Daqin: Check in at the beginning of 18 and ask Zulong to abdicate

"Your Majesty, whether it is wheat, millet, or soybeans, all grains are planted in spring and harvested in autumn. There has never been any grain sown in autumn!"

The servant of the household department hurriedly said: "Your Majesty, everything in the world has its own way. Farming must be done according to the weather!"

"Yes, Your Majesty!" The Minister of the Ministry of War also said hastily: "In farming, you must not violate the timing! Once the timing is violated, it must be the result of busy work and no harvest!"

The ministers all persuaded and remonstrated!
Only Yuhuatian and Liu Bowen stood aside, looking at Ying Zigao thoughtfully.

In Liu Bowen's eyes, apart from thinking, there is also anticipation!
"Everything you love to say is reasonable. Planting crops really shouldn't go against the weather!"

Ying Zigao nodded, and then said seriously: "I didn't say that we will plant wheat, millet, soybeans, these five grains in autumn!"

"Then what does His Majesty plan to plant?" Hearing this, the ministers became even more curious.

In the Qin Dynasty, the main food crops were wheat, rice, soybeans, sorghum, and rhubarb rice, which were called five grains.

Other than that, there are no other food crops!

The Minister of Tobe was even more curious, and hurriedly asked!

"This is what I plan to plant!"

Ying Zi said loudly.

As he spoke, he ordered the accompanying eunuch: "Bring up the potatoes!"

Soon the eunuchs came up carrying a large basket of potatoes.

"Your Majesty, excuse me for being stupid, what is this?"

Seeing this basket of light yellow, tuber fruits like horse bells, the ministers couldn't help being surprised.

They picked up the potatoes and put them in their hands, and looked carefully.

The Minister of Tobe asked even more curiously!

"These are potatoes!" Ying Zi Gao hurriedly said, "I got them by accident last autumn. After I got them, I asked the court gardeners to cultivate them carefully. By this autumn, I had two big harvests!"

"Within one year, two big harvests?"

Hearing this, Yuhuatian's eyes lit up, and he said hastily, "Your Majesty, that means that these potatoes can be grown twice a year?"

"That's right." Ying Zigao nodded and said, "This potato is resistant to cold and drought, and does not require much land, so it is very suitable for planting in alpine mountainous areas and arid areas!

Moreover, the growing period is short, and it can be harvested in three months! "

"You can harvest in three months!" Yu Huatian was even more surprised, and hurriedly said: "Your Majesty, that means that if you plant in autumn, you can harvest before winter?"

"Exactly!" Ying Zi Gao said hurriedly.

"This is really great, Your Majesty!" Yuhuatian said excitedly, "Even if 15 frontier soldiers reclaim ten acres of land, that's 150 million acres of land. If the output can reach the level of millet seeds, then That's 180 million stones!
The rations for the entire army in winter and even spring are enough! "

"If we can plant another season in spring, we will have enough rations for a whole year!"

Liu Bowen also hurriedly said!

"In this way, the ration problem of the northern garrison can be solved by ourselves, and we don't need to travel thousands of miles!"

The official of the household department hurriedly said: "The manpower and material resources saved are not a small number!"

"Your Majesty, I just don't know how the yield per mu of potatoes is."

Liu Bowen thought about it carefully, and said seriously: "If the yield can reach the level of millet in the Central Plains, not only can it be planted vigorously in the Saibei Tuntian area!
It is also worth promoting to all parts of the north, especially the remote mountainous areas of Shu County, Longxi, Beidi, Shangjun, Daijun, and Liaodong! "

Ying Zigao hurriedly said: "Based on the experience I ordered people to plant in the garden, the yield per mu can reach 3500 catties!"

"Three thousand five hundred catties!" Hearing such a number, all the ministers couldn't help being shocked, and each of them showed incredible expressions on their faces.

Especially the officials of the household department were even more astonished.

These officials deal with finance and taxation all day long, and the most important thing is to verify the grain production in various parts of Daqin.

He is very familiar with the grain production in various parts of Daqin.

"Your Majesty, what is the yield per mu of potatoes?"

The Minister of Tobe said with a look of disbelief: "The large-scale grain production, when the year is good, is only half a stone in an ordinary area.

Guanzhong, Shu County, and Central Plains, where the land is fertile, are only two stones at most!
In places that are even worse, such as Longxi, Beidi, Qi County, Jiaodong County, and Jiaodong County, the yield per mu is not even a stone! "

"Your Majesty, the yield per mu of 3500 jin is 30 shi!"

Another household department also hurriedly said: "It is almost the most fertile land in the world, and the yield of millet is ten or twenty times that of a mu! Such a high yield, I really can't believe it!"

Hearing the words of the officials from the household department, Ying Zigao couldn't help but feel his heart tighten, and he became very upset.

Just as he was about to patiently explain, Yu Huatian stood up and reprimanded unceremoniously: "Your Majesty has said well, how can you question the output of 3500 catties at will? It is simply rebellious and disrespectful! "

Hearing this, the household official's face tightened, but he still said unconvinced: "Master Prime Minister, Your Majesty has already said it, and the speaker is innocent, so why do you have to reprimand the humble official in public?

Besides, a humble job is just a blunt statement! "

"Didn't Your Majesty just say that His Majesty arranged for someone to plant these potatoes for a year and harvest them for two seasons?"

Liu Bowen couldn't help saying seriously: "The yield of 3500 catties is also a specific figure obtained through actual planting! What else do you have to question?"

Hearing this, the household officials were shocked!
Busily knelt down to salute Ying Zigao, and said in a respectful voice: "I have little talent and little knowledge, and I implore your majesty to come down!"

"I have already said that I, the Great Qin Yan, are innocent!"

Ying Zigao was tolerant and magnanimous, smiled slightly, and then said earnestly: "But you are indeed lacking in knowledge and experience!

If you want to continue to make achievements in the position of the Ministry of Household Affairs, you really have to be a senior, prudent, knowledgeable, and experienced minister like the prime minister, Liu Bowen, and study hard with an open mind! "

"I'm ashamed of myself!" The official of the household department's face tightened, and his heart sank!
It seems that my words have caused the emperor's great dissatisfaction!
If you want to continue to work in such an important position as the household department, you can no longer directly question and refute the emperor's words like today!
The officials of the household department were beaten by Ying Zigao one after another, and they were all nervous.Don't dare to say more!

"Your Majesty, since this potato has so many advantages and is extremely suitable for cultivation in the arid and rainless northern regions, we must vigorously promote it!"

Yuhuatian hurriedly said earnestly: "Wei Chen suggested that this autumn, we should be like the northern counties? Promote it with all our strength!"