"My lord is busy with county affairs, how can he have time to come to our poor countryside today? Could it be that the county warden kicked you out? Chen Xu joked with a smile.

Jiang Beiting's beard shook and pointed at Chen Xu and said: "You are not serious at all, your words are frivolous and uninhibited, I don't know how many people you will offend when you go to Xianyang in the future!" ”

"Those who know me say I'm worried, those who don't know me say what I want, gentlemen are frank, villains are often relatives, why should Xu care about other people's opinions!" Chen Xu was very embarrassed to say a few famous words from later generations, and then arched his hands and said, "Lord Jiang, please, today is the day of the summer grain harvest in Qinghe Town, and we just happened to witness the most joyful harvest in the history of Qinghe Town!" ”

"Let's go, you're right, I'm here for this harvest in Qinghe Town!" Jiang Beiting took Chen Xu's hand and said as he walked.

Chen Xu was taken to the river by Jiangbei Pavilion in a terrified manner.

According to his understanding for more than a year, holding hands is the most trusted and closest way between men in the Qin Dynasty, and if you continue to get closer, you will fall asleep at night, which is really beyond the emotion of brothers, if a good friend comes, it is generally to sleep with a good friend, so that it seems cordial, as for his wife and concubine, he can only keep the empty room alone, and there are even more perverted masters, who kill their concubines and give them to the guests to eat to show their greatest enthusiasm.

Vomit, the more Chen Xu thought about it, the more disgusting he became, and then he broke free of his hand and covered his mouth.

Soon, a group of people came to the front of Chen Xu's experimental field.

The 20 acres of experimental fields have been golden and fully mature, the ears of wheat are larger than more than 10 specially planted farms, Chen Xu has already sampled, the number of grains in each ear of wheat is more than 25, the grains are also full, according to his estimates, the yield per mu of these 20 acres of experimental fields is more than eight stones.

"My lord, please see, these 20 acres of experimental fields are specially planted by me, using strict intensive farming, plus fire manure, neat strip sowing, inter-ridge ventilation, plus this year's wind and rain, if nothing else, the yield per mu of this experimental field will reach eight stones." Chen Xu pointed to the wheat field and said.

"Eight stones?"

Not only Jiang Beiting couldn't help but exclaim, but the accompanying officials of the seven or eight county guards who followed behind him all changed their faces.

"Yes, not only my experimental field, the worst yield per mu of summer wheat in Qinghe Town this year is above four stones, that is to say, the summer wheat yield in Qinghe Town this year is more than three times higher than last year!" Chen Xu said this, looked at Jiang Beiting with a smile and said, "Lord Jiang, you can say it last year, this year, Qinghe Town's tax grain can't be overcharged!" ”

"How can that be done...... an official behind Jiangbei Pavilion couldn't help but shout.

"Why not?" Chen Xu turned his head to look at an official in his thirties and said coldly.

"Daqin has a law, and if the land is out, there must be four taxes, so eight stones per mu must pay three stones and two buckets of tax grain, and no one can be exempt!" The official said without concessions.

"Haha!" Chen Xu suddenly laughed, "You're talking about the grain that has been put away, what if I can't put it away?" ”

"Can't put it away? How can it not be put away? This summer wheat is ripe and ready to be harvested, and it will be harvested in a few days! The official said with a puzzled face.

"There are many reasons why I can't put it away, such as bad weather, bad mood, dogs, sore hands and sore stocks, anyway, I can't put it away," Chen Xu said with a roll ......of his eyes.

"Okay, okay, don't mess around, don't mess around, what I promised will naturally count, your Qinghe Town will not only not pay more this year, but also pay less!" Jiang Beiting interrupted Chen Xu's words with tears and laughter.

"Why do you say that?" Chen Xu asked in surprise.

Jiangbei Pavilion stroked his beard and said: "Last year, you presented me in detail the method of intensive cultivation, which not only mentioned compost weeding, but also mentioned the selection of good seeds, after the last time the river embankment was repaired, I came to Leshi to remember the merits for you, I saw that the wheat seedlings in your Qinghe Town are growing gratifying, not only neat and strong, I expected that your summer wheat in Qinghe Town this year will be a bumper harvest, at that time I thought that you can not buy the grain in Qinghe Town as a good seed, now it seems that my idea is good, All the summer wheat in your Qinghe Town is not allowed to be used as rations, and all of them must be handed over to the county government grain depot, and they will be distributed as improved varieties next year. ”

"This ...... Lord County Guard, it's too little, I just told them about the good seeds, and I will change one stone for five buckets! Chen Xu turned his head to look at the more than ten farmers behind him, "That's what I said just now!" ”

These farmers have been following Chen Xu for more than a year, and naturally all the thieves nodded together and said that Fang Cai Lidian said so, and several of them also shouted that Lidian also said just now, and each stone is also a private subsidy of five yuan.

Jiang Beiting was so depressed that he almost pulled off his beard several times, and couldn't help but twitch a few times and said: "Virtuous nephew, you and I are not businessmen, why do you have to bargain like this, it is impossible to post money, so let's kill two birds with you with one stone, this is the last concession!" ”

"Deal!" Chen Xu couldn't close his mouth happily.

"Haha, that's good, hurry up and harvest the scythe, I want to see what the yield is right away?" Jiang Beiting also smiled very happily, and Chen Xu suddenly had a feeling of being deceived.

"Hit the gong, open the sickle!" Chen Xu gestured to Liu Po.

Soon, with the sound of a gong, the whole Qinghe Town standing in the field has been ready to prepare men, women and children almost at the same time to start harvesting, at the same time the threshing machine also suddenly turned, men, women and children laughter and laughter also spread in the field, the peaceful and quiet Qinghe Town, it seems that in the blink of an eye, it has become a jubilant harvest scene.

