Chapter 1,695 Songjiang No. 1

Su Song looked at Zhao Xu who was talking eloquently, and felt extremely happy. The emperor was only sixteen years old this year, but his knowledge, sobriety and calmness were already far better than when his father was thirty years old.

The Song Dynasty will give birth to a sage!

Today's arrangement is Zhao Xu's first opportunity to publicly accompany ministers alone. Gao Taotao's intention is obvious. This is beginning to pave the way for Zhao Xu to take charge.

When Zhao Xu led the officials to a rice field, the officials immediately started making a fuss with a "buzz" sound.

The ears of rice in the field are so huge that they bend the stalks heavily.

Lu Dafang held up the golden ears of rice: "Your Majesty... Your Majesty, what kind of rice seed is this? This... this acre..."

Zhao Xu said: "This is the rice seed cultivated by Su Shanzhang of the Royal Institute of Technology. The field is managed by the concubine herself. Today we will harvest this mu of rice and measure the yield."

Zhang Shiliang had already organized the lieutenants. Zhao Xu waved his hand, and the lieutenants who looked like farmers began to go to the fields to cut rice.

The small farm in Gongli uses a pedal-type threshing machine, which is extremely efficient. Ten people can cut an acre of rice field without any waste of effort.

Soon, one acre of rice was harvested and twenty baskets were packed.

Two baskets are equivalent to one stone, twenty baskets, there are already gasps among the ministers, this is rice that yields ten stones per acre!

Sure enough, Zhang Shiliang led the lieutenants to weigh the rice and reported the figures: "Your Majesty, the output of Songjiang No. 1 is one thousand two hundred kilograms of fresh rice per mu."

Su Song said: "After drying, it will lose 20% of its weight, which is 960 kilograms per acre."

Zhao Xu nodded: "Yes... Well, I thought I would definitely be able to weigh over a thousand pounds this year..."

Lu Dafang turned to Zhao Xu, took two steps back and bowed deeply: "Your Majesty, why is this golden harvest hidden deep in the palace? I ask your Majesty to spread it to the world, with Lu Si supervising it, so that the people can grow it, and the Song Dynasty will never be famine-free!"

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Only then did Zhao Xu come back to his senses from the loss: "Where did Lu Aiqing go? If it can be convenient for the people to plant, is there any reason to hide it privately?"

"This is a long-term project of the Royal Institute of Technology. This rice seed is not durable. If it is planted in the ground next year, the yield will be reduced to less than that of ordinary rice."

"Ah?" Lu Dafang felt puzzled: "May I ask Your Majesty, why is this?"

Zhao Xu said: "This kind of rice is called hybrid rice."

"I don't know if you are clear, but Mr. Su must know that there are two stamens in the flower of the plant, which are divided into male and female."

Su Song said: "Your Majesty is right. The stamens produce pollen, and the pollen falls on the pistil. Only when the yin and yang are combined can the fruit be fertile. This is actually the same principle for humans and animals."

"However, rice is an autoflowering plant, which means that the flower of a rice plant can pollinate itself and then form rice."

Zhao Xu continued: "Twelve years ago, Sinong Temple, under the instruction of Situ, found several miraculous rice plants in Songjiang. Their pollen was degraded, but the pistils were normal. They could not self-pollinate and had to rely on external pollen.

, only then can fertilization and fruitfulness be achieved.”

After speaking, he glanced at Zhang Shiliang: "Situ calls this kind of rice a male sterile line."

Zhang Shihao is so angry. Your Majesty, please speak politely. Why are you looking at me?

Fortunately, Zhao Xu looked at the officials again: "After finding this kind of rice, to ensure that it will not become extinct, you must find another kind of rice to hybridize with it. There are two types of rice used for hybrids.

The seeds produced from the sterile line will still be sterile when grown, so we can continue to obtain a large number of sterile rice seedlings."

"The other type is the restorer line. After pollen is used to fertilize the sterile line, the hybrid produced can return its stamens to normal and can self-fertilize and bear fruit."

"If the hybrid has advantages, such as drought resistance, lodging resistance, and high yield, this seed is a new variety that can be used for farming."

"But there is a problem. It is difficult to pass on these characteristics to the next generation for such drought-resistant, lodging-resistant and high-yielding rice, because it can only be obtained by crossing two types of rice, the sterile line and the restorer line.

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"This undertaking is difficult and takes a long time. To date, Sinong Temple has selected several good rice seeds, but this thousand-pound rice cannot be planted by the people because of its unstable properties."

"Because when planted in the fields, rice seeds are easily contaminated by pollen blown from other fields, and cannot achieve the purpose of the experiment, so Su Shancai and the Empress Dowager asked for this piece of land in the palace specifically for hybrid experiments.

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"After all these years, dear friends, you have also seen that at least we have screened out many excellent restorer lines, which can produce some high-yielding hybrid seeds, and have explored a new way of seed selection."

Zhang Dun suddenly said: "I understand, such high-yielding rice is actually the mule in the rice!"

Zhao Xu twitched the corner of his mouth and said: "Actually, it's a combination of a mule and a horse, but as Zhang Aiqing said, even if it doesn't hit the mark, it's not far off."

