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Tang Yi still remembered that in later generations, Xiaozhan rice was a good thing that was well-known at home and abroad, and the cooked rice was fragrant and delicious, and it was widely popular, but he moved to live in Xiaozhan and found no signs of planting rice, and he was puzzled.

He simply found the county chronicles of Tianjin, studied them carefully, and looked for answers.

The history of planting rice in a small station is quite long, from the Song and Liao periods, there are records of Tuntian, when the Liao State and the Great Song Dynasty were bounded by the Haihe River, and the Great Song Dynasty in order to resist the southern invasion of the cavalry, it was on its own side, vigorously tuntian, and planted rice. It is hoped that the water fields, mud ponds, and canals will form a defensive line to block the iron cavalry of the Liao State.

From a military point of view, the tuntian plan, of course, was not economical enough, and was later abandoned, and since then, in all dynasties, there have been people who value the anointed land of the Tianjin generation, and write to the imperial court at that time to reclaim and farm.

Seeing this, Tang Yi secretly wiped his sweat, and said in his heart that he didn't immediately point fingers and find the county chronicles to study, which was really right, otherwise it would be a joke.

He wondered why there had been proposals throughout the ages, but in the end they had not been implemented.

Tang Yi focused on the records after the founding of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Di once sent soldiers to Tianjin Tuntian, during the Hongzhi period, the minister Qiu Jun proposed in Zhigu "cut off the river, open a long river, collect its flow and divide its water, and then build a long causeway in the frustration place, with each water gate, to open and close." The outside is to intercept salt water, so that it is not allowed to enter, and the inside is to collect fresh water, so that it will not be immersed. ”

Qiu Jun's purpose is to "turn the repudiation into fertile land".

Tang Yi finally woke up like a dream, the small station is close to the sea, the terrain is low-lying, prone to salinization, it is completely okay to grow rice, but it is necessary to build water conservancy, to put it bluntly, it is necessary to continue to invest silver, when the court has money, there is also motivation, Tuntian can succeed, once the financial difficulties, there is no investment, over time, it will be wasted.

If you can't afford to make no profit, planting rice in Tianjin, is it a profit or a loss?

After some research, Tang Yi reluctantly found that the past dynasties lost more and earned less, and the reason for this is also very simple, firstly, the investment is not enough, and the scale cannot be formed, and secondly, compared with the grain from the south, the cost of rice in the small station is high and the price of rice is expensive.

Tang Yi is ambitious, he wants to become holy, it is not enough to rely on a few books, he wants to do something that really benefits the country and the people, and he does not dare to forget the country, in order to move people's hearts, Ma Zheng is one, and food is also one.

As long as it can be done, it will definitely be of great help to his reputation, don't you see that the old-timer Wang Anshi is in the local governance, with outstanding political achievements, and thirty years of prestige, before he dominates the world in one fell swoop and implements the law?

There is a ready-made experience, how can you not learn it.

Of course, Tang Yi is not a "bad man", and he will not run all the way to the dark. Tang Yi found through research that in the past, in addition to his own use, grain was supplied to the capital and competed with Cao Grain.

Don't forget, around the canal, there is also a huge Caoyun group, how can these people allow a grain base to appear on the edge of the capital. Some people secretly make things bad, and I am afraid it is also one of the reasons why Tianjin Tuntian repeats itself.

Today's situation is a little different, the biggest difference is that after Tianjin as a port, the city developed, and the citizens went straight to the millions.

It is a huge market in itself, although the grain in the southeast is still supplied, but the cities are bigger, there is more need, and the grain in the south is not unlimited, and the cities in the south are expanding faster, and they all need to transfer grain from Jiangxi and Huguang, and the result is that the price of rice has almost doubled in a few years.

At this time, it was definitely profitable to supply grain to Tianjin in Tuntian, a small station, from the perspective of the market.

After settling the account, Tang Yi came to confidence, he first found Yu Dayou and put forward his own ideas, of course Yu Dayou agreed.

The imperial court's food and salary are limited, and there is often a shortage, so it is absolutely impossible to ask for your own farm.

Opinions are unified, but how to start, Tang Yi does not have a quasi-score, he is not omniscient, and water conservancy is a blank.

Coincidentally, at the beginning of the year, Pan Jitao, the governor of Guangdong, was transferred to the capital as an official. Passing through Tianjin, just as "The Wealth of Nations" was a big hit, Pan Jitao came to the small station with some officials to visit Tang Yi.

Tang Yi was very excited when he saw Pan Jitao, this is a recognized genius of water control, even the Yellow River is cleaned up obediently, this trouble of the small station, in his opinion, is definitely not a problem.

Tang Yi warmly entertained Pan Jitao, and talked about his idea of preparing Tuntian, Pan Jitao greatly appreciated, and personally spent ten days in person, circled around the small station a few times, and finally came up with his plan when he left.

Based on his experience in Guangdong, Pan Jitao adopted the method of enclosing the field for farming.

The pattern of the enclosure is "one side of the river, three sides of the canal, and the river water." The depth and breadth are one zhang and five feet, and the embankment is built on all sides to prevent waterlogging, and the height and thickness of the embankment are seven feet, and the system of the ditch in the middle is divided into threads.

