If farmers want to improve their lives, they must earn more money. Apart from taking the imperial examination and becoming an official, most of the remaining people usually have no choice but to join if they fail, and find jobs in factories to earn extra money.
However... although China has built railways now, and there are already several more railways than the original two, one vertical and one horizontal, and there are also conveniences such as bicycles, but in the final analysis, it is still very difficult for farmers to travel far.
, so the main thing is to work hard on farming as much as possible, in order to cultivate more fields and grow more food.
However, this is easy said but not so easy to do. After all, Li Sheng was responsible for the fertilizer. Obviously, the water conservancy also needed help from the court. There is no way to continue large-scale expansion easily. So how can this farmland produce more output?
To make more profits, you often have to cultivate wasteland...
But reclaiming wasteland is easy to say, but in fact it is extremely difficult - but this level of difficulty is unlikely to break the defenses of farmers in China, who are almost the most silent and tenacious people among all the races in the world.
However, in this case, diseases also caused crop failure, which inevitably caused many farmers to break their defenses.
It is not easy to make some money, but agriculture... No matter how many convenient and easy-to-use tools Li Sheng created, no matter how many varieties with extremely high yields Li Sheng created, these things still depend on heaven after all.
If you are unlucky, you will always have a bad harvest, so this contradiction arises...
This made Wei Zheng instinctively realize that Li Sheng was right to establish the academy system. If these academies had not been established, this matter would probably have become a bigger problem. After all...it is still about the promotion channels. This point has never been
Human beings have society as a thing, and it may never change no matter how many years it takes now or in the future.
And just having a college to absorb farmers who want to live a better life is obviously not enough... If you want to be enough, you obviously have to find another way and open a new way... And considering the conditions of China,
This matter still has to be done in farming. But...
How to make more money from farming was a real test for Wei Zheng.
After all, he was a Taoist priest and had not become an immortal. He could not teach farmers in the countryside how to grow golden beans, so... after thinking about it, Wei Zheng thought of coming to meet Fang Xuanling. Because farming is such a thing, farming is very difficult.
The income from food is good in some plain areas, but there are many places where you can't grow much food at all.
This also means that these farmers must be able to grow something else, so that the income problem can be solved. However... After Wei Zheng carefully talked about his troubles, Sun Simiao's face gradually became silent after hearing this.
Then he shook his head and said, "This matter may be difficult to handle..."
"oh?"
Wei Zheng couldn't help but be stunned, "If the people can grow some medicinal materials, I think they can earn more next year..."
The so-called life is nothing more than a matter of income and expenditure. This is the empire of the Tang Dynasty, and the same is true for farmers' families. But the reason why Wei Zheng came to Sun Simiao... was because he felt that no matter how much money he wanted to make the farmers' families earn,
This is definitely unrealistic, but it shouldn’t be difficult for farmers to introduce some medicinal materials, right?
However, Sun Simiao then explained,
"Xuan Cheng is interested, but this old man really knows a little bit about growing medicinal materials to make a living. In fact, farmers grow medicinal materials, and this old man really knows a little about it, but... because they often don't know how to do it, most of the planting is unsuccessful. This is one of the reasons.
one."
"This..." Wei Zheng opened his mouth to say something, but obviously... for Wei Zheng, this problem is not actually a problem. The Tang Dynasty is now full of talents, and it is necessary to send some scholars and senior farmers to help ordinary farmers grow medicinal materials.
It's not difficult.
But before he could speak, Sun Simiao waved his hand.
"The second is the problem of water and soil. Medicinal materials are produced by gathering the essence of heaven and earth. Without a specific environment, it is often difficult to survive. Therefore, although Laochan has many disciples, many times he has to go to the mountains to collect herbs in person.
Use. This kind of planting is really difficult, I’m afraid ordinary farmers can’t handle it.”
Sun Simiao finished speaking very seriously, and then sighed softly.
But this time when Wei Zheng heard this, his face froze and he stopped talking - because there was no doubt.
Sun Simiao is right!
Even experienced Xinglin masters often need to go to the mountains to pick medicinal materials themselves. How can ordinary farmers grow them? This is really difficult...
And then, Sun Simiao thought for a while and said,
"Thirdly, it's a question of money... Originally, I didn't know much about this cultivation method, but in the past few years in Chang'an, I can be considered to have some understanding. This cultivation of medicinal materials... is either difficult to do, difficult to promote, and it is difficult to popularize it.
I'm afraid it's not easy to benefit farmers. But if it can be grown, big households will often follow up quickly. When the time comes... the price of these medicinal materials will probably plummet immediately, which is nothing to the big households... After all, the price is theirs.
Come down."
"But for many farmers, this often means heavy losses, or even losing all their money."
"this……"
Upon hearing this this time, Wei Zheng not only lost all desire to speak, but his entire face even turned a little pale.
For a moment, I couldn't help but feel ashamed.
Fortunately, he was still an important minister of the Tang Dynasty, so he had no way to deal with the situation.
What Sun Simiao said is undoubtedly true.
That is to say...
If I can't think of a better way, then I'm afraid this matter really can't be solved, and in this case...
The backlog of dissatisfaction... Thinking about this trend, Wei Zheng felt that he didn't even need to backlog, he was already full of negative emotions, and his expression when talking and laughing with Sun Simiao became very reluctant. However, Sun Simiao looked at his expression, thought about it and said,
"None of these major national affairs can be accomplished overnight. Why don't Xuancheng have a drink with the old man today? Maybe he will get drunk and have an idea, and he will come up with this solution."
Of course, Sun Simiao wouldn't say that a drink would help, but now that Wei Zheng is so distressed, that's all he can say. But...
Just as the two were having a drink to soothe their sorrows, a disciple of Sun Simiao came over to report that a package from Hangzhou had been delivered.
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