As the largest tributary of the Yangtze River, the Han River perfectly connects Ezhou and Xiangzhou.

As the seat of Xiangzhou, Xiangyang is far more prosperous than later generations understand.

Where is Xiangyang in the Hereafter?

It is estimated that many people do not know.

Even those who know don't take the city too seriously.

After all, its presence is a little too low.

However, in Datang, Xiangyang is a prosperous place, and Xiangyang County is even more Shangshang County.

It can be said that Xiangzhou is at the same level as Yangzhou, Luozhou and other large states.

Of course, this has a lot to do with the fact that Xiangyang is relatively close to Chang'an, and there is a direct passage of the Han River to Guanzhong and the Yangtze River.

"Lord Wang, this Xiangyang City is not smaller than Yangzhou City at all."

Standing at the bow of the boat, Wu Meiniang looked at the bottomless city wall and couldn't help but sigh.

Xiangyang Jiuli Guo, Lou Yan Lianyun Tree.

According to Bai Juyi's poems, the length and width of Xiangyang City are about nine miles, which is a rare big city in ancient times.

Book friends who have read "The Condor Heroes" should have an impression of the Xiangyang City guarded by Guo Jing, this Xiangyang City is the one in front of Wu Meiniang.

It is conceivable how high the status of Xiangyang City was in ancient times.

"As the most prosperous city in Shannan Road, Xiangyang is also an important pass in Gongwei Pass, and the construction of the city wall is naturally extraordinary."

Li Kuan also came to Xiangyang for the first time, although he was a little surprised by its majesty, but it was well concealed.

It seems that I have chosen the area of Xiangyang as the place for the promotion of Nanyang rice.

In order to be able to return to Chang'an before Cheng Jingwen gave birth, Li Kuan did not stay too long in Ezhou before coming to the last stop, Xiangyang.

If everything goes well, he should be able to rush back to Chang'an City in July, and no matter how bad it is, he can return before the Mid-Autumn Festival.

"Lord Wang, this Xiangzhou is the state capital where the students of Guanshishan Academy go to the most, and it is also the place with the largest number of immigrants in Guanzhong Dao. The area of Nanyang rice cultivation here should be the largest. ”

Wu Meiniang confidently followed Li Kuan off the boat and set foot on the land of Xiangyang.

"Xiangyang is so close to Chang'an, there shouldn't be so many moths, let's go to Xiangyang County to live first."

With such an important town, the Tang Dynasty Royal Money Village and Northwest Trade all have semicolons here, so Li Kuan naturally does not have to compete with Xiangyang County Commander for land.

"I've inspected so many state capitals along the way, and we basically haven't had a good time, this time, you won't let people try cases in the county government all day long, right?"

Wu Meiniang complained coquettishly.

She can't remember how many cases she has tried, and she can almost memorize the entire Tang Law.

"Hehe, just try a few more cases, we call it a good beginning and a good end, and we can't make the people of Xiangyang feel that this king is treating them differently."

Li Kuan thought of the 96/100 progress bar in his system, and was eager to see what new modules would be opened in the system after the trial task of 100 cases was completed.

"Is it really just a few?"

"Of course, if you count it on one hand, you won't be judged, and let Xiangyang County make you trouble."

……

In the west of Xiangyang County, a village near a sweat tributary was originally just a small village of a few dozen families.

Since Guanzhong Province relocated thousands of households to Xiangzhou at the end of last year, the village has become a large village with more than 100 households.

The place where Shi Liang and Shi Wen settled was this place called Wudi Village.

"Brother, this rice has already begun to be pumped, and it should be ready to be harvested next month. Judging from the situation of the double-cropping rice planted in the fields of the Chu Wangfu last year, our land should be able to catch up with another season. ”

Shi Wen looked at the endless rice seedlings in the field, and his heart was full of hope.

If the farmers in Guanzhong are willing to go south to plant Nanyang rice, the imperial court will allow you to own 100 acres of Yongye land.

This provision has been very well implemented in Xiangyang.

However, since most of these lands need to be cultivated by themselves, the two brothers Shi Liang and Shi Wen have been busy for two or three months and have not opened up 200 acres of paddy fields, so the rice in the first season is actually only more than 60 acres.

However, one after another, they are still continuing to open up the wasteland, and by the second half of next year, their family's 200 acres of land will be considered to be cleared.

In fact, planting more than 60 acres of land, which is already a very large number.

Of course, the fact that the two brothers were able to grow so much rice also had something to do with the lack of fine cultivation in this era.

Otherwise, compared with those hilly areas in Guangdong and Fujian in later generations, where a family only planted a few acres of land, it was really too different.

