Luck entry, starting from the Nine Dragons' succession

Chapter 12 Sir, you must not do this. This is the Ninth Prince.

The next day.

Fang Heng came to the Seed Selection Office.

Today is his first day at work, and he came a quarter of an hour early.

As soon as I walked into the Seed Selection Office, it was already full of people.

All the officials from the Seed Selection Department, big and small, were present, without exception.

"Your humble servant greets His Highness."

"Your Excellencies are too polite."

"Once I enter the Seed Selection Department, I will be a Deputy Director, not a Highness."

Fang Heng has a warm and cheerful attitude and looks very approachable.

These high-sounding words immediately made the officials at all levels of the Seed Selection Department breathe a sigh of relief.

What's more, they have already started to wonder what Fang Heng's preferences are.

beautiful?

Wine?

Like gambling?

Calligraphy and painting?

In short, cater to the person's preferences.

In the past, they wanted to cling to someone, but there was no one to cling to.

Now that the thigh has come to their door, they would be doing themselves a disservice if they don't cling to it.

Everyone in the Seed Selection Department has different ideas.

After looking around at everyone, Fang Heng took the initiative to greet Xu Xingzhi, the doctor from the Seed Selection Department.

"Meet Mr. Xu."

"I don't deserve it, I don't deserve it! Your Highness is too polite."

"Your Highness, the Seed Selection Department has twelve departments, divided into the upper six departments and the lower six departments."

"The rosters for the next six departments will be handed over to Your Highness."

As soon as he took office, Xu Xingzhi readily handed over the rosters of the next six departments, which was within Fang Heng's expectations.

According to the rules of the Ministry of Agriculture, the top six departments of the Seed Selection Department are under the jurisdiction of the Langzhong, and the bottom six departments are under the jurisdiction of the Yuanwailang.

Therefore, it is only natural to hand over the rosters of the next six subjects.

Of course, this is just theory.

How the twelve departments are divided and how many departments each doctor and yuanwailang is in charge of depends on the fighting style of both sides.

Who has a stronger background?
Who is more capable?
Who has more seniority?
All of these will affect the division and jurisdiction of the twelve departments.

Seeing Xu Xingzhi being so understanding, Fang Heng naturally wouldn't make things difficult for him and gave him some face.

"Thank you, Master Xu, for your advice."

After exchanging pleasantries with Xu Xingzhi, Fang Heng stood up and said goodbye, going to his office.

"Master Tian, please give me the situation of the six departments."

Fang Heng took a sip of the fragrant tea and said lightly.

As the head of the Seed Selection Department, Tian Sheng wanted to join Fang Heng after learning that Fang Heng was the Deputy Director of the Seed Selection Department.

Even if he is a prince with no hope of inheriting the throne, he is still a prince.

If he could get hold of this thigh, he would finally see the light at the end of the tunnel and be able to leave this hellhole of a seed selection department.

Tian Sheng used all his strength to introduce the situation of the six departments to Fang Heng.

"...There are a total of 125 of them, searching for high-quality crops..."

"Let them all come back."

Fang Heng spoke calmly as he issued his first order after arriving at the Seed Selection Department.

After hearing this, Tian Sheng was stunned.

"Call them all back?"

"But, Your Highness... they all have missions to fulfill. Every year, there are assessments by the Ministry of Personnel, and this year is also the year of the imperial examination..."

Before Tian Sheng could finish his words, Fang Heng waved his hand and interrupted him.

"No but!"

"Just do as I say."

"There's no need to worry about the Ministry of Personnel's assessment."

Hearing this, Tian Sheng was excited.

I really didn’t see the wrong person!
As expected of the Ninth Prince, he could even handle the assessment by the Ministry of Personnel.

What a multitude of magical powers!

"How many crop varieties are there in the Seed Selection Department? Take me to see them!" Fang Heng ordered.

"Your Highness, the Seed Selection Department has collected 126,000 varieties of crop seeds from around the world, all stored in its warehouse."

"Your Highness, please follow me."

Tian Sheng was not at all surprised that Fang Heng wanted to inspect the crops in the Seed Selection Department.

Taking Fang Heng, he came to the warehouse of the Seed Selection Department.

"I have met His Highness."

"Greetings, Master Tian."

The warehouse guard saluted.

"Open the door, let me go in and take a look."

A crunch!
The warehouse door opens.

Rows of cabinets stand in the warehouse.

It is so densely packed, like a maze.

These cabinets, similar to those in Chinese medicine shops, are divided into drawers of the same size.

Each drawer contains seeds of a crop.

"Your Highness, these two rows of cabinets contain wheat seeds."

"These two columns are rice seeds!"

Fang Heng suddenly stopped halfway through Tian Sheng's introduction.

Standing next to the two rows of cabinets where rice seeds were stored, he asked.

"Master Tian, are there any rice varieties in the warehouse that won't produce ears?"

