Xiong Jing felt more and more that Xiang Yan had the potential of a crow's mouth, and he was worried about the drought in Zhao State, and Zhao Guo was really in drought. From early March to this month, not a single drop of rain fell in Zhao Kingdom, and many of the millets planted in the soil did not even sprout, and even if they did, most of them wilted. Therefore, the Zhao people sang falsely: 'The Zhao people cry, the Qin people laugh, if you don't believe it, look at the grass growing in the field.' ’

Zhao Guoke didn't have such good luck to grab a handful of Ao Cang, and without the grain of Ao Cang, many people starved to death in the country last year. This year, there will be another drought, and many people will starve to death. After the great drought was determined at the end of April and the beginning of May, Zhao envoys kept asking the three countries to transport more corn. There is grain in the three kingdoms, and if the corn of the three kingdoms is transported to the Zhao country, the Zhao people will definitely not starve to death, but the transportation capacity is not enough. And because of the rain, in February, the state of Chu finally did not change the boat-building plan, but went all out to build the Danshui boat.

Now the only solution is to gather all the sea boats and inland river boats of the three kingdoms in Qi and transport the accumulated millet in the Qi warehouses to Zhao State. In this way, the journey is the shortest, and once the shipping problem of the sea boat terminal is solved, the grain transportation can be doubled. In addition to the boats, horse-drawn carriages, ox carts, chariots, and wheelbarrows, as long as they were wheeled, were all transported into Zhao, and finally the Zhao people ate when they entered Qi.

There are many ways, but they still can't change the status quo of Zhao Guo's harvest this year. When Xiong Jing first heard that the Shao Si Ming was returning with the Valley of Dongzhou, he wanted Zhao Guo to plant potatoes or sweet potatoes first, but he forgot what the consequences would be if Qin Guo got these.

"The king must not let the Zhao people plant the valley of Dongzhou." Nao cunning vaguely guessed what Xiong Jing meant. There was a great drought in Zhao State, and the valley of Dongzhou entered Chu, which just allowed Zhao Guo to try planting. This seems like a good idea, but it can't be worse.

"Does the king know how much grain should be planted with an acre?" Sun Yu also asked. Originally, he wanted to explore this question by himself, but now that the king intends to let Zhao Guo try to breed, he is going to ask. "There is a grain geometry on the young master's life?"

Red Mo glanced at his son, shook his head, and said, "Not much." When returning to the sea, more than 15,000 catties of sweet potatoes and more than 8,000 catties of potatoes were entered, but after several months at sea, more than half of the grains were rotten. ”

Fortunately, it only took three months to return to the trade wind, and it was less than four months to return to Zhu Fang. In the hot climate of the South Pacific, the sweet potatoes and potatoes in the cabin quickly rot. Even if you plant one acre per catty, you can only plant a few thousand acres. Zhao Guodingkou has more than 5 million yuan, and a household has 100 million acres of land, and the existing grain seeds are just a drop in the ocean.

When it came to grain seeds, Xiong Jing gave up the idea of letting Zhao Guo plant potatoes. Assuming that a small mu only needs ten catties of grain seeds, that is one billion catties; Assuming that the potato seed yield ratio reaches 20 times, there will be 50 million catties of harvest in the previous year; the year before, it was 2.5 million catties; the year before, it was 125,000 catties; The year before, it was 6,250 pounds.

If all the eight thousand catties of potatoes are not broken, there will also be four years of breeding time before the entire Zhao country can be planted with potatoes in the fifth year. This is a theoretical calculation, even if you count the two harvests of potatoes a year, it will take two years, and after two years, the bones of those Zhao people who starved to death no longer need food.

"Far water does not solve near fire." Lan Xuan said. "Instead of letting Zhao Guoguang plant the valley of Dongzhou, it is better to plant it in Chu State. There are more than 130 million acres of land in the state of Chu, and its harvest is not as good as the Wei people's fields. It is still like the valley of Dongzhou can get the property of the Wei people, and the Chu country is safe. ”

In the later generations, the average yield per mu of millet in Chu was extremely low, about 55 kilograms. Wei exceeded this number, with yields of more than 100 kilograms per acre in many fields. The yield of millet is not high, and the yield of wheat is naturally not high, only more than 30 kilograms per mu of the city. And there is a limited number of acres of land that can be planted with wheat. Last year, Chu planted nearly 60 million small acres of millet, but the actual harvest was only 65 million stones; As for the wheat planted, about 30 million acres were planted, and only 19 million stone wheat was harvested.

If each city mu can harvest 275 kilograms (550 city catties, sweet potatoes 5 catties to 1 catty of staple grain) of Dongzhou Valley, then the grain accumulated by the entire Chu State in a year will reach an astonishing 76 million stones. The three-year millet that took six years to accumulate in six years can now be barely completed in two years. This is still planting millet once a year, planting sweet potatoes again, and harvesting twice a year.

With the warm climate in the south, if you plant all sweet potatoes and potatoes in a year, and there are three harvests in a year, you can accumulate two years and seven months of grain in that year. Of course, sweet potatoes are grown all over the country, and in the event of a blight, it will suddenly lose half of the population, as the Irish do. Coarse grains are miscellaneous grains, and they cannot be equal to staple grains.

Lan Luxury's reminder is inspiring. If we seize the time to breed now, and start cutting down Qin next year, the whole Chu State can plant the Dongzhou Valley in three or four years, and after the corn is eaten up, the Chu State may be able to hold on for another year or two, and even with the high yield of the Dongzhou Valley, it is likely that the war can continue to be supported only by the old and weak women and children in the country.

The ministers were excited, but Xiong Jing was thinking about how to process sweet potatoes and potatoes. This kind of miscellaneous grain is crushed, dried, and made into starch, and then starch is used to make vermicelli and vermicelli. Legend has it that there are also potato steamed buns and potato bread, but unfortunately he doesn't even know how to make vermicelli with potato starch.

