Great Wei Nengchen

"There is too much rain this year, and the growth of the farmers has been affected. We should build a drainage ditch. In the past, we only focused on preventing drought, but forgot to prevent flooding!"

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On both sides of the road leading to the school, there are neat corn fields. Under the blowing of the autumn wind, the tassels have turned golden yellow. Many farm students wearing bamboo hats and cloth clothes are working hard to harvest and weigh. Yield per field!

The classroom only teaches the theory, and the real knowledge comes from practice. All the students of Zhengming College must achieve the unity of knowledge and action. Confucianism and Legalism must travel the world to understand the sufferings of the people. Taoism and Buddhism must comfort the people and let them abandon evil and do good. The Mohists invented various tools, and the military strategists went to battle to kill the enemy and serve the country... The farmer's planted the fields well to feed the common people. It seemed the simplest, but in fact it was the most difficult!

Although China is a farming nation, for thousands of years, the people have hardly had enough to eat, and they have been in a state of half-starvation. If there is a famine, they will either starve to death or rise up. How many great dynasties are hungry people They overthrew it, and the reason why the people are starving is not laziness or stupidity, but the low food production!

The production technology in ancient times was backward, basically slash-and-burn farming, relying on the sky to eat, that is, burning the grass to ashes to make fertilizer, digging pits and burying grain seeds, and then hoping for rain from God. If the weather is good, you can harvest more grain. When there is a disaster, the grain harvest will be in short supply, or the crop will never be harvested!

"Historical Records" records: Ximen Leopard diverted water from Zhangzhou to irrigate Ye, and used the land in the east of the Wei Dynasty to enrich the Weihe River. The grain yield per mu was two and a half stones.

Two and a half stones is only three hundred catties. After taking off the shell, there will be two hundred catties left. Such a pitiful grain output has made the princes jealous, and they will not hesitate to launch a large-scale war and exchange it with mountains of corpses and rivers of blood. , the grain output of other barren lands can be imagined!

With the advancement of farming technology in the Han Dynasty, Longzuofa, plowing methods, Leisi, ox plowing, and iron plows appeared... The grain output has increased, and the average grain yield per mu is three stones, about 360 catties!

The grain that the farmers worked so hard to pay taxes to the country and rent to the landlords, how much can be left? In good years, people are half-starved and half-fed, and in bad years, the land is full of starvation. Since the two emperors Huan and Ling, the Han family The population has decreased sharply, and far more people died of starvation than those killed in battle!

"Dare to ask a few little brothers, you plowed the fields. Looking at the heavy tassels, I think the harvest must be wonderful. I don't know what method you used?"

A middle-aged man walked out of the team, with big ears, dark complexion, and wearing a shabby official uniform. It was Liang Xi, the Minister of Xiangfu, who was in charge of farming affairs and cared most about food!

The surrounding officials also pricked up their ears. They heard that the farm students from the university traveled all over the world to seek better seeds, sow rot to improve the soil... and invented many new types of farm tools. ', I wonder if I'm bragging?

"Reporting to my lord, the tens of thousands of acres of land around the school are all cultivated by farm students. Unfortunately, we are not good at learning skills, so the crops are not harvested today, and only four stones per mu are harvested!

Da Sima said: No pains, no harvests. The reason why the crops are not harvested is probably due to our laziness. In the future, we must work hard to plant experimental fields, and then spread the technology and improved seeds to the world, so that the common people can eat enough meal! "

Farm children are not good at words, they blush a little when they see strangers, and they stammer to answer questions, but their hands are covered with calluses, their clothes are also patched everywhere, they think they often go to work in the fields!

In addition, their agricultural tools are also very strange, harvesting, threshing, cleaning, drying...the variety is complete, easy to use, compared with ordinary people, but it is too advanced, and there is a " The ink' character, presumably it was invented by the children of the Mohist school?

"The average yield per mu is four shi, but it is still considered a short harvest. Is the old man deaf, or are the students lying? Even the best farmers and the best fields can hardly exceed three shi per mu?

Hearing is delusion, seeing is believing, let’s cut a piece of land with our own hands, don’t we know everything, don’t say four stones of grain per mu, but three and a half stones of grain, the old man must bow his head and salute! "

A hundred officials did not believe what the farm students said. Farming seems simple, but it is actually extremely difficult. It is not that the invention of a few new farm tools and the introduction of some new seeds will increase the grain production by leaps and bounds!

When Zhang Qian went on a mission to the Western Regions, he also brought back a large number of plant seeds. After being selected, improved, and cultivated by the people of the Han family, the only ones that survived were walnuts, grapes, pomegranates, sesame seeds, cucumbers, and garlic. Because the water and soil are not acclimatized, they were all eliminated by nature!

It takes a dozen or even dozens of generations of planting for a seed to spread to a new place, and it is completely adapted to the soil, environment, and temperature... Make sure it is safe before it can be spread on a large scale, and finally become a food!

Therefore, it seems that a person traveled to ancient times, took out corn and sweet potato seeds, increased the grain production by more than ten times, reached tens of stones per mu, and then created a peaceful and prosperous world, it was just some people's lust!

(During the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty, sweet potatoes were introduced to China. They were first planted in Fujian and Guangdong, and then spread to the Yangtze River and the Yellow River basin. Yes, don’t forget, the Ming Dynasty died at the hands of the starving people!)

The civil and military officials did not move forward, and rushed into the field, looking for a field that was neither fat nor thin, and measured the size of an acre. Harvesting started...

There are many people to do things, just a moment of effort, Baiguan cut an acre of corn, then threshed, bagged, weighed, and finally came up with a number - four and a half stones!

"My ancestors of the Shennong family actually yielded four and a half stones per mu, which is [-]% more than usual. The students are not boasting!"

