farming female castellan

Chapter 261 Caused a Sensation Again
In addition to the people in Changping Township, Zhang Ci and Bai Ce also recruited people from several surrounding counties to work on the reservoir.The brick kiln has been burning bricks, and Huang Shao, lime and stones have been continuously transported from other places.

Soon at the end of March, the seedling fields everywhere were plowed and water storage began.

The academy announced a three-day busy holiday, and asked the students to go home and help their families plant rice seedlings.

Zhang Ci asked the group of adult students: "Do you all know how to transplant rice seedlings?"

Some said yes, some said no, and some showed disdain.

Zhang Ci looked serious: "If you look down on the people, you don't need to read this book, and you will not be sympathetic to the people as an official."

Zhang Yu refused to accept: "It is not necessary to go to the land in person to be compassionate to the people."

"Only by cultivating by yourself can you experience the hard work and understand the sufferings of the people. The Holy Majesty also performs the plowing ceremony, and the Queen also performs the silkworm ceremony. Are you more honorable than the Holy Majesty and the Empress?"

Zhang Yu loudly defended: "I have no intention of belittling the empress."

"This is homework. Write down your feelings about transplanting rice seedlings and your thoughts on plowing the fields and give them to me." After Zhang Ci finished speaking, he got up and walked out.

All the students packed up their things and left.When meeting Cui Yunlang and others, Zhang Yu couldn't help saying: "Can Mr. Cui know how to plant rice seedlings?"

Cui Yunlang smiled lightly: "You want to teach me how to do things?"

Zhang Yu couldn't answer.

The children in Xiangjun's mansion took off their shoes and socks and went to the fields to plant rice seedlings.Liu Dingkang and Liu Chenfeng did not hesitate, nor did Yang Yun. Yang Hong stood on the ridge of the field and did not go to the field for a long time.

"You are the younger brother and sister of Lord Changping, why do you want to plant the seedlings yourself?"

Chen Dahan didn't hesitate to think: "We don't have any grades, so naturally we have to work."

Chen Zhonglin took a look at Yang Hong: "You don't need Mr. Yang to work on those fields of the Yang family."

The children stopped talking and planted rice seedlings in silence.It's really because they are not proficient, and they don't care about talking while working.Even if there are a few people from poor backgrounds, they were not the main labor force in planting rice seedlings in the family before, and the planting was not fast.

When the seedlings were planted all the way, the children were so tired that they sat on the field ridge, looking at their sore fingers.

Chen Zhongyan glanced at Yang Hong: "If you don't hurry up, you will be left here to plant rice seedlings by yourself later."

Yang Hong was surprised: "Why do you have to plant rice seedlings?"

Chen Zhongyan raised his eyebrows: "We can plant rice seedlings, why can't you?"

Yang Hong was speechless.

When it was time to go to the field again, Yang Hong flinched and went into the water, and immediately grinned.

"Don't worry, the fields are plowed very carefully, and there is nothing to prick your feet. I will be by your side." Chen Zhongyan's seemingly comforting words made Yang Hong tremble.

He was a little afraid of Chen Zhongyan.

Chen Zhongyan explained it to him, and he clumsily poked a few seedlings into the mud.As soon as he poked a row, he frowned.My fingers hurt so much.

Chen Zhongyan glanced at him: "It's ten times more painful for a woman to give birth than this."

"You know all of this?" Yang Hong was surprised.

"I have read a lot of books and have seen a lot. I also know that it was very difficult for your mother to give birth to your brothers and sisters." Chen Zhongyan planted two rows of seedlings and stopped to wait for him.

Yang Hong's movements were unfavorable, and Chen Zhongyan gave some pointers from time to time.

Cui Yunlang and the others were busy at the reservoir, and Chen Fan went to the pasture.

The location of the ranch is in the west, close to the mountains and forests in Yong'an County.The pasture on the ground is very lush, and one stubble has been cut to feed chickens and pigs to the people, or as green manure.

