poor and white, what else can they be deceived except for their strength?
As for strength, as long as you can grow something, use it.

Even the taciturn father and son of the Qin family looked at each other excitedly. The old man Qin was more closely related. He just felt a little unreal. Could it be that he could really get such a good grain in advance?
Someone was more realistic, and said in a moderate voice:
"It's easy to grow, and the yield is high. It must not be delicious."

At this time, the Second Lady of Qin also squeezed in from the crowd with a chicken in her left hand and a duck in her right hand, holding a fat vegetable pot in her arms. After hearing this, she went back without understanding the cause and effect:

"If good seeds yield more, so what if they are unpalatable? Anyway, I am willing to plant them, and if you don't want them, just give me the seeds."

Song Yun felt wronged, potato, what was its status in the world of the previous life?It is the Great Empire in the food desert, and it is one of the few delicacies that can be accepted by foreign tourists.

Is this the recipe of Daying Empire?No, the potatoes themselves are delicious.

Besides, if the potatoes were not tasty, would she have hoarded so many?It’s not that I bought it on purpose after anticipating time travel, it’s purely delicious and easy to make, and self-cooking people can’t live without it.

She couldn't help feeling sorry for Tudou:
"It won't be unpalatable. I don't know how many big families in Jinzhou Mansion want to buy it back at a high price, but Jin Wangye thought that if he kept more, he could make more grain seeds, so he kept it, otherwise he would not wait at all. If they don’t grow in our Qinxi County, they would have been divided up long ago.”

Different from the complete trust of the farmers, the few officials who followed Song Nian up and down to the countryside had their own ideas.

Zhang Xiancheng, who was still in a relationship with Song Nian, heard Song Nian's words so full of words that the little girl became more and more outrageous, and the flesh on her face trembled several times uncontrollably, thinking:

As for new grains, I have heard of them, and I know that Master Song's main mission in Qinxi County is to promote grains.

The imperial court has recognized it, and I also believe that this new grain variety is indeed capable, but it is a good variety, delicious and high-yielding, so what a ghost.

This thing is so good, why should it be planted in their Qinzhou mansion first?Among other things, with so many officials in the capital, wouldn't they fight for their own interests?

This idea is not wrong. If there are really huge benefits, it must be exploited layer by layer, and it will not be the turn of the remote state capital.

It’s just that the potatoes are a little different. On the one hand, the officials of the Jinzhou government assisted the King of Jin to plant so many potatoes. No matter how others can grab them, the things in the hands of the King of Jin are not so easy to grab. .

Moreover, there is a war going on in the northwest region, and border memorials are being posted on the ground one after another. Today, soldiers are wearing too thin clothes and freezing to death.

Of course, as for the military salary, it is a matter of default for everyone to be handed over. In an emergency and the politics are clear, we will save a little money. In short, we will not send them all over.

The generals are also well aware of this point. Naturally, there are policies and countermeasures at the top, and it is also reasonable to withhold part of the harvest during the war as military pay.

The Zhou family suddenly complained about the tacit understanding. Naturally, they didn't really want to offend the relevant officials. It was more likely that the ulterior motives were not drinking.

Therefore, for many officials, the high-yielding effect of the potato, which has not convinced them to believe it, has become a small piece of fat used to appease the northwest region.

Whatever Zhang Xiancheng could think of, Master Li and Qi Xianwei could also think of.

However, Director Li felt that the newly appointed boss had a backer, so he should grab some benefits before agreeing to come to Qinxi County to suffer.

But Qi Xianwei's clever mind thinks a lot.

At one moment, he wanted to deduce whether the forces behind Song Nian were more complicated than he knew. At another moment, he felt that King Jin was unfathomable, and at the same time, he felt that the Zhou family was playing a big game by planting potatoes on their side.

No wonder he is not in good health, even if the computer is overloaded, it is easy to burn out the CPU, not to mention the human brain.

No matter how much these people think, the others are very satisfied with what happened today.

After Song Nian walked around like this, he learned about the general situation in the local area, and he also promoted Tudou. Even if only half of the people believed it, it was still a lot of support.

When he returns to the county, he will ask the penholders to help with publicity, and he can win over some believable or unbelievable middle forces. There are so many people who have expectations for Tudou, and the follow-up promotion will be much more convenient.

Thinking about the time, it's time to go back and deal with other things. After Song Nian dropped the big news in the villages along the way, Shi Shi ran away with a group of people.

After they left, old man Qin thought that he would go to the county town to help the official in the near future, so he should have a good celebration.

He thought of his lame old donkey who was about to die, and wanted to grit his teeth and rent his healthy donkey from the village head's house to pull a cart to the county town.My fingers rubbed the copper plates stuffed in the belt for a while, but I was still reluctant.

In the end, old man Qin just added a dozen or so salt particles to the old donkey's feed, treating it as a toll for his long journey.

Before dawn on the second day, a dark and thin old man, driving a broken scooter slowly pulled by a lame old donkey, went to the county seat facing the newborn sun.

(End of this chapter)