When the Empress Dowager Xie and the Empress Dowager Quan mentioned their family's affairs, both of them felt very embarrassed. *With* Dream *Small* Say .lā

Judging from the conditions offered by the Federal Empire, it seems that his family's business has some meaning of competing with the people...... But don't they have the right to run their own business?!

This is unreasonable.

However, if the rectification is not agreed, it seems to affect the plans of the officials.

The Empress Dowager Xie and the Empress Dowager Quan talked for a long time, and finally found that the two of them did not have a good way to solve the matter.

In the end, she could only say: "Let the official handle this matter...... Isn't there still three years left? ”

The Queen Mother once again thought so.

The conversation between two middle-aged and elderly women may not affect the overall situation at all...... Even though they are living in this best era of feminism ever.

Zhang Zhansheng, the crown prince of the Federal Empire, and Chen Yizhong, the prime minister of the Great Song Dynasty, openly signed a package of treaties on the economic and political affairs of the two countries, and the scene at that time was solemn and solemn.

The dignitaries on both sides witnessed the two of them at a long table, one with a brush and the other with a gold pen signing their names, and then both stamping their seals...... Subsequently, Crown Prince Zhang Zhansheng returned to Badaohe City on Liuqiu Island with the negotiation team to resume his life.

The experience of this negotiation was really full of twists and turns, and the young Zhang Zhansheng understood a lot: many things can be recognized and accepted by everyone not because they are correct.

They chose to return to Hangzhou by land...... In this way, we can also examine the agricultural production of the Great Song Dynasty.

He knew a lot about the industry and agriculture of the Federal Empire, but he only saw some of the industry and agriculture of the Great Song Dynasty from newspaper materials, which was not comprehensive enough.

The Minister of Agriculture, Feng Zheng, was happy to act as a guide and explainer, and he had visited it more than once.

The secretary, Lang Fashan, is still in charge of greeting and sending off...... He was also happy to help explain.

The agricultural development of the Great Song Dynasty certainly could not start drawing from a blank sheet of paper like the Federal Empire, and it was easy to implement any new agricultural techniques and management methods.

However, the progress of agricultural development in the Great Song Dynasty is obvious.

In the early years of the Great Song Dynasty's southward movement, a large number of fields in the south were seriously damaged due to wars and other reasons.

Later, after nearly 100 years of recovery, especially the influx of refugees from the north, many of whom were relatively rich in agricultural technology, brought new grain varieties and production techniques, which to a certain extent promoted the expansion of agricultural cultivation.

The peasants in the north were good at growing wheat, while the scholars and people who went south moved in large numbers, and they were accustomed to pasta, which caused the grain price of wheat to rise sharply, and the sellers' profits were higher, which greatly stimulated the enthusiasm of the peasants.

In this way, in the south, when only Champa rice was cultivated, a rice-wheat double cropping system was formed, which increased the yield, increased the comprehensive use of land, and could feed more people, satisfying the food needs of the population to a certain extent.

However, the southern invasion of the Tatar bandits once again undermined the hard-won agricultural development of the Great Song Dynasty.

Fortunately, the war only destroyed agriculture north of the Yangtze River, and with the rise of the Federal Empire, the war moved away from the Great Song Dynasty.

The Federal Empire brought more varieties of grain, higher yields, and more sophisticated cultivation techniques.

Corn, potatoes and sweet potatoes are all there is to be said.

For these, Da Song accepted them unceremoniously, whether at the government level or among the people, and took the initiative to copy them.

In the past, the Great Song Dynasty also applied fertilizer, but only plant ash, river mud and dung juice.

This method does have a certain effect of fertilizing the field, but the active ingredient content of nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium is too small, especially the manure juice is simply a big killer for spreading human parasites.

The Federal Empire did not approve of the use of manure juice but provided fertilizer flour------ which is actually struvite powder------ so no one had to force anyone, and the peasants could see it at once from the harvest.

Fertilizer flour is cheap, 100 yuan can be applied to 10 acres of land, who bothers to collect manure?!

Later, as the production of saltpeter increased dramatically, sodium nitrate and potassium nitrate were developed from military and industrial use to agricultural use.

There is a reason why the yield per mu of the Federal Empire's agriculture is higher than that of the Great Song Dynasty.