The "cross enclosure" is on the right bank of the Haihe River. The main trunk canal around the ground is dug to a depth of two zhang, which is conducive to drainage and lowering the groundwater level, reducing the salinity of the soil, and using the two tides of the Haihe River a day to divert water for irrigation and discharge tail water, so that the salinity of the soil is reduced. This method is suitable for low-lying and above-ground areas with abundant water.

If Tang Yi got the treasure, he immediately found Yu Dayou, and according to Pan Jitao's method, 3,000 soldiers, two months, sorted out 20,000 acres of enclosed fields.

In April, the rice was planted as scheduled.

The abundant water and abundant nutrients brought by the Haihe River nourished the Xiaozhan rice, and the growth was gratifying, and according to Tang Yi's suggestion, many ducks were stocked in the rice fields.

Compared to raising horses in the orchard, raising ducks in the rice fields yields faster results.

Rice ducks can eat weeds and pests, excreted feces can fertilize the field, and the ducks continue to turn over in the rice field, but also play a role in raking the effect, and turn the mud, can reduce the photosynthesis of weeds, increase oxygen, and promote the growth of rice seedlings...... All in all, the benefits are too numerous to mention.

In the autumn, when it was time to harvest, most of the soldiers brought by Yu Dayou were southerners, and when they were at home, they had planted paddy fields, but the harvest of the small station still surprised them.

The most fertile acre of rice actually yielded five stones and five buckets of rice, and the rest averaged about four stones. 20,000 acres of land actually produced more than 80,000 stone of grain. Incidentally, I got 200,000 fat rice ducks.

Yu Dayou immediately found the bookkeeper in the army, and carefully calculated, at present, in Beijing and Tianjin, one stone of good japonica rice costs two taels of silver, 80,000 stone of rice, according to the seventy percent rice production rate, that is, 56,000 stone of rice, 3,000 soldiers, one stone of rice per month, a year, but 36,000 stone, that is, 20,000 stone can be sold.

20,000 stone of rice is 40,000 taels of silver, plus 200,000 ducks, according to 10 taels of silver, it is 20,000 taels, and the total is 60,000 taels!

Sixty thousand taels!

Yu Dayou almost gritted his back molars and squeezed these words out of his throat!

When I first bought the land, due to the countless barren fields, the most expensive ones were only six or seven cents of silver per acre, and the cheap ones were only two or three cents. When Yu Dayou discussed with the local officials, they were very generous, and allocated 50,000 mu to Yu Dayou in one go, and promised to wait until after the autumn harvest to pay the money for buying land.

In the eyes of the magistrates of the prefecture and county, they can't make any money at all in Tianjin Tuntian, they respect Yu Dayou's character, plus there is Tang Yi, a great god, which is nothing more than giving a little face.

But who knows, not only did Tuntian succeed, but it was still a great success!

On the night of the harvest, Yu Dayou personally carried a bag of rice, went to Tang Yi's house, and asked him to taste the new rice.

Yu Dayou grinned, not to mention how proud he was.

Tang Yi had a solemn face, "Brother, you'd better hurry up and find the Qingxian Yamen, as well as the Tianjin Mansion." ”

"What do you mean?"

"Hurry up and buy all the wasteland, even if you borrow money, you have to buy it, or in a few days, the name of Tianjin rice will be known to everyone, at that time, the gods and goddesses all over the world will come to grab the fields, can you fight others?"

Yu Dayou was so frightened that he jumped up, didn't even eat dinner, ran away, returned to the camp, took two hundred cavalry, and killed the yamen at all levels.

is worthy of leading the troops, Yu Dayou is simply doing things, the knife is on his neck, and he turns it down in a circle, except for the owner's field, around the small station, seventy percent of the wasteland has fallen into Yu Dayou's hands.

The battle for the field is more tiring than the fight in battle,

Yu Dayou still has to feel lucky, because Tang Yi's reminder that a little later, so many fields will pass by him and his brothers.

Due to the continuous visits to Tang Yi, what he did was watched, and when he heard that Lord Tang had a bumper harvest, many people bought some rice and gave it to relatives and friends.

Under a taste, it is amazing, the rice grains are oval, crystal clear, very little white, white and shiny, there is a fragrance when cooking, the rice grains are complete, soft but not mushy, the taste is good, it is not hard after cold, and the fragrance is delicious.

When used to cook porridge, it is crystal clear, like jasper, and it tastes no less than wine elixir, hearty.

Compared with the best japonica rice in the south of the Yangtze River, it is much more delicious, and it has been famous for a while, and many people are asking, where is the rice produced, and it is so good?

When I asked, I found out that it was actually obtained by Lord Tang in Tuntian, Tianjin.

"Lord Tang has the people in mind, works tirelessly, and does it himself, isn't it God's help to grow such a superb rice?"

Tang Yi has the momentum of transcendent sainthood, and the things that are connected with him are more mysterious.

Since the rice was obtained by Yu Dayou's tuntian, everyone named his military station in tuntian, called "soldier station rice", or "small station rice", and some people also called it "Tang's rice" in private. All in all, the small station rice was an instant hit.

Not only people outside knew, but even Jiajing tasted Xiaozhan rice.

The rice was fragrant, and Jiajing's appetite was so great that he actually drank two bowls of porridge, but he usually couldn't even drink one bowl. Huang Jin grinned and waited carefully, Jiajing wiped his mouth and said with a smile: "This Tang Yi is really a talent, he can toss and move there, I really want to transfer him back to the capital." (To be continued.) )