Chapter 778 The rye seeds were collected!
When Xu Zhenming saw the two Persian beauties, he knew that His Majesty was very satisfied with the transformation of Suiyuan into the king. He went through all the boxes and cabinets in the palace and went through everything that could be rewarded before taking out these beauties from all over the world.
Xu Zhenming really didn't want it, because he was a serious Jinshi. Even though he was farming now, he was still a Jinshi. The Huayi debate was deeply rooted. In his eyes, these Persian beauties were almost the same as livestock. He felt that if they got them at home, The house is restless.
"If the chief minister doesn't want it, it won't be easy for our family to do business when we go back." Xu Jue said with a troubled face. In fact, Xu Jue had anticipated this scene when the emperor said that he would reward beauties from all over the world.
It was acceptable for the scholar-bureaucrats to go to a brothel for a quick meal, but when they took it home, most of them would be indifferent.
This has historical lessons. For example, the third empress of Emperor Yuan Shun, Empress Qi, was a Korean. This empress was good at establishing a party and causing chaos in the palace. She encouraged her son Yuan Zhaozong to fight against his own father, leading to a civil war between father and son. The drama of the Yuan Dynasty caused the Red Scarf Army in the south to become completely larger and could no longer be pacified.
Empress Qi's family was purged by the King of Korea in Goryeo. In order to take revenge, Empress Qi encouraged her son to send troops to Goryeo, but the result was a huge defeat. It is true that the clan will be overthrown quickly if they seek to fight each other and expand their territory. .
During the Yongle period, there was also a Korean princess in the palace, but since the Xuande period, the issue of Korean tribute girls has stopped.
"How about this? How about sending them to Prince Lu's Mansion?" Xu Zhenming really didn't want these Persian beauties, and they might cause too much trouble. This was indeed a reward, but there was no way to enjoy it.
Seeing that Xu Zhenming really didn't want it, Xu Jue thought about it again and again before shaking his head and saying, "We'd better take it back. His Majesty just recently warned His Highness King Lu about the persecution of beauties from all over the world."
After Xu Jue returned to the palace, Zhu Yijun just smiled and asked Xu Jue to step aside. He didn't ask why he dared not refuse the gift. It was a reward. If you don't like it, you don't have to accept it.
The scholar-bureaucrats of the Ming Dynasty were not particularly interested in learning foreign languages.
On the third day of the second lunar month, when the morning meeting was held, the sky was bright, and the first ray of the morning sun had just illuminated the golden glazed tiles of the Huangji Hall. The cavalrymen of the Wufeng Tower of Chengtianmen blew the horns, and the bells of the Zhengyamen Bell and Drum Towers were heard. In the ears of all the courtiers waiting to go to court, the gate of Chengtian Gate slowly opened. After the inspection by Tiqi, officials wearing various court uniforms walked across the Nejin Water River Bridge like rows of wild geese.
Zhu Yijun waited until the courtiers saluted, then waved and said: "Xu Zhenming, the great minister of agriculture."
The little yellow gatekeepers in groups of two passed down the sound of Tianyu Lun, level by level, and the sound echoed throughout the Dan Majesty.
One of the heroes of Suiyuan Wanghua returned to the capital, and the Emperor of Ming Dynasty welcomed the hero with the courtesy of a great court meeting.
Xu Zhenming was slightly in a daze. He didn't feel that he had done anything to deserve such courtesy. That is, he cultivated land in Suiyuan, built some water conservancy facilities, trained hundreds of veterinarians, and ended the thousands of years of grassland people's migration by water. customs, increasing the output of animal husbandry.
Grassland people are not all nomadic, they also farm.
Xu Zhenming held the wat tablet and, under the leadership of the small yellow gate, walked step by step through the waiting civil and military officials on the left and right, walked through the white marble steps, and entered the Huangji Hall.
"Xu Zhenming, the Secretary of Baoqi Division, pays homage to Your Majesty. Long live Your Majesty. Long live Your Majesty. I have fulfilled my duties as Suiyuan. Fortunately, I have lived up to my command. Since the tenth year of Wanli, Suiyuan has registered more than 300,000 households, including one in Dingkou." More than 1.2 million, 600,000 hectares of farmland, 400,000 hectares of pasture, built more than 4,300 miles of ditches, and 1,300 miles of roads." Xu Zhenming bowed five times and kowtowed three times to pay his respects.
