With the population of Yunhua County skyrocketing, a very serious problem has emerged, and Yun Yuankai, who is in charge of the entire Yunhua County, is having a headache for this problem.

Don't look at the area of Yunhua County is very large, but there are many mountains and forests and poor land in the territory, and there is very little rich land, and growing crops on poor land means that the harvest will not be too much.

Fortunately, the population of Yunhua County is relatively small, and the Yun clan did not limit the cultivated land area of each household under the rule of Yunhua County, and the land reclaimed by the people belonged to the people themselves, and the relevant taxes were all taxes issued by the empire, and there was no additional distribution.

There is such a situation in the Yun family, the people under the rule of Yunhua County have a lot of land in every household, but the life of these families can only be regarded as average among the common people at the bottom of the empire, there is no problem with having enough food, and it is impossible to get more.

It is also because of the poor land in Yunhua County, which makes it difficult for the Yun family to open up new financial routes, and has always taken the salt industry as a pillar industry.

If it is a perennial year, the grain produced by Yunhua County can still meet its own needs, and if it encounters a disaster year, Yunhua County can only buy grain from the outside world in large quantities.

However, now that the population of Yunhua County has skyrocketed, although there is a large amount of land for the people who have newly moved to Yunhua County to cultivate, it takes time to harvest the grain, and the new population is increasing, and the grain produced by Yunhua County itself can no longer meet the demand, and the Yun clan must buy a large amount of grain from the outside world and transport it back to Yunhua County.

In the middle, the Yun family may still be able to obtain some benefits, but the benefits obtained are nothing compared to the crisis that may occur in Yunhua County, once there is a disaster year or external forces suppress the Yun family, do not sell the Yun family's grain, a food crisis will break out, starving people to death is only the lowest impact thing, it is more likely to cause a civil uprising, once the impact of the civil uprising is too large, the emperor is likely to deprive the Yun family of the title, similar things have happened many times in the past.

The Yun family must solve the problem of food!

Yun Yuankai thought about it for a long time and didn't find a solution that could completely solve the problem, he was thinking about it when he was eating, he was thinking about it when he was dealing with things, he was thinking about it when he was walking, even if he was sleeping and dreaming, he dreamed of food-related dreams, headaches, very headaches, Yun Yuankai's face was a little haggard.

As the old saying goes, "the wisdom of one person is not as good as the foolishness of others", since one person can't figure it out, then call everyone to think about it together, so Yun Yuankai convened a meeting of the five elders of the clan, and by the way, he also called Yun Yi over.

Now that the Yun clan can have such a big change, everything is brought by Yunyi, although Yunyi has not withdrawn the power of the patriarch, but Yunyi's status in the hearts of everyone is getting higher and higher, maybe Yunyi can take back all the power as long as he opens his mouth.

In Yun Yuankai's mind, Yun Yi is more likely to find a solution to the crisis.

In a certain house in Yun Yuankai's mansion, the seven people with the highest status of Yunhua Yun's family sat down in turn, and Yun Yuankai spoke first and told the food crisis that the Yun family was facing.

When Yun Yuankai said the word "food", Yun Yi's mind suddenly exploded, since he traveled in Yunhua County after his wedding last year, Yun Yi felt that he had ignored something, but he couldn't remember that the thing that was ignored was food.

In this relatively backward era, the most important thing is not salt, but food that everyone needs every day.

In disaster years, there is a shortage of food, food prices are high, the people at the bottom have no money to buy food, and it is very common for people to starve to death, even in good harvest years.

Once there is a large-scale famine and the government does not deal with it effectively, it is very likely that there will be a popular uprising, and the hungry people will become mobs, frantically storming the city, because they are already hungry and crazy, and they want to live by any means.

Not only natural disasters, but also man-made disasters, when it comes to war, food is also the most important weapon, if you have a large amount of food in your hands, you can recruit more troops, many people will join the army in order to have enough to eat, and the possibility of winning the world is greatly increased.

It can be said that I have food in hand, and I have it in the world!

Yunhua County's own grain output can only barely meet its own needs, but now because Yunyi wants to increase the population potential of Yunhua County, the population of Yunhua County has skyrocketed, and it is okay in ordinary years, and it will definitely be a big problem in the future, and it is even more necessary to worry about the forces with ulterior motives secretly attacking the Yun clan in terms of food.

After Yun Yuankai said about the food crisis of the Yun clan, the clan elders made suggestions one after another, such as building more granaries to buy a large amount of grain from outside to reserve it, and also cultivating more cultivated land......

After hearing these methods, Yun Yuankai shook his head, because he had thought about these methods, either they could not solve the problem fundamentally, or they would be slow to achieve results, unless the Yun clan gave up recruiting labor from the outside world, or did not let the recruited labor force drag his family with him.

Yun Yuankai saw that Yun Yi didn't speak, it seemed that he had lost his mind, and his mind didn't know where to go, so he opened his mouth and asked Yun Yi, "What is Jiuxiao's opinion?" ”

The other six people in the room all looked at Yun Yi.

Yun Yuankai's words made Yun Yi wake up from his contemplation, shook his head slightly, and shook off those chaotic thoughts in his mind before he replied: "The younger generation thinks that the best way is to increase the grain yield per mu ......"

"How can we increase grain production per acre?" Before Yun Yi finished speaking, Yun Yuankai hurriedly asked.

Yun Yi continued, "There are two methods, the land in Yunhua County is mostly poor land, and the grain yield is not high, we can fertilize to increase the grain yield, this is the first one." ”

People have used fertilizers to increase grain production for a long time, the earliest fertilizer was animal manure, and then the farmers of the hundreds of families tried to use rotting acquaintances, animal manure, silkworm dung, weeds, plant ash, beans, river mud, bone juice, etc. as fertilizers, and the effects were different.

The first method is said, everyone's eyes lit up, this is indeed a method, although the powerful people are disgusted with fertilized food, but those people at the bottom do not have many opinions, this first method can be promoted.

"And the second way is to look for higher yields, which is a bit troublesome, and I don't know if I can find it." Speaking of the second method, Yun Yi's voice also lowered, and everyone also knew that the possibility of finding high-yield food was very low, and if it was so easy to find, it would have been promoted everywhere a long time ago.

The grains that people often eat are rice, millet, millet, wheat, and mushroom, that is, grains and grains, and the yield per mu is average, Yunyi thinks of corn, potatoes, and sweet potatoes with a higher yield per mu, these three kinds of food can be suitable for a variety of land, if these three kinds of food appear, then Yun's food crisis will be completely solved, but Yunyi does not know if there are these three kinds of food in this world.