"Buying food? What's going on, tell me in detail. Wen Yi said with some surprise.

So Jin Rushan told the story of what happened at that time in detail: "...... I made an appointment with that Sha Changshi on June 12 for the next transaction, and I would reply to him at that time. ”

After listening, Chai Ben said happily: "Okay, Wang An is good, he can easily play the Baekje sailor." ”

He Fang pretended to be reserved and said: "The performance is not bad. "If he had a smaller grin, maybe he could have pretended to be some.

Wen Yi was also very pleased, it is one thing for the ship to be more advanced, and the most important thing is to operate the boat and command the battle.

Such a temporary change of direction is not possible at all.

Even if the commander's brain could react, it would be useless if the operator couldn't perform these actions.

Now Wang An can easily play the Baekje sailors, which shows that they usually train very hard and their skills are progressing very quickly.

"The water division can have today's combat effectiveness, and you have all contributed greatly. Well, each person will be rewarded with a glass tea set and a glass mirror. ”

Chai Ben and the others got up one after another and said, "Thank you, Lord of the country." ”

These things are more valuable than money, and even if you don't have the opportunity to sell them in the future, it's a lot of money.

No one thinks they have a lot of money.

"And Wang An, let him come to see me tomorrow, and I will reward him personally."

After the matter of the bounty was said, the topic returned to the original topic.

"The people of Baekje want to buy food from us, do you think you want to sell it to them?"

Xue Dayuan was the first to speak: "By all means, food is the most sensitive thing, and most countries in the world are short of food. ”

"What if we sell grain to the people of Baekje and people from other countries come and buy it? Whoever sells it to or not to whom it is sold will become a big trouble, and it will even arouse the hostility of some countries. ”

Mo Jun, who is the head of the household department, said: "What Master Xue said is good, and although there is a surplus of food in my Tang Kingdom at the moment, the future flowers are also very useful. ”

"The three thousand displaced people sent by Sect Master Du are already on their way, and they will need a lot of food to settle them when the time comes."

"There will be at least 7,000 displaced people in the next six months, and if we get some more displaced people from other places, the number may be even higher."

"The state treasury has to give them relief for at least half a year before they can produce food, and the relief standard you have set is very high, every person over the age of fourteen needs one pound of rice and half a pound of fish and meat every day......"

"If we sell grain, I'm afraid we won't have enough food for ourselves."

Others also raised objections, and no one was willing to sell food to others, regardless of whether they had enough food to eat.

Enough to eat now does not mean enough in the future, what if there is a disaster year? In short, everything else is easy to discuss, but it is not good to sell grain.

Wen Yi had a different opinion and said: "Now there are still 170,000 grains in the warehouses of Langhu, Jin'an County and Dongning Island, and the autumn harvest will be in one month. ”

"It is estimated that 800,000 husks of grain can be harvested, and there will be at least 800,000 hun harvests in the autumn harvest. Even if you count all the people you mentioned, we consume up to 200,000 grains a year. ”

"Have you ever thought about what to do with the remaining more than a million grains? All in the warehouse? Rats eat insects and other losses, do you know how much food will be lost in a year? ”

"We harvest grain every year, if we store grain every time, how big a warehouse will be needed, and how much manpower and material resources will need to be wasted, have you calculated?"

"But ......" Mo Jun wanted to say something.

Wen Yi raised his hand to stop him and said, "I know your thoughts, and I understand your thoughts. But you have to understand that danger and opportunity go hand in hand. ”

"There are many things that other countries will not sell to us easily, such as war horses, such as population, such as enough medicinal materials. Even if we have money, we can't necessarily buy it. ”

"But food is the exception, and as long as we have food, these things are not a problem. Even as long as we let out the wind, there are a large number of people begging to exchange the population for war horses for food. ”

"Only in this way can our national strength expand rapidly and become a real power as soon as possible, without having to be as careful as we are now."

Everyone was lost in thought, what Wen Yi said was indeed a path they had never thought of, but it did make sense when they thought about it.

Xue Dayuan said: "What you said is very reasonable, but doing so requires us to have enough food, and millions of Hu seem to be a lot." ”

"But the price of war horses is more expensive, and millions of Hu can't buy many horses, let alone buy people."

Only then did everyone react, a horse is at least more than 20 yuan, and how much is a piece of grain?

And the war horse needs to be carefully cared for, there is a grassland is good to say, usually eat grass and occasionally feed fine grains to chase fat, and where there is no grassland, it is all supported by fine grains.

At this point, they can raise thousands of war horses to bring down their family. Now they have even more reason to oppose it, and the grain cannot be sold.

Only Chai Ben, He Fang and others suggested that they could get some horses back and put up the cavalry shelves first.

It wasn't until everyone finished speaking that Wen Yi smiled and said, "Who said that there is no grassland on Dongning Island?" ”

"Huh?" This was not just the others, even Xie Daoyun was surprised.

"You said there was pasture on the island that was suitable for raising horses?"

Wen Yi didn't answer her question directly, but said, "What do you need to raise a horse?" ”

Xie Daoyun immediately replied: "Enough forage, and enough space for them to run." ”

Wen Yi took out a map of Dongning Island and said, "This is a new map that Zhao Zhengzhi just sent back......"

"To the east of Dongning Island, there is a canyon plain more than 360 miles long, 15 miles at its widest point, and only 45 miles at its narrowest point."

"I named it the Plains of the Rift Valley, what do you think it was for horses?"

Xie Daoyun came to him in two steps, checked it on the map, and sure enough, he saw that there was an additional north-south longitudinal canyon on the map.

Then he slapped the table excitedly and said: "There is such a strange terrain in the world, and Dongning Island is really a treasure island." ”

Hearing her words, the others basically confirmed that the news was true, and they all showed expressions of surprise.

The importance of war horses is known to everyone, and they also know the southern ships and northern horses, so they are also accustomed to thinking that the south is not suitable for breeding war horses.

I didn't expect there to be such a natural horse farm on this island.

In fact, it is not only they who have this misunderstanding, but it has existed until the 21st century, and most people are accustomed to thinking that the south is not suitable for horse breeding.

Let them say why, most people can't come up with why.

Some people will answer that the climate is not suitable, the southern climate is humid and rainy, and it is not suitable for horses to survive, etc.

It has become common knowledge that horses are more suitable for living in the northern grasslands, where the four seasons are dry and rainless.

However, many times common sense is not necessarily right, where is the best place to raise horses? I'm afraid many people can't guess the real answer.