In Zhuhelai, when Bankim was worried about Vesutipa's personal expedition, and Altay and others prepared for Vesutipa's personal expedition, Chen Xi was conducting an on-site inspection.

"Although the rainy and dry seasons here are very fatal, I have to admit that this is indeed suitable for farming." Chen Xi walked under the sun with a big hat. It was dry season at this time, and the temperature outside was very fatal.

Of course, the shrub coverage rate in the Ganges River Basin is very high these days, and there is no urban heat island effect. Although it is in the dry season, the temperature is close to forty degrees, which is not exaggerated to the fifty degrees in the later urban areas, so Chen Xi can hold on with a big hat.

As for the qi-cultivating guards and immortals who were accompanying him, it is not a problem to keep cold and heat away from it. Not to mention forty degrees, even if it is two hundred degrees, as long as the humidity is not high, these guards can move as usual and will not have any impact at all.

"Relatively speaking, the soil here is actually not as good as our Yanzhou area." Zhao Zhen grabbed a handful of soil and rubbed it, "It's a little sandy. If you really want to say good land, you have to look at Liaodong."

Among the evaluations of the Han people, the quality of the black soil in Liaodong is the best. The veteran like Zhao Zhen, who travels around and travels around, naturally thinks so.

"Indeed, the black soil in the northeast is really good." Kang Hui, who was on the rotation to serve as a guard for Chen Xi, nodded and said, "Although it was a little cold there, I finally chose to go there to get a fiefdom for that land, but it was really cold in winter."

"Yes, yes, winter is too cold. If the land was not really good, I would have found somewhere else." Xia Zhu nodded and said. He and Kang Lu had successfully gained a background and completed the class transformation. He took the pioneering order and earned the fiefdom seriously, and had villages under his command.

"Speaking of this, you have also got a ninth-level title. Have you ever thought about where the fiefdom is?" Chen Xi did not refute and turned to Zhao Zhen.

Although Zhao Zhen was discovered to steal wine and drink before, it was so embarrassing that Zhao Zhen relied on his previous achievements in luring the enemy with Yu Jin to win the Boluoyega's main battlefield, plus his previous contributions, it was basically enough. After all, luring the enemy and Xiandeng were both three times the merits, and they were all desperately fighting.

But the reward had not yet been released at this time, but Chen Xi's question was not out of line.

"I also plan to go to the Northeast. The land there is really good, and I heard that there are actually not too cold places there, so I will just look for it at that time." Zhao Zhen did not hide it, and told the truth.

"Where are you?" Chen Xi looked at the other people again. These people were talking nonsense, but they were basically sure that if they could reach the ninth level, they would probably go to the Northeast. Except for a few soldiers who were really not cold-resistant, they gave up this plan and chose Central Asia.

In fact, these people's choices are very rational. Because of fertilizer, most places in the Central Plains that can ripen twice a year cannot be planted twice a year. However, the normal places that ripen once a year still require rotational tillage, which is not as good as those in the Northeast. Although the time to farm in a year is short, it does not require fallow tillage at all, and it is one crop every year.

Therefore, from the perspective of pure farming, there is actually no difference between Northeast China and Qing, Xu, Yan, Henan and Hebei in this era. The only problem is that it is cold, but this is not a problem for veterans who have experienced the turbulent era.

What Li Ermu said back then, "What's wrong with the snow-shen Yicao? It can't kill people. My child can still play snowball fights outside for one day. Is this a disaster? It's a disaster. Twenty years ago, I was the only one left in the whole family. What's that!

Therefore, for these people, the warmth and coldness are actually in their hearts, not outside. If they can fight against the outside world, they don’t care. Therefore, it is confirmed that the north of western Liaoning can be used for the brigade after the feudal period, and many veterans are actually quite happy to go there.

After all, if they are grouped together, with the title and the land reclamation order, they can actually receive construction resources in Shaofu. At worst, they can build the heating pipes during construction.

From Chen Xi's perspective, the ninth-level veterans who went to Central Asia consolidate the country's foundation in Central Asia, and the ninth-level veterans who went to Northeast China immigrated to the border. They all contributed to the future and benefited from contemporary things, so Chen Xi was willing to support some basic facilities.

