Take the farm down to earth

Chapter 38

The four of them were polite, and made an agreement to notify the classmate and ask him to send someone over to talk to Jia Zhen and Jia Lian.

Shi Zhongkui apologized and went to the study on the right side of the main hall.

They took out preserved peaches, persimmon cakes, dried dates and raisins from the space, packed 10 catties each in cloth bags, and divided them into four parts for Xue's family, Jia Lian, Jia Zhen and Jia Baoyu respectively.

After thinking about it, I realized that I chose 20 fresh peaches of four or two weights, dehydrated them a little in the space, and packed them in four wooden boxes after they were not so fresh.

Jia Zhen, Jia Lian and Jia Baoyu were shocked when they saw Taozi.

Shi Zhongkui smiled and said, "Second brother Lian, let alone the dried fruit, these 20 fresh peaches were sent by Kuai Ma from Qingzhou, and my younger brother got 30 by luck.

Just divide 20 pieces and bring them back to the three brothers to try something new. "

Jia Zhen, Jia Lian and Jia Baoyu hurriedly expressed their thanks, but they couldn't help but be puzzled when they saw that there were four gifts.

Shi Zhongkui said with a smile, "Although my younger brother hit it off with Brother Xue Pan, but after all, we have only known each other for two days, so if you visit the door rashly, I am afraid that it will disturb the female family members of Xue's family, so I want to ask Second Brother Lian to hand it over."

The three of Jia Lian immediately felt that Shi Zhongkui was a real gentleman, but unfortunately, Shi Zhongkui's purpose was nothing more than thinking about Xue Baochai.

Asking Jia's servant to take the things down, Jia Lian was impatient to buy saffron at the market price of one tael of saffron and 12 taels of silver.

Shi Zhongkui directly agreed casually and perfunctorily. Anyway, it is up to him whether he will have the goods in the end.

Chatting with the three of Jia's family until it was getting late, Shi Zhongkui wanted to come to Jia Baoyu's psychic jade just because it was getting late and for some reason.

Or An Nai could hold back her eagerness and wait for the relationship between everyone to get closer, so that she could come into contact with that piece of jade naturally in a few days.

Out of the corner of his eye, he saw Jia Zhen flirting with Jia Lian.

Jia Lian nodded slightly, calmed down his thoughts secretly, then cupped his hands and said, "My brother, I have an unfeeling request, I don't know if I should say it or not?"

Shi Zhongkui, who was thinking about how to get closer, saw Jia Lian's behavior, thinking that it was all right to listen, if it was too difficult or unwilling, he pretended not to be capable and refused.

Seeing Shi Zhongkui nodding his head, Jia Lian hesitated whether to talk about Yingchun first or the eunuch Xia Shouzhong first.

But within a few seconds, he felt that Xia Shouzhong's task was more important, and by the way, he could also test and test whether Shi Zhongkui really had the knowledge of how to govern the country and benefit the people besides being able to read.

When the girl gets married, at least she won't suffer.

As for character, Jia Lian believed that Jia Zhen and Jia Baoyu would no longer have doubts about the fact that they did not take advantage of others before.

Thinking of this, he made up his mind and said, "Your brother, do you know that you are the master of your brother's family, and he works as a member of the Ministry of Industry?"

When Shi Zhongkui heard this, he immediately felt relieved.

It is too easy for a person who has not entered the officialdom to find a reason to refuse.

"Second brother Lian, please tell me directly, the younger brother who can help will definitely not refuse."

Jia Baoyu didn't understand the second meaning of the words, but both Jia Lian and Jia Zhen knew that they would not refuse if they could help, but they would not take the initiative to accept them if they couldn't.

"Brother Gao Yi."

Jia Lian bowed his hands and thanked him first, and then continued, "I saw that my virtuous brother handled the dispute over the fields between the Duke of Shan State and the Yang family very properly a few days ago.

