After a few days of delay, I finally completed the Qixian project. This is my foothold in Zhongzhou. I must make the project here bigger and stronger. Business and competition for the world are the same. Whoever occupies the Central Plains will win the world.
Wang Hongyu asked Prince Zhou's Mansion to plan the "auction" and "tendering" carefully, and he left immediately to minimize sensitivity.
The future is a natural result of business development.
If the Donglin Party comes to spray and intervene to stop the destruction, then it will have the opportunity to intervene in punishing Jiangnan commerce and salt politics.
The mobile library purchased another batch of medical books related to Zhou kings in Kaifeng, added them to the library, and also sent many copies to Baoding to prepare for printing and publishing a batch.
After leaving Kaifeng Mansion and entering Nanyang Mansion, the scenery in front of me suddenly changed.
Although they are both the chief envoys of Henan, the surroundings are suddenly lush and green, and there are many more ponds.
In Kaifeng Prefecture and to the north, there is mostly soil outside the fields.
Nanyang Prefecture is different. There are many plants and trees outside the fields. There are many neat ponds near each field. From time to time, you can see people taking water from the ponds for irrigation.
Yes, according to the north-south division of the Qinling Mountains and the Huaihe River, Kaifeng Prefecture still belongs to the north, and Nanyang Prefecture next to it belongs to the south.
There was suddenly a lot more water resources.
The people here are obviously living a better life. You can see vegetables in their daily diet, and there are also more sesame products and snacks nearby.
After all, oil production is second only to grains and firmly ahead of vegetables. Therefore, the temperature is suitable for planting sesame in the south of Henan Province, so naturally there are many plantings.
Further south to Huguang, the proportion of sesame planting is lower. This is because sesame planting is very afraid of flooding.
Another factor is that Huguang produces rice, which is more profitable than sesame seeds.
With the development of trade in the south of the Yangtze River, the market for cash crops has been booming, and the population has also increased simultaneously. The food in the south of the Yangtze River has long been insufficient for local use.
Huguang’s grain production potential has been fully tapped.
It not only supplies the local area and surrounding areas, but also sells a large amount of wine down the river to the south of the Yangtze River, and then passes through the Grand Canal, first allowing the Huanghuai area to eat and produce good wine. This is all kinds of good wine in northern Jiangsu. Why did it take great strides in the Ming Dynasty?
Development, because the Grand Canal has brought food to the Huanghuai River area.
The grain from Huguang is then transported along the Grand Canal to Shandong, Tianjin, Beijing, and even Xuanda and Liaodong. If these places only rely on locally produced grain, the urban population will be very limited, and the number of craftsmen, soldiers, and officials who are separated from the land will be very large.
few.
Think about what a terrible situation it would be if Xuanda and Jiliao didn't have many battalions and relied on half-farming and half-fighting guardsmen.
This is also one of the important reasons why it was difficult for the Central Plains dynasty to move north after the decline of the northern environment of the Tang Dynasty.
The local barren land and limited productivity cannot support many professional soldiers. The nomadic people on the grassland, who go south to rob the farmers every autumn, can eat abundant wheat without farming. The local products can support the people.
Those few professional soldiers couldn't stop the prairie people who were heading south in all directions.
After the Tang Dynasty, the environment in the north was not what it used to be, and relying on local production was too limited.
Beyond the Great Wall, where is the grassland? At first glance, there is only desert.
The soldiers and civilians of the Ming Dynasty, looking at the vast desert outside the Great Wall, all missed the rich land of Guanzhong, Qin, Jin, and Yanyun during the Han Dynasty.
Therefore, the Grand Canal is the lifeline of the north.
Sea transportation is certainly good, but if you engage in sea transportation, you will not have the fine wine of Suqian. The citizens of various prefectures in Northern Zhili have established a large number of strong armies... because they do not rely on the sea, they eat food transported by sea, and they need more.
Much transportation cost.