That is, the village's foundation brick and tile houses, outer walls, underground pipelines, and roads will support them. Of course, Chen Xi will want real deadly things like houses and pipelines. Chen Xi will be more than the Central Plains, and it will ensure that there will be no possibility of villagers being cheated. After all, through the construction of major families, Chen Xi has determined the best ratio.

However, the underground palace and city defense walls are not covered by Chen Xi’s construction, and Chen Xi will also build roads, but what Chen Xi can provide here will be the Sanhedi Road.

After all, even in later generations, road construction is a big problem in the face of the cold in the Northeast, and it is better to use Sanhedi soil in reality.

However, even so, these benefits are enough to satisfy the veterans who received the land reclamation order. Of course, the major families actually complain about this. After all, Chen Xi, their ban country, did not provide infrastructure support. Chen Xi just sneered at this. Do you have few benefits?

"Indeed, from the perspective of farming, the issues you are considering are correct." Chen Xi nodded and said.

In terms of the current social environment, only considering farming, the Northeast has even advantages over most of the Central Plains. After all, most places in the Central Plains will also cultivate once a year when there is no Lei Jitai and fallow every two years.

Taking the agricultural book "The Book of Victory" from the late Western Han Dynasty as a record of farming and farming in the Han Dynasty, it clearly records that "if you don't have to raise crops at the age of two, you will have to rest in one year." It means that the grain will not flourish after two years of planting, and it will take one year of fallow.

The black soil in Northeast China is more fertile, so this problem is not needed at all, and fallow is not needed at all. So from the perspective of farming in ancient times, if you do not consider the difficulty of land reclamation, you even have certain advantages. Of course, it is really a loss of the essence of heaven and earth, and humans are strong, otherwise the difficulty of land reclamation is enough to make people desperate.

By the way, this is why after Lei Qitai appeared, it only spread from the north to Rinan County in half a year, because this thing is a real artifact.

This is the only magical tool that can make Jizhou, Qingzhou, Yanzhou, Xuzhou and Yuzhou where the temperature is more suitable, ripen twice a year. Even if it is one crop of corn or winter wheat, ripen twice a year is very fatal to farmers.

More importantly, after the thunder platform is pierced, there is no need to rotate the tillage. Even if the average nitrogen fertilizer content caused by lightning strikes is not high, the grain output itself is also low this year, and the nitrogen fertilizer brought by lightning strikes is even more than enough. There is no problem in planting two crops of ordinary grains, and the maximum output is lower.

Therefore, there are two options in the places where Lei Jitai are currently there: two relatively ordinary varieties, one crop of winter wheat and one crop of corn. Total of the two may be more than seven stones, or a crop of high-yield super varieties. The newly developed super corn produced by cookies has six stones per mu.

This thing was actually developed for cookies a long time ago, but all high yields require consideration of ground abilities. The reason why it was not released before is that if you plant one crop, the land will be slow for two years, and it is not as good as the high yield of four stone corn developed by cookies.

This thing happens to be within the limit of ground force. After planting one crop a year, it doesn’t matter whether it will be successful or not. In the second year, you can continue to plant it.

In fact, when cookies were published, some of them had more than four stones per mu and five stones. It was not that cookies had really reached this level, but that the land was good and the land was rich in nutrients, so they had such a high yield.

According to the cookie's estimate, the normal level of cultivated land is only close to four stones. Although it is far beyond the past, the upper limit of the ground force is there, and we cannot fish through the pond.

As for higher yields, it actually doesn’t make much sense. No matter how high it is, without fertilizer, it’s really a waste of water.

Therefore, the good seeds with six stones per mu had the meaning of spreading after they were only cultivated in a few fertile large farms.

However, as of now, most people would rather spend some time than plant two crops. Seven stones are more than six stones. They still know this simple math problem.

Although logically speaking, Chen Xi hopes that the people will plant a crop of six stones per mu, which is more in line with the social environment in terms of efficiency, Chen Xi will not specifically promote such things. Some things are meaningless to say by words.

"From the perspective of farming?" Wen You asked in confusion. He was planning to make a film in Central Asia. Is there any other statement here?

