While Sima Yi and Zhuge Liang were arguing, He Jin led the senior officials of the court to the vicinity of the big farm in person.
Someone in the General's Mansion had already investigated the average yield per mu of these lands through a sampling survey. They already knew this, so today He Jin was very happy to bring the princes of the court to harvest the fields in person.
On the one hand, it can be proved that the imperial court indeed attached great importance to farming.
The general personally goes to the fields to harvest. Isn’t this enough attention?
On the other hand, it can also greatly deter those with evil intentions.
"I always feel that we are extending the life of the Han Dynasty? Could it be that we have worked so hard to come to this world just to benefit the Han Dynasty?" Qingwei whispered.
"These were originally wastelands with no human race. As a result, we have worked hard here for half a year, clearing wasteland, burning mountains, making soil fertilizers, and building water conservancy projects.
We just turned two million acres of wasteland into ordinary fields, and this time we had a total output of five million shi."
Seeing Qingwei muttering again, Huang Zixing wiped the sweat from his forehead and shook his head: "Sooner or later these will all be ours. Now we are just using the power of big men to open up wasteland."
Even if the Han Dynasty did not open up wasteland and Daxia occupied this place in the future, it would still be necessary to open up wasteland and build water conservancy projects.
"What's more, having more food is not necessarily a good thing."
"Why?"
This time, Huang Zixing did not answer.
After confirming that there were no problems here, Huang Zixing left the place and returned to Luoyang and the palace.
Originally, the palace was filled with pavilions and pavilions, containing all kinds of exotic flowers and plants from all over the world.
But now, these garden rockeries have been demolished, the land has been leveled, and turned into experimental fields one after another.
Different varieties of rice are planted in each experimental field.
Some are high-yield seeds, and some are spiritual rice.
In addition to staying in the big farm, Huang Zixing stayed in the palace.
Every day when the officials entered the palace, they would take a special look here. Whenever they saw the high-yielding rice growing very densely and vigorously, they would feel much better.
For example, He Jin, he often came to Huang Zixing to chat when he had nothing to do.
It was He Jin who proposed to plant various grains directly in the palace. This is the only place in the world that is slightly safer.
But even the palace has been robbed recently!
Because the spiritual rice studied by Huang Zixing sometimes naturally emits a special rice fragrance, which can be smelled by all ministers passing near the palace.
If the ministers all know it, then all the famous families will know it too!
When the family knew that the spiritual rice cultivated by Huang Zixing had taken root and sprouted and even grown into adulthood in the palace, they were naturally moved.
The number of spiritual rice is limited. So far, among the entire Han Dynasty, only Huang Zixing can breed new varieties of spiritual rice.
Therefore, this is destined to be a small-scale luxury product in a short period of time. Who should be given it or not, becomes very important.
With high-quality spiritual rice, the efficiency of cultivating Taoist soldiers and training generals will be greatly improved, and even directly create a generation gap.
If it is monopolized by the imperial court, and these high-quality spiritual rice will only be used by the Northern Army, Xiyuan Army and other central armies in the future, then in a few years, the gap between the private soldiers in the hands of powerful local families and the central army will be
A level will be added again.
The imperial court is too powerful and the central government is too powerful. This is obviously not good for the family!
Even if the imperial court is willing to sell it to aristocratic families after careful consideration, it will definitely be extremely expensive, and even the spiritual rice will become a strategic deterrent in the hands of the imperial court.
We will sell it to anyone who is obedient, and we will not sell it to anyone who is disobedient!
In order to prevent such a future from happening, the aristocratic family can only continue to send people to steal!
Use various methods to steal, rob, rob, take, entrap...
The outside world is harvesting, and Huang Zixing is farming!
The outside world has finished harvesting, but Huang Zixing is still farming!
After seeing the total output, the aristocratic families are thinking about the future, but Huang Zixing is still farming!
Huang Zixing's practice of ignoring what was going on outside the window and focusing only on farming made the family and the court feel at ease.
As a result, he changed from a military general in the field to a great farmer.
But Da Sinong is still farming!
…
"The total output this time is 5.28 million shi. This is the output after removing the chaff, a total of 5.28 million shi..."
(In the Han Dynasty, one stone weighed about sixty kilograms. Therefore, a yield of more than two stones per mu is actually more than one hundred kilograms. It is not really cheating.)
In the palace, He Jin and Empress He were settling accounts. The table near the brothers and sisters was filled with various account books, while Liu Bian, the emperor, was quietly listening to how his mother and uncle settled the accounts.
How to deal with various political affairs in the Han Dynasty.
