Chapter 617: The evil reputation spreads far and wide
Before the Qingming Festival came, Fang Jun asked the emperor to take a marriage leave. Originally, according to the laws of the Tang Dynasty, the marriage leave was only nine days, but the emperor was very generous and gave Fang Jun a full month's leave with a stroke of his pen. After all, it was only a year's work.
In the spring, the new year has just begun, and the emperor is busy with all kinds of affairs. He is really afraid that Fang Jun will cause trouble in the court again, so he simply stays out of sight and out of mind. Go home and make trouble...
Fang Jun said he was happy to hear this.
If you can enjoy paid vacation at your leisure, why not?
The Ministry of Engineering has rich experience in construction matters. Fang Jun does not need to worry too much about the project of Fang Mansion. He only needs to put forward some opinions according to his own wishes. After all, the strong ancient charm of Tang Dynasty is what Fang Jun loves and is popular nowadays.
The architecture and decoration style are very suitable for Fang Jun's aesthetics.
Fang Jun focused all his energy on spring plowing and breeding.
Under Fang Jun’s teaching last year, the veteran farmers on the farm had already mastered the techniques of rice seed selection and seedling cultivation. Therefore, Fang Jun does not have to worry too much this year. He only needs to take good care of the cotton seeds he brought back from the Western Regions.
That’s it.
Relatively speaking, cotton is a crop that requires careful care in the early stages of seed selection and planting, and has high requirements for soil moisture. But when it grows up, it is very worry-free.
In fact, for the current Tang Dynasty, the role of cotton is far lower than that of grain.
Under the cultivation technology, the breeding technology is primitive, the application of fertility is insufficient, the lack of irrigation capacity... and other reasons restrict the production of food. In a good year, the people can eat well, but if there is a natural disaster,
It often leads to regional food shortages and many people die of starvation.
How to increase food production?
First, large-scale land reclamation.
After the turmoil at the end of the Sui Dynasty, people all over the world were in dire straits, people were displaced, and large areas of land were abandoned. Although the wise kings and wise ministers worked hard to resettle refugees and open up farmland during the reign of Zhenguan, many wastelands were reclaimed. However, due to the constraints of productivity and farming technology, there was still a lot of wasteland.
The land is not utilized.
If we can encourage the reclamation of wasteland and provide a certain degree of technical support, a large number of emperors will be reclaimed and grain output will definitely increase significantly.
Secondly, the construction of irrigation water conservancy.
This is a basic project. It cannot be just issued an imperial edict casually. It requires the court to have a detailed plan, invest a lot of manpower, material and financial resources, and run it unremittingly for a long time. Only after the efforts of several generations can the results be seen.
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This is the most time-consuming and energy-consuming project, but once completed, it will benefit future generations. What is needed is perseverance...
In addition, the most important point is the cultivation of grain seeds.?
As we all know, the evolution of organisms is divided into natural evolution and artificial evolution. Their dynamics depend on three basic elements, namely mutation, inheritance and selection. Heredity and mutation are the internal causes and basis of evolution, and selection determines the development direction of evolution.
In this era, people simply do not have the awareness and conditions for seed cultivation.
From a botanical perspective, any seed will naturally mutate under natural conditions, which is evolution selected by nature. However, this process is extremely slow and unpredictable because it is unconscious.
However, artificial evolution can greatly shorten the process of natural evolution, and can more accurately choose the best direction and choose the best results without human intervention. This is a conscious choice based on human needs.
Therefore, Yuan Longping's hybrid rice can enable China to feed 22% of the world's population with less than 6% of the world's arable land...
Of course, cultivating hybrid rice under the technological level of the Tang Dynasty was a fantasy, and the difficulty was absolutely hellish. However, it is absolutely possible to improve the genetic evolution of seeds through primitive means.
Fang Jun chose a piece of flat and fertile land, collected various rice and wheat seeds from all over the world through his business, and planned to plant them separately. He also appointed specialized personnel to record the characteristics, advantages and disadvantages of each crop, and compare them with each other.
for reference.
At the same time, Fang Jun came to Sinong Temple.
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"The Book of Han·Hundred Officials and Officials List" already has the term "Nine Qings", that is, the Tianguan Zhongzai, the local official Situ, the spring official Zongbo, the summer official Sima, the autumn official Sikou, the winter official Sikong, the young master, and the young master.
