Ancient Imperial Examination Daily

Chapter 714 Runzhou
The next day, Du Jinning took Mrs. Chen and a group of servants and luggage, and left the capital when the city gate was just opening at dawn.

The road in Suzhou is much easier than the road from Guangxi Province to the capital.Du Jinning and his party stopped at the post station at noon before continuing on the road.In the evening, the city gate of Runzhou suddenly appeared in front of my eyes.

"It's here, Runzhou is here." Seeing the gate of Runzhou from a distance, everyone was very excited, even the horses became more energetic and ran more vigorously.

"Hey, look, isn't that Housekeeper Yao?" Zhang Songtao pointed to a figure standing in front of the city gate.

Everyone looked over there, and although it was a bit far away, they could still see the tall, thin figure with the beard that was inexplicably familiar.

"Ah, butler Yao is here to pick us up." Everyone became more and more happy.

Chen couldn't help but lift the curtain of the car and look outside.

Yao Shuqi thought he had seen them too, got on his horse and came up to meet him. He turned a corner in front of Du Jinning's horse, and said happily, "Master, you are finally here." Then he turned to Chen Shi in the carriage. Say hello.

"Is everything settled?" Du Jinning asked.

"Yes, I bought a house and a field. However, the fields near the city will not be available for a while, because I have to rush to farm, so I bought them according to your instructions, even though they are a little far away. About [-] acres of land are contiguous. There are high-grade fields, medium-grade fields and low-grade fields, and there are fifty or sixty acres of dry land. This dry land is sold together with [-] acres of high-grade fields. The master bought it."

When Yao Shuqi came, Du Jinning ordered him to buy a field.She also knows that buying a field needs to be at the right time, otherwise it will be difficult to meet a good field that can be connected together.So she once told Yao Shuqi that it doesn't matter if the price is higher, if the land is not contiguous, the price of the middle field will be raised, and three hundred acres must be taken.

The owners of those fields are not fools. Originally, an acre of high-quality land is worth ten taels of silver. If you pay thirteen or fifteen taels, they will definitely be tempted.At worst, sell this and buy it elsewhere.If you sell an acre of land here, you can buy an acre and a half over there. No fool would do such a good thing.

Of course, in order to prevent someone maliciously raising the price, there is a skill in buying these fields.Yao Shuqi was born in business and has been with Du Jinning for so long. He still has this ability, and Du Jinning is very relieved.

Knowing that Yao Shuqi bought both the house and the land, Du Jinning felt relieved.

In the first year, she did not plan to go to war, and only studied rice seeds in her own field.

In fact, she started researching rice seeds when she had some spare money and was still living in Zhuangzi behind Boyue Academy.

Hybrid rice is produced by crossing different rice species. Before hybridization, a rice with thin and degenerated stamens and shriveled and deformed anthers must be bred as the female parent, and then a sterile line, a restorer line, and a maintainer line must be bred. quite complicated.Therefore, even if Du Jinning knows the theory of how to breed hybrid rice, it still needs a very long process of research and cultivation.

Now, her experiment is infinitely close to the final result, so she dares to make a three-year plan.

However, in order to let Zhao Yu know that the rice seeds were not easy to come by, even if she obtained excellent hybrid rice seeds, she planned to hand them over before she died.In the past three years, her task has been water conservancy construction and the construction of an ecological cycle breeding system.After she uses these to increase the existing grain production and make Zhao Yu and Chao Ting fully realize the benefits of water conservancy construction and ecological cycle breeding system, she will hand over high-yielding hybrid rice seeds.

Yao Shuqi reported the situation of the field, and then he talked about the house: "The house is a good house, and the price is not expensive, but it is far away from the yamen, and it takes a meal to walk."

"It's okay." Du Jinning said, "I rarely go to the Yamen, and spend most of my time in the fields."

While speaking, a group of people had arrived at the gate of the city.Du Jinning took the road guide and government documents to the officers and soldiers guarding the city. The school lieutenant there hurriedly greeted Du Jinning and waved to the soldiers to let them go immediately.

When Du Jinning led his family into the city gate, a small soldier whispered to the captain: "It's strange, since you are a Tongzhi master, why is there no one here to greet you in the state government?"

The lieutenant glared at him: "It's all about guarding your city gates. I don't care about these things. It's your turn to take care of them?" There is always a clear distinction between civil servants and military officials.

Xiaobing didn't dare to speak anymore, stuck out his tongue, and hurried to guard the gate.

Du Jinning had already discovered this situation.It's just that when she entered the city just now, there were too many people talking, so it was difficult for her to ask Yao Shuqi.

Now that she entered the city and walked straight in, she saw that there was no one around, so she asked, "Did you inform Lord Zhizhou about my arrival in Runzhou today?"

"Notification." Yao Shuqi said, "I received the news yesterday, so I hurried to the yamen, handed in a post, and told the guard about your arrival in Runzhou today. I'm busy with personnel, so I won't come out to receive me; he already knows about your arrival in Runzhou."

Du Jinning frowned.

She is a Tongzhi from the sixth rank, and her official rank in this prefectural government is second only to the Zhizhou from the fifth rank, and she also came out of the Imperial Academy in Beijing.It stands to reason that Yao Shuqi went to inform yesterday that Zhizhou should send someone like a teacher to receive him no matter what, and shouldn't just let the guards say "Got it" and send him away; even if he doesn't come to greet him in person today, he should Send your master to welcome you.Tongzhi at the same level as her, judges, officials and other officials with lower rank than her should come here to greet her personally.

However, apart from Yao Shuqi at the gate of the city, there was no one in the yamen.

"This Cao Hongshou has a grudge against me?" She asked.

If Yao Shuqi didn't know how to inquire about something like this, it would be useless to stay by her side for so many years.

Yao Shuqi was secretly thankful that he had done his homework, and said, "I sent someone to investigate, and found that he is Jing, the brother-in-law of the director of the Ministry of Industry, Chen."

"..."

It's a small world.At the same time, it also interprets the sentence: Enemy's road is narrow.

The two were talking next to Mrs. Chen's carriage. Mrs. Chen was worried, so she couldn't help raising the curtain of the carriage and asked Du Jinning, "That Mr. Chen has a grudge against you? Doesn't he cause trouble for you when you are doing business here?"

Du Jinning laughed and explained to Mrs. Chen: "This Mr. Chen is my teacher's opponent. Later, the teacher was promoted because of me, but he was demoted, so I must have resentment towards me. But mother, you don't have to Worry, not to mention Zhizhou, but the prefect and the governor, if you dare to obstruct my research on rice seeds, the emperor will let them dismiss class without saying a word."

Mrs. Chen didn't understand anything about the court affairs, and Yao Shuqi also vaguely knew something about it.As for the word "leave get out of class", they couldn't understand even more.But they have great confidence in Du Jinning.Hearing what Du Jinning said, knowing that the Buddha would block and kill the Buddha, everyone put their hearts back in their stomachs.

(End of this chapter)