Ancient Imperial Examination Daily

Chapter 610 The Ministry of Industry's Response

As the first batch of people who dared to eat crabs, Guo Bai has grown up in his own farm now, showing a great interest in farming that delights Master Guo and the head of the village.

The rice sprouted from the axils, the sprouts grew up, and the rice ears grew, all of which surprised Guo Bai.He is like a big child who found a toy that suits his mind, and ran to the farm all day long, and because of this, he met many people who came to watch the regenerated rice, and made a few good friends.

"Haha, I didn't expect to get such a reward from reading a storybook. It's unbelievable." Guo Bai looked at the barn full of newly harvested rice, and couldn't contain his excitement.

Huang Chen, Guo Bai's new friend, rubbed his chin and asked, "Tell me, who is this person who wrote the scripts? If he is an old farmer, how can he write scripts? If he is a scholar, how can he?" He knows how to farm and has come up with such a good method? If he has such ability, why didn’t he go to work in the Ministry of Industry instead of writing the method in his script so that everyone can learn it?”

The five or six people present frowned.

They also have such questions.

I want to read the story book, and know that ratooning rice can really be planted and have huge harvests. No one does not have these questions in their minds.

"This must be a hermit, a true hermit who wants to benefit the public and is unwilling to leave a name." A person said in a very sure tone.

Although everyone held firm opinions on this statement, no one raised objections.

After all, they have already achieved this step, and they really don't leave a name. It's really hard to say what kind of intentions this person has.

"I'm going to buy two more sets of scripts, keep them well, and pass them on as family heirlooms to future generations." A man who thought farther ahead said.

"Yes, yes, I also have this idea." The other echoed, "Although there are many agricultural books, some agricultural books are quite useful, and you can learn a lot about farming after reading them. But such books, even people like me They can't even read it, let alone children? The story book "Chang Tian Ji" is different. It makes people's blood boil after reading it, and they can't bear to put it down. After reading it unconsciously, they can't wait to try the methods taught in the book immediately. Give it a try. What is teaching with fun? This is teaching with fun. I really need to let the old guys from the Imperial College take a good look at it, lest they always think that I am the best in the world."

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Although compared with the population of the entire capital, there are not many people who love to read story books, and even fewer people like Guo Bai paid attention to "Chang Tian Ji", and those who are interested in exploring the ratooning rice written in the book are less.

But as mentioned above, anyone with a little money at home will buy land and land as a stable investment.These people may not read the script, but the changes in the rice fields cannot be hidden from their eyes.

Everyone's farmland is in the outskirts, passing by in a carriage, it is possible to suddenly find a field with green seedlings growing in the harvested rice field, which makes people with fields at home can't help getting out of the car to ask what happened.Some responsible farm heads, when they see other farms planted with rattan rice, will naturally run over to ask what happened, and then report to the owner.

So it was spread to ten, ten to hundreds, and more and more people knew about ratooning rice, which led everyone to become interested in "Chang Tian Ji" and went to bookstores to buy books.And with the harvest of ratooning rice, this book caused a great sensation in the capital.The [-] copies that Zhuang Yue printed were already sold out, and another [-] copies were printed, which were not enough to sell.After Zhuang Yue consulted Du Jinning, he continued to print.

This book and the successful planting of ratooned rice in the paddy field finally attracted the attention of the officials of the Ministry of Industry.

"The agricultural knowledge quoted in "Chang Tian Ji" is very accurate, and the idea of ​​ratooning rice is even more incredible, and it has been proved to be successful. The person who wrote the storybook is amazing." One of the officials said.

"Yeah, I really don't know who wrote this script. Tell me, it can't be someone from our Ministry of Industry, right?"

Everyone scoffed at the latter statement: "How is it possible?"

Their Ministry of Industry really has such talents, and they have already made suggestions to the emperor by citing scriptures on the ground in the stronghold to obtain great political achievements. How can they be an unknown hero?Don't you all want to climb up when you become an official?Although climbing up is not necessarily for power and money, but there is no capable person who does not want to stand taller and see farther.That means that your right to speak has become stronger, and you can better implement your own policy, instead of listening to someone who is not as capable as you to dictate blindly on your head.

Guan Lehe held a copy of "Farming the Field", looked at the words on it, frowned slightly, thoughtful.

"Why, Master Guan, what do you think?" A colleague asked.

Guan Lehe came back to his senses, and said with a smile: "I think the appearance of the regenerated rice is a great thing for our Song Dynasty. We have to report it to the emperor."

At this time, Mr. Chen, who had been silent for a long time, said: "Everyone is happy for this story, but I think it is not a good thing. There is a saying in "Hanshu": "Buying is very expensive and hurting the people; it is very cheap, Injury to the peasants. Injury to the people will lead to dispersal, and injury to farmers will lead to poverty in the country.' It can be seen that more rice production is not a good thing. Whether to promote ratooning rice needs to be cautious. The author of this story did not pass through our Ministry of Industry, so he published it without permission. The article led to an increase in food production and caused the people to follow suit. In my opinion, his behavior has constituted a crime of disrupting state affairs. I suggest that we send people to control him and report to the Holy Majesty before dealing with him."

After hearing this, everyone looked at each other in blank dismay.

Everyone felt that Mr. Chen's words were wrong, but they couldn't offer any rebuttal opinions.

"Boss Chen's words are too alarmist." Guan Lehe looked at him and said coldly, "I haven't heard that the increase in grain production is not a good thing, but a bad thing."

"I didn't hear that you are ignorant." Mr. Chen snorted coldly, "The low price of grain hurts the farmers. It has existed in ancient times. With the increase of grain production, the price of rice will naturally fall. Food, but can’t be sold at a price, do you think this is a good thing or a bad thing?”

"..."

The officials present were lost in thought.

Seeing that everyone was being questioned by him, Mr. Chen became more and more proud.

He said: "The words were printed and sold without the approval of the government. It has a great impact. I don't know what the consequences will be in the future. This matter must be known to the emperor."

When he said this, he glanced at the old minister of the Ministry of Industry, but he secretly made up his mind that he would ask his brother to play Ming Shengshang when he went to court tomorrow.

He has a low rank and is not qualified to go to court, otherwise how could he give the credit to his brother?
At this time, the Minister of the Ministry of Industry said: "This matter needs to be cautious, and the emperor will not disturb it for the time being. I will wait until I find out the matter and discuss it internally before making a statement."

(End of this chapter)