Flowers in full bloom

Chapter 333: The Fiancée of the Top Scholar

After the Lantern Festival, the Chinese New Year was almost over. Pei Jingxuan's appointment letter also came down, and he went to the Ministry of Revenue to serve as the third-rank right assistant minister, assisting the Minister of Revenue in handling some matters of the Ministry of Revenue.

Hua Lei, the sixth-rank official of the Sinong Bureau, has officially taken office. Taking advantage of the Chinese New Year holiday, when she has more time, Hua Lei has sorted out her experience in growing corn and some of the problems she encountered, and handed them over to the head of the Sinong Bureau, Mr. Wang Sinong.

Wang Sinong was very surprised when he received Hua Lei's information. Originally, this was what he wanted to assign Hua Lei to do after the new year. However, before he opened his mouth, Hua Lei had already handed over the information. Of course, Wang Sinong was very happy to have such a subordinate.

So, he asked his subordinates to copy the information submitted by Hua Lei in more than ten copies, and gathered a group of people from the Agriculture Bureau in the government office to familiarize themselves with the information.

Then he personally took Hualei and other subordinates to the official fields where corn was planted and began to teach them step by step how to plant corn. Of course, Wang Sinong also took Hualei to the fields of many officials who bought corn seeds to provide guidance.

Turning the soil, fertilizing, leveling, and ridge building. Then soaking the corn, germination, breeding, and transplanting, the corn planting is going on step by step. Hualei's own fields are also going through these steps simultaneously. By the time all the corns are transplanted into the fields, it is already early May.

In the three months that were neither too long nor too short, Hua Lei was not criticized by her superiors and colleagues, but was highly respected. It was also because the emperor personally awarded her an official position, and the new official Pei Jingxuan from the Ministry of Revenue would come to check on her from time to time. In addition, the retired old Marquis Pei would always follow Hua Lei every now and then, saying that he also wanted to study hard. How could there be a fool who would rush into the muzzle of a gun?

In addition, Hualei himself has experience in growing corn, and the key points and precautions he mentioned are not empty talk. Instead, they can help everyone avoid many big and small problems when growing corn.

So even though Hua Lei was still young and a woman, many people looked at her with new eyes. Unconsciously, Hua Lei, the small official in the Ministry of Agriculture, was doing well.

After the corn was transplanted into the field, I had some free time for the flower buds. Apart from regularly following my colleagues from the Agriculture Bureau to inspect the corn fields, I could do what I wanted at other times.

In the spring examination held in early March, Pei Rongjin finally lived up to everyone's expectations. After being promoted to the Marquis of Zhenbei's Mansion, he brought another happy event to the Marquis' Mansion. He was chosen by Emperor Shengwu as the third place in the literary examination in the eleventh year of Dasheng.

For a time, Pei Rongjin's marriage was once again mentioned by the mistresses of various noble families in the capital, and the news about the fiancée of the top scholar was once again widely circulated.

When the mistresses and young ladies of many aristocratic families in Shangjing City were once again moved, they had to strangle their own restless hearts.

Bai Yunhe, who also competed at the same time, also achieved very good results, ranking seventh in the second class. Gui Jingan ranked sixteenth in the second class. For a time, the top scholar wine and the third scholar wine that Hualei sent to them before the Spring Examination, as well as the specially made egg yolk "Gao Zong", became hot commodities in Shangjing City, and the winery of Zhenbei Marquis Mansion also sold a large amount of rice wine.

The day after the results were announced, Hualei asked Uncle Fu to send a large gift basket to several families. In late April, Pei Rongjin, Bai Yunhe, Gui Jingan and others also began to study in the six ministries of the court.

Throughout the entire month of March, the entire capital city was bustling with activity because of the holding of the Spring Examination and the announcement of the results. Hua Lei also followed the current situation closely and temporarily mobilized Hua Ji's catering trucks in the streets and alleys to launch various sales activities, making a lot of money.

After the capital city gradually calmed down, Hua Lei rushed to her own Yuanying Manor, ready to start the fish farming plan in the wild rice fields.

Because of the transformation of the surrounding puddles, the vegetables in Yuanying Village were affected to some extent. Although the impact on chickens, ducks, geese and pigs was not great, they were also affected. The only thing that was not affected was the fish pond on the village.

When the puddle land was being renovated, Hua Lei had already paid careful attention to the layout of each farm, and she also came back secretly and took a lot of notes.

So Hualei is very clear that there are not many farms that raise fish, because the growth period of fish is relatively longer than that of chickens, ducks and geese, so many people do not choose to raise fish.

Therefore, Hualei's fish pond was not affected at all. On the contrary, because Hualei pickled a large number of dried fish and sent them to Mobei before the New Year, and after the new and delicious fried fish was developed in Shangjing City, the fish raised by her own family were in short supply. So Hualei decided to change the breeding structure on her own farm.

The fish ponds on the farm were already fully stocked, so there was no way to increase the number of fish. Hualei had no choice but to think of her past life, where there were many places where fish were raised in wild rice fields.

In the past, Zizania latifolia was called茭白. The spacing between plants and rows of Zizania latifolia in Zizania latifolia fields is relatively wide, and the water level is high, so the spare water surface in the Zizania latifolia fields can be used to raise fish.

In addition, wild rice leaves are a good bait for herbivorous fish, so wild rice and fish are mutually beneficial, which can not only increase the yield of fish, but also increase the yield of wild rice. It can well improve the economic and ecological benefits of wild rice fields.

Although I have no breeding experience, I can still try it. After all, there is a 20% discount on buying fish fry myself, which has many advantages.

So, Wu Sansi and a few others began to explore the method of raising fish in rice fields. They chose to transform the water swamps with sufficient water sources, good water quality, and the ability to irrigate and drain. Because the soil in the water swamps is rich in organic matter and fertile clay loam, it is very conducive to the growth of rice.

Of course, the transformed puddles must also be fertilized with sufficient base fertilizer, using river mud and decomposed poultry manure as the base, and then the cattail seedlings are planted at a certain distance.

After all the sorghum seedlings have survived and grown to a certain height, grass carp, crucian carp, and a small amount of silver carp and bighead carp are put into the sorghum field. In order to synchronize with the sorghum, the buds are all relatively large fry.

Of course, during the breeding process, fish food will be fed according to the actual situation. After the breeding process, the water level must be controlled. It cannot be too little to prevent the fry from lacking oxygen, but it cannot be too much to affect the tillering of the fry and thus the growth of the fry. In the middle, weeding and seedling removal must be done frequently.

Of course, it is relatively simple to say, but in actual operation, Hualei still lost several batches of fry.