Chapter 442: Yield of Wheat
When Sun Xiangfu came to the threshing floor again, Li Shimin looked red, and he was very sure that Li Shimin had not drunk too much, or was so radiant by the red lights, because the burlap bags containing wheat had been used up to 1.5 million, but there was still a large pile of wheat in the barn barn.
"Zhengming, you tell me, do you know the immortal law?"
"Well, Your Majesty, what did you say? Immortal law? ”
"That's it, this kind of immortal method that can make crop yields continue to increase, do you know, tell me quickly."
"That, Your Majesty, this should be called planting technology, the planting technology is smart, and the yield is naturally high, and these fields, but the people and the sergeants are organized, sown, and planted together, and the ministers do it specifically, that is, to teach them how to plant, and our farmers are specialized in studying these planting techniques."
Sun Xiangfu's words finally made Li Shimin, who was a little stunned, sober up, indeed, when the field was whole and sown, he was all there, and he personally participated, what Sun Xiangfu did was to teach them how to plant, and as long as they mastered these planting methods, the people would always be able to grow such high-yield grain in the future.
"Your knowledge of the farm is really broad and profound, and I am convinced today."
"Your Majesty, are you complimenting your ministers? The minister should be so. ”
Sun Xiangfu smiled and said, "Actually, every subject is broad and profound, but the predecessors did not study it deeply, Your Majesty allowed to run agriculture, industry, and business schools, and in the future, the talents from various academies may be able to bring more surprises to Your Majesty and our Datang." ”
"Hahaha, what you are talking about is that Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty is a big fool, who deposed a hundred schools and respected Confucianism alone, he is really stupid, and I will not revenge his mistakes."
Li Shimin was in a good mood, but although the laughter was loud, it couldn't hide the gurgling sound in the stomachs of many ministers and sergeants around him.
"Hey, my old black belly, it's getting more and more unlucky, it used to be fine if I didn't eat for a day or two, but now, if I don't eat a meal, it can't stand it."
Although Wei Chigong spoke in a self-deprecating tone, the resentment in his eyes could be seen by anyone.
"Hahaha, this old man is complaining that he didn't arrange food for him!"
Wei Chigong didn't have the consciousness of being criticized in person at all, and said with a smile, "The minister doesn't dare." ”
Then, he put on a look at how you arranged for me to have a good meal now.
"Where is there anything you don't dare, but when it comes to this food, Zhengming is an expert, you should ask him if he has any good advice."
Li Shimin scolded with a smile, and many hungry courtiers also looked at Sun Xiangfu.
"Planting wheat hurts the field, beating the wheat, and the straw just burns the fertile field, Your Majesty might as well let everyone have a bonfire party on the spot, burn the straw and barbecue meat to eat, just celebrate the harvest, everyone does it themselves, eat and drink enough to finish."
Hearing this, Wei Chi congratulated him, and was about to run to the warehouse where the ingredients were stored in the village, "Old man, I love meat the most, so I'll take the lead." ”
"Hehe, this old thing, I have to be busy for more than ten days to collect summer grain! There are more ingredients prepared in the warehouse, where do you need to grab them, in the future, we Datang probably won't worry about the ingredients anymore. ”
"Yes! All of this is the credit of Zhengming, and the minister suggested that His Majesty should be promoted to the Duke of Agriculture to show his merits. ”
Wei Zheng answered a sentence in a timely manner, but made the ministers who rushed over to see the harvest nod one after another.
Sun Xiangfu was crowned the Duke of the Kingdom, and everyone in the court knew that it was a matter of time, in fact, as long as there was no rebellion and crime, the title of Duke of the Kingdom did not mean much to him, but it was just a little more money, did Sun Xiangfu care about this money?
It seems that since he became an official, he really hasn't gone to the household department to receive a salary.
"I originally wanted to reward him after the Eastern Crusade, but since Xuan Cheng proposed it first, I would like to ask Fang Qing to go back and draft the decree to promulgate!
However, I feel that a duke title of the country is not enough to reward Zhengming's merits, and I will make his wife Yu the Lady of Anguo, the second son of Yin, the duke of Shanyang County, and the Duke of Nongguo, all hereditary replacement, what do you think? ”
Li Shimin is like this, when he wants to give you something, he will definitely give you something that exceeds your psychological expectations, so that you can be grateful to him, this is an art as a superior, many bosses in later generations do not understand this, spend money, but do not have a corresponding effect, so that the subordinate elites are lost, and in the end, the company failed to become bigger.
This is the emperor's naked benevolence to his ministers, of course other ministers dare not have objections, anyway, a few titles, now represent only a few first-class citizens, and hundreds of monthly salaries, for the current finances of the Tang Dynasty, it is not a burden at all.
"Ministers, no objections."
The ministers responded almost in unison, but Sun Xiangfu was a little confused, and he was not confused about his title, but worried about whether Hongmei and Chuntao would fight because of the birth of a child.
After all, Li Shimin only said that the title of Duke of Shanyang County was given to his second son, and did not say that he was divided into concubines, and the policy of the Tang Dynasty was also trying to balance the distinction between concubines and concubines, which was also a means that Sun Xiangfu and Li Shimin came up with to deal with the family.