The 4,300-mile-long ditches were dredged mainly during periods of low water and agricultural slack, and the water from these ditches was diverted to the fields.
In the Ming Dynasty, just a single ridge was an eye-opener for the grassland people. The ridges can prevent flooding, cold, drought and lodging. The grassland people had no idea that just one ridge could nearly double the crops. Yield.
"I love your hard work, Feng Daban, declare the decree." Zhu Yijun waved his hand and said.
Feng Bao shook his fly whisk, took two steps forward, waited for the small yellow door to open and opened the imperial edict, then shouted in a high voice: "The emperor is destined to be transported by heaven, the edict says:"
"Farming is the foundation of the world, and it is what the people rely on for their livelihood. The way to the people is to focus on the foundation. If the people do not focus on the foundation, they will do nothing. If they abandon the foundation and pursue the bottom, many lives will fail. I am worried about this. Therefore, those who are farming and farming mulberry trees today, Kings in ancient and modern times have never been like this before.”
"Suiyuan is newly established, and everything is renewed. I send agricultural workers there to promote education, enrich customs, uphold filial piety and respect courtesy, bring peace to thousands of miles, and cultivate harmony for all ages. I will obey the weather, measure the geographical advantages, collect scriptures and biographies, and love songs. Inquire with the experienced, and then act according to the experience; develop water conservancy, make farm tools, encourage farming, and follow people's wishes, pray for crops and good luck, and stay at night every year."
"Whoever serves the people and herdsmen dares to be a pioneer for the people. Today, Baoqisi is promoted to the Agricultural College. The Agricultural College keeps in mind the fundamental mission of the Agricultural College, bringing all the people into benevolence and longevity, and bringing health to everyone in the world."
"The constitution was established after the dynasty, the virtues were extended and benefits were given, the edict was issued to the world, and the envoys heard about it."
"I admire this."
The imperial edict emphasized the importance of mulberry farming, placed it at the top of ancient and modern royal administrations, counted Xu Zhenming's achievements, and announced that Baoqisi was officially upgraded to a college of agriculture, specializing in agricultural mulberry research. Xu Zhenming graduated from the fifth-grade doctorate of agriculture , was promoted to be a farmer, and was the Tang Shangguan of the Agricultural College, a third-rank official.
The message of the Agricultural College is: to join all the people in benevolence and longevity, and to bring health to everyone in the world.
"I thank you for your kindness." Xu Zhenming bowed again and stood up. He didn't feel much about being promoted because he was still doing the same things as before, planting more land and producing more food. .
He didn't know anything about land reclamation and water conservancy. When he cultivated 39,000 hectares of land in Shanyin, Zhejiang, he was criticized. After being impeached by the public officials, he lived in Beijing and went to work. Zhang Juzheng protected him, so he got involved with His Majesty. .
If he has achieved anything over the years, it is that he has really taught His Majesty how to farm.
"Aiqing, you have tanned and lost a lot of weight." Zhu Yijun looked at Xu Zhenming. After not seeing him for five years, he became more like a farmer than a scholar-official.
Xu Zhenming bowed his head again and said: "Thanks to your majesty's love, I have not suffered much in Suiyuan. The local government has given me the best."
This is inappropriate to say.
If Xu Zhenming has a little bit of political acumen, he should start bragging, praising the emperor for being wise, praising the emperor for being courteous and virtuous, and saying that everything relies on saintliness and the ministers are grateful and shed tears, etc., to create an atmosphere of a sage and a virtuous minister;
Even if you have no political acumen, you should express your gratitude to the Holy Father for your concern, pour out a little bit of bitterness, and talk about how hard it was in Suiyuan, but you still overcame all difficulties, completed the errands assigned by the emperor, and improved your personal relationship.
Xu Zhenming chose the simplest way of answering, telling the facts, without any hardship or suffering. Suiyuan gave him the best things to entertain him, a great farmer.
Yin Zhengmao, the governor of Luzon, once said that he likes to deal with agricultural doctors the most, because these agricultural doctors have no airs and don't have so many twists and turns.
