After understanding, now Sichuan is about 200 catties of rice per mu, and it is still relatively good land, and some water and heat conditions are slightly worse at all, Sichuan now has about 25 million people, arable land is about 70 million mu, the average per person is less than three mu, according to the current output is estimated to be more than 200 catties of grain per person per year, which also includes sweet potatoes, beans have become the staple food.

If it can be reasonably distributed, it will barely ensure food and clothing, but due to layers of exploitation, the people are busy for a year, and the year is a little better is barely satisfied, Sichuan's agriculture is relatively good in the country, and other provinces are far from Sichuan.

Absolutely not, the current people are definitely not lazy than later generations, how many people are working in the fields all day, intensive farming, but even if these are done to the extreme, Qiao Yu estimates that the production capacity of rice per mu has reached 300 catties is already a great blessing, this is the law of biology, not people can change, you don't provide enough nutrients to crops, don't expect to be able to get high yields, relying on farm fertilizer is useless, a person's lifetime excretion is calculated to be dozens of catties of fertilizer nutrients.

If you want to get a bumper harvest in agriculture, you have to rely on chemical fertilizer input, this is the truth, "Mr. Shi, China has been alternating chaos since ancient times, the reason is the land problem, to put it bluntly, it is the problem of food, the amount of land is always limited, and the grain output is also limited, when the growth of these two cannot catch up with the speed of population growth, people will be hungry, coupled with natural disasters [***] There will be large-scale displaced people, and at this time it is inevitable to change the dynasty, and then reduce the total population after cruel wars." and then start the cycle all over again! ”

Shi Dingzhong and Tang Yisheng were listening carefully to Qiao Yu's words, savoring the meaning, and after listening, Shi Dingzhong slapped his thigh again and again: "Da Shuai can see it thoroughly, this is the mystery of the rise and fall of chaos, Da Shuai said it in one word, it is really an empowerment!" ”

Tang Yisheng is the same: "When I was studying in the United States, I also kept thinking about how China was like being cursed, how could it not break through this strange circle, so that it was even taken advantage of by foreign races and fell to the point where it is today, it is really sad and lamentable, now it seems that it is an agricultural problem, that is, a food problem, if we can make the production of food always exceed the rate of population growth, we can prosper forever, and the rest of the things are trivial!" ”

"I also walked around in Tibetan Province to have these feelings, Tibet's agriculture is too backward than ours, it can't carry too many people, those nobles don't treat people as honest and benevolent, there is a serfdom system, and for example, many families now have more than a dozen children, but half of them can survive, and even many places have the tradition of drowning babies, it is parents who don't love their children, I don't think so! So how can we treat the disappearance of small lives indifferently, in the final analysis, it is a food problem, because there is not enough to eat, so children do not even have the dignity to survive! ”

"Since ancient times, there has been a saying that the son eats easily, if it is not extremely hungry, how can this happen? However, how can Dashuai's land produce more food, this is not a simple matter, and countless people with lofty ideals have not broken this spell for thousands of years! Shi Dingzhong said with emotion on the side: "I don't know if our generation can find a way, otherwise we will have to experience war and chaos, and hundreds of millions of compatriots will not be able to die?" ”

Tang Yisheng's face also became grim: "I think there are only two ways to solve the food problem, one is to continuously expand the area of fields, that is, to continue to expand, but now that the world has been divided, we are still a piece of meat in the eyes of the great powers, where can we expand, the rest is to continue to increase the yield per mu, as long as the output can be greatly increased, we can jump out of the cycle of rise and fall!" Tang Yisheng's eyes kept flashing, but then they were also a little dim, easy to say, how difficult to do.

"What I just said is just the law of agricultural society, under the conditions of agricultural society, no matter how intensively cultivated, the output is limited, but now the Western powers have entered the industrial age, their grain output has been greatly improved, the mystery is in the chemical fertilizer, only crops provide enough fertilizer, can produce enough food, this is the direction of our future efforts, to vigorously introduce technology from the West, the production of chemical fertilizers, but also to cultivate improved seeds, renovate water conservancy projects, Provide enough food so that China can prosper forever! ”

Shi Dingzhong nodded again and again: "What the marshal said is right, but the current can't do this, many farmers don't even have cattle, and there are even worse ones that even the iron farm tools are not complete, hoes, shovels are wrapped with a layer of iron sheet on the blade, and the rest of the place is made of hardwood, how can you expect such a tool to work!" It turns out that we don't have a steel plant and there is no way, now Yucheng Iron and Steel Plant has an eyebrow, I believe it won't be long before Sichuan's farm tools can have a huge change! ”

Although Qiao Yu no longer expects to be able to quickly change the face of China, but the reality is always a lot more cruel than imagined, China's backward world is too much, there are too many things to do, those martyrs in later generations will build a poor and white China into an industrial country, although they have made a lot of mistakes, but as a traverser still have to be impressed by their courage, even if Qiao Yu has the insight of later generations, he does not dare to say that he has enough courage to change the world, but they can dare to say that the moon is a new sky, I have to admire!

"Mr. Shi, we must make a long-term plan for agricultural development, and even plan out the agricultural development ideas for the next 20 years, our eyes can not only be limited to Sichuan, but also see Yunnan, Guizhou, and even the whole country, no matter which step there is grain in hand, do not panic, the more grain production, the better, in addition, we must set a minimum purchase price, to prevent the occurrence of grain and cheap farmers!"

When Shi Dingzhong and Tang Yisheng heard Qiao Yu's words, they both knew in their hearts, this Sichuanbian patrol envoy really had ambitions for the whole country, otherwise how could they focus on the whole country! But it's good to have this kind of ambition, who doesn't have a little ambition in their hearts.

Since Tao Chengzhang's death, Qiao Yu has no hope for constitutionalism, he can only strengthen his own power, establish an industrial system little by little, develop agriculture, and accumulate strength, whether it is ten years or twenty years, after all, China can have a day of arrogance in the world, from today onwards, there is only one way to throw off his arms and work hard.

"Old Tang, it seems that there is a lot of precipitation this year, can the embankments still hold up?"

Tang Yisheng's face was a little grim: "Dashuai, there are some difficulties, the main problem is still in the Xufu in southern Sichuan, Luzhou, which is the place where the main and tributaries of the Yangtze River meet, the amount of water is originally very large, and now the precipitation is continuous, and the water level is rising rapidly, I came back this time, and I also asked for help from Dashuai!" ”

"Water and fire are ruthless, so let's mobilize 200,000 yuan of materials first, and I will personally go to southern Sichuan with you to see, and when necessary, I will mobilize the soldiers of the Sichuan army and militias from all over the country for me, I must keep the embankment, and there must be no mistakes, if any local official dares to derelict his duties and joke with the people's net worth and surname, I will joke with his head!"