Chapter 780： ear of rice

   The little bear took out the contents of the brocade box and put it aside, took out his little dagger and put it in, happily showing off to his father, "Dad, is it so beautiful?"

Qi Haoran rolled his eyes, turned his head to Mu Yangling and said, "Why hasn't the child's speech problem been corrected yet?" He turned to his son and said, "You don't need to add 'Ok' to ask if you are beautiful, just ask 'Are you beautiful?' That's it."

Little Bear asked persistently, "Is it beautiful?"

Qi Haoran nodded, "Pretty."

Mu Yangling picked up the grain skewer placed on the couch and asked, "Where did this come from? How did you put it in the brocade box?"

"It was given by someone from Luodian," Qi Haoran curled his lips, "what does it mean to send a bunch of grains? Could it be that he wants to donate rations to the army of the Lord? It would be better if he wrote the list and handed it over, he had to pretend. A bunch of grains came to fool the master, hum, the master ignored them."

Qi Haoran doesn't understand Luo Dianren's expression, but he knows that his momentum cannot be weak at any time, so even if he doesn't understand, he doesn't ask. If he really intends to come back, he will ask Mr. Qian. Who knows that the brocade box was occupied by his son first. .

But Mu Yangling is not Qi Haoran. She is very concerned about things in the farmland. In addition to the No. 1 dry rice from Beidi, she also asked people to collect the harvesting conditions of No. 1 dry rice from various places. Among them, the steward below sent them. sample of cereal skewers.

Mu Yangling rubbed his fingers lightly, crushed the husk, squeezed a grain of rice from it, put it in his mouth and tasted it carefully. It tastes better.

Mu Yangling looked at the number of grain skewers, weighed the weight, and said, "He is showing you the seeds."

Mu Yangling put Gu Chuan on the table and said to Li Chun: "Go to my small study and bring the data and Gu Chuan that the stewards sent last time."

Mu Yangling showed the data to Qi Haoran, and opened the box by himself. It was full of grain skewers, and there were labels on them. Mu Yangling placed the grain skewers on the table one by one, and put them aside for comparison. After Haoran read the data, and then looked at the skewers on the table, he couldn't help but narrow his eyes.

Lichun muttered: "It's not much different, it looks about the same."

Mu Yangling smiled and said, "Then you should count them carefully to see how many grains there are."

Li Chun and Gu Yu looked at each other, took the grain skewers and counted them. The grain skewers were all about the same length. At first glance, there was really no difference, but a closer comparison showed that the ones sent by Luo Dian were half a finger longer than theirs. Counting down the grains one by one, not a single string of so many grain skewers could be delivered across Luodian.

Lichun sent the things back and whispered: "The most has eight more than us, and the least has four more."

"It's just a few grains of rice, but it's actually not too much." Gu Yu didn't understand why the princess insisted on going up and down with a bunch of grains.

Mu Yangling said: "There are four to eight more grains in just one bunch of grains. Do you know how many bunches of rice ears there are in one mu of land? The advantage of Dry Rice No. 1 is that it is drought tolerant but has high yield. Under the same conditions, its mu The yield is about 12 catties higher than the traditional rice seeds we sowed before. This is the data calculated from the comparison of nearly 10,000 mu of rice fields. One mu is more than 12 catties. How many kilos do you have?"

Mu Yangling took a deep breath and said, "And the grain skewers that Luo Dian brought out are better than ours, which means that our unit price is not only twelve kilograms, but can be higher, but I don't know this kind of grain. How are the planting conditions and stability of the seed, if it can be compared with ordinary grains, even if it is not as good as the No. 1 dry rice, it can increase the income of the people and the national treasury a lot."

Qi Haoran is not stupid, Mu Yangling understood as soon as he said it, he picked up the bunch of grain skewers and narrowed his eyes slightly, "No wonder I put a bunch of grain skewers in a brocade box worth hundreds of gold, so that's what it meant. "

Mu Yangling nodded, "It's worthy of a brocade box. Go and meet the people in Naluo Temple. I think they must know that we are promoting the No. 1 Dry Rice and that we attach great importance to grain production, so Specially selected gifts that would be of interest to us."

"So much trouble must be asking for something, but even if this grain string is valuable, what should I do if I am still unhappy?" Qi Haoran snorted: "They just think we will beg them for grain seeds, so they dare to contact them first. Bear."

Mu Yangling smiled and said: "It may be easy for Luo Dian to hide other things, but it is impossible to hide rice seeds. Don't forget, Luo Dian also belongs to my Daqi, and now Daqi is exempted. Taxes, but next year is the last year, at the latest, they have to pay taxes on grains. Could it be that they have not planted rice seeds in order to prevent us from getting rice seeds? So we also have an advantage, but it is only one late Just plant it every year.”

Qi Haoran was stingy and said, "I've lost a lot of food in one year."

According to Al-Ling’s calculation just now, an extra 12 catties per mu, one million mu equals 1.2 million catties of grain, how many things can be done?

Qi Haoran held Gu Chuan and summoned Liu Qing, Xu Zhi and Mr. Qian overnight.

Liu Qing held the bunches of grains in his hands to compare them with Xu Zhizhou himself, and then went to look at the data of No. 1 Dry Rice. Xu Zhizhou's eyes shone brightly. He knew that this year's grain income was good, but he thought it was because of good weather. After all, this year, except for the drought in the beginning of the spring, the rain and sunshine are still timely at other times.

But these data comparisons made by Wangfu show that under the same conditions, the average yield of Upland No. 1 is 12 kilograms higher than the traditional rice seed. What if it is the higher-yielding Luodian rice seed?

Xu Zhizhou asked anxiously: "My lord, did the people in Luodian say what the conditions are for the sowing of this rice seed?"

Qi Haoran glanced at him and said, "Didn't you meet the people in Luodian?"

Xu Zhizhou choked and turned to look at Liu Qing. Liu Qing thought more than Xu Zhizhou. He knew how long and how much the Mu family paid to develop the Handao No. 1. This thing is because Mu Yangling Yes, she voluntarily sold the rice seeds for the sake of Daqi, but that doesn't mean that other people have the courage like her.

Liu Qing asked: "I don't know what the Luodian wants."

Finally someone understood, Qi Haoran sat on the chair with his robe up, and said, "I haven't seen them yet, so the conditions haven't started yet. The master called you here just to ask your opinions. If this rice seed arrives. Whether we can grow crops in our hands and have such high yields, don’t end up paying the price for the imperial court, but get back a batch of waste.”

Liu Qing didn't know much about farming. Hearing this, he turned his head to look at Xu Zhizhou, and Mr. Qian also looked at Xu Zhi. Xu Zhi had been focusing on persuading farmers and mulberry, and he had also personally cultivated the fields, but this kind of Things can be seen by looking at the seeds of rice, but only when they are planted.

So he also stared at the three with big eyes and small eyes.