Chapter 202： ask

  Except Mu Yangling, it was the first time for everyone to eat corn, Qi Haoran said pertinently: "It's delicious, I didn't raise my throat."

Fan Zijin asked: "Is it because you are still tender?"

Mu Yangling nodded, "I can still eat like this for about ten days. The corn ages very quickly. At that time, I can only take it back and dry it, peel off the corn kernels, crush it and cook the corn porridge to eat." Mu Yangling thought After thinking about it, he still said: "But I think it should be better for pigs to eat this."

My aunt stared and said, "Whose pig is so blessed to be able to eat corn? No matter how unpalatable this corn is, it can't be worse than bran, right? Who hasn't eaten bran for a few months every year when the green and yellow are not picked up? "

Niang Shu also nodded, "If this thing can be used as food to fill the stomach, it can indeed save a lot of people. Don't say anything about feeding pigs, so that outsiders will misunderstand."

Finally, Qi Haoran took a basket of corn from Mu Yangling and asked someone to send it to Qi Xiuyuan.

Qi Haoran's original intention was to let the eldest brother have a taste of it, but Qi Xiuyuan called the person back overnight, and specially asked the messenger to bring Fan Zijin and Mu Yangling with him.

Mu Yangling had just finished watering the wheat and rice fields, and was about to sleep peacefully, but he was pulled up after lying down. Hearing that he was going to Fucheng, Mu Yangling immediately refused, "I have to be at home, in the middle of the night, if My family was burglarized, my family is old and old, weak and weak, what's wrong with the little ones at home?"

Qi Haoran glared and said, "I asked someone to stand guard at the door, who would dare to bump up like that? Hurry up, my eldest brother is waiting in the palace."

Mu Yangling could only get up, put on some clothes, and climbed onto the horse in a confused manner.

Qi Haoran saw that although Mu Yangling's eyes were half-closed, he didn't sway while walking, and he was impressed by her ability, so he jumped on the horse and ran first.

Fan Zijin followed behind him.

As soon as the horse ran, Mu Yangling woke up, and the three of them went to the palace city under the protection of a team of guards.

From Mingshui County to Fucheng, it only took half an hour to ride a horse, and the few people used the token Qi Xiuyuan gave Qi Haoran along the way to let them open the city gate.

Qi Xiuyuan was sitting in the study waiting for them, and there were food and drinks on the table.

The three of them ran for half an hour, all the sleepy worms woke up, and the three of them stood in a row in front of Qi Xiuyuan.

Qi Xiuyuan was gnawing on a corn cobs in his hand. When he saw a few people coming in, he put down the corn cobs and looked at them carefully. The three of them, Mu Yangling was only ten years old, and Fan Zijin and Qi Haoran were only thirteen years old. Thinking of what these three children did, Qi Xiuyuan couldn't help laughing happily, clapping his hands and saying, "Yes, yes, I looked down on you before."

The three children were all a little nervous, peeking at Qi Xiuyuan tremblingly, winking with the people next to them from time to time, and greeting each other, "Have you done anything bad recently?"

Qi Xiuyuan turned his back, took out a raw corn from the basket on the table, turned and asked them, "You guys made this?"

The three of them looked at each other, and finally Qi Haoran was the first to nod to recognize it. Seeing the smile on Qi Xiuyuan's mouth, Qi Haoran's intuition was not a bad thing, so he boasted: "Brother, this kind of seed was brought over by Zhuang Dawei, and Mu Yangling took it and planted it. These are the ones I picked out and sent to you to try them out."

"I know, I asked Feibai, and I heard Feibai say that A Ling's corn can bear two cobs, and all the cobs are this big?"

"It's definitely not possible for all of them to be this big, but it's almost the same," Mu Yangling looked at Qi Xiuyuan's face and said, "Because the emergence rate of corn this year is a little lower, so it's a little thin, and the top dressing is good enough. That's why the cob is so big."

"Then will you be able to replant so well next year?"

"Next year, with experience and time to prepare basal fertilizer, it should be better than this year."

Qi Xiuyuan raised the corner of his mouth and asked, "Then you can estimate, how much can one mu of your corn field produce?"

Mu Yangling's eyes were dazed. She was farming for the first time, did she get back an estimate? Now I can roughly estimate how big a piece of land can be.

On the other hand, Fan Zijin pondered for a while and then said: "Big cousin, I have looked carefully. If there is no accident, the yield per mu should be between five and six hundred."

Qi Xiuyuan clenched the corn in his hand instantly and asked, "What if we cultivate in the best land?"

Fan Zijin calculated in his heart and said, "That should be about seven or eight hundred pounds."

"During the drought this year, how many times have you watered the corn?" Qi Xiuyuan asked Mu Yangling.

"One, once," Mu Yangling said: "Corn is a drought-tolerant crop, in fact, it doesn't need special watering."

Qi Xiuyuan's eyes brightened, "Who knows about the corn planting in your place? Has the news of the high corn yield spread out?"

Fan Zijin already had a vague guess in his heart, only Qi Haoran and Mu Yangling were still confused.

Mu Yangling shook his head and said, "Except for the Liu family in our village and Chaoxi Village, no one knows that my field is corn, because my aunt doesn't have much confidence in corn, and everyone doesn't know that corn will yield high yields. , That piece of land is in the middle of my family's land, near the mountain, there is only my family's land, and no one passes by there."

In ancient times, the land was vast and sparsely populated, and the news was lagging behind, so apart from this village and my uncle, no one really knew that she grew corn. Even in the Liu family, only the people from Liu Daqian and Liu Erqian knew.

Qi Xiuyuan was completely relieved, and said to Mu Yangling: "I want you to save all the corn harvested this time as seeds. Next year, 50% of all military fields must be planted with corn, and Yongye Field must also have corn. 40% plant it."

Fan Zijin's face changed slightly and asked, "Big cousin, is there a natural disaster?"

Qi Haoran also reacted, "Is there still a war?"

Qi Xiuyuan looked outside, the guards guarding him outside the study room, and he could be sure that their conversation was safe. He sighed and said, "The natural disaster has already begun, and the war has already begun. In addition to the severe drought in Xingzhou this year, there are also people in Hongzhou. It hasn't rained for two months, but the Jinghu area has been raining intermittently from April to now, and it hasn't been sunny for seven consecutive days. Hongzhou and Jinghu are both major grain-producing places, and four of the grains shipped to the North in previous years From these two places."

The three of them widened their eyes. They only knew that Xingzhou Mansion was sad, but they didn't expect other places to be the same.

Qi Xiuyuan added: "This year, the Jin Kingdom is only worse than us. After the Jin soldiers occupied Jingzhao Mansion and Hanzhong Mansion, they forced the people to enclose the land for grazing, ruining a lot of fertile fields. The food they harvested there was less than 30% of what it was in previous years. , And in the spring of this year, rabbits are flooding, and most of the pastures have been ruined. I heard that a lot of cattle and sheep starved to death. Since April, refugees have appeared. Jin Bing is now at war with Xixia, but the situation worsens. In order to obtain more food and resources, they might drag Da Zhou in as well."