The big man has a living father

Chapter 73 Princess Holiday (First Order)

There is a very flat farmland along the Wei River.

To be precise, this is the mudflat of the Wei River, but it is somewhat different from the mudflats of rivers and oceans in the south, as it does not have that kind of silt accumulation.

There is a large meadow by the river.

The land in this place is the most fertile land.

Except for Liu Che, no one could be so luxurious as to leave a large piece of grassland here.

Huo Hai's people put up a piece of cloth and used Huo Hai's teachings to make it look like a canopy.

Folding tables and chairs were placed under the canopy.

Everything in front of me is yellow.

Yellow land, yellow grass, yellow Wei River, and yellow mountains that can be vaguely seen in the distance.

An iron rack was set up and charcoal and firewood began to burn.

Although Huo Hai was in the coal business, he was not so stingy as to use coal for outdoor heating, especially when he was with the princess.

While Huo Hai was packing his things, he saw Princess Wei Chang's maids busying around.

Huo Hai rolled his eyes and said, "Stop for a moment."

Everyone looked at Huo Hai.

Huo Hai looked at Princess Wei Chang and said, "Your Highness, the greatest pleasure of camping is to experience the labor process by yourself, so as to achieve the effect of leisure. How can it be considered camping if you let the maids and palace maids do the work?"

"At most, I'll just watch them camping."

Princess Wei Chang was skeptical: "Really? Is this fun?"

Huo Hai promised: "It's fun."

Princess Wei Chang: "You all should go and have a rest."

Without the palace maids to get in the way, Huo Hai looked for things to do everywhere.

Princess Wei Chang packed dried melons, and Huo Hai packed melon seeds.

Princess Wei Chang took the plate and Huo Hai went to get the meat.

Princess Wei Chang scooped water to wash her hands, and Huo Hai went to fetch water to wash the meat.

He has always relied on Princess Wei Chang to do things for him.

Princess Wei Chang was camping for the first time and she felt it was very novel. She was very serious about her work. How could she feel the pervert next to her?

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A group of refugees were queuing up for their meal. The Hun women had not yet started their shifts but were cooking for them.

The refugees on the outermost side looked at the leaky shed in the distance and said: "Are those two kids stupid?"

The pretty girl who was serving the rice looked up, a little stunned, and whispered: "Hush, that's Mr. Huo."

This beautiful girl was the sales guide at the milk stall that day.

She was actually the daughter of a Xiongnu king, similar to Jin Midi. Her father had died in this war.

Therefore, she did not become the son of a marquis like the descendants of King Hunxie, but waited for the arrangements of the court together with other Huns.

Later, all the Hun women, the elderly and children were arranged to stay on the ranch, and she joined them.

Because she could speak Chinese and was pretty, she was promoted by Bu Shi and was specially arranged to be the shopping guide on the day when the officials visited the street. That was how she got to know Huo Hai.

The refugees immediately turned around to look: "Is he the Second Master Huo? The Second Master Huo who gave us food, clothes, and helped us find jobs?"

Huo Hai asked his soldiers to promote work-for-relief to the refugees.

Let them go to work, on the one hand they can earn money to eat, on the other hand once they are familiar with the work and get on track, they will be paid more money, so that everyone can gain a foothold in Chang'an.

If Tongguan is considered Chang'an.

All the refugees thought this was a good choice and were very grateful to Huo Hai.

In the past two days, some news reached the refugee camp, and everyone realized that the second young master Huo saved so many refugees in order to pursue the princess and show off in front of her.

In order to save everyone, all the money in the Huo family was spent.

Now, seeing Mr. Huo with a girl, some people understood: "Then that girl is the princess?!"

There was a refugee woman who said: "Second Master Huo had better keep pursuing the princess. If he suddenly stops, we will be left with nothing."

The refugees who were watching the show reacted instantly.

