Speaking of which, since Guan Yi took root in Nanzhong in October of 265 AD, as of today, Wang Ji has been wandering in Nanzhong and the south of Nanzhong for more than two years.

For the Han people, a ferocious people who were extremely aggressive and fierce in their early years, where the land is suitable for cultivation, they will generally be harvested. From the Yellow River to the Yangtze River, from the Yangtze River to the Pearl River, as long as it is suitable for farming, no matter what aborigines there are in your land, either drive them away or assimilate them, and then Great China began to farm there, and from then on, this is the inherent territory of China since ancient times.

On the East Asian continent, Indochina is really an exception for the Han people.

The land is fertile, there are many rivers, and the climate is warm and humid, so you can grow at least two crops of rice a year, and in some places even three crops. But at most, the Han people extended their hands to the northern tip of the Indochina Peninsula, and then it was difficult to go south.

The reasons for this are, first, the long distance, second, the poor environment, and third, the Jing people, the main ethnic group living on this land, are a nation with strong combat effectiveness. At least in the history books of modern Vietnam, there are many accounts of the defeat against the "Northern Captives" and their great victories......

(There is a lack of reliable accounts of the early history of Indochina, for example, in this part of Cambodia, where the previous cultures used a kind of leaf as a writing carrier, which could not be preserved for a long time.) Therefore, it is difficult to say when the Jing people will become the dominant ethnic group in the Indochina Peninsula. ）

Two and a half years ago, Wang Ji was fooled by Guan Yi's famous sentence in history. Soon after Guan Yi returned to Chengdu, he organized a team to go south along the Lancang River. As a result, because I was not familiar with hydrology and geography, I almost fed fish and shrimp in the turbulent Lancang River. The accompanying team of more than 100 people disappeared and drowned more than 70 people.

In the second year, Wang Ji, who had made serious preparations, once again organized a team of more than 300 people to go south. This time, I went to the lower reaches of the Lancang River, near the Tonle Sap Lake, where the water area is boundless. As a result, after being bitten by mosquitoes here, more than 300 people collectively played malaria, a large number of expedition members died of illness, and Wang Ji himself almost died there.

After returning from this failure, Wang Qi learned from the pain, put down his body again, and learned various experiences of living in the dense forest from the surrounding Nanzhong natives. Guan Yi also often wrote letters to give guidance in Chengdu. In 267 AD, as the jade excavation on the Mayi side finally achieved fruitful results, more and more Nanzhong people came to defect. With the help of Ma Yi, Wang Ji once again organized an expedition of more than 500 people to the south.

This time the journey to the south went very smoothly, and the group soon came to the Tonle Sap Lake. Then Wang Ji finally discovered that the Dongle Sap Lake was just a natural flood storage site formed by the inflow of the Mekong River when it was inflated. The real Mekong is actually in the other direction. They then reversed course and continued towards the lower Mekong. Eventually, near the mouth of the Mekong River, a large rice field was seen.

The so-called Champa rice is a high-quality rice variety artificially cultivated by the people of the Champong area (southern part of the Indochina Peninsula) after thousands of years of selection and breeding. Therefore, in Wang Ji's era, there was no rice in Zhancheng. However, what Guan Yi and Wang Qi needed was not the mature Champa rice that had been cultivated, but the rice varieties that were significantly different from those in the interior of Shu and Han.

The rice varieties of Shu Han have good taste, low yield, are not cold tolerant and drought tolerant, and are very precious. In Guan Yi's view, it is pure hypocrisy to serve such rice seeds when everyone is not full. So his goal is: it doesn't matter what it tastes like, it's good to have a high yield, and it's better if it's drought tolerant – and as for cold tolerance, that's not an extravagant hope. That was something that could only be achieved later when we found new cold-resistant rice varieties in Hokkaido.

The original rice varieties of the Indochina Peninsula can well meet such needs.

So this time, Wang Ji succeeded.

In February 268, Wang Ji, who returned to Buwei County, Yongchang County, began to cultivate seedlings with new rice seeds. By March of that year, the seedlings had all grown and he began to try to plant them.

"The land has been measured, right?"

"If you go back to the king, you have measured it again and again. All of them are rare flat land, a total of four acres. The soil is all the same. ”

"Good, let's get started." After Wang Ji said this, he began to take off his coat and pull up his trousers.

