Transmigrating to the Ming Dynasty’s Imperial Examination

During the eight and nine years of Hongzhi, first Li Dongyang entered the cabinet, and then the Houxiang and Huihui tried to acquire many old acquaintances of Cui Xie, and then even the prince went to the cabinet to study. These major events have made a lot of noise on the front, but they have nothing to do with Cui Xie, who is guarding in the country. In fact, he hasn't even gotten out of the door in recent years.

It wasn't until the end of April that the two brothers Cui Heng were full of decay, and he asked people to get out of the cart and send a few miles to the capital.

Cui Heng and his wife rode a horse-drawn carriage and a horse with their brother, followed by a caravan carrying luggage, reluctantly saying goodbye to him. Cui Xie sat in Dabai and looked at them immediately, and said warmly: "Don't be like this. I will return to Beijing next fall, and I will have to supervise you to write carefully.

Brother Heng and Brother He condensed for a moment, and then they laughed a few times after holding the venue, and said, "We will clean up the yard for the elder brother when we return to Beijing, and wait for the eldest brother to come back."

It doesn't need to be, his yard has Xie Ying to clean up, it must be in line with his intentions, he still thinks these two little ones have no taste.

Cui Xie waved his hand and said to Cui Heng, "I said that I would live in the main courtyard of my family. Now the adult and grandmother have passed away, and the grandfather and grandmother's courtyard will be given to your young couple."

He glanced at Cui He again, and arranged: "Living with my brother in his father’s original yard. You are not too young now. I wrote to Master Tuoen and his mother to look for you. After returning to Beijing, I will estimate There will be results."

Cui He's face was reddened, happy and ashamed, secretly happy for a while, and then thought of his elder brother: "Now that father and grandmother are both dead, it is time for the eldest brother to choose a lady to start a family."

Cui Xie smiled and shook his head: "Fine, you two are in charge of your eldest brother? Go back to Beijing to read and write essays at ease. I will post it every few days in the future, I will check it!"

He didn't want to impeach the marriage, but Cui Heng plucked up the courage to say: "Even brother and brother are about to get married. Does the eldest brother really have to keep a cold pillow and live by himself for a lifetime? If you are afraid of being angry The luck is too high, it overwhelms us, but we can separate me and brother from home. Anyway, we are so old, we have all passed the exams, and we shouldn’t live by brother..."

Cui Xie slammed his face abruptly and shouted: "Your brothers have hardened wings and are going to separate from me? Our Cui family has moved to Jiaxiangdun since the ancestors, and we have never split our family too much. As long as I live for one day, our generation Not allowed!"

——The Cui family moved to Jiaxiangtun, and they have not had a prosperous heir. There are many children who have died. They have been passed on for a few generations, and there is indeed no chance of excessive family.

However, he spoke with a strong voice, as if he was going to tie up the two younger brothers and have a fight next moment, which evoked Cui Heng's fear of being pumped by him back then and did not dare to mention it. He was also the one who played with him, but he was more in awe of his elder brother than his father, and he didn't dare to turn back after listening to his elder brother's lesson.

Don't dare, don't distinguish, don't mention it.

The Cui brothers shuffled back to the car and took the Yang family and the family back to Beijing.

Cui Xie sent a few miles away, then took the reins and turned around, but instead of going back to Zhuangzi directly, he asked people to show him the land of Cui's house-mainly to see his hybrid soybeans.

In the past two years, his most effort has been on soybeans.

The first hybridization experiment of broad beans had a low pollination rate, and the hybrid varieties were not easy to produce fruit. Later, he tried soybeans instead. In the past two years, their family has bought bean seeds from all over the country, and tried them in a vegetable field in the corner of Zhuangzi for two years. Finally, they have summarized their pollination experience and hybridized several varieties that can increase production.

The best one can harvest more than 10% more than the control group, and one mu of land can yield 20 to 30 kilograms more beans. If all four hectares of the Cui family are planted, it can yield more than 10,000 kilograms... …

What if the whole county and the whole government are planted?

He has read the official records, Qian’an County has 6,157 hectares of land and 120 hectares of military garrison; while Yongping’s official land and civilian land totaled 66,826 hectares, the army Tunze two thousand and forty-eight hectares...

