Chapter 331: Planting Cauliflower
Li Shimin decided to hold a court meeting in the Yamen of the Metropolitan Protectorate of Anbei, and the content was naturally to agree on the specific arrangements for the surrender of the four tribes of Muwei, Jin, Xia, and Khitan.
Of course, before the start of this court meeting, Li Shimin had already discussed some resolutions with several confidants and ministers, and unswervingly went to flicker the weak, annex, integrate, and digest······
The words are incorrect, and again, we will continue to follow the core political path of peaceful development, common prosperity, and the integration of surrounding ethnic minorities.
Based on this idea, Li Shimin solemnly announced that the territory of the Murwei Department, the Yan Department, the Xia Department, and the Khitan Department will be the inalienable inherent territory of the Tang Dynasty from now on, and the people of the four tribes will be the people of the Tang Dynasty, and the four tribes will be exempted from various taxes for three years.
Mohefu, the leader of the Wei Department of the Sealed Chamber, is the king of Shangqi County, and he has a moon of eight hundred yuan.
The leader of the Feng Jing tribe, Asu Lang, is the Duke of Yiguo, and the moon is 600 times.
Angel Dagor, the leader of the Fengfei Department, is the king of Liaoyang County, with a monthly salary of eight hundred yuan.
Mang Guer, the leader of the Khitan Department, was the Duke of Luan, and the moon was 600 times.
These titles and salaries are measured according to the population and territory they manage, such as the Murwei Department has 30,000 households, 100,000 people, and the largest land, so it is normal to get the name of the king of the county, and take 800 guan of Yulu. However, there are only more than 10,000 households and a population of about 30,000, and the land is less than one-third of that of Murowei.
There are more than 40,000 households, with a population of more than 120,000, and there are many contacts with many states and counties in Hebei Province.
The Khitan is similar to the Antary, 10,000 households, twenty or thirty thousand people, and the position they occupy is close to the sea, and the territory is smaller than that of the Anta Department, but the economic situation is much better than that of the Tartar, and its leader Manggul can get the title of Duke of the Kingdom, which is simply a surprise, after all, their current habitat is not yet the land of the two states of the Tang Dynasty.
For Li Shimin's reward, the leaders of the four departments are satisfied in their hearts, in their opinion, they just bow their heads to the boss, and they have hundreds of dollars a month, and they also get the big backer of the Tang Dynasty, and the benefits are continuous, why not do it!
However, after the reward, the dry goods are coming, they are not like Yi Nan, there are more than 200,000 troops, nearly a million people, and there are thousands of miles of strategic depth in the southeast, northwest, and northwest. Li Shimin couldn't help him for a while.
Like this, who took the initiative to ask for submission, there were beggar servants of the Hui Ministry as an example before, although the beggar servants did not surrender to the Tang Dynasty with the entire Hui Department at that time, but they handed over all the power.
Therefore, it was impossible for Li Shimin to give the four ministries such a free and relaxed management system as Yi Nan, not only did he not allow the two tribes who had been crowned county kings to establish a relatively independent khanate, but he wanted the ministries to register the people and issue new Tang household registrations by the Tang Dynasty.
Secondly, although the armies of each ministry do not need to be handed over to the imperial court, the number of troops must be given to the imperial court, within the scope allowed by the imperial court, and at any time at the request of the imperial court.
In addition, the leaders of each tribe will only have the right to administer the people of their tribe in the future, and will not have the power of life and death.
Don't underestimate this article, this is the key, once the people of these four departments have the household registration of the Tang Dynasty, they are not the private property of the tribal leaders, if the emperor deprives these leaders of the right to kill them, it is almost a declaration that these people are completely owned by the Tang Dynasty, because there are many people in the Tang Dynasty, and this is the case, and even the serfs of the family are not as good as them.
Once these articles are implemented, if there are good jobs on Shanyang's side and they can earn more money, they can all go to Shanyang's side to find jobs to make a living, and even move their household registration, and the leaders of the four departments have no right to interfere.
This is actually similar to a beggar servant who handed over all his rights to the imperial court, but Li Shimin does not have so much manpower and financial resources to take care of the east and temporarily let them manage their own place, after all, that there is a more primitive and backward place than the Monan grassland, and the gains outweigh the losses in development, and Li Shimin also wants to use the power of these four departments to clamp down on Goguryeo and strive for more time to accumulate national strength.
