After the Battle of Jinzhong, the Han Dynasty experienced a smallpox epidemic, which made the Han Dynasty a little gloomy. Until Zhang Yuanjin was named queen, the Han Dynasty was finally out of the gloom.
The sixth day of April in the first year of the rise of the Han Dynasty (AD 240).
One month after Jin was granted the title of Empress, Zhang Yang was in a good mood today. She did not put on her luxurious clothes, but wore simple clothes, and appeared thirty miles south of Chang'an City with the emperor Liu Chan.
"Your Majesty!"
"This is our royal farm?"
Zhang Yang asked, pointing to a piece of farmland in front of him. A few days ago, Liu Chan had told him that starting from this year, they would go out of the city to help farmers in the fields every year.
In the past, kings from various countries actually helped farmers during spring plowing, but most of them just went through the motions, just going to the fields and doing whatever they wanted.
Liu Chan wanted to change this rule. At the end of last year, he asked Xu Shu to find him an uncultivated field, and he wanted to improve it into a royal farm.
It's early spring now, and people are busy planting rice and so on.
Liu Chan has no interest in growing rice now. He has done the best he can in improving rice. As for the ability of later generation Grandpa Yuan, he really doesn't have it.
He can only plant at intervals and raise seedlings in greenhouses. So far, this method has greatly improved Dahan's grain output.
As for the field of this royal farm, it is not very wide. It is just a dry field of nearly ten acres. The population in Guanzhong is still sparse. Years ago, Liu Chan asked Xu Shu about the total population of the Han Dynasty.
According to Xu Shu, the current population of Yizhou is 320,000 registered households and 1.63 million people;
Liangzhou has 60,000 registered households and a population of 310,000;
Yongzhou has hundreds of thirty thousand registered households and a population of 690,000;
The number of registered households in Bingzhou is 53,000, with a population of 28.
The total number of registered households in the four prefectures of Yi, Yong, Liang and Bing is 563,000, with a population of 2.91 million.
As for the Western Regions, Nanzhong, and Southwest regions, the imperial court did not directly govern them, but were managed by local clans. However, the number of registered households in these three regions is more than 300,000, and the population is more than 1 million.
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Liu Chan was naturally speechless when he heard this population figure. When later generations read the Romance of the Three Kingdoms or the Chronicles of the Three Kingdoms, they became a little curious. In history, when the Shu Han Dynasty fell, the country's population was only more than one million.
But, is this really the real population?
Of course not. After talking about the registered population, Xu Shu also has another data on the number of households in each state:
Yizhou has 840,000 households and a population of 4.26 million;
Liangzhou has 123,000 households and a population of 695,000;
Yongzhou has 189,000 households and a population of 1.33 million people;
Bingzhou has 87,000 households and a population of 422,000 people;
According to this data, the Han Dynasty has a population of more than 6.7 million, including only Yiyongliang and the four prefectures, but the registered population is only more than 2.9 million.
No need for Xu Shu to explain, Liu Chan certainly knew that the extra data between the two data was naturally the household registration concealed by the wealthy families.
Although the total number seems pretty good, counting only four states, Dahan now has a population of close to 7 million, but compared with some first-tier cities in later generations, which often have a permanent population of more than 20 million, it is still too small.
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In this era, population is a very important asset to any country.
It was also because the population was too small that Liu Chan wanted to open up a royal farm, which did not trouble Xu Shu. He didn't worry too much and found this fairly good dry land thirty miles south of Chang'an City.
Liu Chan has been waiting these past few months for the arrival of spring.
Now is the spring plowing season. This morning Liu Chan led Queen Zhang Yang, Prince Liu Chen, King Liu Tan of Qin, Princess Liu Rongyue of Hanyang, and a group of civil and military ministers.
"Chen'er, Tan'er!" Liu Chan called.
Liu Chen and Liu Tan hurried over. Liu Chan pointed at a bag of corn kernels and asked them, "Do you know what this is?"
Liu Chen was the first to answer: "Go back to my father, this is the golden grain of the Sasanian people!"
Liu Tan echoed.
But Liu Chan waved his hand with a smile and said: "Don't listen to the nonsense of those businessmen. They named this thing golden grains just to sell it at a good price."
"Then..." Liu Tan frowned and asked, "Father, what should this thing be called?"