Of course, the farmers of the Great Song Dynasty were more likely to accept fertilizer flour, because it was cheaper than the so-called nitrate fertilizer------ although the output of nitrate fertilizer was increasing, but after all, it was still not as large as struvite.

Now is the time for spring ploughing, and the crown prince Zhang Zhansheng saw in a larger village that there were many farmers driving buffaloes in the paddy fields to plough the fields; Horses and mules are also used in the dry fields.

Minister of Agriculture Feng Zheng said proudly: "The buffalo we have cultivated with the buffalo crossed by the Great Song Dynasty and Tianzhu has the advantage of strong disease resistance and strong cultivation, and the disadvantage is that the milk production is not as good as the local buffalo in Tianzhu."

Secretary Lang Fashan sighed with emotion: "I know that it was cultivated by the king------ where is there a perfect thing in the world?!"

They are better at farming than Tianzhu buffaloes, and more resistant to disease and have higher milk production than Dasong buffaloes, which are already grateful to farmers who raise buffaloes. ”

Minister of Agriculture Feng Zheng added with a smile: "The price of buffalo calves should be less than ten yuan now------- and if we can buy the livestock feed we have prepared, the buffalo fat level will be faster, and the milk output can be higher------ a female buffalo can produce about eighty percent of the milk of Tianzhu buffalo, and there is no problem with one and a half tons of milk!"

Look at those ploughing horses, although they can't be used as war horses, but they are very useful for pulling goods and plowing dry land, in my opinion, they are no worse than war horses!

The foals that plough the horses should not have more than twelve strokes. ”

The secretary Lang Fashan wanted to say something, but closed his mouth again.

The price of cattle in the Great Song Dynasty experienced a clear upward trajectory from 2 to 10 guan.

After the Southern Crossing of the Great Song Dynasty, the price of buffalo rose sharply, and the general price was about 100 guan per head, an increase of 10 times compared with before.

The price of horses is higher than that of cattle, but the difference varies greatly depending on the quality of the horses, with the lowest being 7 guan and the high one being more than 100 guan.

The price of a donkey is about 10 to tens of yuan, and the value of a mule is about 100 yuan.

Of course, with the development of livestock breeding in the Federal Empire for many years, it is the price of large livestock that has been suppressed.

The so-called ten guan money and twelve guan money, which refers to the paper money after the inflation of the Great Song Dynasty several times, will be cheaper if exchanged for the paper money of the Federal Empire.

Naturally, the folk of the Great Song Dynasty developed a huge market for the federal empire.

It doesn't matter if it's cheap, if the amount goes up, you can also make a big profit.

However, Crown Prince Zhang Zhansheng saw a strange phenomenon.

He spotted four farmers working in a dry field not far away.

Two of them, one leading a ploughing horse and the other holding a plow, were ploughing the land; The other two, one following them with a sprinkle of flour, and the other still splashing dung a little further behind.

The thick smell of feces wafted in the wind.

Crown Prince Zhang Zhansheng is not surprised by this, but the person who sprinkled the flour gave him a wrong feeling.

The man was not sowing flour, he was sowing seeds.

If the amount of struvite powder is not reached, it should not play the role of excellent slow-release fertilizer.

Crown Prince Zhang Zhansheng walked over with everyone.

He kindly shouted at the man who sprinkled the flour, "You don't have enough to say!" Doesn't work!! ”

The peasants stopped.

The person who sprinkled the flour wanted to ignore the screaming descendants, but now is the busy time of spring, and the ordinary peasant families are busy to death, who will be idle there in expensive begging clothes?!

However, he saw an official in an official uniform behind the descendant, so he didn't dare to make a mistake, so he honestly said: "Fat flour is expensive, you have to save it!" ”

Crown Prince Zhang Zhansheng looked at Feng Zheng, does it mean that the fertilizer powder sold to the Great Song Dynasty is very expensive? !

Feng Zheng shook his head, it's not expensive.

He stepped forward and shouted, "How much fertilizer powder did you buy?" ”

"Twenty dollars a load!"

To fertilize ten acres of dry land, it takes about twenty-five loads of fertilizer flour, a total of 500 yuan------ the fertilizer flour of the Great Song Dynasty is four times that of the Federal Empire!

Feng Zheng was puzzled and was about to ask again.

Secretary Lang Fashan said: "No need to ask again, I know what's going on." ”

PS: Thank you for the book friend Australian Lao Wu and the reward of walking on the bridge.