Unlucky Emperor!
What a waste!
You've ruined the good seedlings like this, don't you want to transplant them?
You are not inserting, you are pulling out.
"Your Majesty!"
Chen Zhen couldn't hold it back and still screamed.
"Why do you love me?"
Liu Chan asked casually.
"Didn't Your Majesty want to plant the rice seedlings?" Chen Zhen asked doubtfully: "Why did you pull out all the rice seedlings?"
Chen Zhen served as the prefect of Wenshan and Qianwei, and he knew the importance of food.
Watching Liu Chan pull out the healthy and well-proportioned seedlings like this, he felt really distressed.
"Not to pull them out?" Liu Chan said with a smile: "If you don't pull them out first, how do you want me to plant the rice seedlings?"
It’s terrible to be uneducated.
Liu Chan didn't bother to explain more and continued to pull out the seedlings unscrupulously.
It won’t take a while.
A small patch of seedlings was pulled out cleanly by Liu Chan, and the uprooted seedlings were tied into bundles.
Then Liu Chan asked the three Zhang family members to follow him carrying the bundled seedlings and walked towards the idle paddy field in front.
Fei Yi, Chen Zhen and the others also followed.
On the field ridge in the distance, there were more than a dozen nearby villagers standing. They had seen Liu Chan planting small seedlings here a month ago.
Liu Chan told them at that time that he would come back in a month to teach them how to plant big rice seedlings.
It’s exactly one month now.
Liu Chan is really back.
When he arrived at this idle paddy field, Liu Chan threw the bundled seedlings into the field nearby.
Then go straight down to the paddy fields.
"Look carefully!" Liu Chan said to the three Zhang family members: "The small seedlings are small, so the distance between them is very small. Now that the big rice seedlings are much bigger, the distance between them must be wider."
As he spoke, Liu Chan grabbed a bundle of seedlings and inserted them into the paddy field one by one. The distance between each seedling was about the distance of a chopstick.
This puzzled Chen Zhen, Fei Yi, and the nearby villagers. Isn't it a waste of resources if the distance between hearts is so wide?
Although they have doubts.
However, no one stood up to correct Liu Chan, because Liu Chan just said that this was a new method of rice cultivation.
Liu Chan may have sensed everyone's doubts, so he explained while planting the rice seedlings.
"The purpose of maintaining spacing between seedlings is to allow each seedling to absorb enough nutrients. If the spacing is too crowded, some seedlings will be over-nourished and some will be malnourished."
Liu Chan laughed as he spoke: "You may not understand it now, but when the rice is harvested in a few months, you will understand the truth."
Liu Chan planted two more rows of rice seedlings. The Zhang family had already understood the steps of transplanting rice seedlings, so they all went to the field and imitated Liu Chan in planting rice seedlings.
Transplanting rice seedlings is not a technical job, and you can basically master it after reading it twice.
After Liu Chan's guidance, I quickly became very proficient in the three steps.
Liu Chan could have ended here.
Because he is the emperor.
It is not easy for the emperor to set an example for everyone.
But today Liu Chan is in high spirits. Even though the three parts have already gone to the fields, he has no intention of stopping and calling it a day.
This made Fei Yi and Chen Zhen feel a little embarrassed.
The emperor works in the fields.
The two of them stood on the ridge of the field and watched like uncles, which seemed a little unreasonable.
The two of them looked at each other, then rolled up their trouser legs and went down to the fields.
The emperor, ministers, and ministers all went to work in the fields, and the soldiers on the shore and the people watching also responded one after another.
Soon, except for some who stayed on guard, everyone else rolled up their trouser legs and got out of the field.
Everyone was soon working in full swing, some were responsible for pulling out the seedlings, and some were responsible for transplanting the seedlings.
There really is strength in numbers.
It took more than two hours, and one acre of paddy field was already filled with seedlings.
When the last seedling is planted in the field.
Liu Chan felt more comfortable.
On the other hand, Chen Zhen, the minister, who was over sixty years old, was sweating profusely and his back and legs ached from exhaustion.
Liu Chan felt a little sorry for him. After all, at such an old age, Liu Chan did not return to the city immediately after planting the rice seedlings. Instead, he stayed in the small courtyard and let the three tribes of the Zhang family cook some farm food.
It's better to take this opportunity to let Chen Zhen have a good rest.
After lunch, Liu Chan gave a brief explanation to the three Zhang family members, roughly how to take care of that one acre of rice field.
When to fertilize.
When to remember to weed?
After making these arrangements, Liu Chan and his party left for Chengdu.
Liu Chan was sitting in the dragon chariot, feeling very comfortable.
Rice planting will see results soon.
Maybe they won't understand now.
But it won’t be long before his method of growing rice will be widely promoted.
This is why he deliberately brought Chen Zhen and Fei Yi here today.
Although they didn't say anything when they planted the rice seedlings just now, Liu Chan could feel that they did not believe that this planting method would increase rice yield.
They only thought of it as playing with the emperor.
As long as the emperor is happy.
Besides——
The emperor personally went to the fields to cultivate the land. If this matter spreads, the Han Dynasty will definitely gain more support from the people.
If the Prime Minister finds out about this by then.
I will definitely praise them and help them with merit.
As for the grain harvest.
It is impossible for them to hope that the one-third of an acre planted by the emperor can fill the granary of the Han Dynasty.
But Liu Chan doesn't care.
Time will tell.
When the rice matures in a few months, the harvest in front of them will make their eyes light up.
That's enough.
After leaving the city and returning to the palace this time, Liu Chan became much more honest, and even the time spent going to the broken courtyard was reduced a lot.
Liu Chan originally thought that he would have nothing to do in the harem anyway.
I spend all day reading, studying, practicing marksmanship, or just getting tired of my wife.
It would be better to find another opportunity to sneak out of Chengdu and take a trip to Qingcheng Mountain to see the training results of the soldiers and the progress of the refined salt refining department prepared by Zhuge Qiao.
Just when Liu Chan had this idea, Zhuge Qiao sent Liu Chan good news.
After more than a month of hard work, the first phase of the Salt Refining Division project was completed.
Zhuge Qiao said in his letter that he placed the salt refining department in a mountain col.
It is surrounded by mountains, and he has arranged for guards to guard the top of the mountain and all entrances and exits leading to the mountain col.
Choosing Shan'ao, Zhuge Qiao thought that boiling salt would produce smoke, which would be easily detected by outsiders, but this trouble could be avoided in Shan'ao.
When the smoke rises, the top of the mountain will not be exposed. The smoke has dissipated. As long as soldiers are placed on the surrounding hills to guard it, the method of refining the refined salt will be difficult to leak out.
At present, he has built some houses in the mountain col and has begun refining refined salt in small batches.
Along with the letter, sent to Liu Chan was a bag of refined salt they refined, weighing almost thirty kilograms.
Liu Chan was a little excited. He opened the bag and saw that it was really pure salt as white as sand.
"Bosong sincerely lives up to me!"
Liu Chan sent this bag of refined salt to the imperial kitchen, so that he could finally eat food cooked with refined salt.
This——
It’s just one of the joys.
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This chapter has been completed!