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Li Er was also a little surprised.

He didn't even react.

He smacked his lips and asked, "Chen Chu, what conditions do you want me to promise you?"

Chen Chu said: "First, when I'm in charge of planting potatoes, my father should trust me unconditionally, and I must not change people because of some rumors or slander."

Li Er thought about it.

It is a taboo for military strategists to change people in front of the battle.

It's the same with governing the country.

Growing potatoes... seems to be right too.

So he nodded: "Okay, if you don't have any doubts about employing people, I can promise you."

Chen Chu continued: "Secondly, growing potatoes requires a large area of ​​land, and it is best to be close to Chang'an City."

Li Er said: "Sure, the royal family and the court still have a lot of land around Chang'an City. What do you think you want?"

Chen Chu shook his head: "I haven't thought about it yet, but when I think about it, I will play it naturally."

"Okay, Chen Chu, don't worry, since you dare to accept this matter, I won't treat you badly... When you grow big potatoes, I will reward you a lot..." Li Er said happily.

Li Er was really happy.

The more I looked at Chen Chu, the more pleasing I felt.

What a good son-in-law!

He doesn't even need an official position, but he can wholeheartedly grow potatoes for Datang.

Just ask, how many people like this are there in the world.

Now he didn't regret marrying Li Lizhi to Chen Chu at all.

As everyone knows, Chen Chu's dream is to be an idle son-in-law, not to be an official in the court.

How good it is to be a consort!

Don't be on duty!

No need to get up early!

Don't worry about the achievements of the government.

Whoever dares to bully me, I will kill him with money.

If you can't kill him with money, let my eldest princess' wife scare him to death.

And once you become a court official, there will be more constraints.

Li Er was happy because he looked at Chen Chu pleasingly.

But Changsun Wuji and the others were happy because they had fooled Chen Chu.

Li Er suddenly pondered and said: "Chen Chu has made great contributions to our Tang Dynasty, and now he is willing to plant potatoes for the Tang Dynasty. I plan to make him a man of Lantian County, with three hundred households in the food town, from the fifth rank. Dear dear friends how about?"

what?

Everyone gasped.

Somewhat confused.

I thought that the sixth-rank farmer Wailang was already very powerful.

Unexpectedly, His Majesty Li Er gave Chen Chu a man from Lantian County.

Chen Chu was also a little dumbfounded.

Male from Lantian County?

Lantian?

It's time to come.

It is said that Lantian is a threshold that travelers cannot get around, and it seems that I am no exception.

Seeing everyone's astonishment, Chen Chu asked, "Father, this county man doesn't need to go to the palace to be on duty, right?"

Everyone: "..."

Li Er was stunned and said: "You boy just rejected the farmer Wailang I gave you, because you want to work in the palace?"

Chen Chu nodded.

Li Er: "..."

Everyone: "..."

This is the first time I heard that someone refused an official position because he was afraid of being on duty.

Everyone looked at Chen Chu like a monster, feeling incredible.

And Li Er regretted that he had given away the title of male in Lantian County.

This kid is really useless.

Outrageous!

He stared at Chen Chu, and said: "You are now a man from Lantian County, and you are tasked with growing potatoes for Datang, you... you have to do it yourself!"

After finishing speaking, Li Er walked away in a huff.

He was afraid that if he stayed any longer, he would get sick from Chen Chu's anger.

……

After Li Er and a group of ministers have left.

Li Chengqian stayed behind.

He looked at Chen Chu puzzled, and asked, "Chen Chu, are you crazy? You are going to farm the land. Do you know what the most difficult official in the court is to be in charge of Nong Sang? No one can tell when the harvest will be bad, and agriculture is beyond human power!"

Chen Chu shook his head: "Your Highness, what you said is wrong!"

What?

Li Chengqian looked at Chen Chu in surprise: "No? Why is it wrong?"

Chen Chu laughed: "You will know later..."

Saying that, he turned to leave.

It seems that it will take more than ten years to take over the task of solving the food problem in Datang. In fact, Chen Chu calculated carefully that if it is fast, it can be solved in one year.

Besides potatoes, there are many other ways to solve the food problem.

For example, more scientific and reasonable planting methods.

For example, fertilizer!

For example, the improvement and upgrading of farm tools.

For example, seed selection.

and many more!

As a time traveler, Chen Chu has full confidence to solve these problems within a year.

……

Chapter 257 Black Soil

a few days later.

early morning.

Behind the Nanshan Mansion, there is an open space.

Zhu Neng and others stood cautiously in front of Chen Chu.

Chen Chu was playing with a fist-sized black stone in his hand, watching carefully, for fear of missing any details.

After a while, Chen Chu shook his head.

Said: "Impure, too many impurities, too high hardness, the most important thing is that it has a dark brown color on it, and it can be seen that the sulfur content is very high... Sigh..."

Hearing Chen Chu sigh, Zhu Neng was shocked.

He rushed up and said, "Boss, according to your instructions, we traveled all over Chang'an without eating or drinking, and went as far as Lantian, Yunyang and other places for more than a month. Just find this, this is the best... there is nothing better..."

After finishing speaking, he added: "If the boss is not satisfied, I will look for it later."

More than a month ago, Chen Chu carefully understood the progress of Zhu Neng and others in printing banknotes, and finally shook his head to ask everyone to stop temporarily.

Then, with a sample, Zhu Neng and others went to search for ore around Chang'an.

I was looking for coal mines.

As for the sample, I bought it from a merchant from Hebei Province by chance.

It is late autumn now.

The weather is getting colder.

Winter is coming.

After experiencing the cold winter of the past year, Chen Chu discovered that the heating methods in the entire Tang Dynasty were very backward. They all used firewood or charcoal. Of course, charcoal was also made of firewood.

And coal, no one uses it.

This is a bit outrageous.

After all, in the future, coal will be one of the most important non-renewable energy sources in the world.

Therefore, when this winter is approaching, Chen Chu is determined to develop coal.

There is the arduous journey of Zhu Neng and others traveling through mountains and rivers to find coal.

Chen Chu stood up, saw Zhu Neng's fearful expression, and said, "Old Zhu, I'm not dissatisfied with you, but just dissatisfied with this coal... You have done a good job."

Zhu Neng asked tremblingly: "Boss, you mean, this thing is called coal? Isn't it black soil?"

Chen Chu laughed.

Natives are really interesting.

It looks black, like soil, so it is called black soil.

Chen Chu said: "From now on, it has a professional name called coal... How many coal reserves have you discovered?"

Zhu Neng thought for a while, and said embarrassedly: "Boss, this piece of black... coal was found [-] miles north of Chang'an City. There are a few barren hills there. After digging ten meters away, there are all this kind of coal underneath. As for How many, I can't wait to know."

"all of them?"

Zhu Neng added: "There are several mountains."

It seems that there are a lot of reserves!

Chen Chu hurriedly said: "Go, take me to have a look!"

Not long after, a few fast horses left the Nanshan mansion, went directly through the Chunming gate, and headed north.

……

North of Chang'an City.

More than 30 miles.

The terrain here has risen, and a hill has appeared.

Below the hills is fertile land.

And those hills, because of the barrenness, are uncultivated and have been deserted.

During this period, the population was small, the cattle were in short supply, and the farm tools were underdeveloped, which made it very difficult to open up wasteland.

Naturally, no one pays attention to such a barren mountain.

At the col, by a small stream.

"It's on fire!"

"It's really burning..."