Li Yuanxing is not a scholar, but he has a strong team of scholars.
In modern times, the academic masters organized by Li Lanshan can at least be armed as a company. Their research direction is not only history, but also humanities, customs, political inevitability, and climate.
If the average temperature is one degree lower, the northern grasslands will move one hundred miles south.
One degree higher, and there will be an additional hundred miles of farmland to the north.
Around the ninth century AD, that is, a few decades to a hundred years before the decline of the Tang Dynasty in history, there was a slight Little Ice Age, and the climate seriously affected the grain harvest.
But in the seventh and eighth centuries, it was a warm and humid era.
Compared with the Ice Age, the average temperature was four to five degrees higher. It was also about one and a half to two degrees higher than the modern temperature.
At that time, Xiazhou City was rich in water and grass, with rolling fields and countless rivers.
"Corn, with Xiazhou as the center, we will plant at least three million acres next year. Are there any problems?" Li Yuanxing asked.
Changsun Shunde didn't dare to answer, and neither did Liu Hongji. Because the current available farmland in Xiazhou is only 2.7 million acres, plus the surrounding counties, even if some are put to Yanzhou and Lingzhou, the amount will be 300,000 acres.
Ten thousand acres is also extremely difficult.
Li Yuanxing said at this time: "Do not destroy forests, do not destroy mountains, and do not destroy water bodies."
This is more difficult.
"I am willing to give it a try. I believe that we can take advantage of the slow water flow in winter to improve the water power. This alone can increase 500,000 acres of fertile land, plus land reclamation, water diversion, and those river floodplains that are flooded all year round.
, I, Xiazhou, bite the bullet and will have 4.2 million acres of land next year, of which 3 million acres can be planted with corn. Although it is difficult, we can give it a try!"
Ma Fuyin thought again and again before standing up.
"Very good, determined, courageous, and wise. A large number of pigs, sheep, and chickens are raised in the surrounding counties and counties. I will send people from Chang'an to fertilize the fields. You don't have to worry about the seeds. Come to Chang'an during the New Year.
I will give you the seeds." Li Yuanxing was very satisfied.
This is not just a slogan, but a realistic plan.
"How many days will your Highness stay here?" Liu Hongji asked.
"One day!" Li Yuanxing gave only one day, which surprised Liu Hongji. Did he detour hundreds of miles just to have a few words in person? In another way, Li Yuanxing could have called himself and his eldest grandson Shunde to Lanzhou.
There is really no need to go all the way to see the person above.
But Li Yuanxing said: "While I am speaking here, there are already thousands of people going around Xiazhou to collect first-hand information. The feasibility report of the farmland will be completed before noon tomorrow. An analysis will be made tomorrow night.
The king will leave. In total, it should take a day and a half!"
Is one day enough?
Liu Hongji didn't ask. He was a little embarrassed to ask. This represents efficiency, the efficiency of his subordinates in doing things.
Li Yuanxing personally handed several letters to Liu Hongji. Each envelope had a person's name on it. Just by looking at the name Liu Hongji, one could tell that it was the name of the general guarding the major military strongholds in the north.
Your tasks in the next two years.
"The general will not disappoint His Highness!"
Reputation is earned, and Li Yuanxing's experience is really getting deeper and deeper now. What convinces these generals is definitely not because of your high title, but what you can do in war.
After closing the door, Li Yuanxing and several major officials in Xiazhou discussed ways to get rich all afternoon.
In modern terms, it is three-dimensional agriculture. In addition to food, Xiazhou only grows vegetables, which can be supplied to several border military strongholds. This profit is huge.
Among the military strongholds on the border, the income from goat milk can ensure that they have enough coins to buy more.
In the evening, around ten o'clock, Cui Yingying and the others came back.
"Your Highness, Your Highness. We have seen the red sandstone mountains. On Dadun Mountain, there are deserts and pastures to the north, green forests to the south, and many large rivers to the east. It's really a wonderful sight, and there are so many rivers.
Yes, and..." Cui Yingying and Cui Yanyan kept chatting.
Later generations of Li Yuanxing also came here when they were exploring the terrain.
I heard the cabinet man tell me what the Danxia landform is called here, and it seems to be very unique.
Li Yuanxing felt nothing at all, but he listened with a smile on his face, and occasionally asked a question or two, which made the two women even more excited.
In fact, Li Yuanxing really didn't know what to see there.
But they have never traveled far since they were young, and they were arranged in very strict carriages from Qinghe and Boling to the capital. Now they finally have the opportunity to travel on their own, how can they not be excited. But their maid is
I was so tired that I didn't even have the strength to stand.
"I tell you, there is another impressive place here. On the north bank of the Dading River, Helianbo established the capital of the "Great Xia Kingdom". This is the only city left by the Huns. You can go and have a look. Let Yan
The old man Shigu will go with you, and then..." Li Yuanxing took out a watch stamp from his handbag with a smile.
"Go and make another copy and apply to the Ministry of Rites to protect this city. This is history, protect it."
Cui Yingying and Cui Yanyan took the watch seal from Li Yuanxing's hand and read it. This was already written, but the words were not elegant enough. Both women thought they could add more words.
