When the time came in the evening, Shi Bufan came to Qin's Restaurant for a few drinks, and Qin Jiarui was beside him. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

"Jia Rui, how is the recent cooperation with Liu Yi and the Liu family? Liu Xun is the governor of Nankang Prefecture, and the Liu family is one of the wealthy families in Jiangnan, and even Liu Xun is likely to become the spokesperson of the Jiangnan Hao clan in our court, so if we can win their favor, it will be of great benefit to us. Shi Bufan asked.

Qin Jiarui said: "I asked people to go to the people of the wealthy family in Jiangnan to discuss, but the people of the Liu family in the capital are noble, and they don't seem to see any benefit in this." They don't think there's any benefit to sailing, so they're a little hesitant to work with us. ”

Shi Bufan thinks that this is also true, because for overseas development, in fact, before obtaining benefits, it is very good that some people are willing to develop in the name of the official. Many people think that ancient China did not like to explore overseas, which is actually a very huge misunderstanding, because China has such a huge land, and even the land can not be fully digested, how to develop overseas? What's more, the so-called Western exploration of overseas is not because of how much pioneering they have, but because they are too poor. That's right, they are too poor, they have less land, and then they staged the result of capitalist "sheep eating people" again, how can they succeed if they don't open up?

The pressure of survival is the basis for their external development, and of course, they have also completed the progress of productivity and started social transformation. Catch the strong aggressive outward opening of social transformation, so that it can be successful. As for China, it was supposed to be during the Ming Dynasty, which was basically the same as the West, when it began a period of social transition, but the West succeeded because of this. China's social transformation could not continue due to the entry of the Manchu Qing Dynasty and excessive killing, and it was unable to take advantage of this period of social transition to open up.

The nature of the manor economy and the landlord economy made it impossible for them to have the idea of opening up to the outside world. In the eyes of the feudal landlords, they would gain a large amount of land and lose a large number of people by opening up abroad, so that if there was more land and less population, they would inevitably have to pay more to attract those peasants to rent land.

This is actually the same reason that later capitalists, in times of economic crisis, would rather destroy commodities than give them to the suffering people. Because they would rather destroy than let the market demand diminish. The ancients may not have really understood this kind of superficial economic knowledge, but they also realized it. In this way, it is impossible for the landlords to rule the country with too many pioneering ideas.

"The Governor's Mansion of Southern Kangzhou, the jurisdiction is really big! This Southern Kangzhou Governor's Mansion is almost the area of three or four provinces in later generations! Shi Bufan looked at the map of the Tang Dynasty and thought.

This Southern Kangzhou Governor's Mansion, which is actually managed by Liu Xun, is actually very large. This Nankang was in the Jiangxi area in later generations, but the Governor's Office actually managed not only its own state, but also many "branch counties", and the scope of management of this Nankang Prefecture was almost from Jiangxi to Hunan, and even to Anhui and Zhejiang, managing the area of several provinces in later generations.

Of course, during the Tang Dynasty, these areas basically did not have much population. It is not only the area that determines the status of a region, but also the comprehensive conditions. Population is also a factor, or there are many other political factors. Don't look at the area of the Nankang Prefecture Governor's Mansion is very large, but in fact, it was a "poor and remote country" in the Tang Dynasty, but it had no status.

"Garry, do you know what is best for growing in Southern Connecticut? Nankang is the most suitable for growing an agricultural product called rice, which will inevitably replace the white flour and various miscellaneous grains that our people mainly eat in the Tang Dynasty in the future, and will become the most important food in our China. Shi Bufan said.

"Won't it?" Qin Jiarui was a little incredible.

Of course, Shi Bufan knew what the situation was in later generations, and perhaps many southerners in later generations mistakenly thought that northerners ate pasta, while southerners ate rice. However, in fact, the textbooks of middle school geography classes are obviously outdated, except for a few provinces in the north, others are actually mainly eating rice, and even many northern provinces also support rice in the south!

