Chapter 101 champion brother 17

Qing County is remote, poor and backward, and the people are impoverished. It is completely incomparable with those rich places in Jiangnan. Yan Qing was indeed distributed because he offended people.

Among the people who proposed to him, after being rejected, they felt that he did not know the good and the bad, so they made trouble and sent him here. Among the same batch of jinshi, only his position was the worst.

Yan Qing felt that it didn’t matter which county magistrate he was, these poor and backward places needed him even more. But he couldn’t be framed like this, so before he came, he gave the other party a small repayment.

In the past few years in the capital, he didn’t eat idle food, and secretly established an intelligence network. Since you are going to enter the officialdom, you must be prepared to be foolproof. In feudal society, human life is as cheap as grass, even if the official residence is of the first rank, there is the possibility of looting the family and exterminating the family at any time.

It is better to be the one who sets the rules than to beg for pity under someone else’s hands and according to the rules set by others.

He wants to be in complete control of his own destiny.

Of course, it does not mean that he is going to rebel. Today is a peaceful and prosperous age. Although the court has many problems, it is not fatal. The Liang Dynasty is now the most prosperous period of a dynasty. When wars are provoked for no reason, only the people will suffer, so he will not do this.

It’s just that it’s just to find some convenience for yourself when the general environment remains unchanged.

The chess pieces he buried in the capital have already been arranged, and he just needs to slowly ferment. So there is no need to worry about it for the time being. Now that we are in Qing County, we will first manage Qing County.

Qing County belongs to the southern region, with a hot climate, mountains and water, and less arable land. Therefore, the people in the county are very poor.

When Yan Qing first arrived, he spent a few days to rectify the administration of the county government. He dealt with those who were disgraced and local snakes in a swift and resolute manner. In turn, he gave them a dismay to let the other party know that he was not easy to mess with. Then the next work will start.

He spent another month visiting local people to investigate water quality, soil, climate, etc., and then he gradually developed a direction in his mind.

First of all, the mountains must be used, but it is not the reclamation of terraced fields. Deforestation and reclamation are too harmful to the environment. If he introduced this method, other areas will follow suit, but they do not know how to protect the environment and excessive deforestation. It would be bad if it was changed to terraced fields.

He intends to turn part of the mountain forest into fruit forest.

The climatic conditions here are very suitable for growing fruits, such as bayberry, loquat, lychee, citrus, apple, peach, etc.

When the fruit is planted, it can be brewed into fruit wine, preserved fruit, dried fruit, and even canned fruit, which is a good source of income for the common people.

Of course, this is a long-term development route. When the people are not hungry and do not have enough food and clothing, it is definitely not acceptable to let them plant fruit trees.

Therefore, at this time, the same high-yield crops are needed to allow the people to eat their stomachs first.

There are many high-yield crops in later generations, including potatoes, sweet potatoes, and corn, and they also have them in his space. However, potatoes and sweet potatoes need to be planted with roots and stems, and it will take a long time to popularize them, and it may take at least three or four years to be popularized in the whole county.

In this way, his term of office has passed, and it may not be able to be promoted. It is too slow.

So he thought of pumpkins.

Pumpkin is perfect.

First of all, it is planted with seeds, and the grown fruit can continue to be seeded, which is convenient for rapid promotion.

Second, it doesn’t pick places. It can be grown in both the north and the south, and even without fertile fields, the fields can be grown anywhere along the roadside ditches.

The most important thing is that it has a high yield per mu, which can reach a gratifying yield of 10,000 catties per mu in later generations. The production level conditions in ancient times were not as good as those in modern times, but even if it was only one-third of the output of later generations, it would still be more than three thousand catties! If it is worse, one-tenth can always be achieved, right?

In ancient times, when the average grain yield was one or two hundred catties per mu, a crop with a yield of one kilogram per mu appeared. What does this mean?

Means miracle.

Moreover, the taste of pumpkin is not bad, the old can be eaten as a meal, the tender can be eaten as a vegetable, even the leaves can be eaten, and the whole body is a treasure.

And in the south you can plant two seasons a year. Can be planted in spring and autumn.

So this pumpkin is very necessary to promote.

So, a month after Yan Qing took office, a strange weed grew in the back garden of the county government. Never seen it, but suddenly appeared.

