In Zhu Helai, Bankim was worried about the personal expedition for Vesutiva I, and while Altay and others were preparing for the personal expedition of Vesutiva I, Chen Xi was conducting on-site inspections.
"Although the rainy season and dry season here are terrible, I have to admit that this place is indeed suitable for farming." Chen Xi walked under the bright sun wearing a big hat. It was the dry season at this time, and the temperature outside was quite terrible.
Of course, these days, the forest in the Ganges River Basin has a very high shrub coverage rate, and there is no urban heat island effect. Although it is in the dry season, the temperature is close to 40 degrees, and it is not exaggerated to the 50 degrees in urban areas in later generations, so
Chen Xi can still hold on despite wearing a big hat.
As for the accompanying guards and immortals who practice Qi, it is not a problem at all to be protected from cold and heat. Let alone 40 degrees, even if it is 200 degrees, as long as the humidity is not high, these guards can move as usual, and there will be no problem at all.
any impact.
"Relatively speaking, the soil quality here is actually not as good as our Yanzhou area." Zhao Zhen grabbed a handful of soil, rubbed it and said, "It's a bit sandy. If you really want to talk about good land, you have to look at Liaodong."
In the evaluation of the Han Dynasty people, the quality of the black soil in Liaodong is the best. Zhao Zhen, a veteran who has traveled far and wide, naturally thinks so.
"Indeed, the black land in the Northeast is really good." Kang Heng, who came to guard Chen Xi on duty, nodded and said, "Although it is a bit colder there, because of the land, I finally chose to go there to build a fiefdom.
But it’s really cold in winter.”
"Yes, yes, it's too cold in the winter. If the ground wasn't really nice, I would definitely find another place." Xia Zhu nodded and said. He and Kang Yu had successfully gained a different background and completed the class transition.
The kind where you take a development order, establish a fiefdom, and have a village under your control.
"Speaking of which, you are also a ninth-level knight. Have you thought about where the fiefdom will be?" Chen Xi did not refute, and turned to look at Zhao Zhen.
Although Zhao Zhen was caught secretly drinking before and was extremely embarrassed, Zhao Zhen relied on his previous achievements with Yu Jin to lure the enemy and win the main battlefield of Balo Yega, plus his previous achievements, it was basically enough. After all, he lured the enemy.
The enemy and the first one are both three times meritorious, and they all cost their lives.
It's just that the reward hasn't come out yet, but it's not out of line for Chen Xi to ask this.
"I also plan to go to the Northeast. The land there is really good, and I heard that there is actually a place there that is not too cold. I will just look for it when the time comes." Zhao Zhen did not hide it and told the truth.
"What about you?" Chen Xi looked at the other people. They were all talking about it, but they were all basically sure that if they could reach the ninth level of nobility, they would most likely go to the Northeast. Except for a few soldiers who are really intolerant of the cold.
, gave up this plan and chose Central Asia.
In fact, these people's choices are very rational. Because of fertilizers, most places in the Central Plains that can be harvested twice a year cannot be planted twice a year. However, places that normally have one crop a year still need rotation farming considering the soil quality.
, On the contrary, it is not as good as the Northeast. Although the time for farming in a year is short, there is no need to leave it fallow, and there is only one crop every year.
Therefore, from a purely farming perspective, there is actually no difference between grain-producing areas such as Northeast China and Qingxu, Yannan, and Hebei these days. The only problem is the cold, but for veterans who have experienced turbulent times, this is not a problem.
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What Li Ermu said back then, what's wrong with the deep snow and the cold that won't kill anyone, my kid can still have a snowball fight outside for a day, is this considered a disaster? This is considered a disaster, a snowfall twenty years ago,
I am the only one left in the whole family, so what the hell!
Therefore, for these people, warmth and coldness are actually in their hearts, not outside. If they can resist the outside world, they don't care. Therefore, after it was determined that the north of western Liaoning could be used for enfeoffment, many veterans were actually quite happy to go there.
After all, if they work together as a team and hold the title and land reclamation order, they can actually receive construction resources from the Shaofu, and at most they can build the heating pipes during construction.
From Chen Xi’s perspective, the veterans with ninth-level titles who went to Central Asia are to consolidate the country’s foundation in Central Asia, while the veterans with ninth-level titles who went to Northeast China are immigrating to the border areas. Both are things that will benefit the future and benefit the present, so some
Chen Xi is willing to support basic facilities.
