Chapter 102: The Benefits of Intensive Farming

The scene was very embarrassing, Sun Xiangfu didn't know how to answer Li Shimin, calmed down for a while, Sun Xiangfu thought of Qin Qiong in the crowd, if he took these lands out to plant other things would affect Li Shimin's layout, it was impossible for Qin Qiong not to remind himself, and let himself plant all the land of his family.

Therefore, Li Shimin is acting in front of him again.

Thinking about this clearly, Sun Xiangfu felt a lot more relieved, and found a reason to go, "Your Majesty, Weichen remembers that the output of the minister's fiefdom or job field is counted in the minister's salary, and there is no need to pay taxes, so no matter what Weichen's 100,000 acres of land grows, it seems that it is not enough for the imperial court!" ”

Li Shimin was stunned when he heard this, but he continued to be displeased, "There is a fixed amount of grain production and consumption every year, if you plant 100,000 mu less, the grain in Datang will be less than two or three hundred thousand stones, and there will be so much less grain on the market, and the imperial court will have to spend a greater price to buy available grain, how do you explain this?" ”

"Well, Your Majesty has forgotten that after the Fisheries Division increased the supply of fish and goods in the harem, the use of other grains and vegetables in the harem was reduced? The watermelon, courgette, and muskmelon planted by Weichen may yield up to 10,000 catties per mu, and the output of 100,000 mu is not only a million stones, but when so many melons and fruits flow to the market, the people go to eat melons, and the food they eat is naturally less, and the melon vines can also be used as livestock feed after harvesting, which is much better than those bellflowers. Sun Xiangfu explained.

"In this way, the vegetables and fruits in the harem will be provided by you in the future, and I want to see how much food can be saved." Li Shimin said in a tone of disbelief in evil.

Sun Xiangfu knew that this product made such a big bend, just to eat his own melons for free, which was really shameless.

"Hey, on the afternoon of hoeing day, sweat drops into the soil, who knows that the Chinese food on the plate is hard work!" Sun Xiangfu lamented.

"This poem is a good poem, but it loses its charm when it is read out of your mouth. By the way, are you complaining to me? Li Shimin first reveled in the artistic conception of the poem for a while, and then remembered Sun Xiangfu's appearance when he read this poem, and suddenly stared at Sun Xiangfudao.

"Uh, there is nothing to do, nothing to do, Your Majesty, straighten it out, don't deviate ······"

Sun Xiangfu pointed to the handle of the plow and shouted, finally distracting Li Shimin's attention.

The four-headed Quyuan plough is simply a ploughing artifact, a few acres of land, was ploughed by Li Shimin a few back and forth, at this time, Li Chengqian and Li Ke and other princes who were full of mud boots took a grain bag and scattered it in the field, Li Shimin naturally wanted to teach in person and set an example for the ministers.

"Do you think this farming is hard?" Li Shimin asked several princes while scattering grain seeds.

"Well, the mud is on the boots, and I can't walk, and besides, this grain seed bag is so heavy, and Erchen has a hard time carrying it, if such a large piece of land is planted by Erchen alone, Erchen is only afraid that he will die of exhaustion." Li Chengqian said honestly.

Next to him, several princes younger than him also looked at Li Shimin with a look of approval.

"Hehe, it's just a few acres of land, you can know that each family of my Datang people has eighty acres of Yongye field alone, like such hard work, they usually have to last for many days as soon as they do it, and in the future, you should be sympathetic to the hard work of the people, and cherish the hard-won food and drink."

Speaking of this, Li Shimin remembered the poem that Sun Xiangfu had read just now, and looked at Sun Xiangfu, who had finished plowing the field and had nothing to do on the side.

"You kid, how dare you sneak around?" Li Shimin said angrily to Sun Xiangfu.

"Well, Weichen just thinks that the land shouldn't be planted like this, so I think that after His Majesty is done, Wechen will plant this land again." Sun Xiangfu said depressedly.

The land that has just been ploughed is still a lot of mud! began to sprinkle seeds into it, no wonder the yield of the fields in this era is so low, Sun Xiangfu felt that the field that should have received three stones of grain, only two stones, is a waste, especially the piece that Li Shimin cultivated just now, it is still one in a hundred miles of fertile land.

"Hmph, you're saying I don't know how to farm? I have been farming for more than ten years, so I don't know how to sow seeds. Li Shimin's face continued to be displeased.

"That, Your Majesty, your cultivation method has been handed down before, naturally it will not be wrong, but if you cultivate like this, the highest yield is only the same as before, Weichen thinks that if these big mud blocks that have just been cultivated are broken up with rake nails, and then planted with manure and water, the yield may be higher."

Not to mention that a large area of broken soil contact with air will make the nutrients of crops more sufficient, rooted deeper, just the seeds that will be buried deep in the big mud and cannot germinate, there will be at least one or two more, and then there is fertilizer in advance, to help the seedlings quickly raise the effect of seedlings, in this way, one acre of fertile land to plant more than three stones of wheat, is no problem at all.