Also, Li Shimin's reward for the four people is also meaningful, he did not add hereditary power to them, and the next generation will be reduced by one level, that is to say, the next generation of the county king is just a national prince, with the current state of the Tang Dynasty as many national princes as dogs, they only need to pass on one generation, and they will be unknown to everyone.
Many of the ministers congratulated the four newly rewarded nouveau riche and talked to them directly in the court, and these courtiers were all human spirits, and after noticing that the emperor was becoming more and more loose about the business affairs of merchants or officials, they all thought about their own business.
These tribes in the northeast do have some special products that the Central Plains people like, such as ginseng, deer antlers, mink, tiger whips, bear paws, etc., which are all high-priced commodities in the Central Plains. The pearls abundant in the Khitan Department are even more popular with the ladies of the Tang Dynasty, and they are in the seller's market. In the Central Plains, especially in Chang'an, they have mastered the specialties in their hands, and they can make a lot of profits in minutes.
In Sun Xiangfu's view, this is actually a kind of progress, which is better than these officials trying to use power to seize it.
The other kind of progress is the progress in the general direction, and the things that are now discussed in the court are rarely the same as before, some things that have already happened and have to be dealt with a long time ago, but there are often discussions about how to deal with them that may happen in the future.
For example, making plans, two-year plans, three-year plans, and five-year plans, Li Shimin is now coming with his mouth open, setting goals, and then completing them, which is often better than what it is, what it is, and getting by.
After getting the big plan of the east, Sun Xiangfu was finally able to farm for a few days with peace of mind, as for Li Shimin, he still had to talk to Yi Nan about the marriage of Yu Chi Baolin and Dongzhu, for the new leader of the four departments, he was also a meal and banquet, and the relationship was like a brother who worshipped the handle, Sun Xiangfu was too relieved of his communication skills, and I believe that if he let him eat, drink and have fun with these guys for a while, the name of Tian Khan will be blown to his head by him.
Sun's mansion was occupied, Sun Xiangfu had to let Zhou Chun get two sets of mansions in the heavenly residence for the disciples of the peasant gate to live in, because there were only twenty and a half children, Sun Xiangfu didn't need to do any professional classrooms, just teach directly in the hall of the villa.
From the perspective of this era, these eleven or twelve-year-old children are already teenagers, and they are about to take up their duties, but in Sun Xiangfu's view, they still have very little to master.
Hearing that Sun Xiangfu was going to teach the children of the peasant sect to plant new crops, Li Chengqian, Li Tai, Li Ke, Li Lizhen, and Hou Shuya, the five little guys also came over to watch the excitement.
"Teacher, what you want to plant today is the cauliflower that can cure the queen mother's qi disease?"
Although Li Chengqian is sometimes very annoyed that Empress Changsun is too strict with him, it is not that he does not feel sorry for his mother, when he was in the Qin Palace, Empress Changsun often fell ill and uncomfortable, he still remembers that he heard early in the morning that Sun Xiangfu had a plan to plant this crop, so he was so attentive and came over to see what was going on.
"Exactly, this kind of summer cauliflower needs a lot of water, a lot of fat to promote growth, and the yield will not be too high, but the growth cycle is very short, at most about thirty or forty days can be ripe, I planted some on the slope by the Peach Blossom Lake, before Your Majesty went back to Chang'an, these vegetables were ripe, remember, this kind of dish, not only the queen has to eat more, but you also have to eat more."
Sun Xiangfu knows that heart and lung disease is easy to genetic, and, in history, the children born to the eldest grandson queen do not seem to live very long, it is estimated that some diseases are inherited, a little congenital deficiency, cauliflower has a characteristic, that is, the content of vitamin C is very rich, there is an anti-cancer, disease prevention effect, and the average nutritional value is very high, this is one of the reasons why it is extremely popular in later generations, the eldest grandson queen and his children eat more, beneficial and harmless.