Logging teams are selectively logging every day.Those that can be transplanted are transplanted, those that can be built into furniture are made into beam and column furniture, and those that can be made into paper are left to be made into paper... The forest areas that have been cut down have formed a large distance, which can allow horses to run.

Planting rice seedlings and harvesting rice is very tiring, and the children are less chattering and eat dinner quietly.A few younger ones seemed to be unable to hold chopsticks steadily.

"Taking a hot bath at night, doing a few stretches, and rubbing each other will save you from going to the ground tomorrow," Chen Fan said.

The children all laughed happily.

Zhang Ci flipped through the students' articles, selected two, and asked the two of them to read them, let everyone comment, and he gave advice.Then, choose two more articles for everyone to comment on; choose another two articles... After all the students' articles have been evaluated, everyone is deeply inspired.

After the seedlings were planted, Chen Fan arranged for people to plant sesame seeds.

As Eargrass approached, the wheat could be harvested, so Chen Fan took the children back to Wangjiadun.

The work of harvesting wheat is contracted, and the children don't have to go to the fields.Yang Hong breathed a sigh of relief, but felt that something was missing in his heart.

The flowers on the other side of the flower gallery are in full bloom, even in the busy season, there is an endless stream of people under the flower gallery.

"It would be great if Changping Township also had a flower gallery." Yang Yun was very yearning.

"Where is the best place to build it?" Chen Fan asked her.

"It should be built on the side of the academy, so you can see it both when you get out of school and after school." Yang Yun said.

"If many people look at the flowers, it will be very noisy at the academy." Chen Ya had a different opinion.

"Build it on the side of the main road at Qijiadu, and it would be good to form a market there." Chen Yue suggested.

"It can also be built in Kaiyun Village and Youyi Village."...

There are many small peaches growing on the peach trees, and the pear trees are also bearing fruit. Everyone is running around in the forest.

Because the land was transformed from saline-alkali land, the Chen family's nine-acre wheat field has received widespread attention.Hong Feng and the others were divided into two shifts, guarding the wheat fields day and night.

This time, no one came to grab the grain and make trouble. The wheat was harvested, threshed, dried, and cleaned smoothly.Once weighed, the yield per mu is [-] jin!It is even higher than last year's rice yield!
That's wheat. In the past, two or three hundred catties would be fine, but four hundred catties would be too much.Now wheat can actually harvest a thousand catties?
Wangjiadun was boiling, and so was Yuanfeng County.The county magistrate Shi brought the officials of the county government over, and Zhang Ci also brought Bai Ce back.

"My lord, how do you arrange the delivery of wheat seeds?" Zhang Ci asked Shi County Magistrate.

The wheat seeds must be dedicated to the court.The total is only nine thousand catties, how much to offer?

County magistrate Shi threw his beard and said, "If the 84 mu of land that the township lord bought in Qijiadu were all planted with wheat, these wheat seeds would not be enough. The [-] mu of salt-reformed land is completely acceptable."

Zhang Ci laughed: "Only 84 acres are planted, when will the wheat production in Yuanfeng County increase?"

"Other places in Yuanfeng County also need to grow some." Shi County Magistrate said, "The staple food in the north is wheat, and the Holy One definitely hopes that the north can grow more high-yield wheat varieties."

"Half?" Zhang Ci asked him.

"Could it be too little?" Magistrate Shi felt uneasy.

"Let's deliver the letter first. The imperial court will send people over, and we don't have enough manpower to escort them," Zhang Ci said.

No need to wait for the letter from the county government or the township government to arrive, the capital received the news on the same day.

The production is making a splash again.

Emperor Xuan strictly guarded Lu Jingong and ordered him to take 200 people to Yuanfeng County to transport wheat seeds.

Yan Shoulu was puzzled: "It's only [-] catties of wheat seeds, how many people are needed?"

(End of this chapter)