Chapter 16 Working tirelessly for the people's livelihood and thinking about it has taken root

The feast was dismissed.

The low-alcohol rice wine from a thousand years ago was like a drink with a little alcohol in Yang Er's eyes, not as if Laihu'er and the others had already drunk on the spot.

Yang Er returned to his room alone, and several food crops from the afterlife that were saved by the guards were also delivered to the room. Yang Er began to look through these precious things carefully, because Yang Er knew and knew very well what these things meant in the Sui Dynasty. In today's Han people, who are mainly farming, under the primitive labor method of watching the sky and eating, in the social environment of social turmoil everywhere with displaced people. How much will high-yield food crops contribute to the development and stability of society! At least how many people will survive in the event of a severe natural disaster. You must know that today's Great Sui has not yet unified the world, and after the late Han Dynasty, the Three Kingdoms and the Two Jin Dynasty, the Central Plains where the Five Hu Chaos and the Great China were divided, the Han population has been sharply reduced from tens of millions when the Han Dynasty was strong to less than 7 million now.

"Since God has sent me to this era of great change, let me change it with my own hands!" Yang Er looked at the few items in front of him and thought secretly with confidence and expectation, and his eyes emitted a strange light.

First, open a large bag, which is full of red-skinned sweet potatoes with red dirt. Judging from the color of the soil, this batch of sweet potatoes is produced on the slopes of the mountains and is a relatively drought-tolerant variety. Yang Er has experience in this area, and the soil near the river is generally black, and this kind of soil is more fertile. Open the second tote bag, there is only half a bag, this is the potatoes, with black sand mud on them. There are nearly 100 sweet potatoes and 40 potatoes.

"With this batch of sweet potatoes and potatoes as seeds, the quantity is a little less, but it's not bad!" Yang Er was very pleased, but at the same time, he also regretted that there was no batch of corn under the bar table, who would have thought that he would encounter an earthquake and go through this strange thing?

Next, Yang Er looked at the peanuts that belonged to his own family. I remember that Mazi exchanged a semi-woven bag of high-quality potatoes for the new peanuts that Yang Er's family had just harvested from the ground, and it was still wet, because Mazi's girlfriend Tang Feiran was anemic, and I heard that peanuts could replenish blood after eating them, so I deliberately found Yang Er. Yang Er was not stingy and directly filled a bag full of pockmarks, which was about 50 catties. This thing is not necessary in this era when you don't pay attention to how much nutrition and only want to be full, and the yield per mu is not large. But for Yang Er, who loves to eat peanuts, this is a baby, peanuts and rice are wine, the more you eat, the more you have, and you are happy to think about it. Finally, there is a basket of eggs, which is the eggs laid by the free-range chickens on the qualified mountain! It is nutritious and stronger than eating meat. Yang Er carefully took them out one by one and counted them, and there were a total of 125 native eggs intact.

"How can these 125 eggs hatch 100 **! Chickens lay eggs and regenerate chickens, hehe! In the future, there will be no shortage of high-laying chickens and excellent broilers with short growth cycles. Yang Er couldn't help but feel a little proud. Wait, the rice left in the basket is estimated to be nearly 30 catties, which is a drought-resistant, pest-resistant, lodging-resistant and high-yield excellent rice specially cultivated in later generations to adapt to the mountainous areas! Yang Er had a feeling in his heart. If this is widely sown on the land of the Great Sui Dynasty, the yield per mu will be far greater than that of rice in the current era, which will be of epoch-making significance! Coupled with the large-scale planting of sweet potatoes and potatoes, it will alleviate the problem of insufficient food production to a large extent, so that many fewer people will starve to death in the green and yellow season!