"I am very happy that I love you and return to the court. The grassland is stable, thanks to my love for you. Come back to class. After the court, go to the Agricultural College and tell me about Suiyuan." Zhu Yijun smiled very brightly. Bright, Xu Zhenming is still speechless as always, which means that he is still himself, a typical technocrat.
"I obey the order." Xu Zhenming returned to work.
Next, Zhu Yijun announced a few more things. Starting from this year, gold can be collected and deposited in overseas trade, gold and silver exchange at Yanxinglou Trading Bank, vigorously promoting salt production, the talent allocation mechanism of the Royal Institute of Technology, Gao Qiyu, the general manager of the school, and no longer raising funds. Shipping grain and grass to North Korea, special trade permits, etc.
These are the contents that have been approved in the court meeting and will be announced at the court meeting on the third day of every month.
The Great Court rarely discusses matters, unless there is a huge quarrel, which is usually the kind of quarrel, which will make the Great Court red-faced.
"If you have something to do, leave work early. If you have nothing to do, roll up the curtain and leave the court." Feng Bao shook the fly whisk again and shouted loudly.
Zhu Yijun waited for a while and saw that no one was leaving work. He stood up and said with a smile: "Sir and Sinong are coming with me."
"Retreat!"
"I will send you off to your Majesty." Zhang Juzheng led the ministers to pay their respects and send him off to the emperor.
Wang Chonggu envied Zhang Juzheng very much, because the emperor always pulled Zhang Juzheng to whisper, not only about political affairs, but also about trivial matters in life. This was a real teacher and student.
They are all ministers, but there is always someone close to them.
Zhu Yijun went down to court, took Yuan Fu and Sinong, and took a small train to the original site of Baoqi Division, Guanghan Hall on Qionghua Island in Xiyuan.
Baoqisi's promotion to the Agricultural College is not just a simple change of brand. Beitucheng has specially built an agricultural base of 100,000 acres of fertile land for the use of the Agricultural College.
The former site of Baoqisi became the emperor's own vegetable garden.
"After Sinong went to Suiyuan and the Agricultural College was built, I renovated the Guanghan Hall and conducted some experiments." Zhu Yijun walked across the stone arch bridge and stood in front of the Guanghan Hall, saying with a complex expression. : "I failed."
"What experiments were done?" Zhang Juzheng asked curiously. His Majesty always performed some strange experiments, such as the art of attracting lightning. If the Zhengya Bell and Drum Tower did not have the art of attracting lightning, it would have been struck by lightning many times.
The Doctors of Gewu didn't understand why a simple iron wire could guide the Nine Heavens Thunder to the ground.
Zhu Yijun sighed and said: "I built a paradise for the mice with no worries about food and water. After raising them for three years, except for the third group of large cages, all the others died without exception."
After Zhang Juzheng heard this, he felt that the emperor was really full and had built so many paradises for mice.
The emperor built nine large cages, with two small yellow doors in each cage responsible for cleaning the feces, keeping it clean and hygienic, and ensuring that there was no interference from plague. Water and food fell from the sky every day to ensure sufficient supplies, and four pairs of mice were put in. reproduce.
Nine cages in groups of three, the first heaven, three big cages, no communication, no plague, all die;
The second paradise, three big cages, regular exchange of groups, no plague, all dead;
The third group of large cages. After the population of the three cages multiplied to 600, they opened the barn door and exchanged what they had, but they lived the best. The population of the three cages multiplied to 9,000, reaching the upper limit of what the cages could hold. .
Zhu Yijun's mouth twitched and he said: "The first two groups of paradises prove that Lin Fucheng's theory is not valid, that is, when material is extremely abundant, everyone will be free; the third group of paradises proves that the prosperity of ethnic groups requires war. .”
This is a very absurd experiment. Zhu Yijun just saw that the Guanghan Palace was empty, so he planned to test whether Lin Fucheng's social transformation from limited freedom to unlimited freedom would hold true.
Lin Fucheng believes that when material is not extremely abundant, people can only live with limited freedom; only when material is absolutely abundant and the material is meaningless, can everyone obtain absolute freedom, that is, the material is meaningless, then Oppression does not exist.
This was a beautiful idea, but the experimental results made Zhu Yijun deeply moved.