Yes, if the second young master Huo did not pursue Her Royal Highness the Princess, would he just give up on us?
"What if Her Highness Princess says that she doesn't like Mr. Huo anymore, or doesn't want Mr. Huo to pursue her, or honestly doesn't like him, then what should we do?"

"Shall we help Mr. Huo?"

"How can you help?"

"Just praise them for being a perfect match!"

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Although Princess Wei Chang doesn't do much in her daily life, her barbecue skills are obviously excellent.

The nobles of this era loved to eat grilled skewers and barbecue. Because the bronze grilling stoves were exquisite and compact, and the skewers cooled quickly, they liked to grill them themselves.

Huo Hai didn't expect that he could eat ready-made food.

Princess Wei Chang ate the lamb skewers with her cherry lips, looking at the yellow Wei River in front of her: "So this is what camping is like?"

Huo Hai looked into the distance: "Don't you feel it's peaceful?"

Princess Wei Chang shook her head and said: "I still like the spring outing when everything is green."

Huo Hai chuckled: "The golden color represents harvest."

Princess Wei Chang looked into the distance and recalled the various ripe plants.

Huo Hai pulled a piece of dogtail grass from the side and said, "I recently saw an article written by someone unknown called "The Preface to the Spring and Autumn Annals" which said, 'The West is established by gold, and rice is the essence of Yang.'"

Xihemi means millet. The golden sunshine creates golden waves of millet.

Princess Wei Chang reminded: "This is dogtail grass, not millet."

Huo Hai: "Dogtail grass is the ancestor of millet."

Huo Hai pulled out the dried dogtail grass and waved it in front of Princess Wei Chang: "Pick the largest and fullest dogtail grass to plant. From those that have been planted, pick the largest and fullest ones to take seeds and continue planting."

"If this continues, Xiaomi will be born."

Princess Wei was stunned for a moment, then began to associate ideas, and finally asked seriously: "Are you saying that millet is grown from dogtail grass?" Huo Hai: "To be precise, millet is cultivated from dogtail grass."

Selecting seeds is not that simple and cannot be explained in just a few words.

Ancient humans used time to trial and error, and although they didn't know the theory, they still managed to create millet.

Princess Wei Chang didn't care about this at all, but was anxious: "If millet is cultivated from dogtail grass... then can we continue to cultivate millet and make it bigger and bigger?!"

Huo Hai shook his head.

The current yield of millet is three stones per mu.

What we are talking about here is big acres and big stones. A big acre is 0.69 acres in modern times, and big stone is 30 kilograms in modern times.

In 1950, the millet yield per mu was to kilograms.

In 2020, the millet yield per mu is to kilograms.

Don’t be fooled by the fact that there is a lot of stuff growing inside, but actually… this is the output after technological evolution and super evolution.

You should know that the rice yield per mu had soared to 300 kilograms during the Ming Dynasty.

If Huo Hai invests properly, he can achieve this yield per mu in 20 years.

Moreover, millet is suitable for cultivation in the north, but in the south, the yield per mu is not as good as that in the north. It can be said that the development potential of millet actually ended in the Han Dynasty.

Huo Hai didn’t know exactly when millet was replaced by wheat as the main crop, but he felt that it was not far away.

"Your Highness." Huo Hai held up the dogtail grass and asked, "Do you think it is easier for these small grains to turn into millet and then grow bigger, or is it easier for the grains to grow larger since they are originally large?"

After hearing what Huo Hai said, Princess Wei Chang was stunned.

Huo Hai continued: "In other words, you think it is easy for a person of normal size to eat to become the size of a soldier, and then eat to become the size of a general."

"Is it easier for General Wei to have more sons and for his sons to have more grandsons?"

Princess Wei Chang understood immediately: "You mean, Xiaomai?!"

Huo Hai: "Everything is determined by nature. We should cultivate the crops with the highest yield at the moment, and at the same time look around the world for crops with higher yields, more individual plants, and that absorb less soil fertility."

"Princess, please remember these golden waves of millet. Now that noodles have become popular, wheat is bound to replace millet in a short time. From now on, this sentence should be changed to golden waves of wheat."

