"Adou, with such good wine, you just wait for the new money and grain warehouse, hahahaha!"

In mid-April, in the newly built Jingzhou Distillery in Jiangling City, looking at the urn of spirits being transported out and loaded, Mi Fang, whose 'focus of work' had completely shifted from Nanjun Taishou to Mi's firm, couldn't help but smile confidently.

Just kidding, just the publication of ice muscle paper and books has already earned a lot of money and food for Jingzhou, and now there is this 'hero sprinkle' that consumes more and faster, and this money and food are not rolling in?

"Uncle, the sale of ice muscle paper and books can be used in parallel with money, food, cloth and silk, but this heroic wine can only be exchanged for food. Tell those clan lords and merchants that if they bring their own grain in exchange, they will only be charged eighty percent of the price of wine. And they can sell as much as they can themselves."

Shaking his head, this time Liu Chan was not as excited as Mi Fang, but once again reiterated the condition that this hero wine can only be exchanged for grain, which is a 'hard currency'.

After all, wine is made from grain, which is not too much to ask at a time when food is more important than anything else.

"Eighty percent? Adou, why should we give up such a big profit? There is a gradual increase in the number of shops of the Mi Merchant House in various places, and there is no need for others to resell them......"

Obviously, just like Ice Muscle Paper and Printing, Mi Fang still wants to monopolize the trade of this hero wine from production to sales.

"Uncle, wine is not the same as paper books. As for the paper and books, even if Cao Cao and Sun Quan knew that this was the thing that I had collected money and grain in Jingzhou, they did not dare to prohibit it at the risk of the world. But the drinks are different......"

Looking at Mi Fang with a puzzled face, Liu Chan opened his mouth to explain to him with a solemn face.

You know, this is not a time of peace and prosperity. In this turbulent world, food is truly irreplaceable as the first strategic material and hard currency!

Whether one side is strong or not, food plays a decisive role. After all, people are iron, and rice is steel. If you don't have anything to eat, what do you take to feed the army, and what do you take to fight for the world?

Therefore, for the behavior of brewing wine, which consumes a lot of food, as long as the princes are slightly more normal, they will take different ways and different degrees of measures to prohibit it.

In fact, not only Cao Cao Sun Quan, but even Liu Chan's own father Liu Bei, after taking Yizhou, also adopted a ban on alcohol, but it was not as strict as Cao Cao.

So don't look at Liu Chan's 'hero wine' just 'sold' to Cao and Sun, not brewed by themselves, but in order to prevent the outflow of food, a strategic material, it will definitely not be long before it will also be banned by them.

"Therefore, before Cao Cao and Sun Quan react now, we must swallow as much food as possible. In addition, my uncle passed down the word that if they booked and ordered hero wine in advance, my son would only charge them seventy percent of the price, but the premise was that the food was paid first, and the wine was ...... later."

In the end, in order to swallow as much food as possible before Cao and Sun issued a ban on alcohol, Liu Chan even gave the conditions that could be further discounted.

But in any case, as Pang Tong reminded earlier, this is only a palliative solution that can only solve a temporary emergency, not a long-term solution.

Therefore, if you want to fundamentally solve this problem, Liu Chan still has to learn from Cao Cao's 'self-reliance' and completely control the problem of food security in his own hands!

It's just that it's easier said than done!

You know, farming requires a lot of labor. And at this point, Daddy Liu Bei is precisely the weakest of the three families of Cao Liu and Sun.

This is also the reason why when Pang Tong proposed to use money and grain to absorb the people to return to Jing, Liu Chan agreed without the slightest reluctance.

However, this little bit of population is still far from enough for the Liu Bei Group, which has a weak family background.

Therefore, in the case of insufficient labor, Liu Chan can only take the road of 'quality', and intends to find ways to increase grain production.

It's just that in this era when there are no chemical fertilizers, no improved seeds, and no high-yield crops, it is not so easy to increase grain production!

……

"I said why is the rice yield so low at this time! This seedling is sterile and directly sows seeds, even if you get a hybrid rice, this yield is not high, right? ”

Thinking of the yield of rice per mu at this time, which is only two or three stones, and then looking at the people in front of him who are directly spreading rice seeds into the field, even if they have not really planted in the later generations, Liu Chan, who also knows that rice is to be raised first, suddenly couldn't help but be speechless for a while.

It turned out that in line with the idea of treating both the symptoms and the root cause, in order to find a way to increase grain production, after handing over the operation of hero wine to Mi Fang, Liu Chan immediately began the inspection of spring ploughing.

"Childe also knows the method of raising seedlings?"

Hearing Liu Chan's muttering, Pang Tong, who was wearing a big hat to cover his face, suddenly couldn't help but look over with a puzzled expression.

"Could it be that the military advisor also knows that rice needs to be raised?"

Hearing Pang Tong's inquiry, Liu Chan couldn't help but be surprised.

"I've seen people raise seedlings first and then transplant them, but I don't know if the yield is higher than that of direct sowing......

In Liu Chan's surprised expression, Pang Tong said that in this era, some people have tried to raise seedlings for rice first and then transplant it.

"Needless to say, the transplanting method must be higher than the yield of live broadcasting!"

After learning that the technology of seedling transplanting had begun to appear at this time, there was no need to think about it at all, and Liu Chan immediately affirmed this transplanting method with a confident face.

Speaking of which, for a long time, rice cultivation was cultivated by fire cultivation and water rake, and by the time of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the planting technology had made great progress.

At least compared to the previous way of setting fire to the grass and then not plowing the field, and directly sowing the seeds with water, now before sowing, at least the field will be ploughed first, even if it is only rough farming.

"It's just that extensive cultivation is not enough, you also have to harrow the fields and prepare the land. Keep a proper distance when transplanting......"

In the end, regardless of the surprise of Pang Tong and others, Liu Chan also didn't mind telling the little knowledge he knew about rice planting one by one.

"Gong ...... Childe has never planted ...... How can it be like a farmer...... So proficient in this ploughing ...... How to farm? ”

After listening to Liu Chan's 'lecture' on rice planting, Deng Ai, who had spent his life in Tuntian cattle herding since he was a child, asked the doubts in his heart for the entourage.

"Hehe, haven't you ever eaten pork and never seen a pig run away? As long as it's grain, under intensive cultivation, it's better than slash-and-burn farming......"

Faced with this question raised by Deng Ai, Liu Chan casually gave a seemingly very reasonable explanation.

"Gong ...... Childe Young...... Wise! ”

For the reason given by Liu Chan, everyone has to admit that it is very reasonable. After all, since ancient times, haven't all kinds of farming techniques in China been developed in this way?

"Spread the order of this son, all fields that have not yet been sown should be intensively cultivated according to the method of seedling transplanting according to the method said by this son......"

Now that you have found something that can be improved, you can't ignore it, right?

Therefore, on the way to inspect the spring ploughing, a method of promoting rice planting for seedling transplanting was immediately issued under the order of Liu Chan, the young master of the state pastor and group.

"By the way, tell the people, if anyone can find a higher yield of rice varieties or news, as long as it proves true, my son will be rewarded!"

In the end, in order to further increase the yield of rice, Liu Chan even offered a high bounty and took the mass line to find excellent rice seeds.