Chapter IX Population and Food Issues

Since then, there has been no more King Liu, only the criminal slave Li Yuliu, thinking of Li Yuliu's situation, Qingyun couldn't help but sigh in his heart.

Men are the most miserable species in the world, kept in captivity by women, only to live for the sake of passing on to future generations.

His father, who made such a great contribution to the human race and solved the problem of population crowding, was tortured to death by drugs in the end.

While thinking about it, Dongying came to report that there were relatives visiting, and Qingyun returned to the main house, and the person who came was his half-sister.

Back then, my mother summoned people loyal to King Ning's lineage to take revenge, and not all of them died, some people just wanted to have an afterlife, so it was impossible for all the people in this lineage to die, at least those who lined up to conceive could not participate.

The person in front of her is the daughter of a female worker in the medicine garden, named Xiao Yu, whose surname is from the mother of the Divine Blessing Country, and the male king is no exception.

In order to prevent identity confusion, people of the same lineage will have a family gathering every month, and all half-sisters will come to get together and get to know each other, so as not to choose the wrong person for the wedding.

As soon as Xiao Yu saw Qingyun, he immediately knelt on the ground and cried loudly.

"I beg my brother to save my mother for the sake of his father. ”

Qingyun hurriedly helped her up, "Sister Yu, it's okay to say what's wrong." ”

Xiao Yu wiped her tears and told what happened.

Her mother was a female planter in a medicine garden, and the medicine was naturally highly toxic, and her mother cut her hand when she was making a poison seedling, and the toxin entered her body and was in danger.

She went to the doctor's office, the cost was very high, so she took a small amount of money to the gambling house, hoping to win some money to cover the cost of treatment, but she lost it in a few clicks.

When Qingyun heard this, he immediately slapped the table.

"Didn't I say it a few months ago? Father's lineage, no one is allowed to go to the gambling house, you are really dizzy, I miss you to save your mother, I will not punish you. ”

"I'm sorry, brother, I didn't want to bother you, but ......"

Qingyun hurriedly stopped her from continuing, "It's important to save people, I'll go with you." ”

Xiao Yu hurriedly got up and led the way, Qingyun asked Dongying to bring more money, and when he arrived at the medical center, he immediately paid the money and asked them to hurry up for treatment, the money arrived, and the people in the medical center moved quickly, and it didn't take long to remove the toxin, but the toxin hurt his body and needed to recuperate for a while.

gave Xiao Yu some money again, and follow-up recuperation must also be needed, Xiao Yu thanked him a thousand times until Qingyun went out.

is the same relative, but the situation is completely different, even if it is married into the palace, it is impossible for all people to have concubines, and those women who do not have concubines are concubines, except for the power of priority breeding, there is not much difference from ordinary people.

There are concubines in the palace, side concubines, concubines, concubines, concubines with the highest status, and concubines with the lowest status, and the maids do undoubtedly, the side concubines are responsible for assisting the concubines in handling the affairs of the palace, and the concubines are responsible for assisting the concubines in handling the internal affairs outside the palace.

The internal affairs outside the mansion, that is, the concubines and those who queued up to enter the Yunwang Mansion were conceived.

On the way, Qingyun couldn't help but ask Dongying.

"Ying'er, doesn't it mean that gambling houses like to attract people in? Generally, they win first and then lose, Xiao Yu has never entered the gambling house, why isn't this the case?"

Tokage chuckled.

"Your Highness, you think too much, the gambling house will also look at the people, see if you have the ability or willingness to go again, if not, then it is better to slaughter directly, of course, they can't be slaughtered every time, they have to let people win and lose sometimes, otherwise who would dare to go to the gambling house?"

Qingyun nodded, and said secretly in his heart: This tumor will be pulled out sooner or later.

Just thinking about this, he almost bumped into someone, and the first person to say sorry was the other party, Qingyun looked up and saw that it was the two ministers of the household department, Ouyang Bixue, the first-level finance, and the first-level Sihu Dongfang Duanmei.

Ouyang Bixue quipped: "What does His Royal Highness King Yun think, he is not serious about walking like this." ”

Qingyun smiled slightly, and arched his hand: "I'm really sorry, I was really distracted just now,"

And Dongying suddenly interjected: "I see that Lord Ouyang is also absent-minded, and so is Lord Dongfang, so must they all have something on their minds." ”

Saying this, the three of them looked at each other and smiled, and Qingyun asked curiously, "What are the two adults thinking?"

Dongying is not wrong, even if Qingyun didn't see it, but the two adults could take the initiative to avoid it when they saw it, since they didn't avoid it, it means that the two of them didn't pay much attention.

"I'm thinking about money. Ouyang Bixue smiled slightly.

This answer immediately made Qingyun feel speechless to the extreme.

"That's right, you're the Chancellor of the Exchequer, so naturally you're thinking about money. ”

Saying that, Qingyun turned his gaze to Dongfang Duanmei again, and asked softly: "What about Dongfang Daren?

Dongfang Duan glanced at him and said slowly: "Who doesn't want money, but the main thing I think about is food." ”

As she said this, Qingyun noticed that her eyebrows were slightly wrinkled.

