Li Shimin picked up a grape and put it in his mouth. It felt good to eat fresh grapes. He nodded and said, "How many people know about the grapes grown in Lishan?"
The prince stood aside and replied: "The grape trellis is at the entrance of the village. I think many people know that grapes were grown in Lishan Mountain."
Seeing that His Majesty was silent and did not speak, the prince continued: "It is said that Lishan is still planting other crops, and there are still many fruits. I don't know what is happening now."
After speaking, he smiled and lowered his head, waiting for His Majesty's reaction.
Li Shimin frowned and looked at the grapes in the bowl. He was silent for a long time before he said in a deep voice: "Tell Yan Liben to allocate manpower to build an official residence for Taifu Temple."
"Here."
The prince bowed and left to deliver the message.
The emperor was an ambitious man, and many things became different in front of Tian Khan. Originally, grapes were just grapes.
The original intention of Taifu Temple is to hope that grapes can become a fruit that ordinary people can afford, and will no longer be a special case that only the rich and powerful can afford.
After Ketian Khan saw Tao Tao, he immediately summoned Fang Xuanling, Changsun Wuji and others to discuss.
Unlike Taifu Temple, the emperor saw grapes, and this matter was related to the attitude of the court.
If the Central Plains had its own wine and grapes, the value of the Western Regions would decrease.
The fruits in Guanzhong are no longer restricted by the Western Regions, and the value of the tribute grapes and grape wine from the Western Regions is not so great.
Tian Khan needs to carefully consider the relationship between the Western Regions and the Tang Dynasty, and the future tribute should be different.
Zhang Yang, who was in Lishan, didn't know yet what kind of turmoil had arisen in the court because of a fruit like grapes.
Now Taifu Temple is still working hard for the freedom of fruits and vegetables in the Tang Dynasty and for the diversity of crops in the Central Plains.
For Zhang Yang, this is the only thing he can do for a lifetime without feeling tired.
Let grapes, courgettes and other crops become fruits that ordinary people can afford. The nutrients people need cannot be separated from fruits. This is now the common goal of Shangguanyi and Zhang Yang.
The two stood under the grape trellis. Shangguan Yi looked up at the small grapes, "These grapes are still not enough to eat. We should grow more."
The emperor was given a bowl of grapes, but no one in the village could bear to eat them. Not many grapes could be grown now, and there wouldn't be many left to pick some.
Zhang Yang held a knife and grafted the grapes. It is best to graft the grapes around June. Pick up the grafted trunk, check the flat side of the rootstock, cut it from the middle, and insert three or two branches. The ear is grafted onto a relatively strong branch.
To study crops, you need to understand the cultivation methods. The grafting method can increase the harvest rate of the crops, and a lot of grapes should be produced in August and September.
This is the first time Zhang Yang has tried the grafting method, and he has no idea whether it will succeed. He will give it a try for the time being to avoid the rainy season. I hope it will be sunny these days.
Zhang Yang fixed the grafted twigs with hemp skin and carefully inspected them to make sure there were no problems before he was relieved.
"What we are doing now are just experiments. In the future, when our cultivation technology matures, we can promote it."
Zhang Yang walked out of the grape trellis and asked again: "Crush those dry bones and spread them on the ground, then cover them with a layer of spring cement."
Shangguan Yi nodded, "Let's make arrangements now."
Grapes are difficult to grow, mainly because they require too much light and soil fertility.
The sweetness of the grapes grown in Western Turks is also due to this season. It is already night in the Central Plains of Western Turks where there is sufficient light. However, it is still daytime in the northwest of Western Turks and there is still light.
The geographical location determines the advantages of growing fruits in Western Turkestan. The large latitude, many sunny days and strong sunshine provide unique conditions.
Naturally, there are no such good conditions in the Central Plains, so we can only work hard to cultivate grapes suitable for cultivation in Guanzhong soil.
Zhang Yang returned to the mountain with a bowl of grapes and put down the bowl of grapes while watching his wife still knitting cloth shoes for the child who was about to be born.
Then he took the half-sewn shoe from her hand with one hand and said, "When the baby is born and it's not time to wear shoes, eat some grapes."
Li Yue's pretty eyes glared dissatisfied, then picked up a grape with her slender fingers and put it into her mouth, tasting it carefully, "Fresh grapes do taste better than raisins."
After clearing away the needlework on the table for him, Zhang Yang patiently said: "Raisins are sweeter."
"I still like to grow them at home." She ate grapes with a squinted smile. "In the future, if we want to eat grapes in the Central Plains, we don't have to wait to see if people from the Western Regions will send them to us."
