Chapter 3832: Ambition
Ma Chao was not talking nonsense, but he really knew how to farm. What is precise is that compared with the Romans, people in the Central Plains could farm. Even those who were killed in Liangzhou were better than most Romans. In the same time, the level of grain planting in the Central Plains was basically the highest.
Let’s put it this way, although the yield per mu of the Han Dynasty and Rome was similar, assuming that the Han Dynasty and Rome both had an output of 200 kilograms, the Han Dynasty only needed more than a dozen kilograms of seeds to achieve, while Rome might need more than 30 kilograms of seeds to have this output.
Simply put, the seed grain output ratio of the Han Dynasty can easily reach more than one to fifteen, while the ratio of Rome is only one to six.
This data is very cruel. Rome needs to leave a large amount of food for use as seeds. If it weren't for the fact that there were many places to farm around the Mediterranean, the Romans would have killed their homes long ago.
The concept of farming in Rome includes adapting to local conditions, soil selection and fertilization, but there are no excellent seeds, no screenings, and no tillering...
As for the tillers performed by Cookies for Chen Xi, one seed is divided into more than 100 seedlings, and one wheat ear has about thirty grains. Simply put, if Cookies are willing to do anything, they can pile up their output to more than 3,000.
In other words, a seed produces about 3,000 grains. Of course, only cookies can do this. Even if it can be done, it will not be done normally, because it is a waste of time.
I did this before because if I didn’t tiller manually, the rice containing the essence of heaven and earth was cultivated too slowly, so I had the cookies and had nothing to do.
Therefore, logically speaking, the seed-output ratio can reach a very outrageous level, but from a realistic perspective, even in later generations, the ratio is generally about fifty or sixty, which means that under the support of fertility, light and ventilation, twenty kilograms of seeds can produce 1,000 kilograms of grain, while the proportion in the Han Dynasty was roughly about 16 or 17.
The cookie piles have reached the level of twenty-five, so the cookies went to the temple, but this does not mean that the upper limit is twenty-five times. To be precise, the so-called twenty-five times is more equivalent to the level that ordinary people can easily master learning.
Including composting, tillering, soil selection, cultivation, etc., cookies can pile this ratio to more than 3,000 times. The problem is to what extent it is. Even in later generations, only those who are engaged in breeding good varieties in the laboratory can use experimental equipment to solve it.
Just like the old men of Xiangli scolded Zhang in Nanyang, you made a thing that could not be popularized. Is there a brain problem? Should you brainwash it?
Rome has never had a big shot. When Pliny, the other party studied volcanic ash composting technology, which allowed the comparison of seed and grain production in Italy and other regions to reach the current level of the Han Dynasty. The problem is that if you came out of Italy, this technology would not be used at all!
More than 100 provinces, only your Italian province can use it. Aren’t you deliberately creating conflicts? This is not a cheating person?
The most powerful thing about cookies is that it simplifies the screening, selection, intensive cultivation, and the most important promotion of good varieties to the point where an old farmer can master it.
Ma Chao is not an old farmer, but Ma Chao lives in that cultural circle, so Ma Chao can farm and has a sloppy grasp of the cookie set.
"Super farming is amazing." Tachito said to Annaus, "He has cultivated a place in Midiya, grown a lot of vegetables, and has grown very well."
Ma Chao's vegetable planting is purely boring, but for Tachito, it is still very magical and shocking. At least Tachito himself cannot grow the vegetables so neatly.
"It's okay for everyone to do this, just have hands." Ma Chao waved his hand and said, "It's okay for other things. Farming is really just to have hands. Any Chinese who can't farm? Just kidding, planting onions in flower pots and planting garlic seedlings is better than the other.
Flowers in flowerpots can be raised to death, but if they are raised, they can mostly be raised. Especially some specially cultivated vegetables, which look more beautiful than flowers. While greening the environment, pretending to be flowers, they pick them into the pot when there is no vegetables.
"Ah, I didn't expect that you have such talent in this regard." Annaus said with great admiration. This was not a ridicule, but to be honest.
"This is really just with hands." Ma Chao firmly rejected Annaus's words. He just reclaimed a piece of land, then poured some water on time, occasionally ate the crooked ones, loosen the soil, etc. Is this difficult?
This is actually very difficult. Knowing when to do these is already at the level of meticulous cultivation. For the people of the Central Plains, from childhood to adulthood, they naturally know how to see their ancestors do this, but for the Romans, this is really a pity.
