The Siong Qing Liu Xiangdao took good care of Li Xiao, the seconded subordinate. Li Xiao only said that it required some horse manure to grow corn. As a result, Liu Xiangdao immediately went to greet the Taipu Temple minister in the morning court. The next day, the Taipu Temple transported a hundred carriages of horse manure.

Sinong Temple only manages food, while Taipu Temple mainly manages horses.

There are countless horse herders in Taipu Temple, which controls horses all over the world, and there are many horses and many horse manures.

The ancients realized the help of manure to crops very early. In the book Qimin Yaoshu, written in the Southern and Northern Dynasties, the method of making animal fertilizers using cow manure, which is called the method of stepping on manure.

Before the Tang Dynasty, domestic livestock manure and urine were widely used for fertilization.

As for human feces and urine as fertilizers, although it was recorded in the Western Han Dynasty, until then, the manures were still mainly animal manure, and human feces and urine were still rarely used.

Because Taipu Temple manages horses all over the world and has many horse prisons, Taipu Temple has a large amount of horse manure. Even in various yamen in Chang'an, Taipu Temple has become the richest yamen because it manages the horse prison and has a large amount of horse manure.

Every year, they just sell horse manure, so that the small treasury of Taipu Temple is the most full, and every year, the officials of Taipu Temple can get a lot of extra income.

To put it bluntly, there are no fertilizer plants these days, and even human feces have not been fully applied. Livestock feces have become the main method to help the land restore fertility.

Taipu Temple has a large amount of horse manure, which is equivalent to having the largest fertilizer factory in the country.

One hundred trucks of dry horse manure are naturally more common for now to try-grow corn, but the more is the better. The small pieces of land that need to be tried-growed corn have been applied to a lot of horse manure, while the rest have been applied to the remaining fields. Corn cannot be planted this spring, and it can still be planted next year, or even in the second half of the year.

Seeing that Taipu Temple had such resources, Li Xiao invited Liu Xiangdao to have a meal, and then generously gave him two corn seedlings.

"These two seedlings are not within the number of corn seeds registered by the court. They are privately owned by someone. Although Liu Sinong took them back and raised them, the corn is actually a very beautiful ornamental object at home." As soon as Li Xiao took action, Liu Xiangdao's eyes narrowed.

In Li Xiao's eyes, two corns are two corns, but in Liu Xiangdao's eyes, this is auspicious.

"It's really not within the number of seeds registered by the court?"

"Not here."

Liu Xiang said with a smile and accepted it. "Judge Li said something." The old fried dough stick is very smart and knows that Li Xiao must have something to ask for.

"There are two things. One is that I want to ask Liu Sinong to help me take the lead. I want to find Taipu Temple to buy some horse manure. You know, my family also has more than a thousand acres of land. I just got a title and had hundreds of acres of land. However, the land in Lanxi is too thin and not strong enough. If I can have some horse manure, it can greatly improve the landing capacity."

"Oh, such a small thing is fine, of course it's fine." Liu Xiangdao agreed painfully, but it was a small thing anyway. With his status, it was not a problem to find Taipu Temple Queen to get a thread.

"Thank you, Liu Sinong. I'll still come here as the market price of horse manure, just because someone needs to help me with the line."

"It's easy to say, there's another thing I've helped."

Li Xiao asked Liu Xiang to find Liu Xiang and the second thing he did was to buy grain. The bonds of 1,500 guan had been printed and sent to Lao Wang. Lao Wang's 1,500 guan of cash were also sent, and he piled up a copper mountain and a silk mountain in the Li family. After raising money, he naturally had to buy grain and put it in the warehouse immediately.

And who has the most food in Chang'an City?

Of course it is Sinong Temple. Sinong Temple is responsible for grain storage and the rice of all officials. The grain in the major warehouses in the capital is in the hands of Sinong Temple.

The grain in charge of the Sinong Temple is responsible for supplying it to the emperor and the palace, as well as soldiers garrisons, officials from all departments and officials from all departments, and of course they are also responsible for selling grain to the people of the capital. However, they usually make small fuss and sell it to big grain stores, which is considered wholesalers.

"You want to buy grain? How much?" Liu Xiang said that it was a big deal. As a result, there were not many other things in Sinong Temple, but only grain was the least short of it, which was just like the countless horses and horse manure in Taipu Temple.

"How about buying 5,000 stones of millet?" Li Xiao asked tentatively. Now that the price of grain is rising, many grain merchants have started to sell in limited quantities, and even if they have money, they can't buy too much grain for a while.

"Isn't it just five thousand stones of millet? Li Jianzheng is also a family member of our Sinong Temple. Of course, there is no problem. In this way, I will give you a lowest price, which is about twenty cents per bucket. This is the price of our family. How about it?"

Nowadays, Chang'an millet is priced at 30 cents per dou, but this is the retail price. The price of major grain banks can get grain at Sinong Temple is actually lower, and Liu Xiangdao gives Li Xiao a face and offers a lower price.

However, in this way, Li Xiao saved one-third of the purchase of grain.

Twenty-months per dou, five thousand stones only cost one thousand guan.

"Liu Sinong, I have 1,500 guan in my hand, 5,000 guan of millet, and 500 guan left. Can you sell some rice bran for me?"

Rice bran is a bran with broken rice. These are the ones that Sinong Temple crushed when processing and grinding rice, and some of them are finer brans, and some are rice brans. Generally, this rice bran is supplied to the palace horses and the war horses of the imperial guards as feed.