Zhang Yang took the thread off the needle and asked in a low voice: "Are you still having trouble looking at the needle and thread now?"
Li Yue nodded slightly, "Well, it's hard to see clearly, but Dongyang helped me."
"You have been reading for a long time."
"Would it be better if I stopped reading?"
Zhang Yang saw that she had put away her smile and blinked, "I'm going to do an eye test chart."
"what is that?"
"A way to test my eyesight, let me see if it's serious."
Li Yue closed her eyes and lay down on her head, relaxing her eyes.
Zhang Yang added: "You have been reading a book and looking at the accounts recently, and you have been a little close to the scroll. Maybe you didn't even realize it."
Aunt Wang on the side said, "Many elderly courtiers in the court have poor eyesight, and some old people cannot recognize people."
Myopia is an irreversible symptom, let alone in today's Tang Dynasty.
The house is very quiet, the younger brothers and sisters are taking a nap, and little Qingqing is also sleeping on the spacious bear's back.
She had used the bear's back as a second bed.
They are all used to this bear.
Beside the quiet Huaqing Pool, the original hot spring pool was transformed into a hot spring waterfall. A stone wall was built with sloping steps upwards. The water flowed out from the cracks in the stone and became a small waterfall.
When the house is quiet, it's nice to listen to the sound of water.
Aunt's eyesight has always been good, and Zhang Yang also feels that his eyesight has become worse and worse recently.
A mountain character is written from top to bottom, from large to small. Using the aunt's vision as a benchmark, the daughter-in-law's vision can be compared.
After Li Yue rested for a while, she saw that her husband had drawn the eye chart and asked, "How to use this."
Zhang Yang pointed to the decimals on the chart and said: "Look at this label, from top to bottom it goes from three point zero to five point one."
She looked at it for a moment and said, "This way you can know the extent of my myopia."
Pointing to a horizontal line in the distance, Zhang Yang smiled and said: "Stand there, cover one eye, and identify the direction of the mountain character on the icon."
Li Yue heard this and looked at it according to this method.
Zhang Yang picked up a thin bamboo pole and pointed at the four-and-two column, "Remember, if you can't see clearly, you can't see clearly. You are not allowed to be blind."
Seeing his wife nodding, Zhang Yang pointed to one word, "Which way?"
Li Yue pointed to the right.
Seeing that Her Royal Highness the Princess has poor eyesight was originally not a good thing, but seeing the couple's attempts, the two aunts were all smiling while cleaning up the house. This kind of game is very interesting.
After trying again and again, Li Yue's right eye was confirmed to be in the range of four point seven, which was already her limit.
Zhang Yang snorted coldly: "I didn't say that I couldn't see clearly. I was really blind. I might as well try a few more times and I can guess a rough idea. The next one is the left eye."
"Husband, try it too."
The couple tested each other's eyesight like this, until the younger siblings woke up from their naps, and the children followed suit and tested each other.
The couple's eyesight came to the conclusion that Li Yue's right eye was at 4.7 and his left eye was at 4.2.
"My husband's eyesight is still so good."
Zhang Yang smiled and said, "Because you always look at your accounts and read books before going to bed recently."
Judging from the couple's current eyesight, it won't affect their daily lives at all, but they need to put glasses on their agenda.
Today's glass manufacturing in Lishan still remains at the time when glazed roofs were made.
Myopia glasses require higher light transmittance.
"Brother-in-law, why hasn't this pumpkin grown yet?" Li Zhi glanced at the seedbed and came back.
The younger brothers and sisters had just woken up and were sitting by the Huaqing Pool, all listless.
These days, I can only attend classes, and the children are much freer, because Li Yue has reached the most critical stage of pregnancy and will give birth at any time.
"Don't worry, Your Highness Prince Jin, maybe it will grow out in half a month."
The pumpkins were planted late, so I had to wait patiently.
After the children had rested for half an hour, Zhang Yang clapped his hands and said to his younger siblings, "Today we practice swimming."
"Brother-in-law, I want to learn riding and shooting." Gao Yang was the first to speak.
This Gao Yang was almost becoming a problem child in Lishan. Zhang Yang said distressedly: "You can't practice riding and shooting until you are fifteen years old."
Gao Yang counted on her fingers. Year after year, she was still five years away from learning to ride and shoot. She looked very unhappy with her chubby face.
Let the palace maid put the younger brothers and sisters into swimsuits. The swimsuits were made of silk and cotton.
Xiao Qingqing also wanted to go swimming. He was about to put down the pen in his hand and sneak forward, but the bear took it back.
