Chapter 404: A Mystery Through the Ages
"The mystery of the ages, a hundred stones per mu, I don't know if Mr. Pan has an answer?"
After summarizing the method of soaking seeds, although it is still very unfinished, but remembering Baili Liangliu's reminder, this is not his class, so he is ready to endure the pain and cut his love until this ends. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
Who knows, at this time, a voice suddenly came and asked a very difficult question.
The person who asked the question was none other than the unique Mengxiangyu Jiaxing.
He said that the question he asked was a mystery for the ages, and indeed it was a mystery for the ages.
The mystery of this eternal mystery is in the book of pansheng, since this pan book has all the whole of that book, maybe his old man even knows the mystery.
After introducing the district field method and the seed cultivation method, Pan Shengzhi continued: "In the farmer's area, the depth of the square is six inches, and the difference is nine inches. One acre of three thousand seven hundred districts. A thousand districts in one day. Twenty grains of millet are planted in the area, and one liter of beautiful dung is combined with the soil. Two liters of seed per mu. The autumn harvest is different from three liters of millet, and the mu is harvested with hundreds. The eldest male and female rule ten acres. Ten acres of thousands of stones. Thirty-six stones are eaten annually, and twenty-six years are supported. ”
What he said meant was that according to his method of farming, the upper ground could harvest 100 koku of millet.
According to the research of historians and agronomists, one stone in the Western Han Dynasty is equal to 17.5 jin in modern times, that is to say, the yield per mu is 1,750 jin of millet.
After saying this unbelievable figure, Yan Shengzhi continued to play, saying that the yield of so much millet per mu was that the men and women at that time were good laborers, and each person could plant ten mu and harvest 1,000 stone of millet, that is, 17,500 catties of millet.
This amount of grain, if a person eats thirty-six stones a year, can meet the needs of twenty-six years.
According to the context, the planned output mentioned by Pan Shengzhi here, that is, under certain conditions, corn as the main grain crop in the north at that time could reach a yield of nearly 2,000 catties per mu in the best farmland.
Although it is a planned output, we can also speculate that he is by no means a nonsense, because at that time, agriculture was heavy on agriculture and light on business, and agriculture would definitely be highly valued by the emperor, and such a satellite per mu would definitely reach the heavens and be presented to the emperor.
If he doesn't speak, he will be cut off by the emperor for the crime of bullying the monarch every second, and under this kind of pressure, he can't talk nonsense.
His head has always grown on his head, which shows that the emperor still believes that the yield per mu he said can be achieved.
History also reports of the yield of his experimental fields, according to the results of his actual experiments, the yield achieved by the best cultivated land was forty stones, that is, a percentage to forty percent of his planned yield.
And this 40 percent, although far from the planned level, is still much higher than the yield of other farmland.
At that time, the best Ueda production was less than 10 koku, and generally 3 koku was considered a good harvest.
Therefore, the constant can be increased tenfold with the district field method of Pan Shengzhi, and it is only one and a half times the constant of his plan, and whoever becomes the emperor will also feel that Pan Shengzhi is more reliable.
Moreover, according to the records of the field law of the area of Pansheng, the conditions there are very demanding, and it is inevitable that when we sum up the experience, we will find out various shortcomings, and these shortcomings can be completely explained as the reason why the millet production did not reach the planned level.
Now that the reason has been found, of course, we have to continue to try, and the most experienced one to continue to try is Fen Shengzhi, so Fen Shengzhi's head grows very stable on his neck.
It is precisely because of this that he did not achieve his self-appointed goal of high production throughout his life, but on the other hand, he was not beheaded by the emperor.
Overall, this extremely high assumption is an undefeated ending.
Such an ending has left an eternal mystery for future generations: can the production capacity per mu produce 100 stone corn?
Since the victory of Pan Shengzhi has been able to die well, it means that the yield per mu proposed by him can be realized, and it also leaves hope and challenges for future generations.
Since the Western Han Dynasty, I don't know how many people continue to try the district field method and impact the yield of 100 stone corn per mu.
But not a single example was successful.
Hundred stones, corn, these two hard indicators, have become two mountains, which are insurmountable.
Although there are people who have reached that level in terms of corn and sweet potatoes and rice in the present generation, it is not corn, so it is not the same thing as corn.
Most of the dense rain areas where Yujiaxing was in power were mountainous, suitable for planting millet, and actually planted a lot, especially in the era of grain, if it could produce 100 stones per mu, it would definitely be a major event that shook the whole country, and it could also make a huge contribution to the task of increasing grain production at that time.
Therefore, Yu Jiaxing has invested a lot of energy in this area!
However, it is a pity that he was also unable to do so.
He tried his best, but he only reached the level of victory, with a yield of 40 stones per mu, equivalent to 700 catties of the municipal system.
As a result, he became a national model worker.
Because this yield is the highest in the country, it is more than double the yield of ordinary millet.
However, Yu Jiaxing was not happy, and he was still angry that he had not achieved the goal of victory.
In fact, he also believes in his heart that the goal of producing 100 stones per mu can be achieved, but the current method is not right, or which key factor is still imperfect.
Therefore, today he looked at the appearance of the senior expert of the book, and couldn't help but raise this question.
As soon as he raised this question, it immediately aroused the reaction of several knowledgeable people present, and they immediately started to talk about it.
However, these arguments are basically one-sided, and they all believe that the figure of Pan Shengzhi is bragging! Except for the special era of pompous wind, no one thinks that this figure has the possibility of being realized.
The book was not in a hurry to speak, but he smiled while listening to everyone's discussions.
Baili Liangliu became anxious, he had been delayed a lot by the teacher who talked a lot today, and now he was so sold, he couldn't afford to delay!
"Teacher, you already have the answer, right? The students are also looking forward to uncovering this eternal mystery! Why don't you tell the answer?
In Baili Liangliu's eyes, although this old man is sometimes disrespectful to the old, he is still very reliable in speaking, especially things that can be verified by numbers, he didn't say anything to me!
He tilted his head and poured a cup of tea into his mouth, and then said loudly: "Okay! In terms of your thirst for knowledge, I will let you know today what this riddle is, and the reason why it is impossible to achieve the yield of 100 stones per mu! The answer to this riddle is that the yield of 100 stone millet per mu can be reached! The reason why I could not reach it before is the problem of seeds! After my experiments, I have found the correct seeds, and in my experimental field, I have had a bumper harvest for five consecutive years, reaching a yield of 120 stones per mu!"