This is the necessity of the Grand Canal, which not only transports food, but also brings prosperity to various places along the way.
"If you are familiar with Huguang, you will be satisfied all over the world" is a true portrayal of this period.
"If you cook it well in the south of the Yangtze River, it will be enough all over the world" has become a thing of the past, but it is also a good thing.
Jiangnan's industrial dividends, active trade, and overseas silver brought about the most prosperous Jiangnan in ancient history. It was also the economic foundation for the emergence of talents, active thinking, successive technologies, and scientific enlightenment in the late Ming Dynasty.
The late Ming Dynasty was the best of times and the worst of times.
After talking about the good parts, the bad parts have quietly arrived.
Although the historical peasant uprising occurred six years later, food prices have gradually become higher regardless of north or south.
In the area where wheat is grown in Henan, sesame seeds, vegetables, etc. are still embellished, and grain fields are in an absolutely dominant position.
Not to mention that further south, there is plenty of water, which is suitable for growing rice.
Food is really one of the most core issues. In this era, no land is left uncultivated. All the places that can be cultivated in the Central Plains and Huguang are cultivated, but there is still not enough food.
It is not just a problem of more people and less land, agricultural productivity must be improved immediately, otherwise the cycle rate of reincarnation will become a big problem.
I remember that Xu Guangqi had already begun to summarize the world's agricultural policies, covering a wide range of topics. He also brought sweet potatoes from Fujian and tried growing them in his hometown in Shanghai.
The "Encyclopedia of Agricultural Affairs" could be published earlier, and I should also use Wei Zhongxian's power to speed up the selection, adaptation and promotion of sweet potatoes, corn and potatoes.
Everything is calm on this section of Nanyangfu road.
King Fu from Luoyang didn't send anyone to chase him. It seems that Wanli's favorite son knew that Tianqi would be on guard against him. He was actually very smart~
Soon we arrived at Xinye County, the southernmost tip of Nanyang Prefecture.
This is the new field of the Three Kingdoms. He himself can be like Liu Xuande, who although he has a low starting point, is unyielding despite every setback.
Liu Xuande is not the image in the novel that loves to cry after being castrated by literati, but a super strong man who is very capable of fighting, admired by heroes all over the world, and has ambitions as strong as steel.
Wang Hongyu doesn't want to learn anything else from Liu Bei, but he must learn his perseverance and never surpass his ambitions.
Wang Hongyu and his party traveled at dawn and stayed overnight. The scenery along the way was beautiful. The farmers growing lushly on both sides of the road in Henan Province in midsummer. There was abundant rainfall here, and the drought in the minor cold season had not yet affected the Central Plains.
At this time, millet is planted in a large area in Henan. It is the jointing season of millet. The millet is almost 2 feet high. It will be difficult to apply fertilizer when it grows bigger.
At this time, you can see wooden-wheeled two-wheeled ox carts, donkey carts, wheelbarrows, donkey packs, and people carrying fertilizers on the road at any time, in an endless stream.
Farmyard manure, donkey and mule manure, sheep manure, manure from the latrines, and straw fertilizer stewed with millet and wheat straw are piled everywhere in the fields.
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Wang Hongyu knew about this method of stewing fertilizer. He checked it on the Internet in his previous life, and also saw it in the Zunyi Military and Civilian Mansion in Guizhou in his later life. This was a method commonly used in the south before the advent of chemical fertilizers. In the north, due to lack of water, fertilizer could only be stewing in places with water.
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That is to crush the straw, mix it with soil and water it, and then seal it with mud. The fermentation of the straw will produce high-temperature rot and deterioration, and become fertilizer.
The same principle applies to the biogas digesters of later generations, except that the latter is not sealed with mud but covered with water, so that the simmering is more thorough, and the straw and weeds are decomposed into flammable gases.
Biogas power generation and biogas fuel are all possible, and the further south you go, the better.