Chen Xu sat on a grass with a sweet thatched root in his mouth, looking at the group of women laughing and playing, and felt very comfortable and comfortable.

This is the normal life that aristocrats should have.

And it is touched by the scene, so I wrote a poem with both sound and emotion: "Geese, goose, goose, singing towards the sky, white hair floats in green water, red palms rippling clear waves!"

"The poems written by the Marquis are so nice and suitable!" Several nearby maids began to praise their little marquis without any bottom line.

"Hehe, that's that..." Chen Xu looked proud.

"Brother Xiaoxu, do you think the flowers I picked are beautiful?" Yu Ji was wearing an exquisite skirt and ran over with a handful of wild flowers in her hand, her face blushing.

"Wow, Yu Ji is so amazing, the flowers you pick are so beautiful!" Chen Xu praised loudly in an exaggerated manner.

"Sister Xing'er, look, Brother Xiaoxu also said that the flowers I picked are beautiful!" Yu Ji turned around and shouted at Xing'er not far away.

"Go, brother, you have bad eyesight. You are in a mess and not beautiful at all!" Xing'er curled her lips disdainfully.

Chen Xu:...

"Yu Ji brings the flowers, Brother Xiaoxu will help you knit a flower-straw hat. It must be very beautiful when you wear it!"

Chen Xu felt very unhappy about the contempt from his sister. As this girl grew older, her personality became more and more independent, and gradually became a little rebellious. She didn't like anyone. Chen Xu felt that it was necessary to give her some small blow, otherwise her brother's face would become less and less effective.

"Okay, okay!" Yu Ji happily handed all the wild flowers in her hand to Chen Xu, and then knelt in front of Chen Xu, her little face full of excitement and expectation.

Wearing straw hats is a basic skill for children who have been growing up in the countryside. It is not difficult. It is to weave a circle with wild flowers and weaves, and then insert beautiful flowers and plants on it, and a flower and straw hat is completed.

Chen Xu's movements were very fast, pulling a few thin flower vines from around him, plus some tender and slender weeds, and weaving a grass ring in just a few seconds, and then putting the wild flowers picked by Yu Ji on the grass ring in less than five minutes.

"Come on, Brother Xiaoxu will put it on for you!" Chen Xu put the braided straw hat on Yu Ji's head. It was just as big or small. In an instant, a chubby little girl with a round face turned into a chubby round face fairy.

"Sister Xing'er, come and see, is my flower and straw hat beautiful?" Yu Ji jumped up excitedly, turned around and shouted at Xing'er with excitement.

"Brother, I want flower and straw hats too!" Looking at the colorful flower and straw hats on Yu Ji's head, Xing'er was attracted immediately. She abandoned her disdain just now, and ran over with a large bouquet of wild flowers.

Chen Xu had to make another one out of every possible way, and then the two little girls ran to Ying Shiman, Meng Wan and a group of little maids in flower and straw hats to show off.

A group of young and beautiful girls were instantly conquered by this natural beauty. Ying Shiman and Meng Wan gave up their beloved plush toys and followed a group of little maids to pick a large bunch of wild flowers and gathered around Chen Xu. Chen Xu began to demonstrate how to make straw hats to everyone.

"Look, it's very simple!" Chen Xu quickly demonstrated the creation of a flower and straw hat with his fingers, so a group of women and women started to work on their own. After more than ten minutes, each of them had a straw hat full of wild flowers on their heads. Even Chen Xu had a head, made by Yu Ji, which was very loose, and the flowers were sparse and scattered. He walked on his head and fell down, just like a flower monster walking in spring.

"Hehe~ Husband's hat looks very beautiful!" Meng Wan covered her mouth, and Ying Shilan and a group of little maids followed behind and couldn't stand up straight.

Looking back at a group of beautiful ladies with smiles and flowers, Chen Xu felt a flame burning from his body.

Spring is here, and it is the mating season again. In such a sunny and beautiful wilderness, if you can fight in a field, it will definitely be very pleasant.

