Chapter 257: Rice (Introducing the Development of Chinese Grain, Don't Order If You Don't Like It)
"Why, you don't believe it. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 Info" looked at everyone in front of him with a look of disbelief on their faces, Duan Jian asked.
For Zhou Xing and others' disbelief, Duan Jian is understandable, even compared with ordinary people, Zhou Xing and others are already quite knowledgeable talents in this era, but relatively speaking, many things that children in later generations know, for them, are incomprehensible fantasy.
It only takes a little seed to produce more than 20 times more rice, which is like a joke for a land that has never had a high-yield crop.
Since the three emperors and five emperors to the reform and opening up, China has always been a country based on agriculture, even if the Yuan, Qing Dynasty these alien races lived in the Central Plains period, this habit has never changed, it is gratifying that the Chinese people are lucky, the land of China is rich in products, when the population does not reach saturation, people are often able to establish a relatively stable dynasty, similar to Xia, Shang is the case, as for the Zhou Dynasty, it is also the people in power who are looking for their own death, otherwise there will be no later Spring and Autumn Warring States princes scuffle.
It is a pity that the Chinese people are unlucky, although the land of China is rich, but relatively speaking, there are no high-yield crops, such as the world's most extensive corn, potatoes, sweet potatoes, and high-yield rice, there is no kind of land in China, the three emperors and five emperors to the Warring States period of one or two thousand years, most of the Chinese people planted are low-yield, relatively rough grains.
Of course, this situation is based on the situation before the population did not reach saturation, from the end of the Western Han Dynasty, with the relative stability of the society, the population has increased, and it has reached a rare population of 50 million, which is not even a fraction of the population compared with the present, but for the relatively backward production level at that time, it is already quite a lot.
There are more people, but there is less land, because the population at that time was mainly concentrated in the north and the Central Plains, so the land in these places is insufficient, in addition to the land annexation of the rich and large, the society gradually rose to turmoil, that is, at this time, the low-yield grain has been insufficient to meet the increasing number of people, at this time there is an urgent need for a high-yield grain to replace the original grain.
At this time, wheat into the eyes of some people, in fact, wheat is also regarded as a local product of China, from the time when people did not know how to plant, there were primitive people to collect wheat for eating, but unfortunately, although the wheat has increased compared to the original grain yield, but it has not been well recognized by people, because, at that time, people thought that 'what to eat and what to make up', compared to the wheat that does not look good, the northerners who have been feeding on millet are quite difficult to accept.
It is precisely in this way, wheat in China is in this unpopular 'queen position', and has not really become the staple food of the Chinese people, since then, China has been in a division and integration, from the Western Han Dynasty, to the early Tang Dynasty, not counting the Northern and Southern Dynasties, China in just a few hundred years, actually produced five or six great eras, if the relatively chaotic hundreds of years of the Northern and Southern Dynasties period is counted, on average, it will be a change of dynasty in decades, now think about it, the jaw is also a little closed.
Although there is an element of the people in power, more responsibility is still on the food, 'the people take food as the sky', the people can eat and drink enough, who would think about rebellion all day long.
This situation to the middle and late Tang Dynasty, gradually changed, with the northern land increasingly barren, the opening of the Grand Canal, the land south of the Yangtze River is becoming more and more prosperous, rice, which is relatively high-yield crops relative to the original grains, has come into people's eyes, of course, at this time the rice is still the original rice species in China, low fecundity, but even so, for the lack of grain in China, this is also a great progress, which is why, after the Anshi Rebellion, the Tang Dynasty is obviously crumbling, But the reason why it has barely persevered for more than 100 years.
Until the Northern Song Dynasty, a seed to save the fate of China appeared, that is, the very famous 'Zhancheng rice', it can be said that from the 'Zhancheng rice' appeared in China, the prosperity of the land south of the Yangtze River has become a fateful thing, twenty times the yield, for the low-yield of China, no less than the 'divine object', it is also by virtue of this strong 'Zhancheng rice', the Northern Song Dynasty can resist the powerful alien race, and it is precisely because of the emergence of 'Zhancheng rice' that the weak Southern Song Dynasty has become the richest court in Chinese history.
Then, the Ming Dynasty and the Qing Dynasty combined can have five hundred years of national fortune, and there is a relative relationship with the large number of high-yield rice planting, of course, the Qing Dynasty as a foreign race did not fall as quickly as the Yuan Dynasty, in addition to their complete sinicization, corn, sweet potatoes and other high-yield imported products were planted by the Chinese people There is also a certain relationship.
Therefore, the reason why Duan Jian took the initiative to come to Hangzhou this time was for the same purpose, that is, to send people to Zhancheng to introduce the high-yield 'Zhancheng rice' to the land south of the Yangtze River in advance, and to build the land of the south of the Yangtze River into a large granary in the Tang Dynasty in advance, especially because the weather in the whole world is much warmer than in later generations, and only two crops of rice can be barely planted in later generations, and it can reach two years and five seasons here.
What is this concept, compared to the current season of rice or other low-yield grain planted in the south of the Yangtze River, mixed with a season of beans or other crops in the middle, this two-year and five-season model, one acre of land can receive three-fifths more grain than now, if this thing can really be done, Duan Jian's reputation will spread all over the world, not only the emperor and hundreds of officials should be grateful to him, but also countless people in the world who have benefited from him, at that time, let alone adding officials to the knighthood, even if he is a white ding without any official position, The emperor has to be respectful when he sees him, as for the thing that happened in his previous life like a cool official like Lai Junchen who robbed his wife, not to mention that it happened, I'm afraid I don't even dare to think about it.
"Lang Jun. It's not that I don't believe it, but what you said is indeed too exaggerated, twenty times the yield, obediently, let alone seen it, I don't even dare to dream about it. Le Buping shook his head and said.
"Hahaha, it's okay if you don't believe it, as long as I believe it, when that kind of rice seed really appears, you will believe it, now I just want to ask you, who is willing to help me do this, although the land of Zhancheng is not too far, but the road is difficult, I'm afraid it's not so easy along the way." Duan Jian looked at the few people present and asked with a smile.
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