Li Shimin has never had any new ideas in doing things, the same routine, he can use it many times, after the sixth season of the experimental field was reported, he immediately came to the will of the reward, and implemented the title of Sun Xiangfu's second grandson Kang Jiuyuan County Duke, at the same time, he said hello to him, and continued to plant rice according to the order, next year, the first phase of rice planting is over, and the new Wang Ye training class will be sent to him.

The yield per mu is eleven stones, this yield in the past, is an astronomical number, but now, when seeing this yield, no one feels strange, because everyone has habitually trusted Sun Xiangfu to grow higher yield rice, even if he grows a higher yield, everyone also thinks that it should be, the court ministers may praise a few words in public, ordinary people, is indifferent, more assured about their future, produce more food, and their chances of starvation are smaller.

This year, they learned to be obedient again, and wanted to bring some new rice seeds back from Jiuyuan County to plant, Sun Xiangfu approved them, as long as they came to ask for rice seeds, each person gave them a few catties for free, anyway, for Jiuyuan County, a few catties of rice is not worth much.

Although there is little irrigated land in the north, there are some of them, although the people over there are accustomed to eating pasta, but occasionally eat rice, the taste is also good, of course, the reason why they come to receive rice seeds is because the yield of rice seeds here can be twice as much as the wheat they plant.

In the production of organic fertilizer, intensive farming technology has been increasingly promoted, new farm tools and cattle have been popularized, as well as the quadruple planting management technology and other aspects of the role of the promotion, the average yield per mu of the people in the north planting a single season of wheat, finally broke through five stones, reached more than 600 catties, due to the area of acres in the north, there is no reform like Jiuyuan County, the size of the acres in the future generations, their yield per mu should reach 700 catties, which is a limit before the chemical reform of fertilizer, of course, This is also related to Datang's choice of returning farmland to a large area.

These northern Ueda are covered in winter snow for several months a year, so they can get enough time to recuperate, and if they are planted only once a year, they can produce so much even if they are not very carefully cared for.

Wei Ting's three-year tenure in the Ministry of Agriculture also made such a political achievement, and most of the existing middle and lower fields in the Tang Dynasty were returned to farmland, so in October, when Guanzhong entered the winter, and the courtiers began to hold a statistical court meeting in the palace, the number of acres of land in the country reported by him was greatly reduced, and he looked happy.

Now Datang itself, counting the more than 10 million mu of military tun fields opened by the Anxi Metropolitan Protectorate this year, is only 120 million mu, and the 12 million households allocated to the new statistics, each household is about 100 mu, and it is apportioned to each person, about 30 mu, of course, the existing 38 million population of Datang is not all farming, and the millions of people on the overseas islands basically do not farm, and the scholars, workers, merchants, doctors, and multiple professional classes basically do not farm, and then remove the children who cannot participate in labor. The population of Datang who actually farms the land is actually only about 10 million.

With a population of 10 million, 120 million mu of land is planted, with an average of more than 100 mu per person, obviously it cannot be planted, but it has been planted this year.

First of all, it is like those flower fields in Shanyang, those green fodder fields in Dingxiang, oat fields, basically do not need many manpower, dozens of people, can take care of thousands or even more than 10,000 acres, every spring, riding a horse to finish scattering, and when it grows, just drive the mower to continue harvesting.

Secondly, like Shuzhong and Guanzhong, many fields used as orchards do not need to be taken care of every year, but only at the time of harvest, organize a group of people to work hard.

For example, on Lingnan Road, even all fruit farmers are part-time, they only need to go to the wild fruit groves to pick fruits in the season, and these aspects have almost been reduced by about 30 million mu.

The remaining 90 million mu, of which 30 million mu are occupied by the military cantonments of various armies, under the collective organization of the army with sophisticated agricultural tools and a relatively high labor force, the efficiency of cultivation will be much higher than that of ordinary people, especially when planting only needs to be cultivated in the early stage of sowing, sowing, and harvesting of grain crops such as wheat and millet during the harvest period, and more than one million troops can cultivate 30 million mu of fields, which actually seems very easy.