Liu Chan glanced at the two of them and said affirmatively: "From now on, this thing belongs to me, and I will name it - corn."
"Corn?" Xiao Jindou said with a smile: "Father, why do you call it corn?"
Xiao Jindou's words suddenly made Liu Chan speechless. He had never thought about why this thing was called corn, but he couldn't tell because his father was a time traveler. In his previous life, this thing was called corn.
However, Liu Chan looked at the prince Liu Chen and deliberately asked: "Chen'er, tell me, why did your father name him Corn?"
Liu Chen was also a little confused. He looked at the corn kernels carefully, pondered for a while, and then said noncommittally: "Father, this thing should be as crystal clear as jade. My father said that day that this thing has full grains and is a high-yielding grain.
So call it corn?"
Listening to Liu Chen's answer, Liu Chan also felt a little embarrassed for his son, but it sounded good. When the corn is mature, it is not crystal clear. Although it is not as good as jade, the answer is not bad. After all, he is only eight years old now.
So Liu Chan nodded slightly and said with satisfaction: "Yes, what Chen'er said is good." He changed the topic and preached: "Chen'er, Tan'er, you must remember that a king must always think of the people.
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"As a monarch, you must first let the people have food to eat and clothing to wear." He looked at the two of them and asked seriously: "If the people don't have enough to eat and don't have enough clothes to wear, do you think the people will still support you?"
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Liu Chan originally wanted to educate his son in this way. When he becomes emperor, he must always think about the people and ensure that the people have enough food and clothing. Because in his memory, whenever there was rebellion in the past dynasties, it was more or less because the people could not afford to eat.
Fan, had no choice but to choose to rebel against the imperial court, and then rose up.
However, as soon as Liu Chan finished speaking, Qin King Liu Tan said: "Father, the people who do not support the monarch are all rebellious people. In the future, if anyone dares not to support father or the prince..." Liu Tan just said this, Liu Chan couldn't help but feel
He was stunned for a moment, wanting to hear what else he wanted to say, and deliberately asked Liu Tan: "If this is the case, what will Tan'er do?"
"Go back to your father!" Liu Tan slapped his chest hard with his small hand and said firmly: "I should ask for orders to send troops to annihilate them."
"Suppress... suppress... destroy?" Liu Chan was stunned for a moment, and then asked: "If all the people in the world rebel, what can be done?"
Liu Chan's tone was obviously not quite right. Liu Tan did not dare to answer. He felt that his answer did not satisfy his father. He turned to look at his younger brother Liu Chen, who was also a little panicked.
Seeing that the two sons were silent, Liu Chan patted their shoulders lightly, and then said seriously: "Remember, people will not rebel for no reason. Once they rebel, they will either be bewitched by others, or they will
Our failure as kings makes it difficult for them to survive and forces them to stand against us."
"You all must remember that water can carry a boat and also capsize it;" Liu Chan said: "The boat is like the court of a country, and the water is the subjects of the world. They can support the court and overthrow the unethical court.
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"I have remembered it!" Liu Chen saluted. Liu Chan immediately looked at Liu Tan and asked, "Tan'er, do you understand?"
Liu Tan was stunned, because he was just a king, and naturally he would not be a monarch in the future. This matter seemed to have nothing to do with him, as long as he assisted the king with his heart.
"I understand!" Liu Tan also responded.
After Liu Tan finished speaking, Liu Chan said with satisfaction: "In the future, you brothers will all become the kings of a country, so you must remember your father's words. Those who win the hearts of the people will win the world, and those who lose the hearts of the people will lose the world no matter how big it is."
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"No!"
Seeing the obedient responses from his two sons, Liu Chan was satisfied. However, the Queen Zhang Yang beside him seemed a little embarrassed, and she frowned slightly.
After talking to his two sons, Liu Chan asked the eunuchs to summon the ministers to him.
"My dear friends!"
Liu Chan grabbed a handful of corn, smiled and said to several ministers: "This is the food of the Sassanid people in the Western Regions. The grains of this corn are full and crystal clear as jade. Today I will plant this corn on this royal farm. If it is
We can have a good harvest and we will promote it nationwide in the future."