"Your Majesty, humans are the spirit of all things, and they are different from rats." Zhang Juzheng did not agree with the emperor's point of view, and it was not appropriate to infer humans from rats. People have spiritual rationality, but rats do not.
Xu Zhenming was hesitant to speak. What he actually wanted to say was that as far as the science of interpretation is concerned, there is not much structural difference between mice and humans.
Zhu Yijun took Yuan Fu and Sinong into the Guanghan Palace and stood next to the first group of heavens. The two small yellow gates reported the experimental process. There are three large cages in the first group of paradise. Each cage has sixteen funnels to provide water and food. Guanghan Hall is a warm pavilion. The temperature is maintained at about 20 degrees all year round, and all the small yellow doors wear masks. Glove raising ensures that diseases from outside are not brought into paradise.
There is no need to forage, dig holes, or face natural enemies in the wild. These mice only need to focus on reproducing offspring. As expected by the emperor, the population of these mice will double every fifty-five days. On day 315, the number of animals in each cage exceeded 600.
But the reproduction rate of these six hundred rats has doubled every 55 days, instead of doubling every 145 days. Moreover, classes and gangs have emerged in all three paradises, and there are no rats in gangs. , with nowhere to go, no status, and will be bullied.
The extra mice become no longer active, but hide in the bottom layer of the cage, no longer play with their companions, and remain motionless. Even if they are bullied, they will only retreat further and eventually die.
The first collapse stage has come. Because of the abundant food and water and the comfortable living environment, these mice will be abandoned after giving birth. Without human intervention, the probability of death of the mouse pups reaches more than 90%.
The second collapse stage occurred in the third year. The rat population reached 2,200. Almost all rats began to lose interest in reproduction. The solitary rats hid in the upper floors, and the violent rats bit crazily near water sources and food. Due to the low birth rate and high death rate of cubs, the population dropped rapidly from 2,200 to zero.
"All dead?" Zhang Juzheng was surprised by the whole experiment process. The self-disintegration of the rats made Zhang Juzheng unable to understand. They didn't have to worry about eating and drinking, but they all died.
"Yes, they are all dead. Even the mice that survived by chance don't know who to learn how to survive. Apart from the instinct of eating and sleeping, they have no interest in reproduction. In the end, that's it." Zhu Yijun led Zhang Ju Zheng and Sinong walked through the first heaven and arrived at the second heaven.
"I think it is caused by the reproduction of the same race. After all, there is experience in the Central Plains that people with the same surname should not marry, otherwise the offspring will be deformed and infertile. The rat population in the first heaven is too closed, and the second heaven will exchange the population regularly to ensure that the offspring will not be deformed. Infertility leads to the destruction of the race." Zhu Yijun sighed and said: "The second heaven collapsed no slower than the first heaven, and it was completely destroyed in about three years."
The second group will carry out regular exchanges to prevent the offspring from being abnormal, but to no avail.
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There is no interest in reproducing. The solitary rats are hiding on the top, and the strong and aggressive rats are on the lower level. Even if the rat babies are born, they will be bitten to death.
"There is only the Third Heaven. So far, everything is normal." Zhu Yijun brought Sinong and Yuan Fu to the Third Heaven.
The three large cages of Third Heaven all have a door. This door opens immediately after the number of the clan exceeds 600. The passage is very wide, and the dispute begins.
"Such a big mouse." Zhang Juzheng was shocked. He actually saw a mouse that was nearly half the size of his forearm!
"These are rats from Guangzhou. They are different from the previous species. They are more aggressive." Zhu Yijun said in amazement: "Open the cage door and if there is a dispute, these big rats will protect the young rats, and they have extremely strong They have a desire to reproduce and are extremely aggressive.”
"In the Third Heaven, the size of each large cage group will reach the upper limit of three thousand."
"Start exterminating rats." Zhu Yijun said to the small yellow door.
Xiaohuangmen bowed his head and said: "I obey the decree."
Xiao Huangmen changed today's ingredients and replaced them with poisonous food and started feeding them. Soon, all nine thousand rats in these three cages began to die intermittently.
Zhu Yijun was not sure what kind of ecological disaster would happen if these rats that grew up in paradise were released, so he chose to kill them directly. If they were all dead, there would be no secondary disasters.
