Chapter 68 As a fine female matchmaker chooses to farm (17)

  However, with the skill book and scene simulation function, she thinks it shouldn't be too difficult to fiddle with a generator.

  She combed through the existing materials at hand and found that only silicon could not be replaced by other materials, but it is an indispensable material for making solar panels.

   Fortunately, the energy point is still relatively rich, so I simply bought a batch of solar panels in the system mall and started tinkering with solar motors.

   Seeing that the princess was busy and no one reminded her and couldn't think of going home, it was King Jinnan's turn to be bitter.

  But the concubine was right in thinking. Cement and magnetite are new things. If she invented them and threw them to him, if he also walked away and left them alone, no one would understand.

  While the princess is busy, quickly promote a few confidantes. After training them, let them lead their own teams to pave concrete roads and open iron mines, so as not to bother him in the future.

  The concubine was too busy to think of him, so King Jinnan would give her gifts to give her a sense of presence whenever he had time.

  Sometimes it is a piece of high-quality jade seed material, sometimes it is a box of seawater pearls.

  Xu Yin is busy, so she has no time to think about it, she just thinks that the people below are filial to him.

  Seeing the pearl, I couldn't help but think of the Maritime Silk Road, and asked with great interest: "Is there any merchant ship that has trade with Nanyang?"

   It didn't exist before, but her mention gave Yan Kejin an idea.

yes! Beidi can do business, but what about Nanyang?

   "However, Transcendence is a place of exile, and the conditions are worse than those of the Southern Man. Further south, there are small countries. Does the princess think it will be rich?" He frowned.

   "Suppose we can do business with Beidi here, what do you think?" Xu Yin asked him back.

  Beidi and Nanman are not as rich as the Central Plains.

  But Beidi is dominated by nomadic people, with flocks of cattle and sheep. The most important thing is meat, followed by dairy products. Cotton is also growing well.

  Nanban is poor, but it also has its own special products, such as tea, pearls, and Shoushan stone.

  With the fertilization method contributed by Xu Yin, the rice will not be barren for three seasons a year. If the two places can do business, it will only make each other better off.

  Xu Yin saw that he was thoughtful, and continued: "It's just trade, and I don't care whether it is rich or not. If you are not rich, you can get more things back."

  Xu Yin drew a blueprint for him.

  As a result, as soon as the man straightened his mind, he wanted to set up a fleet of ships to do business in minutes, as if he would lose a lot of money if he was a little slower.

Xu Yin stopped him with a smile: "Did you forget what I said earlier? The current ship is too risky to go to sea, so we can't be prepared to sacrifice every time we go to sea, right? The boats are built, sharpening the knife is not the same as chopping firewood."

  In addition to the ship itself having to withstand wind and waves, the ship must also be equipped with some self-defense equipment. What if you encounter pirates? If you can't beat it, it's still useless?

   With a large reserve of iron ore in hand, there is no need to worry about cold weapons.

   But in the case of oceangoing, cold weapons alone may not have a deterrent effect.

   It would be great if we could find saltpeter ore. Ask the system to add an upgraded gunpowder formula to make the simplest muskets and cannons.

   People don't attack me, I don't attack people, if people attack me, I must at least have the means to fight back.

   Just when Xu Yin was thinking about "where to get saltpeter", the ventilation system "ding" the task of [Exploring the Land of the Southern Barbarians].

  Xu Yin: "..."

   Could it be that the map rewarded by the system really marked the deposit?

  Then she must complete this task!

   "My lord, where is the concrete road?"

  Yan Kejin saw that she finally remembered about the trip, smiled, and marked the cement-hardened road section on the map:

   "The cement road out of the city has already been paved to Longcheng, but the maintenance will take ten and a half months depending on the weather, so the passable road section has only reached Yongfu County so far."

   Even so, Xu Yin was quite surprised: "It's all spread to Dragon City? That's very fast!"

   "The three teams are divided into three days and nights to rush to work. Every time they go to a place, they will also hire some strong local laborers. The speed will naturally be faster if there are more people."

   After a pause, Yan Kejin added with a smile: "Don't worry, it's not a corvee, it's paid for."

  Xu Yin believed what he said.

  After getting along for this period of time, she saw his kind side under his cold appearance.

   "At this rate, we can leave for Yong County by this time next month."

  By then, the main road from Fucheng to Yong County will be unimpeded, and the carriage will no longer be dusty when running.

   Feeling happy, Xu Yin's rhythm of working on the motor is much more lively.

  Until Uncle Wang sent someone to say that some of the crops in the experimental field had matured, and asked her if she wanted to go and have a look.

  After getting married, the Wang Mansion and the Xu Mansion ran at both ends. Except that she would ask questions at the beginning, the experimental field was basically handed over to the nanny to send people to take care of it.

   "Of course I'm going to see it."

  In the fifth month of the lunar calendar, the rapeseed flowers in the field bloomed and withered, and now they are full of rapeseed.

  The corn is ripe.

  The newly promoted fertilization method is very effective. Although each plant still only bears one corn cob, the corn cob exposed after peeling off the corn husk is about twice the size of the original one. The corn kernels are golden and plump, and the yield is definitely higher than in previous years.

  Seeing Uncle Wang and others grinning from the corners of their mouths to their ears, Xu Yin was also sincerely happy.

  Her five-acre experimental field has the best growth among all good fields.

  Uncle Wang kept muttering at first.

  Although he is only a tenant farmer of the palace, the master can do whatever he wants, so there is no room for him to talk too much.

   But after all, it is five acres of fertile land. Therefore, after the Wangfu planted crops, he would not worry about coming to see it every day. Even if someone in the field was responsible for weeding and fertilizing, he couldn't help it.

   This look shows the unusualness:

  The crops planted by the princess are different every day, growing like the wind.

  Especially for rice, before the harvest season comes, the ears of rice sink heavily and bend the heads of the ears. And if you look closer, the rice seeds in each mu of field are different.

  Come closer and take a look, darling! There are actually six varieties planted in the three-acre rice field, some are thin and long, and some are green and green.

   No wonder! How could a noble concubine be willing to go to the fields to farm, not for eating, but for looking good like planting flowers!

  Look at the two acres of land next to the rice field, one of which is planted with mulberry trees.

  The mulberries have been ripening since last month, and they were picked and sent to the palace. It is said that the imperial chef uses them to make jam and snacks, and the taste is very good.

  Each household in Zhuangzi was given half a catty, and it was a tooth offering for the children in the family, but the children were happy, and they encouraged their parents to plant mulberry trees in front of and behind their respective houses.

  After the princess heard about it, she encouraged everyone to plant mulberry trees, and the palace collected mulberry leaves at the market price.

  The silkworm babies who feed on mulberry leaves are very comfortable during this time. They are buried in fresh mulberry leaves, eating non-stop, making themselves white and fat.

  The first batch of silkworms began to cocoon, and people in the palace said that these will be spun into silk to make clothes in the future.

  Silk brocade clothes are very valuable, and the tenant farmers working in silkworm houses dare not be careless about this.

   Fortunately, there is a silkworm breeding manual drawn by the princess. As long as the silkworms are raised according to the picture book, usually nothing will go wrong.

  (end of this chapter)