Since yesterday in the palace after eating cream ice cream, Zhang Le Qiujin and Shelong for this kind of delicious, and the food to relieve the heat, can no longer forget, early in the morning, they in Wangjiang Tower to the waiter for a long time, finally, when they saw the waiter brought something, they were satisfied, it turned out that this thing is called ice cream.

It's not just the two of them who like to eat in Wangjianglou, the chiefs and leaders of the ethnic minorities in the surrounding areas who were invited by Li Shimin to come to Chang'an to watch the ceremony, all like it, because there are cuisines from all over the country, Yumi and Heicha from Lingnan are, after a full meal, they found that they and many people are going to the same location, between Wannian County and Lantian County, near the 300,000-mu field.

The early morning of summer is quite cool, so the people who are busy with farming get up very early, and the soldiers in the Longshouyuan camp have already assembled next to the test field before dawn.

"It turns out that the emperor of the Tang Dynasty also went to the field to cut wheat." Zhang Leqiu, who has been the king of Baizi for several years, looked at Li Shimin's direction very curiously and muttered.

He is in the land of Yunnan, but he is served by his subordinates, of course, this is also the reason why his subordinates are not loyal to him.

Sheron is different from his focus, he saw more than 100,000 people, holding the same shape, and very sharp sickles in their hands to cut wheat, if his clan soldiers all have such scythes as weapons, the other ones are estimated not to be their opponents, but it is a pity that so many good steels have been made into the shape of sickles, used to cut wheat, it is really a bit of a waste.

He stood in the crowd wearing a general's regular uniform, a little conspicuous, many soldiers, when he approached, all cast reverent glances at him, they knew that there were golden ears of wheat and three gold stars on the neckline and shoulders, that is, the top level of the Tang Dynasty, of course, not looking at the collar and epaulettes, just looking at the palm-sized gold badge on his chest, everyone can also determine his identity, but this general looks a little faceless, not like the general of the Sixteen Guards.

Yumi father and son and Heicha are no strangers to cutting rice, then, cutting wheat is actually similar to them, they are not like Shelong, dangling their arms and moving around, under the leadership of Ah Yue, they asked Sun Xiangfu for a few sickles, and cut wheat not far from Sun Xiangfu, listening to Ah Yue and Sun Xiangfu's chat by the way, not to mention, after staying in Guanzhong for a while, they can already understand some simple words.

"Haven't you been tired of cutting rice in Baiyun Lake, just this little field, before the sun heats up, everyone will definitely be able to finish cutting, just watch from the side." Sun Xiangfu glanced at Ah Yuedao, who came to his side to help cut wheat.

"No! Every time I think that after the rice is harvested, it will be sent to Chang'an for Uncle Sun to eat, I don't feel tired at all. ”

"Hehe, what a well-behaved child, but, when doing farm work, remember to wear a hat, don't tan your face too tanned, be careful that you can't get married when you grow up."

"If you can't get married, you can't get married, anyway, I have Xiao Hei and Xiao Ye with me, you don't know, they are skinny, every time we plant rice in the whole field, they love to roll mud in the field." Maybe it's because of the different cultures, Ah Yue doesn't blush at all when she discusses her marriage with others, but she doesn't seem to have thought about such a question now.

"Elephants are like that, like buffaloes, they would rather be covered in mud than be bitten by mosquitoes."

"Ah, it turns out that they are rolling the mud to prevent mosquitoes! I always bring a lot of water to help them wash their bodies, and next time, I will help them apply toilet water to their bodies, so that no mosquitoes bite them. ”

"But don't, the toilet water thing is still quite expensive, if you put it on them, it will be wasted, and besides, they smell the scent of the toilet water, they will probably sneeze, I don't know what an elephant sneezes like, have you ever seen it?"

"Like, I haven't seen ······ before"

At eight or nine o'clock in the morning, the wheat of 300,000 acres of fields was all harvested, and the soldiers threw the ears of wheat on the threshing field that had been built long ago, and the stone mills pulled by various oxen began to roll on the threshing field, the field was not enough, and the surrounding cement roads were also paved, and some people were waving the flail, or directly pumping the wheat by hand, the scene was very spectacular.

Li Shimin, who was busy sweating, and several ministers began to set up dozens of scales next to the drying field, one end of which was one hundred and twenty pounds of weight, and the other end was a hemp cloth bag containing wheat.

Seeing that the sacks were piled higher and higher, Li Shimin and many ministers were very happy, and passed on the order, and the lunch was solved casually on the spot, and if it was evening, before the fight was finished, the dinner would be solved here.

Not long after, the fire room of the barracks boiled a lot of sour plum soup over, everyone drank refreshingly, the only food for lunch was cold noodles, one person sent a bowl, a pair of chopsticks, to clip by themselves, the seasoning is also a large bucket of ready-made sauce, according to personal taste, mix it by yourself, maybe it is after labor, the reason for the consumption is relatively large, everyone's appetite is surprisingly good.

