Start Being a Vassal King Today - Chapter 716

[Chapter 716 Detoxification]

“Your Highness, is this corn, this is pepper, and this is tomato…”

Cen Xi, head of the Agricultural Affairs Department, followed behind Zhao Xu, and every time he passed a bag, he grabbed a handful of seeds from it and held it in his hand Check the resolution.

Zhao Xu showed a satisfied smile, and said to Cen Xi, “That’s right, do you know what month these seeds were planted, and how to plant them?”

He was in Kao Cen Xi.

Although Dasong does not have these plants, in the agricultural textbooks of the Government Affairs School, he has included all the modern and modern crops that Dasong has and Dasong does not have.

Moreover, he also specially drew pictures of the corresponding crops, including the seeds of the crops and the appearance of the plants of the crops.

Of course, the planting months, methods, and habits of crops are also indispensable.

The Department of Agricultural Affairs is responsible for the development of agriculture, and the agricultural part of the teaching materials is naturally the focus of their study.

If an official of the Department of Agriculture does not even know about crops, let alone how to cultivate them, he is not worthy of being an official of the Department of Agriculture.

He doesn’t want people who don’t know all kinds of grains to mix into the current ranks of officials.

“Returning to Your Highness, corn can be planted in two seasons, spring and summer, April in spring, and July in summer…” Facing Zhao Xu’s question, Cen Xi did not panic at all.

He spoke in such a eloquent manner that Liu Fu and other officials nodded frequently.

“Well, you are indeed the one who won the first place in the Agricultural Secretary Examination.” Zhao Xu gave Cen Xi a look of praise, “Since this is the case, the king is relieved, it is July, summer corn, summer pepper, It’s all ready to be sown, and I won’t talk about potatoes and sweet potatoes.”

After Zhou Yi obtained potatoes and sweet potatoes from the Japanese warship for the first time, the officials of the Agricultural Affairs Department began to cultivate seedlings according to his requirements.

Thinking of this, he asked Cen Xi to lead the way to inspect the situation of potato and sweet potato seedlings.

After all, there are still three months until the next round of potato planting begins.

Although, it is impossible to spread potatoes to the whole Jiangbei in a short time.

But he hopes to get potatoes to meet the needs of the army as soon as possible.

In this way, at least part of the food pressure can be relieved.

“Your Highness, please come in.” Following Cen Xi, everyone arrived in front of a long building.

This is the nursery room built by Guanzhuang.

The style is similar to contemporary vegetable greenhouses, but the main body is made of red bricks, the roof is made of red tiles, and there are glass windows at intervals on the roof.

Potatoes reproduce asexually. If the potatoes are directly planted due to virus infection in the soil, the yield of the next generation of potatoes will inevitably decrease.

Therefore, to maintain a high yield of potatoes, one is to plant them in alpine regions.

Another one is virus-free when cultivating potato seedlings.

The detoxification process is to bury potatoes in sand and let them germinate in a dimly lit space.

Due to the young shoots that grow, especially the bud tip virus is the least.

You only need to dig the buds from the potatoes, peel the bamboo shoots and leave only the bud tips, wash them with bleach, and plant them to complete the detoxification.

In this way, there are several buds on one potato, and the buds grow into seedlings, and then cut and planted, one potato can breed hundreds of potato seedlings.

It is precisely because of this that Guanzhuang has these long buildings.

The existence of glass windows is to keep the nursery room faintly bright, but not too bright.

As for bleaching powder, after Qusheng established the three-acid and two-alkali industry, its preparation is no longer a problem.

In contemporary ancient times, there was a way to prepare bleaching powder by ground bran method.

It is as boring as fertilizing hydrochloric acid and lime milk.

At present, both of these two chemicals can be industrially produced in Yanzhou.

Therefore, there is no problem in preparing bleaching powder in large quantities.

Originally, he placed the main production area of potatoes in Ningjindusi.

Now, due to the technical conditions for detoxification, there will be no problem in planting potatoes in the entire Jiangbei.

The most important thing is to maintain production.

“How many potato seedlings are there in such a seedling room?” Zhao Xu looked at the ground after entering the seedling room.

I saw potato seedlings as long as fingers, covering the entire seedling room from east to west, full of greenery.

Cen Xi said: “Your Highness, this nursery room has 80,000 seedlings, and the larger nursery room can hold 100,000 seedlings.”

Zhao Xu nodded. Generally, one mu of land only needs 4,000 potato seedlings. The seedlings are enough for twenty mu of land.

Now, all the potatoes for growing potato seedlings were brought back by Zhou Yi last time, and after a season of planting, they have harvested a lot.

These harvested potatoes were not eaten, but were used to cultivate new seedlings.

Similar nursery rooms are distributed in eight official villages around Yancheng, with a total of forty-eight rooms.

He estimated that this autumn is enough to plant 800 or 900 acres.

If the large amount of potatoes brought back by Dong An can grow seedlings in time, it is estimated that it will expand to about 2,000 mu in October.

Potatoes have two seasons a year, and the potatoes that can be planted next year will be very impressive.

It’s not in vain that he was reluctant to ask for potatoes to stew for the sake of the seedlings.

“That’s right, that’s right. Although Yancheng’s industry is booming now, agriculture is already the foundation of the country. You, the Agricultural Affairs Department, also keep this in mind.” Zhao Xu reminded.

Only when the grain is abundant, there will be surplus grain to feed the livestock and promote the great development of the breeding industry.

Although he asked the Department of Agricultural Affairs to set up an ecological cycle farm, which made the breeding industry in Yanzhou have a preliminary development, and the meat on the market is more abundant.

However, if every family can afford to eat meat, drink milk, and eggs every day, it must rely on large-scale farming.

After a pause, he said again: “Also, the fields that have been planted with potatoes should be planted with other crops in rotation, otherwise the fertility will be exhausted.”

“Yes, Your Highness.” Cen Xi replied yes.

After inspecting the official village, Zhao Xu led the officials away.

He believes that in a few years, crops such as potatoes, sweet potatoes, peppers, and corn will bloom everywhere in Jiangbei.

At that time, with the blessing of industry, Jiangbei’s materials will be greatly enriched.

After parting ways with Liu Fu and other ministers, Zhao Xu went straight back to the palace.

Thinking of something, he called Wang Chong to the study.

“My lord needs a workshop specializing in the production of agricultural machinery. During this time, you have drawn out a team to take charge of this.” Zhao Xu said.

To increase agricultural production, in addition to relying on large-scale crops, what is also needed is agricultural machinery.

Currently Dasong is sparsely populated and rich in land.

Especially places like Ningjindusi, Jinzhou, Qinzhou, and Yongzhou can be described as thousands of miles of wilderness.

This time is an excellent time to promote a large farm economy.

Some time ago, he had already pointed out the path of the Royal Pioneering Group to the royal family.

It is they who build large farms in the wilderness.

Next, he will ask the Department of Agricultural Affairs to establish official villages in these places.

Just to run these large farms requires a lot of labor, or it needs to be replaced by agricultural machinery.

(end of this chapter)