The reason why millet was grown more in this era was because wheat was too unpalatable.

But wheat tastes bad, what does it have to do with my flour? !

When wheat was mentioned instead of millet, Princess Wei Chang raised her head and said, "The people I sent to collect cotton seeds and kapok seeds came back and reported that the crops grown by the local natives in the southernmost part of Nanyue are a kind of grain that grows in paddy fields, similar to rice."

Huo Hai: "I know that, it's rice."

Princess Wei Chang: "The person I sent there is originally from the south. He didn't even recognize that it was rice. He said..."

Huo Hai: "The yield is too big, the difference is too big, he dare not say it is rice, right? But it is rice."

To be precise, it should be Champa rice, but I don’t know what it is called now.

In fact, Huo Hai was wrong. What the envoy saw was not Champa rice, but purple-spiked rice.

But for this era, there is not much difference.

Princess Wei thought for a moment and said, "But if we want rice, we'll probably need a lot of seeds, unlike cotton..."

As for cotton, one cotton seed can grow many seeds, but this is not the case with rice. The number of grains that can grow from one cotton seed is limited, and the ratio is not too large.

It can only be promoted by spreading the planting season by season, and the number of seeds required at the beginning is large.

Huo Hai smiled and said, "As long as we conquer South Vietnam, we can get it. We will get it eventually."

Princess Wei Chang lowered her head and said, "I wonder when the empire will pay attention to the south."

Huo Hai: "It's more than just the south."

Princess Wei Chang: “?”

Huo Hai: "The small country of Nanyue has what we need. What about places further away? Perhaps there are crops with yields several times or even dozens of times higher than rice per mu."

Princess Wei Chang: "That's a hundred times more than Xiaomi. How is that possible?"

Huo Hai: "What's impossible? Maybe the locals would find it strange when they heard that people in a certain place only eat millet and the yield per mu is only about 100 catties."

Princess Wei Chang pondered for a moment and looked up: "I want to organize people to explore the crops of the four countries."

Huo Hai: "That's easy. Just find a few experienced people to take the lead, train a group of adventurers, and then send them out continuously."

"Zhang Qian should be back soon."

The two were chatting when a very unified and serious voice came from behind.

Although I couldn't hear it clearly, I knew it was the emperor coming.

Huo Hai and Princess Wei Chang turned around and found that Liu Che got out of the car and walked towards them.

Liu Che came to be a light bulb, although he did not know what a light bulb was.

When Liu Che walked in, Huo Hai handed out the skewers: "Your Majesty, the princess grilled them, would you like some?"

Liu Che: Qing Ke grilled it? Qing Ke even grilled skewers for you? ! ! !
Mouth: "What are you talking about?"

Princess Wei Chang: "I'm chatting, traveling around the world."

What Liu Che heard was: Let's talk about the world together, galloping on horseback and sharing the prosperity of the world, from the northern pastures to the ends of the earth, and walk hand in hand through the world.

Huo Hai: "To be precise, we are talking about dogtail grass."

Liu Che: "What does traveling around the world have to do with dogtail grass?"

Princess Wei Chang: "Let's talk again. Bring all the dogtail grass from all over the world back to Chang'an."

Liu Che: “???”

You brought all the dogtail grass from all over the world back to Chang'an? Could it be that the testimony of your love is dogtail grass? Are you even reluctant to use copper coins as a testimony of your love? It's fine if you don't use money, but you can at least use something to symbolize beauty, like reeds? Or flowers? What is dogtail grass?
You still say you are not yellow-haired? ! !

Our daughter used to be very smart, right?

How could I be fooled? !

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I was out of luck before, so I don't have many drafts left, so I plan to decide how many chapters to publish based on the first order. Of course, I don't have more than two chapters left. But they are all big chapters with more than 3,000 words.

It was so stupid. I gave out the first two chapters as free chapters right at the beginning. I don’t know how much of a drag this will be. I hope the first order will be higher.

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