Her face was full of grievances, her hands were hanging weakly, and her feet were dangling weakly.
First, take them to do preparatory exercises before swimming, and then the warm-up is completed.
Zhang Yang let out a roar, and his younger brothers and sisters all went into the water to swim. They became much more energetic as soon as they got into the water.
Place a chair and a table by the pool.
After lighting the stove, he placed a pot of water on top and boiled the water, sitting leisurely while watching his younger siblings swimming.
If one of the children did not come up after diving, Zhang Yang would immediately go into the water to fish the child out.
Swim for half an hour. In Lishan’s teaching, swimming is a must-have skill.
The little bear also wanted to swim in Huaqing Pool. Xiao Qingqing grabbed its ears and carried it back. She could not swim in the water, and the bear was not allowed to go into the water.
So much so that the little bear could only lie at the feet of the mistress and complain.
Li Yue habitually placed her feet on its back and closed her eyes to rest.
After the children's swimming is over, it is time for free activities. They are either playing sepak takraw, skipping rope or playing badminton.
Zhang Yang was picking out the glass in his home, which was originally used to cover the glazed roof.
The stove at home was still burning. Zhang Yang pushed the bellows a few times to make the fire burn bigger, and the fire became bright red.
With sweat dripping down his face, Zhang Yang burned the glass again, looked at the softened glass, stretched it with two iron rods, thinned it and then left it to dry.
After the glass cools, there are a lot of ravines, and it is impossible to make thick lenses. It is possible to make some thinner lenses, and the light transmittance is as good as possible.
In the morning of the second day, Zhang Yang sat up from the floor, stretched out comfortably, and went to look at the glass he had dried.
The light transmittance of the glass is still not good. It seems that it is just repeatedly calcined to remove impurities. Reality gave it a slap in the face, and there is no change after repeated calcining.
After thinking about it, I decided to try borax.
Every day, he goes to see how the crops are growing in the seedbed, then goes home to take care of his younger siblings and spend time with his wife. This is the flow of his day.
When the pumpkin reached the vine-shooting stage, Zhang Yang took a knife to cut off some branches and vines that were weak and not growing well.
Pruning off unhealthy branches and vines can increase fruit harvest rate and fruit setting rate.
Then fertilize the pumpkin, and then wait for the pumpkin to grow.
The aunt sent news from the court, "Marquis of the County, there is news from the court that Master Yan and his people are going to build an official residence for Taifu Temple."
Zhang Yang nodded and clasped his hands and sighed: "Your Majesty must have mistaken your intention."
Aunt Wang was puzzled and said: "Marquis of the County, Taifu Temple is able to grow grapes and has received a lot of praise from the court."
Auntie went to Chang'an City to buy some supplies today and brought a lot of news.
These news are all one-sided. Grapes are grown in Taifu Temple. In addition to the good news, there must be a lot of discussion and bad effects.
For example, people in the court were worried that people from the Western Regions would think too much, which would make Tian Khan's attitude toward the Western Regions people worse, and they would not sit back and watch this happen.
I'm afraid that grapes will cause a war. What should I do?
But even so, no one can stop Taifu Temple from developing crops.
Li Yue asked doubtfully: "Why do you say that the Central Committee of the DPRK got it wrong?"
Zhang Yang explained: "Taifu Temple needs to survive among the masses. The development of crops is inseparable from the old farmers in the countryside. On the contrary, it has nothing to do with the DPRK. Taifu Temple's work regulations cannot always be kept in the official residence. It’s about going into the mountains and fields and communicating more with the masses.”
"How can we cultivate crops if we just show off in the official residence all day long?"
Seeing his wife looking at him with a puzzled expression, Zhang Yang added: "What we need now is the convenience of field distribution. Each county has been involved in grain for the sake of its own achievements."
"Focus on cultivating fields without considering people's livelihood. What Taifu Temple needs is to use crops, vegetables and fruits to improve people's livelihood. Field distribution is what our Taifu Temple needs, rather than blindly pursuing food production, thus converting vegetable fields into The woods were dug up to grow food.”
Now the food in the Central Plains has reached a point of saturation. There is more food, but the population growth is still slow, and food prices have been falling.
Zhang Yang frowned and said: "I estimate that after this summer's harvest, the food in Guanzhong will probably cost four yuan a dou. Cultivating vegetables and fruits is very important. It can also alleviate the current predicament to a certain extent."
"Selling more fruits and vegetables can also increase the income of ordinary people, instead of being involved in growing food all the time, which leads to more involution. I would like to talk to your father about this matter when I have the opportunity."