Potatoes are extremely ineffective in storage because they are watery. At the same time as planting the valley of Dongzhou, the starch processing equipment must also quickly keep up with the popularity, otherwise the harvested potatoes will easily rot and cannot be stored for a long time. In addition, it is not easy to transport. Transporting five catties of potatoes is equivalent to transporting one catty of millet, and no matter how much the boat can afford such a large amount of transportation.

As the king, Xiong Jing can point out which problems need to be solved. In addition to discussing how to breed, how to plant, and how to prohibit the theft of seeds from other countries, how to process the valley of Dongzhou was also a major issue. When it was really a last resort, the soldiers not only had to eat the valley of Dongzhou directly, but also eat the fans that the king said in his mouth. Of course, it is best for the common people to eat the valley of Dongzhou and sell the millet that is easy to store and transport, otherwise the output of tens of millions of stones or even hundreds of millions of stones will not be able to be processed in a short period of time.

The morning court meeting only brought up the problems faced, and Xiong Jing, who returned to bed after the dispersal, did not immediately change his clothes, but found me who knew the other side, and he had something to ask.

"Can you know ......" Xiong Jing really wanted to ask Mi Xuan, don't I also know that the king wanted to ask Mi Xuan, but the historian was on the side, Xiong Jing paused and said, "How is the Empress Dowager?" ”

"Your Great King, Empress Dowager Zu," I also paused, because the situation of Mi Thorn was not optimistic. “…… It's okay for the time being. ”

"Temporarily free?" Xiong Jing's words were more and more used by his subordinates, and he heard the unoptimism in my words, and asked directly: "When did you think the Empress Dowager would fall?" ”

"Your lord, after the Empress Dowager Zu woke up, she couldn't speak or get up, and Yi Yin thought she was no more than this year." Since Xiong Jing asked directly, I will answer directly.

"But this year?" Xiong Jing was silent. He doesn't like thorns, but they are a mountain in Qin.

Although Zhao Zheng has been crowned for a long time, as long as he is willing, he can still influence the political situation of Qin. This kind of influence is not to ask Zhao Zheng to influence, but to be able to influence directly and without Zhao Zheng. It's a pity that Mi Thorn can decide who is the king of Qin, but he can't stop the advance of the chariot of Qin. Because from the very beginning of its design, this combat vehicle could not be stopped.

It will only get two results: one is to keep moving forward and crush everything until it can't support itself, and finally decay and fall apart; The other is to hit a hard rock and fall apart in one or more decisive battles. However, the reality cannot be so clearly divided, and the Chen Sheng Uprising and the Battle of Julu are the superposition of these two results.

As soon as the thorn died, Zhao Zheng had no help and was able to take full charge of the entire country. Zhao Zheng was in full swing, and some old people who had existed because of the thorns, some policies that were conducive to the spy activities of the Marquis of Chu, and some officials who could be bought would all be swept away by him.

The timing of the resumption seems to have been chosen at the right time. After the death of Mi Thorn, the original officials will be replaced on a large scale, and the new officials will not be able to immediately familiarize themselves with the truth, and it is likely that they will not even be able to call out the names of their subordinates. In the event of an all-out attack, chaos is bound to fall. It's a pity that this is only a government affairs system, not a Shaofu, let alone a national governor's office.

"The matter of the old Ying must be foolproof!" Xiong Jing thought of Old Ying, and couldn't help but tell again.

"Yui. The minister will make the old affairs foolproof. "Knowing that the Bisi has infiltrated for several years, there are no less than five people in the Chu State Marquis around the county guard Mishan, and the matter of the old Ying should indeed be foolproof.

Xiong Jing just advised, but after I finished answering, he finally asked, "How is Mi Xuan?" ”

As soon as Mi Xuan was mentioned, the left and right Shi raised their heads, and then lowered their heads, and neither of them spoke, nor did they record. Right Shi waved Xiong Jing and said to change his clothes, but the young Zuo Shi didn't even find an excuse, and went out after saluting.

"At that time, Chang Wenjun had prepared a car driving talisman to quickly order the Mi Girl to leave Qin, and also sent the Mi Girl Son to the outside of Xianyang City, but ...... "I know that the whole process is very late, or Xiong Qi told him personally." However, the son-in-law did not give up the queen mother, so she turned back. ”

"Alas! She, she ...... "Although it was a few months ago, Xiong Jing is still annoyed.

"The king, the son-in-law is pure filial piety, and the Empress Dowager woke up after returning to Huayang Palace. King Dayue of Qin was named a beloved person last month. "Don't let me say it again. However, this news drove Xiong Jing crazy.

"She has never been with Zhao Zheng, let alone told the temple, why did she seal her beloved? ! Why did you seal your beloved?! Xiong Jing waved his hand vigorously, shouting in an excitement that he was not aware of. Why is she ......?"

With a 'choking' sound, the five-foot saber was drawn, but fortunately, Xiong Jing restrained his anger and did not slash.

Although Xiong Jing is angry, I still have to say some things. He said again: "It is reported that the Qin Dynasty has decided, and this month it has ordered the princess to sue the temple. ”

"Sue the temple?! How to sue the temple? Xiong Jing drank vigorously.

"In the Huayang Palace, there have been several women of the clan with him since this month." Don't worry about me, he's worried about Xiong's recklessness. But at this point, he could only say: "Please give the king an order, and I know that Bisi will definitely be able to take the son-in-law back." ”

If he could take Mi Xuan back, he would have taken it back a long time ago. Don't worry about my suggestion, Xiong Jing didn't hear it at all, he only said, "Stand down, don't be tired." ”