At this moment, Wang Shan, the person in charge of the Ministry of Agriculture, who was sitting opposite Huo Gang, was full of joy, not only him, but also the people in the Audit Department.

"Let's talk about it, you know it's a good harvest this year." Huo Gang said with a smile.

"Yes, Chief, at present, this year, we have completed a total of 7.21 million mu of wheat, with an average yield of about 398.5 kilograms per mu, and a total income of about 2,873.185 million kilograms, which exceeded our expectations at the beginning of the year. Wang Shan first reported the total.

"Yes, this is good news, which means that we will have food in the whole country this year, and to be precise, there will be no shortage of food in the whole country in the future." Huo Gang couldn't help but nodded, then smiled and directly stretched out his hand to applaud.

The other people in the room also applauded and congratulated, anyway, Huo Gang rarely covered up some of his habits, his current status didn't need to hide these habits, others felt weird, just let them adapt to Huo Gang.

After everyone's applause stopped, Wang Shan continued: "Almost every household in the country has been allocated some cabbage seeds have been sown, this year's cabbage seeds are not enough for all the land to grow cabbage, but next year, all farmers will not have a problem after keeping the seeds." ”

"However, according to our estimates, it is impossible for almost every person to eat this year's cabbage, and some of the cabbage will be sold at that time.

"In addition, we track cotton, after the spring water soaked cotton is more excellent than ordinary water, this year's cotton production is enough for us to make the first batch of related products, cotton acquisition, several major textile firms have been ready to start investing, and even some firms have taken the initiative to sign contracts with the people in advance, first gave part of the funds."

"Yes, this kind of competition is what we need to maintain now, but there is one point, in the case of putting an end to vicious competition, such a part of the contract must be guaranteed, and the contract binds not only the businessmen, but also the people, not because the people are the foundation of our country, that is, the people are allowed to break the law at will." Huo Gang explained seriously.

Because of the particularity of the Han Dynasty, the people of the Han Dynasty have received enough preferential treatment in the past two years, and the people of this era are very simple, but there are no absolutely good people in the world, so there must be some ruffians and scoundrels, and these people must also be severely punished.

"Yes, we've already greeted the Patrol Division in this regard." Wang Shan nodded.

"Very well, how are the other spice cultivation going?" Huo Gang asked.

"Most of the spices have almost been successfully planted, and we are ready to start planting these spices, and we have a lot of land that can meet the cultivation of these spices, but there are also some that may not be suitable for our climate, although they have survived, but whether they can continue to live, we don't know very well, such as pepper." Wang Shan said.

Huo Gang nodded, pepper is the top pursuit of almost all Western countries in this era, and it is no joke to say that almost all the wars in the West during this period can be called pepper wars, all because of spices.

Pepper is a vine plant, but it is not symbiotic, unlike some vines that draw nutrients directly from the trees they are clinging to, they can also be attached directly to artificial wooden frames.

But pepper is a tropical plant, although the temperature of the Dahan Huoci River and the Tarim River basin is almost as high as the temperature near the Datang Yangtze River Basin, but the temperature in winter is still a little low, but in fact, it is not impossible, let them make a batch of glass houses and greenhouses this winter to try, if they can, they can be promoted.

The greenhouse is not only to grow these peppers, which are comparable to gold in the West, but also to allow ordinary people to eat vegetables in winter, unlike now only radishes and Chinese cabbage can be eaten, although this is an unimaginable life for the people of Datang.

"Well, you continue to follow up on this, and the first greenhouses built in the winter will be put into use directly." Huo Gang nodded.

"Yes, other chief, the number of sheep we counted this year has increased to nearly seven million, and it may increase to between 8 million and 9 million by the end of this year, and if we don't reduce the number, it may affect our normal employment next year." Wang Shan's tone was very serious.

"In this regard, the people of your Ministry of Agriculture will find a way, if it doesn't work, encourage the people to kill sheep for the winter this year, so that they can get used to eating mutton, and the most important thing is to popularize pork as much as possible." Huo Gang thought about it and added, the rapid expansion of the flock is also good for the big man.

