Repair bridges and pave roads

Today's capital has also undergone earth-shaking changes. The formerly chaotic streets are now orderly. In addition, there are special markets where countless vendors sell their goods.

Clothing stores, poultry stores, vegetables, various dried fruits, salted fish, bacon, fresh pork, and soybean oil.

Now the grain harvest is basically over.

Now that people have spare money and savings in their hands, they are willing to spend money.

Nowadays, in the capital, brand new communities are beginning to be built nearby.

Mainly near the factory, Zhang Haogu promoted the development of some real estate companies and asked them to start building communities modeled on the small buildings where the censors and magistrates lived. They were all designed as five-story communities, which were specifically open to the common people. of.

If conditions didn't allow for this, Zhang Haogu would have wanted to provide you with central heating on the farm.

There is a special real estate company to carry out the design, and currently the people who can live in it are basically workers.

These people are either workers in steel factories or workshops. Although they still have a share of land on the farm, since they work out of the farm, the annual dividends they can receive will naturally be reduced accordingly.

However, since they all go out to work, they will definitely earn more than being a farmer.

The more Zhu Gongzhen saw it, the more shocked he became. His land had been donated.

If logistics does not make money, then you will really suffer a big loss.

However, looking at this posture, it is impossible not to make money.

Now, Zhu Gongzhen had begun to think about how he was going to buy a carriage. He also saw that the road built by the capital could accommodate at least four carriages traveling side by side.

There are at least eight taels of carriages left and right.

What Zhu Gongzhen felt was shock. These people were simply building roads like crazy. Moreover, they also had to build tolls and collect tolls based on the weight of the transportation.

Even so, this is a huge financial revenue.

Merchants should also protect the invoices issued because they can be tax deducted at the end of the year.

Zhang Haogu is not afraid that the road he built will be damaged or something else. Nowadays, the imperial court basically uses horse-drawn carriages for transportation. Being able to transport one ton is considered a great achievement. It is simply incomparable with the cars of later generations.

Wait until the car comes out?

Zhang Haogu actually felt that it would be more practical to ask Zhu Youxiao to quickly build the steam train.

After Zhu Gongzhen made some inspections, he made up his mind.

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However, just when Zhu Gongzhen was preparing to invest, Xu Guangqi was preparing to leave for Liaodong.

Yongding County

Ministry of Agriculture, near an experimental field.

Zhang Haogu saw Xu Guangqi, who was covered in mud. This little old man seemed to have aged over the past few years, but he was becoming more energetic.

At the beginning, Xu Guangqi was ill at home, and Zhang Haogu served as the Minister of the Ministry of Industry and the Minister of the Ministry of Households. He was not idle at all and directly promoted Xu Guangqi to serve as the Minister of the Ministry of Industry.

You have to agree even if you don’t agree.

Xu Guangqi had no choice but to serve as the minister of the Ministry of Industry. Now he has entered the cabinet and can be said to be a very popular minister.

However, this little old man rarely participated in the government affairs of the court. The internal affairs were basically handled by Zhang Haogu. The task he gave Xu Guangqi was to start with agriculture.

Also working hard with Xu Guangqi is Song Yingxing, so work hard.

Most of the time is wasted on the land.

His main job is breeding.

Cultivate wheat seeds, cultivate rice seeds.

In fact, breeding is nothing new.

Chinese farmers have always had the habit of breeding.

It is usually a method of selecting seeds per plant or ear. As the so-called "one plant" or "one ear" is used, individual plants with excellent characteristics are selected from a large number of individual plants, harvested and stored separately, and then sown separately in the future.

Conduct comparative experiments, eliminate the bad ones, and select the good ones.

Farmers always sow seeds with plump seeds that meet their own needs. Although this approach lacks a systematic and scientific plan, in the long-term selection process, it naturally plays a certain role in improving the nature of organisms, and also plays a role in improving the nature of organisms.

Many crop varieties were created.

However, Zhang Haogu was not polite at all and led Xu Guangqi to come up with a systematic and scientific method.

Over the past few years, Xu Guangqi has cultivated many new and excellent varieties. The selection time of a single plant is short, the effect is fast, it can be done in large quantities, and the technology is easier to master.

However, in addition, Zhang Haogu still proposed other methods.

For example, the hybridization method involves crossing rice and sorghum.

Why does rice need higher temperatures and humidity? It's not anything else. It's just because rice has been sown in paddy fields in the south for a long time and is accustomed to such conditions. Therefore, it will die as soon as it is sown on colder land.

But this habit and heredity can also be gradually changed.

Today, Xu Guangqi has successfully produced a large area of ​​rice in the experimental field in Yongding County, and the yield is also quite good, with a yield of about 180 kilograms per mu.

This is already quite good.

Although it is incomparable to later generations, which often weighed more than 400 kilograms to more than 500 kilograms, Yuan Lao's hybrid rice can reach more than 1,300 kilograms.

However, there is finally progress, right?

In addition, Xu Guangqi still wrote a lot of notes, and Zhang Haogu also asked people to start compiling them into books, which became a must-read book for the Ministry of Agriculture.

At the same time, Zhang Haogu also put forward ideas.

Make bold assumptions and be careful with your arguments.

What Xu Guangqi wrote may not be correct. You must learn to question it. However, in addition to questioning, you must be careful with your arguments. After you make achievements, you will be rewarded.

"Old Xu, are you planning to go to the Northeast?"

Zhang Haogu had a look of astonishment on his face: "Why are you thinking about going to the Northeast?"

Xu Guangqi nodded: "Yuanfu, do you still remember that you told me about planting rice in the Northeast before? I want to go to the Northeast to try planting rice. If I can succeed, then the entire Liaodong will be a fertile land with a lot of food.

, the world is at peace!”

"If you go to the Northeast, it's a bitter and cold place!"

Zhang Haogu thought for a while and said: "If you want to go, I won't stop you, but your safety must be guaranteed. Although the Jurchens are now locked up in Liaodong, we are not sure about the Jurchens."

When will you come out to harass, I will arrange a part of the new army to protect your safety!"

"This..." Xu Guangqi couldn't help being slightly stunned: "Arrange a new army?"

Zhang Haogu nodded: "It's just to arrange the new army. I support you going to the Northeast. However, safety comes first. You are a national treasure of my Ming Dynasty. I can't let you be in any danger!"
Chapter completed!