The general name of Shaobao. By the time of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the Shaofu was called Jiuqing, also known as Jiusi Daqing.
In the Northern Qi Dynasty, Shaofu was renamed Taifu, Tingwei was called Dali, official offices were called temples, and officers were called ministers. This was followed in the Sui and Tang Dynasties.
Sinong Qing is one of the Nine Qings.
The functions of Jiuqing are slightly closer to those of the six ministers of later generations. However, since the Wei and Jin Dynasties, most administrative positions have been held by ministers. Jiuqing is under the jurisdiction of only part of the original positions. The power and status are no longer the same as before.
Sinong Temple is located within the Imperial City, on the west side of Chengtianmen Street, across the street from Shangshu Province, and adjacent to Youwuwei.
When Fang Jun arrived at Sinong Temple, he handed over his name card and asked to see Sinong Qing Dou Jing. When the doorkeeper saw Fang Jun's name, he was so excited that he welcomed Fang Jun into the porter's room with a smile and served him hot tea.
, and then ran quickly to report to the superior...
No wonder he was so nervous, it was really because Fang Jun had such a "bad reputation"...
From any point of view, Fang Jun and Sinong Temple have nothing to do with each other, and they have no relationship whatsoever. Then this stick stick came to the door and asked the superior by name, it is most likely a personal grudge.
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Shu Zuo was scared to death by the word "private grudge". Everyone in Chang'an city didn't know Fang Jun's temper. If anyone offended him, the emperor would not be able to protect him! If our head of state had a "private grudge" with Fang Jun,
, what should we do?
You must know that our Sinongqing Dou Jing is almost seventy, and Fang Erlang's iron bowl-like fists hit him a few times...
Old God Fang Jun was waiting in the concierge, took a sip of tea, and then vomited it on the ground in disgust. Naturally, he didn't know that he had become a sinister figure in Shu Zuo's eyes, and he hurriedly informed Dou Jing that it was a good idea to leave...
In the check-in room, Dou Jing stared blankly at the name card in front of her, and was frightened by Shu Zuo.
"Sir, you'd better evacuate quickly! Just go through the back door. Fang Jun doesn't know if you are in the official residence. I will go and tell you that you have left later. I believe he will not catch up with you."
Are you making trouble?"
"But...why did I want to escape?" Dou Jing was confused by this secretary.
Fang Jun is indeed fierce. Dou Jing has always heard of the famous name of Bang Chui, but he couldn't think of any time when he had any dealings with Fang Erlang, who had both a literary and fierce reputation.
No more...
Shu Zuo was stunned and asked: "Aren't you here to cause trouble?"
Dou Jing scolded angrily: "I have no acquaintance with that Fang Jun, let alone have any contact with me. Why does he want to cause trouble for me? Although Fang Jun has a bad temper, he is not an unreasonable person. Even if there are some
The dissatisfaction must be a misunderstanding. Just break it down into a few sentences. Why don't you go and invite people in immediately?"
Seeing Shu Zuo turn around and go out, Dou Jing hurriedly gave another instruction: "Have a better attitude..."
Although she didn't think Fang Jun was here to cause any trouble, Dou Jing still felt a little fussy because of the evil reputation of this young master...
Shu Zuo responded, but he was cursing in his heart: How dare I have a bad attitude? That guy is a ghost in Chang'an City. He even dares to beat the prince and his ministers. If he is angered, he will tear our bones apart.
There is no room for reasoning...
Returning to the concierge, Shu Zuo bowed his head and smiled flatteringly: "Erlang, the Lord of the Temple has invited you."
Fang Jun hummed, stood up and walked towards the door, but suddenly stopped, pointed at the teacup on the table and said, "This tea is terrible."
In my two lifetimes, I have never drank such terrible tea! My throat is now sticky and uncomfortable...
He just complained casually, but he didn't want to kill Shu Zuo!
"Pfft", he knelt on the ground, trembling like chaff, and begged for mercy: "Erlang, spare your life... This is what the Lord Si Qing meant. He said that our poor yamen has no money and water, and there are not many distinguished guests coming to the door, so just prepare some loose tea."
Just think what you mean... There is always a wrongdoer and a debtor. If you have a grudge against Si Qing, just go to Si Qing and let me go..."
Fang Jun was stunned, with a black line on his face.
Our reputation has become so bad that we think we are looking for trouble when we come to our door?