Wang Shenfu's eyes widened and he looked at the pumpkins and sweet potatoes. Finally, Wang Shenfu's eyes fell on a pumpkin, and he asked: "Wang Can, how was this pumpkin grown?"
Wang Can smiled and said: "This is actually very simple."
Immediately, Wang Can picked off a pumpkin. He took out a dagger from his sleeve and cut the pumpkin in half, revealing the pumpkin flesh and pumpkin seeds inside.
Wang Can pointed at the pumpkin seeds and said with a smile: "These are pumpkin seeds. One pumpkin seed is a pumpkin vine. And each pumpkin vine can produce countless pumpkins. After all, one pumpkin vine can produce countless pumpkins."
You have all seen the situation. Growing pumpkin seedlings is so simple."
After a pause, Wang Can continued: "Especially the pumpkin that is always blooming and bearing fruit. You can see that this pumpkin has countless fresh flowers and countless small pumpkins, which have not yet grown up."
"hiss!"
Wang Shenfu took a breath of cold air upon hearing this.
There was a look of shock on his face.
He was frightened.
It was too scary for him. A pumpkin vine can produce countless pumpkins. It is not even a one-time occurrence, but it blooms and bears fruit continuously. In this way, the yield of this acre of land is too great.
The representatives of the aristocratic families around him all had extremely solemn expressions on their faces.
Everyone was nervous.
Originally, in their hearts, they were all pretending to be very powerful. But now, their hearts have sunk to the bottom, because just the pumpkins in Wang Can's half-acre of land will grow if they are sown again.
, then there will definitely be countless amounts of food. Once it is promoted nationwide, the food dilemma in the world will definitely be alleviated.
Fang Xuanling and Du Ruhui on the side were already extremely shocked.
The two of them were very excited.
When they thought that the people in the world could get out of trouble and no longer be affected by food, both of them felt that their trip was worthwhile. Especially at this time, the two of them were truly convinced that Wang Can was the person who could change the fate of the Tang Dynasty.
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Yuan Tiangang once asserted that the Tang Dynasty would definitely become more prosperous.
Far more than before.
Originally, the two of them respected and admired Yuan Tiangang in the past. But when it came to the national fate of the Tang Dynasty, the two of them still couldn't calm down the turbulent emotions in their hearts for a long time.
Wang Shenfu said again: "Wang Can, what about these sweet potatoes, and how are they grown?"
Inside, there is a hoe.
Wang Can picked up the hoe and shoveled off a sweet potato vine first, revealing a sweet potato under the sweet potato vine. Then he picked up the hoe and dug. When he lowered the hoe and lifted it up, several sweet potatoes came out. Especially the first one.
After the second hoeing, several more sweet potatoes came out. Under this sweet potato vine, seven sweet potatoes were dug out.
Each one weighs three to five kilograms.
All are huge.
Wang Can smiled and said: "This is sweet potato. Under each sweet potato vine, there are many sweet potatoes. As for the planting of sweet potatoes, this is a technical job and a secret, but it cannot be disclosed. In short, this is
It is extremely easy to cultivate and plant. And it is not a problem to plant thousands of acres of sweet potatoes on this half-acre of land. Even with a little more work and intensive cultivation, it will not be difficult to plant ten thousand acres of it."
hiss!
Wang Shenfu gasped again.
Just half an acre of sweet potatoes, using sweet potatoes as seeds, can be divided into tens of thousands of acres. Then the next time they are divided, there may be even more, which is even more scary.
The Wang family in Taiyuan where Wang Shenfu is located, as well as the other aristocratic families, have roots and resources, especially since they occupy too much land. This is their confidence.
In fact, the reason why aristocratic families were able to occupy land was due to years of war and famine.
Because once there is a famine year, people have no food at home. In order to obtain food, they can only sell their fertile land at a low price in exchange for food, or they can pawn the land and temporarily pledge it to the landlord's house in exchange for food. The problem is that after the pledge,
Or maybe after selling it, it will be difficult to get it back.
As time goes on, the land becomes less and less.
In the end, the land was gathered in the hands of aristocratic families, and the people of each aristocratic family were already very fat.
Even the members of the aristocratic families are not afraid of natural disasters or wars, but they like this kind of scene. So even if there is a drought now, these aristocratic families are not affected at all, but it is difficult for the country to make money.
After the King Talisman had been ringing for a long time, he came back to his senses and said: "Wang Can, what do you want from these seeds before you are willing to distribute them among us with five surnames and seven hopes?"
He went straight to the point and made the conditions directly.
Because Wang Shenfu believes that this is Wang Can's condition.
If Wang Can is not happy, he will never do this, or in other words, this is the method.
Wang Can smiled and said: "The king's talisman, pumpkin and sweet potato seeds will be provided to you, but not now, but after the next batch is expanded and planted. Correspondingly, you are now represented by the five surnames and Qiwang.
