Chapter 64: Slap in the face

Li Shimin and Lu Heng are in a stalemate.

And Fang Xuanling next to him was already stunned at this time!

Not to mention after ascending the throne.

Even during the Wude period, Li Shimin, who was still His Royal Highness King Qin, had hardly relaxed like this anymore!

is so viciously coerced against an ordinary junior teenager.

Where can His Majesty do this?

And the question is how to solve the problem of displaced people.

Why is His Majesty Li Er so sure that Lu Heng can solve it?

The surprise in Fang Xuanling's heart was about to explode.

But he didn't dare ask.

Right now.

Lu Heng, who was picked up as a little chick, finally spoke with difficulty.

"Your Majesty, the minister's previous injuries are not healed, can you put the minister down and talk about it?"

Hearing this, Li Shimin finally let go of his hand magnanimously.

He stared at Lu Heng tightly and asked:

"Now you have a solution?"

Lu Heng nodded helplessly.

This is already in front of him, and he can't run away no matter how much he wants to!

He paused, then suddenly asked rhetorically:

"Your Majesty, the minister did say that he could solve the food problem before, but he didn't say that he could solve the problem of the displaced people."

"You admit it, right?"

Li Shimin snorted and said:

"It's not a matter of a day or two that there are displaced people, and these are handled by the local county order."

"What I want to ask is food."

"If you can eat and clothe yourself, no one can give up their wives and children, and leave their hometown."

Lu Heng breathed a sigh of relief.

If His Majesty Li Er wants him to leave Chang'an and go outside to resettle the displaced people, not to mention the heavy workload, it will be a question of whether he can come back alive.

Displaced people, to put it bluntly, are a group of poor homeless people.

Once a person is forced into this job, it is possible to do anything.

After so many years of feudal dynasties, which last year of the dynasty was not because the people were forced to rebel?

Once you've got your thoughts in order.

Lu Heng spoke with a serious face.

"When it comes to the food problem, the minister really knows a way to solve it."

"It's just that this method is like the Great Wall of Qin Shi Huang and the Grand Canal of Emperor Yang of Sui, which is very laborious and costly, maybe the sin is in the present, but the merit is in the future, do you want to listen to it?"

As soon as he spoke, Li Shimin's face darkened again.

The credit of the First Emperor in the construction of the Great Wall can be acknowledged.

But Emperor Yang of Sui's Grand Canal was clearly used to enjoy the convenience of Jiangnan for himself.

Where the hell is the work?!

Endure it.

His Majesty Li Er swallowed back the words that he wanted to refute.

"Tell me about it."

Lu Heng raised his handβ€”β€”

Now, the matter has officially entered the realm of his knowledge!

"I can tell you very clearly that on the other side of the sea, there is a continent that has never been discovered."

"There are several crops on it, and the yield per mu is higher than all the existing grain in Datang."

"They are cold and drought tolerant, simple to grow, can grow two to three crops a year, and are easy to store."

"Are you interested?"

Geography, anyone who has studied nine years of compulsory education, before Columbus discovered the New World, there were no other crops in the world.

As long as there are these things, Datang is still afraid of a fart lack of food?

In the next thousand years, the braids promoted high-yield crops to create the prosperous Kangqian era.

It's not at all how good Kang Mazi is!

Before Lu Heng spoke, Li Shimin was originally standing relatively lazy.

The last can be heard.

Li Shimin suddenly stood up straight!

He grasped the point and said eagerly:

"Yield...... How tall? ”

Lu Heng thought about it carefully, and mentally converted the measurement methods between modern and ancient.

Datang's pound is not much higher than that of modern times.

"For three crops, the yield per mu is at least one or two thousand catties, and at most three or five thousand catties."

"Sweet potatoes have the highest yield, cultivate them well, and conservatively estimate that there can be 5,000 catties."

"The other two are a little less, but they must be between thousands and four thousand pounds."

Lu Heng is the same number.

When he finished counting, he looked up and found that there was something wrong with His Majesty Li Er.

His face was flushed, his breath was short, and his eyes were wide-eyed......

the groove.

It's either a heart attack, or your blood pressure is up!

In the worst-case scenario, if it is a stroke, then your own family will have to be slaughtered!

He hurriedly said:

"Your Majesty, calm down!"

"It's all just an estimate, an estimate!"

"We haven't gotten there yet, don't get excited!"

Li Shimin finally took that breath.

At this moment, not only Li Shimin, but even Fang Xuanling, who had been listening to the side, was almost unstable.

Three or five thousand catties, what kind of concept is that?

According to the calculation that the crops are full, a family of four, each person eats one and a half catties of grain every day, and consumes two thousand catties a year.

This is all based on the amount of food eaten during the busy farming period.

If it is according to Lu Heng's meaning......

As long as a family has an acre of land, they can harvest a year's worth of grain smoothly, and even if there is a disaster in the second year, the saved grain is enough to live.

It's very, very hard enough to survive!

Even though His Majesty Li Er was still in front of him, Fang Xuanling finally couldn't help it.

He grabbed Lu Heng's arm and said eagerly:

"How far is that place? You just said you were on the other side of the sea, and you must have taken a boat......"

"How many ships are going to be built, how long will they be sailing, and in which direction, you name it!"

Fang Xuanling and Li Shimin both understood why Lu Heng would say that this matter was in the moment.

Shipbuilding to go to sea has never been a simple matter.

Not to mention the voyages of such a large fleet.

It is necessary to organize the people to cut wood, to build ships, to select the right members of the sailors, and to find a reason to go to sea that will convince everyone.

It's not something that can be solved in a while.

"Actually, if you go east and west, the difference is not very big, anyway, the earth is round."

Lu Heng wanted to explain the matter of the earth to them.

But after thinking about it, I felt that I might be hung up and burned to death.

Then he gave up and changed his words:

"If I have the opportunity later, I can draw a map, of course, maybe not so precisely, draw a rough picture."

"This continent does exist, but in the past...... It can be said that there are many difficulties. ”

"In the short term, my suggestion is to improve agricultural tools and irrigation methods, and we can also start with fertilizers, in short, all for the purpose of increasing yields."

"As for the new crop, we may have to find an opportunity."

On the side, Li Shimin and Fang Xuanling looked at each other.

There was silence for a long time.

His Majesty Li Er's gaze locked on Lu Heng's eyes, which were very sharp.

"Before deciding whether you want to go to sea or not......"

"Lu Heng, you have to tell me first, how do you know these things?"

"It's not like a salt-making method, you can figure it out yourself."

"Could it be that you've actually been there?"

Before he said the New World of America, Lu Heng had already thought of his words.

He grinned and said:

"Your Majesty, the minister was beaten with a stick before, and he forgot a lot of things, but he also had a lot of things in his head."

"You can believe it or not."

"But these are all dreams!"