My whole family was in exile, and I relied on my space to buy half of my country.

Chapter 290 Wild rice breeding fails
Cui Shangshu remained silent.

With the current situation in the DPRK, the emperor would not dare to send troops to Lingnan.

The reason why they attacked Lingnan again and again was just to use Lingnan's troops to deal with Xirong and relieve the capital's urgent needs.

Unless something changes...

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Although he was busy preparing war supplies, Jiang Tangtang did not miss the matter of sea rice.

After observing for three days and nights, the wild rice in the space finally matured. Jiang Tangtang took a handful of harvested wild rice, shelled it, and boiled it in a pot to taste the taste.

The wild rice grown in the space is darker in color and tastes very good. It is stickier than ordinary rice, but not as good as glutinous rice.

Of course, it may also be due to the absorption of spiritual energy in space. Ordinary wild rice does not have such a taste.

But no matter how it tastes, what is certain is that this wild rice can be eaten and grown.

If the tidal flats on the seaside can be planted, part of the food problem can be solved.

Jiang Tangtang divided the remaining wild rice into two parts, one part was planted in the space, and the other part was sent to Xiao Xian to plant in the experimental field on the tidal flat.

But Jiang Tangtang, who had always relied on space to thrive in planting, encountered a problem this time.

Wild rice, found on the coast, works very well when grown in space.

But when seeds grown in space were planted in tidal flats, they encountered problems.

Half of the seeds died, and the other half sprouted, but did not grow well either.

After Jiang Tangtang heard the news, he made a special trip to the bay where the experimental field was located.

"Farmers who are good at farming said that the rice they planted seemed to have been burned. They wondered if it was too hot."

Xiao Xian was a little troubled. He suspected that he was not suitable for growing wild rice.

Jiang Tangtang frowned as he looked at the seedlings in the field.

Seeds that are usually cultivated in space will be less susceptible to diseases and insect pests and produce higher yields if they are planted in the ground.

But not this time. Is this any different from usual?

After Jiang Tangtang carefully observed the seedlings and broken seeds in the field, he had a bold guess in his mind.

These seeds should not be able to adapt to the special environment of the tidal flat.

So what if we simulate the tidal flat environment during space planting?
Jiang Tangtang couldn't wait to return to space to try it out, but seeing the self-doubt on Xiao Xian's face, and thinking about Lu Shiyan's recent military outings, which were short of manpower, she rolled her eyes and talked to Xiao Xian about their ship. Being robbed at sea.

In this era, transportation is inconvenient and information circulation is slow.

Xiao Xian didn't know what happened at sea.

He was a little shocked. He didn't expect Jiang Tangtang to tell him such an important thing.

Jiang Tangtang said: "Have you ever thought that everyone has their own area of ​​expertise? Maybe that's the area you're good at. You're in... It's not that you're not good at agriculture, but I think it's a bit unfair. Farming It’s not difficult to learn, but not everyone can learn to hold a sword.”

"Xiao Xian, please follow your wife's orders." Xiao Xian bowed his hands, knelt on the ground and saluted Jiang Tangtang heavily.

"Take my seal and take Peng Yang and the others to the dock to find the general."

After Xiao Xian took the people away, Jiang Tangtang wrote another letter and asked Pigeon to deliver the letter to Lu Shiyan.

Jiang Tangtang temporarily lived in the bay.When no one was paying attention at night, she took Lili and moved a lot of seawater and mud from the tidal flats into the space, and entered the space to conduct experiments.

She set up two experimental fields. One used mud from the tidal flats and a small amount of seawater to completely imitate the environment of the tidal flats to grow wild rice.

Another is to convert fields planted with wild rice into seawater irrigation.

In fantasy, the wild rice in the two experimental fields grows almost the same.It seems that in space, whether it is tidal flats or seawater irrigation, it has little impact on wild rice.

We can only wait until this wave of wild rice planting matures and take it to the experimental fields in the bay for trial planting to know the final results.

While Jiang Tangtang was experimenting in space, farmers in the bay planting fields were also exploring how to grow crops on the beachside tidal flats.

The farmers did not make any breakthrough in rice cultivation, but they accidentally discovered the Suaeda salsa that Jiang Tangtang was looking for.

This wild vegetable is much easier to grow than wild rice.

The farmers cooked soup with Suaeda and shrimps caught from the seaside and delivered it to Jiang Tangtang.

"Madam, we have nothing to entertain you, so don't dislike it. These are the wild vegetables we found in the fields. You can try the soup we cooked."

A few simple farmers gave the bowl with the most shrimps to Jiang Tangtang.

There's a drought this year, and this is the best they can get.But instead of enjoying it himself, he gave it to Jiang Tangtang like a treasure.

Jiang Tangtang felt very sad when he saw it.

She sat down, tasted the bowl of soup carefully, and then commented: "It's delicious."

The farmers who brought the soup all laughed, as if it was a great thing to be praised by Jiang Tangtang.

"Madam, if you like to eat, I will catch shrimps and cook them tomorrow." A dark-skinned woman said, "I have planted a large field of wild vegetables. In a few days, there will be endless wild vegetables to eat."

It seems that being able to eat wild vegetables is a very happy thing.

Jiang Tangtang endured the sadness and said: "Then I will bring meat over next time and make dumplings with wild vegetables to eat."

The woman wanted to refuse, but her throat was filled with fluid.Last year during the Chinese New Year, their family ate dumplings.

Thanks to the kindness of my wife, who took them in, gave them land to plant, and gave them so much help, their family was lucky enough to have a meal of dumplings during the Chinese New Year.

In the past, in Dazhou, we were so busy throughout the year that we couldn't even have a meal of white rice during the New Year.Not to mention dumplings wrapped in meat.

This year has been a bad year, with severe drought everywhere.

But the woman doesn't feel any pain either.

At least no one in their family has starved to death. Madam is still thinking of ways to make things better.

She felt everyone's trust in her and the hope that was pressing on her.For the first time, Jiang Tangtang felt that he had a heavy responsibility.

I am also more and more interested in the two new experimental fields established by the space. I go into the space every day when I have free time to observe the cultivation of wild rice.

While Jiang Tangtang was keenly paying attention to the growth of wild rice, Lu Shiyan transferred Xie Xin to Lingnan to take charge, and he led his troops out to sea.

The changes in Lingnan's military strength were also immediately caught by various forces that had been keeping a close eye on Lingnan.

Cui Shangshu immediately became active.

(End of this chapter)