Princess of the auxiliary country

Chapter 135; Preparation for spring plowing

"Well raised."

Manager Wang and his family were very happy to receive her praise.

"You don't dare to take credit, it's all thanks to the methods given by the princess."

In response, Huo Junyao just smiled. After seeing the little pig, she did not stay in the Wang family courtyard for long.

"By the way, Manager Wang's family has done a good job in raising pigs. You can go to Aunt Xi and give them a hundred coins as a reward from me."

As soon as he returned to the small courtyard of the villa and sat down, Huo Junyao looked at Xiaochan beside him and gave instructions.

When Xiaochan retreated, she finished a cup of tea, got up and went to the study. The new year had already begun, and spring would begin soon. She still had a lot of things to do this year.

It wasn't until the evening when she heard Xiaochan reminding her that it was time to eat that she temporarily put down the work at hand.

After leaving the study, she arrived at the dining room. As soon as she sat down, she turned to look at Xiaochan and said, "It seems that spring is about to begin. You will arrange for someone to go to the Huangzhuang later and ask Manager Zhao to come over tomorrow." .”

In ancient times, mulberry farming was the most important thing, and spring plowing was the top priority in the country. Therefore, even if she had a lot to do, it would have to wait until after spring plowing.

What she was busy in the study just now was about spring plowing.

I also asked Xiaochan about the main crops of this generation in Chang'an.

Chang'an is located in Guanzhong, and the current main food crops are wheat, followed by millet, soybeans and the like.

However, judging from the current farming situation in Yu Dynasty, these are obviously not her top priorities.

As mentioned before, farming here is still very backward. At present, the yield of wheat is only one or two stones per mu, and the yield of millet and soybeans is even worse.

She can't stand such an output.

At present, her farm has already taken out the corn, so there is no need to hide it. Compared with the yield of one or two stones per mu of wheat, her corn yield has almost doubled several times.

One stone in Yu Dynasty was 120 kilograms, and the yield of corn per mu was conservatively estimated to be over [-] kilograms.

Therefore, she planned to grow mainly corn on her small imperial farm, followed by wheat, millet and soybeans.

As for the other food seeds in her APP, she has no plans to release them yet. After all, it is difficult to explain too many things at once.

In addition to crops, she also asked about farm tools.

She was a little speechless when she learned that straight-shaft plows were still being used here. After all, this thing was really laborious and thankless. Fortunately, there was a farm tools section in her APP. Although she couldn't directly pull it out of thin air, she had already copied the gourd's picture and copied it into a song. Still no problem at all with the shaft plow.

With the curved shaft plow, the speed of plowing the land will be greatly increased, which can greatly save time. When the spring plowing is completed, the earthen kiln for burning bricks and the paper workshop will be started immediately.

The former is for the bankers in the imperial village, and the latter is naturally aimed at the nobles.

She has not forgotten the things that disgusted her in front of the Zheng family.

However, she was still a little worried about dealing with the nobles. During this period, she had been asking a lot about the nobles in the capital.

The power of these guys is not small, and they have always been domineering among the people. She can see this from the disgusting Zheng family.

After all, she is also a princess, and there is a duke and the eldest princess standing behind her. The Zheng family dares to do this, which shows how arrogant they are.

In the words of her second brother, if the noble clan really united, even the emperor would be wary of it.

With such a tyrannical force, if she were to handle the paper alone, she would probably be a little overwhelmed.

Even if she gave part of the shares to her eldest sister and the Fang family, this might not be enough of a deterrent.

After thinking about it for a while, she felt that she still needed to go to the palace and recruit someone to join her. The next day, Manager Zhao from the Imperial Manor came early in the morning.

Huo Junyao didn't waste any time and directly ordered, "I have other plans to grow the grain that I need for spring farming in Huangzhuang."

Then she talked about corn. When he heard that she mainly cultivated corn, Manager Zhao frowned slightly.

"May I ask the princess, what is this corn?"

"It's a kind of grain. The yield per mu can be at least [-] kilograms. I have planted some of it on my farm, which is equivalent to one cent of land."

"Wang Xia, please take Guan Zhao to have a look first."

Wang Xia hurriedly walked in from outside and took Manager Zhao out without letting Manager Zhao continue to ask.

Only after leaving the room did Manager Zhao come back to his senses.

Just now, he was stunned by Huo Junyao's statement that the yield per mu was more than [-] kilograms.

"Miss Wangxia, is this corn really what the princess said?"

"If the princess can say this, it must be true, and only a little more."

She has been in charge of things in the greenhouse in the past few months, and corn is naturally the one she takes care of. Although she doesn't know much about this new crop, she still has a good eye.

The fruit, which is bigger than a child's forearm, is very cute just looking at it.

The weight was definitely not low, and she also saw the corn kernels inside the fruit, which were bigger than soybeans.

According to her estimate, that corn would be close to a pound at least.

The harvested corn from their farmland would definitely weigh no less than one stone.

When Manager Zhao finished visiting the corn greenhouse, he was still in a daze when he returned to the living room.

He was also born as a farmer, so Wang Xia could see things clearly. Naturally, he could see it more clearly, but he just didn't know how the corn tasted?
"Have you seen it all? As for the convenience of taste, I have prepared it for you."

After saying that, Xiaochan walked in with a food box from outside.

Take out two plates of things from inside.

On the first plate were two fresh whole corns, which she had broken off from the greenhouse in the morning. Although they were not yet fully mature, they were still edible when cooked with water, but the texture would be a little worse.

The other plate was a portion of dried corn she bought from the APP last night, and had someone grind it into corn flour in the morning to make corn cakes.

The corn in both plates is yellow-orange.

Seeing these two things, Manager Zhao immediately recognized what was on the first plate. Wasn't it the corn he saw in the greenhouse just now?

It's just that he didn't recognize the other plate of pancakes.

"This plate of pancakes is made by drying corn and grinding it into corn flour. Manager Zhao, please try both."

Hearing this, Manager Zhao quickly raised his hands and saluted, and then each tasted it. Although the taste was not very good, it was full of flavor and felt full.

For a person born as a farmer, he doesn’t have much pursuit of taste. After all, even if the corn tastes bad, can it be worse than bran wild vegetable dumplings?

"Take these back to the Imperial Village, explain them clearly to the farmers, and let them all have a taste."

(End of this chapter)