The little official said in a trembling voice: "Your Majesty, high yield, high yield." ”

Zhao Kuangyin almost wanted to kick him with his foot, and shouted: "How much is the high yield?" ”

The wheat has grown like this, how can it not be high-yielding, do you still need to say it? The little official continued to tremble and said, "Two hundred and ninety-one emperor catties." ”

"How about two hundred and ninety-one pounds?" Li Fang asked puzzled. The little official said: "Li Zhihao, it's not a catty, it's an emperor's catty, six stones and seventeen catties." ”

Zhao Kuangyin wanted to kick his feet again, what are you doing, why don't you directly say how many stones, so that Lao Tzu is still calculating in his heart. Then the ministers were petrified together. In fact, the academy has made great progress over the years, not only in Hezhou, which is a test site, but also in Song Jiu, which has promoted many farms, which is to use money to smash techniques and production. The wheat yield of the entire Song Dynasty was still very low, and it was definitely less than two stones, and some only had a few buckets, and one stone was insufficient. However, some of the high-yield wheat areas on the farm are more than two stones, and a few fields have high yields of more than three stones because of sufficient fertilizer, reasonable planting methods, and soil improvement at all costs.

But this yield did not exceed much, and it can only be said that many excellent seeds were obtained, which were selected and handed over to the state capitals for them to improve the seeds. However, the impact is not very large, after all, the seeds are not far apart, and they quickly degrade in private hands. Although Song Jiu spent a lot of money, it was impossible to meet the needs of the world's seeds with just those dozens of large farms, and if he wanted to meet the needs of more farms, as many as thousands, how much would it cost?

Even if you have that money, you still can't do it, and you can give it to the farmers to plant, because the planting method is not good. Or the fertilizer is insufficient, and it degrades in a year. The actual solution is still in the academy. The practice of the academy is to select individual plants from the field in one year and raise seedlings in the field in the second year. Three years of promotion in the field, and then select a single plant from the field, and repeatedly, the wheat seeds in these acres of test fields are obtained in this way. Therefore, if you want to promote it nationwide, you must have a large number of officials who understand agronomy, not only to select seeds but also to advance planting methods, and there are regional restrictions on seeds, such as rice, because the weather was warm at the beginning of the Northern Song Dynasty. Including Youzhou can grow rice, the capital is planted is Luoyang famous monk rice, but monk rice can not be promoted to Hebei, let alone Jiangnan, can be promoted, but there is an adaptation process, the adapted rice can not be called monk rice. However, strictly distinguishing, the same Luoyang, dry land and paddy field will have different requirements for seeds. The same paddy field, different soil composition also has different requirements. This requires a national approach to seed selection, breeding, and scientific planting. in order to evolve the seeds of grain throughout the country.

It can only make the academy produce more officials who are proficient in agriculture. Only by giving guidance to the people can we achieve initial results.

The truth in the middle, Song Jiu has talked about it. Most ministers have also heard of it.

But that's three stones, or three more stones. Psychologically acceptable, this yield is different. It is more than twice that of three stones, and four to five times the yield of ordinary Song Dynasty wheat fields.

Zhao Kuangyin asked, "But the limit of wheat?" ”

In fact, he was also excited in his heart, the limit of wheat seemed to be three stones in the past, but it was only more than one stone in the field, and now it has become six stones, whether it can become three stones in the field. If this is the case, add a season of sorghum or beans, and it will become nearly four stones, and the production of the whole north will double.

Song Jiu replied blankly: "I don't know what to do." ”

I remember that if the water and fertilizer are sufficient in later generations, the ordinary yield of wheat per mu is about 700 catties, which is much higher than the current yield, and even some high-yield fields can reach a yield of more than 700 kilograms per mu. However, chemical fertilizers and pesticides are too far from seeds to be compared.

The other ministers were also thinking about it, Song Jiu knew that the Dao was more than 700 catties, but they didn't know the Dao, and they thought one by one that it could still be improved?

Song Jiu began to get down to business and said, "Your Majesty, the minister has two things to do. ”

"Say it."