Cui Xie counted for himself, feeling that his heartbeat was speeding up, and he wanted to rush to the government office to force the officials to implement it.

But he resisted the impulse and carefully listed the advantages and disadvantages of hybrid soybeans. The advantages are not troublesome. The disadvantage is that hybrid soybeans are not good for breeding. It is necessary to select a robust parent, take time to emasculate, prevent self-pollination, and artificially pollinate plant by plant with pollen. The bean seeds that are produced are not as good as ordinary beans. Even if they grow smoothly, they can only be harvested for one season. The harvested beans cannot be seeded and must be crossed.

He wrote the 20,000-character "Qian'an No. 1 Hybrid Soybean Selection and Cultivation Book", and his mind was calm. He planned to build a hybrid soybean breeding base and guide the people to buy soybean seeds and plant them from them.

Soybean is a fertile crop and can be intercropped with spring wheat or rotated with winter wheat. The weather has been extremely cold in the past two years. Most of the people here in Qian’an are growing spring wheat. Several rows of soybeans are planted in the wheat room. As long as the interval is appropriate, the irrigation and fertilizer can keep up. After harvesting, turn the bean roots into the soil to enrich the field...

This is already the best way to get a fertile crop he can think of.

The Cui family used top-grade fields for experiments. This year, the yield per mu was about three stones and eight buckets of wheat and three buckets of soybeans. The wheat harvest alone was eight buckets higher than in previous years. Although this experiment has not had time to be tried in the middle and lower fields, there are more than 781 hectares in the upper field in Qian'an county, which is more than 600,000 shi.

Counting the soybean harvest... Now it is hard to calm down how many 10,000-character essays he writes.

He used chicken blood to settle accounts at home, and the family dealers also used chicken blood. This year, he planted beans in several large fields in the Cui family. The neighbors looked very rare, and secretly asked his tenants if his farmer had gone crazy and how he had grown beans in a good wheat field.

The dealers proudly said: "Which dealer dare to be the master? This is what my family Hanlin came up with! His old man is a talented man with five yuan and the fifth yuan and the third, what can he do? Cui family grows in this wheat field. With beans, not only will it not damage the soil, nor will it reduce the grain, but it will also collect a lot more!"

It is totally unreasonable for the dealer to tout the master.

In the past two years, Cui Xie’s disinfection, fertilizer accumulation, earthworm breeding, hybridization, and intercropping in the countryside were all tried out by the old crops based on his little memory. They have not failed, but they have become Cui Hanlin lightly shook the lupins, took out a kit, and gently and easily increased grain production, so that pigs, sheep, chickens and ducks would not be plagued.

Although this image seems to be a copy of Zhuge Liang, Cui Xie is a champion after all, and Ding You became a servant of the Hanlin before, which is quite credible in the eyes of the people. Many people saw that his family had such a heavy field, and they also quietly set aside a small field, and sprinkled some beans into it.

Some people were afraid that they could not grow well, so they secretly brought eggs and rice to Cui's house and asked his farmers how to grow them.

After this crop of spring wheat was planted, the farmers were not only tired and thin, but also a lot of fat. Looking in their eyes and angered in their hearts, the villagers and Cui Xie presented the group of white-eyed wolves to the outside.

However, Cui Xie was obsessed with agricultural sciences and didn't care about his servants. After hearing this, he even asked the old farmers in the experimental field to walk around to see if someone planted the wrong thing, and helped to correct it.

The stewards and villagers were heartbroken and blocked outside his study room to persuade them: "How can adults teach people what they can get! Just print books to those lords and teach them the imperial examinations. This kind of talent is not to be dedicated to the emperor and senior citizen." Are you? How can people take advantage of it in vain!"

A group of people seemed to have turned into the Shang Rong and Bigan around King Zhou. They were admonished that Cui Xie couldn’t write his essay. They reluctantly came out and said: "This was originally meant to promote Beizhili and even the surrounding areas. Whoever wants to learn the things of the Secretary of State, let them learn it. Is it possible that who can steal the credit of my old school student and put it on himself? If you are uncomfortable, go out and open a few acres of wasteland to plant quinoa. There is some use blocking outside my door!"

