In the next few days, Qi Yu entered a very busy working state.
Every day from sunrise to sunset, he devoted himself to writing at his desk in his study, almost forgetting to sleep and eat.
Um?
So much energy?
In Liu Quan's memory, the last time my husband was so diligent was back when he was studying hard during the imperial examination. His current state was almost as good as cramming before the imperial examination.
One word to describe it: Cun Yin is Jing.
Liu Quan felt extremely distressed when she looked at her husband who was struggling with paperwork. She hurriedly found her mother-in-law Zhou and encouraged her to cook a few more meals of braised pork head with a stick of firewood so that she could supplement her husband.
Someone may have asked, Qi Dalang has been writing so hard, has he started writing again?
Haha, you guessed wrong, definitely not!
This time, he is writing a guidance tool book on agricultural production to meet current needs.
You must know that the crops moved from South America came to our land in China for the first time in history. Before that, there was no cultivation experience to test. Therefore, the first priority right now is to create a set of guiding cultivation theories as soon as possible to apply to subsequent agricultural production.
The information is ready-made and can be found at your fingertips. As long as you carefully organize and summarize it one by one, you can form a text-based classic.
Have information?
Yes!
During his stay in South America, Fu Xian, who was in charge, was very attentive. Under the leadership of the native, he went deep into various places in the local area and collected as much as possible about the cultivation, harvesting and methods of crops, and recorded them all one by one. .
This is how the first-hand information comes from.
In Qi Yu's view, these information alone are not enough, and they need to be improved as much as possible in order to achieve perfection.
What he has to do now is not only copying, classifying and revising fallacies, but also trying to integrate agricultural theories from previous lives into it to guide future agricultural production in a more scientific way. This is very important and absolutely Don't be careless.
That's why he is so busy.
The book is basically finished, and I still need to give it a grand name.
What?
Hey, there you have it!
I still remember that during the Northern Dynasties and the Northern Wei Dynasty, there was an outstanding agriculturist named Jia Sixie. He once wrote an agricultural book called "The Essentials of Qi Min". Why not learn from it yourself?
good!
Therefore, Qi Yu named his work "The Great Art of Qi Min".
'Giant' technique?
Cough, spit!
Isn't this too showy?
However, this is what Qi Dalang wants!
If you don’t make it public, how will anyone pay attention?
Let’s put it this way, even if readers want to deliberately criticize, they should read it once before speaking. In this way, won’t it indirectly increase the readership?
In some cases, headlines are also very effective.
"Ha ha……"
"Finally done!"
Qi Yu put down the pen in his hand, stretched, and showed a satisfied smile.
As for these new species brought from South America, with the exception of poppy and tobacco, the planting techniques and harvesting methods of other crops have been well written and are waiting to be printed in books later as a guidance tool book.
Then it was spread widely.
In order to strengthen the publicity effect, Qi Yu plans to publicize it in the "Qiongzhou Xunbao" to create a good atmosphere for the uses and economic returns of these crops to stimulate people's enthusiasm for production.
Maybe some people have said that most of the people in Qiongzhou are illiterate, so you are just spreading the word.
Even if you put the reference book in front of them, they still can't understand it!
You are worrying too much!
Who says you can't read if you can't read?
I, Qi Dalang, have a clever plan to deal with it.
The method is to let those storytellers who have switched to newspaper review play an active role and let them spread the agricultural knowledge in the book in an easy-to-understand way to make it widely known.
Another thing is to let students from polytechnics participate in more agricultural practices, and take the opportunity to promote science and technology to the hands of ordinary people at the grassroots level.
It doesn’t matter whether the cat is black or white, as long as it catches mice, it is a good cat. In the same way, whether it is an overt method or a hidden method, as long as it works, it is a good method.
There’s nothing wrong with that!
…
The spring breeze at the beginning of spring blows all over the ground. It sends away the cold weather and brings warmth.
The good news that the divine food with a yield of 10,000 kilograms per acre has landed in Qiongzhou was like Hexi's spring breeze, blowing across the entire land of Qiongzhou in an instant, making everyone's heart itch.
Especially, after it was openly published on the front page of the Qiongzhou Xunbao, this rumor immediately became a solid fact and became the focus of public opinion in an instant, so much so that even a three-year-old child knew about it. The roasted sweet potatoes described in the newspaper were twice as delicious.
Who would have thought that this gossip would happen to fall into the ears of Mr. Zhou from the Path Review Newspaper Agency.
What?
Is there such a delicious thing in the world?
And it’s children’s favorite food?
You know, my grandson is also a big glutton. With such good things coming from Qiongzhou, how can I lose it?
No, no, our Lao Qi family has to ask for a piece of private land so that we can grow, produce and eat this divine food ourselves. In this way, we don’t have to spend money to buy it in the future.
Thinking of this, Zhou found Tan Junyan and directly explained his purpose.
"What? Do you always want to farm?"
"What? Isn't this okay?"
Tan Junyan was shocked and surprised, and said with a face that was even uglier than crying: "I say, ancestors, please stop teasing the younger generation. How could you do this kind of work?"
What are you talking about?
Mrs. Zhou was not happy when she heard this, and said with a hint of anger: "I'm not afraid to tell you that the three generations of my Qi family are all real farmers. I think my old lady has been farming for most of her life. You tell me, with me With this kind of experience, how come you can’t cultivate the soil?”
"This... I'm not afraid that you will be tired!"
"Don't be tired, my old lady has her own tricks."
Upon hearing this, Tan Junyan couldn't help but became speechless. He felt that it was neither agreeable nor not agreed. It was a bit difficult to handle!
However, Mrs. Zhou didn't understand his difficulties at all, and still thought about herself and calculated with her fingers: "Do you think that five acres of land is enough for planting? It doesn't seem to be enough. Well, at least two acres of land are needed. Ten acres...Actually, I don't have any big requirements. As long as the land is close to home, has good soil quality, and has a few wells for irrigation nearby, that's basically it..."
"This is still called..."
"Okay, okay, stop nagging and answer me quickly. Are you going to give me this land or not? If you don't, I'll go find my family!"
"Don't bother! I'll give it! I'll give you whatever you want. Is that okay?"
"That's pretty much it..."
In the end, Tan Junyan 100% fulfilled Mrs. Zhou's wish and set aside a large piece of the most fertile farmland for her.
Farmers often say that the ground is like scraping gold, and people who work hard are not lazy.
Farming and harvesting depends on diligence.
Therefore, early the next morning, Mrs. Zhou hurriedly picked up the hoe, then got on the sandalwood carriage specially sent by the government officials and ran towards her private land.
This was really hard on the officials who followed him.
Yes, they not only have to escort the old lady back and forth, but also take care of her outdoor meals. They are very busy and exhausted. The most terrible thing is that she has to help her plow the fields. That kind of hard work is really called tiring to the bone.
Look, this long line of government servants are just like the candied haws, running all over the ground pulling the plow.
There was no way, who told the prefects not to raise cattle, so the government officials had to make a temporary guest appearance to experience firsthand what it was like to be used as cattle or horses.
