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Chapter 925 Contemporary Yuan Longping

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    Shi Jizhi was a member of the Yingtian Mansion in the first year of Longqing. He was in the same department as Zhao Shouzheng and Wang Wuyang. Naturally, he was very familiar with several influential figures in the same department.

    After hearing that Zhao Hao announced his family name, Shi Jizhi hurriedly waved his hands and said: "Uncle Shi is not qualified. You are still our master of the same discipline. We should each take a step back and treat each other as brothers."

    Zhao Hao and Zhao Shouzheng, who were born in the same year, always had different opinions, so they naturally followed the good advice.

    With this relationship, the two of them became much closer.

    "Why was Brother Sishan absent last spring?" Zhao Hao asked curiously.

    "My master thinks I'm not ready yet." Shi Jizhi remained true to his true nature as a farmer and spoke in a simple manner. He grinned and said, "I'll plant the land for a few more years before I can go to Beijing to take the exam."

    "Uh" Zhao Hao was dumbfounded. It was the first time he heard that taking the imperial examination was related to farming. This academy is really weird.

    ¡°But taking the imperial examination seems to have nothing to do with science, and I don¡¯t have the shame to laugh at others.

    "Haha, it's normal for my dear brother to be weird. One of the four weirdos in Liyang is the 'Shuji Shijiao Farmer'. You see, the farmers working in the fields near and far are actually students of our main school."

    Shi Jizhi smiled and said to Zhao Hao: "There is no way. The rules set by the mountain chief are that anyone who wants to study in Wushu Academy must work part-time and study part-time to support himself. Those who are unwilling to farm, no matter how talented and educated they are, will be punished by the mountain chief.  Not accepted.¡±

    Zhao Haoxin said, good guy, he is much stricter than me.  In order to improve my chances of getting into higher education, I often try to be more liberal.  There are many scholars in Yufeng Academy who have no interest in science, but they are not as pure as Wushu Academy

    As they were talking, the two came to the hillside and heard the tall old man with his back to them say in a loud voice:

    "It doesn't have to be that deep. One foot and five inches is enough. If you dig that deep, can the seedlings see the light?"

    "Yes" The few workers should be new students. Their skin is quite white and they are not skilled in swinging the hoe.  It was a waste of effort to dig deep, and there were blisters on both hands, but no one dared to complain.

    Shi Jizhi stepped forward and said respectfully: "Chief of the mountain."

    "What's the matter?" The old man didn't look back and continued to teach the new disciple: "It can't be too shallow. If it is shallow, it won't keep warm! But one foot five is not absolute. It must be based on the actual situation to ensure three hours of light a day  ¡­¡±

    "Master Zhao of Science is here to pay homage to you." Shi Jizhi introduced him hurriedly.

    "Oh? You're here." The old man was not surprised when he heard this. He looked Zhao Hao up and down, and then he was a little surprised and said: "So young?"

    "I am already sixteen years old." Zhao Hao said depressedly.

    "Haha, the Jiangnan Group has made such a big noise, and everyone in this small place like Liyang has heard it. I thought you were at least 20 or 30 years old." The old man laughed and said, "I heard that the science you founded specializes in studying the nature of all things.  Reasonable. Do you know what I ordered these pits to be dug for?"

    "Mr. Meng He is looking down on people." Zhao Hao said with a smile: "This is a cellar for raising rice seedlings."

    "Why should I go to all the trouble?" The old man said noncommittally: "Isn't it better to just plant in the ground?"

    "The temperature is too low at this time, and the seedlings will freeze to death" Zhao Hao said helplessly: "Is this something that all farmers know?"

    "Then just plant it later." The old man said calmly.