Rice will gradually replace as the most important source of food, but it has not yet been well developed. The main grain producing areas in China's history are constantly changing, the Tang Dynasty was the Central Plains and Guanzhong, and the Song Dynasty was "Suhu is ripe, the world is full". However, in the Ming and Qing dynasties, the commercial development of the Suchang area was not only not the main grain producing area, but relied on external support for grain. At that time, the main grain producing area was transferred to Huguang, which became "Huguang is ripe, and the world is full". During the Ming and Qing dynasties, even the north was completely insufficient in grain and needed to be transported from the south to the north from the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal to replenish it. Once the transportation is cut off for a month or two, the price of grain in the north will skyrocket, and the people will have no livelihood.

The main grain producing areas are constantly changing, so it is not a constant layer. However, at present, there is no shadow of what Suhu and Huguang are, but at present, Shi Bufan has found an opportunity, an opportunity to pull Liu Xun over, and even an opportunity to pull the Jiangnan Hao family over to become a potential strategic ally.

Shi Bufan took out a pen and said, "Didn't the Liu family say that there is no benefit?" I told them where the benefits were, and you went and asked someone to tell the Liu family that as long as you go to sea to a place in the south called Champong, there is a kind of rice called Champa rice. From planting to harvesting, this kind of Champa rice only takes more than 50 days, and can even be planted two or three times a year. With this kind of Zhancheng rice, it can be transferred to Huguang and Suchang, which are probably also under the control of Liu Xun. ”

"When the time comes, as long as this Champa rice is planted here, this Champa rice does not need much care, and we can directly adopt our cooperative method, and we can completely use a small number of people to grow a large amount of land. Although there may not be as much intensive farming, but the current population is small, it is completely possible to use this method first. Once intensive agricultural cultivation is adopted, the output of grain cultivation will skyrocket, and the grain supply in this single place will be enough to supply the current population of our whole country, and even if our whole country is ten times larger. ”

Qin Jiarui's eyes were even brighter, such a large amount of food was simply shocking. As a former innkeeper, can you not know the role of food for human beings? Food is almost the basis of human existence, and how many rebellions and uprisings have not been caused by lack of food? Of course, theoretically, as long as there is enough food, then this can maintain the complete stability of the country.

However, this is only "theoretical", food alone is definitely not enough, if there is no suitable wealth circulation channel, the huge food and huge productive forces will inevitably bring about the violent transformation of society, so that the social system will be reconstructed, that is, revolution.

"I'm adding a lot of firewood to the hot oil of Datang again. After a few years, once Champong rice was introduced, a large number of them were planted in the Jiangnan area, and the productivity of Datang increased tenfold. This is tantamount to putting Li Shimin, the emperor, in hot oil and frying, I'm afraid Li Shimin will be fried! Once Champong rice is introduced, the productivity will soar again, so that the social transformation of Datang will be more drastic, and Li Shimin will be even more inseparable from me. If we don't toss Datang into a period of social transition, we will not be stable. Shi Bufan thought.

Shi Bufan is so black-bellied, he is different from other traversers, other traversers are "killing and not buriing", only improving productivity, but they don't care about the social impact at all. Shi Bufan not only wants to improve productivity, but also uses this rolling torrent of productivity improvement to raise his own dignity and strive for more benefits for himself, and then let Li Shimin dare not do anything to him.

"Jia Rui, you go and tell the people of the Liu family, as long as Liu Xun completes this matter, then this will be extremely huge for Liu Xun in the future. Even Liu Xun can soar into the sky from then on and gain huge political capital. Even increasing Jiangnan's grain output in this way has extremely important benefits for Jiangnan to improve its status in my Datang, and I don't believe they are not tempted. ”

"Even this main rice producing area can not only be produced in Liuyi, but also in Bashu in Jiannan Province. When the time comes, I will send some to the Governor of Lizhou, I hope it will be too late! ”

Spreading the production of this rice as soon as possible, abandoning the intensive farming practices of the past, and directly adopting the production method of intensive agriculture will help to produce rice as soon as possible. Of course, intensive agriculture is certainly not as productive as intensive farming, and China's intensive farming is based on the relatively large population of Chinese and the relative shortage of land. The landlord manor economy promoted the development of intensive cultivation and the increase of grain yields.