Here we go again——
The ministers were a little stunned. Not many people knew about this thing. Only Xu Shu and Zhuge Liang, a few high-level officials, had heard Liu Chan talk about it before.
However, this is the first time they have encountered this thing. Can it really be a good harvest?
Liu Chan didn't care about them. After a brief conversation, he led several eunuchs and Queen Zhang Yuan to personally go down to the fields and start planting corn.
When it comes to growing corn, Liu Chan was a child in the countryside in his previous life, so this will naturally not be a problem for him.
Leveling a small piece of land, then spreading corn on it, adding manure and water, and finally covering it with tent cloth, this is the cultivation of corn seedlings, which made the ministers stunned.
One of the middle-aged officials couldn't hold it back and asked: "Your Majesty, why is this so troublesome? Wouldn't it be better to just scatter it on the ground?"
"Haha!" Liu Chan rolled his eyes and said angrily: "It's okay to spread it on the ground, but it's difficult to achieve a bumper harvest. Does Aiqing still remember how to grow rice?"
As soon as Liu Chan said this, the man immediately shut his mouth.
Because the current rice cultivation in the Han Dynasty is because Liu Chan improved the planting methods, and the current harvest is more than twice that of the past. Since the emperor said this, he naturally has his reason.
If it were just corn seedlings, Liu Chan wouldn't have spent so much time today. The corn seedlings were actually completed very quickly, mainly because there were not many corn seeds.
After more than an hour, the corn seedlings were completed. Looking at a row of ground tents made of tent cloth, everyone thought that today's work was over.
But at this moment, Liu Chan asked two eunuchs to carry a bag of potatoes over.
These potatoes were also brought by the Sasanian merchant Salotto, but there was only one bag, which was about a hundred pounds.
These potatoes had been stored in Weiyang Palace for three or four months. When they were taken out, they had basically begun to sprout. Looking at these sprouted potatoes, Liu Chan was very satisfied.
"Knife!" Liu Chan grabbed a potato and shouted to the little eunuch beside him.
The little eunuch handed Liu Chan a small knife, and everyone was stunned again. They had never seen this potato before, and they were even less clear about how to plant it. They all looked at Liu Chan intently.
Liu Chan skillfully peeled off the sprouted parts of the potatoes one by one, leaving only one sprout.
"You can see it all clearly!" Liu Chan picked up a bud and said, "Keep the buds, don't cut them."
Several eunuchs nodded in agreement, and then Liu Chan asked them, along with several ministers, to help peel potatoes.
Because of Liu Chan's demonstration, their operation was similar. It was just that one of the ministers was a little stupid at first, and the cut part was too small, which made Liu Chan feel distressed.
"Peel more!"
"If there are too few, the buds will turn gray."
In his previous life, Liu Chan remembered that when he was growing potatoes when he was a child, he had to peel the potatoes. Only the sprouted parts needed to be peeled off, and the other parts could be used to stew meat. Of course, people's lives have improved, and many places are no longer willing to eat such sprouts.
of potatoes.
For example, someone once said that eating sprouted potatoes will cause poisoning.
Liu Chan didn't know if he would be poisoned. Anyway, when he was growing potatoes every year when he was a child, he would always eat the potatoes that had the sprouted parts cut off, and he had never been poisoned.
Of course——
Liu Chan chose to peel this time because potatoes are now too expensive. The entire Han Dynasty only has this bag of potatoes. It would be a waste and a pity if they were all buried in the soil.
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He has not eaten potatoes for more than ten years. From this big bag of potatoes, through his method, more than half of the sprouted parts are still available for consumption.
One side was busy peeling potatoes, while on the other side Liu Chan called Xu Shu and several ministers, and began to dig holes in the ground with hoes. When potato sprouts were peeled out over there, Liu Chan personally demonstrated how to sow seeds.
The method of sowing seeds is naturally very simple, that is, put the sprouted part upward, then cover it with some soft soil, and finally, of course, pour some manure.
The whole process took more than two hours, and the corn seedlings and potato sowing were all completed.
After all this, it was already noon, Liu Chan had most of the potatoes cut into thumb-sized pieces, and then he had a pig slaughtered. Now, it has become popular for big men to eat pork.
Speaking of eating pork, in fact, when Liu Chan first traveled through time, the pork of this era was really unpalatable and had an unpleasant smell.
