Chapter 360: A Thousand Pounds per Mu
Xu Miaojin is the daughter of King Wuning of Zhongshan, and has been put in the hands of General Xu Da since she was a child, like a treasure, where can she let her favorite third daughter do that starving thing?
And the woman's family is not allowed to run around, so as early as when the eldest sister followed King Yan around, Xu Miaojin has been staying in the Wei State Mansion, has been staying in the one-acre and three-point land, and even the capital is rarely out, so naturally he doesn't know the suffering of the people in the world.
However, Xu Miaojin would not say such a thing as why he didn't eat minced meat, he listened to Zhu Song's words, and only felt like a stone had been pressed in his heart, and the His Royal Highness King Han, whom he had always looked down on, seemed to be much more noble than he imagined.
"Your Highness is right, if I were a refugee, I would have eaten this thing, I was wrong, I'll do it with you, don't be idle when you come to Qiuyue!"
Princess Han originally wanted to refuse, after all, she was just pretending to be married, and she didn't really marry into Han Wangfu, to put it bluntly, at best, she was friends with Her Royal Highness.
But seeing that Miss Xu was so excited and so positive, Princess Han also thought that if Miss Xu and His Royal Highness stayed for a while, the relationship between the two would be better, so she swallowed the words that came to her mouth and swallowed them back.
"Come on, take a few more basins and ask for a large basin, and the washbasin will do! I wiped it clean and sent it! ”
After a while, the pot was delivered, Xu Miaojin held an iron chisel in his hand, and watched Zhu Song's method of rubbing corn in the same way, it was indeed very bumpy at the beginning, and it was always stuck when it was poked.
But later, Xu Miaojin became more and more comfortable, and even Zhu Song couldn't help but nod his head after seeing it, this Xu Miaojin was born to be a seedling who took care of housework.
"It's a good job, but I heard from the fourth sister-in-law that you are usually pampered at home and don't touch a little spring water, but I didn't expect you to work like that!"
After Xu Miaojin heard this, he glanced at Zhu Song: "You think you can work, I understand it, okay?" At the beginning, my father hid in the fire room and secretly ate roast goose, who was the one who beat it, and I was the one who beat it! ”
"However, if this thing can really reach the state of producing 1,000 catties per mu, then wouldn't all the people in the world grow this, who still grows rice and wheat?"
After hearing this, Zhu Song explained with a smile: "Of course, some people will grow rice and wheat, as long as there are people who buy it, there will be people who will plant it, and although this corn can be eaten, it is indeed not as delicious as rice and wheat." ”
"These are the main life-saving foods during the famine, and in normal times, if someone wants to try it, it is not impossible to go to the market to buy some, anyway, it is not that every family only has one acre of land, even if it is an acre of land, it can be divided into two, and rice is planted here and corn is planted there."
"And the taste and yield of this rice are different in different places, and the land in Kaiyuan is fertile, and the rice grown is larger than that in the south, and the yield is higher than that in the south."
"The corn we have in front of us now is all a little meaning, if this thing is really planted on the fertile land of Kaiyuan, then this corn cob will be better than it is now!"
"It's just that the biggest advantage of this corn is not that it has a high yield but that it is easy to serve, unlike rice and wheat, which is like a delicate rich daughter, this corn is not picky on dry land and not picky eaters, as long as there is a piece of soil, it can grow and produce grain."
"So, there shouldn't be many people who usually like to eat this thing in the rich land of Jiangnan, Jiangnan should grow rice and rice, and wheat should be planted and wheat, anyway, it is the food that the country will use for disaster relief and filling the stomach in the future, so it can be moved to the north to plant, anyway, it has always been a natural and man-made disaster in the north compared to the south."
After listening to it, Xu Miaojin felt that what Zhu Song said made sense, especially if there were people.
"You've thought enough about it, you've even thought about where to plant it."
Zhu Song smiled bitterly in his heart, where did he think, this is clearly the pattern of later generations, the corn yield in the north is higher than that in the south every year, and it is much higher, these corn are stored in the grain depot, and the critical moment is the country's life-saving food, the people's life-saving food.
"You haven't been to Taiyuan, you don't understand the land there, how good it looks like, in fact, this king is back now, if you don't come back, you have to go to the northern plain to reclaim a large field, this northern plain covers a larger area than the plain of Kaiyuan, and the output of the same grain must be much higher than that of Liaodong."
"These kings have already thought about it, and they were originally intended to be used to answer the saints, as well as the civil and military officials, but I didn't expect that it was you who first heard this king's words."
Xu Miaojin was not happy when she heard this.
"What's wrong with me? If you can really make the people of the world fed, then you are really good enough to care about the people of the world, you are really very powerful. ”
"That's it!" Zhu Song gave a little sunshine, and it immediately became brilliant.
"Of course, this king is different, you have to have a long-term vision! Come on, let's work harder for a while to weigh it and see if there are more than 1,000 catties! ”
Driven by Zhu Song, after an afternoon and evening, these corns can be regarded as a seven, seven, eighty, eight
This big scale is specially used to weigh pigs, and it is used today, and it is not considered to bury this big scale.
The corn was put into a large basket, and after the whole corn was weighed, it added up to a total of nine hundred and eighty-seven catties.
Although it is less than 1,000 catties, it is already much higher than the yield per mu of rice and wheat.
If he told the emperor the news, the emperor would be happy, and even if he had questions, he would have something to say to him.
Anyway, when the time comes, it will be said that the land in the south is not as fertile as Liaodong, so if it is a big deal, he will put himself back in advance, and he will go north to open up the wasteland without doing anything.
Zhu Song gave some silver to the officials of the Jinyi Guard who took turns guarding the cornfield to show his encouragement, and then gave a simple verbal encouragement to the maids who helped to rub the corn today.
Ye Biqing let Zhu Song know that not everyone takes money so seriously, and especially when it comes to his subordinates, if he doesn't make a great contribution, he won't be rewarded if he can't be rewarded, because after a long time of reward, he won't work without money.
Zhu Song also understands this truth, so today he just gave a verbal praise, those brothers who take turns to watch the fields are different, they take turns to guard the fields, and they can't see their wives and children in Beijing, of course they have to give some silver.