I am a child of Daqin Xiong, who supervises the country at the age of eight

Chapter 40 Promote planting!

Mao Jiao and Chun Yuyue were not whipped.

The two of them are old, and it is normal for their work efficiency to be slow.

On the other hand, the young Confucian scholars on the side inevitably got hit a few times. While these people were gnashing their teeth and speeding up their work, their eyes were full of hatred.

Fortunately, their hatred is useless.

Just this mouthpiece.

When you hate others, at most you write articles to scold the other party, other than that, it can't cause any harm.

At the same time, Ying Changsheng in the pavilion, after eating and drinking with everyone, began to discuss the matter of promoting potato planting!

"The amount of potatoes harvested now is about two hundred dan. Except for a small part of these potatoes, which are kept in the palace for us to try, the rest should be taken out and promoted for planting!"

Ying Changsheng said to the left and right.

"How are these potatoes grown?"

Zhang Cang asked.

"It's very simple, nothing more than cutting the potatoes into small pieces and burying them in the soil!"

Ying Changsheng explained, and then asked again.

"There are more than two acres of land planted in this imperial garden. You can tell how many catties of potatoes are used?"

"Why don't you weigh more than ten catties?"

Zhang Liang and the others muttered, but Ying Changsheng shook his head.

"It only took five catties in total. For one mu of land, two or three catties would be enough. If our potatoes weighing more than 200 shi are widely spread, we can plant ten thousand mu of land!"

"Then, can this potato be planted for another season this year?"

Fusu asked hastily.

"Okay, it's only summer now, hurry up and sow seeds now, plant them, and at the end of autumn, you can harvest another season!"

Ying Changsheng said.

The rainy and hot conditions in the Qin Dynasty were much stronger than those in later generations.

You know, in this era, even the Central Plains region, which was later known as the Henan area, still had swamps, elephants, rhinos, and crocodiles.

It is natural to imagine how warm the climate is.

And this kind of warm climate did not stop until the Song Dynasty. Until the Northern Song Dynasty, elephants were once captured in the Henan area of ​​China.

Compared with the current climate of Daqin, the climate of later generations belongs to the Little Ice Age!
For humans, too warm a climate is not a good thing and will make them uncomfortable. However, for plants, a warm climate can encourage them to grow at an extremely fast rate.

Therefore, it is absolutely fine to sow another season of potatoes now!

"Since this is the case, we should quickly sow all these harvested potatoes, and then, at the time of harvest, we can get 80 million shi of potatoes. With these potatoes, we can promote the potatoes to my Daqin next year." The world!"

Zhang Liang suggested.

"Hurry up and plant, next year there will be 80 million shi of seeds and 80 million shi of potatoes, enough to sow hundreds of millions of acres of fields..."

Fusu nodded quickly.

“It’s just, where to grow these potatoes?”

Ying Changsheng asked with a frown.

"Nowadays, the arable land is full of crops. If potatoes are planted in it, the crops that were growing in the original field will be destroyed..."

"This one……"

Zhang Liang and the others showed embarrassment, and then only heard Zhang Liang say.

"It can only destroy seedlings and grow potatoes. Compared with this little loss, it is the right thing to promote potatoes sooner or later!"

"What's more, the grain yield of potatoes on one mu of land is dozens of times that of ordinary crops. Even if you destroy seedlings to grow potatoes, you won't lose too much..."

"Although the truth is this, it is still too wasteful after all!"

Zhang Cang shook his head, and then, seeing him with a big belly, he proposed.

"I have an idea, I don't know if I should say it or not!"

"tell me the story?"

Fusu motioned to Zhang Cang to say, only to hear Zhang Cang explain.

"Fields can be cultivated. There are many prisoners in Guanzhong, and tens of thousands of them have been mobilized to cultivate fields. It doesn't take much to cultivate [-] acres of new fields!"

"Easy to say!"

After Zhang Cang finished speaking, Gongshu Shangzao sneered and shook his head.

"The population in Guanzhong is very large. The wilderness that can be reclaimed by the private sector has already been reclaimed. Where can I find something to reclaim it?"

"This one……"

Zhang Cang was speechless for a moment.

At this moment, Ying Changsheng's eyes lit up and said.

"I do know that there is a place that can be used for reclamation!"

"where?"

Fusu was surprised for a while, and then asked.

"Royal ban!"

Ying Changsheng said four words.

All of a sudden, the faces of all the people present changed suddenly.

The place Ying Changsheng mentioned was the royal hunting ground in Guanzhong.

These places are areas divided by the imperial court. They are a wasteland with lush trees and wild animals. However, this place is not used as a "natural reserve" for Da Qin. This place is used for Brother Zheng. For hunting.

Used as a royal hunting ground.

Although Brother Zheng usually doesn't like hunting, this area must be preserved.

And his scale is also very large, with millions of acres of land!
You can plant [-] acres of potatoes by just clearing up any corner!
However, when Ying Changsheng brought it up, Fusu on the side shook his head again and again.

"It's not right, it's not right, I can't reclaim that land. After the father finds out, he will probably blame it. But, my Daqin can't afford the loss of [-] mu of land..."

"What's the matter, the imperial garden can be used for farming, how can the deserted hunting grounds not be used for farming?"

Ying Changsheng said with a smile.

Hearing this, everyone was happy.

Well, this [-]th Young Master dares to plant crops in the Imperial Garden, so why not impose a large-scale ban on growing crops?
"Then let's do it!"

Fusu said.

But he secretly thought in his heart, but don't be angry when the father comes back...

After discussing with the others, Mao Jiao and the others finally finished digging all the potatoes. At this moment, they were sitting on the ridge in the field, resting there panting.

"The unity of knowledge and action, this is the unity of knowledge and action, no matter how much you yell, why not do some work!"

Ying Changsheng walked over and said to the Confucian scholars beside him.

These Confucian scholars were all out of breath, but they looked at Ying Changsheng with anger.

However, in the crowd, a doctor named Shusun Tong stood up, looked at Ying Changsheng with respect and admiration and said.

"What the Nineteenth Young Master said is absolutely true. Listening to the Nineteenth Young Master's words is better than ten years of studying!"

"Hahahaha!"

Ying Changsheng didn't care whether Shusun Tong was sincere or fake, he laughed a few times, and then went to Shusun.

"what's your name?"

"I'm Shusun Tong!"

The latter answered.

Immediately, Ying Changsheng wondered who this guy was, he was the so-called Confucian sect.

Shusun Tong managed the affairs of the world with great care, advanced and retreated according to the rules of etiquette, and changed with the times. This is Sima Qian's historical evaluation of Shusun Tong in his historical records.

(End of this chapter)