At the same time as the gong sounded, seven or eight farmers with straw hats and sickles had also stepped into Chen Xu's experimental field, bent down and began to harvest, as the green and yellow thick wheat stalks fell down one by one, another group of people began to carry the cut wheat to the thresher, at this time the threshing machine had already been turned by a burly young man, another middle-aged farmer put the wheat into the threshing machine, with the sound of popping, the golden wheat grains jumped from the exit and fell into a rattan basket below.

"Virtuous nephew, share a scythe with me!" Jiang Beiting tucked the robe on his body into his belt, as the county guard, he wanted to have fun with the people.

Chen Xu's face was a little dark, and he said in his heart that there are no news reporters at the moment, and there is no radio broadcast, what are you making a fuss about, if you go down to cut wheat, won't I have to go down to show it?

Seeing Jiangbei Pavilion's insistence, Chen Xu had no choice but to find two sickles, roll up his sleeves and accompany Jiangbei Pavilion to the field to cut wheat.

Suddenly, an hour passed, Chen Xu was tired like a dog, soaked and sat down under a big tree at the edge of the field to accompany Jiangbei Pavilion and a few officials to drink herbal tea, and at this time the sun was shining, it was already noon, the hot sun was shining down, and there was almost no shelter in the farmland, but the villagers who harvested wheat seemed to be more energetic, and they were still talking and laughing loudly one by one.

"The people's hearts are available!" Jiang Beiting wiped the sweat on his forehead with his sleeve and praised the farmer who was working while drinking herbal tea.

Chen Xu couldn't help but roll his eyes vigorously, and then secretly glanced at Jiang Chuyue, who was standing next to her holding a bottle of frozen grape fruit vinegar and drinking slowly with a new wheat stalk, and found that she still didn't have much emotion on her face, her expression was flat, and she seemed to be indifferent to everything in front of her.

I haven't seen this little girl for more than half a year, and it seems that she has changed her temper?

But something didn't feel right with this look, as if I had lost my soul.

Chen Xu was about to open his mouth to ask Jiang Beiting several times, but finally swallowed the words back.

For Jiang Chuyue, Chen Xu can't say that he has a good impression, but he doesn't particularly hate it, after all, it is normal for thirteen or fourteen-year-old girls who have been pampered since childhood to be rude, as long as there are no big vices, Chen Xu can basically tolerate it.

He also knew what Jiang Beiting meant, and he had repeatedly reminded him several times before, but he used various reasons to shirk it.

Marrying a wife is such a thing, or marrying a gentle and beautiful woman.

Therefore, although he felt that Jiang Chuyue might have experienced some great change in his heart that caused him to change his mind, he finally decided not to be contaminated with this layer of meaningless cause and effect.

An hour later, more than one-third of the 20 acres of experimental fields were harvested, the three threshers were constantly rotating, dozens of sacks of wheat grains were placed together, and Niu Quan and a few sturdy young men were weighing them with wooden buckets next to each other.

"How?" Seeing Niu Quan running over sweating profusely, Chen Xu hurriedly asked.

"It's a good harvest, it's a good harvest!" Niu Quan shouted excitedly, "After harvesting, we have measured that it has exceeded fifty stones, and the yield per mu is more than eight stones!" ”

Chen Xu fell to the ground with a stone in his heart, and his mood suddenly became extremely comfortable, as if the few blisters that he had just cut out of his hands were suddenly not hot and painful.

"Good!" Jiang Beiting stood up, his beard and eyebrows were shaking with excitement, this data was seen by him in person, so naturally it could not be faked.

Soon, the weighing data from some other places also came one after another, and almost all of the more than a dozen experimental fields of improved varieties reached Chen Xu's prediction, with a yield of more than six stones per mu, and those ordinary farmers were also above four stones, and many of them reached five stones.

This data made Jiangbei Pavilion even more happy, and praised Chen Xu repeatedly, "Virtuous nephew, I want to present the harvest of eight stones per mu in Qinghe Town to Xianyang in detail, and ask for credit for the villagers of Qinghe Town in front of Your Majesty!" ”

Chen Xu shrugged indifferently, as long as he didn't let him pay more taxes, it didn't matter if he didn't ask for credit.

To get the answer he wanted, Jiang Beiting repeatedly told Chen Xu to return to the warehouse after drying the wheat in the entire Qinghe Town, and after a month, he would arrange for a caravan to come over and exchange the harvested wheat with ordinary wheat, Chen Xu naturally agreed.

There are more than 600 households in Qinghe Town, the main grain fields are concentrated on both sides of the Xiaoqing River, close to 20,000 acres, and it is also the most fertile fertile land, there are 11 villages below, most of the geographical location is not bad, each household also has 20 or 30 acres of fields, the whole town adds up to nearly 30,000 acres of farmland, of which nearly half of the wheat is sown, according to the minimum yield of four stones per mu, it will harvest 60,000 stones of wheat, which is 1,800 tons.

I'm rubbing, that's an astronomical amount.

Chen Xu was a little distracted in an instant after calculating clearly.

In such an era when cattle and horses are all relied on to carry and carry on their shoulders, it is not a small project to get so much grain out of the mountains and then return it to the warehouse, but it should not be a big problem to think that it should be a big problem to add the stimulation of 20% of the extra harvest in a month, and at the same time there are more than 100 wheelbarrows left after repairing the river embankment.

So Chen Xu except for arranging for the carpenters and stonemasons in the town to quickly repair and expand the grain depot, all other problems were temporarily put aside, and the overseer returned to Xiaohe Village after harvesting the experimental field, and his family still had more than ten acres of wheat to harvest.

And just as the summer wheat was harvested, Qin Shi Huang's car that was cruising the southeast finally arrived in Langya County at the end of June.