We have fought to the Arctic Circle, and you want me to inherit the throne?

Ninggu Prince's Mansion, back garden.

The pure white gyrfalcon circled in mid-air and landed on Li Che's shoulder. Its black eagle eyes stared curiously at the cloth bag in Li Che's hand.

Inside the cloth bag lay golden, plump corn seeds.

The gyrfalcon smacked its lips and looked at the golden corn kernels, its eyes full of eagerness to try.

"Ow~"

The chubby little tiger lay at Li Che's feet, yawned, and blinked at the gyrfalcon with his big eyes, as if encouraging it to boldly do what it wanted.

The gyrfalcon turned its head and crept closer with its dagger-like beak.

"Shut up!" Li Che seemed to have eyes on his back and pinched the sharp mouth.

The gyrfalcon flapped its wings frantically, but Li Che had already reached around with his other hand and held it down tightly.

"Xiaoqing, I've told you so many times, you can eat whatever you want in the entire palace, so don't even think about my corn kernels!" Li Che said unhappily.

The gyrfalcon retreated repeatedly, raising its claws several times as if begging for mercy.

Only then did Li Che let go of its sharp beak.

Seeing the gyrfalcon defeated, the tiger cub stood up excitedly and rolled twice on the ground.

The gyrfalcon was immediately furious. If I can't beat my master, how can I beat you?

It immediately turned into a beam of white light and rushed straight towards the little tiger.

"Wow—"

"Ouch——"

A falcon and a tiger were wrestling with each other, and feathers and tiger hair were flying all over the sky.

Li Che shook his head helplessly. These two funny guys would fight every day, and he was used to it.

Although the little tiger grew fast, it was still no match for the Saker Falcon, so it was always at a disadvantage.

I just don’t know if Xiaoqing will still dare to fight the little tiger after the big tiger in the backyard recovers from its injuries.

Li Che put away the corn kernels and turned around, ordering the maid to keep an eye on the two funny guys so that they would not get hurt, and he sighed deeply.

Corn seeds have a shelf life of only about a year.

I still don't know when this batch of seeds in my hand came from. Li Che was very busy a while ago and had no time to check the condition of these seeds.

Now that spring plowing is approaching, when Li Che took out the bag of corn seeds, he found that some of the seeds had begun to become dull and lose their luster, and even some had mold spots on the surface.

This is a sign that the seeds are expired, and the survival rate of expired seeds will drop sharply.

Originally, Li Che planned to plant only half and save the other half just in case.

But according to the current situation, I am afraid we can’t wait any longer, it is best to plant these seeds immediately.

While he was thinking, Qiu Bai's figure flashed out from behind him and said respectfully, "Your Highness, Wang Liu and the others are back."

Li Che was startled at first, then his face showed ecstasy: "Quick, let them in."

"Yes."

Not long after, Wang Liu came over with seven or eight soldiers, looking exhausted.

These seven or eight people were soldiers from the scout camp. They were not wearing armor, but casual clothes, and each of them carried a bulging bag on their backs.

Previously, Wang Liu entered Qihuo Cave alone and contacted Zhuge Zhe for his meritorious service, for which he was promoted to sergeant by Li Che.

For this mission, Li Che first thought of this smart guy. Now it seems that this kid has lived up to his expectations.

"Did you get what I wanted?" Li Che asked anxiously.

Wang Liu grinned, revealing a row of large white teeth: "Your Highness, I have fulfilled your mission!"

After saying that, he waved to the people behind him, and they put down the bags on their backs.

Li Che walked over with shining eyes, opened the bag, and a strong earthy smell wafted out.

What was in his pocket was a bag of black soil.

The black soil of Northeast China!

Black soil is very famous, but in fact not every piece of land in Northeast China is black soil.

Heilongjiang Province has the largest area of ​​black soil, mainly distributed in the Nenjiang Plain and Sanjiang Plain, accounting for 63.9%.

The area where Chaoyang City is located is the southern part of Liaoning Province in the previous life. There is basically no black soil here. There is not much black soil in the entire Liaoning Province, accounting for only 36% of the total cultivated land area in the province.

Corn seeds only have this feature. In order to provide the best conditions for corn seeds, Li Che specially asked Wang Liu and others to go to the north to find suitable black soil.

Wang Liu couldn't understand why they had to go all the way to the north just to dig up some soil.

Seeing that Li Che was in a good mood, he bravely asked curiously: "Your Highness, what's so good about this black soil?"

Li Che was immediately happy when he heard this.

Yes, black soil is known as the most fertile soil on earth. Everyone says that black soil is good, but what exactly is so good about it?

It has a high organic matter content, excellent water and fertilizer retention, high productivity, and is suitable for growing a variety of crops...

Needless to say, Wang Liu didn't understand these advantages.

Li Che thought for a moment and said:

“All you need to know is that this soil is black because it is rich in humus.

It takes hundreds of years to form a centimeter of humus.

The average thickness of the black soil layer outside the Great Wall is about one meter, and the thickest can reach two meters. It takes tens of thousands of years of accumulation to form.

Just think about it, it took tens of thousands of years to get this little bit, which shows how precious this black soil is."

Wang Liu didn't understand the concepts of centimeters and meters, but he could feel from Li Che's words that the black soil was hard-earned.

He couldn't help but smack his lips and said, "Good boy, after hearing what Your Highness said, I feel that this soil is more precious than gold."

"That's about right." Li Che smiled, "In a sense, this thing is rarer than gold."

There are only three areas of black soil as large as the Northeast Plain in the world, namely China, the United States and Ukraine.

Every piece of black soil is a natural granary that can produce large amounts of grain continuously.

For countries deep in Africa with extremely barren permafrost, isn’t black soil more precious than gold?

"The black soil has arrived, and the reclaimed area in the backyard can finally be used."

Li Che was overjoyed and turned to look at Qiu Bai: "Go, call everyone over. Today I will plant these seeds myself."

"Yes, Your Highness."

After a while, Qiu Bai hurried to the palace with civil and military officials.

Military generals like Wang Sanchun all looked puzzled, while officials like Qian Bin had two huge panda eyes, and it was obvious that they had been reading textbooks until very late last night.

"Greetings, Your Highness." Everyone said in unison.

Li Che waved his hand: "Let's skip the formalities."

"I wonder what Your Highness wants me to wait for?" Qian Bin asked anxiously.

If you have something to say, please tell me quickly. I want to go back and read as soon as possible.

Ever since Li Che's class yesterday, the officials of the Institute of Engineering have been studying the three books of "Physics", "Mathematics" and "Geography" without sleep or food.

Then they were surprised to find that their prince's knowledge seemed to have reached the level of being able to establish a school of thought.

All of these three books are divine books. It is no exaggeration to say that all the mysteries of heaven and earth are hidden in them.

"Don't worry, I wonder if any of you have read Geography?"

No one spoke. Compared to "Geography", everyone basically chose to continue reading "Physics", which they had some basic knowledge of. Qian Bin read "Mathematics", which he was better at.

Some people also looked at "Geography", but the terms in it were too profound and they quickly gave up.

Only Wang Chongjian bowed and said, "Your Highness, I have read the Geography."

Li Che understood.

Yes, Wang Chongjian is good at water control, so he would naturally be more interested in "Geography".

"Have you finished reading the chapter on the formation of soil?"

Wang Chongjian nodded.

"That's good." Li Che smiled and pointed to the bags of black soil, "Look carefully, this is black soil.