Daming Town Haiwang

Chapter 768 Enough to eat for three years
The black land in Liaodong ushered in a bumper harvest, and the grain was piled up in the granary of the farmers, so much that there was no place to stack it, and the grain harvest was bumper.

Of course, not only in Liaodong, but in the [-]th year of Hongzhi, the entire Ming Dynasty can be said to have good weather. In autumn, the north and south of the Ming Dynasty entered the harvest season.

The rice in the south, the wheat in the north, and the corn, sweet potatoes, and potatoes introduced from Huangjinzhou have all entered the harvest season.

In fact, the happiest person for the bumper harvest of grain was not the low-level farmers, but the ruler of the empire, Emperor Hongzhi.

Next to a farmland road on the outskirts of the capital, Emperor Hongzhi took his prince Zhu Houzhao and the elders of the three cabinets in plain clothes, walking very leisurely on the road in the field, talking and laughing while walking.

"Your Majesty, congratulations. Good news has come from the north and south, and the provinces in the north and south. Our entire Ming Dynasty has a bumper harvest of grain!"

Liu Jian, the chief assistant of the cabinet, said to Emperor Hongzhi with a smile.

A bumper grain harvest seems to be a normal thing for later generations, but in this era, a bumper grain harvest is a big event for the entire imperial court, and a big event to be happy about.

When there is food, the common people can have enough to eat, and when the common people have enough to eat, the country and the court can be stable.

However, in this era of relying on the sky for food, it is extremely difficult to have a good harvest of food. In the past years, droughts and floods were often staged in turn, and occasionally there was a plague of locusts.

Whenever there is a famine, there will often be huge turmoil. The imperial court can provide timely relief and stabilize quickly. If natural disasters are combined with man-made disasters, there will inevitably be wars and great turmoil.

A few years ago, when there was a famine in the three northern provinces, there was turmoil, and many people died. If Liu Jin hadn't used fishing to relieve the disaster, it is unknown how many people would have died.

Of course, a large part of this is due to man-made disasters. Since ancient times, natural disasters are not terrible, and the most terrible thing is man-made disasters.

"Yes, Your Majesty, it is indeed gratifying~"

"All provinces and prefectures have reported that this year's grain harvest is bumper. Even in Liaodong Province, it is said that there is so much grain that they can't even pile up the granaries. They have to build some temporary granaries outdoors."

"There are also the provinces of Ryukyu and Nanyang. Although they mainly grow sugar cane, they still have a good harvest of food. Even if we immigrate to these places by a few million, there is no need to transport food from the Ming Dynasty. It can support a large amount of food to come to our homeland."

Li Dongyang also said with a smile.

"Not only the harvest of wheat and rice, but also the sweet potatoes, corn, and potatoes introduced from the Golden Continent have also had a bumper harvest. The price of food in our Ming Dynasty is falling, and it has fallen to a price that has never been seen in history. , in the capital, a catty of rice now only costs four Wen."

"If it's sweet potatoes, corn, potatoes and other miscellaneous grains, two pennies a catty is considered expensive, and three pennies can usually buy two catties."

"How cheap?"

When Emperor Hongzhi heard this, he couldn't help laughing immediately.

He still remembers in his mind a few years ago when there was a famine here in Beizhili, when the price of grain was the most expensive, it rose to a sky-high price of [-] Wen a catty.

"Yes, there is too much food. The high-yielding crops introduced from Huangjinzhou have very high yields and are relatively drought-tolerant. A lot of dry land is used to grow corn and sweet potatoes, and good land is used to grow rice and wheat."

"In addition, this year, my Ming Dynasty started to build water conservancy projects, and built many new reservoirs, dams, river lifts, irrigation canals, etc. Of course, what is more important is that my Ming Dynasty has continuously developed overseas colonies, encouraged immigrants, and reclaimed overseas land. A large number of fields have greatly eased the problem of land resource shortage.”

"That's why there is a bumper harvest of grain this year."

"It is said that in Liaodong, every household has reclaimed hundreds of acres of land, and His Majesty has exempted Liaodong from taxes for three years. This year alone, the grain produced in Liaodong is enough for them to eat for several years."

"There are also four provinces of Ryukyu, Cochin, Xianglin, Zhenghe, and Nanyang. The crops here can be harvested three times a year and seven crops in two years. The output is very high. Although the plantations are basically sugarcane, the grain output is still very high. High, the grain produced by these few provinces alone is enough to supply our entire Ming Dynasty."

"And as more and more people immigrate, more and more land is reclaimed, and the food production in these places will increase by then."