"Mencius said in "Be born in sorrow and die in peace and happiness": If you enter, you will be helpless, and if you go out, you will be invincible to foreign patients, and the country will be permanently destroyed." Zhu Yijun looked at the cage in front of him and said with emotion.
Sometimes, the wisdom of our ancestors can really stand the test of time, because these words have been passed down through the baptism of history and have extremely high reference value.
Because the first paradise is closed, the extinction of the population can be said to be a biological problem; the second paradise regularly exchanges populations, but still collapses quickly after the number reaches 2,200;
Only in Third Heaven, after a threat, the population reached the upper limit of the paradise and was able to maintain the ecology for a long time.
Without enough external pressure, these mice have no desire to reproduce.
The larger and more aggressive giant rats will completely control the funnel and not give any water or food to the smaller rats. Moreover, the attacks of these giant rats are neither fighting for mates nor water and food. Their attacks are There is no motive.
Moreover, the newborn rat pups did not learn any normal rat behaviors, stopped reproducing, hid in corners and ate alone, and most of them were grooming themselves.
The collapse of the First Heaven and the Second Heaven was not due to density or the fact that the cages were large enough for their lives, but due to excessive social interactions and dissatisfaction with resource allocation. In addition to water and food resources, There are even more beautiful female rats, which will be dominated by the male rats.
"This is almost the same as the wolves I observed on the grassland." Xu Zhenming said with a solemn expression: "Your Majesty, the reproduction of wolves on the grassland is not linear. Not every wild wolf has children, but constantly grows from more to more. The strong top spills downward.”
"Well, it's just like North Korea's civil and military yangban and middlemen."
Whether mice or wolves, they are just animals. Humans are the spirit of all things. So can humans avoid this reproduction model? The answer is no.
The civil and military yangban were nobles. Their concubines and concubines, relying on their relationship with the family, began to raise beauties, squeezing the living space of the poor coolies in North Korea, and constantly annexing land. The cost of marriage was too high, and most of them Poor coolies cannot find wives and reproduce.
This is the process of artificial selection, anthropic theory, where people are not only selecting better animals and plants, but also selecting themselves.
Xu Zhenming said solemnly: "In North Korea, most Hwarangs have no heirs and are not even willing to have children. They are more willing to bully good people and poor coolies to gain satisfaction. As for the bullied poor coolies, it is not that they are unwilling Give birth, but you can’t get a mother-in-law at all.”
"Actually, this phenomenon also occurred in Nanya and Zhejiang in the Ming Dynasty. When I was in Zhejiang, there were many people who incited themselves and became eunuchs in high-ranking families."
It was illegal to use eunuchs in the Ming Dynasty, but because there were many wealthy families in need of them, the poor coolies would rather give up their reproductive rights than incite themselves to be used as cattle or horses.
Wisdom will not be hereditary, but wealth will. Human beings will never stop reproducing. They will not be poor for more than three generations, and the bottom class will self-destruct.
"As long as the small-scale peasant economy transforms into a commodity economy, it will be fine." Zhang Juzheng thought over and over again and said with certainty: "As long as new production relations are established and the distribution mechanism is sound, this situation will never happen again."
"Sir, is it true? As long as a new large-scale free employment production relationship is established, today's tragedy will not happen again?" Zhu Yijun said with a smile on his face: "This commodity economy is not a panacea. This It is also reflected in the fourth volume of Class Theory."
"This throne can be hereditary..."
"Your Majesty." Zhang Juzheng forcefully interrupted the emperor's unfinished words. He knew very well that the emergence of the fourth volume was inevitable, but it was not suitable for the moment.
The third volume of Class Theory should be used with caution, and the fourth volume does not need to be discussed or mentioned. The final collapse of the imperial system, even at the current growth rate of productivity, will not have enough material foundation to support it until about a hundred years later.
"I brought back a kind of wheat from Suiyuan, a kind of wheat from the Xianbei Plain, called rye." Xu Zhenming took out a silk bag from his sleeve, slowly opened it and said, "This kind of wheat is from an Ottoman merchant." What was brought to the Xianbei Plain is an extremely cold-resistant plant. Its cold resistance is so strong that it can even be planted in ice and snow. ”
"The seedlings can even tolerate a low temperature of minus 35 degrees, and they are not picky about the ground. They can tolerate barren and thin soil, and even some saline-alkali lands washed by the Yellow River, and can be planted."