Yang Er hurriedly tore off a homespun cloth towel from the bed and carefully poured the rice on the cloth sheet, he wanted to wrap this rice that was more precious than gold well, this is a seed and he didn't want to throw it away. Suddenly, in the poured rice, Yang Er found a few small golden grains. Yang Er's heartbeat suddenly accelerated, and he hurriedly and carefully picked up the small yellow grains to watch. Yes, as he thought, it turned out to be a corn seed. Yang Er instantly understood why there were corn seeds in the back basket, it was because this back basket was often used to carry corn in Mazi's house. In mountainous areas, corn is dried and ground into corn flour, which is mainly used as pig feed. Of course, in the special period, this is also a kind of coarse grain that can be eaten by people and is very nutritious, and it is also a very high-yield crop, the key is that this thing basically does not choose the geographical environment, it seems to be more suitable for planting in the north, as long as there is no major drought, you can always harvest a lot. Yang Er hurriedly rummaged in the rice, and even turned the back basket upside down and slapped it for a long time, and sure enough, more than a dozen corn seeds were scattered from the cracks in the back basket, plus more than 30 grains found from the rice, there were almost 50 grains in total.

"It's gone, it's gone..." Yang Er's heart was ecstatic. "Even if Lao Tzu is not the king of Jin or the emperor, he can easily become a rich man wherever he goes with these few things! It's still the kind of rich country that rivals the country, in this era, there are frequent wars and chaos in the prosperous world, and who won't eat my things Lao Tzu starves him to death! Hey, hey, hey... ”

What to do with these precious food crops? These are seeds, and they must not be spoiled and rotten. Seeing that the potatoes have been put for a long time, a little green, this is the rhythm of germination, without further ado, there will be 3-5 days at most, this batch of potatoes will emerge new shoots to expose the buds and roots, you must find a suitable piece of land to plant, otherwise it will rot and only throw away, this kind of thing must not be allowed to happen. Next is sweet potato, sweet potato can be planted all year round, especially in this Weihe River, Yellow River basin sunshine land, Yang Er when he was a child once helped his father in his own bungalow behind a slender piece of land, the first crop planted is sweet potato, from the start, planting to cover the nose and water manure are experienced, and impressed. Later, as I grew older, I didn't see much of the nearby farmers' plantings, and the most common thing I did was to steal the sweet potatoes that the farmer uncle was about to ripen and roast them in the mountains to eat. He knows that the best solar term for sowing sweet potatoes is a few days from late spring to summer solstice, and it is easy to take root in a short period of time to grow vine stems, and it can be harvested in about 3 months. Immediately after that, the planting can be continued endlessly, and the winter is just a slow growth. Isn't it the middle of May? Even the summer solstice, calculated according to the ancient lunar calendar, is about the same as the next month. This specific time will be found later, and you will find out if you ask the old farmer in the village. Of course, if you don't care, you can sow seeds at any time, but the difference is that the temperature is different and the speed of ripening.

Corn is not too particular about this thing, as long as it is a decent piece of land, it can be sown. But Yang Er didn't want to hand over to others so quickly, because the number of seeds was too small and too expensive, so it was better to gather in the Jin King's Mansion at his own convenience and try to plant them in the garden himself. As long as these dozens of seeds can germinate, they can grow into dozens of corn seedlings, and after 100 days, more than 100 corn cobs can be harvested, and then there will be tens of thousands of corn seeds, and at that time they are looking for more than a dozen acres of land to be widely planted. The same goes for rice, Yang Er plans to find a piece of land to play with by himself, although he has never planted rice seedlings, but usually in the sowing season, it is common for ethnic minority mountain people around the factory to plant, provided that a high-quality paddy field is needed. Growing rice is a technical job! Dry rice can be stored without spoilage, and there is no hurry. In this northern land, wheat and pasta are still mainly cultivated. However, dozens of catties of peanuts need to be dried in time, otherwise they will sprout. Peanuts, Yang Er is not in a hurry to plant them immediately, this is the most dispensable, it can be said that even if it is planted, it is to meet his usual needs for drinking, the wine in this era is not very good, and the appetizers are even more scum. When I think of puff pastry peanuts, I speak with relish!

Yang Er walked out of the door after packing up everything and called Zhuang Ding, who was cleaning outside the room.

"There are people in your village who are good at farming, you can find a few people to come to my room, and I have important things to entrust."

"Lord Qiyu, the old father in the villain's family is a tenant farmer in this village, and he can be found to do chores in the fields all day long." After Zhuang Ding finished speaking, he left with his hand.

