Wang Sanyi was quite moved, and he also knew that Min Yuanqi would not joke about such things.

Usually talking and chatting, Min Yuanqi is commensurate with Wang Sanyi and Li Guoding as uncles, but if there is a serious matter, it is an official position, a personal relationship is a private relationship, and a public business is a public business, and now even Wang Sanyi and others are completely adapted to Min Yuanqi's style, and the original discomfort and disgust in their hearts have long disappeared.

What really worries and makes Wang Sanyi and others worry and uncomfortable is their own positioning.

With Min Yuanqi reporting his military merits, these people under him are bound to find a suitable position.

At least half of the ten hundred households will be replaced, and the remaining half is not that Min Yuanqi wants to keep it, but that most of these people have some friendships, in order to stabilize people's hearts and take into account the old friendship, most of them will keep a few and replace them after a while.

Wang Sanyi and Li Guoding are thinking about their own position and handing over the position of a hundred household officials, which is a secular position, and of course they are reluctant in their hearts.

If you don't pay it, I am afraid that Min Yuanqi will have prejudices in his heart, and he will be more and more marginalized in this group in the future......

has a serious job, Wang Sanyi feels that his position as a hundred households can be kept.

As for the next generation, it depends on Wang Mingyuan.

Wang Sanyi took a deep breath, hugged his fists and said: "Since Deputy Qianhu has been believed, I will take this errand, and I will do my best to do a good job in the affairs of the Security Division." ”

"Wang Baihu, I have believed it."

Min Yuanqi nodded, and said to Li Guoding: "Li Baihu has always liked farming, and among the hundreds of households, only Li Baihu's land is the best, and I have also taken the time to see, and the water conservancy ditch fertilization, weeding and insect control have their own tricks......

Li Guoding's heart was bitter for a while, did he tell himself to concentrate on going back to farming?

Li Guoding clenched his fists and said with a reluctant smile: "There is no secret determination method for farming, it is nothing more than to protect water sources, fertilizers, deep cultivation, and sweat more...... Don't think that you can eat from the sky. Our Dahewei here is not comparable with Jiangnan, the land is originally fertile, and the rice harvest is stable for two seasons a year, but we also have the advantage that the north does not have, we have the same dense water network here as Jiangnan, and there is no way to solve the fertilizer problem in the north. There are many water networks, and irrigation is easy. But our disadvantages are also obvious, one is easy to send water, fortunately, we don't have much water in this area of Yuntiguan, there is a considerable amount of wetland, and the flood comes directly to the wetland or into the sea. But there is a lot of saline-alkali land, which is something that cannot be helped......"

Min Yuanqi was greatly appreciative, and sure enough, there was no one who was not on the point.

Due to the influence of the ice age, whether it is Shaanxi, Shanxi, Henan, Hebei, etc., they are all in the affected places, among which northern Shaanxi and eastern Liaoning are particularly seriously affected.

Nuerhachi's rebellion, in addition to ambition and feud with the Ming Dynasty, because of the impact of the ice age caused a significant reduction in farming production is also one of the reasons, the Jurchens due to population breeding, as early as the Juechang'an era has reclaimed a large area of arable land, its trade with the Ming Dynasty, the first is salt and iron, followed by seed farming cattle, take ginseng fur and other luxury goods in exchange for the salt and iron of the Ming Dynasty to cultivate, so as to accumulate strength and develop the tribe.

Otherwise, the Jurchens have moved to the Ming Dynasty for more than 200 years, and they have been beaten into dogs in many rebellions before, the main reason is that the Jurchens were really fishing and hunting, the tribe was small, and there were few people, although they had developed a strong physique and tenacious and daring character in the white mountains and black waters, plus the riding and archery skills practiced by fishing and hunting, but after all, the population base of the tribe was small, and there was no farming to unite the people, and the tribes were quite scattered, where could such Jurchen tribes be the opponent of the regular army?