"Your Highness, that is the city of the Huns. The Huns were once enemies of the Han Dynasty. According to what Your Highness wrote, this city was built more than 200 years ago. It should have been the time of the Eastern Jin Dynasty. The Huns are still enemies. Why?
We need to protect their city. Yingying really doesn’t understand!”
"There is nothing wrong with being an enemy. But this is the only thing left by the Huns in the world. It is left for the children and grandchildren to see. It is left for the children and grandchildren to understand. We should be tolerant to the enemies who have disappeared. After all, ordinary Huns
People have had glories and can fight against the enemies of the Han Dynasty, and they deserve respect!"
After Cui Yingying listened, she nodded in understanding.
Then he asked: "What His Highness said can be added to the list!"
"Okay. After you go, don't come back. Let Lu Maofeng study the route. The day after tomorrow we will turn to the northwest and meet on the road."
The next day, the two princesses Yingying and Yan Yan went out before dawn. Lu Maofeng personally led the escort. Li Yuanxing also had Wu Bin with him, not to mention that there were generals such as Liu Hongji here, so there would not be any problems. So.
Zhili Sili, Li Yuanchang and Princess Kinderman of Silla also went with them.
Li Yuanxing began to hold meetings with Xiazhou officials again.
"General Liu, I want to ask you. Is it better to roast beef with potatoes or mutton with potatoes? Or, do you prefer braised pork and then potatoes?"
Li Yuanxing suddenly asked something irrelevant.
Liu Hongji just thought it was Li Yuanxing joking, after all, the formal meeting had not yet begun.
After thinking for a while, Liu Hongji replied: "Your Highness, I think that Qin Wangzhuang's red chili peppers are added with onions and ginger to cook the chicken. Then add potato cubes and add more juice. You must use your Highness's snow salt."
It works. Finally, it is the most delicious to use fine white flour to pull the strips. I have tried it and it doesn't work without potatoes. It seems like something is missing. The soy sauce is also an important seasoning. Be sure to add some raw sugar cubes to make it more delicious.
"
Liu Hongji's description made all the officials present drool.
You must know that there are many things here that Xiazhou officials have never eaten. Each person only has two kilograms of snow salt per month, which is still two kilograms with the bamboo tube.
Because of the weight of this snow salt, some people have already scolded Li Daozhong for having a dark heart.
In fact, it was not that Li Daozong was evil, but that Li Yuanxing used the weight of later generations to weigh one kilogram and put it into a bamboo tube. He then said that it was one kilogram, so Li Daozong weighed it and thought that the snow salt was just the weight of the bamboo tube.
Officials in Xiazhou have heard of potatoes, but have never eaten them.
"General Liu, how about growing 20,000,000 kilograms of potatoes a year on the sandy soil in Shuozhou City?"
"Two, twenty million catties?" Liu Hongji really thought he heard it wrong, and twenty million catties shocked him.
Li Yuanxing shook his head gently: "It's not much, it's just the output of tens of thousands of acres of land. The sandy land in Shuozhou is very suitable for planting. If I let the king personally manage it, 300,000 kilograms of land would be the minimum for 100,000 acres of land."
An output of 40,000 kilograms is not surprising." Li Yuanxing was not talking nonsense. Modern carefully managed potato fields have a maximum yield of five tons.
Ordinary poor fields also have an output of two tons.
Shuozhou is there, just a little north of modern Yulin, very close to Inner Mongolia, but not yet the location of Inner Mongolia. In later modern times, Yulin was a place with a mythical output of five tons per acre. Of course, these five tons were
At the laboratory level, two to three tons of ordinary land is still no problem.
One hundred thousand acres and twenty million catties are really nothing.
"Your Highness, we are not afraid of letting foreign countries steal this kind of land. If the generals can manage a few thousand acres, but if they steal some of these 100,000 acres, they will be unable to do anything."
"Steal, let them steal. The only people who can steal are the people on the grassland and the Goguryeo people. When they are full, they will think about fighting. Remember one sentence, food and clothing, food and sex! Let's talk about the Goguryeo people.
, I don’t believe they will be able to eat enough potatoes within three years.”
Liu Hongji nodded.
Xin said, King Qin seems to be determined to destroy Goguryeo. After Goguryeo, he will definitely turn his hand to deal with the Eastern Turks.
Liu Hongji agreed with Li Yuanxing's words. The Turkic nobles wanted to go south to rob things, but ordinary Turkic people might not. Especially after they had enough food for the winter, they definitely had no interest in going south to rob.
"The last general takes command!"
"This is not just your task. Let the officials of Shuozhou work more. Seventy percent of this belongs to your military fields, and the remaining 30% is completed by the people of Shuozhou. The methods of preservation and planting methods,
If you still have seeds, you can go to Benwang Village in Chang'an to collect them during the New Year."
Li Yuanxing didn't have enough seeds last year, but after a year, he has four main crops: corn, potatoes, sweet potatoes, and pumpkins. He can plant them in several prefectures and counties without any problems. (To be continued.
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