For example, he has a lot of opinions on farming and water conservancy, so he asked boldly, does my brother have a way to solve the siltation of the river, or do you have any opinions on water transportation and farming? "

After hearing this, Shi Zhongkui became thoughtful.

Asking myself about dredging rivers and farming, Jia Zheng's official position as a member of the Ministry of Fifth Grade and Industry is still reasonable.

But when asked about the water transportation, it was impossible for Shi Zhongkui not to be suspicious.

Either Jia Zheng was made things difficult by his boss and had to go to the doctor in a hurry, even someone who is not a scholar would ask him.

The second is that the Jia family may replace someone to test and study their own abilities.

Should I pretend not to know, or should I ask who is behind Jia Lian?

After thinking about it for a while, he decided to pretend he didn't know, and he didn't plan to answer the water transport, or even dredging the river.

Water transportation and river courses have always been some people's pockets, and Shi Zhongkui is not that stupid to offend them.

Farming is simple. Whether it is the emperor, nobles, gentry and farmers, they all hope that the fields will be productive.

"My little brother is not talented enough, and he is not in his position, so let's talk about farming, okay?"

Jia Zhen and Jia Lian immediately understood that Shi Zhongkui was hiding his clumsiness and protecting himself wisely.

It's not that I don't know enough, but that I can't speak.

But the more this happened, the more they valued and even admired Shi Zhongkui.

Jia Lian smiled, "Since my virtuous brother is so humble, then I should listen to it first."

Now Shi Zhongkui is sure that there is really someone behind Jia Lian.

The guy's tone of voice before was as polite as he wanted.

But the phrase "listen first" directly reveals that Jia Lian feels from the bottom of his heart that being able to listen to you talk about farming is really flattering you.

Shi Zhongkui smiled, Jia Lian had never been an official after all, his level and energy-raising skills are not up to par.

Jia Zhen is even more of an idiot.

How many people are there who have a higher status than Rongguo Mansion?

For the other six princes, unless they wanted to marry their daughters, it was impossible for them to use Jia Lian's hand to test themselves.

Of the four princes with foreign surnames, the Jia family had a good relationship with the Prince of Beijing, but from Qin Keqing's funeral, we can see that Jia Zheng actually didn't want to have too much entanglement with the Prince of Beijing.

Moreover, King Shui Rong of Beijing has only inherited the title for two years, without the emperor's order, how dare he intervene in things like water transportation and river courses that offend countless interest groups?
Looking at it this way, after much deliberation, the biggest possibility is that the Supreme Emperor or the old emperor started to pay attention to himself because of the poem he plagiarized.

As for why he asked the Jia family instead of Yu Honggao, or why did he ask an eunuch?
Shi Zhongkui could only guess that it was because Jia Lian not only took him to the restaurant yesterday, but also stayed at home for a night drinking and eating meat.

After having these guesses, Shi Zhongkui secretly woke up and reminded himself.

But it's not okay to keep your mouth shut.

Fortunately, only talking about farming, neither the Supreme Emperor nor the emperor's old son would blame himself for the father-son quarrel.

After having an idea, Shi Zhongkui smiled. The difference between ancient and modern agriculture is nothing more than the huge difference between water conservancy, fertility, seed optimization, plowing and harvesting.

Except for the space farm, it is basically impossible to optimize the seeds by manpower, and Shi Zhongkui will not take out the seeds in the space at this time.

After all, he hasn't tried it himself, and he can't give second credit to others.

The problem of water conservancy is too big, and even if some useful suggestions are said, they will definitely offend some people in the Ministry of Industry after they get out.

The ancients were the most taboo of people who talk nonsense when they are not in their position.

Even if this kind of person goes to the officialdom, he will inevitably be excluded.

Fertility is nothing more than farmyard manure and plant ashes, Shi Zhongkui only knows this, but it would be ridiculous to take it out.

If Qu Yuanli remembers correctly, it appeared as early as the Tang Dynasty.

So, after much deliberation, I don’t know if it’s okay to raise fish in rice fields?

(End of this chapter)