We are going to Shanglin Garden. I heard that there are all the exotic flowers and plants that the people of the Tang Dynasty could collect.
Therefore, Yun Chu planned to go to Shanglin Garden early in the morning and stay there all day, going in from the moment it opened and not coming out until it closed.
Because time is limited, those who go there must be elite soldiers and generals.
Di Renjie was naturally elected unanimously. Ms. Cui believed that she had done a lot of business related to flowers and trees in recent years and must be selected.
Yu Xiurong heard that there was an orchid called "Acacia" in Shanglin Garden. She had long been deeply homesick for this orchid and she had to go.
Gongsun felt that it was indispensable for her to go to the Royal Garden, so she went too.
Liu Yi has served the Yun family for many years, and taking him to Shanglin Garden this time can be regarded as a reward.
As for the real experts, that is, farmers, because of their status as heads of Guizhou, they were not allowed to enter because they thought it was unlucky.
The Shanglin Garden of the Tang Dynasty was right next to Qujiang Pond. Because it could not compete with Liu Che's Shanglin Garden, which was hundreds of miles away, I don't know if it was Li Yuan or Li Er who named Shanglin Garden "Yichun Garden".
A name that smells a bit like a brothel.
Although the Shanglin Garden of the Tang Dynasty, also known as Yichun Garden, covers an area of more than a thousand acres, Yunchu still felt a little petty when standing in front of the door.
The guard at the door was Jin Wuwei. At first glance, he looked like a Jin Wuwei who was not doing well. The armor on his body obviously didn't fit, as if it had been stolen or borrowed.
The Tang sword on his waist seemed to be rusty in the scabbard. Yun Chu slapped him twice, but he still hadn't taken out the sword.
What's the problem? Only one person is allowed to enter with a waist card. What's the point? You know, Lin Ziping is bringing thirty or forty people to feast in Jinchangfang.
After enough slaps and a little more money, the Jinwu guards, whose clothes were inappropriate, allowed Yun Chu and his party to enter.
In fact, Yun Chu regretted slapping someone, which made his hands stained with some snot, which made him feel sticky. He washed his hands several times before he felt better.
If I had known that I could get through with money, I would have let that guy Lin Ziping take advantage of me.
"The purpose of our trip is seeds. As long as they are seeds that you think are useful, you can dig up anything useful and take it home. We only ask for more, not for good. I hope you will work hard and it is best to collect all the seeds in Shanglin Garden."
Get home a copy, or a few."
Yun Chu was in front of the team and made a simple mobilization statement, and everyone rushed into the royal garden with roars.
August is a good time for all autumn crops to mature. After taking a few steps, Yunchu saw long soybean clips. The soybean pods here are very different from the soybean pods seen outside. Here
There are basically three beans in the yellow bean pods. Not only are the pods more dense, but there is also an extra bean on each pod. Needless to say, this is a good thing.
The soybean pods were withered and yellow, which was a sign of maturity. If they were not picked, the beans would fall to the ground. So Yun Chu got into the soybean field and began to pick the pods frantically.
Di Renjie stood in a late-maturing wheat field. The wheat here was different from the wheat in other places in Chang'an. It matured nearly three months later. Each ear of wheat was covered with mature wheat ears. He just looked at the mature wheat ears.
, Di Renjie discovered that this should be a good wheat seed.
After picking one hundred and eighty finger-long ears of wheat, Di Renjie discovered that the words "Highland Barley" were written on the ground.
No wonder the ears of wheat here were not very similar to what he saw on weekdays, so he threw away the ears of highland barley that he had collected so hard and looked for his target again.
After Yunchu got half a basket of pea pods, he got up and went to the millet field. These millet were obviously sown after harvesting a crop of wheat.
Thinking of the sticky millet porridge, Yunchu kept cutting the half-length ears of grain with a knife.
Ripe ears of grain were very modest and always had their heads lowered. Yun Chu fought from one end of the field to the other, not sparing any of the ears of millet he had his eye on.
Yu Xiurong went to a place full of flowers early. Gongsun climbed up a fruit tree early and rode on the branch. He did not pick pears, but gnawed on the pears growing on the tree. In the end, only the pear core was left, and then moved to the battle.
battlefield.
Liu Yiguang knew that Grandpa Tian was yelling randomly and running around. He wanted everything, but in the end he was reluctant to move.
The rice in the rice field has also matured. Although Cui didn't understand why the rice matured so late, her subconscious told her that it was definitely a good thing. So she took off her shoes and socks, got into the rice field, and washed it specially.
Start with the fattest and plumpest ears of rice.
As for Naha, she went to chase the butterflies with her basket.
When Yunchu emerged from the millet field, he saw a field of snow-white cotton. He was so familiar with this stuff. He had picked cotton a lot when he was a child. Picking cotton had even become an instinct in his life.
, you can pick cotton even with your eyes closed, and you will not be pricked by the sharp thorns after drying.