The noble families have donated a total of one million shi of food, and the imperial court wants to provide relief to the people."
"impossible!"
Wang Shenfu didn't even think about it and refused directly.
The others also refused.
Just kidding, one million stones of grain is not a small amount, it is a very large amount of grain. Such an amount of grain has exceeded the storage capacity of many granaries.
Wang Can said calmly: "I am not here to bargain with you. If you are not happy, it doesn't matter! Just go back and the court will promote sweet potatoes and pumpkins, and then everyone in the world can plant them. Only you, five surnames and seven seven
Hope, once we find pumpkins and sweet potatoes growing, or even purchasing pumpkins and sweet potatoes, we will kill them without mercy. In short, you are not allowed to have any contact with pumpkins and sweet potatoes. Are you really willing?"
Wang Shenfu's expression changed drastically.
Once they don't come into contact with pumpkins and sweet potatoes, they will soon be affected.
The family's power will definitely be weakened.
There will be countless people leaving the family.
When the others looked at Wang Can one by one, they also had unkind eyes.
Wang Can continued: "Of course, you can also incite rebellion. Anyway, if you rebel, the court will directly suppress it. After all, there are two kinds of food, pumpkin and sweet potato, and you have tasted both of these two foods.
The people will have enough to eat. When the time comes, the people will not be hungry, but no one will rebel. It will not be difficult to appease the people."
Everyone fell silent.
To be honest, people with the fifth surname and Qiwang are powerful and have roots all over the place.
This is an extremely tyrannical force.
It's a pity that when a scholar meets a soldier, he can't explain why. They tried to reason with Wang Can, but the problem was that Wang Can ignored them and refused to reason with them. In such a situation, there was nothing anyone could do.
Dealing with it won't solve the problem.
Wang Can looked at each of them without speaking, knowing that everyone was shocked.
First there was the "Compendium of Materia Medica", and then there was the grain.
This is a two-pronged preparation.
One hand was aimed at books and scholars; the other hand was aimed at ordinary people and farmers. And this formed the basis of the Tang Dynasty. After these, there were other merchants and so on.
For aristocratic families, books and farmers are their foundation.
Wang Can is trying to cut off their foundation.
Unfortunately, it cannot be solved one by one.
Wang Can continued: "Everyone, please listen to me. Let me tell you, it is just a million stones of grain. Although it is a lot, in fact, it is not provided by one family, but by so many aristocratic families.
If everyone puts it together, in fact, this will not consume much food, and it will not have much impact on each household. After all, the aristocratic family has a deep foundation and has enough food."
Wang Shenfu gritted his teeth and clenched his fists.
Originally, Wang Shenfu and Wang Can were competing. Even though Wang Can had targeted him with words before, Wang Shenfu still had confidence. The reason was very simple. The family had the most important resources.
But it's different now.
Wang Shenfu said: "Wang Can, this condition is too harsh. We hope that you can give us a sincere condition."
Wang Can said: "This is the condition for sincerity."
After a pause, Wang Can continued: "If you don't want to talk anymore, you can leave. In short, I don't ask you to talk. If you don't give food, it doesn't matter. It's just the imperial court bearing the humiliation and bearing the burden.
Just be patient. By next year, this matter will be fundamentally resolved."
Wang Shenfu thought for a while and said: "This is a serious matter. I need to return to Taiyuan immediately and discuss it within the clan before making an appropriate decision."
"Yes, yes, we have to go back and discuss it."
"We need time."
"The matter will be put on hold for now. It won't be too late to reply to Mr. Wang after we go back to discuss it."
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Representatives of the aristocratic families spoke one after another.
They all understood Wang Shenfu's intention. They would wait for the matter for the time being and step back first to give them a chance to relax. After they relaxed a little, they would consider how to deal with this matter.
Wang Can said: "Okay, no problem. If you want to go back and discuss it, I have no objection. However, I will give you an extra month to discuss it. If you still have no intention after one month, this matter will be dropped."
"yes!"
Everyone answered in unison.
"Let's go!"
Wang Can walked in front. He came to the gate of the fence and let everyone out. At this time, Wang Can asked the attendants to search him to prevent anyone from stealing sweet potatoes and slightly green pumpkins. In fact, someone really wanted to steal the sheep.
.But when they finally arrived at the door, they were all discovered. They were all searched out and placed on the ground.
This situation made everyone in the aristocratic family marvel in their hearts, and it was indeed Wang Can.
This method is really powerful.
When they returned to the hall, Wang Can sat on the main seat, and the rest of the people were seated as guests and hosts. Everyone's eyes fell on Wang Can, waiting for Wang Can's decision to see how Wang Can made the decision.
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Fang Xuanling and Du Ruhui were also below. They both had expectations in their eyes, because in their eyes Wang Can was a very steady person in arranging things.