Ancient Imperial Examination Daily

Chapter 866 Rice Fields
"Princess, don't worry, everything in the field will be done according to the princess's order, and I dare not slack off in the slightest." Song Zhuang said.

Du Jinning led them to plant the high-yield rice that caused a sensation in the Song Dynasty, and made everyone in Zhuangzi go out with their heads held high and respected. The tenant farmers who had surrendered to Du Jinning were even more grateful to Du Jinning.

Now, Du Jinning has become a princess, her status is so honorable that everyone is scared, and everyone has moved to the root of the imperial city, and has become a member of the Royal Princess Zhuangzi. The gratitude and awe to Du Jinning has doubled.

Not to mention that Du Jinning's order was very correct, but to tell these peasants who valued the fields more than their lives to uproot the rice that was about to mature, they all executed it immediately without blinking their eyes.

"Has the fish ditch been dug?" Du Jinning asked again.

"It's all done." Song Zhuang said, "It's all according to the standards you set before."

This is the benefit of using a skilled hand.Don't worry too much about yourself.

"Let's go and have a look." Du Jinning took the lead.

She knows that Songzhuangtou is reliable in his work, not to mention that there are officials from the Ministry of Industry to watch them work, and her orders will be carried out to the letter. After all, she and the Ministry of Industry will have to deal with each other after a quarter. Zhao He and the courtiers handed in a satisfactory answer sheet.

But it's not her style to just listen to the reports of her servants and not to see and verify them with her own eyes.

Du Jinning, the eldest princess, was obtained by her ability, and she didn't need to use clothing, accessories, guards of honor and other things to gain the respect of others.

So when she came today, she knew she was going to go to the fields. Although she was dressed as a woman, she was wearing clothes that were comfortable for walking and going to the fields.

The two ladies-in-waiting, Rong Li and Pei Li, have returned to the palace, and what Du Jinning brought today is the maid who will follow her in the future.

Both Aoki and Akagi's names came from "Mu", and she named her maid from "He". These two maids, one named Chun He and the other Xia He, were both very down-to-earth names.

Chunhe and Xiahe were bought by Qin Lao Liu from Ren Yazi. After buying them, he taught martial arts and various skills. Although he was young, only fifteen or sixteen years old, his military strength was stronger than Du Jinning. He is also clever.

It would be more difficult for ordinary maids to go to the fields with Du Jinning. The two of them followed Du Jinning, but nothing happened, and they could still take care of Du Jinning's actions and safety.

With the maid, the servant can't be left behind either. Aoki and Akagi still follow Du Jinning to protect Du Jinning's safety and do some errands.

These four servants are the standard equipment for Du Jinning to go out.Back home, Qingmu and Chimu do not enter the inner courtyard, and there are two servant girls, Qiuhe and Donghe, who take Chunhe and Xiahe's shift.

But now patrolling the fields, only two servant girls followed, and the two young servants had already avoided the crowd to exchange rice seeds.

It is impossible to inspect all of the [-] mu of land. Du Jinning took a look at a few places and found that he had indeed followed his orders. The fields were plowed deep enough and the fish ditches were dug according to the size she requested.

After watching the field, she went to see the nursery field again.The seedling field is selected from the upper field, the soil quality is fine, and the field must be plowed finer and more evenly.

"Daddy Wang, Songzhuangtou, and Daddy Qin, the three of you are in charge of raising seedlings," Du Jinning said.

"Yes." The three old men knelt down together, crying for a moment.

When Du Jinning disappeared, Wu Zheng asked them to plant rice, but in the end, the yield decreased every season. They did not know how much pressure they had to bear. Day and night, they worried that the whole family would be beheaded.

Now that Du Jinning is back, they have finally found their backbone again, and they don't have to worry as much as before.

The three of them are familiar with each other. Father Wang and Father Qin even followed Du Jinning when she went to the capital for the Jinshi examination. They all mastered the advanced seedling raising methods very well, and they also knew that the success or failure of this time was related to everyone's life and future. The three of them were meticulous in their work and strictly followed Du Jinning's instructions.

In order to avoid the situation where Du Jinning had an accident and the high-yield rice had problems, after discussing with Du Jinning, Zhao Wei adopted the method of voluntary registration and Du Jinning's approval, and selected four officials in their 30s and [-]s from the Ministry of Industry to learn from Du Jinning , and helped Du Jinning cultivate rice seeds.

Who doesn't know that following Du Jinning to develop this high-yield rice is easy to get results and easy to get promoted?
Officials like them, after being admitted as a Jinshi and entering an official, start as a seventh-rank official. They have no background, no background, and no outstanding achievements. If they want to climb up to the fifth rank, there are four steps. Only when there is an empty seat can one be promoted to one level, and it may not be possible to be promoted to the fourth rank in 30 or [-] years.

But if the high-yield rice in the next season is successfully restored, it is appropriate for the four officials who followed Du Jinning to be promoted to a higher level.If the output can be higher in the future, the official rank will definitely rise.

Didn't see Du Jinning relying on this, the crime of deceiving the emperor was not prosecuted, and he got a princess as a princess?That was a step up to the sky.Even if she is a man, they have heard the comments of the ministers before, and they want to promote Du Jinning to the third rank.

So there are quite a lot of people who signed up to learn from Du Jinning.

Du Jinning was impatient and brought a shit stick to her research team, and asked Qi Muyuan to check the background and personalities of these officials, and finally settled on the four officials in front of him.

These four are basically technical nerds, that is, they are dedicated to research, have no other small thoughts, and their personalities are not very withdrawn and difficult to get along with.

After these four officials were picked out, they stayed in Zhuangzi, communicated with Song Zhuangtou and the others, and supervised them to do a good job in spring plowing.

They had met Du Jinning in advance, and today they knew that Du Jinning was coming to the field, so they came early and waited.Now that Du Jinning was inspecting the fields, they all followed obediently.

Du Jinning turned around and came back, then went back to the house left by the Zhang family, glanced at Aoki standing on the porch, Aoki nodded slightly to her.

Du Jinning felt relieved and asked the officials following her, "Where are the seeds?"

The official quickly took out the key from his body, opened a room, pushed open the door and said, "It's here. After the Ministry of Industry sent someone to bring it over, it was locked all the time, and the lower official held the key, and no one dared to let anyone in again. "

Du Jinning nodded, went in to look at the rice seeds, and ordered Song Zhuangtou and the others to sort out the seeds.

Seed selection is a very important link. It is necessary to select full rice seeds for seedling cultivation, so that the planted rice will be strong.

"Princess, do you want these rice seeds too?" an official asked puzzledly.

He was referring to the rice seeds that Wu Shangshu and the others planted more and more shriveled millet.

Du Jinning nodded: "These are raised separately from the other." After a pause, she patiently explained to the four officials, "High-yield rice is actually hybrid rice, that is, the mother rice with degraded pollen but normal pistil. Seeds that can only be obtained through artificial assisted pollination."

The male sterile hybrid rice she had previously bred would not produce rice without artificial pollination.Wu Shangshu's failure is inevitable.

In the future, she will breed maintainer rice.This kind of rice can be reproduced from generation to generation, and seeds can be obtained without crossing again and again.

　Transitional chapters are the most difficult to write. Every time I write this kind of chapters, I get stuck.There is only one update today, sorry

　　
　
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