Li Yuanxing is not a scholar, but he has a strong team of scholars.

In modern times, Li Lanshan's organized scholars can at least be armed into a company, and their research direction is not only history, but also humanities, customs, political inevitability, and climate.

If the average temperature is one degree lower, the northern grasslands will move 100 miles south.

One degree higher, it will be a hundred miles more farmland to the north.

Around the ninth century AD, a few decades to a hundred years before the decline of the Tang Dynasty, there was a slight Xiaoice period, and the climate seriously affected the grain harvest.

In the seventh and eighth centuries, it was a warm and humid age.

The average temperature is almost four to five degrees higher than during the Ice Age. It was also about one and a half to two degrees warmer than modern temperatures.

At that time, Xiazhou City was rich in water and grass, with continuous fields and countless rivers.

"Corn, next year, with Xiazhou as the center, at least three million acres will be planted. Questions? Li Yuanxing asked.

The eldest grandson Shunde didn't dare to answer, and neither did Liu Hongji. Because the available land in Xiazhou is only 2.7 million mu, plus the surrounding counties, even if you put some on the Yanzhou side and Lingzhou side, 3 million mu is extremely difficult.

Li Yuanxing said at this time: "We must not destroy forests, mountains, or waters. ”

It's even harder.

The subordinate was willing to give it a try, and the subordinate thought that he could take advantage of the winter when the water was slow to renovate the water. This alone can increase 500,000 mu of fertile land, plus open up land and divert water. As well as those perennial flooded river beaches, my Xiazhou gritted its teeth, and there can be 4.2 million mu of fields next year, of which 3 million mu can be planted with corn. ”

Ma Fuyin stood up after thinking twice.

"It's good, it's determined, it's courageous, it's smart. A large number of pigs, sheep and chickens are raised in the surrounding states and counties. The law of fertile fields, this king will send people from Chang'an. You don't have to worry about seeds. Come to Chang'an on the New Year's Day, and this king will give you seeds. Li Yuanxing was very satisfied.

It's not just a slogan, it's a realistic plan.

"How many days will Your Highness stay here?" Liu Hongji asked.

"One day!" The time given by Li Yuanxing was only one day, which made Liu Hongji a little surprised. Is it just to take a detour of hundreds of miles just to say a few words to your face? Another way. Li Yuanxing could have called himself and his eldest grandson Shunde to Lanzhou to meet him. There's really no need to run this lap.

Li Yuanxing said: "When this king is talking here. There are already thousands of people who have gone around Xiazhou to get first-hand materials. The feasibility report of the farmland will be completed by noon tomorrow and analyzed tomorrow evening. The king will leave the morning after tomorrow. Counting it up, it should be a day and a half! ”

Is one day enough?

Liu Hongji didn't ask, he was a little embarrassed to ask, this represents efficiency, the efficiency of his subordinates.

Li Yuanxing personally handed over a few letters to Liu Hongji. Each envelope had a person's name on it, and just by looking at the name, Liu Hongji knew that it was the name of the general of the main military strongholds in the north.

Your tasks for the next two years.

"The last general will not disappoint His Highness!"

The reputation is made, and Li Yuanxing's experience is really getting deeper and deeper now. The reason why you can convince these generals is definitely not because of how high your title is, but how far you can go in the war.

Closing the door, Li Yuanxing discussed the way to get rich with several major officials in Xiazhou for an afternoon.

In modern terms, it is three-dimensional agriculture. In addition to food, Xia Zhou can supply several military strongholds on the frontier just by growing vegetables, and this benefit is huge.

Among the military strongholds in the frontier, through the income of goat's milk, they can ensure that they have enough coins to buy more.

In the evening, around ten o'clock, Cui Yingying and a few people came back.

"Your Highness, Your Highness. We saw the red sand and stone mountain, on the Dadun Mountain, to the north is the desert and grassland, to the south is green trees, but to the east there are many big rivers. It's a real wonder, and there are ......" Cui Yingying and Cui Yanyan chattered non-stop.

Li Yuanxing also came here in later generations when he was exploring the terrain.

Listening to the cabinet master, what is the Danxia landform called here, it seems to be very distinctive.

Li Yuanxing didn't feel anything at all, but he listened with a smile on his face, and occasionally asked one or two questions, which made the two girls even more excited.

In fact, Li Yuanxing really didn't know what to see there.

But for those who have never been out of the house since they were children, from Qinghe and Boling to the capital are also arranged in a very strict carriage, and now they finally have the opportunity to travel by themselves, how can they not make the two girls excited. But their maids were so tired that they didn't even have the strength to stand.

"I tell you, there's still a lot of land here. On the north bank of the Dading River, there is the capital of the "Great Xia Kingdom" established by Helian Bobo. This is the only city left by the Huns, you can go and have a look. Let the old man Yan Shigu go with you, and then ......" Li Yuanxing smiled and took out a watch seal from his handbag.

"Go and copy a copy and apply to the Ministry of Rites to protect this living city. This is history, protect it. ”

Cui Yingying and Cui Yanyan took the seal in Li Yuanxing's hand and read it, this is already written haode, but the words are not quaint enough, and the two women think that they can add another color of words.

