Showdown: I'm Reborn

Chapter 243 The Crouching Dragon Appears
When Sima Yi and Zhuge Liang were arguing, He Jin led the high-level officials of the court to the vicinity of the big farm in person.

Some people in the General's Mansion have already investigated the average yield per mu of these lands through sampling surveys, and they have known this for a long time, so today He Jin is very happy to bring the court princes to go to the fields to harvest in person.

On the one hand, it can be proved that the imperial court really attached importance to farming.

The general went to the field to harvest in person, isn't that enough attention?

On the other hand, it can also greatly deter those who harbor evil intentions.

"I always feel that we are continuing the life of the Great Han Dynasty? Could it be that we have worked so hard to come to this world just to benefit the Great Han?" Qing Wei whispered.

"These were originally wastelands, and they were all wastelands with no human race. As a result, we worked hard here for half a year, clearing up wasteland, burning mountains, making soil and chemical fertilizers, and constructing water conservancy projects. He insisted on turning 200 million mu of wasteland into ordinary fields, and this time there is a total output of 500 million shi."

Looking at Qingwei who was muttering again, Huang Zixing wiped the sweat from his forehead, and shook his head directly: "Sooner or later, these will be ours, and now we are just using the power of the big man to open up wasteland."

Even if the Great Han Dynasty did not open up wasteland, and the Great Xia would occupy this place in the future, the wasteland should still be opened up, and the water conservancy should be built, and the water conservancy should still be built.

"What's more, having more food may not necessarily be a good thing."

"why?"

This time, Huang Zixing did not answer.

After confirming that there was no problem here, Huang Zixing left this place, and instead returned to Luoyang, back to the palace.

Originally, the imperial palace was full of pavilions and pavilions, and inside were all kinds of exotic flowers and plants from all over the world.

But now, these garden rockeries have been demolished, and the land has been leveled, turning them into test fields one after another.

Different varieties of rice are planted in each experimental field.

Some are high-yield seeds, some are Lingmi.

Apart from staying in the big farm, Huang Zixing stayed in the palace.

Every day when the officials entered the palace, they would take a special look here.Whenever they see the high-yielding paddy growing very densely and vigorously, their mood will be much better.

For example, how to advance, he often came to chat with Huang Zixing when he had nothing to do.

It was He Jin who proposed to plant all kinds of grains directly in the palace.In the whole world, only here is a little safer.

But even the imperial palace has been attacked by thieves recently!
Because the Lingmi studied by Huang Zixing sometimes naturally emits a special rice fragrance, which can be smelled by all the ministers passing by the palace.

If the ministers know it, so will the aristocratic family!
When the aristocratic family knew that in the imperial palace, the Lingmi cultivated by Huang Zixing took root, sprouted and even matured, they were naturally moved.

However, the number of Lingmi is limited. So far, Huang Zixing is the only one who can breed new varieties of Lingmi in the entire Han Dynasty.

Therefore, it is doomed that in a short period of time, Lingmi must be a small-scale luxury product, and it becomes very critical to give it to whom or not.

With high-quality Lingmi, the efficiency of cultivating Dao soldiers and generals will be greatly improved, and even directly form a generation gap.

If it is monopolized by the imperial court, these high-quality Lingmi will only be used by the Northern Army, the West Garden Army and other Central Army in the future. Then in a few years, the gap between the private soldiers in the hands of local powerful families and the Central Army will be huge. A level will be added again.

The imperial court is too strong, and the central government is too strong, which is obviously not good for the family!

Even if the imperial court is willing to sell it to the aristocratic family after consideration, it will definitely be extremely expensive, and even Lingmi will become a strategic deterrent force in the imperial court's hands.

Whoever is obedient will be sold to anyone, and whoever is not obedient will not be sold to anyone!

In order to prevent such a future from happening, the family can only keep sending people to steal!

Using various methods, stealing, robbing, robbing, taking, entraining...

The outside world is harvesting, while Huang Zixing is farming!

After the outside world has finished harvesting, Huang Zixing is still farming!