Ma Yi, who heard the news and rushed to see the excitement, couldn't sit still: "Brother Kong Shuo, do you really want to go to the field to plant seedlings?" ”

"It should be so, since we are already shareholders of the Fuxing Society, of course we have to learn from Sun Dinglie, as long as we are in charge of this part of the matter, we must do it ourselves. Didn't you go down to the mine a few days ago? ”

"This is different, Ma Yi is less than thirty years old after all."

"Hehe, is bowing to bully me? Otherwise, let's all go down to the field and see who can do it well? ”

"Uh, okay. Left and right, come and help me remove my armor. ”

Now that the two largest officials in Yongchang County have made a posture of planting rice in the field, what should the rest of Yongchang Taishou and Buwei County Magistrate do, do you still want to teach?

A group of officials lifted their trousers and went to the field with a grin, and many people simply fell into the field as soon as they got off the field and couldn't get up. Don't come and cause trouble for the officials. ”

Then he turned his head and saw Ma Yi, who was standing steadily in the paddy field, and finally stretched his brows: "Bow down, let's start." ”

"Good!"

Then the two of them really started planting rice in the paddy field like an old farmer.

"Brother Kong Shuo, how did you arrange these four acres of land?"

"Well, two acres of new rice seeds, one acre of indica rice in the Chengdu Plain, and one acre of glutinous rice in Nanzhong. Chengdu Rice and Nanzhong Rice are both carefully selected rice varieties with the highest yield. On the Chengdu rice side, the peak output value is six stones per mu in one season, and the Nanzhong rice is four and a half stones. ”

"When my brother went to Cochin to find rice seeds, it was July, right? Is there a local calculation of the yield per mu of new rice seeds? ”

"Hey! How can it be. The natives of that place were so cruel that when they saw us playing with their rice fields, they all came with wooden rakes and sickles. We don't understand the language, we can't explain it at all. Therefore, the rice that had been harvested for about two or three points of land was put on the ship and withdrawn. However, later on board the ship, we estimated that the yield of the new rice plant was about seven to eight liters. ”

"Hey, so you say, eight stones per mu?"

"It's hard to say. I don't think the natives of Jiaozhi don't know what intensive farming is. This new rice is in my hands, and I want to hit the yield of ten stones per mu. ”

"Brother's ambition! Little brother admires! If we can really achieve a universal yield of ten stones per mu, then our Han will completely get rid of the suffering of lack of grain. ”

"Well, I hope so. Speaking of which, Brother Xian, you're not bad over there. I saw the jade suit you gave to my wife a few days ago, and it was crystal clear, which made people extremely fascinated. This is a new source of wealth for my big man in the future. By the way, why are you still stocking up? ”

"There's no way, Da Sima means that whether it's jade jade or all kinds of gemstones, they can only be made public after the end of this Northern Expedition. But the younger brother can also understand that the ground in Yongliang is not much simpler than our Yizhou, no, it should be more complicated. ”

"Well, I do feel the same way for my brother to be a Taishou in Longxi in his early years. Family, interracial ...... It's all hard to deal with. In addition, Yongliang has always been plagued by drought and locust plague in recent years, and no year can be regarded as a good year. ”

"That's why what my brother is doing here means a lot! Over the years, I have seen that the key to the revival of this Han is two, one is population. Second, food. As for the rest, they are merely aids to a rapid increase in the number of these two. ”

“…… By doing this, you can be regarded as grasping the key point. When I look at the deeds of Da Sima since he started in Fuling, all of them revolve around population and food. ”

"So, by the way, brother, you have been in Jiaozhi all these years, and I heard you say that in addition to the high mountains and dense forests, mosquitoes and diseases, there are many diseases, but the rivers are crisscrossed, the climate is warm, and it is very suitable for farming. Do you think that after my big man takes Yongliang, can he turn around and look south? ”

"Hey, this one. Brother Xian, what about this Jiaozhi, except for the northern boundary close to the state of Wu, where there is a chieftain commander similar to today's Nanzhong, the place further south is simply a place of ignorance. The natives around the Tonle Sap Lake are quite docile and friendly, and the natives who actually live along the banks of the Mekong River are fierce. And there are so many plagues in this place, it will take too much effort for us to rule here. In the eyes of Brother Yu, this is not something that our Han can afford with his current national strength. ”