Chapter 14: The Land of Fragrant Rice

After years of publicity, the people know that this supervision of the imperial history of the yamen is specially used to deal with those corrupt officials and corrupt officials, if the people have any grievances, they can at any time enter the supervision of the imperial history yamen to complain.

Therefore, those big households are not worried at all that the government will not pay back the grain borrowed from them, and if any local official dares not to return the grain, they can go to the supervision of the imperial history to complain, and ensure that those local officials will not be able to eat and go around.

Liu Hou also did not expect that the reputation of his father and son, coupled with the setting of the supervision of the imperial history yamen, made the people have no doubts about the credibility of the government, and also made this grain borrowing measure achieve unexpected results. It seems that Liu Bei was indeed very far-sighted when he was dedicated to taking the benevolent route.

The world has been in turmoil for so long, and the princes from all walks of life have been plagued for so long, and those big families can still have so many family funds to take out, which is really incomprehensible to Liu Hou. But if you can't figure it out, you can't figure it out, as long as you can help yourself, Liu Hou naturally won't bother with this problem.

Another measure that had a more significant effect took place on the battlefields in the south. Gao Ding planned to attack Siam for a long time, but it was never implemented. Siam is different from those small tribes, there is a small kingdom here, it is not a small force, it is not so easy to invade here, you need to be fully prepared.

Gao Ding had been preparing, but the lack of strong support from the imperial court made him unable to make up his mind to start this war. It was at this time that he received an order from the imperial court to collect grain, and he knew that the opportunity had come.

So, taking advantage of this situation, he took the opportunity to ask the imperial court for some support, and then brazenly invaded Siam. Of course, the support that the imperial court can give to Gao Ding is firearms, people and horses, Gao Ding is not lacking, he now has a large number of Yi people under his command, and the court has no way to support him.

However, Gao Ding never had to worry about grain and grass when fighting in this place, because grain could be collected on the spot. The climate in this place is hot and the grain is high, so basically every household has grain in stock, and those big tribes are even more abundant, and if they want food, they can fight a tribe casually enough for the troops to eat for a while.

Firearms can indeed be of great help to Gao Ding, this time the firearms allocated to them by the imperial court are mainly explosives~medicine, thunderbolts, angry birds and other one-time consumption things, as for the fire ~ guns, fire ~ cannons, Ketyusha and other "hard" pieces are still not given.

The three "hard" pieces are only ho

Only several main forces of the G Army were equipped, and the troops that were now fighting in three directions did not belong to Liu Hou's descendants, so they were not incorporated into the HO

In the number of the G army, of course, they are also Han troops, and they still have to obey the orders of the Han Emperor Liu Hou.

It's just that in terms of treatment, these three forces are clearly different from HO

The G-Army system. The most important difference is that they are equipped with only a small number of the three "hard" parts mentioned above, and they are strictly managed.

Fire ~ guns are mainly equipped in the commander's personal corps and special forces, and some heavy weapons are mainly used to attack fortifications. These firearms are very helpful to the Gaoding troops, and when they encounter dangerous mountain roads along the way, they can use explosives ~ to open the way, and when they encounter Siamese camps, they can also be blown up with explosives ~ drugs.

Especially with the Angry Birds, a device that can eject explosives~medicine packets~ out, all the Siamese fortifications are useless. The Siamese did not know how to build tall walls, and even their kings were not resistant to firearms. Gao Ding's troops advanced like a devastating advance along the way, and soon occupied the whole of Siam, gaining a large ~ piece of large ~ fertile land.

Siam is the country of fragrant rice and shemales in later generations. Gao Ding has no interest in shemales, after all, there is a similar existence in the Celestial Empire, that is, eunuchs. And fragrant rice, Gao Ding is like a treasure, he knows, what is the Celestial Empire lacking most now?

Basmati rice is a long-grain rice native to Siam and is a type of Indica rice. The bastic rice is crystal clear in color, and the germ has no white spots, with a fragrant and glutinous taste and a unique pandanus fragrance.

It is said that on the day he obtained this kind of rice, he ate five bowls of white rice in a row, but did not touch a single chopstick for the next meal.

Gao Ding immediately realized the value of this rice and maximized its benefits, and he immediately ~ listed fragrant rice as a tribute and paid tribute to the emperor. It is a pity that the production of these fragrant rice is not high, otherwise, he would have to add a rice merchant to his title in addition to the largest timber merchant and slave trader.

The growth of fragrant rice requires specific climatic conditions and soil and water conditions, and not all rice varieties in Siam have a fragrance.

At this time, fragrant rice has not been cultivated on a large scale, and it is only available in a very small place, so the yield is very small, but Gao Ding does not care, the less the output is more precious, and such a treasure is best as a royal special.

Liu Hou was also very happy to receive this tribute, and Long Yan praised Gao Ding fiercely, and immediately made people want to reward him. He was not happy to enjoy high-quality rice, but because Gao Ding had obtained a large ~ piece of fertile land and a large amount of grain plundered back from Siam.

Gao Ding really helped a lot this time, and it can be said that to a certain extent, it solved the urgent need of the imperial court. For fragrant rice, he did not keep the good things for himself like other emperors.

He ordered the selection of good varieties of these fragrant rice and the promotion of planting in a large area in Siam in a place with suitable climate, water and soil. To this end, he also sent some technical officials from the Department of Agriculture to Siam to take charge of this matter.

After Gao Ding took Siam, most of the entire Indochina Peninsula had fallen into the hands of the Han Dynasty, and it was estimated that in another two or three years, Gao Ding would be able to completely conquer this peninsula.

More than a dozen measures were launched at the same time, and there is no need to worry about the grain shortage anymore; as long as we survive this year, the problem of grain shortage in Dahan can be easily solved, and next year, after Deng Zhi successfully popularized the planting of Champa rice in the area south of the Yangtze River, Dahan's grain will be very sufficient.

After the Indochina Peninsula fell into the hands of the Han Dynasty, the grain production in this place alone was very considerable in the future. As long as the right officials are sent to manage it, it won't be a few years before this area can become a big granary for the Han Dynasty. When the time comes, the Han with sufficient food will inevitably promote the further refinement of the social division of labor, and the society will also further develop.

There have been successful examples, but there have also been setbacks, and the implementation of these dozen or so measures to raise grain has not all been smooth sailing, for example, fishing has encountered a considerable difficulty.

Whether it is fishing in the river nets in Yunmengze and its vicinity, or fishing in the sea, there is one thing in common, that is, the large amount of fish obtained in a short period of time is difficult to preserve.

Fishing in inland rivers can also be docked quickly, but when you go out to sea to fish, it will take ten days and half a month at every turn, and the fish and crabs will already stink when the boat docks. There was no refrigeration at this time, so there was no need to think about chilled fish.

In this era, the only way to preserve meat is to dry or salt it. Air drying requires a lot of drying space, which is obviously not suitable on a ship, then the only option left on board is salting.