    "Because you have to plant two crops of rice, but the temperature in our south of the Yangtze River is still not enough. The time for planting two crops of rice is too tight. Otherwise, the late rice will be delayed." Zhao Hao said with a smile:

    "So Mr. Meng He used the method of cellar seedling cultivation, planting rice seeds in advance in this shallow cellar, covering it with a straw mat at night, and opening it to receive sunlight during the day, so that the seedlings can grow in advance. When the temperature is suitable, he can directly plant the rice seedlings in the cellar.  When the seedlings are inserted into the field, it takes almost a month.¡±

    Zhao Hao seemed to be talking about a common thing and said: "You can also do the same thing with late rice. In this way, you have plenty of time to plant two crops of rice. You no longer have to worry about the spring warming being too late and the autumn cold being too early."

    "Uh" The old man looked a little shocked, and squatted on the field ridge, muttering: "It turns out that this method is not original to me, you in Kunshan also know it."

    Zhao Hao hurriedly comforted him: "Kunshan does not plant seedlings in advance. The entire Jiangnan area is planted in April, and we are no exception."

    "Then you" The old man looked up at Zhao Hao.

    "I just came up with the idea after listening to Mr. Meng He's words." Zhao Hao explained the past with a smile. Of course, he couldn't say that this would become common sense in later generations.

    ¡°But this common sense was brought to the Chinese people by the old man in front of me.

    He is Yuan Longping of the Ming Dynasty - a native of Liyang??Ma Yilong.

    This old Mr. Ma Yilong has nothing to do with Macron, Ma Yinglong, or Macron.

    He comes from a scholarly family and has been an official for generations.  His father and uncle were all Jinshi.  Ma Yilong himself was Jieyuan of Shuntian Prefecture. He was a Jinshi in the 26th year of Jiajing. Together with Zhang Juzheng, he was selected as a Shujishi. It can be said that he has a bright future.

    But they all encountered a difficult situation in this department - as soon as they entered the official career, they encountered Yan Song's trap of Xia Yan, and witnessed the tragic scene of the chief minister abandoning the market.  For the next ten years or so, the court was kept in darkness and traitors reigned supreme, which was extremely torturous for any conscientious official.

    Some of them chose to fight to the death with the strict party, such as Yang Jisheng.  Some people choose to be patient, such as Zhang Juzheng.  There are also many people, such as Ma Yilong, who choose to abandon their official positions and return to their hometowns without giving up for five buckets of rice.

    Ma Yilong went to the hospital and begged for support for his mother five times, and finally became an official in the 38th year of Jiajing's reign from the Nanjing Imperial College.

    After returning to his hometown in Liyang, he opened this school.  Determined to cultivate scholars who can farm and understand farmers.

    Because he believes that ¡®farmers are the foundation of the world¡¯, those nerds who are industrious and indifferent to grains will not take farmers and agriculture to heart at all.  Allowing these people to serve as officials will only bring disaster to the farmers and shake the foundation of the country.

    Only when scholars who really know how to farm become officials can they know what farmers think and avoid being deceived by traitorous subordinates.  Although this does not necessarily guarantee that they will be good officials, it can at least prevent them from doing bad things with good intentions.

    In addition, he also donated funds to set up charity fields, recruited farmers to cultivate crops, adopted a share-sharing system, gave half of the harvest to servants, and the other half to build bridges and pave roads in the county, and donated funds to educate students Zhao Hao established a worker farm in Kunshan, which was right for him.  He has many lessons to learn from.

    Because Ma Yilong compiled many agricultural writings based on his own farming experience.  For example, "Agricultural Theory", "Agricultural Economics", etc., everything from the planting of rice, mulberry and cotton to the arrangement of agricultural production, as well as agricultural tools, fertilizers, breeding, disease prevention and control are all explained.

    Let¡¯s just say it.  The land in Liyang can yield one stone more per acre than elsewhere, all thanks to his gift.

    Zhao Hao made a special trip here just to ask him to serve as the chief agricultural technician of Jiangnan Group.

    Think about it, as long as he is around, planting two crops of rice is not only risk-free, but also yields one more stone per acre.  Six hundred thousand acres of land is six hundred thousand shi!

    Just one person in Kunshan can earn more than one million taels of silver every year!

    This Ma Yilong is the real God of Wealth!

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