However, everything cannot be dogmatic, at present, what Datang lacks most is population, and what is most lacking is human resources. If there is not enough population, then if we want to become productive as soon as possible, we must rely on large-scale intensive agriculture.

Anyway, there is no development in the south in this era, and the average land system of the Tang Dynasty has not been able to spread to the south soon, and a large amount of land in the south is in principle how much you can cultivate, then you can cultivate as much as you want, and no one will rob you, because the population in the south is relatively small.

The adoption of intensive agriculture is of great significance to the current lack of population, and the formation of productive forces as soon as possible, even if the yield per mu is not as good as that of intensive cultivation. Even if it is not as good as intensive cultivation, it is better to produce than not to produce, and it is better to have output than not to have output.

Moreover, intensive agriculture also has great benefits, and it has great benefits for the improvement of production technology. If the economic data of later generations show that the main grain suppliers in the country are not individual farmers, but large farmers, and even agricultural reclamation companies grow grain on a large scale. On the contrary, those retail investors mainly grow cash crops. By expanding the area, relatively saving planting costs, and promoting new agricultural technologies are the means to reduce costs and increase yields.

And these are not the retail households do not have to grow grain, so it is not that many people take it for granted that farmers are mainly growing grain, and retail farmers are already losing more and more money in growing grain, and the main grain suppliers in the country are already large grain growers and agricultural reclamation companies, and retail households are only a very small minority, so retail households grow grain at a loss, and they cannot compete with those large households. Large households and agricultural reclamation companies use a large number of agricultural machinery and advanced technology, and reduce the cost of various fertilizers and pesticides, and use wholesale prices to purchase, so that the cost of all aspects is compressed to the minimum, which is a condition that retail farmers do not have. Therefore, retail farmers are very poor in growing grain, which is one of the reasons for the complaints of many retail grain growers in later generations.

In the Tang Dynasty, the population was insufficient, and the promotion of intensive cultivation in advance, and the adoption of new horse farming and other advanced technologies could be considered to help increase productivity rapidly until it reached the stage of social transition or even higher.

"Okay, I'll ask someone to prepare right away and inform the Liu family of the corresponding situation. I think the Liu family should be tempted! Qin Jiarui said.

Shi Bufan shook his head and said: "It's not that the Liu family will be tempted, it's that the entire Jiangnan Hao clan will be tempted, and it is impossible for them to give up such a huge benefit." ”

In many cases, political influence is not only in the officialdom, but also in the final analysis, the government is just a tool of governance, and the real political influence is rooted in the local economic system, and even has the advantages that each occupies it. If the grain output of Jiangnan can increase sharply, once the grain output of Jiangnan surpasses that of the Central Plains and the north, then the rise of Jiangnan is inevitable. Even if there are not enough people in the officialdom for a while, their political influence will increase greatly, and the people of their wealthy families in the Jiangnan Dynasty in the officialdom may speak a lot more than others, which is the real influence, not the so-called official position can be said clearly. Officials of the same level, some of them don't fart loudly, and some of them don't dare to be despised even by the emperor, which is the influence behind it. Therefore, official positions do not mean influence, even if different people in the same official position, the influence may be very different.

Once Jiangnan's economic strength instantly surpasses that of the north, Jiangnan's political status will definitely fly up like a rocket, even if there are not too many people in the officialdom, but no one will dare to ignore it.

"Zhancheng rice is also a thing that makes Datang go further towards blazing cooking oil, and even flourishes to the point of crumbling and overdrawing Datang's national fortunes. Improve productivity and continue to overdraft Datang's national fortunes, so that Datang will definitely be inseparable from me. The grain output in the north and south has soared countless times at the same time, and if I don't help adjust, it is still a question whether Datang can surpass the century-old national fortune without my help to adjust! Even, fifty years will be stormy! Shi Bufan thought.

When Qin Jiarui continued to discuss things, there was a sudden noise outside the door, and there were a few words of half-baked Chinese.

(To be continued.) )