The main issues involved here are harvesting and autumn plowing, that is, the contradiction between harvesting as much grain as possible and planting winter wheat.
The previous sky fires destroyed almost all the winter wheat.
Therefore, if you want to continue planting winter wheat, you need to plant it after the autumn harvest this September.
"Your Majesty, gentlemen." The first person to speak was Chen Fu.
"The situation in Ruichang is somewhat special. The planting area of winter wheat is relatively large, so the losses this time are also the largest."
"My suggestion is that we in Ruichang harvest the rice as soon as possible to prepare for planting winter wheat."
Song Yang nodded and looked at the others.
"Well... I think the Duchang side should give up this year's winter wheat planting and go all out for the autumn harvest, trying to harvest all the rice in the fields."
The bearded Liu Huairen expressed his views.
The situation in Duchang is opposite to that of Ruichang, with the winter wheat planting area being the smallest, so it would be better to focus on rice harvesting.
Extend the harvest period, harvest all rice, and abandon winter wheat planting.
"I agree with Mr. Liu's point of view."
"The students agree with Mr. Liu's point of view."
Qiao Jinglong and Zhang Heng said in unison.
Zhang Heng smiled at Qiao Jinglong and motioned for him to speak first.
Qiao Jinglong was not pretentious, nodded to Zhang Heng and said:
"De'an also has some winter wheat, but Xiaguan still feels that we should focus on the rice harvest."
"The most important thing now is to ensure adequate emergency grain reserves, and harvesting rice with all our strength is the top priority."
"If we can harvest all the rice in the entire region, even two to three hundred thousand more people will be able to eat until next autumn."
After Qiao Jinglong finished speaking, he looked at Zhang Heng.
Zhang Heng took the words and said: "The students also mean the same thing."
"And the students think that after we have finished harvesting the rice in Jiangzhou Prefecture, we can still take a look around."
"I asked people to cross the river before, and the north of the river is also deserted. This means that anyone can harvest the rice that has been planted."
Zhang Heng’s words expanded everyone’s thinking.
As soon as he mentioned Jiangbei, Liu Huairen said:
"There are some refugees from Xinchang where I live, and they say that the people in Xinchang are almost extinct."
"If we can go to Xinchang to harvest a batch of rice, we will definitely be able to recover a lot."
"The same is true in the direction of Wuning." Qiao Jinglong said.
Song Yang looked at Wang Ran, but he didn't speak.
Wang Ran thought for a while and said: "When it comes to the autumn harvest, I think it should really focus on harvesting rice fields."
"As for outward expansion, you should be able to check out Huangshi and Ezhou counties."
"However... I feel that the winter wheat cannot be completely discarded."
"Because some dry fields are close to cities, it would be a pity to give up farming. But converting dry fields to water requires a lot of manpower and material resources."
“So it’s better to focus on harvesting rice and let the old, weak, women and children grow winter wheat.”
Wang Ran paused and added:
"The sky burned the fields, but it also fertilized the fields. This year's winter wheat will not yield a bad harvest even if it is spread over the fields."
After hearing Wang Ran's words, everyone nodded slightly.
He was right, once the fire was set down, the ashes became nutrients for the fertile fields.
Letting the old, weak, women and children spread the seeds is also a way.
"What are your opinions?" Song Yang looked at everyone.
"We agree with Mr. Wang's opinion." Everyone nodded and said.
At this moment, everyone in the meeting except Song Yang had a strange feeling.
Meetings like this seem to be much more efficient than standing meetings...
Could it be that all the meetings we held in the past were all fake?
Song Yang was also very satisfied with the discussion on the autumn harvest issue, which was exactly the result he wanted.
Only those under him who can think and think can help him solve problems.
What he wants is not a puppet.
Song Yang looked at everyone and made a concluding speech:
"In this case, we will focus on rice harvesting this year and extend the harvest period."
"It is up to your Lordships to decide on the planting of winter wheat."
"As for going outside the territory... we have been sending more scouting horses recently to explore the surrounding situation before we discuss it."
Finally, Song Yang looked at everyone and said:
"Let the common people hurry up and get enough food during the autumn harvest!"
The current situation is a state of emergency, and each person has one kilogram of food per day.
Many people eat a lot, that is, they eat until they are seven times full.
The food supply will be adjusted again after the autumn grain harvest.
After talking about the autumn harvest, the topic turned to the refugees.
Everyone talked a little bit about the attraction of refugees.
In fact, attracting refugees does not require any special policies.
As long as the refugees know that there is life-threatening porridge here, they will gather here.
This is a matter of time, and we will finish the conversation after a brief discussion.
"My lords, what do you think of this way of holding meetings?"
“Exceptionally efficient!”
“Communication is easy and I can speak freely.”
"The main reason is that the prince is approachable and approachable, so that the officials and others can express their opinions!"
Everyone was full of praise for Song Yang for organizing this kind of round table meeting.
"In this case, we will continue to meet! Haha!" Song Yang laughed.
"Continue, continue! Haha!"
Everyone also laughed and felt happy.
The scribe Xiaoqian on the side has finished recording the key points of this year's autumn harvest work and nodded towards Song Yang.
Song Yang pressed his hands and said, "I just said that I had four tasks for my recent trip."
"We have finally discussed the tiger problem and autumn food."
"The third step is to improve the map. This king has already done almost everything."
"Da Biao, send the map to the master."
Song Yang said towards the door.
"Yes! Your Majesty!"
Wang Dabiao, who was guarding the door, came in carrying a wooden box.
The box contained eight volumes of maps.
Wang Dabiao gave one copy to each of the eight people except Tong Qian.
Fang Zhe and Yu Ming had already seen this new map, but others were shocked by it.
"This...seems...more accurate!" Wang Ran marveled at this.
Qiao Jinglong looked at the map carefully, calculated it in a notebook, and sighed:
"There is no doubt about the accuracy of this map. According to this ratio, Fucheng and De'an are indeed 103 miles away, exactly the same!"
"And the villages, mountains, and rivers along the way are all recorded in detail."
Qiao Jinglong and Wang Ran had seen the imperfect map, but now they were still shocked when they saw the revised map.
"Oh my God! Your Majesty, this is what you surveyed and mapped? I can't believe it!" Zhang Heng said dumbfounded.
He swore he had never seen such an accurate map in his life.
Chen Fu looked at it for a long time before he hesitated and said: "Your Majesty, this..."
"Speak freely." Song Yang nodded at him.
"Why does Jinghu Lake feel so much bigger than before?" Chen Fu raised a question.
He didn't say anything, and others didn't see anything unusual at all.
As soon as he said that, others also saw some things that were different from what they remembered.
"This Lushan Mountain seems a bit small?" Liu Huairen asked.
"Why is there an extra river here in Yinanji?" Qiao Jinglong asked.
Before Song Yang could explain, Wang Ran said:
"My lords, this is exactly the brilliance of the prince!"