In the Nurhachi period, it was different, several generations of farming, the number of people and cohesion of the Jianzhou Department have increased greatly, and after the annexation of the Ministries, it is even more difficult to control, Li Chengliang saw this, and took the initiative to withdraw from Kuandian in the hope of reconciling relations with the Jurchens and reducing contradictions and conflicts......

But the general trend does not depend on the will of man, as long as the ice age exists, the Jurchens who have been operating for a hundred years of farming cannot sustain the tribes, and it is inevitable to raise troops to defeat the Ming, this is the general trend, not the will of man.

During the Chongzhen period, the northern parts were affected by many disasters, the winter was very cold, and there was no rain in spring and summer.

Only by mobilizing manpower and building water conservancy on a large scale can we ensure production and even increase income.

When Lu Xiang was promoted to the governor of Xuanda, he attached great importance to local agriculture, promoted production and income, and sorted out hidden fields.

But the Ming Dynasty is too big, Lu Xiangsheng is too little, the disasters and wars in the north have accumulated in the seventeenth year of Chongzhen, if it were not for the complete support of the south, the Ming Dynasty would have perished long ago......

Dahewei here, as Li Guoding said, has sufficient water conservancy, slight floods and the like, but it is not bad.

Fertilizer is also sufficient, not like the north, donkey dung, eggs, and seeds have to be picked up, and fertilizer is too lacking.

Dahewei, Huai'anwei to Yangzhou, Taizhou, these Jiangbei Zhuwei are distributed in the dense water network, Huai River, Yellow River, Yi River, Shu River, Guanhe, Xiahe Canal...... These are all big rivers with names and surnames, and those small rivers that are dozens of miles long and hundreds of miles long are even more numerous...... In terms of water conservancy resources, the Jiangbei region is not far from the south of the Yangtze River, although it is not possible to provide villages and towns with the same convenience as boats and boats, but it is still quite light to irrigate the acres of land and provide fertilizer.

From the Ming to the Qing Dynasty, Jiangbei gradually changed from a land of fish and rice to a poor place, and the main reason was the harm caused by the Yellow River's seizure of Huai into the sea.

In addition to a few places such as Yuntiguan, such as Suqian, Shuyang, Andong, Huai'an, and many other state capitals and counties, there will be a big flood almost every few years, the original land of fish and rice suddenly became a Ze country, and the people's hard work was destroyed once the land was destroyed, and they developed a lazy and slippery local habit, and the more severely affected the Yellow Flood Area, the worse the local people's morale...... People who change to wealthy places have all their family property destroyed every few years, and even if they have a temperament, they will not be much better.

The trouble here is that the drainage after the flood is not smooth, the weather is dry, and the salt accumulates and condenses in the fields after a long time, and from here to the yellowing area, a large amount of saline-alkali land is generally located in these places.

In the evening, the large salt purlins are like snow that has fallen in winter, and the white flowers are ......

If you want to be productive in such a soily field, you are really blind.

Li Guoding said with a wry smile at this time: "Even if I try my best to grow a high-yield harvest like Jiangnan in a field like ours, it will never be possible...... There is no artemisia in the ancestral grave, and the ancestors have been coming like this for generations. I am so attentive in the matter of the fields, that is, I want to collect a little more, and I am idle when I am idle, and my strength is inexhaustible. ”

After Li Guoding complained, Min Yuanqi was also moved and said: "It is really difficult and dangerous, it is really not easy, the more so, the more admirable Li Baihu is." ”

Min Yuanqi knew that Li Guoding and his father had a good relationship back then, and his father praised Li Guoding's mind and character at the beginning.

Li Guoding smiled bitterly: "It's a pity that there are no eggs...... The best ripe fields in the south of the Yangtze River can receive up to six or seven stones per acre, and there are three stones on average, and we here, we can only collect one and a half stones per mu after a lot ......of hard work, at most two stones, and if you don't care, it is difficult to produce one stone per mu."

Jiangbei here is also two crops a year, most of the people are a season of wheat and a season of rice, harvest wheat in June, plant rice in July, harvest rice in autumn and raise a field acre on wheat seeds, so that two crops a year, is to maximize the benefits of the acre.

