Chapter 68 The foundation determines the building

In any dynasty, in fact, as long as it can make people full, there are not so many things. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Although there are people who pick up the bowl to eat and put down the bowl and scold their mother, eating a full meal is the premise of all other labor, and it is also the basis of all spiritual enjoyment.

When there is enough to eat, people will build more houses; After eating enough, people will think about how to better educate the next generation; Only when there is enough food will people do business and do business.

Only when the majority of the people in the whole society can have enough to eat, can the society produce a more detailed division of labor, do scientific research and do scientific research, produce luxury goods and produce luxury goods, and more people will join in the 360 lines, so that the whole society can progress.

Philosophers summed up this behavior and result in a classic phrase: the material base determines the superstructure.

Philosophers like to summarize most of the world's truths in simple language, and this sentence is a classic phrase that has been proven over the past century.

This applies fully to individuals, groups, and countries.

Whether it is for love, or for friendship, or for national conditions, this article is completely compatible.

Ancient people ran around every day for food, and the harvest was not good in disaster years, and it was even more common to gnaw tree bark and eat wild vegetables.

Hungry, he can't wait to throw you in the pot and cook it, he can't eat enough, where is there more strength to do other things.

In the same way, the same is true of the state, the whole country has no money at all, the people do not have enough to eat, and they want to rebel one after another, and the country has no spare time to study, to build prisons, to build an army.

The leaders of the country are eager to slaughter you for money, let alone do anything else.

Therefore, the amount of material base that a country can possess ultimately determines the level to which its superstructure can develop.

Jiang Yin's high-yield crops promoted and planted in the New Song Dynasty have been harvested in the first quarter, and the average yield per mu of the entire New Song Dynasty has reached 2,000 catties in four states and counties, and this yield has been higher than Jiang Yin's estimated value, and the sixteen counties in the four states have planted a total of more than 194,000 mu of land, if multiplied by the average yield per mu of 2,000 catties, a quarter has produced a total of 38.8 million catties of food.

This kind of yield is nothing to Jiang Yin, a modern person, and even in the south of later generations, this kind of yield can be completed by only three crops of rice a year in a local county.

But for the Song people a thousand years ago, this kind of yield was like gold growing in the ground, and they had never seen such a high yield in the land in their lives.

In fact, there is no shortage of food in the New Song Dynasty now, Jiang Yin, as a traverser who can return to the modern era at any time, can wholesale modern grain in large quantities, just like he sent old grain to the New Song Kingdom at the beginning, there is absolutely no pressure to reach millions of catties.

But bringing food only from the afterlife is by no means the path to development for a healthy country.

Jiang Yin didn't want to build a deformed country by himself, like the Soviet Union when the United States and the Soviet Union were competing for hegemony, with very developed industry, agriculture but lame and short.

In this kind of country, there is no material foundation, and it insists on developing the superstructure, and as a result, when the people are living in difficulty and the food and materials are scarce to the extreme, the whole country will begin to split from the inside.

The Soviet Union was also helpless in the end, developing from a defenseless socialist country to a world-class superpower capable of competing with the world's top powers, but in the end, due to the problem of material foundation, the entire edifice collapsed rapidly, and finally let the United States become a monopoly.

Jiang Yin would not let this happen in the New Song Kingdom, so he must also conform to the law of historical development and let the New Song Kingdom accumulate enough material foundation first.

This material basis is not a one-time reserve of hundreds of thousands of tons of grain, nor is it a direct accumulation of a large number of materials, but the ability of the whole society to produce grain on a large scale.

After this receipt, Jiang Yin can already announce that the current New Song Kingdom has the ability to produce grain on a large scale, and the grain produced by their local farmers can not only be enough to pay taxes and eat themselves, but can even produce a large surplus, which is the material to improve the lives of the people.

And for the people, no reassurance pill is as reassuring as a bumper harvest in their own fields.

Seeing those golden corn, red lumps of sweet potatoes, their hearts have already smiled, nothing is more exciting than a bumper harvest of grain, although in the new Song Dynasty, they are no longer worried because they can't eat enough, but thousands of years engraved in their bones to cherish the grain still make them excited.

For these, Jiang Yin is not too excited, in later generations, planting corn and sweet potatoes is recognized as hurting the land, although these high-yield crops have high yields, but the nutrients they draw from the land are also very large, if a piece of land is planted with sweet potatoes and corn for three consecutive years, it will soon become a waste land, and the crops planted on it can only grow small and weak.

Therefore, sweet potatoes and corn can only be planted once a year, and after a year of planting, they can only be planted with hybrid rice and wheat to add some fertility to the land.

The overseas gentlemen who were in charge of promoting the high-yielding crops also explained the matter to the villagers, but the unprecedented harvest caused all the people to fall into a frenzied celebration, and they did not listen to what others said.

The news of the bumper harvest of high-yield crops in the New Song Kingdom also appeared in the "New Song Daily", and a copy of the "New Song Daily" that could be bought for only ten cents was also brought to the Great Song Dynasty with the caravan that came to Cangzhou to do business.....

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"Three thousand catties per mu?" Zhao Guangyi sat on the main hall of He Shitang and sneered at the corner of his mouth: "This new Song Kingdom is not only arrogant and arrogant, but also so credible, with a yield of 3,000 catties per mu, why doesn't he say that he has a yield of 10,000 catties per mu?" Can an acre of land be worth a big Song Dynasty? is so open-mouthed and sensational. I see that this small country is about to run out! ”

"What Your Majesty said is reasonable, the yield per mu is 3,000 catties, this kind of thing dares to be written on the paper in black and white for people to circulate, this puppet dynasty is also a big joke in the world, and the country will die!" Prime Minister Zhao Pu also hurriedly agreed.

"Yes, yes, what Your Majesty said is very true...."More than a dozen high-ranking officials of His Royal Highness also expressed their attitudes one after another.

After listening to the compliments of His Highness for a while, Zhao Guangyi asked Zhao Pu with satisfaction: "Zeping, I heard yesterday that the envoy I sent to the Liao State has returned, what is the attitude of the Liao State?" ”

Zhao Pu held a jade cup, a little entangled and a little confused: "Back to Your Majesty.... Listening to what the envoy said, Weichen actually felt that this Liao Kingdom seemed to be a little afraid of the New Song Kingdom....."

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