After He Hou heard this number, he rummaged through the table and found a ledger. After opening it, he said: "This is the record of grain prices in Luoyang in the past month: one hundred yuan for a stone and ninety-nine yuan for a stone."
Money, Shimi ninety-five yuan, Shimi one hundred and one yuan..."
"Five.28 million shi, one hundred yuan per shi, that's more than 500 million yuan! Even if the cost is removed, there is still at least more than 200 million yuan."
"The reason why the cost is so high this time is mainly due to land reclamation, water conservancy construction, and agricultural equipment manufacturing. By the next time, the cost will only be human cost, which is almost nothing. Then it will cost 500 million yuan to plant one plant.
?”
Hearing this, He Jin shook his head directly: "That's not how the account is settled."
This sister is still inexperienced.
The price of rice in the Han Dynasty is actually a very magical thing. In the Schrödinger state, the price sold by farmers and the price sold by powerful men may sometimes be twice as different.
According to historical records, under the governance of Liu Yu, Youzhou once experienced a prosperous period when a stone rice was worth thirty cents.
According to various historical records, under normal circumstances in the Han Dynasty, the price of food in various places ranged from 30 to 100 shi meters. The specific price depended on the place.
Generally speaking, local grain production is definitely lower than non-grain-producing areas. On the other hand, powerful people will squeeze the people.
The tycoons buy the common people's grain at low prices. Do ordinary people have any way to stop the tycoons from purchasing food at low prices?
This really doesn’t exist!
Thirty yuan for a stone and rice, 80% of which was the purchase price when the powerful were squeezing the common people.
If a powerful person purchases it for 30 yuan and sells it to someone else, then the price is not allowed to increase?
As for Luoyang, even if the total population of Luoyang City is not one million, it is at least six or seven hundred thousand, right?
With so many people doing nothing but gathering in cities all day long, the amount of food they consume every day is astronomical.
All these grains have to be transported from outside, and the transportation costs on the road are not a small number.
Maybe when the grain was in Chenliu, it was still eighty cents per stone, but when it arrived in Luoyang, it became one hundred cents per stone.
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"You also know that there has been no land near Luoyang for a long time, and there is no wasteland. The Central Plains has been the center of the world since ancient times. It has been developed for two or three thousand years, so the Central Plains also has more people and less land.
, there is not so much wasteland.”
"So, this time we are looking for wasteland in Guanzhong. Guanzhong is not far or close to Luoyang. It is thousands of miles away by land. With such a long distance, the cost of transporting it here is not a small amount."
"Actually, if all the five million shi of food were transported here, there might be only 3 million shi left in Luoyang."
After transporting grain for thousands of miles, if only three-fifths of it is left after it reaches the ground, then he is a capable official!
If the grain transport officials were more corrupt and less capable, maybe only two-fifths or even one-fifth would be left.
"Isn't that why we are still losing money? How come farming has become a losing business?" He Hou asked in confusion.
"No, in fact, in the past, Guanzhong was so exhausted that even being self-sufficient would sometimes encounter difficulties."
It is hard to imagine that four hundred years ago during the Qin Dynasty, Guanzhong was one of the world's granaries. Two hundred years ago during the Western Han Dynasty, Guanzhong was also the center of the world. But now, Guanzhong has become a piece of tatters.
"In order to pacify the Qiang people, the Han Dynasty invested 24 billion yuan in Liangzhou and bankrupted the court countless times."
"The reason why it costs so much is that most of it is spent on transporting food."
At that time, all the rations for the army had to be drawn from the mainland.
When grain is transported from inland to Luoyang, the loss varies depending on the distance between places. However, when the grain is transported from Luoyang to Guanzhong, and then from Guanzhong to Liangzhou, the loss rate is very touching.
Maybe a hundred shi of grain was collected locally, and after such a wave of transfer, only ten shi of grain were left when they arrived in Liangzhou. This is based on the premise that the officials are all honest.
As long as the officials work hard and 56% of the food reaches the front line, they are considered lucky.
Throughout the history of the Han Dynasty, in the process of using troops to pacify Liangzhou and pacify the Qiang people, the amount of military rations consumed was truly astronomical.
They consumed one million shi of military grain on the front line, and the imperial court might have to purchase tens of millions of shi of grain to prepare.
The result was that the Qiang people were not completely wiped out, but they bankrupted the finances of the Han Dynasty, so much so that some people openly said, why don't we abandon Liangzhou?
(Some officials think this way: Anyway, the imperial court has already abandoned some counties in Bingzhou, so now it seems that it is not impossible to abandon Liangzhou?
Moreover, this can further weaken the people of Kansai.)
