After a few days late, I finally got the Qixian project, which is my foothold in Zhongzhou, we must make the project here bigger and stronger, business and competition for the world, whoever occupies the Central Plains can win the world.

Wang Hongyu asked Zhou Wangfu to plan the "auction" and "bidding" well, and he left immediately to minimize his sensitivity.

Later is a natural consequence of business development.

If the Donglin Party comes to spray and intervene to stop the destruction, then it will have the opportunity to meddle in the Jiangnan business and salt politics in turn.

The mobile library also purchased a batch of medical books related to Zhou Wang in Kaifeng, added them to the library, and also backed up many and sent them to Baoding, ready to print and publish a batch.

Out of Kaifeng Mansion and into Nanyang Mansion, the scenery in front of me suddenly changed.

Although he is also a political envoy of Henan, the surrounding area is lush and green, and there are many more ponds.

Kaifeng Prefecture and the places to the north, beyond the fields, are mostly soil.

Nanyang Province is different, there are many plants and trees outside the fields, and there are many neat ponds near each field, and from time to time you can see people taking water from the ponds for irrigation.

That's right, according to the north-south boundary of the Qinling Huai River, Kaifeng Mansion still belongs to the north, and Nanyang Mansion next to it belongs to the south.

All of a sudden, there are a lot more water resources.

The people here are also obviously better, you can see vegetables in your weekday diet, and sesame products and snacks are also abundant nearby.

After all, oil production is second only to grain, and it is steadily ranked before vegetables, so the temperature of sesame planted in the south of Henan is suitable, and there are naturally many plantings.

Further south to Huguang, the proportion of sesame seeds planted is lower, because sesame seeds are very afraid of flooding.

Another factor is that Huguang produces rice, which is more profitable than sesame seeds.

With the development of trade in Jiangnan, the market of cash crops is booming, and the population is also increasing simultaneously, the grain in Jiangnan has long been insufficient for local use.

Huguang's grain production potential has been thoroughly tapped.

Not only for the local and surrounding areas, but also a large number of down the river to the south of the Yangtze River, and then through the Grand Canal, let the Huanghuai floodplain eat first, produce good wine, this is all kinds of good wine in northern Jiangsu, why is it in the Ming Dynasty strides forward, because the Grand Canal let the Huanghuai floodplain eat.

Huguang's grain was then transported along the Grand Canal to Shandong, Tianjin, Beijing, and even Xuanda and Liaodong. If these lands were to be produced only locally, the population of the towns would be very limited, and the number of artisans, soldiers, and officials who would be detached from the land would be very small.

Think about how terrible it would be if Xuanda and Jiliao didn't have many battalions, and they all relied on half-ploughing and half-fighting guards.

This is also one of the important reasons why it is difficult for the Central Plains Dynasty to go north after the decline of the northern environment of the Tang Dynasty.

The barren land and limited productivity of the local area cannot support many full-time professional soldiers. The nomads on the steppes, those who go south every autumn to rob the farms, can eat abundant wheat without farming. The little professional soldiers fed by local output could not stop the steppe people who went south.

In the north after the Tang Dynasty, the environment is not what it used to be, and relying on local output is too limited.

Out of the Great Wall, how can there be grassland? As far as the eye can see, there is only desert.

The soldiers and civilians of the Ming Dynasty, looking at the vast desert beyond the Great Wall, all miss the land of Guanzhong, Qin, Jin, and Yanyun when the water and soil were abundant in the Han Dynasty.

Therefore, the Grand Canal is the lifeline of the north.

Shipping is good, but if you engage in shipping, you don't have the fine wine of Suqian, the citizens of the provinces in Beizhili, and the strong army of Xuanda...... Because they don't rely on the sea, they eat grain from the sea, and they have to pay more for transportation.

This is the inevitability of the Grand Canal, both to transport food and to prosper everywhere along its way.

"The lake is wide and ripe, and the world is full" is a true portrayal of this period.

"Jiangnan is ripe, the world is full" has become a thing of the past, but it is also a good thing.

Jiangnan's industrial dividends, active trade, and overseas silver have brought the most prosperous Jiangnan in ancient history. It is also the economic foundation of the late Ming Dynasty, which produced many talents, active thoughts, repeated technologies, and scientific enlightenment.

Late Ming, this is the best of times, but also the worst of times.

The good places are said and said, and the bad places have quietly arrived.

Although the peasant uprising in history appeared six years later, the price of grain is now gradually high regardless of whether it is north or south.

In the area where wheat is grown in Henan, sesame seeds and vegetables are still embellished, and the grain fields are in an absolutely dominant position.

Not to mention the place further south, where there is abundant water and suitable for growing rice.

Food is really one of the core issues, there is no land abandoned in this era, the Central Plains and Huguang can be planted where the land can be planted, but there is still not enough to eat.

It is not only a question of more people and less land, but also of increasing agricultural productivity immediately, otherwise the problem of the cycle rate will be great.

I remember that Xu Guangqi had already begun to summarize the world's agricultural policies, and he was very extensive, and he also engaged in sweet potatoes from Fujian to try to grow them in his hometown in Shanghai.

The "Complete Book of Agricultural Administration" could have come out earlier, and he would have to use Wei Zhongxian's power to speed up the selection, adaptation, and promotion of sweet potatoes, corn, and potatoes.

Everything is calm on this section of Nanyang Mansion.

King Fu over there in Luoyang didn't send anyone to chase after him, it seems that Wanli's favorite son knows that the apocalypse will guard against him, but he is actually very smart~

Soon arrived at Shinye Prefecture, the southernmost tip of Nanyang Province.

This is the Xinye of the Three Kingdoms, and he can be like Liu Xuande, although he didn't start well, he didn't give up.

Liu Xuande is not the image in Romance who loves to cry after being castrated by literati, but a super strong man who is very capable of fighting, impressed by heroes everywhere, and has ambitions like steel.

Wang Hongyu doesn't learn anything else from Liu Bei, but he must learn his perseverance and discouragement.

Wang Hongyu and his entourage stayed overnight, the scenery was beautiful all the way, the dealers on both sides of the Henan road in midsummer grew luxuriantly, the rainfall here was abundant, and the drought in the small cold season had not affected the Central Plains.

At this time, Henan planted millet in a large area, and it was the season of millet jointing, and the millet was almost 2 feet high, and it was difficult to fertilize it when it grew up.

At this time, you can see the two-wheeled ox carts, donkey carts, wheelbarrows, donkey packs, and people picking up the fertilizer on the road at any time.

Farm manure was piled up everywhere in the fields, donkey and mule manure, sheep manure, manure from thatched pits, and straw manure simmered in the fields with millet and wheat straw.

Wang Hongyu knew this method of simmering fertilizer, he had checked it on the Internet in his previous life, and he had also seen it in the Zunyi Military and Civil Mansion in Guizhou in later life. This was the approach that was common in the South before the advent of fertilizers. In the north, due to the lack of water, fertilizer can only be simmered in places where there is water.

It is to crush the straw, mix it with soil and water, and then seal it with mud, and the straw fermentation produces high-temperature decay and deterioration to become fertilizer.

The same is true of the biogas digesters of later generations, except that the latter is not sealed with mud but covered with water, and simmered more thoroughly, and the straw and weeds decompose into flammable gases.

Biogas power generation, biogas fuel, these are possible, and the further south you go, the easier it is.