It's good that a cane can be used in several ways, but to get people to get more involved in sugarcane farming, you need to use a fairly well-organized group.

The Tang Dynasty court in the nineteenth year of Zhenguan did indeed achieve "Weijia Hainei", but the place where the real imperial power of the "First Emperor of the Ages" went to the countryside was still only Chang'an and Luoyang, the two Gyeonggi regions. It just so happens that this place is more suitable for growing food than cash crops.

In other words, the rate of return on growing cash crops is not much higher than that of growing grain.

As for the counties in the south of the Yangtze River, regardless of Jiangdong and Jiangxi, the sequelae of the "Huairou" policy carried out in order to "maintain regional peace" were obviously exposed.

Fortunately, because of the particularity of the "magic capital on the earth", the local family was violently reshuffled once, and it would take at least fifty or sixty years for the emerging "village sages" and "poetry and book heirlooms" to be re-established. And in this process, it is also unpredictable whether Lao Zhang will carry a butcher knife to kill his former friends again.

On the contrary, Jiangdong or even Lingnan, a place where the emperor is far away, Li Dong has a lot of opportunities to influence through "authority".

Even Lao Zhang's "teaching" mentor Lu Deming, in essence, is still the patriarch of the family who eats Emperor Zhenguan's Yulu. He and Zhang De can only "share wealth and wealth", not "share hardships".

The specific manifestation of Emperor Zhenguan's "authority" is the performance evaluation standard for the promotion of officials through the major policies of the imperial court.

From the previous "persuasion of agriculture and mulberry", Emperor Li ordered that the only indicator for promotion and wealth in the future is GDP ...... No, it's just how much sugar cane is planted. The change in performance appraisal standards naturally made those states and counties that are not within the scope of Gyeonggi nod and toss.

And Li Dong is a pragmatic boss, in order to guard against risks, he is domineering at the same time, but also quite calm, as always, he will carry out a pilot somewhere. At this time, the selection of the pilot depends on the eyesight of the local giants.

For example, the Feng family and the Xian family made up their minds to follow the Li Tang royal family, so that they could steadily spread their branches in Guangzhou, so when the central government put forward such a request, they were naturally busy supporting it.

This is different from a certain earth dog playing mixed doubles with Li Dong, Feng's and Xian's are quite "the king's precursor", as long as sugarcane production expands again, the marketing of "sugarcane wine" skyrockets, and the emperor will naturally not be stingy with a piece of the pie.

", is 'cane wine' really so productive?"

Although Fang Xuanling, the governor of Jiangxi, said that he knew from Cao Fuzi that "sweet cane wine" has existed since ancient times, he still felt a little strange, if this wine was really so awesome, the ancients would not promote it unless they were crazy.

Lao Zhang took a lot of time to explain that the water conservancy facilities, geographical environment, climatic requirements, land scale and other conditions required for sugarcane cultivation were not possible in all dynasties. Lao Zhang especially took Yun Mengze as an example, the two Han Dynasty and the Han Dynasty for four hundred years, Chu Di worked with Yun Mengze for four hundred years.

Pushing back further, during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, in order to increase land output, the Chu State was not less lingering. Back then, the Chu army was also equipped with crocodile skin and rhinoceros leather armor.

As for the land of Wu Yue, not to mention, Yang Guangxiu's big pants canal, the south canal and the north section of the Jiangnan River were all built by Wu Guo during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, and it took many years.

The reason why the famous "XX Daqu" and "XX Laojiao" will quickly appear around these places is that the water conservancy facilities have greatly improved the local cultivated land environment, and the land output has doubled.

From such a different angle, Fang Xuanling suddenly had a feeling of "my boss is really a child of destiny".

This is also normal, after all, in Fang Xuanling's opinion, the first few hundred years and thousands of years are just to lay the foundation for my boss?

Now if you want to see a beautiful scenery in Yunmengze, it is almost impossible to expect a healthy crocodile to come out and make a appearance. Because of a certain local dog, the "dragon killing campaign" and "tiger fighting campaign" carried out in Wuhan area made the Yangtze alligator and South China tiger functionally extinct in the region ahead of schedule......

The alligator can only continue to migrate towards the lower reaches of the Yangtze River in order to shiver and breathe. As for the South China tiger, because the habitat was dried up by humans, they were also skinned and stripped of their bones, so they had to drag their families to the southwest.

"There is no cap on the output of 'sugar cane wine'."

Zhang De said as he touched a map and laid it on the table. Fang's father and son and the eldest grandson's father and son all came over to take a look.

"This is a map of the South China Sea, this is Leizhou, and it used to be Yazhou Island. It can open up 7.8 million mu of land, and if it is used to grow sugarcane, one land is worth more than a dozen counties in Jiangdong. ”

"In this way, this place of exile is not useless."

"This place marked by the equator, could it be the equatorial island?"

"Yes."

Zhang De nodded, and glanced at the eldest grandson Wuji with some surprise, this old guy is really a model of living to learn from the old, and his ability to accept knowledge is far stronger than that of the bachelors in the capital, even Cao Xian, who is not very fond of people, also said that the eldest grandson Wuji is born "smart".

Of course, Old Man Cao is also a commotion, and secretly added a sentence to Lao Zhang: It's old.

"The south of the South China Sea is surrounded by islands? In this way, the South China Sea is not very large, but it is an inland sea. ”

“……”

Lao Zhang's body was shocked, and he was "shocked" by Fang Xuanling's words. Although he has reached the age of calling himself an "old man", Lao Zhang and Zhenguanchao's mainstream thinking is still out of tune.

He still can't take it for granted like Fang Xuanling, "I see it, it's mine" mentality.

Although the ideology of "the whole world is not the king's land" has been running through the era before Lao Zhang's illegal crossing, before the illegal crossing, Lao Zhang's universal value cannot be said to be as arrogant and domineering as Fang Xuanling.

This is the bullying and cool drag that "Sister You See" has never done.

However, Fang Xuanling glanced at the map and looked at the South China Sea, and came to the conclusion that it was an "inland sea", because in Fang Xuanling's eyes, these islands that could be seen were naturally land, and if there was land, it would mean that they were from the Tang Dynasty.

Inland sea, no problem.

"What do you think the old man does?"

Fang Xuanling saw Zhang De stunned and looked at him, and pointed to the map, "You mean to open a plantation in Danzhou Yazhou?" ”

"It's a two-pronged approach."

Zhang De straightened up and thought for a while, "For example, the Lingnan lands can also grow sugarcane, but in the Lingnan mountainous area, although the rainy season is long, the hilly land is also difficult to store water. Heng Zhi also wants Feng to take some strength to come out. ”

"You mean, let the Feng family and the Xian family build a dam to store water?"

Thinking out what Zhang De meant, Fang Xuanling felt that this was the right truth, the share of "sugarcane wine" would definitely reach the upper limit at a certain timeline, and although the market was big now, no one would dislike their low profits. In order to increase sugarcane cultivation and not encroach on grain arable land, Feng and Xian had to further develop the mountainous areas around Guangzhou.

Even if Feng and Xian succeed in the development of the project in three or five years, these three or five years will be enough for Wuhan to eat a mouthful of oil.

"The old man personally went to the sparse."

In an instant, Fang Xuanling also thought of earning some fame for himself, and in the future, the Feng family and the Xian family would "follow orders" to build water conservancy projects, and at least three successful jobs would be thrown on his head.

And in the whole process, it was just a "fang xiang" who sympathized with the suffering of the people in Lingnan, and then listened to the heavens......