After passing through the vegetable field, he arrived at a small hill. The commander of the valley pointed to a plum blossom in front and said, "Yunju, there is a flower garden. Most of these plum blossoms were bought from Luoyang, and there were some rare varieties. They were specially asked to buy them from Yangzhou."

Liu Wei said: "You have a heart. This is because of the local atmosphere. Early plum blossoms are not uncommon this season. It is not easy for this kind of plum blossom to bloom."

Commander Gu said, "There are early plums, and there is a piece of yellow flowers there. It was bought from Yanling County. There is a fire path in this flowerbed. Whenever the weather is severely cold, it will open the furnace to make a fire, so it blooms so early. Not only plum blossoms are inside, but chrysanthemums are still blooming now."

As everyone spoke, they entered the flower garden. The plum blossoms here are still mainly wax plum blossoms, which is the season for blossoming. Other varieties of plum blossoms only bloom sporadically, relying on the fire to raise fires and increase the temperature. Some flower trees forget the season.

This place is located in the north-south transition zone, not only the flowers and trees in the north, but some flowers and trees in the south can also be planted. In addition, the coal in the iron prison is like a free money, and fire channels can be placed, which partially breaks through seasonal restrictions.

Du Zhongxiao is a practical person, and does not have much poetic and picturesque style of literati. He built a flower bed here, with the main purpose of introducing north and south plants. Cultivating new varieties, and doing the things of south planting north and north planting south.

In addition to carefully selecting and selecting good hereditary traits from generation to generation, the exchange between different varieties is also particularly important. Especially between varieties of different latitudes, hybridization can prevent the degeneration of varieties and produce new varieties.

Tang Deng and other prefectures are in the transition zone of north-south climate. Most plant varieties in China can be planted here, which is a rare seed cultivation base. Starting from the field work, Du Zhongxiao intends to set up such a place every time he goes to a place. Yingtian Town to the south mainly has grain, oil and cotton seed bases, and here are vegetables, fruits and flowers and trees.

During the Han Dynasty, Zhang Qian opened the Western Regions and brought back a large number of crop seeds, which not only enriched the crop species in the Central Plains, but also improved many crops. The most typical example is wheat, which introduced excellent traits within the mainland, and the yield increased a lot after the Han Dynasty. Since then, the introduction of large-scale crop improvements in local varieties has been introduced, and most of them have come from the sea. Some varieties have even undergone secondary introduction. For example, onions were originally brought back by Zhang Qian from the Western Regions, but later introduced new varieties from the sea, which makes people forget that China has a history of thousands of years of cultivation.

Since the Song Dynasty, new varieties of rice, mainly rice, have been continuously emerging in China's main grain crops, and their yields have continued to increase. A very important reason is that they continue to develop southward. From the south of the two lakes to Lingnan, new varieties of rice appeared under different climatic and geographical conditions, and new varieties appeared in exchanges between varieties in various places, which continued to iterate. Due to the long-term cut off of ties with the Western Regions, especially the large-scale destruction of Central Asia, the dry crop varieties have not been updated for a long time, which interrupted the trend of increasing yield per mu of rice.

After entering the flower room, Commander Gu had already arranged for someone to set up a banquet. Ruan, who was in charge of this place, couldn't help but persuade him to drink and introduce the surrounding flowers and trees.

After drinking a few glasses of wine, Du Zhongxiao said to Commander Gu: "In the future, all the people from the Iron Supervision Bureau will be here, and there will be as many as 10,000 or 20,000 people. The hundreds of acres of vegetable fields here actually cannot meet the supply. Most of the meat and vegetables eaten by the people in the Iron Supervision Bureau will still be purchased from outside. Do you know why?"

Commander Gu said, "I think the officials are the ones who are compassionate with the servants. We are not familiar with the farming of the land. Moreover, the local people can also make some money from the iron prison by growing vegetables and raising chickens."

Du Zhongxiao smiled and said, "What you said is right. This is one of the reasons, but not the main reason. The reason why you have opened so many places and are not allowed to supply all the meat and vegetables in the Iron Prison is the most important thing you do is not mainly supplying the Iron Prison, but to select good varieties for the people around you. You don't have to plant a lot of vegetables except for some rare vegetables, and you mainly plant a few vegetables grown by the surrounding people. There are those vegetables produced in the two lakes in the south of the Yangtze River and the Central Plains. You should pay special attention to them. Find ways to take them and try them in the vegetable garden. When the introduction is successful, sell the seeds to the surrounding people and let the people grow them."

Commander Gu was full of confusion: "Yun Judgment, I don't know why I did this?"

Du Zhongxiao said: "Iron Supervisor is a place where iron iron is produced. Grain, rice, meat and vegetables can be purchased from outside. It is expensive for a while, so you can move farmers from surrounding prefectures and counties to let them open fields. In one or two years, it will definitely be the same as ordinary places. This vegetable garden is specially set up for two purposes. First, you are the benchmark here, and the iron supervisor will only buy it. Second, you are preventing the collusion of supplying vegetables and raising prices. This is your job, but it is not the most important achievement. Most of the melons and vegetables in the world can be planted here between the north and the south. In Tangzhou in the south, there are even sugarcane planting, let alone other crops. The world's fruits and vegetables are what you need to do."

Commander Gu Chengnuo was confused, but he still didn't understand Du Zhongxiao's meaning.

Du Zhongxiao looked at things from the world, and local political achievements were secondary. How could Commander Gu have such awareness?

At this moment, Zuodu head rolled up his trouser legs, brought a few soldiers, and brought a few big fish in his hand. He handed the fish to Ruan Du head, and crossed his hands to greet him. He said, "The officials have met the officials. I have caught a few big fish and have a drink for the officials."

Du Zhongxiao ordered to sit down and said to him: "It's all hard. I don't know what kind of fish are you catching?"

Zuo Dutou said, "There are a few big black fish. No one here knows how to make fish sashimi, so he has to use it to cook wine."

Du Zhongxiao said again: "Are there only these fish in that reservoir now?"

Zuo Dutou said, "Hui Guanren, there are common fish in the Central Plains. However, they are all wild fish, some more and some less."

Du Zhongxiao nodded and said, "In such a reservoir, except for wild fish, everyone should find a way to buy some fish fry to raise. Especially for the rare fish in the Central Plains, you should also find more ways to raise them. For example, Wuchang fish in the Hanyang Army area, you can also raise them here, so you should find a way to buy some to raise them."

Zuo Du scratched his head: "Yunjudgment, since the fish is called Wuchang fish, it is naturally only available in Wuchang. Wuchang is Ezhou. Although it is only a few hundred miles away from here and is not far away, after it is raised here, it will definitely be different if it changes into the water and soil."

Du Zhongxiao said: "But the variety of fish is still the same. The water and soil have changed, but the flavor has changed, and the fish is still good. Like this kind of aquatic products, you can find more ways to lead us to come. There are many lakes on the south side of Jinghu North Road, and I don't know how many aquatic products there are. Choosing those good ones, leading them to us to raise them and sell them to the Central Plains is a great achievement. Scarcity is precious, so what does these ordinary aquatic products mean?"

Zuo Du said to him, thinking that this matter was extremely difficult to deal with. Not to mention the difference in water and soil, it is difficult to survive the aquatic products brought by it. Just say how to transport live fish from hundreds of miles? Not to mention that many fish are attracted, they will not lay eggs. Without fish fry, it will be difficult to deal with it.
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