Ancient Imperial Examination Daily

Chapter 768 dissatisfied

As the saying goes, there are such subordinates as there are masters.

Zhao He was dedicated to serving the country, and together with Zhao He, Qi Bokun, Minister of the Ministry of Officials, who was deeply concerned about the Great Song Dynasty, was also such a person.Therefore, since Zhao Yu ascended the throne, they discussed promoting or supporting officials through various means, all of whom were upright and dedicated to the public.

This is the case with Wu Shangshu.

If it were someone else, they might already be thinking of taking a share of the huge credit of double-cropping rice, and at the worst, they would win over Du Jinning into their own camp and use it for their own use.

Wu Shangshu didn't think so.Excited by such a mu yield, he thought about how to give Du Jinning credit so that she could create a more brilliant future for Da Song.

Du Jinning was not very satisfied with such a yield per mu.

You know, in 1958, before hybrid rice appeared, the national average annual yield per mu was about 400 kilograms.Since 1976, hybrid rice has been promoted on a large scale across the country, and the average yield per mu has increased by about 20% compared with conventional rice. In 2000, the first phase of super hybrid rice presided over by Yuan Longping produced 700 kg per mu; in 2004, the second phase yielded 800 kg per mu.By 2017, when she crossed, planting in two seasons a year, generally under better soil and air conditions, it is no problem to produce one ton of grain per mu.Of course, this refers to the yield per mu of one season of late rice.

According to the conversion of one stone in the Song Dynasty to 97 kilograms in modern times, the highest yield per mu of the first-class fields under her careful guidance and meticulous care by Song Zhuangtou and the others is less than 10 kilograms. [-]% bonus, otherwise less.

Such a yield per mu was far lower than her psychological expectations.

The problem is the fertilizers and pesticides.

Although later generations have no good impression of chemical fertilizers and pesticides, they always feel that green food without chemical fertilizers and pesticides is the healthiest.But it is undeniable that chemical fertilizers and pesticides are a powerful guarantee for increasing production and income in agricultural planting.

Because no matter how fertile the field is, it cannot withstand the demand for plants in two seasons every year, and it will become barren land after a few years of planting; in addition, the macronutrients nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium in the soil usually cannot meet the needs of crop growth. Apply fertilizers containing nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium to supplement.

At the same time, once the grain in the farmland gets sick or is infested with insects, basically there will be no production in the field, and a year's hard work will be wiped out, and farmers will fall into a vicious circle of poverty.

Although Du Jinning had a photographic memory in his previous life, he could memorize novels and how to make tofu when he was interested, and dabbled in tea planting and production, garden planting and design related to his major. She is not a chemist or a physicist.Although given her time, with the chemistry and physics knowledge she learned in high school and college, she can also tinker with fertilizers and pesticides, but it is a long-term process.

Leaving aside her relationship with Qi Muyuan, the crime of disguising herself as a man is like a knife hanging above her head and falling at any time, which prevents her from doing this job that takes several years or even ten years with peace of mind.

Please forgive her selfishness, she did not have the awareness to shed her blood for the ancient people and sacrifice her own and mother's life for them at any time.

The research of hybrid rice is the limit of what she can do.

However, this does not prevent her from giving officials of the Ministry of Industry a research direction.

She frowned, and said to Wu Shangshu: "I think the yield per mu can be improved, if the fertilizer is applied properly."

Her expression of dissatisfaction with the result greatly stimulated Wu Shangshu.

Du Jinning is still not satisfied with such a yield per mu?At this time, he is not complacent, but thinking about how to increase production?
Wu Shangshu only felt that he had received an unspeakable shock and baptism deep in his heart.

He quickly collected his thoughts and asked, "Why did Master Du say that? But what do you think?"

Du Jinning nodded: "According to my many years of experience in planting flowers and plants, I found that different plants have different needs for fertilizers; moreover, they need different fertilizers in different periods of growth. If this law can be studied, Targeted fertilization will surely increase grain production by a large margin.”

She looked at Wu Shangshu and said earnestly: "Wu Shangshu, this is a major event with great achievements in the present and future. Can you set up a special department in the Ministry of Industry and recruit a few talented people to do this?" What? I have limited energy alone, and researching rice seeds takes up all my time, so I have no skills at all.”

Although this matter needs to be reported to Zhao Wei before it can be decided, Wu Shangshu still gave Du Jinning an affirmative answer: "It's okay to set up a department, and it's okay to recruit a few people. But since you have such an idea, can you bring them along?" Area, give them a direction?"

"no problem."

Even if Wu Shangshu doesn't say it, she will bring it up when the organization is established.After all, with her as a guide, those people can avoid many detours.Under her guidance, a project that has only achieved results in dozens or hundreds of years may be effective in a few years.

Wu Shangshu looked at her, and asked tentatively, "Let them come here and take it for you?"

Afraid that Du Jinning would refuse, he hastily added: "It doesn't take up your time, you just need to tell them what to do, let them do it, you don't need to do it yourself."

If Du Jinning was a man and determined to do this, he would naturally not reject Wu Shangshu's proposal.

But she has too many secrets, and she doesn't want too many people to gather around her - although Lu Jiuyuan and the others are here, as long as she expresses that she is inconvenient to disturb, they will never come to disturb her.And they have been together for many years, and they can trust each other's character.

But those court officials are different. They are all older than her, with senior qualifications, and one or two are uncles.Furthermore, who knows if there are some people with evil intentions among them?

She immediately shook her head and said, "That's not necessary. They are all officials from the Ministry of Industry, and they are proficient in farming; I am a colleague in Runzhou, how can I guide them? When you set up a department, you don't have to write my name in it. I can’t spare too much energy to do other things. If they produce results, I don’t contribute much, and it’s not easy to bypass me when they talk about industry rewards. At that time, it will embarrass the emperor, don’t you think? So still It would have been better if I hadn't been on the team in the first place."

She smiled and said: "Wu Shangshu, don't worry, I also hope that they can research good fertilizers, so that my mu yield can be further improved. I only hope that our Song Dynasty will be good, and I will definitely not hide anything I know or have any ideas." private."

When Du Jinning said this, Wu Shangshu came to his senses.

He nodded and said, "You are right in thinking, but I didn't think carefully."

Although he would carefully consider the candidates when recruiting people to do fertilizer research, he would never accept those officials who just beep but do nothing.But it is not easy to deal with the situation that Du Jinning said, but rather the unevenness.

"Okay, then do as you said." He said.

(End of this chapter)