Some of the questions asked by Annaus made cookies feel that they were indifferent, because in cookies’ opinion, this kind of problem does not exist at all.
But I have to admit that Annaus is indeed very easy to learn. He has truly integrated these things into his own. Now he is an excellent agronomist. The rest is to find ways to promote the correct farming technology.
As for the independent cultivation of good varieties suitable for local conditions according to local conditions, Annaus felt that he would leave it aside before saying that he only needed to increase the ratio of seeds and grain output to 10 to 20, which would be enough to raise millions of people.
After all, it was originally a mu of land that had to be cultivated twice a year, and fifty kilograms of seeds were needed, but now only twenty kilograms of seeds were needed, saving thirty kilograms of grain per mu of land.
It doesn’t sound like a lot, right? Rome’s arable land area is more than 500 million mu. Calculated by four kilograms of grain per person per day, the same arable land area can raise about 10 million more people.
This is why Annaus is very respectful to the Han Dynasty planting technology he has learned. It doesn’t sound like a lot, but it’s too terrible to resist this base, and it’s actually that every acre can save so much food.
"Cho, why don't you come with me to be a municipal magistrate? Let's promote the new farming model together. Believe me, you will get results in three years and change Rome in five years. Within ten years, the position of the referee will definitely be yours." Annaus said, holding Ma Chao's hand.
Yes, Annaus had already been arranged for his job. After all, he was the last descendant of the Anthony family, and Duke Niger was behind him. Caesar also knew the connection between the inner city, so he arranged a position for Annaus shortly after he came back.
However, Niger planned to take Annaus to the Mauritania province, where he set up the Atlantic Fleet and Annaus farmed on the spot. No matter how he planted, Niger wrote his own handwriting and Annaus could take off no matter what.
Although Niger had no idea that Annaus, who had returned from a trip to the Han Dynasty, had become a thigh, just because he had no chance to show it, but at the current pace, a year
Promotion, three years of results are achieved, and Annaus will probably be able to rebuild the Anthony family later.
"I have no interest in farming." Ma Chao waved his hand and said, "If you really want to learn farming, Cang Hou in the Han Dynasty is really amazing."
"Your relationship network over there is really great, I just worship Hou Cang as my teacher." Annaus held Ma Chao's hand and didn't want Ma Chao to refuse.
In fact, Annaus was not kidding. If Ma Chao was promoting the new farming model with him, as Ma Chao is now the commander of the Seventh Eagle Flag Legion, Perennis' current position is expected.
After all, farming seems simple, but in any era, the big guys in charge of agriculture and agricultural population will always be one of the objects that are low-key and unavoidable.
Take Sun Qian for example. There is no doubt that the Ministry of Transport is the big boss among the big bosses. But Chen Xi has always been in charge of agriculture and agricultural population. Which one is larger? In fact, everyone knows that Chen Xi is in charge of the people who are constantly being cut. Well, no matter how much it is cut, this department is still huge.
Therefore, if Ma Chao really went to promote the new farming model with Annaus, after the subsequent results came out, the two of them would make a contribution. Annaus had basically nothing to say, so he would definitely take over Garnasis's team and become the new Duke of the Eastern Frontier County, and then reorganize the Anthony family.
Then Ma Chao can only take the parliamentary route. In this case, Ma Chao, who is the commander of the Eagle Flag Legion, is likely to become a magistrate at the age of less than 40 after Perennis stepped down, which is the so-called deputy emperor of Rome.
Next, as long as Severu returns to heaven, he is young and strong, passionate, and has received a large number of support from his fellow Eagle Flags. As long as he adds a Claudius in front of Mamiconian, Ma Chao will ascend the throne to the Roman emperor the next day.
More importantly, this process is absolutely legal, and it is the kind approved by the Roman Parliament and planned to pass the citizen bill directly.
Unfortunately, Ma Chao refused. Ma Chao didn't understand how much benefit there was. Only the four people present, Annaus, the last generation of the Antoni family, understood how much political dividend it was. Rome was the Roman citizen of Rome.
Whether it is the knight class or the veteran class, when all citizens expect a certain person, it is impossible to lose. The farming method is the only plan that Annaus sees to buy all citizens. This plan is invincible, after all, everyone has to have a meal.
Relying on this only benefit that can be effectively implemented in the hands of every citizen, any veteran who is expected and capable of military commander can try to touch the position of the first citizen and the chief veteran.
Chapter completed!