The magistrate felt strange, so he took care of it himself.

Then it didn’t take long for the weed to grow up and bear a few round fruits.

The fruit is also getting bigger day by day, like a stone, it grows big, heavy and round. It was cyan at first, and then gradually became golden, and the color was golden.

A seedling bears more than a dozen such fruits. It looks rather rare.

Song county magistrate personally picked one, and after breaking it, he found that it also had yellow flesh and seeds. Then cut a little and feed it to chickens, ducks and dogs, and they’ll be fine.

Then the county magistrate tried it himself, and it didn’t taste very good.

“Maybe you can cook it and eat it?”

When it came out, it tasted surprisingly delicious! Sweet, soft and waxy, the taste is very special, and it can also be full.

This discovery made everyone ecstatic!

This is the discovery of a new food!

Everyone named it the Golden Gourd.

Then the county magistrate of Song took out some of the seeds of the golden melon, planted them in batches, and tested its planting method and yield.

The result is very gratifying. The yield of golden melon has reached 1,300 catties per mu! This is still the result that they are not very familiar with planting methods and are trying to grow while experimenting. If you completely master the method in the future, and take care of it carefully, it is possible to produce 2,000 catties per mu!

For a time, everyone involved in this incident was ecstatic.

Yan Qing also pretended to be very happy, and then calmly wrote a memorial full of rainbow farts. The general idea is that because the emperor is benevolent, diligent in government, and loves the people, he is moved by the heavens and the earth, so during his accession to the throne, he brought down such heaven-defying crops to let the people have food. This is God’s award to him, it is auspicious, and it is a political achievement that will endure forever.

Then a part of the golden melon was attached and sent to the capital.

When the memorial was sent to the capital, the emperor was overjoyed when he saw it.

He is old and has not done much during his reign. Because when he took over, it was already a peaceful and prosperous age, the government was harmonious with people, and the internal and external problems were all solved by his grandfather and father. There was no opportunity for him to fulfill his ambitions.

As a result, a crop with a yield of thousands of pounds per mu appeared at this time, especially the county magistrate was very good at speaking, and he considered this to be his credit, and it was the auspiciousness that was brought down by God because of his benevolent governance and love for the people.

So the emperor was very happy, and followed Yan Qing’s flattery to put gold on his face and hyped up the golden melon.

Although the original intention was to publicize his achievements, it did play a positive role in the promotion of pumpkins.

Then Yan Qing’s goal has been achieved.

He knew the lifeline of the old emperor, so he was so emotional.

The emperor also wanted to reward him for his promotion, but Yan Qing declined. He said that Qingxian County was the place where auspiciousness came, and he had to help the emperor to manage it well before leaving.

It is not yet time to go back, and it will be just right when he will go back after his three-year term is over.

The emperor readily agreed to his proposal, and gave him a lot of things as a reward.

In October, Miao Guihua gave birth to a boy, and both mother and son were safe. Yan Qing named his younger brother Yan Lin.

Yan Qing was usually very busy, and it was rare to take advantage of this happy event to finally find time to accompany them.

“Brother, are you free, I want to tell you something.”

Yan Qing smiled and said, “What are you talking about, and you are doing it so solemnly. If you have anything, you can come to me at any time.”

“I’m afraid of disturbing your official business.” Yan Shu hesitated for a while, but finally made up her mind and said to Yan Qing, “Brother, I want to set up a school to teach those children to read.”

As Yan Qing said, the most important thing in ancient times was orphans. After Yan Qing came to Qing County, he saw many beggars on the street, so he set up a Yu’an Hall to house those homeless children.

Yan Shu also often runs to help.

“Brother, you said that reading can make people wise. So I want to teach them to read and read, so that they can have another way of life in the future.” Yan Shu said very embarrassedly.

She felt that her proposal was too outrageous, because in this day and age there are no serious women out there. Especially since she has been designated as the imperial concubine, I am afraid there will be more restraints.

But she really wanted to do something for those children, and she really wanted to do something she liked, instead of being stuck in the backyard all her life, taking her husband as her god, and living a meaningless life.

When she was uneasy, she heard her brother chuckle, “If you want to do it, do it. This idea is very good and meaningful. My brother supports you!”

Yan Shu’s eyes suddenly lit up.