"In these provinces of my native Ming Dynasty, because the Ministry of Agriculture has promoted the planting of corn, sweet potatoes, and potatoes on a large scale, coupled with the promotion of new farm tools, the use of a large number of cattle and horses from the grassland has greatly increased production."

"According to the statistics from the Ministry of Agriculture, my Daming's grain output this year is enough for my Daming to eat for three years."

When it came to this, Li Dongyang couldn't help but get excited.

Never before has such a battle of affluence been fought.

According to the data reported from all over the country, the government's granary is bursting and cannot hold it, and the people's homes are full of food, and they can't finish eating.

The price of food in various places has been falling again and again, and the grain merchants are crying. This is the most difficult time they have experienced. The food is really not easy to sell. In the past, they made a lot of money by relying on food, but now they can not starve to death. Not bad.

"Enough for my Daming to eat for three years?"

When Emperor Hongzhi heard this, his eyes widened slightly.

For a long time, the common people of Ming Dynasty have had a hard time getting enough to eat, especially the common people at the bottom, who worked hard all year round, but they couldn't even get enough to eat.

Now it is said that this year's food is enough for the people of Ming Dynasty to eat with their stomachs open for three years, which is simply unbelievable.

"Yes, Your Majesty~"

"Enough to eat for three years, and three meals a day, every meal is full."

"This is the real prosperity!"

Xie Qian also nodded solemnly.

"Okay~"

"Eat well and dress warmly."

Emperor Hongzhi nodded happily, and looked at the endless field in front of him. At a glance, there were golden waves of wheat, and the farmers were working hard.

He was certainly happy with how much money he had earned, but what really made Emperor Hongzhi happy was that he was able to feed the common people of Daming.

Several people walked and walked to a wheat field. Emperor Hongzhi looked at the old farmers working in the field and asked with a smile: "Old man, is this year's harvest okay?"

The old farmer raised his head to look at Emperor Hongzhi, and then looked at the few people beside him. Although they were wearing plain clothes, the clothes were not something ordinary people could afford. nobleman.

He hurriedly said respectfully: "Returning to the nobleman, thanks to today's blessing, this year's grain harvest is bumper, and I can finally have enough to eat."

"That's good, that's good~"

Emperor Hongzhi nodded in satisfaction, and then looked at the old farmers working in the fields, but he couldn't see the young people, so he asked strangely: "Old man, where is your son, why are you always working?"

"My son is working in the factory, and the moon is ringing high in the factory. This kind of field is not profitable, and the grain is harvested, but it can't be sold for a price, so I eat it myself."

The old farmer replied.

It is close to the capital, and young people basically go to work in factories, and the rest of the old people farm at home.

"Then you can't do it alone?"

"Why Tada, this is tiring."

Emperor Hongzhi looked at the field. The field was very vast, but there were not many people farming, and most of them were the same as old farmers. They were old people and children who were busy, and young adults were rarely seen.

"Just take it easy~"

"It's really too busy, let them come back to work for a few days."

"In the past, everyone was scrambling to plant fields for the landlords, because there were few such fields, and the whole family would starve, but it's different now."

"Everyone doesn't want to farm anymore, and they all like to work in the city. There are no people farming the land of the landlord's house. I just planted my own land. It's not much, just take it easy."

When the old farmer saw that the nobleman was polite to him, he also talked a lot.

"If everyone doesn't cultivate the land, won't the land of the landlord's family be desolate?"

When Emperor Hongzhi heard this, he thought about it and said.

"That's not the case, it's just that there are fewer people farming. In the past, one person planted a few acres of land, but now one person plants tens of acres of land, and the rent of the land of the landlord's family is much less. The land is still the same. There are more, but there are fewer people planting it.”

The old farmer replied with a smile.

"In the past, one person planted a few acres of land, but now he is planting tens of acres, dozens of acres, so is it too busy?"

Emperor Hongzhi asked again.

"Isn't it? Sometimes I'm too busy, so I have no choice but to buy cattle and horses to plow the land. Miyun Iron Works has also produced a new kind of plow, which is very useful. There are cattle and horses. , and with the new plow, it can barely grow, even at this time of harvesting, it is still too tiring, it would be great if there is a machine for harvesting wheat."

The old farmer smiled casually and said.

"A machine for harvesting wheat?"

The words are unintentional, and the listener is interested. Zhu Houzhao, who has just recently become obsessed with mechanical manufacturing, heard it, and his eyes lit up immediately, as if he had found the brave land of the machinery he was obsessed with.

"Yeah, why can't we make a machine for harvesting wheat?"

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