"Isn't it good to remember that water power is very good? It's not like a drought is causing a grain harvest, is it? ”

Lu Chensheng waved his hand to stop, with a little confusion on his face.

When it comes to water power, the cities around Xinghan are the best.

It had been done for a long time, and by now, the fields that should have been desolate have been planted with countless vegetation, and because of the presence of canals, the vegetation has grown extremely densely.

"It's because the winter outside the plug is too cold, and then the time is relatively long, and this year's spring plowing has actually missed the opportunity for spring ploughing, resulting in this year's grain harvest."

Li Daifu replied immediately.

It was already relatively cold outside the Saiwai, and with the current weather, the two major rivers of the Xinghan Empire were frozen.

The canal outside the city of Xinghan also froze together, and at the beginning of the year, the ships could not move, and the goods were pulled by horse-drawn carriages during that time.

The merchants were all complaining, and after they had a ship to pull goods, they knew how good the ship was.

During the period when there were no ships, they used horse-drawn carriages to haul goods, which led to an increase in costs, and even the prices in Xinghan City rose a lot.

The canal froze for a long time, and it was almost April before the thaw began.

"Why didn't I hear this news at the beginning of this year, and the water in the city didn't freeze."

Lu Chensheng frowned, could it be that these ministers concealed this news?

"The waterways in the city are not frozen, that is because the water source is continuous, it is all water from the underground river, and in the city of Xinghan, it is in the valley, and every household is burning the stove at this time, and the temperature gathers, so that the city is quite warm, and there is no freezing.

But there is no such good temperature outside the city, and it freezes directly outside the city. ”

The minister still investigated this matter, and at first they didn't understand it, but the students from the academy helped investigate and gave such an explanation.

After Lu Chensheng listened, he was a little helpless.

At the beginning of the Xiaoice River, the canal has been frozen for so long, but it is a little bad, it affects the economy too much.

If you want to prevent the river from freezing, the more effective way is to use salt, but at the moment salt is not easy to refine, let alone used in such a wide canal.

Lu Chensheng frowned and sighed.

The ministers are not to blame for this.

However, it is a fact that the grain output outside the Cyprus has decreased, or this year's grain output will not be satisfactory.

"What about the price of food in various places, is there an upward trend?"

"Back to the saints, this is not true, this year, the saints released the news of new varieties of grain, so that the grain began to fall, and now the people have a lot of grain in their homes, so the demand for food is not particularly high, and now the price of grain is quite stable."

After not collecting any taxes from the people, many people planted a few acres of land in their homes.

As a result, when there is food in the family, the demand for food has indeed decreased a lot.

Even if the grain production is reduced, there is still no looting of the grain, and the price of the grain will naturally not go up.

In addition to the news of new varieties of grain, most people know that there may be no need to worry about grain in the future, so that they are even more stable.

"Well, that's fine."

Lu Chensheng was relieved, it was a good thing that the price of grain had not been raised.

"The seeds are all distributed everywhere now, right?"

"It has already been sent, and some details of how to sow seeds have been disseminated, and the prefects everywhere have issued military orders to double next year's grain output on the basis of this year."

The output of new varieties of grain will be three or four times higher than that of the current grain output in one acre of land.

The prefects issued a military order saying that it was doubled, but in fact, it can be said that they are seeking stability, and if they have a little confidence, they can directly say that it is okay to triple it.

However, this is also because they have just come into contact with this food, and it is not a bad thing not to dare to exaggerate it.

"It's okay, this year's grain production is really too low, if they can't double it next year, there is really no need to do it."

Give them new varieties of grain, one acre of land can produce seven or eight hundred catties, compared with the current two hundred catties per acre, let them double next year, it is not a difficult task.

If you can't even do this, the position of this prefect is indeed coming to an end.

As the lord of a city, the first thing to ensure is naturally the problem of this food.

"Let them work hard, and if they do a good job, the court will have a reward, and an edict will be issued, saying that in the next year, the grain production will be in the top ten cities, and the court will give them a million taels of silver."

A million taels of silver may seem like a lot, but a careful calculation is not too much.

There are still a lot of officials in a city, and the reward cannot be given only to the prefect, but also to the officials below, and then the reward is still given to ten cities, and there is not much to divide one million taels of silver.

One million taels of silver.

The corners of Li Daifu's mouth twitched when he heard this number, "Holy Lord, could it be too much?" ”

Although the treasury is now much richer, it is not spent like this.

"Hey, it's not easy for officials everywhere, they have made a little merit conscientiously, they should be rewarded, don't worry about such a little money, there will still be money when the money is spent."

Lu Chensheng waved his hand, telling the other party to relax.

Li Daifu could only nod when he saw that the saint was decided.

"Holy Lord, isn't this unfair, you must know that there are many places with excellent water conservancy conditions, such as Yunmeng City, Jiyun City and other places, which are themselves in good condition, if you want to reach the top ten, it is very simple."

Wang Tianxun stood up and said.

Since there is a competition, it is naturally better to be fair, so as not to make the officials in various places feel that this ranking is already predetermined.

"That's what I said," Lu Chensheng nodded, "These cities with better water conservancy can be pulled out separately for competition, and when the time comes, two will be decided, and the silver will be 500,000 yuan." ”

That's 1.5 million!

Li Daifu calculated the money in his treasury, and in addition to the 1.5 million, there were still 6 million taels of silver in the treasury, and he immediately smiled again.

Thinking about it like this, Li Daifu suddenly felt comfortable in his heart.

And the rest of the ministers are all looking at each other, so much silver, when the edict goes down, these prefects are afraid to be ecstatic.