For a country to develop, the food problem is a necessary prerequisite. Only on the basis of sufficient food can we have the energy to create and develop.

Therefore, this year, farming is the top priority of Daqin.

In order to ensure the smooth progress of farming, the Ministry of Household Affairs issued a decree on the same day that all provinces, counties, and counties must ensure that basic farmland is fully cultivated and that this year's harvest must be tripled.

Moreover, in order to urge all localities to make farming the top priority this year, the State Council also ordered that this year's grain harvest should be included in the merit appraisal of officials at all levels.

After the autumn harvest, where the grain output has increased by three times, the chief administrative officials will be assessed as excellent, and those whose grain output does not meet the standards will be assessed poorly, and this will directly affect the career of local officials at all levels.

I have to say that the effect of this decree is still very effective.

Because this decree was transmitted, officials in various localities paid attention to it and became nervous, and soon began to operate, taking the initiative to provide grain seeds to ensure the grain problem of cultivated land within the administration.

You must know that the famine in Daqin last year was serious, and it can be said that there is not a grain of grain in many places. Therefore, although at the end of the year, after the land reform, the people of the world were allocated land, but the shortage of grain seeds was widespread.

This decree of the State Council made local governments take on the problem of grain varieties and began to provide grain and chestnuts from granaries for the peasants.

Of course, in addition to grain seeds, there are also water conservancy issues.

From the provinces to the counties and counties, to the townships and pavilions, the government at all levels has mobilized to ensure water conservancy and prevent floods, which has become the work they can't wait to complete.

However, although this decree played a major role in farming, it also caused a lot of complaints in various places. Tripling the harvest is an unlikely task.

Therefore, every day, the National Council receives excerpts from all over the country to vomit bitter water.

The general meaning is that it cannot be done, because for several years, most of the people have been serving in the Yao service, resulting in less than one-tenth of the land actually cultivated in various places, a lot of land is deserted, and the water conservancy has been in disrepair for many years, so the time is too tight, and now it is spring, and the peasants have to cultivate three times more land than in previous years, and there is no serious shortage of manpower and time, so it is impossible to open up all the land for cultivation. Second, water conservancy projects cannot guarantee the supply of all arable land in a short period of time.

Mo said that the others, namely Wang Youxian of Jiangsu Province, had sent a private letter to Li Yang, explaining to Li Yang the difficulties and impracticalities of the threefold increase in grain.

Of course, Dongyang County Shouhu Hai was already a staunch supporter of Li Yang's new policy, and now when he saw this kind of task issued by the State Council, he was also annoyed and scolded Li Yang for being in a hurry, and the goal was set too outrageously and detached from the root of the facts.

As soon as there were many excerpts in various places to vent bitter water, it was natural that some people in the DPRK and China were discussing this matter.

The people in the DPRK and China questioned the decree of a threefold increase in the harvest, and thought that it was necessary to lower the demand a little and change it to double the size of the previous year.

However, this matter was directly vetoed by Li Yang.

As a result, everyone felt that Li Yang began to float, too confident, too self-righteous.

All of a sudden, voices of disdain rang out.

And the old clans seem to see an opportunity from this matter, and want Fusu to oppose Li Yang in this matter.

As a result, Sun Jing, the new secretary of the Ministry of Justice, took several ministers of the DPRK and China to find Fusu directly.

Too womb.

"Your Royal Highness, Zhen Guojun bypassed the officials and directly ordered that this year's grain income increase be included in the performance evaluation of officials in various places. The ministers and others thought that the problem of increasing grain income should not be rushed, let alone forced, otherwise it could only be counterproductive, and hoped that His Royal Highness would come forward to stop the great fall of the Zhenguo monarch from detaching from the reality of the situation. Gongsun Jing looked worried.

Several other ministers also petitioned: "I hope that Your Highness will come forward to stop the Zhenguo monarch from messing around for the sake of the society!" ”

In the eyes of Gongsun Jing and others, the grain production has increased by three times, and this kind of detachment from reality is already clearly unrealistic, so he and others came to admonish, and Fusu was most likely moved. After all, Fusu is not the First Emperor, the First Emperor has unconditional trust in Li Yang, no matter how ridiculous and outrageous what Li Yang wants to do, the First Emperor will support it. And will Fusu be the same as his father?

This answer is obviously worth looking forward to.

As long as Fusu comes forward to stop and oppose Li Yang, then this is tantamount to slapping Li Yang with a big mouth, and from then on, there will be cracks in the relationship between Fusu and Li Yang.

After everyone finished speaking, they all looked up at Fusu and waited for his answer.

However, what everyone didn't expect was that Fusu actually looked unimpressed, and said with a smile: "Your lords are serious!" Since Zhen Guojun said that he would triple this year's grain production, Gu believes that he must be sure that he can do it, after all, Zhen Guojun has always been creating miracles. ”

Everyone was stunned, but they didn't expect Fusu to trust Li Yang so much.