Therefore, Hongmei and Chuntao, whoever has a son, who will be the mother of the county prince, and the kind that will be passed down forever, they themselves will also become county ladies by virtue of their mothers, and it is really difficult for them to maintain psychological balance against such a big gap!
"Let's make another contribution! If you make another meritorious service, Your Majesty may shadow me one more son. Sun Xiangfu muttered in a low voice.
"What did you say? Your Majesty has promoted you to the title, why don't you thank you? Wei Zheng, the operator, did not hear Sun Xiangfu's muttering clearly, but reminded him.
"Oh, yes, thank you, Your Majesty."
Sun Xiangfu, who was reminded by Wei Zheng, woke up from his daze and bowed to Li Shimin apologetically.
Li Shimin, who took in Sun Xiangfu's expression, smiled and said, "I don't know you yet, I'm afraid I don't take the title of Duke of Guo to heart!" ”
"Well, I was really said by His Majesty, title, honor, in the eyes of the minister, it is not so important, as long as there is an opportunity to do things for the people, everyone, it is really good!"
"Everyone, it's really good. Hehe, you can always say some wonderful words, but it's appropriate, hey, it's me, I've read countless people in my life, and there are times when I look away. ”
"Who did Your Majesty look at? Me? ”
"Exactly, do you know what I said in the original sixteen-word comment for you?"
When Li Shimin mentioned this stubble, Qin Qiong's expression not far away suddenly became complicated, and he looked like he wanted to laugh but didn't dare to laugh.
"Sixteen word comments? There should be words like handsome and chic, suave and suave! ”
"Hahaha······"
Sun Xiangfu took it with humor, causing many courtiers to burst into laughter.
Li Shimin also laughed for a while, then sighed, "I don't have the face to say it now, let's take a walk, the wheat is almost finished, let's calculate the yield, drink it happily, and forget all these messy things······
Hearing this, Sun Xiangfu was stunned and said, "What's wrong, Yigong, are those comments really bad?" ”
Qin Qiong didn't speak, just smiled and nodded, the worse the comment, the more it seemed that Li Shimin couldn't see it accurately at that time, no wonder he said it was a mess.
"Your Majesty, it's already more than 1.6 million packs."
"······"
Hearing the data reported by Wang Deyong, many courtiers once again launched an exclamation in unison.
1.6 million bales, that is, 1.6 million stones, that is to say, the average yield per mu has exceeded 5 stone 3, reaching more than 600 catties.
"For the rest, I will count it myself, and you will help me write down ······"
Soon, Wei Chigong ran out of the village treasury with a load of cured pork, behind him, many soldiers from the fire room followed, carrying burdens, and when they arrived at the barn, Li Shimin patted him on the shoulder and said, "Go and get the wine, today, except for the Qianniu guard who is on duty at night, all the sergeants have lifted the ban and are open to eat and drink." ”
Wei Chigong, who turned into a porter, was overjoyed when he heard this, and he never thought about whether it was a little reasonable for him to be a big general, like the cook in the fire room, going back and forth to the warehouse to pick ingredients.
"Your Majesty, 1,980,000 stone ······"
Seeing that the last small pile on the threshing floor could not hold hundreds of bags, Sun Xiangfu said, "Let's count it according to 1.98 million stones!" Then, the average yield per mu is six stone six, and this number is auspicious. ”
"Six stone six, our Datang actually planted wheat with a yield of six stone six per mu······ Heavens······"
All kinds of shouts sounded in the barn, this data is indeed too scary.
The history of the Chinese nation planting wheat, to the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, has been a thousand years, before Sun Xiangfu came, the mu production capacity reached about two stones, it was already regarded as the best harvest in the field, and now, this harvest was suddenly tripled, so they don't like it.
However, Sun Xiangfu is not much excited, six stone six is less than 800 catties, and it is still wet weight, except for one or two percent of the water, it is only 600 catties, although the size of the area of the field is only more than eighty percent of the later generations, but even if the area is added to more than one percent of the area, the yield per mu is only about 800 catties, which is a little worse than the yield planted by ordinary farmers in later generations, not to mention that this is the experimental field of Sun Xiangfu, a graduate student of the University of Agricultural Sciences, who followed up the whole process.
Therefore, this output is no surprise for Sun Xiangfu, however, plus one or two or three seasons of Zhancheng rice in the south, this output is enough to solve the needs of the Tang population in a certain scale, all staple foods, in the future, only need to promote intensive planting technology, can ensure that the country's grain output, increase again, this is the main work of the Ministry of Agriculture in the next step, of course, Sun Xiangfu mastered the agricultural door, or the future agricultural college, for the research of cash crops, will not stop.
Grain is cheap hurt farmers, grain production increases, for the people, not necessarily a good thing, however, this is also the pain they must experience, do not first learn the planting technology of intensive cultivation, they will not be able to plant more technical cash crops, to change their current situation, Sun Xiangfu can just use the time of farmers to learn farming technology, to push the technology of cash crop planting forward, so that they can directly plant in the future.