There is basically no water in the fields, and the mud is spread flat.
Liu Chan knew their doubts.
He doesn't want to explain now.
"Today I want to teach you a new method of growing rice," Liu Chan said: "I can guarantee the yield of rice grown in this way."
As he spoke, Liu Chan suddenly asked the old man out of curiosity: "Excuse me, my husband, how much rice can one acre of paddy field produce now?"
"Back to Your Majesty," the old man said directly without thinking: "In a good year, one acre of paddy field can produce three stones of rice."
Three stones?
Liu Chan remembered the measurement unit of the Qin Dynasty, one stone was equivalent to one hundred and twenty kilograms in later generations. Many systems of the Han Dynasty followed the Qin Dynasty's system.
The same should be true for the Three Kingdoms.
Three stones means three hundred and sixty kilograms.
This is still a good year. The so-called good year is nothing more than good weather.
This is the Chengdu Plain. Since Li Bing built the Dujiangyan Water Conservancy Project, the Chengdu Plain has already become a fertile land.
However, due to the continuous wars, the population has dropped sharply, and many fields are deserted and uncultivated.
If we still grow rice in the old way, the annual harvest will not be much better, and the majority of the crops grown by tenants will either be given to the state or to the landlords.
If there is still a small amount of surplus, it belongs to ordinary people.
In Liu Chan's eyes, the current planting methods are very backward.
The yield per mu is 360 kilograms.
And it’s still a good year.
In other words, under normal circumstances, the actual yield per mu may not reach 360 kilograms.
Liu Chan knew that when he was a child, his rice yield could reach eight to nine hundred kilograms per mu.
After that, it can even reach about two thousand kilograms.
"The planting method I will teach you today," Liu Chan said loudly, "I guarantee that the yield will at least double."
Hiss——
Everyone was stunned after hearing this, and basically no one believed it.
But they are interested in taking a look.
Let’s take a look at how this emperor, who lives deep in the harem and never does anything, grows rice.
Although the people didn't say anything, Liu Chan could already see the word "disbelief" from their expressions.
Liu Chan had already been mentally prepared.
After all, it takes time for people to accept new things.
Liu Chan did not continue to explain.
As the saying goes, the rest depends on actions. He is the emperor, and the people will not directly refute him.
But you have to at least put on a show, let the people see it, and let them recognize that you really know how to do it.
So Liu Chan immediately rolled up his trouser legs and asked a guard to follow him carrying a dustpan of seedlings.
Zhang Yuan was shocked when he saw this.
Your Majesty, are you crazy?
But it was too late for her to follow her. Liu Chan had already gone down to the rice field, pulled off a bunch of rice seedlings, and planted the rice seedlings one by one on the flat mud.
The seedlings were two or three centimeters apart, which made the people look confused.
They have been planting crops all their lives, and this is the first time they have seen someone planting rice like this.
This is so troublesome.
Wouldn't it be better to grab the rice seeds and sow them in the fields? Why bother?
It’s just that Liu Chan is the emperor.
They can only watch. Anyway, they don't care whether there will be a harvest if these seedlings are planted.
But since the emperor said that the yield of rice grown this way would double, they wanted to take a look.
What if it really comes true?
If true, this would be double their current output.
Liu Chan stayed in the field for a short time, and the guards all understood the method. Zhang Shao and Zhuge Qiao followed him down to the field with several guards.
Then learn Liu Chan’s method and start planting rice seedlings.
A dozen people planted a dustpan of seedlings together without much effort.
There are seven dustpans left.
Liu Chan didn't intend to finish all of them. After inserting this dustpan, he was already so tired that his back ached.
After not doing farm work for many years, this work is still a bit tiring, so I left the remaining seedlings to Zhang Shao.
Coming up from the fields, Liu Chan told the people about the planting process.
Now this is called transplanting small seedlings. When the seedlings grow a little bigger, they have to fill the rice field with water. After a month, they have to pull out the seedlings and plant them in the paddy field.
Listening to Liu Chan's explanation, the common people were confused and confused. In short, they felt it was very complicated.
And they couldn't believe it, would the yield of rice grown in this way really double?
Although almost no one in the crowd believed in the grain output.
But we can see the emperor personally working in the fields, and actually doing it.
This actually made the onlookers' eyes brighten. It turned out that Liu Chan's image in their hearts had changed.
Before that, they just knew.
This Shuhan Dynasty.
The emperor is the son of the late emperor Liu Bei, but the person who really governs this country is Prime Minister Zhuge Liang.
Sometimes people forget that there is an emperor living in the harem.
But today.
They saw the emperor.
What this emperor did may not necessarily come true, but at least he was trying to help the people increase their harvests.
Just for this reason.
This Liu Chan is a pretty good emperor.
This is actually Liu Chan’s purpose.
He knows the history of the Three Kingdoms.
Although Liu Bei and his son had ruled Shu for more than fifty years, when the Shu Han fell, not many local clansmen were willing to fight the enemy for them.
Maybe in their eyes.
It doesn’t matter who you are as emperor, whether your emperor’s surname is Liu or Cao, it doesn’t seem to be that important to them.
Perhaps it was for this reason that when the Wei army came to Chengdu, Liu Chan surrendered without any resistance.
Liu Chan has changed his soul in this life, and he wants to make some changes. As for whether he can revive the Han Dynasty, he can only leave it to fate.
However, he does not intend to follow the old path of his original self. Life is a life of struggle. If you don’t struggle a little, how do you know that it will definitely not work?
Is there really no chance for the Shu Han regime to make a comeback?
Liu Chan doesn’t quite believe it.
Although he is not like other time-travelers, they all have awesome golden fingers.
But he is the only person in this era who knows the historical process.
So he feels that there should still be a way to break the situation, but he hasn't thought of it yet.
Teaching people to grow rice was the first thing he did to break the situation.
Today, it was done with such great fanfare that the people came to watch it, and they even boasted about Haikou.
He knows that it is impossible for these people to believe him now, but that is not important.
What he cares more about is that this matter must be seen by the common people, so that they can hear what he is boasting about.
Wait until the time of harvest.
Ordinary people would want to watch a joke. After all, the emperor's jokes are more ridiculous than ordinary people's jokes, aren't they?
Before Liu Chan left, he smiled and said to the people watching: "Folks, when the big rice seedlings are planted in a month, I will come to teach you in person. I hope everyone will come and watch."
As soon as Liu Chan finished speaking, the people present, the guards, and members of the Zhang family all knelt on the ground and shouted in unison: "Long live your Majesty, long live, long live your Majesty."
Listening to the people's shouts of "Long Live the Mountain", Liu Chan beamed with joy, while Zhang Yuan on the side was a little confused.
This——
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This chapter has been completed!