"You don't have to pick the ground, and you are still cold-resistant." Zhu Yijun's eyes immediately lit up. Any idea of a mouse paradise is all metaphysical research. The more cold-resistant crops, the better!
The small glacier climate is intensifying regardless of human will. If the north produces food and cannot meet the demand, the expensive land transportation will cause the entire north to collapse.
Duntai Yuanhou's expedition team had already detected the existence of rye. Zhu Yijun thought it was a special envoy from the Russian state who brought rye into China, but he did not expect that it was Xu Zhenming who brought it back.
"Rye." Zhu Yijun carefully opened the silk bag, looked at it for a long time and said, "You must cultivate it carefully. Where did this seed come from?"
"Stolen." Xu Zhen said concisely and concisely: "I asked Duntai Yuanhou to find the seeds. People in the Xianbei Plain are not willing to share seeds for food. Duntai Yuanhou secretly took one or two handfuls at night, and the little he added made a lot. , stole twelve pounds of rye.”
Coffee was monopolized by Arab merchants. They only sold coffee powder and did not sell any seeds to make huge profits. That is to say, the Ming Dynasty had good relations with the Mughal state, so they exchanged cotton cloth for coffee seeds from Shah Maimaiti. Experimental planting in Yunnan has been quite effective.
Rye seeds cannot be obtained through commercial means, but Xu Zhenming asked Dun Tai Yuanhou to steal twelve kilograms back, and the method of stealing was to gather a handful into a larger number, one or two at a time.
Zhu Yijun and Zhang Juzheng looked at each other. Xu Zhenming was a little too frank.
Zhu Yijun was silent for a moment and said: "Teacher, this was not stolen by Duntai Yuanhou. How can it be stolen? This is a matter for scholars. This is called collecting. What do you think, teacher?"
"It's just...collected." Xu Zhenming originally wanted to explain, but he immediately understood that this was a collection, and the Heavenly Kingdom does not engage in stealing.
"In this way, Feng Daban, in the spring of this year, we will all be rewarded with ten silver coins by the Duntai Yuanhou. Just because I am grateful for their hard work, I will go deep into the northern territory of the 300 Duntai Yuanhou. I will give an extra fifty silver to reward them for their hard work." ." Zhu Yijun chose Enreward.
Feng Bao bowed his head and said: "I obey the decree."
A total of forty-five thousand silver was spent, which is really not much. Duntai Yuanhou's expedition team was really trying to get information at their own risk, and there were also Han people and members of the Outer Karkha tribes in the expedition team. Attendant, the additional gift of fifty silver is really not much.
"Your Majesty, rye is not very tasty." Xu Zhenming said very sincerely: "I thought this thing is good for growing pasture. In Suiyuan, it can be harvested once every twenty or thirty days, and three to four times a year. The yield of fresh grass per mu is more than 10,000 jins, and the dry weight is more than 2,000 jins.”
"The root system of rye is a large and shallow fibrous root system, which can fix water and soil very well. It is cultivated and mainly used to fix water and soil. It is a good choice."
Xu Zhenming hoped that His Majesty would lower his expectations. Because this kind of rye has relatively large leaves, it would be more profitable to grow it as pasture.
"Wouldn't this be better?" Zhu Yijun's eyes lit up and he said: "With the weather like this, if the temperature continues to drop, we can plant it as staple food, and if the weather is good, we can plant it as pasture, killing two birds with one stone."
The annual average temperature in Yingchang, Jilin Prefecture and other places is still declining, and the frost-free period has been shortened by seven days in five years, with no stopping trend.
"That's true." Xu Zhenming thought about it. This is indeed the truth. If the weather continues to get colder and colder, it can be used as food crops. The main reason is to expand the scale of planting.
"The envoy from Xianbei City hopes to exchange rye for weapons, and I am worried that they are asking for high prices." Xu Zhenming said about the envoy he brought back. The envoy from Xianbei City very much hoped to obtain a large number of weapons to face the invasion of the Russians.
This is also the reason why Xu Zhenming hopes that Duntai Yuanhou will use various means to obtain rye seeds. Buying and selling is possible, but the sky-high price is unacceptable to Ming Dynasty.
The initiative must be in the hands of Ming Dynasty.
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