"Hmph, it is written in these "Qi Min Yao Shu", how can I not know that if every acre of land is cultivated as complex as yours, the people's power will be consumed in the fields exponentially, and there are so many fields in the whole world, when will the farmers finish cultivating?" Although Li Shimin didn't know the specific benefits of raking the field several times and then fertilizing in advance, he knew that he could increase the yield, but in his opinion, a little yield was more than worth the loss in terms of the entire farming business, so he hummed.

"Then why does Your Majesty insist that you cultivate all the fields? Weichen came to calculate an account for Your Majesty, 10,000 acres of fertile land, two stones per mu, 20,000 stones, 7,000 acres of fertile land, 3 stones per mu, but 21,000 stones, which can also save 3,000 acres of fertile land seeds, which is about 1,000 stones, that is to say, Your Majesty actually only needs to intensively cultivate about 6,000 acres of land, which can be equivalent to the output of 10,000 acres of extensive land. In addition, the three or four thousand acres of land saved can be planted with trees, fish ponds, or the land can be cultivated in turns, so that it can hoard fertility······"

"Hmph, there is no basis for talking on paper, if you can increase the yield of these acres of land to more than three stones, I will consider the method of intensive cultivation you mentioned."

When Sun Xiangfu heard this, he said, "Then please ask Your Majesty to stop sowing for the time being, and let people mark this field, and when the autumn harvest comes, look at the yield, and then consider whether to implement the method of intensive cultivation throughout the country." ”

After that, Sun Xiangfu asked people to set the rake nails, drove the cattle in the field a few times, and within an hour, the large clods of soil that were ploughed up in the ridges of the field were all broken into egg-sized lumps, at this time, Sun Xiangfu asked someone to pick up the dung bucket prepared in advance, sprinkled the dung water first, and then sprinkled the grain sparsely in the ground.

"How can you reap the grain if you sow so little grain?" Seeing that Sun Xiangfu only used a small half of the prepared grain seeds, Li Shimin, who was resting and watching on the side, asked.

"Sometimes, not the denser the planting, the better, the fertility in the field is insufficient, planting too much, it will only make the crops compete with each other, the growth is not good, rarer seeds, not only can make the fertility of the crops more sufficient, the sunshine can also be more sufficient, when the wind blows the swing will be greater, pollination is also enough, with these three legs, the increase in yield is inevitable."

Seeing that Sun Xiangfu said that the head was the way, Li Shimin didn't know what to do, so he immediately asked the guards to mark this field, and when the autumn harvest came, he wanted to come to this field in person to see the yield.

Sun Xiangfu didn't care, today's wheat seeds are all selected by him in advance, coupled with fertility and scientific planting methods, as long as this year is not a big drought, although the output of this field can not be compared with the output of an ordinary field in later generations, but it is still trivial to produce four or five hundred catties of wheat, that is about four stones, which is a lot higher than the current output of more than two stones in Datang.

On the way back, Sun Xiangfu was called to his car by Li Chengqian without exception, chatted with him about music along the way, and taught him a new song, the child was willing to give up, after returning to Chang'an City, Sun Xiangfu did not go home immediately, and first had a small meeting with several major shareholders in the office of Wangjiang Building.

Luoyang, Yangzhou, Yizhou farms have been bought, tens of thousands of acres of land, even if a lot of connections were used, it took more than 100,000 yuan to take, and now it is necessary to send people to grasp the construction and management, Sun Xiangfu has to select some people from the original residents of Xingfu Village, in addition, there are tenants of each family, but also according to the proportion of shares, after all, these farms are several joint industries.

Then there is the movement of several families, although on the surface they seem to be very honest, but Qin Qiong found out that they also purchased a large number of fields in Luoyang, Yangzhou, CD and other places, and built a large restaurant in the three big cities at the same time, it seems that they want to avoid Chang'an, copy the Wangjianglou model in the other three major cities of the Tang Dynasty in advance, and carry out the cottage to the end.

Sun Xiangfu smiled when he heard this, Wangjianglou is not so easy to copy, because it is a constantly innovating enterprise, and in this era than innovation, who can play Sun Xiangfu in the next generation, since these families still want to play, then Sun Xiangfu doesn't mind letting them plant a big heel outside Chang'an.

"Yigong, I listened to Your Majesty's tone today, it seems that there is something unpleasant in my heart?" After talking about industrial planning, Sun Xiangfu asked a digression.

"Well, King Lujiang's rebellion seems to be related to the Emperor Taishang." Qin Qiong nodded.

"The vassal king rebelled?"

Sun Xiangfu doesn't know how many people rebelled in the Taizong Dynasty, but he knew that no man-made rebellion was successful, and a person like Li Shimin, who was good at scheming, would be lucky if he didn't worry about him, and he still wanted to plot against him? The so-called King of Lujiang should have nothing to do.

"However, as soon as he got into trouble, he was pacified by Wang Junkuo, the governor of Youzhou." Qin Qiong said again.

"Well, that's to be expected." Sun Xiangfu relaxed and smiled.

"But now Your Majesty has received news from the secret guards that this Wang Junkuo may be going to rebel." Qin Qiong said again.

"Well, no wonder Your Majesty said that if the imperial court wants to use troops, there will be no food and grass." Sun Xiangfu said depressedly, people in this era are too boring, they love to play the drama of rebellion when they have nothing to do, and it is easy to die.