Chapter 364: The Food Problem

Yang Mu also had a headache.

According to the rules of the palace, after the crown prince was canonized, he had to select several teachers to teach his studies.

However, in today's Cangguo, who will teach the prince's studies?

Is it to adopt a new style of teaching, as in the school, or to hire a few famous teachers to teach like the traditional methods of other countries?

From the heart, Yang Mu is both repulsive.

If it is placed in the next generation, Xiao Yang Jun should still be in kindergarten at this age, and it is still early to read the first grade.

Wouldn't it be nice to let a child learn those boring things and listen to some great principles of governing the country...... Too cruel?

After all, Yang Jun is only five years old.

As the saying goes, don't do to others what you don't want, Yang Mu hated going to school very much when he was young, even going to preschool, because there were many friends in the school to play with him, and now his son, how can he be trapped in a boring study at the age when he should play, immersed in his studies every day?

A child's childhood is very important for the shaping of a person, since ancient times, the Taiping Emperor was mostly a weak generation, because he received a decent education since he was a child, Yang Mu thought that in the past two years, spend more time and accompany the child well, the child should do what a child should do, and when he is older, he should be strictly taught.

As for how to teach, Yang Mu must choose a new style of teaching.

After all, the traditional scriptures, in fact, and the new style of teaching is a lot of contradictions, even contradictions, the future development of the country will depend on mathematics, physics and chemistry and other industrialization, if as a prince does not recognize its importance, how can it be guaranteed that no one will die in the future?

Since ancient times, the throne and the transfer of power have been the most important thing, except for the fear of civil strife.

Xiao Yangjun looked at the many ministers discussing him, and realized that this matter was very important, so he raised his head ignorantly.

Yang Mu laughed, waved his hand, and didn't say anything.

The courtiers understood.

This matter is over.

After that, the discussion was about Tian Ken.

The so-called field reclamation is divided into two parts, one part is the cultivation of farmers, and the other part is the reclamation of wasteland.

Now is the time of spring ploughing, and this year's ploughing is related to the logistical support of the soldiers stationed on the front line, and also related to the question of whether the people of Cangguo will be embarrassed throughout next year.

If the spring ploughing is delayed, then the grain and grass on the front line will be even more tight, not only the Three Kingdoms Alliance, but even the Qinglong Legion stationed in Wangji will also be greatly affected, unable to start a big war, at most can only be able to protect itself.

Next year, it is destined to be unable to go to war with the outside world.

Spring ploughing, the seed problem is not much to worry about, although not to say the cultivation of hybrid rice and the like, but the Ministry of Industry also knows the principle of optimal breeding, five or six years in a row, the agricultural department has already selected very good varieties, all counties and counties also have seed reserves.

Ordinary people are also aware of the inferiority of traditional self-kept seeds, so they buy seeds directly, so that the ears will produce much higher yields.

Therefore, the main problem of spring ploughing lies in manpower.

In the past, too many people were invested in logistics and transportation, and a large number of people were recruited, coupled with the last temporary conscription, which led to a greater or lesser lack of labor in many villages among the people.

The plan for the present is to make rational arrangements for labor on the basis of further promoting the emancipation of slaves and increasing productivity.

Then, it's reclamation.

With the exception of the newly annexed Shengguo, land reclamation in the rest of the counties has taken a brief break after the first few years of vigorous development.

This is because the good places for reclamation and irrigation between villages have basically been reclaimed.

At present, the Ministry of Industry is organizing the people to build terraced fields and enclose lakes to create fields.

Needless to say, it is not necessary to enclose the lake to create fields, and it is mostly in the area with many lakes.

Most of the terraced rice fields are hilly and forested.

Since ancient times, the people of the Dali Dynasty have had the tradition of building terraces.

The use of dikes and dams to conserve water has made it possible to grow rice on a large scale in hilly areas, solving the local food problem.

However, the consumption of manpower for terraced cultivation is much higher than that of the plains, and the yield does not have any advantage, and in the event of a major drought, the grain may not be harvested.

Therefore, in areas where food is not very tight, the government does not advocate it, and the people do not deliberately build it.

Among them, the biggest problem is the problem of ridges and canals.

However, with the birth of cement, this problem seems to have been solved.

For example, a channel, between two hills, not a particularly far area, you can cultivate a ditch in the air, as a special channel - an aqueduct.

A reservoir is formed by the construction of a sluice gate next to some large pools.

The reservoir became the source of irrigation.

Don't underestimate the combination of reservoir and channel, it may not sound like much, but it is really not easy to achieve.

In ancient China, it is estimated that it can be comparable to a great project like Dujiangyan.

Some people once compared the terraced rice fields to the Great Wall, saying that they are both man-made miracles, but the difference is that the Great Wall was forced to be built by the ancient emperors, while the terraces were built completely spontaneously, and after thousands of years to form a scale, everything went naturally.

In the south of China, there are so many terraced rice fields that China can use 7 percent of the world's arable land to feed 22 percent of the world's population.

To put it bluntly, in some areas, the proportion of terraced rice fields is much higher than that of ordinary paddy fields.

Out of need, the Ministry of Industry also talked about the plan to build terraces, and at the same time deliberately estimated the money needed to build canals and reservoirs, and reached out to the Ministry of Households to ask for money.

"My Cangguo, how many troops are there?" Yang Mu suddenly asked.

At the beginning, when it was necessary to vigorously develop the strength of the army, he directly abolished the system of military cantonment and let the soldiers devote themselves to combat training.

But now, as the territory is getting bigger and bigger, the pressure on the army is getting smaller and smaller, and in fact, many areas, especially some newly annexed areas, have a lot of military cantonments.

Mintun is different from Juntun, the former needless to say, is the main source of grain reserves in Cangguo.

The latter, on the other hand, is simply to feed the soldiers of various local governments.

Although Mintun's grain production is far behind Jiangtun, if you compare it carefully, you will find that Mintun's efficiency is far inferior to Juntun.

The reason for this is nothing more than those common problems that have been left behind.

The uneven distribution of cultivated land, the reluctance of the people to move out of their hometowns, the underdevelopment of transportation and water conservancy, the division of old and new forces in the newly annexed territories, and so on......

"If Your Majesty wants to develop the military camp, you might as well change the government soldier system first."

At this time, Ge Lie, the secretary of the military department, stood up and did not say the scale of the military tun, but directly put forward a suggestion.

"Change the military system?"

Yang Mu frowned, what is being discussed at the moment is how to increase the grain output of Cangguo in the past two years and make up for this shortcoming, what does it have to do with the government soldier system? ()