Huo Chenan smiled slightly, showing a provocative expression and said: "It's far more than you think."
"Tsk, you're so arrogant." Su Linglong gave Huo Chenan a disdainful look. No matter how rich you are, can you be richer than my Su family?
After completing the transaction with Rodriguez, Huo Chenan was satisfied and took the crops to Qixia Mountain. Huo Chenan pulled 8 horse-drawn carriages with potatoes, sweet potatoes, corn, etc.
When Huo Chenan came to the farm, he handed the task of planting to the head of the village and Deng Lingjisheng. The reason why Deng Lingjisheng was called was entirely to promote scientific planting.
Huo Chenan stood on the edge of the field and told Deng Lingjisheng and others about the effects of various factors such as sunlight, rain, soil, and temperature on crops.
The people of the Mo family listened very seriously, but the head of the village and other farmers could not understand what they heard, and their levels were clearly different.
But for Huo Chenan, it was all the same. Farmers only needed to be responsible for planting, and professional matters of course needed professionals to handle them.
"Your Excellency, what you mean is to control these conditions to find the most suitable conditions for the growth of these crops." Deng Ling Jisheng concluded.
"That's right, the yield of crops will only increase under suitable growth conditions. Take rice for example, the denser the planting, the higher the yield. The denser the planting, the rice seedlings will compete for sunlight and nutrients, and the yield will decrease instead."
Everyone nodded in agreement.
"So the purpose of the experimental field is to find the most suitable growth conditions for each crop." Huo Chenan said patiently.
Deng Ling Jisheng nodded in agreement.
After arranging the tasks of planting and testing, Huo Chenan mysteriously pulled Deng Ling Jisheng to the fields.
"Master, I will treat you to delicious food today." Huo Chenan took out five or six sweet potatoes from the cloth bag he carried with him.
Deng Ling Jisheng looked at the strange-shaped sweet potatoes and didn't know how to eat them.
Huo Chenan cleared a clearing, skillfully built a fire, and threw the sweet potato directly into the fire. Soon, a strong aroma wafted out.
"What a nice smell!" Deng Lingjisheng couldn't help but be tempted.
After a while, Huo Chenan turned off the fire and took out the charred sweet potato from the fire.
"Uh!" Although the sweet potato still exuded a strong aroma, the charred appearance made Deng Lingjisheng hesitate.
Huo Chenan didn't say much, and took a sweet potato in his hand despite the scalding temperature.
"Sha, Sha! It's so hot." Huo Chenan blew air while tearing the sweet potato open, revealing the bright red flesh inside.
Huo Chenan took a bite, and he was so hot that he smacked his tongue again.
Seeing Deng Lingjisheng still staring at him eating, Huo Chenan said, "Don't just stand there, peel it and eat it while it's hot."
So Deng Lingjisheng followed suit and picked up a sweet potato, peeled it and started eating.
"Hiss, so hot, hiss, delicious, hiss, so sweet." Deng Lingjisheng said as his mouth burned.
The soft, glutinous and sweet taste instantly conquered Deng Lingjisheng's taste buds.
He didn't care that the sweet potato burned his mouth and ate it in big mouthfuls.
"It's really delicious!" Deng Lingjisheng praised sincerely.
Because he ate in a hurry, the burnt skin left a black "beard" on Deng Lingjisheng's face. At this moment, he looked like a miner who had just come out of a coal mine.
"Hahahaha," Huo Chenan couldn't help laughing when he saw his appearance. But Huo Chenan's current appearance is not much different from Deng Lingjisheng.
"Hahahaha," Deng Lingjisheng also laughed when he saw Huo Chenan's appearance.
After the two of them had eaten and laughed, Huo Chenan said to Deng Lingjisheng: "If this sweet potato is planted well, the yield per mu can reach 4,000 jin."
"4,000 jin?" Deng Lingjisheng looked at Huo Chenan in surprise. You know, in this era, the yield per mu of rice is only 200 to 300 jin. If this delicious sweet potato can reach 4,000 jin per mu, the people will no longer be hungry, and it tastes so good.
"Although potatoes and corn cannot reach the yield per mu of sweet potatoes, they can still produce 1,000 jin per mu."
Hearing this, Deng Lingjisheng was completely stunned.
If these crops can be promoted throughout the Dashun Dynasty, the food produced will make the people all over the world no longer starve, everyone can have enough food, everyone can live and work in peace, then everyone can respect and love each other, and the prosperous age of universal love expected by the Mohists can be realized.
The source of all this is what I have to do now. I will plant these crops through experiments. Only if I can master the growth conditions of these crops, I will be the pioneer of this prosperous era.
Huo Chenan is the guiding light of that prosperous era. Deng Lingjisheng even felt for a moment that Huo Chenan was the saint of this world. He came to save all living beings. And I am his believer and follower.
Huo Chenan wiped the black ash from the corner of his mouth and said, "Master, we have to make an oven."
"Oven?" Deng Lingjisheng didn't understand.
So Huo Chenan told him the function of the oven and the general idea.
After that, Deng Lingjisheng had an idea to build an oven.
Huo Chenan couldn't help but sigh: "This efficiency is unparalleled."
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After eating roasted sweet potatoes for dinner, Deng Lingjisheng took Huo Chenan to visit the construction progress of the glass workshop. With the concerted efforts of Mohist craftsmen and farmers, the glass workshop is almost completed. The furnace inside has already started to operate, and the boiling glass water flows out of the furnace and flows into the mold.
The molds of various shapes become exquisite glass works of art after cooling.
However, some of the glass water will drip out and condense into small round beads, which are the so-called production scraps, all of which are condensed into glass balls.
Huo Chenan looked at the mixed glass balls on the ground. Aren't these marbles? He couldn't help but feel playful. He found some marbles of suitable size and distributed them directly to the children playing at the head of the village, and taught them how to play marbles.
With a crisp sound of "pop", a marble was hit out of the circle by Huo Chenan.
"Wow," the admiration of the naughty children all around.
So Huo Chenan did not lose himself in the children's exclamations. He won back all the marbles with his super memory, and the naughty children were all frustrated.
Seeing this, Huo Chenan said: "Whoever can recite the Three Character Classic, I will give the marbles to him."
Unexpectedly, all the naughty children recited the Three Character Classic with their heads shaking: "When a person is born, his nature is good..."
Huo Chenan was very satisfied with the educational results, and finally he distributed all the marbles to the children.
The children were naturally happy and excited, and Huo Chenan added: "If you are short of marbles, you can go to the glass workshop downstream of the river beach to pick them up, but you can only play with them after school, and you can't fall behind in your usual homework, understand?"
"Understood~" a group of children said in unison.