"The first thing the minister said was the book of agriculture, and I hope that His Majesty will give it to all states and counties." Song Jiuyi waved his hand, and the student sent a set of thick books. This is the agricultural technology book obtained by the students of Guangshe Farm based on the knowledge of their predecessors, their own understanding, and some theories instilled by Song Jiu. It is a thick 50 volumes, more than 2,000 pages, nearly 3 million words, and more than 4,000 illustrations, involving the planting and breeding techniques of agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry, fishery, vegetables, melons and fruits in most areas of Shaanxi, Beijing, Xihe, Hedong, Jinghu, Guangzhou, and Bashu.

It is the first edition, and there may be a second and third editions later, and chapters on Jiangnan and Wuyue and Fujian will also be added later.

Song Jiu can afford the cost from writing to publishing, but when it is published, everyone ignores it, or is it equal to zero, just like Qi Min's technique, so many advanced techniques, how many officials know the Tao? How many years, five hundred years, it appeared!

Song Jiu thought radically.

Zhao Kuangyin was still unifying the world, to Zhao Kuangyi's hands can be regarded as the real governance of the world, agriculture is the core of this era, the Tang Dynasty did not pay much attention, to the Song Dynasty many people noticed this book, private people are not allowed to engrave, only official journals, non-court people can not get. In fact, even the Tang Dynasty was also influenced by it, and some agricultural books appeared.

Moreover, Qi Min's technique is an agricultural book written by Jia Siqian who is too punctual, with limited manpower, limited understanding, limited financial resources, too brief length, and many mistakes. But this set of books almost makes up for all the shortcomings of Qi Min's skills one by one.

Even in the future, most of the officials were nerd who read the scriptures and righteousness, and the imperial court valued agriculture and mulberry, and they also valued agriculture and mulberry, but they didn't understand, so it only became a slogan, with this set of books, open the book and flip through it, everything will be planted, and everything will be raised. More than 3 million words, although it is a simple half-literate and half-white, it is equivalent to more than 10 million words in the vernacular of later generations, which is equivalent to the number of words in most historical books. How much is involved? They even wrote some water conservancy knowledge with pictures and texts, including various knowledge on river control and construction of enclosures and weirs, and recorded them one by one. Not to mention the knowledge of raising chickens, ducks, geese, fish, cows, horses, sheep, pigs, etc.

Zhao Kuangyin looked through them one by one and passed it on.

Zhao Kuangyi suddenly asked on the side: "Is it useful for Khitan and Dali to get it?" ”

"The two kings, many of the books are the planting and breeding industries in the north and the south, whether Dali or Jiaozhi, as well as Tubo in the west and Khitan Goryeo in the north. It will definitely be beneficial. ”

Zhao Kuangyi said: "Brother Huang, it can be delivered to all states and counties." However, those who are not officials or above are not allowed to observe. ”

"Two kings. Not so cautious. ”

"Song Jiu, don't you understand, Nongsang is the real foundation of the country, and you can let the Khitan get the gunpowder technique, and you can't let them get this book. Fortunately, you took it out today, otherwise it will bring a lot of trouble if you publish it all over the world. ”

Song Jiu was depressed and silent, Emperor Taizong attached great importance to good things. But everything has to be hidden, can it still be promoted in the world?

Zhao Kuangyin looked at the back of the book again, and the name of the writer was printed on the back of each book, which was the highest honor, and the unmath students participated in it, and the names were recorded one by one, followed by the corrector and corrector, and the list of writers. However, there is no editor-in-chief's name. The editor-in-chief is Song Jiu, but he didn't write it like Zizhi Tongjian. Sima Guang submitted the table, and the next thing was to review the text Sima Kang, fellow practitioners Fan Zuyu, Liu Shu, and Liu Chu. There are actually a lot of scribes involved, so to hell with it. Books are very expensive, and the name is equal to the page, doesn't it cost money?

Song Jiu appeared. But only in the ranks of the huge list of writers.

That is, Song Jiu didn't want to fight for this credit.

Zhao Kuangyin said: "Second brother, Song Jiu." You have the right opinion, what is the name of this book? ”

"Your Majesty, please, choose a name."

Zhao Kuangyin thought for a while and said, "Let's call it "Kaibao Song Book". ”

Song Jiu was conscious. Zhao Kuangyin also realized that there was a Song character, and he did not erase Song Jiu's credit. Song Jiu made a second unexpected request.

That is to give the deed shares.

Just divided into red, Song Jiu since the end of April after the deed shares rose to 1.8 million yuan, but the proportion is not large, the entire Hezhou deed shares reached more than 7 million, originally last year Song Jiu deed shares can be increased, but because of the suppression of Hezhou, the construction of some mansions and buildings in advance, the deed shares are further diluted.

