Speaking of which, since Guan Yi fooled Wang Qi into taking root in Nanzhong in October 265 AD, Wang Qi has been wandering in Nanzhong and Nanzhong for more than two years.

For the Han people, a brutal nation with extremely aggressive and extremely strong combat power in their early years, they would generally be harvested wherever land is suitable for farming. From the Yellow River to the Yangtze River, from the Yangtze River to the Pearl River, as long as it is suitable for farming, no matter what indigenous people there are on your land, they will either drive away or assimilate. After that, Greater China began to farm there. From then on, this is the inherent territory of China since ancient times.

In East Asia, the Indochina Peninsula is really an exception to the Han people.

The land here is fertile, the rivers are numerous, and the climate is warm and humid. You can plant rice at least two seasons a year, and in some places you can even plant rice for three seasons. But at most, the Han people reach the northern end of the Indochina Peninsula, and then go south again, it is extremely difficult.

The reasons are: one is the long distance, the second is the poor environment, and the third is that the main ethnic group living on this land, the Jing tribe is a nation with strong combat effectiveness. At least in modern Vietnam's history books, there are many records of fighting against the "Northern Barbarians" and winning...

(The early history of the Indochina Peninsula lacks reliable records. For example, in Cambodia, the former cultural people used a kind of leaf as a text carrier, and could not be preserved for a long time. Therefore, it is difficult to say when the Beijing people became the dominant nation on the Indochina Peninsula.)

Two and a half years ago, Wang Qi was so excited by Guan Yi's words of history that he left his name. Shortly after Guan Yi turned to Chengdu, he organized a team to go south along the Lancang River. As a result, because he was not familiar with hydrological geography, he almost fed fish and shrimps in the surging Lancang River. The team with more than 100 people disappeared and drowned more than 70 people.

The next year, Wang Qi, who had made careful preparations, organized a team of more than 300 people to go south again. This time he arrived at the lower reaches of the Lancang River and came to the near Tonle Sap Lake, which had an endless water area. As a result, after being bitten by mosquitoes here, more than 300 people collectively beat the ball (malaria), and a large number of expedition team members died of illness, and Wang Qi himself almost died there.

After returning without success this time, Wang Qi learned from his mistakes, put down his figure again, and learned from the surrounding southern natives of the Southern Middle School's experience of living in dense forests. Guan Yi often wrote letters to provide guidance in Chengdu. In 267 AD, as the jade excavation on Ma Yi finally achieved fruitful results, more and more southern middle school people came to join. With the help of Ma Yi, Wang Qi once again organized an expedition team of more than 500 people to go south.

This time, the southward journey was very smooth, and the group soon came to Tonle Sap Lake. Then Wang Qi finally discovered that this Tonle Sap Lake was just a natural flood storage place formed by backflow when the Mekong River surged. The real Mekong River was actually in another direction. Then they turned around and continued to move towards the lower reaches of the Mekong River. Finally, they saw a large area of ​​rice fields near the mouth of the Mekong River.

The so-called Chameng rice is a high-quality rice seed that the people in the Chameng region (the southern part of the Indochina Peninsula) have been bred for thousands of years after thousands of years of selection and breeding. Therefore, in Wang Qi's era, Chameng rice was not anything. However, what Guan Yi and Wang Qi needed was not the mature Chameng rice, but the rice seeds here that had obvious differences from the rice seeds in the mainland of Shu Han.

The rice seeds in Shu Han had a good taste, low yield, not cold-resistant and drought-resistant, and were very expensive. In Guan Yi's opinion, serving such rice seeds when everyone was not full of food was purely pretentious. So his goal was: the taste doesn't matter, it would be better if the yield was high, and it would be better if it was drought-resistant. As for cold-resistant rice seeds, there was no extravagant hope. That would be achieved after finding new cold-resistant rice seeds in Hokkaido in the future.

The primitive rice seeds on the Indochina Peninsula can meet such needs very well.

So this time, Wang Qi succeeded.

In February 268 AD, Wang Qi, who returned to Buwei County, Yongchang County, began to cultivate seedlings with new rice seedlings. By March of that year, all the seedlings had grown, and he began to try to plant seedlings.

"Have you measured the land?"

"If Huiwang works, he has measured it repeatedly. All of them are rare flat land, a total of four acres. The soil quality is the same."