Of course, because the rice bran also contains a lot of broken rice and rice noodles, it is actually edible. In the years of famine, many people can even eat some wheat bran and rice bran mixed with wild vegetables and leaves.

They can’t even eat something as high-end as rice bran.

"Is this going to buy it to feed the cows?" Liu Xiang asked. He knew that Li Xiao had bought a thousand cows, and he thought he wanted to buy it to feed the cows. However, rice bran is not rice after all, and now the rice price is 50 cents for rice, and the price in Sinong Temple is even cheaper, which is about 40 cents.

Rice bran is even cheaper. If you buy rice bran for 500 knots, you can buy a lot of them. Even if there are a thousand cows, you can't finish them. After all, even the war horses of the Imperial Guards do not eat all rice bran, but are mixed with a little.

"I'm not hiding Liu Siong, I bought people for food. This year's drought, the summer harvest will definitely be a bad harvest, and it will be difficult to sustain the autumn harvest. It is also a good grain during the famine of rice and bran. Our Lanxi Township wants to build a charity warehouse to provide the people in the village with the difficulties together."

"I didn't expect that Li Jianzheng was so kind. No problem. I'll count you as ten coins per bucket, one stone a hundred coins. Five hundred coins, I'll give you five thousand stones."

"Thank you, Liu Sinong." Li Xiao knew that this was Liu Xiangdao's face. A bucket of only ten cents, but the price of rice was one quarter of that. This was really a very favorable price, five thousand stones. Although it was usually given to war horses, it was life-saving food during famine.

Li Xiao felt at 5,000 stones of millet and 5,000 stones of rice bran.

"Let's keep a low profile in this matter, and the food is tight now." Liu Xiang said.

"Don't worry, Liu Sinong, I will keep a low profile."

This means that the summer has not yet begun, and the food crisis has not really appeared. After all, many people are still looking forward to raining. If they wait for another month or two, many spring-planted grains will wither one after another in this severe drought, and not much can be left, and the food crisis will only appear at that time. If they wait until the summer before the autumn harvest, then the food shortage will be the worst. If they want to buy so much food, it will not be possible to be so low, even high prices will be difficult to buy.

The Kunlun slaves are indeed very gentle and work very diligently.

It is said that these Kunlun slaves came from the South China Sea. Li Xiao observed that these black uncles did not come from the African continent, but from places in the South China Sea, such as the later places such as the Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand.

According to Liu Xiangdao, these Kunlun slaves were actually people who have taken root and sprouted in the Middle Land for several generations. It is said that these Kunlun slaves were first arrested during the Sui Dynasty.

When the Sui Dynasty conquered Linyi, captured its capital, and captured countless gold, silver and gems. There were also many nobles and civilians in Linyi who were victorious and returned to the capital.

Linyi is the southern part of Vietnam in later generations, also known as Champa in ancient times.

The Chameng rice, which was very famous since the Song Dynasty, came from this area, and Chameng rice was also a very powerful thing. With its extremely short growth cycle and yield, the grain output in the south increased greatly during the Song Dynasty, providing great support for the development of the Huguang area between the Song Dynasty.

Linyi and Chameng rice are also considered to be the same magical thing as corn.

However, the focus of the Tang Dynasty in this era was on the front line of the Yellow River and Huai River. In the areas south of the Yangtze River, except for Jiangling, Hongzhou, Guangzhou, and Hangzhou, the rest of the places were all wilderness.

The Dabie Mountains are still full of barbarians, not to mention Hunan and southern Jiangnan, and are even more barbarians. As for Guangdong and Guangxi in Lingnan, although they surrendered to the Tang Dynasty, they were almost all natives.

"These Linyi people were captured by the Sui army back then, so they stayed here?"

"Well, it's been several generations." Liu Xiangdao said that the reason why there were a large number of Kunlun slaves in Sinong Temple was that these Kunlun slaves were more good at planting rice, so they stayed in the temple. From the Sui Dynasty to the Tang Dynasty, it has been multiplied for several generations in decades.

"But it is also a false saying that they can grow rice. In addition to being diligent and powerful, these people are actually very stupid. The rice they planted is not as high as that of our Han farmers." Liu Xiangdao curled his lips.

Li Xiao was helpless and thought to himself that was because you didn't understand the reason. The rice yields of Linyi people are high, because the climate in Linyi is good and there are enough rainfall. You can have three kinds of them a year. Therefore, even if you sow some seeds, you will not grow seedlings, transplant them, or even manage them, and you can still harvest a lot of food in a year.

But when we come to Chang'an, it is drought and rainy, and the climate is not as good as Linyi. We can only plant one season a year. Without the right time and place, it is naturally difficult to produce more with their skills alone.

"When they came here, did they bring Linyi's rice seeds?"

Li Xiao is very concerned about Chameng rice, which is high-yield rice.

"I brought it, but Linyi rice is extremely unpalatable. No one wants to eat the rice planted, and the yield is low, so naturally I stopped planting it. Now I don't know if there are still seeds in the temple. I guess it's not. It's useless to store it, and it's unpalatable and has no yield. What's the use of planting?"

Li Xiao almost fainted, and he was begging for food with gold bricks. He said that the yield was low, but he didn't know how to manage it. As for the unpalatable, Chameng rice was indeed tasted a little, after all, the growth period was short. But output, output was the key.

"Xiaguan is quite curious about the Linyi rice seeds. I wonder if Liu Sinong can help me find them when he has time. If he can find some of the Linyi rice seeds left before, Xiaguan wants to study them. It seems that he cannot cultivate and improve them."
Chapter completed!