That is to say, Chen Xi will support the basic brick houses, peripheral walls, underground pipes, and roads of the village. Of course, if he wants the really important things like houses and pipes, Chen Xi will compare them to those in the Central Plains and ensure that no villagers will be deceived.
There is a possibility of cheating. After all, Chen Xi has determined the best ratio through the construction of major families.
However, the underground palace and city defense walls are not within the scope of construction by Chen Xi. Chen Xi will also build roads, but all Chen Xi can provide here are three-height earth roads.
After all, even in later generations, facing the cold in the Northeast, road construction is still a big problem. It is better to be more realistic and use Sanhe soil.
However, even so, these benefits are enough to satisfy the veterans who have received the land reclamation order. Of course, the major aristocratic families actually have some complaints about this. After all, their feudal state Chen Xi did not provide support for infrastructure construction. Chen Xi just sneered at this.
How little benefit have you received?
"Indeed, from a farming perspective, the issues you are considering are correct." Chen Xi nodded and said.
In terms of the current social environment, if we only consider farming, the Northeast even has an advantage over most of the Central Plains. After all, in most places in the Central Plains, when there is no Leijitai, farming is done once a year and fallow every two years.
Taking the agricultural book of the late Western Han Dynasty "The Book of Pan Sheng" as a record of farming in the Han Dynasty, it clearly records that "if you can't grow crops at the age of two, you will rest at the age of one." This means that if you have grown food for two years, it will not flourish.
It needs to be left fallow for a year.
The black soil in the Northeast is more fertile, so there is no need to consider this issue at all, and there is no need to leave it fallow. Therefore, from the perspective of ancient farming, if the difficulty of reclamation is not considered, there is even a certain advantage. Of course, it is really a loss of the essence of heaven and earth.
, human beings must be strong and strong, otherwise the difficulty of reclaiming wasteland would be enough to make people despair.
By the way, this is also why after the appearance of Lei Jidai, it only spread from the north to Ninan County in half a year, because this thing is a real artifact.
This is currently the only artifact that allows places with relatively suitable temperatures such as Jizhou, Qingzhou, Yanzhou, Xuzhou and Yuzhou to achieve two crops a year. Even if one crop of corn is planted and the other crop of winter wheat is planted, two crops can be harvested a year.
The attraction of ripeness to farmers is very fatal.
What's more important is that after the thunder platform is put in, there is no need for rotational farming. Even if the average nitrogen fertilizer content brought by lightning strikes is not high, the grain output itself is also low these days. The nitrogen fertilizer brought by lightning strikes is even more than enough. Two crops of ordinary crops can be planted.
The food problem is not big, the output is at most low.
Therefore, where there is Leijitai, there are currently two options: plant two relatively ordinary improved varieties, one crop of winter wheat and one crop of corn, which may add up to more than seven stones, or plant one crop of high-yielding super improved varieties.
The newly developed super corn produced by Cookie has a yield of six stones per mu.
This thing has actually been researched by cookies before, but all high yields need to consider soil fertility. The reason why it has not been released before is that if you plant a crop, the land will have to wait for two years. It is better to research it by planting cookies.
of high-yielding four-stone corn.
This thing is just within the limit of soil fertility. After planting one crop a year, you can plant some soybeans or something in the remaining time. It doesn't matter whether it succeeds or not. You can continue to plant it the next year.
In fact, when the improved varieties of Cookies were released to the public, some produced more than four or five stones per mu. It was not that the improved varieties of Cookies had really reached this level, but that the land was good and the land was rich in nutrients, so it was so high.
of output.
According to Qiao Qiao's estimation, the normal level of cultivated land is only close to four stones. Although it is far more than before, the upper limit of the land's fertility is there, and it cannot be exhausted.
As for higher yields, they are actually meaningless. No matter how high the yield is, without fertilizer, it is really a waste of water.
Therefore, high-quality seeds with a yield of six stones per mu were only cultivated on a few large fertile farms in the past. Only after the creation of Leijitai did they become more widespread.
However, as of now, most people would rather spend some time and plant two crops. Seven stones is more than six stones. They can still do this simple math problem.
Although logically speaking, Chen Xi hopes that the people will plant a crop of improved seeds with a yield of six stones per mu, which is more efficient and in line with the social environment. However, Chen Xi will not specifically promote this kind of thing. Some things can only be done by words.
no point.