Of course, there are also people who grow beans, sorghum, millet, and some people who have begun to learn to grow foreign crops such as potatoes and corn, but the area is small, and people do not know how to eat these foreign crops, so the audience is quite small.

It will be at least thirty or forty years before these exotic crops are really pushed away and widely accepted.

According to the average life expectancy of Chinese farmers, this is already the past two generations.

The yield per mu is one stone, or even less than one stone, and there are only two stones of grain in two seasons a year, and they have to hand over grain grains, and military households have to farm for free for officers, and there are all kinds of training tasks, and they have to transport the army to the north every other year, and they don't even have the opportunity to recruit labor.

Even if it is a civilian household, there is a large amount of conscription and all kinds of oppression, and the military households are not provided with food and clothing, so how good are the civilian households?

The whole Ming Dynasty, that is, the Jiangnan region is rich, the average living standard of the people is higher, the so-called Kangqian prosperous era, the average consumption of meat and staple food is the highest peak, that is, about seventy percent of the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty, the so-called prosperous era, but so.

"Food is the fundamental ......" Min Yuanqi said to Li Guoding: "If you want to talk about the current financial resources, it is more than enough to raise a battalion of soldiers, and there is still spare energy to do other things, since you can do it, you have to do it quickly." We are afraid that the remaining Ding of the ten hundred households here in Yuntiguan is more than 5,000 Ding, and the acres of land that have been opened up, I have asked someone to calculate, I am afraid that there are more than 37,000 acres, even so, there are still at least tens of thousands of acres of land to be opened in the coastal area, and it is too wasteful to abandon these lands. In my opinion, I plan to make use of the existing tens of thousands of acres of land, plus all the wasteland that can be cultivated, set up an agricultural department, and recruit landless people in the Haizhou area of Xuzhou to come over to cultivate land and reclaim wasteland. ”

Li Guoding shook his head and said: "A lot of land has to dig ditches to divert water, or use water wheels, and one household grows 50 acres, and it is too difficult to divert water alone." We are not more than the north, to intensively cultivate, the more south, the less land a family plants, Susong place, the average family can have three or four acres of land, it is good, each family fifty acres, I am afraid that it will not be able to serve. ”

"It's nothing more than a lack of animal power." Min Yuanqi had already thought about it, and said in a deep voice: "Our China has become poorer and poorer in the past few thousand years, and the number of cattle and horses cultivated in the Spring and Autumn Period of the pre-Qin period was more than now. This is the main reason for the increasing number of teeth and the gradual decrease of land, and it is also important for the politicians to think about it for a long time, and only know that the people are cattle and horses. I have already informed the Zhu family that from now on, not only will they buy war horses, ploughing cattle, pulling horses, and mules, as long as they can be used to cultivate the land, they will buy more, as long as the animal power is sufficient, it is not uncommon for a household to plant 50 acres......"

The situation in China is indeed as Min Yuanqi said, the increasing population density, coupled with land annexation, the rise and fall of dynasties, and the frequent technological discontinuity caused by the lack of emphasis on technology, in many things are not accumulating and progressing over time, but on the contrary, regressing.

For example, many records of agriculture and related equipment in Qi Min's surgery are left in the Ming Dynasty.

The equipment and technology developed on the book of Tiangong Kaiwu became a book of heaven in the Qing Dynasty, and the technology was broken, and the information was not disseminated smoothly, even if there was practical science and technology, it eventually became a pile of dusty old paper.

By the time of the Ming Dynasty and the Qing Dynasty, not to mention that Europe had already started the Age of Discovery, when it would rob the world's wealth, the people's living standards would also be on the rise, leaving China farther and farther away.

Even in the dark Middle Ages, thanks to the low degree of exploitation of the people by the feudal city-state system, coupled with the fact that there was still more arable land and a relatively small population, its agriculture and animal husbandry were also higher than those in China, and the per capita intake of meat, eggs, and dairy products had always exceeded that of China, at least in Western Europe......