"Yes, at present, there is no difference between the Northeast and the Central Plains. However, as the Central Plains solves the fertilizer problem in the future, grain output will depend more on the climate. By then, the yield per mu in the Northeast will not be able to catch up with it." Chen Xi explained with a smile.

"There is no way to do this. The Northeast has the best varieties. Plant once a year and do not rotate. The yield per mu is only six stones per mu. On the Ganges River, if you really want to say that the soil quality is actually far inferior to that of the Northeast in all aspects, they plant three times a year and do not fallow. Even if they only have more than two stones at a time, they can at least seven or eight stones a year, which is not comparable to that of them." Zhao Zhen said casually.

In fact, what Zhao Zhen said is already conservative. The Ganges River also has upper fields and lower fields. It is divided into dry seasons, rainy seasons and cool seasons. The yield in the dry seasons is the lowest, and the yield in the rainy seasons and cool seasons is the highest. Unlike the Mediterranean climate in Rome, the Ganges River actually has a clear climate, and at least the farming time is clear.

Of course, it is normal for locals not to farm, so there is nothing to say about this.

But it really is said that the rice yield in the dry season is the lowest, with more than two stones. In fact, there is not much difference between the rainy season and the cool season compared to the Central Plains decades ago. Of course, this is not a technique of intensive cultivation. This is God's food to eat, and it is also a large alluvial plain.

By the way, the five major grain-producing lands in the Central Plains are actually alluvial plains. Unfortunately, there are some gaps in climate, which makes it impossible to catch up with the Ganges in terms of per mu yield.

"Yes, that's why we want to take this side." Chen Xi sighed a little, "If we were here, we could increase the annual average yield per mu to twelve stones. Do you understand what this means?"

Zhao Zhen and others looked at each other. What else can this mean besides more food and more stable the country?

Chen Xi laughed at this. Why did he say these things to these people? These words should have been something he and Zhuge Liang, Li You, and Lu Su had communicated in detail in Chang'an.

Compared to simple answers such as grain, it is actually more realistic. In fact, it is the productivity rate. Chen Xi has achieved 7% of the full-time population in the Central Plains, which means that every fifteen people can support one person who does not work. This is a very outrageous data.

In other words, if Chen Xi is willing, no matter domestic construction, industry, education, etc., he can pull out five million main forces, and it can be maintained for a long time. Of course, if he really does this, everything else will have to stagnate and make way for agricultural production.

However, this year was the feudal era, and it was enough to only consider the issue of eating. If all the others were given up, according to the current grain output ratio, Chen Xi could always maintain such a large-scale military force, of course, the premise was not to mention public grievances and morale, etc.

If you do this, the country will definitely be in a state of misery in the end, but regardless of it, Chen Xi can indeed maintain it forever. Anyway, the grain output can reach this level.

But in fact, Chen Xi did not. Chen Xi used about 1% of the population as a standing army, 1.5% of the population as half soldiers and half others, and then about 1.5% were the construction army under Sun Qian, and the remaining 3% were basically industrial population.

Of course, how to say this 3%, it can be considered that about 7% of people come to work and sometimes work for other ordinary people. They are not pure workers. Only 2.5% above are the real full-time population. This is why Sun Qian basically does not appear in the central government, but has always been respected.

To put it bluntly, Sun Qian is really a super giant among the giants. 1.5% of the people rely on Sun Qian to arrange their work. Of course, these people were also divided into part of Jian Yong, Yuan Shu, Liu Zhang and others. One thing that cannot be denied is that Sun Qian’s hands are actually directly benchmarked against the entire Han Empire military group.

Although Sun Qian has everything he has, the elderly, weak, sick and disabled, even if he is a mob, Sun Qian can get hundreds of thousands of strong men who are strong and build bridges all day long.

However, this is Chen Xi's limit, or the limit of the Central Plains before industrialization. After all, people need all kinds of daily necessities. These days, you need 14 people to work to support an idle person who does nothing. What's more important is that 11 of these 14 people have to farm.

It can be said that the inevitable thing about feudal society is that agriculture and land constrain a large population, and everything is based on grain output.
Chapter completed!