Daming: I, the emperor who trains the carpenter

Chapter 525 Hybrid rice, these years of Xu Guangqi!

repair bridges and pave roads
Today's capital has already undergone earth-shaking changes. The once chaotic streets are now well-organized. In addition, there are also special markets where countless vendors sell their goods.

Clothing stores, poultry stores, vegetables, all kinds of dried fruits, salted fish, bacon, fresh pork, soybean oil.

The grain harvest is now largely over.

People have spare money and deposits, and they are willing to spend.

Today, in the capital, a new community has begun to be built nearby.

Mainly near the factory, Zhang Haogu promoted the development of some real estate companies, and asked them to start building communities, imitating the small buildings where the censors lived. of.

If it wasn't for the conditions, Zhang Haogu would like to provide you with central heating in the farm.

There are special real estate companies to design, and currently, workers are basically the ones who can live in it.

These people are either steel factory workers or workshop workers. Although they still have a piece of land in the farm, since they come out to work, the annual dividends they can get from the land will naturally decrease accordingly.

However, since they are all out to work, they must earn more than being a farmer.

The more Zhu Gongyun looked at it, the more shocked he was, that his land had already been donated.

If the logistics does not make money, then I will really lose a lot.

However, looking at this posture, it is impossible not to make money.

Now, Zhu Gongyan has already started to think about how to buy the carriages. He has also seen the road built by the capital, which can accommodate at least four carriages going side by side.

Left and right, at least eight or two carriages.

What Zhu Gongyun felt was shock. These people were crazy about building roads. Moreover, they also had to pay tolls, which were charged according to the weight of the transportation.

Even so, it is a huge financial gain.

Businessmen should also protect the issued invoices, because they can be tax deducted at the end of the year.

Zhang Haogu is not afraid that the road he built is broken or something. Now the imperial court is basically transported by horse-drawn carriages. It is a great thing to be able to transport one ton, which is simply incomparable with the cars of later generations.

Wait until the car comes out?
Zhang Haogu felt that it would be more practical for Zhu Youxiao to get the steam train out quickly.

After Zhu Gongyou inspected it, his mind settled down.

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However, when Zhu Gongyun was about to invest, Xu Guangqi was about to leave for Liaodong.

Yongding County

Ministry of Agriculture, near a test field.

Zhang Haogu saw Xu Guangqi who was covered in mud. This little old man seemed to be getting old in the past few years, but his spirit became more and more energetic.

At the beginning, when Xu Guangqi was sick at home, Zhang Haogu served as Minister of the Ministry of Industry and Minister of the Ministry of Households alone. He didn't have any idle time and directly brought Xu Guangqi over to serve as Minister of the Ministry of Industry.

You have to agree even if you don't agree.

Xu Guangqi had no choice but to serve as Minister of the Ministry of Industry honestly. Now that he has entered the cabinet, he can be described as an extremely human minister.

However, this little old man rarely participated in the government affairs of the imperial court. Zhang Haogu was basically in charge of the internal affairs. The task he gave Xu Guangqi was to start with agriculture.

Working hard with Xu Guangqi, and Song Yingxing, work hard.

Most of the time is wasted on the land.

His main job is breeding.

Grow wheat seeds, grow rice seeds.

In fact, breeding, this is nothing new.

Chinese farmers have always had the habit of breeding.

It is usually the method of single plant and single panicle selection.As the saying goes, "one plant is passed on", "one ear is all together".It is to select a few individual plants with excellent characteristics from a large number of individual plants, harvest and store them separately, and then sow them separately, conduct comparative experiments, eliminate bad ones, and select good ones.

Farmers always use the plump and suitable seeds for their seeds.Although this method lacks a systematic scientific plan, it naturally plays a certain role in improving the nature of organisms in the long-term selection process and creates many crop varieties.

But Zhang Haogu was not polite at all, and pulled Xu Guangqi to come up with a systematic and scientific method.

For several consecutive years, Xu Guangqi has bred many new and excellent varieties. The selection time of a single plant is short, the effect is fast, it can be done in large quantities, and the technology is relatively easy to master.

However, in addition to this, Zhang Haogu still proposed other methods.

For example, the hybridization method, allowing rice and sorghum to be hybridized.

Why does rice need higher temperature and humidity?Nothing else, just because rice has been sown in the paddy fields in the south for a long time and is used to this condition.So as soon as a seed is sown on colder land, it dies.

But this habit and heredity can also be gradually changed.

Now Xu Guangqi has successfully produced a large area of ​​rice in the experimental field in Yongding County, and the yield is quite good, reaching about 180 catties per mu.

This is already quite good.

Although it is incomparable to the 400 to 500 kilograms of later generations, Yuan Lao's hybrid rice can reach more than 300 kilograms.

But, finally, there is progress, isn't it?
In addition, Xu Guangqi still wrote a lot of notes, and Zhang Haogu also made people start to organize them into a book, which became a must-read book for the Ministry of Agriculture.

At the same time, Zhang Haogu also proposed an idea.

Assume boldly, argue carefully.

What Xu Guangqi wrote may not be right. You must learn to question, but, in addition to questioning, you must be careful in argumentation. After making achievements, you will be rewarded.

"Old Xu, are you going to the northeast?"

Zhang Haogu had a look of astonishment on his face: "Why do you want to go to the Northeast?"

Xu Guangqi nodded: "Yuanfu, do you still remember that you mentioned to me about planting rice in the Northeast? I want to go to the Northeast to try planting rice. If it succeeds, then the whole Liaodong will be a fertile land full of grain. , the world is at peace!"

"If you go to the northeast, it will be a place of bitter cold!"

Zhang Haogu thought for a while and said: "If you want to go, I will not stop you, but your safety must be guaranteed. Although the Jurchens are locked up in Liaodong now, we are not sure about the Jurchens. When will it come out to harass, I will arrange a part of the new army to protect your safety!"

"This..." Xu Guangqi couldn't help being slightly taken aback: "Arrange new troops?"

Zhang Haogu nodded: "It is to arrange for the new army. I support you to go to the Northeast, but safety comes first. You are a national treasure of my Ming Dynasty. I cannot let you be in any danger!"

Xu Guangqi was stunned, and pointed to his nose: "Me? The national treasure of Ming Dynasty?"

(End of this chapter)