Flowers in full bloom

Chapter 380 Being Slandered

Therefore, Hualei once again called on the pioneers on the barren mountain and asked them to come over to help artificially pollinate the corn plants.

In order to teach the pioneers how to do artificial pollination, Hualei read a lot of books and thought of many ways. He also personally led Uncle Fu and Uncle Zheng to experiment for three or four days before he led the pioneers to teach and practice artificial pollination of corn plants.

It took more than ten days to finally pollinate all the corn plants in Hualei's own corn field. After completing the pollination, Hualei led these people to help artificially pollinate corn plants in other official fields.

Seeing Hua Lei's behavior, Grand Minister Huang was very happy. After all, with such a subordinate who took the initiative to do things, he, as a boss, felt much more relaxed.

Hua Lei hadn't noticed Mr. Huang's friendly expression, but when she had lunch in the Ministry of Agriculture, she clearly noticed some of her colleagues' strange looks. Gu Qingtian's explanation left Hua Lei speechless.

Because many people think that Hualei, an unmarried girl, is talking about male plants, female flowers, pollination, and fertilization with a group of men who have been released from prison, which is really inappropriate.

Especially some people who are unwilling to straighten even the fallen corn plants. On the one hand, they feel that it is not their responsibility, and on the other hand, it is because they lack manpower.

Therefore, Hualei took the initiative to drain the official fields to prevent waterlogging, took the initiative to use their own fertilizer to topdress the corn plants, and artificially pollinated the corn plants. Many people who are used to being lazy and slacking can't stand it. In this comparison, doesn't it make them look incompetent and lazy? Therefore, the slander against Hualei is getting more and more intense.

Hualei did not comment on others' inaction. But what she did was criticized and even slandered by many people. However, Hualei could only remain silent. She couldn't just go up and quarrel with others just because they said something behind her back.

Because of Lord Pei's request, Emperor Shengwu has been secretly paying attention to the cornfields. Hualei's behavior once again made Emperor Shengwu appreciate it. After all, any boss likes a subordinate who is capable, hardworking and willing to pay.

But Emperor Shengwu was very angry at those who did nothing but still slandered Hualei. However, as a monarch, if he directly intervened in such trivial matters, on the one hand, he would not have enough energy, and on the other hand, it would easily bring more pressure to Hualei.

So Emperor Shengwu remained silent and just listed the names of all those who slandered Hua Lei on a piece of paper, and put a red cross behind each name.

When the corn in the official fields was harvested, the truth of "no pain, no gain" was once again confirmed. The corn fields on Hualei's own farm and the 400 mu of official fields she was responsible for both yielded about 800 kilograms per mu.

The corn fields that didn't even want to straighten the fallen corn only produced 470 to 480 kilograms per mu. This obvious contrast made everyone's faces change color.

Some people praised Hualei to her face, some people looked down on her, and those who slandered her behind her back continued to slander Hualei even more fiercely.

However, during the year-end assessment, those who slandered Hualei were sent home by Emperor Shengwu for various reasons, and the six ministries were instructed not to employ these people again. In the end, these people did not know the real reason for their return home.

But Hualei's assessment was top-notch. When Hualei got the assessment result, she was very confused. Wasn't she given a serious warning because the corn seeds were burned to death? It was impossible for someone who was given a serious warning to get a top-notch score in the year-end assessment.

However, the red comments on the back of the evaluation form proved to Hua Lei that her efforts were not in vain. It was the personal comments of Emperor Shengwu, "Superior". Since Emperor Shengwu personally commented on it, the officials of the Ministry of Revenue and the Ministry of Agriculture certainly did not dare to object. Therefore, after being punished severely, Hua Lei was rated as Superior.

After artificial pollination of the corn seeds, the weather became hotter and hotter, but everything in the cornfield was slowly getting better.

The hot summer speeds up the growth of corn plants. Similarly, the hot summer is also a good season to stock fish ponds with fry. It took about ten days to grow all the fry in Yuanying Village.

As for the pond on the barren mountain, Hualei is also preparing to use it and stock it with fish fry.

When digging this pond, Hualei's primary consideration was to use it to store natural water for irrigating crops on the mountain. However, in order to make full use of the pond, Hualei decided to use it for two purposes.

The pond is used for irrigation as well as fish farming. So Hualei dug stepped ponds. If fish are raised in these excavated ponds, the fish pond can be expanded several times, increasing production and income.

The three-layer stepped pond was dug specifically to automatically adjust the water depth of the fish pond in the middle to meet the requirements of fish farming.

The depth of the pond for breeding fish fry is generally about 1.5 to 2 meters. Hualei looked at the pond in the middle and measured it with a bamboo pole with a scale, and found that the water depth was now more than three meters.

So he ordered Wu Sansi to open the gap between the middle pool and the deeper pool on the side, and release the water into the deep pool.

When the water in the middle pool was about two meters deep, the passage between the two pools was closed, and the fish fry that had been reserved in advance were placed in the middle pond.

If the water in the fish pond is too shallow, you can dig up the other side of the pond and let the water there flow into the fish pond.

However, the water temperature in the pond is actually more suitable for growing aquatic plants than for raising fish. Therefore, if you want to raise fish in a storage pond, you must also adjust the temperature to ensure that it is suitable for the survival of fish.

In order to regulate the temperature of the pond, Hualei threw some duckweed and water hyacinth into the pond, and also transplanted a lot of willow trees beside the pond to provide shade for the fish pond.

In addition, fish also need oxygen, so in order to ensure that there is enough oxygen in the pool water, Hualei installed several bamboo tubes to allow a small flow between the pools to increase the oxygen content in the pool water.

The subsequent fish fry breeding was similar to the fish breeding in the fish ponds at Yuanying Manor. For the sake of her own money, Hualei released some fish fry in several fish ponds that had been dug. However, the density of the fish fry was smaller than that of the fish ponds at Yuanying Manor, so that the space required by the fish fry could be fully guaranteed.