"Now, Guanzhong has five million more shi of food, which is enough to make Guanzhong self-sufficient. It can even use 3 million shi of it to accumulate as military rations."
"At that time, even if only one million stones are left when it is transferred to Liangzhou, it will be enough to supply tens of thousands of Central Army troops for half a year."
The most elite Central Army has been fighting for half a year. What kind of Qiang people cannot be killed? Which tribe dares to disobey?
"I dare say that with these five million stones of military rations, the situation in Liangzhou will improve this year and the local tyrants will restrain themselves."
"Next year, this number may become 10 million stones. By then, we can directly dispatch a hundred thousand troops to fight in Liangzhou for a year! Anyone who dares to disobey will be exterminated directly!"
"By then, the Qiang rebellion that has troubled the imperial court for decades or hundreds of years will be completely put down in our hands."
Having said this, He Jin showed a happy smile.
"Sister, Your Majesty, what do you think?"
He Hou nodded and then looked at Liu Bian. Liu Bian thought about it and said, "Uncle, this plan is very good. However, will the powerful and traitorous Qiang people in Liangzhou take action in advance and directly destroy them?"
Where are the fertile fields in Guanzhong?"
"Haha, I'm really not afraid of this."
"Mr. Zixing, with only tens of thousands of common people, thousands of heroes in the five internal organs realm, and 100 million yuan, he turned 2 million acres of wasteland into 2 million acres of fertile farmland in half a year, and there are still 5 million acres of fertile land.
Millions of stones of food.”
"To destroy two million acres of grain, the Qiang people would have to mobilize at least tens of thousands of people, and most of these farms are located in the hinterland of Guanzhong. Once they come, they can't leave."
"Even if they really succeed in destroying these fertile fields, they can completely allow Mr. Zixing to go to Guanzhong again and start farming again. The cost will only be 100 million yuan, tens of thousands of people and thousands of heroes in the five internal organs realm."
However, the Qiang people and the powerful Liangzhou rebels paid at least tens of thousands of cavalry.
How many times can the Qiang and Liangzhou tycoons withstand such a large-scale loss?
Towards annihilation in victory? Towards destruction?
…
In a large farm somewhere in Guanzhong, Zhuge Liang ended his scolding battle with Sima Yi and was on his way home.
Since that day, Sima Yi had a verbal battle with Zhuge Liang almost every day. Zhuge Liang would win 80% of the time out of ten, and the remaining two times would be a draw.
But today, the moment Zhuge Liang opened the door, he noticed something was wrong, and then he discovered that there was a thick letter on the desk.
On the top of the envelope is written "Junior Brother Personally", and at the bottom is the word "Wolong".
With Zhuge Liang's intelligence, he thought of dozens of possibilities in an instant.
First: This is Chu Xuan writing to him again, the purpose is unknown.
Second: This is someone pretending to be Chu Xuan and writing to him. The purpose is to use him to increase the authenticity of the letter and achieve a certain purpose.
Third: This is someone taking advantage of Zhuge Liang’s relationship with Chu Xuan’s brother in The Romance to frame Zhuge Liang in an attempt to force Chu Xuan to show up.
fourth:……
After a while, Zhuge Liang called his father and grandfather and asked them to guard him outside. He opened the envelope himself and read the contents of the letter.
"This is indeed written by senior brother. Only senior brother can have such an unexpected, unconstrained but feasible idea."
"Oh, what did Mr. Wolong say in the letter?"
"Senior brother mentioned two things in the letter. The first thing is to turn Taoism into productivity. He also said that Taoism is the primary productive force, and Taoism and production must be cleverly combined."
"Senior brother said that if Taoism is used in production, it will be enough to easily increase today's productivity by ten times or more than a hundred times. And the progress of productivity will promote changes in production relations. By then, the prosperous age may really come."
"Senior brother, if you use the Dharma to fight, it would be a huge waste. It is equivalent to holding gold in your hand and not casting it into currency flowers, but instead making it into shovels to dig up the ground. It is a huge waste."
"Once Taoism is applied in production and life, it can directly and easily increase productivity by an era, allowing the entire Han Dynasty to enter the era of Taoism revolution. By then, it is possible for any Taoist to cooperate with the productivity generated by a hundred ordinary people.
It is equivalent to the power of a county today or even the total productivity of a county."
"Brother also gave an example in the letter, such as the most well-known Guanzhong farm recently. If Taoism is applied to it, the weather can be detected and changed in advance, and the climate can be changed on a large scale to make it conducive to production.
You can also use methods to eliminate insects and weeds..."
"Senior brother said that whether it is changing the weather on a large scale or eradicating insects and weeds, it is actually not difficult to do. The key is to change your thinking..."