Chapter 141: Agronomist From The Palace
Hua Xiong is now very irritable. Many people have already paid attention to his horses. The most shameless one is that a county magistrate used Hua Xiong to steal the horses and was going to arrest Hua Xiong. Can this be tolerated? In the end, Hua Xiong beat the county magistrate to half death, and then left. There was no other choice. Li Ru also warned him to not kill officials in Yanzhou. It would be better for both sides to show mercy now.
Hua Xiong generally doesn't listen to people's words, and has a straightforward temper. What he can do normally is to charge and fight, but fortunately, this time there is Li Ru, who just happened to be able to suppressed his temper. So he did not kill all the people who paid attention to the horses. You must know if this is done according to the past, with Hua Xiong's personality, they would have long since gone up to heaven.
"Qu Hanmou, I am warning you, if you continue to run around, I will tie you up!" Hua Xiong carried Hanmou by the collar and walked in the direction of the carriage like carrying a chicken. Then he opened the carriage curtain to throw Hanmou in.
"Hey, Hua Xiong, that's a big grain of rice, let me have it. I'm an agronomist, good varieties are very important to me." Qu Hanmou said while trying to rush out, but Hua Xiong directly sat on the shaft and push him inside. This guy has collected a lot of so-called big grain and fine seeds along the way, and almost once fought with others for a mature grain of rice.
"You have never stopped even though you have collected a lot. Half of the conflict between us and the people of Yanzhou was caused by you picking the rice grains privately!" Hua Xiong stared at the young man angrily.
"Who asked you to bring me out in a sack? I was farming well in Shanglin Garden. When you came in, you asked me if I could grow cotton, I said yes, and you just put me in a sack. Do you know that you are threatening an official!" Qu Hanmou replied. Qu Hanmous's tongue is also very good, at least Hua Xiong is not an opponent at all.
"You said that I threatened officials, but you were farming in Shanglin Garden. It belongs to the royal family, and the private farmer are dead!" Hua Xiong insisted.
"Hah~" Qu Hanmou sighed. The look of contempt hurt Hua Xiong deeply. The look and tone of this guy will always be enough to inflict heavy damage on people. "Go and bring me the big grain of rice from before, I want to study it."
Hua Xiong resisted his anger. He tossed the sack that has been previously loaded to the soldier behind him and said, "Give that person some money to uproot the rice grain!"
Although Hua Xiong is a reckless man, because Li Ru's education is still in place, this guy is still very good to capable scholars. In particular, this Qu Hanmou claims to be proficient in farming, and has already grown many crops in Shanglin Garden.
When Hua Xiong had finished offering the tribute, he sneaked into Shanglin Garden to get something Chen Xi wanted. As a result, it didn't take long for him to see a piece of farmland. It was growing well, and it was estimated that it would produce one more stone of grain than normal. And if it was able to be cultivated on a large mu of land, it would be terrifying enough.
Hua Xiong smiled and walked to Qu Hanmou who was studying in the field and asked, "Mister, do you know which are cotton? And where are the seeds? I heard that all the strange crops and plants are planted in Shanglin Garden. Do you know how to grow wheat?"
As a result, Qu Hanmou glanced at Hua Xiong and then looked contempt at him before replying, "Shanglin Garden is where we grow exotic crops and plants. That is cotton, and the seeds are over there. As for wheat, don't you know that they are able to produce more than five stones per mu? Wheat is not a strange crops or pants."
Hua Xiong was startled. He had also planted a field before. Naturally, he understood the concept of five stones per mu of land. Even if the water and soil are good, the five stones are more than a terrifying concept. According to this, the person in front of him is not a human being!
When he thought of this, Hua Xiong didn't hesitate, and asked with a shy face, "This mister, can I have your name. I am Hua Xiong."
"Qu Hanmou." Qu Hanmou replied proudly .
Hua Xiong doesn't feel wrong from Qu Hanmou's arrogant expression. His thought is that arrogance is what a capable person should have, so he continued to strike up a conversation, "Mr. Qu, are there any seeds for this wheat? Can you give me some?"
"It's all there, take it all if you want." Qu Hanmou was satisfied with Hua Xiong's low profile.
"You don't need to leave some good seeds for your family?" Hua Xiong asked.
"Good seeds or something are not needed. As long as I'm here, can there be no more?" Qu Hanmou said. Then Hua Xiong took out the sack and while Qu Hanmou was being, he put the sack on top of Qu Hanmou's head to his feet. After all, what else need to be said. There are not many scholars in the city, and the rare talents are to be packed and taken away. This was explained by Chen Xi before he left.
Because of this, Qu Hanmou felt that if he didn't kill Hua Xiong, he would feel wronged for being sacked. How could he still be the head of Yizhou Qu family? Although there are not many people in the family, they are still a long-standing family. Otherwise he won't have the ability to go to Shanglin Garden to hang around!
Because of this, Qu Hanmou caused trouble for Hua Xiong along the way. Of course, Hua Xiong couldn't figure out his way of causing trouble. A agronomist was researching food. According to other people's words, choosing the best seeds is a professional habit. Hua Xiong, who only know to pulled out the good seedling and make sure of the soil fertility, didn't understand at all. But he felt that it was very powerful, so he could only endure a headache and wipe Qu Hanmou's butt!
But Qu Hanmou does have some real skills. Although he doesn't understand military and government, he has his own opinions on how to increase food production. For example, according to his research, it is found that by planting soybeans for a year, then burning the soybean stalks and sprinkling it on the field, the yield will be higher when planting grain in the following year...
In short, although this person has a bad personality, his actual ability is still good. Which is why even Jia Xu and Li Ru can tolerate this person causing daily troubles. Those that have the ability to produce one stone of grain on one mu of land must be tolerated, not to mention that this person who claims to be able to produce more than three or five stones.
Hua Xiong resisted the headaches while comforting Qu Hanmou, and told him not to go out of the carriage recently. Since the feeling of someone peeping appeared, Hua Xiong has slowly become alert. Although he is big fish and he believe that Cao Cao would not have the courage to kill him, but sometimes you just had to guard against it. When he calmed down Qu Hanmou, the intuition of a warrior let him feel danger.
He secretly made an action and the whole army slowly transformed into a defensive formation similar to a circular formation, but Hua Xiong knew very well that this was the only defensive formation he learned from Li Ru that could be used proficiently. As for the name, he doesn't know it.
"General, are we going to fight?" a guard next to Cao Hong asked.
"More than four thousand horses just pass in front of me. I won't be able to stand it if I don't grab it." Known as an iron cock, a miser, and the future prefect of money Cao Hong stared at Huaxiong's horses. For this operation, he went to Xiahou Dun, Xiahou Yuan, Cao Ren, Li Dian, and Le Jin to each borrowed hundreds of people. After a few days of training, Cao Hong was finally ready to ambush Hua Xiong.
Xiahou Dun, Xiahou Yuan, and Cao Ren all knew what Cao Hong wanted to do. Even Cao Cao knew what he wanted to do, but they all opened their eyes and closed their eyes. Cao Cao even planned to kill him if he didn't get it right. Four thousand war horses, not regular horses, which is a huge income for Cao Cao, whose cavalry is now equal to zero!