"Good, let's start." After Wang Qi said this, he began to take off his coat and roll up his trousers.

After hearing the news, Ma Yi, who rushed to see the fun, couldn't sit still: "Brother Kong Shuo, do you really want to go to the fields to plant rice seedlings?"

"It should be so. Since we are already shareholders of Fuxing Society, of course we have to learn from Sun Dinglie. As long as we are in charge of this matter, we have to do it ourselves. Didn't we go down the mine to mine a few days ago?"

"This is different. Ma Yi is less than thirty years old after all."

"Haha, Gongxing is bullying me? Otherwise, let's go down the field and see who's better in the slap?"

"Uh, okay. Left and right, come and help me unarm."

Now the two most important officials in Yongchang County are taking the initiative to go to the fields to plant rice. What are the remaining Yongchang prefects, County Magistrate Buwei, etc., and do you still need to teach them?

A group of officials laughed and raised their trousers and put them on the field. Many people fell into the field and couldn't get up as soon as they got off the field. Wang Qi was so angry that he saw it: "Go and go, go and go and go, go and go to the ridges of the fields. Don't cause trouble for me."

Then he turned his head and saw Ma Yi standing firmly in the paddy fields. He finally stretched his eyebrows a little: "Practice yourself, let's start."

"good!"

Then the two of them really started planting rice seedlings in the paddy fields like an old farmer.

"Brother Kong Shuo, how did you arrange these four acres of land?"

"Well, two acres of new rice seeds, one acre of indica rice from the Chengdu Plain, and one acre of glutinous rice from the southern middle. I have carefully selected the highest yield rice seeds. On the Chengdu rice, the peak output value is six stones per acre per acre in one quarter, and four and a half stones of southern middle middle rice."

"It was July when my brother went to Jiaozhi to find rice seeds? Did you calculate the yield per mu of new rice seeds on the spot?"

"Hey! How is that possible? The natives in that place were so cruel that they saw us fiddling with their rice fields. They all came with wooden rakes and sickles. We couldn't explain it at all. So we snatched the rice that had been about two or three minutes of the land and got on the boat. But later on the boat we estimated that the yield of new rice seeds per minute was about seven to eight liters."

"Hiss, so, the yield per mu of eight stones?"

"It's hard to say. I see that the Jiaozhi natives don't understand what intensive cultivation means. This new rice is in my hands, and I want to impact the yield of ten stones acres."

"Brother, I have great ambitions! I admire you! If I can achieve a universal yield of ten stones per mu, then I will definitely get rid of the pain of lack of food."

"Hey, I hope that's the case. Speaking of which, brother, you are not bad. I saw the jade suit you gave to my wife a few days ago. It was crystal clear and very fascinating. This is a new source of wealth for my great man in the future. By the way, why are you still stocking up?"

"There is no way. The Grand Sima means that jade or various gems must be made public after the Northern Expedition is completely over. But I can understand that the ground in Yongliang is not much simpler than our Yizhou. No, it should be more complicated."

"Well, I really feel deeply that I am the same for my brother as the prefect in Longxi in his early years. Aristocratic families and foreign races... are difficult to deal with. In addition, Yongliang has always had droughts and locust plagues in recent years, and no year can be considered a good harvest."

"So everything my brother did here is of great significance! Over the years, I have understood that the key to reviving this man is two: one, population, and two, food. As for the others, it is just a variety of assistance to quickly increase the number of these two items."

"...I have grasped the key point by practicing this sentence. I see all the deeds of Grand Sima since he started his career in Fuling, all of which are about population and food."

"So, by the way, brother, you have been in Jiaozhi for many years. I heard that in addition to high mountains and dense forests, mosquitoes and a little more diseased, the rivers are crisscrossing and the climate is warm, which is very suitable for farming. Do you think my great man can turn around after he takes Yongliang?"

"Hiss, this. Brother, this Jiaozhi, except for the northern border of Wu that is similar to the chief commander in the South Central region today, the south is simply ignorant. The natives around Tonle Sap Lake are quite tame and friendly. The natives living along both sides of the Mekong River are so fierce. Moreover, there are too many epidemics in this place. It takes too much effort to rule here. In Brother Yu's opinion, this is not something that our Han Han can afford now."
Chapter completed!