Rice that can't produce ears?!

Fang Heng's question left Tian Sheng stunned for a moment.

The purpose of the Seed Selection Department is to select high-yielding crops.

Who would care about rice varieties that cannot produce ears of rice?
The Ninth Prince's ideas are really weird.

Although he was secretly complaining, in order to cling to Fang Heng's support, Tian Sheng didn't care what Fang Heng's purpose was and thought about it carefully.

After a while.

"Your Highness, I remember now."

"There is indeed a type of rice in the warehouse that cannot produce ears."

"This was discovered by the previous doctor. After several years of research without any results, it was sealed in the warehouse."

After hearing Tian Sheng's words, Fang Heng's eyes lit up.

His brows relaxed and he was secretly happy.

Male sterile plants are a key technology in hybrid rice.

With male sterile plants, we can use the three-line method to cultivate hybrid rice on a large scale.

"Bring the rice that cannot produce ears here. I want to study it." Fang Heng nodded slightly and said in a deep voice, without any joy on his face.

Tian Sheng didn't know what Fang Heng was planning, and he was suspicious, but he didn't think much about it.

Since His Majesty the Ninth Prince wants it, give it to him.

There are only rice varieties that cannot produce ears of rice.

The male sterile plants are sealed in special sandalwood boxes and are still full of vitality even after several years.

After getting the male sterile rice plants, Fang Heng had no intention of continuing to visit the warehouse and left directly.

Back in the classroom, Fang Heng dismissed Tian Sheng, his follower, and began to cultivate hybrid rice using the three-line hybridization method.

Male sterile plants are academically called sterile lines.

By crossing the sterile line with the homozygous restorer line, hybrid rice can be obtained.

The restorer line is homozygous and can be obtained continuously by self-pollination.

Therefore, the difficulty of hybrid rice lies in.

How to obtain a continuous supply of male sterile plants.

Male sterile plants, male gametes cannot develop and there is no pollen.

Therefore, it is impossible to self-pollinate and obtain seeds for large-scale cultivation.

The secret of the three-line method is that the sterile line is hybridized with the homozygous maintainer line to obtain male sterile plants continuously.

The sterile line can be obtained by hybridizing the sterile line and the maintainer line.

The maintainer line is self-pollinated to obtain the maintainer line.

The restorer line is self-pollinated to obtain the restorer line.

By repeating this cycle, we can continuously obtain the mother plants of hybrid rice.

Fang Heng simulated the entire process of hybrid rice cultivation in his mind several times and then began to act.

【Lord of Jingzhe】

start up!

Extract the vitality of plants and inject it into the seeds of ordinary rice.

The seeds took root and sprouted at a speed visible to the naked eye.

In less than a cup of tea, a grown rice plant appeared in Fang Heng's hands.

Remove the seeds and continue growing.

After several generations of screening, Fang Heng easily obtained the homozygous maintainer line and sterile line.

All three types of rice are available.

Fang Heng felt relieved and the corners of his mouth rose slightly.

The last step is to hybridize the sterile line and the restorer line to obtain hybrid rice.

"Tian Sheng, gather all the men and listen to my orders..."

Breeding hybrid rice is hard work.

Just the step of artificial pollination is extremely tedious.

If Fang Heng relies on himself alone, it will take him an indefinite amount of time.

The human resources of the lower six departments would be wasted if they were not used.

……

Xu Xingzhi's classroom.

"What is the Ninth Prince doing?" Xu Xingzhi put down the memorial, rubbed his wrist and asked.

"Master, His Majesty the Ninth Prince has summoned all the people from the Lower Six Departments to go to the fields to plant rice."

Fang Heng summoned all the people from the six departments together, and the commotion was so loud that it was impossible to hide it from others.

“The results came so quickly.”

When Xu Xingzhi heard this, he was stunned for a moment.

He subconsciously thought that the Ninth Prince might have discovered high-yield crops long ago and deliberately came to the Seed Selection Department to gild himself and gain merit.

"Sure enough, it's easier to get things done when you have someone in the court!"

“We work so hard but can’t find high-yield crops.”

"He's an unremarkable prince, so he can be found easily."

"Ugh--"

"The world—"

Xu Xingzhi swallowed the words "how unfair" halfway through his words.

After twenty years of ups and downs in the political arena, he also knows that there are some things that can be said and some things that cannot be said.

Even the Ninth Prince didn't care about what he said.

But some little devils wanted to use this to please the Ninth Prince.

The servant moved his lips slightly and spoke in a low voice.

"Master, I think the rice the Ninth Prince picked is not a high-yield rice."

"what is that?"

"The rice in the warehouse that can't produce ears."

"Even the troops who were out looking for crops were called back."

boom--

Xu Xingzhi slammed his palm on the desk, making the surface of the table shake.

"absurd!"

“Why waste manpower to grow rice that won’t produce ears?”

"It's just outrageous!"