"From a farming point of view?" Wen You asked with some confusion. He was planning to build a land in Central Asia. Is there anything else to say about it?
"Yes, there is currently no difference between the Northeast and the Central Plains. But as the Central Plains solves the fertilizer problem, grain output will depend more on the climate. By then, the yield per mu in the Northeast will not be able to catch up."
Chen Xi explained with a smile.
"There's no way around it. The best seeds in the Northeast are planted once a year without rotational cultivation, so they can only produce six stones per mu per year. On the Ganges River side, the soil quality is actually far inferior to that in the Northeast in all aspects, but they
Planting three times a year and never leaving it fallow, even if it's only two dan at a time, it's still at least seven or eight dan a year, which is incomparable." Zhao Zhen said casually.
In fact, what Zhao Zhen said is already a conservative situation. The Ganges River also has upper and lower fields. The year is divided into dry season, rainy season, and cool season. The dry season has the lowest yield, and the rainy season and cool season have the highest yield. It is different from the Mediterranean climate in Rome.
The river actually has a distinct climate, and at least the farming time is clear.
Of course, it is normal for local people not to farm, so there is no way to explain it.
To be honest, the yield of rice in the dry season is the lowest, and it is more than two stones. The rainy season and the cool season are actually not much different from the Central Plains a few decades ago. Of course, this is not a technology of intensive farming, it is God's reward for eating.
, it is also a large alluvial plain.
By the way, the five major grain-producing areas in the Central Plains are actually alluvial plains. Unfortunately, there are some differences in climate, which makes it impossible to catch up with the Ganges in terms of yield per mu.
"Yes, that's why we want to win here." Chen Xi said with a bit of regret, "If we were here, we could increase the average annual output per mu to twelve stones. Do you understand what this means?
?”
Zhao Zhen and others looked at each other. Apart from more food and more stability for the country, what else could this mean?
Chen Xi laughed when he saw this. Why would he say this to these people? These words should have been something he had communicated with Zhuge Liang, Li You, and Lu Su in detail in Chang'an.
Compared with simple answers such as food, in fact, it is more realistic to say that it is the unemployment rate. Chen Xi has achieved 7% of the unemployed population in the Central Plains, that is, every fifteen people can support one person who does not work. This
This is a very outrageous data.
In other words, if Chen Xi is willing, regardless of domestic construction, industry, education, etc., he can recruit a main force of five million, and it can be maintained for a long time. Of course, if he does this, everything else will have to be
It came to a standstill to make way for agricultural production.
However, this is the feudal era, and he only needs to consider the issue of food. If everything else is given up, according to the current proportion of grain output, Chen Xi can always maintain such a large force. Of course, the premise is that there is no mention of public grievances and military morale.
If you do this, the country will definitely be miserable in the end, but no matter what, Chen Xi can indeed continue to maintain it. Anyway, the food output can reach this level.
But in fact, Chen Xi did not. Chen Xi used about 1% of the population as standing troops, 1.5% of the population as half soldiers and half others, and then about 1.5% as the construction corps under Sun Qian, and the remaining 3% were basically
industrial population.
Of course, these 3%, how should I put it, can be considered to be about 7%. Ordinary people sometimes come to work and sometimes work for other people. They are not pure workers. Only the top 2.5% are the real unemployed population. This is why Sun Qian
He basically does not appear in the central government, but he is always respected by others.
To put it bluntly, Sun Qian is really a super giant among the giants. 1.5% of people rely on Sun Qian to arrange their work. Of course, these people also share a part with Jian Yong, Yuan Shu, Liu Zhang and others.
One thing that cannot be denied is that the manpower Sun Qian had was actually directly comparable to the entire Han Empire military group.
Although Sun Qian has the old, the weak, the sick and the disabled at his disposal, even if it is a mob, Sun Qian can still gather hundreds of thousands of strong men who can build mountains and 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 living materials. These days, you need 14 people to work to support an idle person who does nothing. What's more important is that
11 out of 14 people have to farm.
It can be said that the inevitable point of feudal society is that agriculture and land constrain a large number of people, and everything is based on food output.
But what's outrageous about Nangui is that their congenital out-of-work population is 7%, because the Brahmin and Kshatriya castes don't work. Chen Xi doesn't accept it!