It seems that I have to find an opportunity to take the fifth princess out alone to have a trip... But I'm afraid the fifth princess will be shy, and it's not good to spread it. The best person is Fan Caiying, who is not only mature and charming, but also can satisfy all postures. Well... I decided like this...

After a group of people finished making straw hats, everyone near the pond had fun, so Chen Xu took his family to move the position.

The fiefdom is too large, with nearly 300 hectares of mountains, forests and grain fields alone, not to mention the fief. More than 3,000 households have a radius of hundreds of miles, and they cannot be inspected in one or two days. Therefore, Chen Xu also planned to go wherever the aisle and go home until he was hungry.

Not far from the pond is an orchard. Last winter, more than a dozen students from the Agricultural College and farmers on the fief dug back from the hillside fields and planted many fruit trees and seedlings, including peach, plum, apricot, pear and tomatoes, most of which are seedlings only one foot or two feet tall.

These fruit trees are all semi-wild, and the purpose of planting is to let these students learn grafting techniques and continuously improve and cultivate fruit varieties.

If most fruit trees are not grafted, the fruits they grow will continue to degenerate, just like peaches. Some varieties are large and sweet, but the peaches grown from peach trees grown with fruit pits are small and astringent. Only by grafting the branches of sweet peach trees onto the seedlings can delicious fruits grow at that time.

Grafting technology is a very ancient heritage in China. Its original origin was that papaya vines were entangled and grown, and then the fruits and fruits grew sweeter and fuller. Therefore, the ancients believed that the fruit vines that grew together were favored by God and were a symbol of luck, so they were called ties. Later, some people extended this kind of ties to marriage between men and women, and men and women became husband and wife, which also called ties to be tied together every day, and it would be casual if it was an old tree to be tied up or 69 style. Anyway, it was a posture that God blessed...

Chen Xu rode on the horse and was thinking about the Thirty-six Styles of Dong Xuanzi. He had a deep smile on his face, saliva was slightly raised on the corner of his mouth, and a colorful flower and straw hat like a bird's nest on his head, trembling and full of joy as he walked.

Following the two small convertible four-wheeled carriages behind him, Ying Shiman, Meng Wan and a group of girls were wearing flower and straw hats on their heads, and they were excited to sing and speak as they watched the rich spring scenery of flowers and green willows along the way.

"Send me to the outside of the village. There is a saying that I want to explain, although there are already a hundred flowers blooming, the wild flowers on the roadside~ Don't pick them... If you don't pick them, don't pick them... If you don't pick them, don't pick them..."

Chen Xu also shook his head and hummed the little song with a relaxed and comfortable face.

Although the fief is outside the city, it is convenient to transport. Apart from large farmland, there are many villages along the way. The hardworking farmers are working hard to weed the fields. When they saw their marquis bringing a group of young ladies to enjoy the spring, they all kowtowed to greet each other on both sides of the road.

"Mr. Marquis, you are here!" The manager in charge of this orchard brought several farmers and several students from the agricultural college to greet him.

"No gift!" Chen Xu nodded and dismounted. The two carriages and a group of guards behind him also stopped, and a group of girls wearing straw hats also got off the car and started playing in the orchard.

This orchard is on a low hillside, with a height of only thirty meters. It is a small earthy hill with an area of ​​more than ten acres.

There were some fruit trees on this small hill, most of which were wild. Chen Xu changed it into an orchard according to local conditions when planning. Now some simple terraces have been built on the hills, and fruit trees such as peach, plum, apricot and pear are also divided into different areas.

In February of mid-spring, it is the time when the peach blossoms and plum blossoms are blooming. The spring scenery of the garden is pleasant. Bets buzzing among the red, white, yellow and green flowers are busy picking flowers and making honey. A rich fragrance of flowers floats in the air.

Xing'er and Yu Ji were still humming songs and jumping to pick wild flowers. Ying Shiman and Meng Wan followed Chen Xu on the left and right, and a group of little maids surrounded him and chatted about which fruits were the best.

"Husband, why is this fruit tree so small that it is sawn into a stump?" Ying Shiman squatted in front of a grafted tree and asked in confusion.