"The world will be safe if it is warm and full. As long as the common people are fed, the Central Plains will see peace and prosperity. Who would dare to disobey Wang Hua?"

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After seeing the exact figures, all the officials were shocked. Some knelt down and kowtowed, and some wept silently. You must know that there are tens of millions of farmers in the world and hundreds of millions of acres of fields. How many people do you feed?

"Dare to ask you little brothers, what method was used to increase grain production by [-]%, and can it be extended to the world?"

"Responding to the questions of the elders, it is nothing more than deep cultivation, watering and weeding, insect control... and some reincarnation of five grains!"

Chapter 1145 Hungry as a wolf, full as a lamb!

Cao Xiong, Cao Chong and others continued to move forward to observe the internal situation of the school. Liang Xi and some civil affairs officials stayed in the fields to discuss the method of high yield with the farm students and how to promote it among the people. For them, This is much more important than watching polo!

Food is the most important thing for the people - this is not empty talk, if more food is produced in the field, less hunger will be felt by the common people, and the national fortune of the great man will be prolonged. host!

"Everyone, please go this way. In addition to tens of thousands of acres of corn fields, we also have cattle pens, fish ponds, and fruit forests... The annual income is not lower than that of farming!"

"After the crops are harvested, the straw is fed to the cows, the cow dung is fed to the maggots, the maggots are fed to the fish in the pond, and the pond mud is used as fertilizer... Such a repeated cycle is really ingenious. Who thought of this method?"

"This is Da Sima's wonderful idea. The teachings and our implementation are interlocking and endless. It coincides with the law of the cycle of heaven and earth. It is beneficial to people's livelihood without any harm!"

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For the remaining officials, the farm children warmly received them, introduced the method of circular breeding, and tasted the harvested grain, poultry, and fruits. The officials were amazed and admired Xiao Yi's five-body cast, Wen Neng governing the country, Wu Neng An Bang, People's livelihood is also so good, is there really all-round talent in the world?

Moreover, during the conversation, the farm children "unintentionally" revealed an important piece of news. It is said that a certain Da Sima was drunk and said that there is a vast continent thousands of miles away from the East China Sea, and there are several kinds of high-yield and drought-resistant grains on it. It can produce thousands of catties per mu. If you can find it, there will be no hunger in the world!

Hearing that Da Sima has a fairy master who has the ability to penetrate the heavens and the earth and predict the future, he would not talk nonsense. Liang Xi and others secretly kept it in their hearts and planned to go back and report to the prime minister. It is best to form a large fleet and send warriors Going out to sea to look for land and improved species, if you get one of the two, it is enough to go down in history!

The so-called drunken words were naturally revealed by Xiao Yi on purpose, the purpose is to remind the bureaucracy, don't just stare at the land in front of you, in the endless sea, there are other continents waiting to be conquered!

If these words are spoken publicly, the world may not believe them, and even suspect that Xiao Yi has ulterior motives to divert everyone's attention, but if he speaks out with wine, people will be interested instead, because it is one of the vices of human beings to inquire about other people's secrets!

As for crops such as potatoes, corn, and sweet potatoes, Xiao Yi has no interest. At least within 1000 years, he does not want to appear in China. The reason is very simple. Is human an animal? !

The land of the American continent is fertile, the climate is mild, and there are all kinds of high-yielding grains. As long as people plant the seeds, they can get good harvests without taking care of them. It is simply a paradise on earth!

But because they don’t have to worry about food and drink, the Native American-Indians are naturally lazy and sleep when they are full. For thousands of years, the productivity has hardly developed, and they have not been able to build an empire. They were finally invaded by the whites. Kill it all!

The same yellow-skinned and black-eyed Chinese people live in a much worse living environment. Floods, droughts, insect plagues, earthquakes... never stop, and countless sweats are needed to harvest very little food. The people have been struggling with hunger!

But the harsh living environment has also tempered the character of the Chinese nation, which is hard-working, brave and good at fighting. We have never bowed to nature. Instead, we have controlled floods, cut through mountains, and dug canals... Shout out the slogan of "man will conquer nature" !

The Huaxia nation occupies a corner of the Yellow River. As the population continues to grow, more food is needed. The crop yield per mu cannot be increased, so we can only expand the land area. Therefore, we have conquered the Yangtze River Basin, the Pearl River Basin, and the Heilongjiang River Basin... The territorial area is constantly expanding!

To put it bluntly, the Chinese nation expanded its territory and established the Great Eastern Empire. They were all born out of starvation, and only when they feel hungry from time to time can they develop a fighting spirit and continue to grow and develop!

Therefore, Xiao Yi does not insist on high-yield crops, nor does he want the people to eat too much. He needs a "hungry" army of tigers and wolves to continue to expand the territory. After 1000 years, the Chinese nation will stand on its peak. Naturally, some people will pay tribute to good things. Potatoes and corn are nothing, but steak and caviar are almost the same!

"This school is so beautiful and magical, it's like a fairyland on earth, it would be great if we could come to study!"

"Go back and ask your father, there must be no problem, father dotes on us two the most!"

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Besides, Cao Xiong and Cao Chong successfully entered the Zhengming Academy, and what they saw violently impacted their little minds...

The brass gate weighing thousands of catties can only be pushed by at least ten strong men, but a Mohist boy manipulated the machine a few times, and the gate opened slowly!

There are various koi in the beautiful circular pool, and there are animal heads of the twelve zodiac signs around. Every hour, the corresponding animal heads will spray water, which is so ingenious and indescribable!

In particular, the competition platform in the center is tall, majestic and magnificent. It is a holy place for hundreds of schools of thought. I don’t know how many students have made speeches here.

People are very strange, some are eloquent, they can talk about dead things, but they are messed up when they do practical things;