Yun Wu was also very excited. Although she didn't achieve the results she wanted, it was already a big improvement to increase production so much. After all, we were just starting to work on the first season!
If she uses these seeds with full grains and cultivates them well next year, she should be able to double her desired yield next year.
Moreover, it is best to try to plant two crops next year, so as to not only double the yield.
After the autumn harvest this year, the farmland should be properly fertilized. If the fertilizer is enough, you will not be afraid of damaging the field after two seasons of planting.
Ye Xiang was a little surprised when he heard about the production: "Did the production really increase so much?"
Yun Wu smiled and said: "My lord, when you firmly implemented it, didn't you think that it would actually increase production?"
Ye Xiang shook his head honestly: "I haven't thought about it, I just wanted to try it."
But he didn't think it would definitely succeed. The chance of success was very slim. At best, the harvest would be better, the millet would grow better, and the output would not increase so much.
This result was indeed beyond his expectation.
"Your Majesty, you have very little confidence in me. I will not waste the country's financial resources and manpower." Yun Wu was quite confident.
"This output has not yet reached my expectations, but it is not bad. It is worthy of celebration. We should inform the world so that the people can also have confidence and rejoice together."
Only when the people have confidence and courage can the country be peaceful and the people be safe!
"What are your expectations?" Ye Xiang asked curiously.
"One acre is worth fifty dou."
Ye Shang's usually cold face showed surprise: "Can the output be so high?"
"Of course you can, you can do it as long as you work hard." Yun Wu said.
Ye Xiang asked: "Have you ever seen such a high output?"
If such a high output could be achieved, would the people of Zhou Dynasty still worry about going hungry? There is no need to worry at all.
"Of course I have seen it. The fields there can produce not only fifty bushels, but hundreds of bushels. However, the conditions here cannot be compared with those there. Our target is only fifty bushels."
Ye Xiang nodded: "Let them fight for some energy and reach fifty fights next year."
"It doesn't have to be fifty bushels per acre. Let them plant two crops of rice next year. Even if the yield of the early rice season is smaller, it doesn't matter. Although the millet may not necessarily taste better than the first season, now is not the time to pursue delicious food.
The most important thing is to make the people of the world full."
Ye Xiang squeezed her hand: "Let them do it."
Yun Wu said happily: "You ask the little emperor to publish the imperial list and announce the results, so that the people of the world can celebrate together, and it will also be convenient for Xu Xian and others to launch a fertilizer plan across the country."
Once the results are achieved, they can be used in local areas, so that no people will hesitate and no officials will hesitate for fear of affecting their political performance.
Now that there are results, local officials are worried that they have not kept up with the pace and that their political performance will be affected.
This is why Yun Wu wants to let Dajiang Village set up a demonstration field first, and would rather spend a lot of money to build roads for them.
This money is not small money. Cement is a new product in this era and the cost is not low. Fortunately, with the regent as a big backer, it is still easy to get some slag.
But it is very unrealistic for ordinary people to want to build this kind of cement road.
The village chief naturally wants to build roads the most. Although the cement road reaches the entrance of the village, it has not been built in the village. He thinks that the harvest in the village is good now and it should be better next year. If he has money, he will naturally build roads.
So he asked Xu Xian secretly, and Xu Xian came to ask Yun Wu if this kind of road could be built locally.
Yun Wu shook her head: "This kind of road can't be built casually. It requires at least slag, and it has to go through a furnace. Slag can't be obtained casually."
Xu Xian said with some regret: "It seems that it cannot be popularized."
"No, at least not for now. Maybe it can be done when Dazhou becomes strong and rich."
The cost of a cement road is not small, and steel bars are added inside the road to prevent it from cracking. Iron in ancient times was not cheap.
Just building this cement road from Ling'an to Dajiang Village cost nearly 100,000 taels of silver.
This is enough to cover a local financial expenditure for ten years.
Only Ye Pei allowed her to act recklessly so that the Ministry of Revenue could spend so much money. This is true wealth.
Even He Lianfeng was dumbfounded when he heard that she spent one hundred thousand taels of real money to build a road leading to the countryside.
Compared to the three thousand taels she spent to build a big ship, it seems really cheap.
How did He Lianfeng come? Yun Wu was speechless.
Today, during the Autumn Harvest Festival in Dajiang Village, she didn't tell He Lianfeng at all. It was He Lianfeng who went to find them out of boredom and found that they were not in the house, so she went to Dajiang Village after asking.
He Lianfeng had heard before that a road was going to be built to go to Dajiang Village, and it was said that it would not be bumpy at all and would be a flat road.
He Lianfeng thought about it and asked someone to drive a horse to follow him.
I have to say that although it cost a huge amount of one hundred thousand taels, this road is really easy to drive!
If he had money, he would also like to get one in Daxia.
Yun Wu is really prodigal. She didn't build such a road for her own entertainment, but actually built it into the countryside!
What is there to do in the countryside?
He Lianfeng didn't know until he arrived in Dajiang Village that the countryside was really fun, with so many people harvesting straw together today.
I was so tired that I was sweating profusely, but I was still smiling as if I had picked up a hundred thousand taels of silver.
There is also a large flowing table that is dozens of meters long, and you can eat whatever you want on the table.
He Lianfeng felt people's joy as soon as he got off the carriage.
"Are you so happy to harvest rice?" He Lianfeng asked without understanding.
Yun Wu hehe: "Of course I am happy about the harvest. As a prince of a country, Prince Daxia should know that food is the foundation of the country."
"Don't we often have good harvests? There will be no natural disasters this year, so we will have a good harvest." He Lianfeng didn't take it seriously.
"This is not an ordinary bumper harvest. We have greatly increased production, with an increase of nearly ten bushels per acre."
"Isn't it just to increase production...just ten buckets...what! Ten buckets? Not ten pounds?" He Lianfeng's face changed drastically as he said that, and he looked at her in disbelief: "Did you make a mistake?"
"No, it's just Shi Dou." Yun Wu smiled.
Helian Feng's peach blossom eyes widened: "Really ten fights?"
"Really." Yun Wu was not impatient. After all, the increase in production by ten tons at once was a bit unbelievable.
"How is it possible? How is it possible? The fields here are so good?"
"I won't tell you. If you learn it, you won't do me any good." Yun Wu turned her head to the side, took Ye Xiang's arm and ignored him.
He Lianfeng looked at Ye Xiang: "Is what she said true?"
Ye Xiang said coldly: "Do you doubt her words?"
The woman who dares to doubt him will die.
He Lianfeng still doesn't understand, but it seems to be true.
But how is it possible? How can we increase production so much at once?
No wonder these people act like they have picked up one hundred thousand taels of silver. This is no worse than picking up one hundred thousand taels of silver.
One mu of land can increase the yield by ten bushels, and the ten acres of farmland at home can increase the yield by a hundred bushels. Even if there is a natural disaster next year and the harvest is lost, they don’t have to worry about going hungry.
What's more, he even exempted the land tax from Ye Pei!
The food these people receive is all their own, how can they be unhappy!