In the face of this pile of plant seeds, there are as many as four or five species that Ye Chunqiu can identify. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

The most important of these are corn, sweet potatoes and potatoes.

All three of these things came from South America, where the Spaniards had arrived twenty years earlier, and Portugal had reached Malacca and beyond.

Many plants from the Americas were brought to Europe, and at the same time, they gradually spread to other places.

Although Ye Chunqiu couldn't understand the language of those Francophone people, from their identities and gestures, he could roughly guess that this should be the Malacca and Tianzhu area where the Portuguese sent some plants from the Americas, but the purpose is not clear......

Originally, Ye Chunqiu thought that it would take several years for these plants to be obtained, but the surprise came so quickly, and now they are at their fingertips!

In terms of food alone, from the three crops of corn, sweet potatoes and potatoes, it is simply the artifact of this era.

They all have one characteristic, that is, they are all high-yielding, early-maturing, and do not require intensive cultivation, and the planting conditions are not very demanding.

That alone is enough to kill everything in an instant.

What does this mean?

Speaking of high yield alone, the same is an acre of land, in this era can only receive 200 catties of grain, if it is a sweet potato that has been cultivated in later generations, it can reach a yield of 8,000 catties per mu, although Ye Chunqiu can not do the level of mu yield in later generations, but the yield per mu is 1,500 catties, but it is more than enough.

And this is not the crux of the problem, the real key is that rice needs to be intensively cultivated, while sweet potatoes, corn, and potatoes do not need to be carefully cared for, if a person can plant 30 acres of land, then if it is replaced with sweet potatoes, corn, and potatoes, it is enough to take care of 100 acres.

This is not enough, they do not have high requirements for planting conditions, such as rice, often need paddy fields, need irrigation, but these three crops can even be planted directly in the mountains.

What does this mean? If a county has 300,000 acres of land, it can completely open up 600,000 acres, plus its output has increased several times, this alone, if it can be promoted, it is enough to increase the grain output of a county by five times or even ten times, not only that, their leaves and paths can also be used as fodder, which is completely a big killer of agricultural society.

And these three crops, in history, until the end of the Ming Dynasty and the beginning of the Qing Dynasty did not really begin to promote, the demise of the Ming Dynasty, to a certain extent, from the reduction of grain production, but in the Qing Dynasty, the same land, the Ming Dynasty's 100 million population is difficult to feed, but soon in less than a hundred years, the population increased to four times.

Ye Chunqiu roughly speculated that the population of the Ming Dynasty should be about 60 million to 80 million now, and once the sweet potato, sweet potato and corn were popularized, at least the general famine situation would be greatly improved, and the price of grain would fall to the lowest as a result, and the population fed by the same village could increase several times more.

Ye Chunqiu looked at these 'fruits' that had arrived here after countless storms, and took a deep breath, this is the treasure that really kills the Quartet, if it can be quickly promoted, it can completely solve the food problem once and for all in the next few decades, that is, before the future population growth will be great.

In fact, during the Industrial Revolution in England, the aristocracy drove the peasants from the land into the city, raised sheep on their own land, produced wool on a large scale, and carried out the initial primitive capital accumulation.

Ye Chunqiu identified several other crops according to the search of the light brain, and one of them surprised him greatly.

It is the fruit of the rubber tree, that is, it can be used to grow saplings, which means...... Well...... Rubber is very useful in this era, it has excellent resilience, insulation, water insulation and plasticity, after proper treatment, it also has oil resistance, acid resistance, alkali resistance, heat resistance, cold resistance, pressure resistance, wear resistance and other effects, such as the wheel of the carriage if replaced by rubber, the shock absorption performance will be greatly enhanced, the real meaning of the 'car', can appear, as well as a variety of machinery manufacturing, rubber sealing is also very useful, of course...... It can also be used to make rain boots......

Ye Chunqiu inspected them one by one, and after roughly confirming them, he said to Sun Qi: "Ask him, how many of these seeds are there?" ”

Sun Qi was busy gesturing with a few Franc Robot people, and the leading Franc Robot Man was busy taking out a silver coin from his bag, and then kept making comparisons, Ye Chunqiu understood that they were afraid that Ye Chunqiu would regret it and refuse to give money.

So Ye Chunqiu said to Sun Qi: "Give them the silver first, well, so much silver, I'm afraid it will be very inconvenient to carry it, and then send them a carriage, the silver is loaded into the car, they can take it away at any time, anyway, don't worry about them running away." ”

Ye Chunqiu's silver was paid very quickly, in fact, even if these few Franc machine people asked for ten times the price, Ye Chunqiu would never frown, these people saw a large cart of silver, and immediately smiled, and it was too late to check, and sure enough, he went to get a few bags of seeds, Ye Chunqiu opened the bag and found that the existing potatoes and sweet potatoes had sprouts, and these crops were extremely tenacious.

Ye Chunqiu did not hesitate, and ordered Sun Qi to greet him, but he asked people to carry the seeds to the research institute.

On the contrary, Zhang Heling, who had been unable to interject, was left behind, Zhang Heling wanted to chase after him to see the excitement, but after thinking about what Ye Chunqiu said about benefiting the country and the people, he lost interest, shook his head, got into the brightly colored carriage he decorated, and left bored.

There are smelting, agriculture and forestry, and machinery institutes under the research institute, and the scale of this agriculture and forestry institute is very large, even including a large piece of land in the garden behind the research institute, which is completely owned by agriculture and forestry.

In charge of this place is a scholar, named Yang Mu, who is quite interested in this whole grain.

Yang Mu saw Ye Chunqiu coming in a hurry, so he hurriedly stepped forward, and before he could greet him, Ye Chunqiu said, "Go, call someone to help." ”

Poplar does not dare to slack off, don't look at the agriculture and forestry institute is not as good as the machinery, metallurgy, chemical industry that is now valued, in fact, the life is quite moist, after all, they have a special greenhouse, every three or five to cultivate some out-of-season flowers, fruits, but the big men in Beijing love to eat watermelons in winter, love to see the flowers that bloom in autumn, the general agriculture and forestry institute here to cultivate and drum all kinds of flowers, fruits, after recording the data, the excess is sold at a high price, and the silver obtained is an additional subsidy.

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