The Tang Dynasty started from saving Empress Changsun

Chapter 156 Ask the little girl about planting techniques

Chen Jingke suddenly realized, and said: "It turns out that the swordsmanship passed down by Zhang Zhennan, no wonder it is so exquisite."

Zhang Zhennan is a common name for Zhang Lu in the world, and it is considered a good name.

Now that the chatterbox was open, Chen Jingke took the initiative to chat with their brothers and sisters.

He soon discovered that this little girl named Zhang Ping didn't seem interested in any topics, and her expression changed only when she talked about food.

So he would talk a few words about food-related topics from time to time, so as not to neglect her.

"You have come to Zixiao Temple. We have the most delicious food here. We opened the Tianranju at the door. It is the first restaurant in Beijing."

"The chefs there can cook hundreds of dishes, and there are [-] or [-] signature dishes. All the royal chefs in the palace come to learn from them."

Zhang Ping's eyes lit up immediately, and he said, "The dishes yesterday were made by Tianranju?"

Chen Jingke smiled and said: "Yes, our usual food is made by the chef of Tianranju, the taste is not bad, right?"

Zhang Ping nodded heavily and said, "It's delicious, I want to eat all the dishes there."

Chen Jingke said: "Then I can only say welcome. You can eat as much as I want. If you want to eat, just order it, or tell the intellectuals in your courtyard to go to Tianranju to get it."

Zhang Heng interjected: "That's just right. In the next few days, I'm going to visit my old friend in Beijing with my lord. It's inconvenient to take her with me. How about asking Fellow Daoist Chen to take care of her for us?"

Zhang Ping's small face swelled up again, Chen Jingke looked very curious, how did she do it?
"Okay, don't worry, I guarantee that Mrs. Zhang will have a hair."

This reason is very good. It is normal to take the eldest son with you to visit the old man, but it is not in accordance with the etiquette to bring the youngest daughter.

They left as soon as they said they would, and the father and son left after breakfast, leaving Zhang Ping in the temple.

Chen Jingke had no choice but to take her around the temple, and the little girl once again showed her foodie nature.I am very interested in everything related to food, but I am not interested in anything else.

It made Chen Jingke very helpless, so he couldn't just take her to Tianranju to eat sooner or later.

However, thinking that Longhu Mountain is in Jiangxi, and the staple food there is rice, he immediately thought of one thing, and asked, "Miss Zhang, you mainly eat rice, right?"

"That's right, the rain in our place is suitable for growing rice." Zhang Ping stared at him with big eyes, as if wondering why he asked this.

Chen Jingke said: "Then do you know how to grow rice?"

Zhang Ping was even more puzzled, but still replied, "Yes, what's the matter?"

Chen Jingke said happily: "Great, I have some rice seeds here that I don't know how to plant, how about you teach me?"

Zhang Ping was a little surprised and said, "Planting rice here?"

Chen Jingke said with a smile: "I am the seed of cold rice, let alone Guanzhong, even Liaodong can be planted."

"Liaodong? Rice?" Zhang Ping put on an expression of "don't lie to me". Although she has never been there, she also knows that the cold climate is not suitable for growing rice.

Chen Jingke explained: "This is the rice cultivated for the cold climate in Liaodong...Don't worry about so much, just teach me how to grow those rice."

Although Zhang Ping was very puzzled, he still followed. Anyway, he was idle, so he might as well go and see what the so-called Handao was like.

Chen Jingke took her to the small courtyard where he lived.

Yi Nu and Yu Zhu were overjoyed when they saw him come back, and Zhang Ping beside him showed vigilance.

When Zhang Ping saw the two maids, especially Yi Nu's chest, he paused for a moment, and then looked down at himself, his face puffed up again.

Chen Jingke was unaware of this, and said: "This is Mrs. Zhang from Longhu Mountain. She is a guest in Guannei."

The two women did not dare to neglect and hurriedly saluted, Zhang Ping nodded slightly.

Chen Jingke said again: "Ms. Zhang is here to help me grow rice, you go and get the hoe and shovel."

Before the two girls moved, Zhang Ping called to them and said, "Rice seedlings need to be grown indoors first. After a month, the seedlings will grow taller, and the weather will warm up before transplanting."

Chen Jingke slapped his forehead, secretly confused.Although I have never grown rice in my previous life, I know how to transplant rice seedlings.

Since it is necessary to plant seedlings, it means that the seedlings must be raised in advance. I forgot about it when I was in a hurry today.

"Ms. Zhang laughed, I really don't understand these things. How about this, you just arrange how to do it... I don't have many seeds, only 34."

34 seeds?Zhang Ping really wanted to say that you were making trouble, but he was serious, so he said, "Well, since there are only 34 seeds, it doesn't need to be so troublesome."

"Find a few pots and fill them with soil, especially fertile soil, and put the pots in a warm and ventilated house."

Chen Jingke took Yi Nu Yuzhu and two people to make preparations. It is easy to find a few clay pots, and fertile soil is also ready-made, just use flower soil.

After a lot of work, it is finally ready.

He went to the study again and took out the wooden box containing the rice seeds, and carefully poured out the seeds inside.

As we all know, the seeds of hybrid rice will degenerate, so they cannot be reproduced again.

Simply put, half will degenerate into male sterile plants, and half will degenerate into conventional rice traits.

What Chen Jingke wants is the degraded part of conventional rice.

When cultivating cold-resistant hybrid rice, the conventional rice varieties used were specially bred cold-resistant rice.Not only is it cold-resistant, but it also has a high yield, which is much better than the uncultivated rice varieties in ancient times.

As long as this degraded conventional rice species can increase the yield by [-] to [-] catties per mu, all the land in the country will add up to an astonishing increase, and it can feed millions more people.

More importantly, this kind of rice can be grown in the Northeast. Although it has been proven that the Northeast is not suitable for growing food, it is a lie, but rice is different.

Its yield, taste and nutritional content are more suitable for large-scale planting and used as staple food.

With rice in the Northeast, it can be said that it is like a tiger with wings added.

If you only think about the Northeast, it is too narrow. This kind of excellent and high-yield conventional rice can be promoted throughout the country, and it can even be planted in the South.

We must know that the domestic rice varieties are not good at this time, including the rice varieties planted in the south. Generally, the production cycle is long and the yield is low.

It was not until the Song Dynasty that the Champa rice species was hybridized with local rice species, and a special rice species with a short production cycle and high yield was bred, that rice was really popularized on a large scale.

However, the rice produced by hybridization has a poor taste and is only eaten by the poor, while the rich still eat local rice.

The rice seeds in his hands have no shortcomings at all, except that the production cycle may be a few days longer, and there is no problem at all in terms of yield or taste.

If you want to shorten the production cycle, at worst, go to Champa rice for cultivation.Although it will reduce the taste, for the low-level people, the taste is not as important as filling their stomachs.

It can be said that the significance of these 34 seeds to this era has far exceeded itself.

What Chen Jingke has to do now is to dig out its value.

(End of this chapter)