Chapter 400 Thanks to the farmer uncle, thanks to C
In the summer of the 12th year of Daye, on the first day of April, there was a fire in the west courtyard of Daye Hall. Yang Guang thought that a thief had arrived, so he fled into the western garden and hid in the grass. He only came out after the fire was extinguished. Emperor Yang has been unable to sleep well every night since the eighth year of Daye. He often woke up in shock and palpitations. He said that there were thieves and he would be ordered to be soothed to several women before he could fall asleep.
On the seventh day of the fourth month, Li Shanfei's general Zhen Zhai'er led 100,000 people to attack Taiyuan, and General Pan Changwen was defeated and died.
At the May Dayi meeting, Emperor Yang asked his servants about the situation of the thieves. General Yuwen Shu of the Zuo Yiwei said: "It gradually decreases."
Emperor Yang said: "How much less than the past?" Yuwen Shu replied: "Not one-tenth of the past."
Nayan Su Wei hid behind the pillar. Emperor Yang called Su Wei to his seat and asked him. Su Wei replied: "I am not an official in charge of this. I don't know how many thieves there are, but the thieves are getting closer and closer to Beijing."
Emperor Yang asked: "Why do you say that?"
Su Wei said: "In the past, thieves only occupied Changbai Mountain, but now they are near Sishui. Besides, where are the former rented thief Ding Massacre? Hasn't people become thieves? Recently, they saw that the thieves reported were not true, so they did not take the measures in time and could not be eliminated in time. Also, when they were in Yanmen, they had promised to stop conquering Liaodong, and now they were recruiting soldiers. How can the thieves be calmed down?"
Emperor Yang was unhappy when he heard this, so he gave up. Not long after, on May 5, many of the officials offered treasures, but Su Wei presented them to the Book of Documents. Someone slandered Su Wei and said, "There is "The Song of the Five Sons" in the Book of Documents. Su Wei's meaning is very disrespectful." Emperor Yang became even more angry. Soon after, Emperor Yang asked Su Wei about the conquest of Goryeo. Su Wei wanted Emperor Yang to understand the situation of many thieves in the world, so he replied, "Now, I hope I will not send troops to the Liao Dynasty. As long as the thieves are pardoned, I will naturally get hundreds of thousands of people and send them to the east. These people are happy about their guilt being pardoned and will compete to make merits, and Goryeo can be wiped out."
Emperor Yang was unhappy, so Su Wei retreated. The censor Pei Yun replied: "This is so disrespectful. Where are there many thieves in the world?" Emperor Yang said: "This old guy is extremely treacherous and uses thieves to scare me. I want to slap him in the mouth, so let's be patient for a while."
Pei Yun knew Emperor Yang's intentions, so he asked Zhang Xingben, a civilian from Henan, to report: "When Su Wei was in charge of selecting officials in Gaoyang, he was abusive in his official position, fearing the Turks, and demanding to return to the capital." Emperor Yang ordered people to review and verify, which constituted a crime. So Emperor Yang issued an edict to list Su Wei's crimes and expelled him as a civilian. More than a month later, someone reported that Su Wei and the Turks had secretly colluded with him to plot against him. The matter was handed over to Pei Yun to investigate and handle it. Pei Yun sentenced Su Wei to death. Su Wei could not defend himself, but just apologized for his guilt.
Emperor Yang sympathized with Su Wei and released him, saying, "If you can't bear to kill him." He removed Su Wei's descendants and grandchildren from being named as the people.
The important ministers of the country were expelled from the people because they told the truth, and their descendants were all expelled from the people. This was because Yang Guangsheng had a compassion. As soon as this news came out, all the ministers in the world were helpless and became more and more depressed about the future of the Great Sui Dynasty.
At least I looked down on Yang Guang more and more. When I was destroying the Kedahan bandit Zhu Can, I defeated the Kedahan bandit with less than 3,000 soldiers and captured more than 3,000 enemies. In the end, I had no choice but to reward the emperor with ten treasure knives, hundreds of silks, and hundreds of households with fiefs.
Well, when I saw this reward, I almost laughed. What's the point of making a fuss? I remember a poem by this young master back then, and I received a lot of rewards. Today, I saved nearly 10,000 people and escaped from birth, but I only received this kind of reward with more symbolic meaning. How could I be happy?
In addition to expressing gratitude in a very formulaic way, this young master still focused his main energy on people's livelihood. The population of Hancheng County soared, while industry and agriculture have achieved leap-by development, such as shipbuilding, papermaking, coal, steel, porcelain, breeding, transportation, mining, lime, cement, etc., are developing vigorously in many aspects.
At present, the number of miners in Hancheng County has reached 2,000 miners alone, and the ore mined every day has reached 20,000 kilograms. The monthly steel production of smelters has reached more than 100,000 kilograms. And it is still growing slowly.
Industry drives commerce, and commerce also makes industry. Hancheng County's annual taxes remain steadily at the past level. However, my son's wealth can only be described as somersault-like growth.