Among the more than 7 million deed shares, the Ya Nei still accounts for the largest part, basically here, there will be some construction in the future, Henan and Hezhou still have two empty residential land, especially the empty land in Hezhou, which can only be developed after two or three years, then the Song Dynasty will be more prosperous, and the population will be more, otherwise the price is too high, and it can't be sold, let alone make money. Henan also has a piece, but these two will not expand their shares, and will be built at a suitable price. Not only will it not expand its shares, but on the contrary, its profits will be handed over to the two colleges, increasing the deed shares of the colleges. In the future, the deed shares in the Yanai will only be reduced, but as the Southern Tang Dynasty recovers and the country becomes more prosperous, the income will increase.

The second is that the deed shares of ordinary people and small and medium-sized businessmen, which should have been the most of them, and the expansion of shares in the yamen last year was theirs, between one positive and one negative, but not as many as the deed shares in the yamen. In the future, it will increase a little, that is, the deed shares of some workshops, but it will not increase too much. And this small number of deed shares will be issued to new workers in the name of internal shares.

At the same time, the number of deed shares of the academy gradually increased, which was necessary, and with talents, there was everything, and the research of the students of the academy was fed back to Hezhou.

Among the private, Song Jiu's deed stock is a behemoth.

However, it is not much, now that the deed shares have increased, the income ratio has gradually declined, and it has only begun to be almost one to one, and now it is gradually less than two to one, and Song Jiu has to bear hundreds of thousands of various taxes, and there is not much left, and even research is not enough. If it weren't for the overseas trade reversal, Song Jiu would have gone bankrupt long ago.

Except for Song Jiu, the original six deed shares, the Zhao Kuangyi brothers, the Fu brothers, the Gao family, and the Shi family, all withdrew from the Lu. The remaining only Pan brothers have the most deed shares, and at this time, the Pan brothers' holdings have almost reached nearly 70,000 deed shares after several expansions, and the annual dividend is about 30,000 yuan.

It is this part of the deed shares that is handed in.

Song Jiu handed over 1.4 million deed shares to the imperial court, it will not bring much money to the imperial court for the time being, and can only barely pay the previous taxes, and there will be some left, but not too much. However, starting from the end of April next year, 200,000 deed shares will be added every year until the 3 million deed shares are fully filled. In the future, Hezhou will be more prosperous, and the taxes will be paid more and more, but the dividends will also be more and more, and basically 1.2 million deed shares can make up all the taxes originally borne by Song Jiu. The rest can be earned, and it will be returned to the three divisions or the inner treasury, and it will be ripped off by the imperial court.

The remaining 400,000 deed shares are used as R&D funds.

If according to Song Jiu's current research expenses, it must be insufficient, but the cost is high on a few furnaces, as soon as the furnace moves, some related equipment will change accordingly, but now only the reverberatory furnace changes frequently, and several other furnaces will move, and the frequency of movement is not large, in addition, Song Jiu has another huge expense, that is, the inversion of the major farms. This farm is also about to expire, and it may be retained in the future, but there are not so many, or there are so many, but it will not be so big, and the role is to correct some deficiencies in agricultural knowledge and improve agronomy. Therefore, the research expenses will be less and less, but the dividends will be more and more, for the time being, Song Jiu has not completely let go, and Song Jiu, who is not enough, will be able to protect himself or save money in the future, and he will not have any economic dealings with Song Jiu.

At this time, the academy can say that it will gradually get rid of Song Jiu's brand.

The 400,000 deed shares will be held until the end of the 50-year period in Hezhou, and there will be some in the future, and some properties will be reserved and handed over to the academy to send people to operate, so that it can achieve self-sufficiency.

The Pan family's deed shares were handed over by the Pan brothers, not to the imperial court, but to be used for the research expenses of the academy, and the gap was too big in the past few years, so the dividends of the Pan brothers' deed shares were used to make up for a little, in case the Song family's asset subsidies were insufficient. In the future, the research expenses will gradually be kept in peace, and they will also be handed over to the imperial court, so that the imperial court's share of the deed can barely reach 30%.

After Song Jiu finished speaking, Zhao Kuangyin shouted very unhappily: "Song Jiu, where are you leaving!" (To be continued......)