Shi Liang: "Fifth brother, when will the words of His Royal Highness the King of Chu be false?" Since His Royal Highness proposed to the imperial court to plant Nanyang rice on a large scale in Xiangzhou, it is naturally suitable for planting two seasons here. ”

Shi Wen: "Brother, you said that after the rice harvest this year, should we go and buy a slave to come back?" Otherwise, seeing that so many fertile fields can't be turned into rice fields as soon as possible, my heart is uncomfortable. ”

In the past, when he was in Chang'an, Shi Wen hoped that his family could have dozens of acres of land, but unfortunately this wish never came true.

Now I have the opportunity to double my dreams, but I can't keep myself busy......

It's hard to think about.

"Yes, whether it's a Japanese slave or a Hu person, there are already a lot of people in Guanzhong who use it, and these people are quite honest."

Shi Liang thought about it and agreed to Shi Wen's proposal.

"Well, of course they're honest. We Tang people as slaves, in the busy farming season, can eat three dry meals a day, I heard that in the Wa country, the average small landlord does not have this treatment, what are they not satisfied with? ”

Shi Wen himself only started to live three meals a day a few days ago.

But thinking that now even slaves have the opportunity to live a life that they have struggled for many years and have not lived, my heart is inexplicably a little unbalanced.

These slaves, if they don't work hard when the time comes, see if I don't teach them harshly.

"If our family really has 200 acres of Yongye field, all planted with Nanyang rice, even if it is only 150 catties of production per acre, planting two seasons a year, and having a rice harvest of 60,000 catties throughout the year, we don't have to pay taxes to the imperial court at the beginning, and it will not take a few years for our family to really change from a peasant to a landlord."

When Shi Liang calculated this, he felt a little trance-like and couldn't believe it.

When did he turn over and become a candidate for landlord?

Shi Wen: "The royal steward of the Chu Wangfu really didn't lie to us, and the migration from Guanzhong to Shannan Road is the best opportunity for us tenants to achieve class leap." If you stay in Chang'an, although life is very good now, it is still not so easy to be like here in Xiangyang. ”

"Yes, I don't know when this policy of the imperial court will stop. I think we have to ask which Lang Jun from Guanshishan Academy will help us write a letter, find a way to get someone to take it back, and persuade the relatives and the enterprising families to come over. ”

Shi Liang's idea should represent the thoughts of many Guanzhong immigrants in Xiangyang County.

As an important military town, Xiangzhou did not arrange for Turkic people to migrate here, and the people who remained were basically Guanzhong farmers.

"This is a good idea, I think it is impossible for the imperial court to always support the people of Guanzhong Dao to immigrate to Jiangnan, and if one hundred acres of Yongye land are canceled at that time, and only twenty acres are left, it will not make much sense. If these Yongye fields are really sold, they will cost at least a few hundred yuan. ”

Although the fields of these immigrants were not allowed to be bought and sold freely for five years, they were still valuable.

Just like the demolition and relocation houses in big cities in later generations, it is said that they are not allowed to sell for many years, is it possible that it is not worth much because of this?

Guangzhou's Liede Village, Linhe Village, and Xian Village are said to be local tyrant villages with a per capita household income of more than 100 million.

In addition to the money for the demolition subsidy, the value of the relocation house should not be underestimated.

"yes, don't wait. Now the rice is still heading, there is nothing special to take care of for the time being, let's go find those students of Guanshishan Academy in a while, I think that Yao Langjun is very enthusiastic, and Mengxue in the village should be able to find him. ”

"So what are you waiting for? Let's hurry up, I also have a lot to say to my eldest brother. ”

……

Yao Yuan came to Xiangyang from Chang'an City this spring.

As a cadet of Gewu Academy, he has not yet graduated.

However, in addition to encouraging the graduating students to go to various places to serve as officials and lizheng, the academy also supports the senior students to go abroad for a year or two to study, and then continue to return to the academy to study.

Li Kuan didn't want the students who came out of Guanshishan Academy to be a bunch of nerds.

There are many things that you can't understand if you don't experience them yourself, and you won't be able to comprehend them when others say they are broken.

It's like a recent college graduate, and the elders say that when you go to the company, you have to be more sleek and want to do this and that.

But how many people listen?

Anyway, Li Kuan couldn't listen to it before.

And after a few years of tempering and suffering many losses, I will have a deeper understanding of those words at the beginning.

In the adult world, there is no such thing as easy.

"Okay, that's all for today's arithmetic, and in the afternoon, I will continue to study the "Three Character Classic" that I haven't memorized yesterday."