Although a lot of manpower and material resources are invested in infrastructure construction, only good infrastructure can better drive the development of industry and commerce.
All of this appeared under the guidance and guidance of this young master. Now, I am standing next to the rice field, watching the skilled farmers using sickles to quickly harvest the golden wheat waves in the fields.
"It's really fast enough. In less than two months, the rice has really matured." Wei Yunqi stood beside me, with a speechless expression. "Looking at this attitude, I'm afraid that it's acre of land, at least three stones can be collected."
"It is impossible to have only three stones, at least four stones." An old farmer next to him said bravely. Looking at the densely planted Zhanpo rice in the rice field, the old farmer's vision must be much more professional.
"If you can get four stones per acre, it will be really developed." Yang Qiong stared blankly at the farmers who had been piled up in front of the pedal rice machine. He watched the golden rice grains fall from the exit of the machine into the prepared bucket. Every time he filled the bucket, he was poured into the valley truck not far away. Someone was recording there, and he told the farmer from time to time that the bucket was too sharp and he had to be smoothed before moving it away.
The golden color and full grains of rice were lying in my palm and admiring the Zhanpo rice. I felt more and more relieved. Well, although only one section can be planted in the north, things like winter wheat can be planted in other seasons, at least in the south of the Yellow River and the Guanzhong Plain. There is absolutely no problem.
Today is the first day of the sickle, so I harvested one acre first and tested it. I saw that the bottom acre of land could produce several stones of grain. Ten farmers worked together, and soon the harvest of one acre of land was completed.
"Young master, my son, the data is out. This acre of land has obtained a total of four and a half stones of rice." When the guy who was responsible for recording the data was overweight, he couldn't help but shouted excitedly after the last scale.
At least hundreds of people watching and making soy sauce were all uproaring. "Four and a half stones? No way, I heard that the good acres in Luoyang, after careful cultivation, only four stones of rice planted. This kind of rice can produce so much rice in less than two months?"
The sounds of talking come one after another, and I heard this guy's scalp explode, but I am in a good mood now and have no time to pay attention to it. Well, four and a half stones, rely on it, soybeans and millets increase their yields, and it only has two stones. Winter wheat has survived a winter and has grown for several months, and it has only two and a half stones. This thing actually jumped to four and a half stones.
Unfortunately, in this era, there are no corn, why there are no sweet potatoes, and why there are no potatoes. Otherwise, I believe that the GDP of the Chinese nation can definitely account for more than 95% of the total number on the earth.
But I am very glad that there is at least a little bit of rice. Anyway, after a few years and the Tang Empire is established, I will form an ocean-going fleet and go to the New World to get some potatoes, corn, and sweet potato seeds. Okay, it's too far. The business here is not over yet, and I actually start to be scattered again.
It took two days to spend about 30,000 acres of land. Well, there are not many other people in Hancheng County, and there are definitely enough people. Moreover, 90% of the people in this era are living in the fields. All young and middle-aged people are experts in working hard on the fields. Of course, except for this gentleman who is powerless to tie a chicken, even Wei Yunqi rolled up his sleeves and got off the ground, and cut it for an afternoon.
The 36,000 acres of land were harvested in just two days, and all of them were stored in the Hancheng County Grain Depot, which was a large granary behind the Gongzi's Neighborhood. The 36,000 acres of land alone had 162,000 stones of grain harvested.
Unfortunately, there are too few cattle in this county, otherwise, at least about 150,000 mu of rice can be planted in the county.
"In addition to harvesting food, the fish I caught a total of about 700,000 kilograms of fish a few days ago." Yang Qiong looked at the data in his hand and kept squeaking. "We fishermen in Hancheng County have not been so many in the past year of fishing. It's great that they can not only raise fish but also increase their yields."
"That's because fish can eat weeds and pests in the water without any feed, and the feces they excrete are excellent fertilizers for rice, so they can naturally increase the yield of rice." This young master said proudly.
Well, thanks to CC, thanks to the towns where I work and live, thanks to the simple farmers, they are the ones who let me know that using the water surface of rice fields to raise fish can not only obtain fish products, but also use fish to eat pests and weeds in the rice fields, excrete manure, turn soil to promote fertilizer decomposition, and create good conditions for rice growth. Generally, it can increase the rice yield by about 10%, and the highest one can even increase the yield by 20%.
This method was adopted in later generations, which not only increased grain and fish, but also allowed the rice fields to apply less fertilizer and spray less pesticides, saving labor and increasing income. In this era, chemical fertilizers were only dreams, but compound fertilizers still did not reach the level of chemical fertilizers after all, but after adding fish, increasing rice yields became a reality, and they were absolutely pure natural and pollution-free.
At least such output was shocked by everyone, and I felt very satisfied. Yes, in such an era, it was already very satisfying to be able to obtain such a large output.
"If the Hancheng County everywhere in the Great Sui Dynasty was like the young master's command, then the peaceful and prosperous world would be in front of me." Han Xiong sighed and said.
Chapter completed!