There is nothing wrong with the saying that there is great strength in an agrarian society, so it only took three or four hours for more than 100,000 people to finish beating the wheat, and then it was to pick up the lamp and weigh it overnight.

Now, no one is worried about dinner, because, from the counting side, everyone can see that more than a million burlap pockets have been used, that is to say, only about half of the weighing, it has already exceeded one million stones, and if it is divided into 300,000 acres of land, the yield per mu has already exceeded three stones, but on the grain drying field, there is no over-weighed wheat, and it is still as high as a mountain.

Could it be that the wheat yield here can really exceed five stones?

Since eating delicious cold noodles in the afternoon, Shelong has not said anything, wheat, they also grow some in Yunnan, but the gap with here is so big! Datang grows wheat like this, aren't they afraid that they won't be able to eat it all and rot?

"Your Majesty, it's already more than 1.4 million packs."

Even if Wang De's voice has to recite some holy decree documents and the like in the court every day, he has already cultivated it, but at this time, he is also a little trembling, he still remembers that year Li Shimin and Sun Xiangfu made a bet without bets, and then, Li Shimin lost, and he was very happy to lose.

And now, the yield in these fields may be far greater than that of the past, because the king has to use visual inspection, and it is possible to fill hundreds of thousands of bags of leftover wheat.

Outside the grain field, strings of lanterns approached this side, and it was the courtiers such as the eldest grandson Wuji, who was in charge of the harvest and taxation in other places, who had come over.

"After the ministers returned to the city, they heard that His Majesty had not yet returned to the palace, so they made an appointment to come over to have a look."

"Auxiliary, Xuancheng, tell me first, how is the situation over there?"

was asked by Li Shimin, although the two of them looked tired, their eyes revealed joy.

"Your Majesty, according to the preliminary statistics collected by the minister, the yield per mu should be more than four and a half stones, and in the fields of some relatively good farmers, it has even reached five stones."

"On the minister's side, it's about the same."

This year, the imperial court is taxed by weight, thirty taxes one, and it has just been harvested, and the tax is calculated directly by wet weight, and a family, eighty acres of Yongye field, according to four and a half stones and nearly five stones, can almost collect more than three hundred and seventy-eight stones, then, the imperial court can receive about twelve or thirteen stone of grain from each household, and even, the eldest grandson Wuji, has also received more than thirteen stone of tax grain, because the output of their eighty acres of land exceeds three hundred and ninety stone of grain.

Then, if calculated according to the calculation of 1 million yeoman farmers in Guanzhong, each household with 80 mu of Yongye land, the imperial court can collect more than 12 million stone of grain just by collecting grain tax.

How much food does an officer and army consume each month?

That is, according to the soldier's three meals a day, one pound for each meal, and only one hundred and fifty pounds a month, one stone and three stones, it should be regarded as one stone and five! An army of 100,000 people consumes more than 2 million stone of grain a year, and counting all the soldiers of all fronts of the Tang Dynasty, about 300,000 people consume 6 million stone of grain a year.

In other words, in the land of Guanzhong alone, this season's tax grain can be used for the soldiers of this Eastern Crusade for two years.

Moreover, this grain is only one-thirtieth of the grain in the hands of the people.

The output suddenly tripled compared to the past, this huge happiness made Li Shimin a little dizzy, the population was small in the early Tang Dynasty, and there were more fields.

"Sun, what about Sun Zhengming! Let him come to me. ”

It is said that on this kind of big day of grain harvesting, Sun Xiangfu, the person who grows grain, should be the most active, however, since the harvest, everyone has not seen him again, and it seems that he is not much worried about the output.

In the village in the center of the experimental field, Sun Xiangfu sifted a bag of wheat with various sizes of holes, stared at the wheat grains left in the sieve with the largest hole for a long time, and even lit a lot of candles, carefully looked at the skin and bud glands of the wheat grains with a telescope, and muttered to himself, "I thought that the good varieties cultivated by the three-year three-nursery system were already very stable in terms of genetics. The size and fullness of these wheat grains have several levels of differentiation, which should be due to the fact that the genetic aspects of the seeds are not yet complete enough, and if you want to improve again, you have to go through another round or several rounds of cultivation······"

His words, as a guard who only practiced martial arts, Zhang Ke couldn't understand it at all, his stomach was already grumbling from hunger, he ate a lot of snacks, and Ah Yue, who was watching from the sidelines, didn't understand it even more, so when Li Shimin sent the inner servants who came to find people, they decisively interrupted Sun Xiangfu's thinking.

"Dudu, Your Majesty summoned you over, it should be that the output has come out!"