That is, ordinary people can eat meat, although it is mutton, but how can anyone pick meat in this era? It's good to have meat, but as for whether it's fat, you can just find someone to ask, will anyone care about this?

In an era when there is not even a drop of meat, does anyone still care if they are fat or not? That's impossible. In fact, there is no problem with eating mutton, at least in the countries of the world in the future, those who like to eat pork are Chinese, and foreign countries are basically beef and mutton.

But pork is always delicious, and mutton, now more than seven million sheep means that under the action of Lingquan water, the production efficiency of these ewes is extremely high, which is very good for the Han to supplement meat.

"Yes, this year, the Hanliang people are ready to start collecting some of the state-owned sheep for slaughter and starting to sell them in major cities, and some businessmen may enter various villages to start buying sheep." Wang Shan nodded.

"Well, yes, these aspects should be maintained, and our pastures will have no problem feeding so many sheep, right?" Huo Gang nodded and asked.

"No problem, Chief, you filtered, according to the scale of our current pasture, even if the sheep herd reaches more than 100 million, it is unlikely to have any bad consequences, at present, the scale of our alfalfa grass pasture is still expanding, and even according to the investigation of our Ministry of Agriculture, because almost all sheep have begun to rely on alfalfa grass pasture for breeding."

"The scale of the original natural grassland in the wild is constantly expanding, and the grassland is beginning to get better and better, if you count this year, we can reach or even exceed 100 million acres of alfalfa grassland near the Huoci River and the Tarim River Basin, this number will continue to expand next year, as for the area of natural grassland we have not continued, we cannot count at present."

"However, all the natural grasslands, including the grasslands in a large area where the Xue Yantuo Department was originally located, are constantly improving because there are no herders grazing, and the number of wild animals is also increasing." Wang Shan told their statistics.

"Yes, these are all good things for us, so that your Ministry of Agriculture must promote some information, such as the issue of private land, the land allocated to individuals is personal, but ordinary people cannot just occupy state-owned land privately. Except for individual land, all other land is state-owned, and state-owned land may be open to individual contractors in the future, but it is not allowed now. Registration in this regard must be clearly registered. Huo Gang said seriously.

At present, because of the small population, there are no problems such as land annexation, and it is estimated that this problem will not exist in the future, but there are some things that must be prepared in advance.

"Yes!" Wang Shan immediately nodded and agreed, "Chief, I have one more thing to apply. ”

"You say." Huo Gang looked at him and said.

"The leader is like this, there are many tasks in the exploration of land and resources this year, and the tasks of the Ministry of Agriculture are also very heavy in the future as we continue to expand, and my personal opinion is to separate the Ministry of Land and Resources from the Ministry of Agriculture and establish a separate Ministry of Land and Resources." Wang Shan said in a serious tone.

"What did Prime Minister Wu say?" Huo Gang looked at Wu Ping next to him.

"We discussed that this would really help to increase the efficiency of the two departments, otherwise there would be too much information needed to aggregate them." Wu Ping immediately said, "And it is not only the Ministry of Agriculture and Land Resources that has such a problem, the Ministry of Supervision and Audit should also be separated, and I propose to set up a separate Ministry of Railways." ”

"Yes, you can write a report on these, and I will approve it." Huo Gang nodded very simply, he would not put forward opinions in this regard, as long as the cabinet felt that it was okay, then it would be good to separate directly.

In fact, with the development of society, productivity increases, this is the inevitable result, different things are divided into different departments, professional things to professional people to do, but as productivity continues to improve, some departments will gradually begin to cancel the merger, because the productivity is too rich, many departments have no need to exist.

Of course, Huo Gang will not intervene in these things, at present, in fact, there is no shortage of officials in the Han Dynasty, and the officials at the bottom can be replenished at any time, because the literacy activities are constantly and continuously, and many jobs can actually be done by ordinary people as long as they are literate.

Not to mention the patrols that have been continuously trained, and these patrols who have completed their training are good at working in other departments even if they do not work in the patrol department.

As for the middle and high-level officials, in the past year, at least hundreds of people have come from Datang one after another, and people are still coming, because Datang has no place for them to display their talents, but Dahan is different.