Because, the military tuntian is only planted once a year, and they have more than a month to devote to cultivation in the spring, and they have about a month to harvest in the autumn.

In the end, the remaining 60 million mu is the area that the people really need to cultivate all year round, of which more than eighty percent are planted with grain, and only the fields in several counties of Guanzhong and Shannan Province are really in the intensive cultivation mode, of course, there are some crops of high economic value, which also belong to the intensive cultivation mode, and the number of these acres is all added up, less than 20 million mu, that is to say, Datang now has more than 40 million mu of good fields, and it is still in the hands of the people, carrying out shallow cultivation and rough cultivation.

If Sun Xiangfu sees this data, he will naturally have a lot of sighs, on average, every person who specializes in farming has to cultivate more than fifty or sixty acres of land, even if they want to cultivate intensively! It is estimated that there are many of these fields, which are in a state of rotational cultivation.

That is, half to plow, half to recuperate.

A family of ordinary people, at least 80 acres of Yongye field, and many because of military merits, or some ancestral private land, usually, a family of people need to plant a field can reach 100 or dozens of acres, when they can't cultivate, they will choose to cultivate only half of the field, so that the other half of the field to store fertility.

"Your Majesty, after returning the middle and lower fields to farmland, we can save a lot of labor, this 120 million mu of fields, excluding the Juntun fields, and some other cash crops, there are about 50 million mu, which are planted with grain, and all of them have been harvested this year, among them, there are 20 million mu of high-yield fields planted in one season north of the Yellow River, and this year's grain output is about 100 million stones, Guanzhong, the Central Plains Zhudao, there are 30 million mu of fields that can be planted with two seasons of grain, and this year's grain output is about 350 million stones, and a small number of areas south of the Yangtze River, Lingnan, and Jiaozhi three counties, There are more than 10 million acres of fields that can grow three seasons of grain, this year's grain production is about 200 million stones, the country's annual grain production is about 650 million stones, calculated by the per capita annual consumption of eight stones, the annual grain for the people of the country, about 300 million stones, cattle, horses, livestock, poultry, fishery breeding, the grain consumed, about 200 million stones, the consumption of wine, about 50 million stones, sold to foreign countries, about 30 million stones, all localities often close the position to the end of the year, the new grain balance, about 70 million stones. Wei Ting was above the imperial court and reported the statistics of the Ministry of Agriculture.

There is a very interesting place here, that is, Guanzhong, and the Central Plains Zhudao, there are 30 million acres of land to grow grain, and two seasons of planting every year, but the output is only 350 million stones, this output, only Shannan Province six Yuantian County nearly 10 million acres of rice fields, contributed nearly 200 million stone of output, Guanzhong's millions of acres of wheat fields, also contributed at least 60 or 70 million stone of output, that is to say, the Central Plains of these state roads, there are more than 10 million acres of grain fields, two seasons, only contributed less than 100 million stone of output, on averageThe yield is still hovering around three stones, which is not much different from the yield before the advance of agricultural technology in the past, and these fields have lowered the overall average level, and are even far inferior to the output of Lingnan, Jiaozhi, these emerging fields that grow Zhancheng rice.

With the fertilization and cultivation techniques that have been basically popularized in Datang, as well as the new farming methods used, it may not be that there is no yield in the year when there are sufficient ploughing cattle and the wind and rain are smooth, but that the rotation of fields is relatively serious, and the people do not actually plant so much grain fields.

Of course, the ministers of the DPRK and the Central Committee did not notice the anomalies in these figures, and they felt that the 20 million mu of fields in the north produced 100 million stone of grain in one season, and the 30 million mu of fields in the Central Plains produced 350 million stone of grain in two seasons, which was very reasonable, and did not exclude the ultra-high yield of the Shannan Province and the high yield of the Guanzhong wheat fields.