"Princess, this is the grafting technique taught by the marquis. These small trees are wild fruit seedlings. Although the varieties are the same, the fruits produced are not only small but also bitter and unpalatable. We took a piece of branches from the big tree with delicious fruits and grafted them on this small tree. Once we survived and grew up, the fruits produced will be the same as those of the big tree..." A teacher with the nameplate of the agricultural college hanging on his chest quickly explained.

"See, this is the grafted branch!" Chen Xu squatted down and pointed at a small bud that was no more than three inches long on the stump.

"The grafting technique is such a strange method. My husband is really fantastic. Shiman is looking forward to their appearance when they grow up!" Ying Shiman said in surprise.

Chen Xu carefully looked at the grafted tree and found that several tender yellow green leaves had bloomed on the tender branches wrapped in soil and linen, which should have been alive. In other words, some theories about grafting that he did not meticulously in the Agricultural College have seen real results in the application of the theory and practice of this group of students in the Agricultural College.

Grafting technology is not complicated. Most people in the countryside can do it. Grafting fruit trees is a basic skill passed down by our ancestors. When Chen Xu was a child, he saw his elders grafting peach trees and orange trees with his own eyes, but he had not verified it himself.

In later generations, as there were fewer and fewer young people in rural areas, fewer and fewer people knew how to graft. However, the correspondingly, agricultural colleges and professional fruit and forest companies were used more widely. Moreover, with the continuous promotion of hybridization technology, grafting is more and more used in the agricultural field. In addition to fruit trees, vegetable hybrid grafting is more and more widely. Cucumbers are grafted on pumpkins and peppers are grafted on tomatoes. As long as there are many plants in the same family, they can be grafted, but the survival rate is different. Moreover, after grafting, the yield of grafted crops will be greatly changed, and the appearance and taste can be improved.

The current Daqin agriculture is not developed, and the theory of grafting has not yet appeared. It may have appeared, but it has not attracted attention or no one has specially sorted it out.

The rapid development of China's agriculture actually occurred in the Han Dynasty.

If the Qin Dynasty was not too short-lived, this change could actually be advanced countless years, because the Qin Dynasty had just unified the entire China. Although it attached importance to the development of agriculture, the chaos in the country had not yet been completely settled. The main task of the court was to follow Qin Shihuang's pace and constantly build roads and fight. It was almost blind to govern such a unified country, from Qin Shihuang to the civil and military affairs of the dynasty, and was still in the quest stage.

When the Qin Dynasty collapsed, the nobles of the six countries were slaughtered by Xiang Yu, and sixty or seventy percent of the adult men were killed in battle. The fire of domestic rebellion was completely crushed to ashes. The country could not withstand the turmoil of war. Therefore, the Han Dynasty summarized the experience of the collapse of the Qin Dynasty and began to abolish many harsh laws to recuperate. Only in a stable domestic environment did agricultural production develop greatly. Various new agricultural tools and new farming methods began to appear. Fruit tree grafting and cultivation, poultry breeding, papermaking and other things that concern the production and life of the people soon appeared.

The grafted tree in front of me was not transplanted, but was originally a sapling in the orchard.

Generally speaking, the small trees that were transplanted in the past cannot be guaranteed to survive, and it is probably even more difficult to survive after grafting. Therefore, after walking in the orchard for a long time, I only saw this grafted fruit seedling.

"How many fruit seedlings have been grafted in the orchard now?" Chen Xu stood up and asked.

"When I returned to the Marquis, more than 30 plants were grafted on this hillside, and hundreds of plants were grafted at the homes of some other farmers!" The teacher replied.

“What is the survival rate?”

"The survival rate is not too high, it is roughly only about 30%!" the teacher said with a blushing face.

"Thirty percent, that's good. After all, it's the first year of experiments. It's February now. Although the grafting time is almost over, you can still choose some branches on some big trees for grafting experiments, practice grafting techniques more, and also some vines can also be tested. Don't be afraid of failure. Only by constantly failing can you gain more experience!"
Chapter completed!