Chapter 9: Can't Escape the Silence
"What regrets are not in the beginning? Your decision is right, if it weren't for these Song soldiers, we would have been attacked and killed by the Western Xia people a long time ago! Old man Wang Qi said. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
Then he said: "Actually, all this blames me, if it weren't for such a loud voice, it wouldn't have attracted the attention of Chongyu, so that he would find that there is a treasure like sweet potatoes here!" ”
So nervous, just for a few sweet potatoes? Chen Jincai only realized that this time was ancient.
Sweet potatoes! This is the key to my Qing Dynasty, Kangxi, to become an emperor through the ages.
That said, it was miserable at the end! The national tax revenue was all taken back by a large group of civil officials, and as soon as Wei Zhongxian died, the tax revenue of the Ming Dynasty was a complete mess, and it was directly made in the treasury by the literati who persuaded the emperor not to compete with the people.
As a result, when the Xiaoice era came, the climate changed abruptly, disasters and famines broke out in the world, and hunger was everywhere, these clamored for lightness, and the officials and doctors in the world were full of money, but they were reluctant to take it out for disaster relief, and as a result, the world was full of smoke!
That's how the Ming Dynasty perished, will it be much better in the Qing Dynasty?
What a fart! In addition to killing a bit more, that land can be redistributed, and those who should be hungry still have to starve! Because those who were allotted the land were the banner men.
What did Kangxi use to make the world peaceful? It's this sweet potato!
Speaking of this sweet potato, it's not a kind of sweet potato that can be harvested a lot.
At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the imperial court also asked someone to make this thing, but they didn't know how to plant it at that time! The seedlings are neither divided nor plucked, nor are there any interspersed vines.
As a result, the farmers in a county did not harvest the grains, and it cannot be said that the grains were not harvested, but they collected some small sweet potatoes one by one, two fingers and three fingers the size, which were of little use to birds.
In fact, this is the result that agricultural science and technology have not studied that part, and if you have a good crop, you will not be able to grow it and will not be able to grow the yield, which is your own fault.
By the time of Kangxi in the Qing Dynasty, some farmers finally figured out how to plant this sweet potato, in fact, it is to properly pick some too many vines, but not too much, the right amount of fertilization will be, and the growth of sweet potatoes will be better.
The Kangxi Dynasty, who mastered this sweet potato planting technology, can make the world full of food, and there is also the title of the first emperor of the ages!
If he doesn't have sweet potatoes, he's a fart!
How serious the Eight Banners encircled back then! There are many, many people in the world who have no land and have to become tenants of others.
But the tenants were very miserable, and most of the land was taken by the banner people, and only barely enough to eat, maybe not enough food to eat, was kept for themselves.
In this way, even if you work hard all year round and have a good harvest, the food that comes out is not enough to eat, and you starve to death a lot every year.
But when the technology of planting sweet potatoes comes out, even if the harvest is handed over to eighty percent of the flag people, the remaining two percent is enough for the family to eat until the next year!
Because this sweet potato is so high-yielding!
Especially in Xindi, it's even more productive!
Before a piece of land has never been planted with sweet potatoes, it is called a new land for planting sweet potatoes, especially those slopes and mountains that have never been cultivated, and the yield is ridiculously high!
To what extent is the yield of sweet potatoes high? Let's make a comparison with wheat.
In ancient times, two stones, or even three stones, could only be used for two stones, or even three stones, and the best land could only be used for five stones.
So how much grain is in five stones? It is said that in ancient times, there were 77 catties of one stone, and the highest output of five stones was less than 400 catties of grain.
And what about sweet potatoes? In the worst place, the lowest yield is more than 2000, but 2000 is indeed rare, and the worst is generally more than 3000 catties.
If it's good land, fertilize it! If other means are used, in modern times, the yield per mu in some places can reach more than 12,000 catties, what a terrible yield!
But the sweet potato, one of the things is that it's hard to absorb.
For eating sweet potatoes, there is a proverb called: "One hundred catties of sweet potatoes ninety-six catties of dung, and four catties of skin!" ”
So people who eat this thing too much, in general, will not have a good complexion, but you can't deny that it can make you full.
Let the people of the world be fed, this is something that the emperors of all dynasties have not done, and Kangxi has actually done it, which is one of the reasons why he is called the first emperor of the ages by others.
It doesn't matter to him who manages the peasants and which emperor sits in the world, all he wants is to have a full stomach.
Whoever can let me eat my stomach is Mingjun, this is the most simple idea in the farmer's mind!
Who would have thought that Kangxi's name as the first emperor of the ages was actually earned by sweet potatoes!
Chen Jincai finally thought about the importance of sweet potatoes, and also understood the idea of planting jade and wanting sweet potatoes.
It's just a few sweet potatoes, I want to give it to him! Why do you want to make a fuss, to the point of almost turning your face?
Even from the time he came in, until now, he hadn't seen Li Mingtai and Kong Gao.
Where have they gone?
As soon as Chen Jincai said these questions, Yang Zhi said: "Li Mingtai and Kong Gao brought some literate people, most of whom were the original scholar soldiers, to help these former bandits who came to this place to develop now their own soldiers and find their families!" ”
"Only when the family members come here will they calm down and do what they have to do!"
As he spoke, he snorted his teeth and said with a headache: "It's the matter of planting jade, we also thought about it, give him a few, and let him go back to breeding!" ”
"I never thought that he was unwilling!"
"He said that this kind of crop is a God-given treasure, and the virtuous live in it, but we and other mountain and weeds can keep it for ourselves?"
"So he's going to ship all the sweet potatoes back and leave none of them for us!"
"Wouldn't it? Have the old breeders always been so domineering? Chen Jincai asked in surprise.
In Chen Jincai's memory, the generals of the Great Song Dynasty have always rarely caused trouble, and they are afraid of being impeached by civilian officials!
"It's the grandson of the little race, they have a good reputation in the northwest and border states, but this time it's an exception!" Yang Zhi was also puzzled.
At this time, the old man Wang Qi smiled and spoke: "You guys, you just have brains that don't use it!" ”
When the old man saw that all the attention was on him, he smiled proudly and said, "Why do you think that I called those just now, and that the woman and the child were hiding in the courtyard?" I'm afraid that those people will come and rob them! ”
"Those women and children, with knives and guns, cut people, I'm afraid they won't take any advantage, but if they just chop those sweet potatoes inside, there are not many anyway, and it's not enough for them to chop them all at once!"
"This is to eliminate the idea of planting jade and they want to come to force the practice, because he is afraid that we will destroy these sweet potato seeds, because he doesn't know that the vines of sweet potatoes are much better than seeds!"
"Sweet potatoes really can't be given to them, give them them, and everyone in our castle can't escape the fate of being wiped out!" (To be continued.) )