Li Chengqian was sure that Sun Xiangfu was going to plant cauliflower, and he was immediately overjoyed, and said, "That's really good, you have a little more, it's best to eat enough for a year, I'll take it back to Chang'an, and let my mother eat it every day, so that she won't get sick." ”
Sun Xiangfu shook his head and smiled, "This cauliflower is not like grain, something that can be stored for a year, this year, your queen mother may only be able to eat these cauliflower I planted." ”
Cauliflower planting has a certain degree of difficulty, with the planting conditions of this period, Sun Xiangfu can only ensure survival by himself, because its adaptation to temperature is narrow, high temperature in summer, and a lot of rainfall during the flowering period may lead to no harvest of cauliflower grains.
Moreover, its subsequent breeding is difficult, because it belongs to the cruciferous family and often self-pollinating crops, and the phenomenon of self-breeding decline will be extremely serious. In the place of origin, it relies on group heterozygosity to maintain stability, while in the place of introduction, it takes a lot of manpower to create this heterozygosity, and the theory is very complex, which is not what these little guys in the farmer are now understanding.
In later generations, from the introduction of the 19th century to the second page of the 20th century, it was a high-priced vegetable that could only be eaten in Western restaurants. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, China's agricultural scientists, through long-term efforts, improved their varieties, greatly increased the scope and yield of their planting, and finally popularized it to the whole people.
The results of this research are of great significance, and won the second prize of the National Science and Technology Progress Award, and the probability of getting sick will be reduced a lot if the domestic people who eat cauliflower, and the effect is very obvious in this era.
Sun Xiangfu basically learned the theoretical knowledge of improving cauliflower varieties when he was in college, but the current level of science and technology can not meet his improvement experiments, so it is destined that this kind of vegetable can only be a rare vegetable that is difficult to grow and has a low yield, but it is similar to the situation from the nineteenth to the twentieth century.
Hearing Sun Xiangfu say this, Li Chengqian was a little unhappy, and said, "Teacher, you are so powerful, you must be able to think of a way to let my mother eat cauliflower every day!" ”
Sun Xiangfu smiled when he heard this, "I'm afraid I have to wait for many years, you see, I'm busy with business now, and I even teach them to grow vegetables, because I'm afraid that the seeds will go bad, and forcibly squeeze out a little time, but this dish, if you are in Chang'an, if you find a group of people to learn how to plant, you can plant a little bit of time, and it is no problem to eat for a few months a year, anyway, I will let those Hu merchants bring new seeds every year." ”
In later generations, this kind of vegetables has been cultivated very early, early, medium, late ripening four varieties, the vegetable market can be bought almost at any time throughout the year, but in this era, if you want to adjust the maturity period, you can only take it slowly, especially spring and autumn seeds, almost two kinds of improved seeds that are completely different from the original seeds, rashly take the seeds of summer seeds to spring or autumn seeds, it must be a grain no harvest.
However, in view of the maturity period of the cauliflower in the place of origin, Sun Xiangfu knows that there is no problem with the summer planting a little bifurcation, after all, the maturity period of the summer planting is only 34 days, with the temperature and weather in Guanzhong, planting two or three stubbles, it should not be a complete harvest, and it is no problem for a small number of people to eat from May and June to August and September.
"Lonely, I'm going to beg my father, let him not let you take care of those messy things, farm with peace of mind, it's okay, write more songs, arrange some plays or something······"
As he spoke, Li Chengqian exposed his true thoughts, Sun Xiangfu heard this, but shook his head and smiled, "Governing the country and farming are equally important, there is no stable country, we can farm steadily, since you are all here today, don't be idle, start helping to cultivate the field!" I believe that if the queen mother knew that these cauliflower were planted by you for her, she would be happier when she ate them. ”
Sun Xiangfu's words played a great role, Li Chengqian, Li Tai, including Li Lizhen, all grabbed the tools that were moved to the lake by several disciples of the peasant sect, and prepared to do a big job.
Seeing this picture, Sun Xiangfu smiled helplessly, it was really a bunch of children, and when they thought of something, they couldn't wait to do it immediately. The whole field, without oxen, without a rake, how to grow cauliflower, but it needs to be deeply cultivated, broken, heavily fertilized, and drained, because it is not drought tolerant, and it is not waterlogged, it is really a very troublesome crop.