Chapter 613 [Potatoes and Guano First Update]
Yingqu Liang really deserves to be a monarch with great wisdom, as soon as Bai Dong said it, he understood, as the so-called 'husband has seen the mountains and flowing water, then he will not delay in the dangerous road' to put it bluntly, Ping'an Lang is to let the Chinese hundred schools see the so-called clever legal system of the Greeks in advance, and when China and Greece really intersect in the future, they will not suffer from the impact and cause great changes.
Aristotle is actually a window to the Western world, allowing Chinese people to get a glimpse of the infinite spring ~ light of the Aegean Sea in advance
The window that Bai Dong wants to open is not only Aristotle, but now the larger 'panoramic skylight' has also been prepared, and this Hangu Pass will completely open it, so that all the princes of the world will be dumbfounded.
Personally released a strong iron-backed black falcon, looking at it in the direction of Luoyi, Bai Dong suddenly smiled and glanced at Yingquliang: "Your Majesty, let me make a bet with you, the most exciting thing about this Hangu meeting is not the monarch and his subordinates, nor the princes of various countries, but my grandfather, do you believe it or not?" ”
"I don't bet on this, yesterday I saw Gongzi Shun who returned from the 'Sea Continent', and the thing he brought called 'potatoes' really tasted good, as you said, it can be eaten steamed, boiled, fried, and eaten as food or vegetables. Can this thing really produce 300 catties per acre of land? It's no joke! ”
Since the rise of the Qin State from the West, the establishment of the General Department of the World Banking Industry, the spread of knowledge in a hundred forums, and the change of Zhou Tianzi's name to the Holy Emperor, there has been no major war for more than ten years today, and the consequence is the population surge. Even with Bai Dong's idea of promoting fine craftsmanship and the advent of Quyuan pear, Lao Qin began to encounter a food crisis after ten years of abundant grain in the warehouse. Not to mention the rest of the countries. Except for the unique prodigal son of the Chu State. It is difficult for Lao Qin and Shandong countries not to worry about food.
For this reason, Yingquliang specifically asked economist Du Zhi: "Lao Qin's grain production is now increasing. But why did they start running out of food? It is the business of the great farmers to increase the grain production, and it is your great business to ensure the livelihood of the people with the average grain, so do the widows want to punish you? ”
Du Zhi was sweating when he heard it: "Your Excellency doesn't know, ten years ago, the Qin State wanted to be strong, the country was weak and the people were poor, so a slight change is that there is enough food; Today, the Qin State wants to dominate, the country is strong and the soldiers are sufficient, and the grain of the official tun can protect the disaster year and use the army for three consecutive years! Therefore, the lack of food is also the silver standard. Take the Western Regions, control Persia, trade routes, all the people in the world go to Persia, except for silk and porcelain tea, the grain of China is also a commodity, and there are Shandong merchants who buy grain from Qin and enter Persia, in exchange for economic prosperity, but the grain of China flows into the West."
So Yingquliang came to Bai Dong and asked: "Food is fundamental, what are you going to do?" Sold all the grain you ate to the Persians and even the Greeks and Romans farther away, do you want to starve the Chinese to death in foreign countries? No way. The widow must give you an explanation! ”
"Your Majesty still doesn't understand what the real commodity economy is, you only saw that China's grain was sold to Persia, but why didn't you see Persia's wool, goat's milk, silver, black iron, and gold being exchanged for China? These things are useful for Huaxia. It's also a real hard currency for the Western world. ”
Bai Dong shook his head and said to Yingqu Liang: "Eastern China can conquer the Western Regions and control Persia, can it continue to conquer Greece and Rome?" After all, it was too far away, and it would take our horses a whole month to get there, so it was unrealistic. Therefore, the best way for China to conquer the Western Regions was to control Persia, and the best way to deal with the Greco-Romans west of the Mediterranean was to influence. When Westerners began to be inseparable from China's grain, would they still be hostile to China? As for the problem of food, it is easy to solve, Gongzi Shun went to the continent of the sea three years ago, half a month ago I received a message from his flying eagle, I should be able to return to China soon, he brought a novel crop of the continent of the sea, if it is planted in a large area, the food crisis in China will be easily solved, and I guarantee that Westerners will fall in love with this thing called 'potato' like a hot lover, they will be madly obsessed with it This thing can produce three hundred catties per acre, and this is the lowest yield! ”
In the pre-Qin period, the area of one mu was about one-tenth of that of later generations, and according to the yield of potatoes per mu in later generations of about 5,000 catties, the yield of these crops with strong adaptability to the land was really nothing of 300 catties.