Quinoa is the gray ash vegetable, which can be eaten as wild vegetables when it comes down, and it can be sold for money in the fall. Qian'an County has two water veins, Luan River and Sanli River, which are not considered water shortages, but there are also large saline-alkali land. A large area of ​​Beizhili is full of such wasteland. No food can be grown, but some salt-tolerant ash and wormwood are naturally grown. The burnt ash and white snow can be used as incense ash in the incense burner and the charcoal pot. Furnace ash can also make alkali.

The snow-white peach nuggets sold in the Jinrongtang cosmetics store were bought by the farmers during their leisure time.

He used to ask people to buy alkaline soil to refine soda ash, but now he is addicted to farming, so he wants to try to make another kind of soda block with quinoa ash. The quinoa ash can be precipitated by adding water, and then mixed with some flour to produce a whiter block than sodium carbonate. The main content of this alkali is potassium carbonate. It can also make soap, wash clothes, and cook porridge, but it can't make noodles. It can only be used in noodles. According to the book, noodles mixed with alkali seem to taste good.

If a soda ash processing industry can be built in such a place with large saline-alkali soils, and more job opportunities can be provided, the people will be able to live better.

Cui Xie actually thinks more than that, but with limited knowledge and limited conditions, he has to simplify everything.

Why wouldn't he be able to study the technology of diverting water to wash saline-alkali land and turning wasteland into rice field for a while? Not to mention the harsh environment and climate during the Little Ice Age, which cannot be changed by humans. As long as he can't make Jinkela, no matter how he engages in food production, the output is still not enough. It is better to ban the sea and buy food from Champa and Annan after returning to the imperial court.

He looked towards the capital through the window, sighed, and lifted the pen again.

As soon as a person writes a essay, time flies extremely quickly.

In late October, Cui He sent him a letter stating that Mr. Li Ge helped him choose a lady who was dedicated to the family of Nanjing Guozijian Jijiu Xie Duo. Her father and ancestors were celebrities and her family law was strict. However, the Xie family's ancestors are from Wenling, Zhejiang. After Xie Jijiu's resignation, he has been teaching and teaching in the township. He wanted to see this future grandson-in-law with his own eyes and asked him to go to Jiangnan to get married.

Wang Shouren got married at his father-in-law's house, and Cui Heng also stayed at the bride's house for two to three months. It doesn't matter, as long as the relatives are well.

Cui Xie replies to his younger brother with a pen, and then writes to Xie Li Dongyang for choosing such a good relationship for his family, and happily gave his third brother to the Xie family.

Because there was a township examination in Hongzhi's eleventh year, Cui He had to come back for the exam, and the two families set the marriage ceremony in August next year. Cui Xie wrote to order Cui Liangdong to prepare the betrothal gift for his third younger brother, and then grabbed his private house, and gave him some good jade and toys to please the father and sons.

There were no two younger brothers in the way this year, and it was more convenient for Xie Ying to come to live. He didn't bring Xie Shan again, but rode to Qian'an alone, and spent five more days in Jiaxiangtun. During the night of the Lantern Festival, he clearly went out to watch the lanterns, and at night there was no one in the yard, so he returned to Cui Xie's room with seven or eight lanterns, and stole the lights in the house.

Cui Xie looked at the puzzles reflected on the lights and asked with a smile: "Isn't these lights won by Brother Xie? You are indeed Xie Zhenfu who has investigated Qiuhao, you can't help you in the world, you can win so soon. These lanterns come."

"Well, it's just some old mysteries that I'm familiar with. There are not as many talents in Jiaxiangtun as there are in Beijing, so I sometimes win a few times."

Xie Ying also stood at the spot where the lights converged, not the lights but the people under the lights. The room was full of lights, so that the room was like daylight, and everything was visible. He took a step behind Cui Xie, his eyes fell into the back collar which was not tightly fastened, and he could clearly see the traces of gorgeous color printed there.

I'm afraid he was a little forgotten last night, and next time he has to be more careful not to make such traces that are easy to see.

He thought about it, but he couldn't help but walked up, lowered his head and sniffed the slightly open neckline. The clear soap scent inside seemed to be stained with the fragrance of his clothes, tempting him to pull it more open, and said softly: "I haven't seen you in such a bright place for a long time. Ask me to take a closer look. Our brother Xie has been reduced in the past two years?"