Yao Yuan was influenced by his own yes and chose to enter Gewu Academy.

However, he is still capable of basic Mongolian education.

"Yao Langjun, didn't you go to the mountain to look for stones today?"

As soon as Yao Yuan walked out of the classroom, he saw the two brothers Shi Liang and Shi Wen outside.

Although everyone only met when they arrived in Xiangyang, Yao Yuan's Ye Ye Yao Mo San was a craftsman in the Chu Wangfu, and the Shi Liang brothers were tenants in the Chu Wangfu, so there was a little more intimacy out of thin air.

In addition, the academy allows students to go to various immigrant capitals where Nanyang rice is promoted, and one of the tasks is to help immigrants adapt to local life as soon as possible and help them do what they can.

Therefore, Yao Yuan can basically recognize the villagers of Wudi Village, and the Shi Liang brothers are even more familiar.

From time to time, I would have a meal at their house.

"Don't look for it, I've found a mineral deposit like phosphate rock, and now I've prepared a sample of a few hundred catties, ready to choose a few acres of land to start trying out the effect. How about it, Shi Liang, are you interested in participating? ”

Yao Yuan's main research at Gewu College is prospecting, mining and mineral smelting.

However, he did not study gold, silver and copper ore like he Yeye, but was full of interest in the phosphate ore proposed by Li Kuan when he was teaching at the academy.

Phosphate fertilizer can promote the growth and development of crop roots, and also have an impact on improving the disease resistance and lodging resistance of crops. More importantly, phosphate fertilizer can promote flower bud differentiation, early maturity and improve fruit quality......

The advantages of these phosphate fertilizers are Yao Yuan's heart.

There is also potassium fertilizer in the mouth of His Royal Highness the King of Chu, which can also greatly increase the yield of crops.

Therefore, at that time, Yao Yuan made up his mind to help the people of Datang find a large number of phosphate and potash mines in this life, produce a large amount of phosphate and potash fertilizer, and improve the crop yield of Datang.

If you really achieve this goal, you can also leave a name in history, right?

Yao Yuan is full of confidence in the future.

Yao ...... Yao Langjun, this ...... How is this a trial method? ”

Shi Liang and Shi Wen glanced at each other, a little entangled.

If you want to talk about literacy and hyphenation, they must be willing to bow down.

But if you farm......

I heard that this Yao Langjun is a student of the Gewu Academy of Guanshishan Academy.

You can't be better at farming than yourself, right?

"As long as the phosphate rock is crushed, it can be turned into the most primitive phosphate fertilizer, and if some phosphate fertilizer is added appropriately to each acre, the rice can grow better, and the yield will be higher at that time. But I'm not sure exactly how much phosphate fertilizer per acre is appropriate. Because His Royal Highness the King of Chu said before that the more fertilizer, the better, if you add too much, it will have the opposite effect, how to find this balance in it, you need to keep experimenting. ”

Yao Yuan briefly explained to Shi Liang and Shi Wen.

"Can you increase the yield of rice?"

Shi Liang didn't listen to anything else, but he firmly remembered the phrase that he could increase production.

Now the yield of Nanyang rice is high enough.

If only it could be added......

These days, but it's really going to get better and better.

"That's right, it can increase the yield of crops. If you can find the most suitable addition ratio and increase the harvest of dozens of catties per acre, there is no problem at all. ”

Don't look at dozens of catties, it seems to be very little, and the effect is far less than that of later generations.

However, considering the current ultra-low grain yield, the increase in yield of one mu of land by dozens of catties is actually a big increase.

Shi Liang: "Isn't this phosphate fertilizer just some stones, can you really add some stones to increase rice yield?" ”

Yao Yuan didn't get angry, but smiled, "What? If you don't believe me, don't you still believe His Royal Highness the King of Chu? ”

"Look at what you said, how could I not believe His Royal Highness the King of Chu. However, you just said that it was an experiment, so if the ratio is not appropriate, these rice seedlings will not be harvested, right? ”

Shi Liangxin was already inclined to cooperate with Yao Yuan to carry out the experiment, but he still wanted to confirm it a little more clearly.

"No, I won't stupidly spread phosphate fertilizer all over your paddy fields, how can there be no harvest?"

"Okay, then I agree."

Out of the understanding established in the past, and everyone's trust in the knowledge imparted by Li Kuan, Shi Liang quickly agreed.

"By the way, what are you doing with me today?"

"Oh, look at my head. Yao Langjun, if you don't remind me, I almost forgot about business, it's like this......"

Shi Liang simply put forward his request.

"No problem, I can write it for you now!"