When he heard Ouyang Bixue talking about money, he could still smile, but the department in charge of civil affairs considered the issue of food, I'm afraid things would not be so simple.

"What's wrong with the money and grain?" Qingyun asked, both of them were ministers of the household department, so they would naturally discuss it together.

The two nodded in unison, and Qingyun's heart moved, and he immediately invited.

"Why don't I invite the two adults to the teahouse for some tea. ”

Dongfang Duanmei showed a faint smile, as if she had seen through Qingyun's thoughts at once.

"Your Highness still cares about these things, and there is nothing to hide about this, so it doesn't hurt to tell you. Now the population has reached 1.3 million, and the stock of grain plus the annual output can last for up to 10 years, and there are buildings everywhere, and the 20-year period is almost up, and the financial expenditure is naturally very large. ”

Qingyun suddenly said that when he first talked about money, he thought it was a joke, but he didn't expect that he was really worried about this.

High-rise buildings are the brainchild of Qingyun's father, but the life span of the building is limited, and 20 years is the limit, which Qingyun knows.

The dilapidated building must be demolished and rebuilt, so it will cost a huge amount of money every 20 years, but it is a fact that there are many people in the human race and there is little land, and there is no way to do it if you don't take this road, so it can only be so.

Fortunately, the construction time is not so long, and it is worth it for a year's fatigue for 20 years of tranquility.

It would be best if there was a way to greatly increase the life of the building, but the area of the human race is limited, and the resources are also limited, so many things must be repeatedly smelted and used.

Compared with construction, food and population are a big problem, Qingyun also considered it before, but the way he can think of now is only from the construction aspect, increase the amount of farmland, and the area will increase, and the grain output will naturally increase.

But even so, food production has not kept pace with population growth, and most of the old people of the previous generation have died, but the population has not decreased.

And for the sake of the birth rate of men, it is impossible to reduce the number of pregnancies carried out by male kings now.

"It's a big problem. ”

Qingyun nodded, and said secretly in his heart: I'm afraid that no one in the household department can sleep peacefully.

The people from the Ministry of Industry, Qingyun saw it a few days ago, and they also proposed the construction of a new orchard, they could design and start construction, and all the expenditures were thrown to the household department at once, and the money and grain had to be spent.

Not only that, but the Ministry of War, the Ministry of Officials, and the Department of Culture, all of these departments, when they need money and food, they will go to the Ministry of Households, which is the center of the operation of all institutions, so the Ministry of Household is under almost all the pressure.

"His Royal Highness King Yun, we won't go to the teahouse if we have something to do, but thank you for your kindness. Dongfang Duanmei said with a smile.

Saying that, the two arched their hands to Qingyun, and Qingyun also responded by making a gesture of please, and the two immediately turned their heads and left.

After the two left, Qingyun changed his original direction and turned to the south, he wanted to go to the southwest farm to have a look.

When he arrived at the farm, Qingyun stood not far from the wheat building and looked out, the wheat building on the farm was not as high as the building height of the orchard, and he didn't want the orchard branches and leaves to stick out of the building, and it was not like a garden, so red, it was a unified cyan, and the layers were very distinct.

This is not the harvest season, the wheat has just grown to maturity, and the flowers have not yet bloomed.

Suddenly, a light breeze blew, and the wheat swayed with the breeze, waving in waves.

The main food of the human race is wheat, rice, and corn.

In the nine regions of the Divine Blessed Kingdom, there are three farms, the northwest farm grows rice, the northeast farm grows corn and vegetables, the southwest farm grows wheat, and the southeast grows fruit trees, flowers and herbs.

The wheat building has a total of 18 floors, if the flat cloth is separated, it is not a small area, such a wide area, the grain yield of wheat is not much, it can be seen how low the yield of wheat is.

After reading the southwest farm, Qingyun went to the northwest again, and the building floor of the rice building was the same as that of the southwest, which was also 18 floors, but the area was not as wide as the southwest farm, because there was an execution ground in the northwest, and there was a high-rise building near the execution ground, which was now used as a pension area.

Then, Qingyun went to the Northeast Farm, the corn building, with a floor height of about 4 meters and a total of 20 floors, covering an area that is also not as large as the southwest.

A building not far away is a vegetable building, with a floor height of only about two meters, but there are more than 30 floors, which is the supply place of vegetables for the entire Divine Blessed Country.

The wheat building and the rice building can be heightened, but the corn building cannot, and no matter how high it is, it will touch the pink energy cover.

Qingyun looked at the three farms one by one, and some places could be changed after reconstruction, but according to the current output, even if it is increased to the highest level, I am afraid it will not be able to keep up with the rate of population growth, and it is still necessary to use grain reserves.

Stored food can only be used for ten years, so what will happen to the human race in ten years?

Starving to death?

After returning home, Qingyun has been thinking about this problem, thinking about it, there is only one way to go, that is, to increase the output of grain, but this is not a simple sentence, it is impossible for the officials of the household department not to think about this problem.

It's very, very hard to do.

Rubbing his head, Qingyun felt that there were too many problems facing the Terran race today, and if they could be solved one by one, it would not be difficult for the Terran to prosper.

But it was all too hard.