"Your Highness, there is a city of the Huns. Once the Xiongnu were the enemies of the Han Dynasty, read what His Royal Highness wrote, this city was built more than 200 years ago, and it should have been the Eastern Jin Dynasty at that time. The Huns are still enemies, why should they protect their cities? Yingying really doesn't understand! ”

"There is nothing wrong with the enemy. But this is the only thing left by the Huns in the world, kept for their children and grandchildren to see. Keep it for our children and grandchildren to understand, we should be tolerant of the enemies who have disappeared. After all, ordinary Huns have had glory, and the enemies who can fight with the Han Dynasty are worthy of respect! ”

After listening to this, Cui Yingying nodded as if she didn't understand.

Then he asked, "What Your Highness said, can you add the seal?" ”

"Yes. And after you have gone, do not come back. Let Lu Maofeng study the route, and the day after tomorrow we will turn to the northwest and converge on the road. ”

The next day, the two princesses Yingying and Yanyan went out before dawn, and Lu Maofeng personally led the team to escort them. Li Yuanxing still has Wu Bin by his side, not to mention that there are generals such as Liu Hongji here, so there will be no problems. So Zhili Sili and Li Yuanchang. and Kindman, the princess of Silla, also went with him.

And Li Yuanxing began to hold meetings with Xiazhou officials again.

"General Liu, this king asks you. Roast beef with potatoes is delicious, or roast mutton with potatoes is delicious. Or do you prefer braised pork with braised potatoes? ”

Li Yuanxing suddenly asked an insignificant word.

Liu Hongji only thought that Li Yuanxing was joking, after all, the official meeting had not yet begun.

After thinking about it, Liu Hongji replied: "Your Highness, the last general thinks." Qinwangzhuang's red spicy seeds with green onions and ginger roasted chicken nuggets. Then add the potato wedges and add more juice. You must use the snow salt of His Highness. Zuihou uses fine white noodles to pull noodles, which is the most delicious, and the last general has tried it, but it doesn't work without potatoes, and it seems that something is missing. That soy sauce is also an important seasoning, so be sure to add some raw sugar cubes to make it even more delicious. ”

Liu Hongji's description made the officials present feel drooling.

You must know that many things here have not been eaten by officials in Xiazhou, and each person only has two catties of snow salt per month, which is still two catties of bamboo tubes.

For the weight of this snow salt, some people have already scolded Li Daozong's heart black.

In fact, it was not Li Daozong's black heart, but Li Yuanxing used the weight of later generations to put it into a bamboo tube. Then he said that it was a catty, so Li Daozong weighed it, thinking that the snow salt was added to the weight of the bamboo tube.

Potatoes, officials in Xia Prefecture have heard of them, but they have not eaten them.

"General Liu, the sandy land of Shuozhou City. How about planting 20,000 catties of potatoes for this king a year? ”

"Two, 20,000 catties?" Liu Hongji really thought that he had heard it wrong, and 20,000 catties startled him.

Li Yuanxing shook his head gently: "It's not much, but it's just the output of tens of thousands of acres." The sandy land in Shuozhou is very suitable for planting, if the king is allowed to manage it personally, 100,000 acres of land, 30,000 catties is the minimum yield, and 40,000 catties is not unexpected. "Li Yuanxing is not talking nonsense, modern carefully managed potato fields, the limit yield is five tons.

Ordinary poor fields also have a two-ton output.

Shuozhou is there, a little north of modern Yulin, very close to Inner Mongolia, but it is not the location of Inner Mongolia. In later generations, Yulin is a place where there has been a mythical yield of one mu and five tons, of course, these five tons are the level of the laboratory, and there is no problem with two or three tons of ordinary land.

100,000 acres, 20,000 catties is really nothing.

"Your Highness, this kind of person is not afraid of being stolen by foreign countries. If only a few thousand acres of land could still be managed, if only these 100,000 acres. They can't do anything about stealing some of the generals. ”

"Steal, let them steal. The only people who can steal are the people of the steppe, as well as the Goguryeo people. When they're full, they'll think about war. Remember one sentence, eat and think of lust! Speaking of the Goguryeo people, this king does not believe that they will be able to eat this potato in three years. ”

Liu Hongji nodded.

Xin said that the king of Qin seemed to be determined to destroy Goguryeo, and after Goguryeo, he would definitely change hands to clean up the Eastern Turks.

There is one point that Liu Hongji agreed with Li Yuanxing's words, the Turkic nobles wanted to go south to rob things, but the ordinary people of the Turks may not, especially after having enough food for the winter, they definitely have no interest in going south to rob again.

"The last general commands!"

"It's not just your task, let the officials of Shuozhou work harder. Seventy percent of this is from your military field, and the remaining thirty percent is completed by the people of Shuozhou. The way of preservation, the method of planting, and the seeds, you can go to Chang'an Benwangzhuang to receive them in the New Year. ”

Li Yuanxing didn't have enough seeds last year, but after a year, he had four main grains in his hands. Corn, potatoes, sweet potatoes, pumpkin. There is no problem in planting a few states and counties at random. (To be continued......)

PS: It's a little late today, and my shoulder is a little uncomfortable, maybe I got cold last night.

Go to the whole fire pot at night.