Chapter 269 Cold-resistant rice seeds are the real killer!
The desire index of people in different eras is different. The people of the Ming Dynasty, who have experienced decades of war, have extremely low requirements for a happy life. Having food every meal, being able to live a stable life, and not encountering wars and chaos are their requirements. If they follow
In terms of this requirement, Gao Zennuo felt that he had lived a happy life after arriving at Anminsuo.
Little did they know how much pressure and difficulties the imperial court, including Zhu Youjian, had to face in order to maintain the treatment standards of Anminsuo. Based on an estimate of 500,000 refugees, the nearly 3 million resettlement funds collected would be spent by June and July.
This is still a situation where we can buy food normally. To be honest, Zhu Youjian is still in a state of confusion about whether he can buy food normally. To be honest, Zhu Youjian is not sure at all. If he cannot buy food, he will face a big crisis in March and April.
It’s a crisis because the current resettlement grains are diverted from grains from other places.
Food is really a fatal problem. Zhu Youjian feels that he has been troubled by this problem all the time since time travel. If it were not for the lack of food, he would have been ready to expand his troops and deal with Li Zicheng. Now in terms of military strength, he is actually
We have the ability to solve Li Zicheng, but what if we solve Li Zicheng? It will only create millions more refugees without food to eat. Li Zicheng can not bear the responsibility of solving the problem of food rations for the refugees, but Zhu Youjian can't, who let him be the one now?
What is the legal government?
If the problem of food shortage is not solved, all work will be meaningless. Only three to five million people have fled this time, and the government and the public are facing a formidable enemy. What should we do if there are more refugees in the future?
According to the experience of later generations, it is possible to grow enough food to feed oneself on the North China Plain. In later generations, there is still a saying that it is difficult to transport food from the north. The main constraints on the current food output in the north are water conservancy, seeds, fertilizers, and other factors.
Four aspects of production tools.
Fertilizers and biochemical tools can't be improved much at present, but we still need to try to think of some ways. We are making great efforts to repair water conservancy facilities. There seems to be no effective measures for seeds, so we need to put some effort into this matter.
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Even if all the food now has enough fertilizer and water, it will not have one-third of the yield of later generations. For example, the yield of wheat on irrigated land is only two hundred pounds per mu, which is simply unimaginable in later generations. Like corn, potatoes
The current yield of this legendary high-yielding grain is appallingly low. Therefore, the lack of high-quality seeds is a key reason that restricts grain production. Cultivating good grain seeds can solve more than half of the food problem.
Cultivating grain seeds, Zhu Youjian thought about it, is nothing more than the conditions of selection, optimizing breeding, and isolation cultivation. Hybrid rice and the like are definitely not available at that level at the moment. But optimizing and optimizing rice can produce relatively high-yielding rice.
It is feasible. Isn’t rice, the staple food of later generations, a variety cultivated through selection, breeding and introduction? The yield is not low, at least twice as high as it is now. The situation is similar for other food crops.
"Mr. Song should be at the Tiangong Bureau headquarters in Long Live Mountain recently. Send someone to invite him to the inner hall. I have something to talk to Mr. Song." Breeding is of course a scientific matter, and naturally scientists must be used to solve problems. Song Yingxing is a person like Song Yingxing.
An encyclopedic scientist must be familiar with agricultural science.
After Song Yingxing arrived in the inner hall, Zhu Youjian expressed his thoughts on nurturing and selecting improved seeds. "Sir, the most important thing in cultivating seeds is isolation! Food from different seeds must be planted separately, and there should be no space between them.
If there are similar crops, the best way to isolate them is to use tall trees to separate them. Be sure to build a perfect isolation belt. For tuber crops such as potatoes and sweet potatoes, you cannot use tubers for breeding, but use their rosettes.
Plant them young, and after planting the tubers, select long-lasting tubers to cultivate seeds that can be planted." There is a problem with potatoes and other potato crops. After using tubers as seeds for several generations, the seeds will age and cause widespread disease.
.However, their flowering and bearing larvae cannot be planted directly, because the fruits grown from their larvae are too different and vary in size, making it difficult to ensure yield. Therefore, the scientific breeding method is to plant the larvae first, and then select suitable ones.
Tubers are then cultivated.
"According to His Majesty's idea, such breeding will probably cost a lot of money and good land, as well as a lot of labor."
"As long as we can cultivate improved varieties, why would we be reluctant to spend so much money and land? This matter should be paid attention to, as it is related to the country." In fact, the principle of scientifically cultivating improved varieties is very simple, and the specific operation is not difficult, and the time required is
It’s not that long, but people in the previous era did not have this awareness, and no one was willing to spend the money and energy to do this. Farmers did not have the land and ability to do this, and the landlords were reluctant to spend this investment. The government did have money and land.
, I have the strength, but I just don’t have the heart to do it.
Therefore, in the previous era, it was quite difficult to cultivate improved varieties and could only rely on luck. With the standardization and scientificization of breeding, it is not as difficult as imagined to obtain improved varieties.
"Sir, the Tiangong Bureau and the Institute of Agricultural Sciences need to pay attention to one thing, which is the matter of rice going north. At that time, Master Xu successfully treated alkali in Tianjin and tried to grow rice. This shows that rice can also be grown in the north.
Although it is only produced for one season, the yield can still be about 300 kilograms, and the taste is better than that in the south. Therefore, planting a large amount of rice in the north may not be a permanent solution."
"Rice goes north? Your Majesty, it's hard for rice seedlings to survive in the cold weather in the north. In addition, growing rice requires a lot of water. Very few places in the north have so much water! Even if cold-resistant rice seeds are cultivated, it will be difficult to cover a large area.
Promotion, the veteran believes that the staple food should still focus on wheat."
"There is no land suitable for growing rice here in Beizhi. It does not mean that there is not other places. I know that there is a lot of good land suitable for growing rice in the Hetao outside the Great Wall and near Huanglong in Liaodong. I also know that there will be suitable land here.
As for the rice seeds grown locally, Mr. will arrange for someone to sell some rice seeds from the north of Korea and the north of Japan for cultivation. Maybe we will find rice seeds suitable for cold areas. The rice seeds from these two places are more and more abundant as you go further north.
Cultivating rice seeds suitable for planting in cold areas is not mainly to solve the problem of North Zhili's inability to be self-sufficient in food, but for a larger strategic purpose. As long as rice seeds that can grow in most areas of Liaodong are cultivated, the Manchu and Qing Dynasties may not be able to grow.
Even genocide will no longer work. In later generations, Heilongjiang is the largest commercial grain base in the country. Zhu Youjian remembers that he had read an in-depth report on rice cultivation in Heilongjiang. The report said that rice could really be planted on a large scale in Heilongjiang and Northeast China.
The reason is that a kind of cold-resistant rice was introduced from Japan. Although this kind of rice was definitely not cultivated in Japan in the late Ming Dynasty, cold-resistant rice ancestors should have appeared in Japan or Korea!
Chapter 269 Cold-resistant rice seeds are the real killer!