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Chapter 217 Visiting the Royal Hot Springs

Shen House

Early in the morning, just as Shen Huazheng and Zhou had finished their breakfast, someone came to the palace. It was An Desheng's apprentice Li Fu.

He brought Shen Huazheng good news: "Your Majesty has grown potatoes and vegetables in the hot spring manor according to the method given by Lady Yinghua."

Shen Huazheng's eyes lit up: "It's really successful."

The royal hot spring resort is also located in the suburbs of Beijing, close to Mount Ying.

It is in the same place as the hot spring manor that Emperor Jingning gave to Shen Huazheng, but the terrain is higher than that of Shen Huazheng's hot spring manor.

Li Fu smiled and said, "Yes, the people from Sinong Temple are watching there every day. Several waves of vegetables have been planted before, and now even potatoes have been planted. His Majesty is very pleased and has ordered me to pick up the county lady and take a look."

When Li Fu first learned that so many fresh and tender vegetables could be grown in the greenhouse at Wenquan Manor, he thought Shen Huazheng was incredibly amazing.

In fact, in previous years when the weather was cold, the royal hot spring villa would also grow some vegetables, usually spinach and cabbage.

Compared with other vegetables, spinach is cold-resistant and has a short growth cycle.

Cabbage can also be planted in winter, but its growth cycle is longer than that of spinach.

With greenhouses, more types of vegetables can be grown.

Now that even potatoes are grown in the greenhouse, Li Fu is even more impressed by Shen Huazheng and his attitude becomes even more respectful.

Shen Huazheng naturally would not refuse Emperor Jingning's arrangement.

Her greenhouse is just a small thing; the royal farm is the real deal.

If there is a chance, of course I will go and see it.

Shen Huazheng said something to Zhou, then took Qingzhi Qingtang and followed Li Fu to the royal hot spring resort.

She thought they had arrived at the royal hot spring resort, and Li Fu was taking her around to have a look.

Who would have thought that it was the Minister of Agriculture, Mr. Huang, who personally took Shen Huazheng to see the vegetables and potatoes in the greenhouse.

"Please look, County Lord. The vegetables here have been planted for a while, and those over here were just planted a few days ago."

Mr. Huang looked at the vegetables in the greenhouse, his eyes filled with unconcealable joy.

During this period of time, he comes here every day to record and summarize the growth conditions and data of vegetables in the greenhouse in detail.

Don't underestimate these data, they are all treasures.

With this data, the people at Sinong Temple can conduct detailed research and plan the most suitable vegetables for growing in winter.

The greenhouse that Mr. Huang brought Shen Huazheng to was planted with lettuce. Because the growth cycle was relatively short, even after just a few days of planting, sprouts began to appear sporadically.

Another batch of lettuces that had been grown for some time also grew tender leaves.

Shen Huazheng looked at these green vegetables and smiled.

"They are all growing well. As long as we keep the temperature and humidity right, there will be basically no problems."

Hearing Shen Huazheng's words, Lord Huang was greatly encouraged and the smile on his face became even wider, as if he was as happy as when he was praised by his teacher when he was a young student.

He took Shen Huazheng to tour the entire hot spring villa. In addition to lettuce, the vegetables grown here also included spinach and kale.

Of course, these are just the first few batches of trial planting.

There are also some other vegetable seeds on the way from the south to the capital, so that more types of vegetables can be grown.

After visiting the vegetable greenhouse, Mr. Huang took Shen Huazheng to the potato greenhouse.

When potatoes were first planted, Emperor Jingning, based on Shen Huazheng's suggestion, ordered people to record the growth of the potato plants every two or three days and mark them clearly on the land.

Shen Huazheng flipped through the record book given by Mr. Huang, and according to the marks, had someone dig out some of the first batch of potatoes planted.

There were hundreds of potatoes planted in the first batch, and those that grew well were marked separately.

Each plant has a thick stem and a well-developed root system. The potatoes they produce are of similar size, but some are much larger than others.

Although the unmarked plants did not grow as well, they still produced a lot of fruit.

A small potato plant can produce about ten or even a dozen fruits.

Although they are of different sizes, each one is round and looks very plump and pleasing to the eye.