The Rise of the European Emperor

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After entering the eleventh month of the lunar calendar, the north of Daming completely turned cold. Especially in the morning and evening, thick clothes must be worn. The climate in China is relatively extreme, cold to death in winter and hot to death in summer. Only on the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau, because of the low latitude and high altitude, it is considered spring-like all the year round. Of course, there is also the higher Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, which is not hot in summer, but most people have difficulty breathing when they go there, and it is also very cold in winter.

Except for the two major plateaus and the southern tropical region, which is hot all year round, most of the other regions have a climate of cold winter and hot summer. The difference is that the winter in the south is humid and cold, and the summer is hot and humid. In the north, it is dry and cold in winter and hot and dry in summer...

But the strange thing is that this extreme climate of cold winter and hot summer is very good for agriculture. The hot summer can bring enough accumulated temperature to the crops. The cold in winter can freeze pests such as locusts to death. If it encounters a rare warm winter, it will be prone to insect disasters in the second year. But generally, the winter is cold and the land is still harvested...

In most parts of Europe, especially Western Europe, the temperature is very pleasant, but it is not suitable for crops. Fortunately, the current staple food of Europeans is rye, which is as tenacious as weeds (in fact, rye is a hybrid of weeds and wheat, so it is naturally "wild"), which is not so demanding. If it was replaced with more delicate rice and wheat, it is estimated that there will be a famine every two days.

Of course, this refers to the situation in the backward agricultural era. Marin's modern agriculture is not afraid of such situations. For example, the temperature in Europe is mild, and it may not freeze the pests of the crops. But it doesn't matter, Marin knows how to use simple pesticides such as Bordeaux mixture and lime sulfur mixture, and also knows how to prepare pesticides composed of pyrethrum, so he is not afraid of any pests at all. Only droughts and floods are God's will, even in the era of advanced technology in later generations, there is nothing to do. As for ancient times, it is even more dependent on the sky.

Therefore, the feudal emperors of all dynasties would sacrifice to the heavens to pray for a good harvest and good weather. And Xuanwu, the god of the tortoise, is the god of good weather, and the big tortoise presented by Marin will be regarded as the top auspicious.

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However, compared with the sweet potatoes offered by Marin, the big turtle is nothing to mention...

At the Shuowang Dynasty meeting on November 15th of the lunar calendar, Zhengde and his ministers discussed the upcoming sweet potato harvest, and the monarch and ministers met to participate in the sweet potato harvest ceremony together after the 20th of November.

To be honest, because the sweet potatoes are buried deep in the ground, even though the yield is high, the monarchs and ministers can't see it. Therefore, although many ministers have visited, they have not seen signs of a good harvest. Moreover, in order to ensure the production of sweet potatoes, Marin asked people to pinch off all the flowers of the sweet potatoes to prevent the sweet potatoes from blooming and fruiting and the roots from robbing nutrients. However, this makes the ground part of the sweet potato look even more wilted.

Therefore, on November 20th, when the rulers and ministers of the Ming Dynasty gathered at Xiannongtan's "one-acre-three-division land\

,"Only Marin is full of confidence. As for the emperors and ministers of the Ming Dynasty, most of them did not believe that sweet potatoes could produce high yields. Even if he believes in Marin's righteousness, he thinks that Marin may be bragging. Of course, Zhengde believes that although Marin over exaggerated the yield of sweet potatoes, it should not be a problem that the yield per mu exceeds that of ordinary rice and wheat. Before the start of the harvest ceremony, Zhengde was even thinking about how he could help Marino get rid of the crime if he failed to fulfill his promise at that time...

After all, the "xuangui", plate armor and war horse presented by Marin are all very practical. Taking advantage of others, you can't turn your face against them all the time...

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Before the harvest ceremony, Yang Tinghe approached the soldiers guarding the Xiannongtan and asked seriously if Ma Lin had done any "little tricks" these days.

The so-called small action is to bury more fruits in the soil in advance, so that more fruits will be dug out. During the "Great Leap Forward" period, the "satellite" unit used this method-although the superior was invited to inspect, the person who placed the satellite deliberately harvested the whole rice and wheat from other fields first, and then when the superior came The front is temporarily inserted into the "standard demonstration field", and then harvested and weighed in front of the inspecting leaders... How can the layman's leader see it? In this way, the "satellite" was launched successfully...

Xiannongtan is a royal sacrificial place, where soldiers have been stationed for a long time. If Marin made a small move, he couldn't hide it from them. After receiving a negative reply from the guarding soldiers, Yang Tinghe indicated that the harvesting ceremony would begin...

Because sweet potatoes have been raised to the height of "divine food", the harvesting process cannot be taken lightly. Before the harvest, Zhengde, as the emperor, first led the officials to kneel down and worship the heavens, asking for blessings from the gods, so that Daming could truly harvest the divine food. Then, everyone came to the edge of the "one-acre three-point field", surrounded the three-point sweet potato field, and watched the results...

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After the important monarchs and ministers of the Manchu Dynasty stood still, Marin began to direct the full-time farmers in Xiannongtan to dig sweet potatoes with short wooden sticks...

Yes, manual digging of sweet potatoes cannot be done with sharp iron tools. Otherwise, it is easy to hurt the sweet potato. Therefore, when digging sweet potatoes, Marin asked the farmers to use short wooden sticks that were slightly sharpened (the head is still relatively blunt to avoid poking the sweet potatoes) to dig sweet potatoes.

Under Marin's parent-child command, these farmers carefully used short wooden sticks from the side, and gently pushed the soil away, revealing the pink sweet potato skin in the soil...

In order to protect the sweet potatoes as much as possible, after seeing the sweet potatoes, the farmers would go straight to pick them up, so as not to damage the sweet potatoes with wooden sticks...

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While the farmers were digging sweet potatoes carefully, Marin was a little nervous. Although he usually takes good care of the sweet potatoes in this three-point land and uses plenty of fertilizer, but he is also afraid of accidents...

Fortunately, what Marin said at the beginning was a conservative figure-more than a thousand catties per mu, and he didn't dare to open his mouth to say a few thousand catties according to the standards of later generations. Otherwise, if there is an accident and the output is not reached, it will be a crime of deceiving the emperor.

What is the fate of the crime of deceiving the emperor? That is to beheaded! If something unexpected happened, even if Zhengde had a good relationship with him and saved himself from the death penalty, but don't even think about business and trade...

Therefore, when the farmers were digging sweet potatoes, Marin stood beside him with cold sweat on his forehead, looking very guilty...

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In addition, Marin also discovered something that made him very depressed - the ancient mu was smaller than the modern mu...

After measurement, Marin found that one mu of people in the Ming Dynasty was only 580 square meters, instead of 667 square meters in later generations. Therefore, it would be a disadvantage for Marin to use Dao Daming's yield per mu of later generations. If the final output does not meet the standard, he would have committed the "crime of deceiving the emperor"...

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Fortunately, there were no surprises in the end. When the farmers put the cleaned sweet potatoes into the box, they measured the amount visually, and Marin had a good idea...

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"Overweight!"

The first assistant Li Dongyang shouted, and immediately, several strong officials from the household department came over carrying a large scale.

Then, after a few petty officials hooked the iron hook of the large scale to the top of the basket, they began to carry it and start weighing...

After several weighings, the officials of the household department finally confirmed that a total of 623 catties of sweet potatoes were produced in this three-point area...

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