Gongzi Shun made meritorious service, he was sent by Bai Dong to discover the new continent of America three years ago, but his preparation was more adequate than Columbus, and the conditions were more superior, he led a fleet of up to 2,000 people through the Strait of Gibraltar to resist the Americas through the Atlantic, Bai Dong gave him the task not to expand the territory, but to bring back to the Americas potatoes, tomatoes, sweet potatoes, corn and other high-yield crops on the first voyage, peppers are also necessary, this thing is not only eaten by northerners, It is also an inseparable condiment in the future, and in the south where the climate is humid and rheumatism, chili pepper is the supreme god of longevity and fitness!
Of course, there is also the famous struvite in South America, the struvite accumulated on the long coastline is now calculated in 10,000 tons, which is the culmination of the excrement of countless birds, and it is free to pull without money!
Even in the Age of Discovery, this is the world's first organic biochemical fertilizer that changed Europe in one fell swoop! These are all treasures! The people of the farmer's house will tremble with excitement when they see it. In fact, Xu Zi of the farmer had been in a coma three times after seeing the American guano brought by Gongzishun, and after waking up for the last time, he was even more happy to lie on the guano pile and roll, and then got up and hugged Gongzishun deeply, and Gongzishun was disgusted and vomited
With these guano droppings, Bai Dong is confident that he can make the yield of potatoes reach 500 catties per mu on the experimental field he has demarcated, and with the strong soil resources of this era, it can even surpass the yield of later generations!
In the eyes of the excited Bai Dong, Yingquliang saw potatoes and pieces of guano, so he chose to believe in Ping An Lang this time. I believe that just like Bai Dong said, these potatoes, corn, tomatoes and guano are definitely ten thousand times more precious than gold. Under Bai Dong's encouragement, now he was trembling at the thought of guano like a farmer's Xu Zi, so he sent Xu Zi to plunge into the strung stone.
"So you don't have to worry about how much economic benefits the Shandong countries will get from Persia and the West, the West is so big, the sea continent is so big, and the world is so big, the princes of all countries don't want to go and see it? In the future, the contradictions between the eastern countries will only be small internal contradictions, and as long as they are not stupid, they will understand that the interests of the West and the sea are what they want to pursue at this stage, but without the help of the Qin State, they will never be able to reach the Western world and the continent of the sea! ”
Now to Gongzishun 'discovered' the new continent only through the actual control of the Qin State through Persia, through the Mediterranean Sea through the Strait of Gibraltar is the safest and most convenient passage, and when the Qin State completely opens up the Mediterranean channel, even the supplies along the way are held in the palm of the Qin State, not afraid that these vassal states will not bow their heads. Unless someone is not afraid to die and wants to cross the stormy and unsupplied Pacific Ocean to discover the west coast of the Americas, it is simply an impossible task in this day and age.
"Are you sure that the princes of the world will obey Lao Qin to become the overlord?"
"I'm sure, and I'm 100% sure! Zhou Tianzi will happily announce that the Qin State will once again become the overlord, and the Qin State will also let the vassal states see the huge benefits from the far west and the continent of the sea, just with potatoes and guano, not afraid that they will not bow their heads! ”
Bai Dong smiled and clenched his fists, Yingquliang looked at him deeply, nodded vigorously, and also clenched his fists! He slapped Bai Dong on the shoulder, then stretched out his thumb and said, "Ping An Lang, now the widow understands that you are not bragging?" Where will it take fifty years for Lao Qin to dominate the world, and it won't take twenty years to do it! ”
"Where, this is all the posture of the monarch and the ability of Daliang to make changes, otherwise what can your subordinates do?" (To be continued.) )