Shi Jizhi was a native of Yingtianfu in the first year of Longqing, and he was in the same department as Zhao Shouzheng and Wang Wuyang, so he was naturally very familiar with several influential figures in the same department.

After listening to Zhao Hao's self-report, Shi Jizhi hurriedly waved his hand and said: "Uncle Shi can't deserve it, you are still our master with Ke Xie Yuan, let's take a step back and be commensurate with brothers." ”

Zhao Hao and Zhao Shouzheng have always had their own opinions in the same year, so they are naturally good.

With this relationship, the two became much warmer.

"Why was Brother Sishan absent from the Spring Festival?" Zhao Hao asked curiously.

"The tutor thinks I'm not ready yet." Shi Jizhi did not get rid of his true character as a peasant, spoke very plainly, and grinned: "Plant a few more years before you can enter Beijing to take the exam." ”

"Uh......" Zhao Hao was dumbfounded when he heard it, he heard for the first time that the imperial examination has something to do with farming, and this academy is really wonderful.

However, the entrance examination seems to have nothing to do with science, and I don't have the face to laugh at others.

"Haha, it's normal for the virtuous brother to be strange, one of our four monsters in Liyang is the 'Shu Ji Shi Sect Farming', you see that the farmers working in the fields near and far are actually students of our Wuben Academy."

Shi Jizhi said to Zhao Hao with a smile: "No way, the rules set by the mountain chief, but if you want to study in this academy, you have to work half and study and support yourself." Those who are unwilling to farm, no matter how high they are learned, will not be harvested by the mountain chief. ”

Zhao Haoxin said, good guy, much stricter than Ben Gongzi. In order to get on to school, there are a lot of things to do on the Internet side. In Yufeng Academy, there are not a few people who are uninterested in science, but they are not as pure as Wuben Academy......

As they spoke, the two of them came to the hillside, and heard the tall old man with his back to them, and said in a loud voice:

"It doesn't have to be that deep, one foot five inches is enough. If you dig so deep, can the seedlings see the light? ”

"Yes...... the few who are working should be new to school, their skin is still quite white, and they are not skilled in hoe movements. I didn't dig deep in vain, and my hands were blistered, but no one dared to complain.

Shi Jizhi stepped forward and said respectfully: "Mountain Chief." ”

"What's the matter?" The old man couldn't reply, and continued to teach the new disciple: "It can't be too shallow, it's shallow and not warm!" But one foot five is not absolute, according to the situation on the ground, to ensure that the light is ...... for three hours a day"

"Science Zhao Gongzi came to see you." Shi Jizhi hurriedly introduced.

"Oh? It's coming to the door. The old man was not surprised when he heard this, and looked Zhao Hao up and down, and then he was a little surprised: "So small? ”

"My son is sixteen years old." Zhao Hao said depressedly.

"Haha, Jiangnan Group has made such a big move, and it is like thunder in this small place in Liyang, I thought you were at least twenty or thirty years old." The old man laughed and said, "I heard that the science you founded specializes in the study of the principles of all things. Do you know what the old man asked people to dig these soil pits for? ”

"Mr. Meng He underestimated people." Zhao Hao smiled: "This is a cellar used to raise seedlings. ”

"Why should I do this?" The old man said noncommittally: "Isn't it good to farm directly?" ”

"At this time, the temperature is too low, and the seedlings will freeze to death...... Zhao Hao said helplessly: "This is something that all farmers know, right?" ”

"Just plant it later." The old man said lightly.

"Because you have to plant two crops of rice, but the temperature in our south of the Yangtze River is still not enough, and the time for planting two crops of rice is too tight, and if you don't do it well, it will delay the late rice." Zhao Hao smiled:

Therefore, Mr. Meng He adopts the method of raising seedlings in the cellar, planting rice seeds in this shallow cellar in advance, covering them with straw mats at night, and opening them to receive sunlight during the day, so that seedlings can grow in advance. When the temperature is right, the seedlings are directly planted in the field, which is equivalent to nearly a month's time. ”

Zhao Hao said as if he was talking about a commonplace thing: "Late rice can also be concocted in the same way, so the time to plant two crops of rice is also very generous, and there is no need to worry about too late for spring and too early for autumn." ”

"Uh......" The old man looked a little shocked, squatted on the ridge, and muttered: "It turns out that this method is not the old man's originality, and you Kunshan also know it." ”

Zhao Hao hurriedly comforted: "Kunshan does not raise seedlings in advance, the entire Jiangnan is planted in April, and we are naturally no exception." ”

"Then you ......" the old man looked up at Zhao Hao.

"I also just listened to Mr. Meng He's words, and I had an idea." Zhao Hao hurriedly smiled and explained the past, of course he couldn't say it, this was common sense in the future.

But this common sense is exactly what the old man in front of him brought to the Chinese people.

He is Yuan Longping of the Ming Dynasty - Ma Yilong, the light of Liyang.

This old Mr. Ma Yilong has nothing to do with Macron, Ma Yinglong, or Macaron.

The family is a scholarly family and a generation of eunuchs. His father and uncle were both Jinshi. Ma Yilong himself, who is the Xie Yuan of Shuntianfu, the twenty-sixth year of Jiajing, and Zhang Juzheng selected Shu Jishi together, which can be described as a promising future.

But they all encountered a difficult situation in this section - as soon as they entered the official career, they met Yan Song to frame Xia Yan and witnessed the tragic scene of Shoufu abandoning the city. In the next ten years, the court was dark, traitors were in power, and any officials with a conscience were extremely tormented.

Some of them chose to fight to the death with the Yan Party, such as Yang Jisheng. Some people choose to be patient, such as Zhang Juzheng. There are also many people who choose to abandon their official positions and return to their hometowns and not bend their waists for five buckets of rice, such as Ma Yilong.

Ma Yilong went to the house five times and begged for his mother, and finally in the 38th year of Jiajing, he was appointed as the secretary of the Nanjing Guozijian Division.

After returning to his hometown in Liyang, he opened this academy. Determined to cultivate scholars who can farm and understand farmers.

Because he thinks that 'farmers are the great capital of the world', those nerds who are not diligent and do not distinguish between grains and grains will not take farmers and agriculture to heart at all. Allowing these people to become officials will only bring disaster to the peasants and shake the foundation of the country.

Only when a scholar who really knows how to farm becomes an official can he know what the peasants think, and can he not be deceived by the traitors and officials. While this doesn't necessarily guarantee that they'll be good officials, it can at least keep them from doing bad things with good intentions.

In addition, he also donated funds to set up a charitable field, recruited farmers to cultivate seeds, and adopted a sharing system, giving half of the harvest to the helpers, and the other half to pave the way for the construction of bridges and funds for education in the county...... Zhao Hao built a staff farm in Kunshan, and he learned a lot from him.

Because Ma Yilong compiled a number of agricultural works based on his own agricultural experience. For example, "Agricultural Theory", "Agricultural Classics" and so on, from the planting of rice, mulberry and cotton, to the arrangement of agricultural production, as well as agricultural tools, fertilizers, breeding, disease prevention and control and other aspects have been elaborated.

Let's just put it this way. The land in Liyang can collect one stone more per mu than elsewhere, all thanks to him.

Zhao Hao made a special trip to invite him to go out of the mountain and serve as the chief agricultural technician of Jiangnan Group.

Think about it, as long as he is there, planting two crops of rice is not only risk-free, but also can yield an extra stone per mu. 600,000 acres of land is 600,000 stones!

Just one Kunshan can earn more than one million taels of silver every year!

This Ma Yilong is the real God of Wealth!

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