Wang Anshi sat up straighter and opened his mouth slightly to refute Shen Long. Shen Long raised his hand to stop him before he could speak, and then asked, "Jiefu also knows that the annexation of Risheng is now, otherwise he would not have proposed the land equalization tax exemption law. Then let’s use the land equalization tax exemption law as an example to talk about it. If there is not enough land in the world for planting, how should Jie Fu respond?”

"Clear the land, clean up the hidden fields, divide the land into grades according to fatness and thinness, and pay different taxes..." Wang Anshi replied, this is also the strategy adopted in his land equalization tax law, and this method is not his first. Song Renzong Guo Shen and Sun Lin had adopted similar policies in Feixiang County during the year, and Wang Anshi just continued and developed their practices.

From the history books given to him by Shen Long, Wang Anshi learned that the Fangtian Equalization Tax Law was strongly opposed by Sima Guang and others and was eventually abolished, so he stopped mid-sentence. This method has been proven to be ineffective. Shen Long obviously knew about this matter, and his answer would definitely not satisfy him, so Wang Anshi asked, "Is there any other way?"

"Look, I said that Confucianism is only good at dividing cakes, but not making them. This shows that even a great talent like Jiefu only limited his vision to the existing land." Shen Long Shaking his head, he closed the window again, and the previous map appeared on the screen again. Shen Long pointed at the map and said, "There are many ways to solve the land shortage. First, why not cultivate new land? There are many ways to solve the land shortage in the Song Dynasty? There is still a lot of land for farming, and the two lakes are not yet fully developed, so a lot of land can be developed."

"Looking further south, Jiaozhi has abundant sunshine and fertile land, which can produce three crops a year. This place was originally my hometown in the Central Plains. Unfortunately, when the Song Dynasty was founded, the king of Jiaozhi County was ennobled. Later, Li Gongyun founded the Li Dynasty, causing Jiaozhi County to It is a pity to divide the Central Plains! If we can develop the two lakes, turn the wasteland into mature land, and then regain the homeland of Jiaozhi, we can protect the Song Dynasty from having to worry about lack of land and food for decades. This is the skill of making cakes." Shen Long said.

"Jiefu thinks it is easier to deal with people like Sima Guang and Wen Yanbo, or is it easier to deal with the savages from Lianghu and Jiaozhi?" Is it more difficult to get the land from Sima Guang and Wen Yanbo than the latter?

"This..." Wang Anshi was silent for a moment, and then asked, "Whether it is to open up the two lakes or to regain Jiaozhi, it must be supported by financial resources and troops. Now the government does not have this money, so what should we do?"

"Ignoring this in advance, let me talk about the second method of making cakes!" Shen Long continued, "People's lives are becoming increasingly difficult. This can be analyzed from two aspects. One is the lack of land, and the other is the lack of land. If the output is low, the former can be solved by opening up the two lakes and recovering Jiaozhi, while the latter can be solved by studying how to increase grain output."

"If one acre of land can grow the food of the previous two acres, wouldn't it be equivalent to doubling the land in the Song Dynasty? This is also a method of making cakes, but you Confucians still don't know how to do it, or occasionally Some people do this, but they don't attract your attention." Shen Long asked again, "May I ask Jiefu, how much is the yield per mu in the Song Dynasty now?"

"Fan Xiwen once wrote a memorial in the reign of Renzong, saying, 'I know that in Suzhou, the taxable land is 34,000 hectares, and Zhongmin's profit is two to three stones per mu.' I saw it in Jiangning, and the local output is also the same. "The land in Suzhou and Jiangning is far more fertile than in the north. Let's put it into perspective, the yield per mu of the entire Song Dynasty is probably less than three stones." Wang Anshi thought for a while and replied.

After speaking, he couldn't help but retort, "During the reign of Zhenzong in the Song Dynasty, we sent envoys to Champa to retrieve Champa rice. They first tried planting it in Fujian, and then took 30,000 hu of dendrobium and spread it to various places. Now Champa rice has been It is widely cultivated in the Jiangnan area."

"I remember that this matter was brought up by Zhenzong himself, right? I haven't heard that the civil official wrote a letter about this matter, nor have I heard that he was promoted because of this matter. This is enough to show that you Confucians still don't pay attention to these things; I think , If that official can introduce Champa rice and successfully cultivate it widely, no amount of reward will be too generous for such a great achievement." Shen Long said with a smile.

Wang Anshi and his son were speechless, and Shen Long asked again, "Jiefu, does Yuanze know how many kilograms of grain I said an acre of land can produce in the next life?"

Without waiting for the two of them to answer, Shen Long directly showed his killer weapon and showed a picture of Druid Zhang Yuan in the harvest field, "The yield per mu of this land is about two thousand kilograms in Song Dynasty!"

In the Song Dynasty, one catty weighed almost 600 grams. Yuan Longping's world-record yield per mu was just over 1,200 kilograms. In the Song Dynasty, it was exactly two thousand kilograms. In the Song Dynasty, one stone weighed about one hundred kilograms, and three stones equaled just over three hundred kilograms. Two thousand kilograms is better than three. One hundred catties, the output of this acre of land is nearly seven times worse.

"The yield per mu is two thousand catties!" Wang Anshi and his son immediately stood up from their chairs and rushed to the wall, staring at the pictures of rice on the wall. If the Song Dynasty could have such an output, the people of the world would still be worried. Hungry.

"Having seen rice, let's take a look at wheat." Shen Long released a picture of the yield record set by the Silicon Valley Fertilizer Wheat Experimental Base in Guangfu Dongjie Village, Yongnian County, Hebei Province. "Wheat yield is lower than rice, but If planted well, one acre of land can produce more than 1,600 kilograms."

This record is 974 kilograms, which is almost the same number when converted into 600 grams per kilogram. Rice can only be cultivated in paddy fields in the south, but wheat can be cultivated in the north. The meanings are different.

"This one has a yield of eight thousand kilograms per mu!" The picture on the wall changed again, and the ground was filled with white lumpy roots, piled up like a hill.

"What's this? There's a yield of over ten thousand kilograms per mu!" Before Wang Anshi and his son could exclaim, Shen Long changed the picture again, and saw that this time the hill on the ground turned into red lumps of rhizomes. This mountain It's bigger than the one just now.

"Taoist Priest, what kind of immortal seed is this?" Wang Anshi and his son were directly stimulated to death. A yield of ten thousand catties per mu? If this was placed in the Song Dynasty, it would definitely be considered a great auspiciousness.

"The one just now is called a potato, and the one you are looking at now is called a sweet potato. Although the sweet potato yields a high yield per mu, it is not as delicious as rice, and it is not as filling as rice. At most, it can only be used as a supplementary food. It cannot be used as a staple food, but potatoes can be used as a staple food. ." Shen Long said nonchalantly, "I have the seeds you want, and I have other high-yield seeds, but I'm afraid you can't grow such a high yield. Increasing yield is not just a matter of seeds."

"I would like to thank Taoist Master for all the people in the world." Wang Anshi lifted his robe, knelt down solemnly, kowtowed to Shen Long, and Wang Yu quickly followed.
Chapter completed!