On the dragon chair, Li Shimin said majestically, "I remember that the grain in the previous two years also had a surplus, and now the actual storage in various places is geometric?" ”

"Your Majesty, since the beginning of the third year of Zhenguan, my Datang internal grain production, there is a surplus every year, accumulating to this year, about 250 million stones, after the autumn harvest, all of them have been replaced with new grain, stored in various places and often closed."

"Only 250 million stones? It's not enough for the people of the whole country to eat for a year? Li Shimin frowned when he heard this.

In fact, this data, he already had a rough idea in his heart, if it was before, he would definitely feel that Datang is already very rich, and the storage of more than 200 million stones is enough, but after he communicated with Sun Xiangfu, his thinking has changed, in Sun Xiangfu's tone, a country must at least store enough food for two or three years to be considered stable, because, maybe there will be a sudden national disaster, it will make trouble for a year or two, and if there is not enough food reserves, the country may be in danger of destruction.

Seeing Li Shimin's expression, Wei Ting hurriedly explained, "Your Majesty, this is not how the account is calculated, we just counted the grain produced in the whole country and the surplus grain that is often closed, but we did not count the surplus grain of the people themselves, they are now every year, they can not consume eight stone of grain, our country invests in livestock, poultry, and breeding every year, there are 200 million stones, these grains, but not consumed in vain, it is all converted into meat, for the people to eat, or stored."

According to the statistics of the Ministry of Agriculture's visits to local officials and non-governmental organizations, the people in most areas of the country now have grain reserves at home for half a year or even more than a year, and if we add all kinds of poultry, livestock, and meat reserves, even if they do not farm at all, they can survive a year with the food they have at hand.

In addition, not counting overseas, only counting local pastures, the number of cattle and sheep that can be slaughtered and carnivorous is more than 50 million, the number of fat pigs that can be slaughtered at any time is more than 30 million, and the number of chickens and ducks cannot be calculated, at least more than 2 billion, and the fish is even more difficult to calculate.

There are other aspects of ingredients that cannot be calculated, such as food factories around the country, canned fruits and nuts produced every year, and there are a large number of reserves in the market, but we just count the main grain reserves in terms of rice and noodles.

Therefore, don't look at the grain that is usually closed and only more than 200 million stones, but in the real crisis, in terms of food, there is no problem for us to support it in China for more than two years. Counting the reserves of overseas pastures, and marine fisheries and other edible crops, it will be even longer. ”

The reproduction and growth of fish can be many times faster than human reproduction, after a large number of artificial lakes are opened up in Guanzhong and Beidi to store water, its breeding scale has also gone up, and fish farming can not occupy people's rations, because Datang has enough fields for planting fish grass and green storage fodder, and the people are also willing to plant, because, after having a lawn mower, a family can plant three or five hundred acres, which is relatively easy.

What Wei Ting said, taken together, is the national strength of the Tang Dynasty, after listening to him, Li Shimin's waist couldn't help but straighten, these family backgrounds were all reserved after he took the throne.

Of course, it is not good for him to announce directly in the court, who do I want to fight next year, Datang is a state of etiquette after all, but he looked in the direction of Hou Junji's group of generals with a little deep meaning.

Hou Junji, who knew about it, had not yet spoken, but the crown prince Li Chengqian got up in the seat on his left side to listen to the government and said, "Father, I have worked in the Tang Dynasty for several years, and it is very rare to accumulate these reserves, however, I can't be complacent, just from the aspect of farming structure, Erchen has seen many deficiencies, first of all, the labor burden of the peasants is still too heavy, Erchen suggested, re-delineate the number of Yongye fields, move more young and strong labor force to the local area, reform the farming model, and raise the national strength reserves of my Datang to a new height. ”

Hearing this, Li Shimin frowned slightly and said, "What should I do?" ”

Li Chengqian replied, "Move more young and strong people in Tanmo Road to the local area, make up for the shortage of labor, gradually divide the region, abolish the Yongye field system, and promote the reform of intensive cultivation, so that the people of the whole country can only plant 20 or 30 acres of land in each household, just like the Shannan Dao area." ”