Everyone glanced at each other, and Gongsun Jing said: "Your Highness trusts the Zhenguo Jun, and the ministers understand it, but other things may be able to create miracles by the Zhenguo Jun, but the matter of farming is done by the power of the people of the world, not by the power of the Zhenguo Jun alone." Now, more than half of the farmland in my Daqin has been abandoned for many years, and the water conservancy is in disrepair. ”

Fusu nodded slightly, pondered for a while, and said, "What Gongsun Shangshu said is not unreasonable, but ...... Let's see if Zhen Guojun can come up with a good way first! ”

Gongsun Jing saw that Fusu trusted Li Yang so much, and knew that he couldn't persuade him for the time being, so he had to nod and give up.

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The admonition of Gongsun Jing and others, although it did not make Fusu oppose Li Yang, still made Fusu's heart waver.

After all, the steps are too big, and it is easy to pull the egg. If the officials in the following places are forced to complain, the gains outweigh the losses.

Therefore, when Gongsun Jing and the others left, Fusu went directly to the State Council and found Li Yang.

"Taifu, it is said that more than half of the land in various places is deserted, and the water conservancy has been in disrepair for many years, so it is really possible to triple the grain production this year?"

Fusu found Li Yang alone and asked.

Li Yang naturally knew that the doubts of the courtiers must have reached Fusu's ears, so he smiled and said: "Your Highness, don't worry, it is difficult for the people to cultivate three times as much land as in previous years, it is because of low production efficiency, I have already thought of a way to improve farming efficiency, and it should not be a problem to cultivate all the fields that have been abandoned in the past this spring." ”

"Oh? Taifu has a way to triple the efficiency of the people's farming! ”

As soon as he heard this, Fusu's eyes lit up, he was overjoyed, and asked, "Taifu tell me quickly, what is the way?" ”

Li Yang smiled: "Promote the plow!" ”

"Plow?"

Fu Su frowned and said, "Plow, isn't this thing already used?" ”

Li Yang shook his head: "Your Highness doesn't know, although today's plough can greatly improve the efficiency of ploughing the land, it is only suitable for the plain, and it requires two oxen to pull, many people do not have oxen, so the application of the plow is limited to the rich households in the plain area." ”

The plough in the Qin Dynasty still belonged to the early plough, and the shape was simple. It was not until the Western Han Dynasty that the straight plough appeared, but there were only plowshares and handrails.

Therefore, in the Qin Dynasty, most of the plows belonged to the tread plow.

The tread plough is also called "plough" and "foot plow". When using, step on it with your feet to achieve the effect of turning over the soil. If you plow for five days, you can be like an ox ploughing for a day, but it is not as deep as the earth.

And there is also a kind of plough, which belongs to the two-ox carrying type, which not only requires two oxen, but is only suitable for the plains.

Because of this, most of the people still rely on hoes to plough the land, not to mention inefficient, and they are very tired.

Imagine that with a hoe, it is naturally impossible to plough together the land that was abandoned during the previous servitude.

"Oh? Listening to Taifu's meaning, is there a way to improve the plow? Fusu is also a smart person, and he understood Li Yang's thoughts as soon as he heard it.

Li Yang nodded: "That's right." I plan to improve the plough so that it can be easily turned over with a single ox, whether it is a plain or a mountainous area. In addition, I have ordered Xiao He to send all the cattle from the Mongolian province (Xiongnu) to supplement the lack of cattle cultivation of the people, so that it should not be difficult to cultivate all the land that was abandoned in the past this year. ”

"It turns out that Taifu really has a plan for a long time, haha!" Hearing that Li Yang had a way to improve the plow, Fusu was greatly pleased.

However, he soon thought of something again and asked, "However, how to solve the disrepair of water conservancy?" ”

Li Yang said: "I plan to grow rice in paddy fields, wheat in semi-dry fields, and I plan to use the completed dry fields to cultivate new species." ”

"New species?" Fusu was stunned again.

Li Yang said: "Your Highness doesn't know that the grain varieties that Xu Fu brought back from Shaohao will be transported to Xianyang in the near future, and these new grain varieties can be distributed to various places at that time, so that the people can cultivate and reproduce a large number of seeds, so that they can be planted in a large area next year." ”

"New varieties ......" Fusu was very interested when he heard it, and he wanted to know what the new grain brought by Shaohao would look like.

And at this moment, Ji Kai suddenly walked in excitedly, saw Fusu, and saluted: "Your Highness." ”

Fusu asked, "Ji Shangshu, is there something wrong?" ”

Ji Kai said: "The minister came to report to the Zhenguo monarch that the things from Shaohao's side have been transported from Langya County. ”

"Oh?"

As soon as they heard this, Li Yang and Fusu were overjoyed, and hurriedly said, "Quick, take us forward!" ”

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