Later, after getting to know more, I learned that pigs in this era were not castrated, so they tasted unpleasant, which was also the main reason why people were reluctant to eat them.
Liu Chan is a time traveler. In his previous life, he knew that in addition to the boars and sows used for breeding, piglets need to be castrated. In this way, the pigs that grow up after castration will not taste that bad.
An unpleasant odor.
Of course Liu Chan doesn't know how to castrate pigs, but a doctor can.
In my previous life, I ate pork every day, such as braised pork and twice-cooked pork. Not to mention how delicious it tasted.
But what about this era? People basically don’t eat pork, because pork is really not delicious, and it is also called cheap meat.
When Liu Chan first came, he was the crown prince, and he soon ascended the throne and became the emperor of the Han Dynasty.
However, the imperial dining room only serves beef and mutton, and mainly chicken and mutton, because cattle are also very valuable in this era, and they are the main labor used in plowing fields, so unless the cattle die of old age or are injured and cannot be treated, otherwise
People will never eat beef.
This is true even for the royal family.
However, Liu Chan hated eating mutton the most in his previous life, so after only a few months in Chengdu, he began to think about how to make pork delicious.
Finally, a doctor was called to castrate several piglets and then raise them in separate pens. After a few months, when these piglets grew up, their meat quality was obviously different from the pork he had tried before. Although the taste was not as good as
To the smell he was familiar with in his previous life.
However, the difference is not too big.
Later, in order to eat twice-cooked pork, he asked a blacksmith to build him a large iron pot according to his instructions.
As a modern person who has traveled through time, how can he stand it if you ask him to eat stewed food instead of stir-fried vegetables?
In fact, this iron pot was Liu Chan's first technological innovation in this era.
As for cooking, the real first time cooking can be traced back to when I was in Qingcheng Mountain.
Because before that, although the Chengdu Imperial Palace already had castrated pork, because the salt had not yet been refined, stir-fry dishes were actually unpalatable, so even if an iron pot was made, Liu Chan rarely ate stir-fry dishes.
Now that Liu Chan has been in Chang'an for several years, the art of pork castration has long been spread, and the people have begun to accept pork, because it is easier to raise pigs than to raise cattle and sheep, and they will eat any leftovers, and
In just half a year, one pig can be slaughtered.
Mainly because the price is very cheap.
After planting potatoes today, there are so many potatoes left. Isn’t it a waste not to stew a pot of meat?
Potato and pork——
A pig was put in with more than half of the potatoes, and a large pot was stewed. Then some various spices brought by the Sasanian merchants were put in, and they were stewed.
Liu Chan had the remaining potatoes cut into shreds, and then Liu Chan cooked in person, frying a large pot of vinegar-based shredded potatoes in front of Zhuge Liang and Xu Shu.
Suck——
"Oh, buy it!" Liu Chan smelled it and said with satisfaction: "It smells good!"
"If you add more shredded green peppers, shredded green peppers and potatoes will be delicious."
"Green pepper and potato shreds?" Zhuge Liang was stunned when he heard this, and asked inexplicably: "Your Majesty, what are green pepper and potato shreds?"
Zhuge Liang's question stunned Liu Chan. He paused and said with a smile: "Xiangfu, this is potato shreds." He pointed to the potatoes in the basin, and then said with some regret: "
Green peppers... Sigh, I don’t have any green peppers now.”
"What is green pepper?" Zhuge Liang asked.
Liu Chan said: "Green pepper is also a vegetable with a spicy taste. If paired with shredded potatoes, it can be called a delicacy in the world."
"Where does this thing live?" Xu Shu asked.
"This -" Liu Chan was stopped by the two people again, but this time he did not hesitate. He tasted a chopstick of shredded potatoes and said after he was satisfied: "Green peppers are produced in the tropical areas of South America."
"South America?" Xu Shu was stunned. He looked at Liu Chan in disbelief and asked, "Your Majesty, how do you know this?"
Of course Xu Shu was curious. Although he had stayed in Cao Ying for a long time, he still knew Liu Chan very well. Moreover, he was familiar with various ancient books and had never heard of these strange things.
Your Majesty, how do you know these things?
Xu Shu was very curious, and Prime Minister Zhuge Liang also looked at Liu Chan with doubts on his face.
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