Chapter 108: There is no way out.

 "Then this task will be left to you, my second uncle. Don't let the people of Dai Viet down."

  "Live up to expectations!"

  Cheng Er handed over to Shen Hong. From today on He will take on the responsibility of changing the future of Dai Viet.

  There is a long way to go, but he will never give up.

  Shen Hong went to bring Cheng Er a basket and four pieces of rice paper.

  "Are these the seeds of three crops?" Cheng Er lifted the blue cloth on the basket and saw the true appearance of the food he was eating tonight.

  He picked up a potato and a sweet potato and looked at them carefully.

  "There is also a fourth type, super rice, with a yield of four thousand kilograms per mu." Shen Hong grabbed a handful of yellow rice from the bag and put it in Cheng Er's hand.

  At this moment, the handover ceremony officially began.

  "Four thousand kilograms per mu?" Cheng Er's pupils shrank suddenly, extremely shocked.

  His stupid expression and dull state remained for a long time.

  Cheng Yurong and others didn't bother him and let him think clearly.

  This responsibility is huge, and once you take it on, there is no way out.

  "Dayue is saved, thank God." Cheng Er raised his head and looked out the window. He raised his hands, a handful of rice in his right hand and a sweet potato in his left hand.

  ...

  This night, neither the Shen family nor the Cheng family could sleep peacefully.

  Cheng Yurong asked the big kitchen to roast a dozen corns, sweet potatoes and a dozen small potatoes, and asked Cheng Er to take them back to Cheng's house for his relatives to eat.

  He also brought back a basket of seeds and a planting manual for him to study for two or three days.

  Wait for the three villagers in the suburbs to finish plowing the fields, and then let him give it a try.

  After the Cheng family tasted the three delicacies, they were full of praise.

  Mr. Cheng suddenly understood something and called Cheng Er into the study to discuss things.

  After learning the cause and effect, Mr. Cheng stroked his long, white beard on his chin.

  "This matter must be kept a secret. It cannot be revealed until the day of harvest. Tomorrow you will go to court and apply to the emperor to be transferred to Beijing to study farming. In the past three or four months, you will not return to Beijing."

  He was worried that if the secret was leaked, If you go out, it will cause a big disturbance.

  Taking credit.

  If you are jealous and can't get it, you would rather destroy it.

  Wait...

  no matter which kind, the Shen family and the Cheng family can't afford it, Dai Viet can't afford it, and the people can't afford it.

  "Yes, father." Cheng Er's face was solemn. No matter how much danger he would be in in the future, he would protect these four seeds.

  ...

  Before dawn, Cheng Er had already put on his official uniform and entered the palace. When the court was about to end, he applied to the emperor to be transferred to the capital to study farming.

  The emperor thought that he had the people's livelihood in mind and immediately approved it.

  Returning to Cheng's Mansion, Cheng Er packed up two boxes of luggage and several agricultural books and spent a day with his wife, Liu Shi.

  Early the next morning, I said goodbye to my parents, wife, children and relatives, took a few followers and left the city.

  After an hour of riding, we arrived at the farthest village from Cheng Yurong.

  Shen Hong had sent his men to transport hundreds of kilograms of seeds to this village yesterday. Zhuangzi's steward He followed his instructions and put fifty kilograms of potatoes and fifty kilograms of sweet potatoes into the corner of the large kitchen, waiting for the seeds to germinate.

  When Cheng Er arrived at Zhuangzi, he checked the conditions of the four seeds as soon as possible. After resting for half a day, he went to the fields to check the conditions. He touched and smelled the soil and found that there were no major problems.

  Returning to Zhuangzi, he personally soaked the dry corn seeds and super rice seeds in warm water. He then moved the seeds to a clean wing and set up a charcoal stove to keep the temperature of the wing warm.

  It was still a bit cold in Beijing in early February.

  Early the next morning, Shen Er went to the side room to check the development of the seeds. There was no germination, but the seeds were enlarged.     He thought that he would probably be able to plant the seeds in the afternoon.

  Checking five times in the morning, Cheng Er kept recording data with a brush and a blank book in his hand.

  It happens to be cloudy today, and there will probably be a light rain tomorrow.

  There is not a lot of rain in the capital. After all, spring rain is as expensive as oil, and it is not like the constant rain in the south.

  Cheng Er called Butler He and immediately arranged for several servants to dig small pits in the fields and sow the seeds in half an hour.

  "Yes, Mr. Cheng." Butler He used to be a servant of the Cheng family. He followed Cheng Yurong to marry into the Shen family.

  Cheng Er was very excited, thinking that he would be able to see corn sprouts in just four or five days.

  When the time came, Cheng Er asked his five followers to move several buckets to the field. He was wearing a gray shorts and looked like a farmer.

  Rolling up his sleeves and trousers, he took a water ladle and filled half a scoop of corn seeds. He stepped on the field ridge and threw the corn seeds into small pits. Behind him, Zhuangzi's servants filled the small pits. Get on the dirt.

  Twenty pounds of corn seeds can be planted on about five acres of dry land.

  Cheng Er planted two kilograms of corn seeds and was so tired that he couldn't stand upright.

  Zhuangzi's twenty farmers followed him to the fields, and they were quite fast.

  Five acres of dry land can be done in an hour.

  It took another hour to carry water for irrigation.

  Cheng Er looked at the dim sky, worried that the rice seedlings would not be completed before dark.

  He took the rice seeds to a wetland first. Because he wanted to raise seedlings, he had to choose a wetland, not a paddy field.

  He went down to the wetland with a ladle filled with seeds, bent down and scattered the rice bit by bit on the wetland.

  It was so even that it looked like he was queuing up. It was conceivable that he often worked in the fields before.

  Twenty farmers then came to the wetland to help sow seeds. Because they knew Cheng Er's character and temperament and the preciousness of these seeds, they did not dare to mess around.

  He has been sowing seeds very carefully. Although the speed is slow, the effect is very good. Cheng Er can't find any faults when he sees it.

  Finally completing the rice sowing and seedling raising tasks before dark, Cheng Er returned to Zhuangzi with satisfaction.

  He also asked Butler He to add a plate of meat to the twenty farmers. Their help would be needed in the future.

  After hurriedly bathing and eating, Cheng Er hurriedly returned to his private room.

  He recorded the sowing situation of corn and rice in the afternoon in his notebook, such as how many kilograms of seeds were used per acre of land, and the spacing between plants and rows.

  It also includes several detailed drawings for others to view later.

  He also wrote a letter to Shen Hong and Mr. Cheng each and asked his entourage to send them to the capital early tomorrow morning. I got up early

  the next

  day and went to the big kitchen to check the sprouting status of potatoes and sweet potatoes.

  Seeing that there was no change, he went to have breakfast.

  Thinking that it would take four or five days at the earliest to germinate, he couldn't be anxious and had to be steady.

  After filling his stomach, Cheng Er hurriedly took his brush and note book and ran to the corn dry land to observe the situation.

  Even though there was no emergence of seeds yet, he was not discouraged.

  He turned around and ran to the rice wetland again, squatting on the ridge of the field to observe carefully.

  Until he found a few budding rice plants, which made him very excited.

  In the afternoon, Cheng Er came to inspect the dry land and the wetland again, mainly patrolling. He was worried that outsiders would show up and cause damage, although servants would take turns to patrol once every half an hour every day.

  For three days in a row, all the rice seedlings have sprouted, and the germination rate has reached almost 100%.

  Cheng Er was very happy because most of the corn seedlings had sprouted.