In this era, only when you have food in your hands can you not panic in your heart.
Don't look at this period of time, the large paddy field in Lijiazhuang has harvested 2,800 shi of rice, but it is only 280,000 jins of grain.
The capacity allocated to the farmers in Lijiazhuang is 140,000 catties of grain.
However, there are more than 600 households in Lijiazhuang.
If one person has two kilograms of grain per day, he will need nearly 440,000 kilograms of grain in a year.
Even if all the farmers' grains were exchanged to those aristocratic families, and one stone of rice was exchanged for two stones of grain, the amount would still be 280,000 jins of grain, which would still be at least 160,000 jins of grain short.
Without eating meat such as chickens, ducks, hogs, and fish, these farmers need to buy at least 160,000 kilograms of grain from other grain merchants to avoid going hungry.
Although Li Xuan knew that these farmers had made enough money with him during this period, which was more than enough to buy the grain.
But, in the final analysis, the food is still firmly controlled by those aristocratic families and the food. Whether it can be sold to you, and whether the price should be increased or not, are all decided by others.
And now, with the recovery of Bingzhou's 10,000 shi of grain, it now amounts to one million kilograms of grain.
Thinking about it, Li Xuan's face was filled with joy.
"Steward, do we need to build some granaries in the village to store this food?"
Hearing this, Li Chang was startled.
"Your Majesty, do you want to transport all the food to Chang'an?"
"Well, but what's wrong?" Li Xuan asked.
"Back to your Majesty, it will take a lot of manpower and material resources to transport ten thousand shi of grain from Bingzhou back to Chang'an City!" Li Chang said.
"No problem!"
Li Xuan nodded and said: "If you can't transport ten thousand shi back, you can transport two thousand shi back first, or five thousand shi. The newly recovered rice from the village alone is far from enough for the villagers to eat!"
"The villain will arrange for people to build a warehouse in the village!"
Li Chang said quickly.
"Um!"
Li Xuan nodded, then remembered something, and continued to say to Li Chang: "When building the warehouse, I need to build another brewery. I will draw the drawings when I get back."
"Yes, Your Majesty!"
Li Chang nodded again and again.
As for the brewery, Li Chang didn't pay much attention to it.
In Li Chang's view, it was just a small workshop. Anyway, the king had already built so many workshops in Lijiazhuang. Building one more would only occupy a few acres of land.
Later, seeing that Li Xuan did not explain anything, Li Chang quickly resigned.
"Sanlang is back!"
In the other courtyard, Cui Mi looked overjoyed when he saw Li Xuan coming back, and hurriedly greeted him, "Congratulations to Sanlang on the great harvest this year, with an output of four kilos of grain per mu."
"Mi'er's words are a bit alienating. As the princess of Jin Dynasty, those paddy fields belong to Mi'er too!"
Li Xuan chuckled and said to Cui Mi teasingly.
In the past few days, after getting to know each other, the two of them stopped calling each other politely between the king and the princess, and called each other by their nicknames in private.
"Sanlang is making fun of me again."
Cui Mi scolded Li Xuan, but his eyes were still full of smiles, knowing that he didn't mean to be angry at all.
"How could I make fun of Mi'er? It's just that Mi'er is not well-informed. Those paddy fields can yield more than four stones per hour." Li Xuan said with a smile.
"Don't worry, Sanlang. Together with the fish in the paddy fields, the yield will be five stones per mu!"
Cui Mi looked proud. As the princess of Jin, all the servants of the village in the past few days would inform her of any news.
"It's not these!"
Li Xuan chuckled lightly and continued: "Mi'er may not know that the rice harvested from Tianzhong is huge and full. Now not only His Majesty, but also the dignitaries of the aristocratic families in the city are vying for the rice from the farm to be used for breeding.
.For one stone of rice in the village, the dignitaries of those aristocratic families exchanged two stones of rice for it."
Li Xuan smiled and said, "Calculated in this way, the yield is eight stones per mu!"
"Eight stones?"
Cui Mi was startled at first, and then looked at Li Xuan with surprise on his face: "Your Majesty, did you say that the rice in the farm is all from the best breeding?"
Cui Mi also heard some things about breeding when he was in the Cui family.
Good farmland is easy to find, but breeding is hard to find.
After harvesting the grain, many people will first put the good-growing grain or the grain with full grains aside as grain seeds for the next year.
Good grain seeds are like half of good genes. The grain grown under the same conditions will also grow fuller and larger.
However, high-quality grain seeds are really hard to find. Many aristocratic families cannot find enough high-quality grain seeds in a year, so they can only use ordinary grains to grow them.
Thinking about it, Cui Mi's expression changed for a moment, and he quickly said: "Sanlang, I have something to ask of you."
"Um?"
Li Xuan was startled, he had never seen Cui Mi look like this before.
"Are you homesick? If you are lonely, I will send someone to call Cui Hongmo to accompany you to relieve your boredom. If you are homesick, when the autumn harvest is completely completed, I will accompany you back to Qinghe!"
"Sanlang misunderstood!"
Cui Mi's eyes flashed with emotion, but he still spoke quickly.
She was afraid that Li Xuan would send someone again to recall her fifth brother all the way back from Chang'an City.
Thinking about how many days she had been in Lijiazhuang, the fifth brother had already been here five times.
Thinking of the sad expression on the fifth brother's face, Cui Mi wanted to laugh.
"Why is that?"
Li Xuan asked.
"I came back to you, Your Majesty, for breeding purposes," Cui Mi said quickly.
"It's hard to find high-quality breeding. Since those aristocratic families will rush to exchange for this kind of breeding, the Cui family must be in urgent need of this kind of breeding, so I also want to ask the king to leave some for the Cui family."
"How many acres of land does the Cui family have?"
Li Xuan asked.
"this?"
Cui Mi was stunned, thought for a moment, and said slowly: "There should be tens of thousands of acres of fertile land."
"Tens of thousands of acres?"
Li Xuan was startled, and then said: "Ten thousand acres of fields require four hundred stones of grain seeds. Even if all the rice on the farm is exchanged for the Cui family, it will not be enough."
"Sanlang, the Cui family has a lot of fertile land, but it is occupied by each branch. Your Majesty only needs to leave four hundred stones!" Cui Mi said cautiously.
"Can!"
Li Xuan nodded, "Then the Cui family will need 800 shi of new grain in exchange!"
"Don't worry, Sanlang. With this kind of breeding, even if it costs 1,200 shi of new grain, it will be a huge profit!" Cui Mi said quickly.
"Well, I will notify Cui Hongmo tomorrow to exchange for new grains!" Li Xuandao.
"Thank you Saburo!"
Cui Mi's face was filled with joy.
"It's just a little effort. If Mi'er wants to thank me, you can learn new skills with me tonight!"
Li Xuan chuckled.
"It's broad daylight, Sanlang, don't talk nonsense!" Cui Mi's face turned red.
"Then let's talk tonight!"
Li Xuan laughed loudly and walked upstairs.
In his previous life, Li Xuan was also a drunkard.
Therefore, in the second year after arriving here, I had already figured out how to make wine.
However, due to the scarcity of food, he only brewed a small bottle of alcohol to prepare for emergencies.
Now, millions of kilograms of grain will be recovered soon, and he can do whatever he wants.
When he came to the study room, he took out a lot of drawings according to his memory. Li Xuan sat in front of the desk and began to modify them.
With so much food and reinforced concrete, his previous ideas could be greatly improved.
at the same time.
Qin Qiong, Duan Zhixuan, Zhang Liang and others also entered Lijiazhuang and arrived at the square under the leadership of the Jin King's personal guards.