Not long after, Liang Shitai hurriedly came to Yang's second room and said, "I heard that the prince is looking for someone who is proficient in agricultural affairs in my village, I don't know what it means?" ”

"Oh---, the day before yesterday I met a merchant from the Western Regions on the road, he knew that I was the king of the current Jin Dynasty, and if he wanted to make friends with me, he would give me two rare items, he said that these two things were produced in the west of the Western Regions, and could be used as rations for the people. It is said that the climate and soil quality of the Great Sui are not much different from those of the Western Regions, and this thing can also be planted. And it is said that this thing should not be stored for a long time, and it should be sown into the soil in time for the season. This king is not good at this, so I want to ask you to try planting it in the village. Yang Er said to Liang Shitai what he had already thought of.

"Is there such a thing? Don't worry, there are many people who are good at farming in this village, and they can be trusted sincerely, so they will find a few more people to come. Liang Shitai turned around and went out after speaking.

It seems that I will have to stay here for a few days, and I need to personally choose the best fields, and then I need to teach the farmers the scientific planting and fertilization of future generations. In any case, you have to wait until the new shoots are unearthed and the growth is stable. As little as half a month, as much as 30 days! This Tongguan uncle Yang Lin had to send someone over to inform him first, and by the way, it was appropriate to lead a small group of officers and soldiers to come over to take care of the new seedlings. Yang Er circled around the table a few times and then sat down and thought quietly: the information displayed in his memory is the current trend of the world. I live in northern China and the whole territory of Bashu, including Yunnan and Guizhou; The north is close to the Eastern Turks, and the distance from the capital of Chang'an is not too far; The western territory was only to most of Qinghai Province in later generations, and it was far from reaching the Western Regions, and the Western Turks occupied the entire Western Regions and further west regions at this time; The southwest direction of the couch is next to the small country of Tuyuhun and the Tibetan tribes located on the plateau, but fortunately, Tubo has not yet had a strong lord, and the plateau has not yet been unified; the south confronts Nanchen across the Yangtze River; The Northeast is still a wild place, and there is no threat to me because of its vast and sparsely populated land, so it can be ignored for the time being; Looking east across the sea from Silla and the Wa Kingdom, it is not surprising that it was a vassal country of the Central Plains in the Han Dynasty, and it was also an uncivilized land. At present, the most direct threat to me is the Tuyuhun on the side of the couch and the powerful Turkic forces in the north. Tuyuhun is really a small strong man who can't be killed, and he has been destroyed several times and restored to the country several times. If you want to show your ambitions, you must first get rid of this recent threat, and then you can use more of it. If you can return to the dynasty as soon as possible, you can see your father and the emperor in person, and send troops to destroy Tuyuhun as soon as possible. After destroying Tuyuhun, we should make friends with the Turkic sand bowl and the Great Khan to the north, and stabilize the north without change. In the whole country's troops waved their troops south to cross the river to attack Chen, Nanchen is not weak, there are many virtuous ministers and good generals, and it is necessary to think in the long run. Fortunately, in the later generations of "Hundred Schools", I have heard "Sui and Tang Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms", and roughly remember the bridge section of the Sui Dynasty's destruction of Nanchen: The road to death of Chen Shubao, the queen of Nanchen, is also strange enough in Chinese history! I still vaguely remember a few lines of the famous poem "Yushu Backyard Flowers", and the pretty and colorful beauty Zhang Lihua is now about the same age as herself, to accept it or not? The defeat of Nanchen was also Yang Guang's most important military achievement in the Great Sui, and Yang Guang also really strengthened his determination to win the heir with this battle. Now everything that hasn't happened is up to me, Yang Er, to complete it! Zhang Lihua, accept it. How can a famous beauty in history not accept it? Not only to unify China, but also to attack as far north and west as possible. Hehehehehe! What is a generation of Tianjiao, just illiterate and uneducated! In addition to killing people is slaughtering the city, robbing gold, silver, robbing women, robbing this family and running down the house, and not appeasing the people of different races, let alone establishing a long-term regime, the work of robbers, Lao Tzu will never do a stupid thing to get a vote and return this time! 、