This thing was Yunchu's nightmare when he was a boy.
Obviously, no one was left after picking one the day before. When I finally woke up, I saw that the sky and the earth were still white. The cotton bolls that had not bloomed last night had bloomed again.
Yunchu discovered that some cotton had been in full bloom for a while. Many cottons had not been picked in time and had turned yellow after being wetted by dew and rain.
Di Renjie happened to be passing by. Seeing that Yunchu seemed to want to kill all the cotton in the several acres of land here, he jumped down from the field to help Yunchu pick it.
"It seems that you have decided what you want to plant in Wannian County. Are you sure you want this?"
"Yes, growing cotton should be five times as profitable as growing grain."
“You grow crops that can be sold for money, and you don’t want to grow food.
Have you ever thought about some famous food strategies during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period?"
Yun Chu stood up and threw a handful of cotton with cotton seeds into the basket and said, "Are you talking about Guan Zhong's strategy of buying deer to defeat Chu?
Or was it Guan Zhong's plan to surrender silk to Luliang?
Or is it Guan Zhong's purchase of fox skins that brought him down to the throne?
Or is it Gou Jian’s method of destroying Wu with his fake seeds?”
Di Renjie said: "Both. I'm not worried about you planting things that can be sold for money in Wannian County instead of growing food. What I'm worried about is that when people find out that you're making a fortune growing cotton, everyone will want to give up on food and change it."
Plant cotton.
When the time comes, there will be insufficient food and a bumper cotton harvest, how will you deal with it?"
Yun Chu laughed and said: "At that time, I will exchange grain for cotton. Since they have nothing to eat, they can only trade a lot of cotton for the little grain I have."
Di Renjie stood up and said, "They are your colleagues, not your enemies. You shouldn't deal with them like this."
Yunchu said with a smile: "If you don't eat a grain of salt, you won't gain wisdom. Those stupid people will have a better memory after a few hungry meals. They will adjust the ratio of cotton fields to grain fields. Just like now, people have different views on mulberry fields and grain fields.
Just as the proportion of grain land is very well determined, the same goes for cotton land."
Di Renjie said sadly: "This is the idea of a dead Taoist friend rather than a poor Taoist."
Yun Chu casually grabbed the cotton and said, "No one will remember the blood lessons learned by our ancestors.
Such an obvious example, they all pretend to be invisible, what can I do, even if they are hungry in the future, they will ask for it themselves.
As for me, from the moment the cotton is sown, I will go out and buy enough food. At least there will be enough food for the 470,000 people in Wannian County to eat for a year, and then I will vigorously plant cotton.
Of course, I will not plant all the fields with cotton, I will only plant cotton on these lands in rotation.
The reason why cotton is grown is because the land in Wannian County has been cultivated for thousands of years, the fertility has declined, and there is some salt-alkali in the land. Although cotton is not the most salt-alkali tolerant crop, it is also
A crop that can effectively absorb soil salinity.
After we have planted cotton in Wannian County for a few years and let the cotton absorb the salt and alkali in the land, we will go back to growing food.
At that time, I think there must be a lot of people growing cotton. If we don’t grow it, we just buy cotton from them at a low price.”
When Di Renjie saw that Yun Chu had made up his mind and it was not like a whim, he knelt on the ground and worshiped every royal plant. Liu Yi called over and started picking cotton together.
The cotton picked by the three grown men covered the ground in a short time. The moist cotton dried quickly under the scorching sun. Then, Naha happily threw herself on top of this pile of things that looked like white clouds...
Rolling.
During lunch, Yun Chu's eyes still fell on the cotton fields. He planned to come back tomorrow and continue to pick all the cotton.
Yu Xiurong got her wish and found the orchid in the empty valley she wanted. Gongsun also got her wish and tasted every kind of fruit in the royal garden with her mouth. Especially the fruit called Pinpo fruit was her favorite, so she tasted it on the spot.
So I dug up four or five saplings of Pinpo fruit that had not yet grown up.
Yunchu thought the woman had found an apple. He had seen the pinpo fruit brought by Gongsun. After taking a bite, he realized that it had nothing to do with apples, but more like plums. It was slightly bitter and lacked the sweetness.
Mrs. Cui came back with her boss carrying a basket. When Yunchu saw the rice in her basket, he took one off, peeled it open, looked at it, and then threw it into his mouth. The rice grains were green and sticky. This should be a kind of rice.
The yield of glutinous rice may not be high, but it should be a very delicious rice.
The Yun family's paddy field on the edge of Qujiang River should be able to grow this kind of rice.
Just when a group of people were eating various delicacies from Jinchangfang in the Royal Shanglin Garden, they were preparing to take a rest before carrying out a larger-scale robbery.
Yunchu saw Emperor Li Zhi getting off the carriage, and then the curtain of the carriage opened, revealing Wu Mei's strange smile that seemed enthusiastic, but actually repelled people thousands of miles away.
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