"Another important one is the conservation of energy, a physical law that has long been clarified by Neo-Confucianism."

Su Song understood immediately: "Land fertility!"

Zhao Xu nodded: "Sure enough, Mr. Su is very knowledgeable. You can tell it as soon as you hear it."

"The yield of such hybrid seeds is several times that of ordinary rice seeds, but the nutrients it absorbs from the ground are also several times that of ordinary rice."

"Therefore, the requirements for land fertility are several times higher than those of other rice varieties, and the requirements for top dressing are even higher."

"To this acre of land, the concubine has applied a lot of chemical fertilizers."

Lu Dafang felt disappointed: "As a result, the cost of rice fields per acre may be very high, which is beyond the reach of small farmers."

Zhao Xu said: "That is, the palace requires five people to cultivate this acre of land. Ordinary people can't do this even if they work hard."

After speaking, he glanced at the ministers and said: "Today I am taking you all to watch the crops. This is not for promotion, but to let you know that all the weird things in the world have their own reasons, but some of them are not known to us.

Some of them are just unknown to us.”

"Autumn suburbs are approaching, and I expect that there will be people offering rare treasures in various state capitals, claiming to be auspicious. I will not take any of them."

"When you first saw this ten-stone-acre of grain, did you also think you saw auspiciousness? When you understand the reason carefully, do you think it can still be called auspiciousness? It is just an experimental product that has no great use yet.

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"I ask the Prime Minister to stop this trend for me. I, the Song Dynasty, don't need those so-called auspicious things to decorate it."

Lu Dafang felt that he had received a profound education. It was a blessing to the world to have such a clear and clear monarch in the Song Dynasty.

Immediately led the ministers to bow down and accept the order: "Your Majesty is wise, and I will obey Yuyin and obey it as one!"

In the winter of October, the imperial edict was issued to Shaanxi to set up the mausoleums of the previous emperors, and to assign five families to guard the mausoleums.

Bingchen, there was a great famine on the North Liaoning Road.

Unable to bear the hunger, the people of Wei tribe in Heicashi moved to the east of Liao Kingdom, trying to eat in Linhuang Mansion of Liao Kingdom.

The Liao Dynasty characterized it as an invasion, and Yelu Hongji ordered the northwest route to recruit envoy Alusagu and summoned Zhunbu Minister Magusu to attack it.

The Zhunbu people of Magusu were originally nomadic in the Yuerluo area of ​​Changchun Province. After the Song Dynasty helped the Liao Kingdom to open up the Changchun Island agricultural base, Magusu was driven to the north of Linhuang Mansion by Yelu Hongji and resettled in Ning.

Between the Hun River and Lang River in the state.

There is Jinshan Mountain, which is where Tu'er Mountain and Mantou Mountain are located in the southern part of Xing'an Mountain in later generations.

In fact, the place is not bad, but it can't be compared with Yuerluo, which has abundant water plants.

In order to stabilize Magusu, Yeluhongji allocated one hundred thousand shi of grain to Magusu every year.

Tu'er Mountain and Mantou Mountain were originally the winter playgrounds of Hei Cheshi Wei. After they were occupied by the powerful Zhunbu, Hei Che Shiwei had no choice but to swallow his anger.

Unfortunately, a drought left Hei Che Shiwei no longer able to survive, and a war could no longer be avoided.

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Daming Mansion, military exercises command shogunate.

Su You is here to listen to the reports from Zhong Ji and Chao Gu.

Zhong Ji put his hand on his forehead: "Thanks to this military exercise, so many problems were discovered..."

Su You smiled and said: "Commander, things have gotten better this time. Every time I come, can't you explain it differently?"

Chaogu said with a smile: "Mingrun doesn't know something. All kinds of problems are really endless and difficult to prevent."

"Yesterday, a fleet of boats arrived at Boye. The sergeants were eager to grab the beach and disembarked from the side. As a result... it capsized."

"Fortunately, we are near the coast and the weather is not too cold, but we are still in a hurry."

Zhong Ji shook his head: "This is just an ordinary drill. If the enemy forces press on the shore, we will already be defeated without fighting."

Supervisor Liu Weijian said: "However, the Hebei East Road armies, Tianxiong Army Li Chunyuan, Zhenning Army Sun Neng, Yongqing Army Su Lie, Polu Army Cao Nan, their method is good. After arriving at the location, the canal unmoored, and the ship

A large shield was erected in front of the boat, and the sergeants used engineering shovels as oars to row the boats against the beach, which was quite methodical."

Chaogu said: "Exactly, although our new army has changed its guns and weapons now, I feel that the fine tradition of being good at using engineers to shovel cannot be lost."

Su You nodded: "Cao Nan and Sun Neng have both served in the Marine Corps. Most of the other armies were transformed from the Western Army. It is not surprising that they are not familiar with water properties."

"Fortunately, Cao Nan has a habit of making military summaries. Even when he is in the army, he never slacks off. I will leave this matter to him and formulate the army's water crossing transportation code and teach it to all the armies."
Chapter completed!