After seeing the total output, the aristocratic families are thinking about the future, and Huang Zixing is still farming!
Huang Zixing's practice of keeping his ears to the outside world and only focusing on farming reassured the aristocratic family and the court.

Ever since, he has changed from a garrison farmer to a big farmer.

But Dasinong is still farming!
……

"This time the total output is 520 million shi. This is the output after the chaff has been removed. A total of 520 million shi..."

(In the Han Dynasty, one stone was about sixty catties, so the yield per mu was more than two stones, which was actually more than 100 catties, which is really not a big deal.)
Inside the palace, He Jin and He Hou are settling accounts.The tables near the brothers and sisters were covered with various ledgers, while Liu Bian, the emperor, was quietly listening to how his mother and uncle settled the accounts and dealt with various political affairs in the Han Dynasty.

After He Hou heard this number, he rummaged through the table and found a ledger. After opening it, he said: "This is the record of grain prices in Luoyang in the past month: Shimi 99 yuan, Shimi 95 yuan, Shimi [-], Shimi [-]..."

"520 shi, 5 yuan a shi, that's more than 2 million yuan! Even if the cost is removed, there are still more than [-] million yuan at least."

"And the reason why the cost is so high this time is mainly due to land reclamation, construction of water conservancy, and manufacturing of agricultural equipment. When the next time comes, the cost will only be labor costs, which is almost nothing. Wouldn't it be [-] million yuan for one planting? ?”

Upon hearing this, He Jin shook his head directly: "That's not how accounts are calculated."

This sister is still inexperienced.

The price of rice in the Han Dynasty is actually a very magical thing. It is in a Schrödinger state. The price sold by farmers and the price sold by tycoons may sometimes be twice as different.

According to historical records, under the governance of Liu Yu, Youzhou once had a prosperous age of [-] yuan per stone and rice.

According to various historical records, under normal circumstances in the Han Dynasty, the price of grain in various places was [-] to [-] shimi. The specific amount depends on the location.

Generally speaking, the local grain production is certainly lower than the non-grain producing areas.On the other hand, the powerful will oppress the people.

Tyrannical powers buy common people's food at low prices. Is there any way for ordinary people to stop the low price purchases by powerful powers?
This really doesn't exist!
Thirty dollars for stone rice, which is probably the purchase price when the tyrants oppress the common people.

Haoqiang bought it for [-] yuan and sold it to others, so the price can't be raised?
As for Luoyang, even if the total population of Luoyang City is not 100 million, there are at least 70 million, right?
With so many people not engaged in production, they gather in the city all day long, and the daily food consumption is an astronomical figure.

These grains all have to be transported from outside, and the transportation cost on the road is not a small figure.

Perhaps when the grain was in Chenliu, it was still eighty yuan a stone, but when it arrived in Luoyang, it became a hundred yuan a stone.

"You also know that there is no land near Luoyang, and there is no wasteland. The land of the Central Plains has been the center of the world since ancient times. It has been developed for two or three thousand years, so the land of the Central Plains is also a place with many people. Less, there is not so much wasteland.”

"So, this time I found the wasteland in Guanzhong. Guanzhong is not far from Luoyang, maybe it's thousands of miles away by land. With such a long distance, the cost of transportation is not a small amount."

"Actually, if all the 500 million shi of grain are transported here, there may only be 300 million shi left in Luoyang."

After transporting grain for thousands of miles, after reaching the ground, three-fifths of it can be left, that is all capable officials!

If the grain transport officials were more corrupt and less capable, maybe only two-fifths or even one-fifth would remain.

"Isn't that still losing money? How come farming has become a money-losing business?" He Hou asked puzzled.

"No, in fact, in the past, Guanzhong was so exhausted that even self-sufficiency sometimes encountered difficulties."

It is hard to imagine that during the Qin Dynasty 400 years ago, Guanzhong was still one of the granaries of the world, and during the Western Han Dynasty 200 years ago, Guanzhong was also the center of the world, but now, Guanzhong has become a piece of tatters.

"In order to pacify the Qiang people, the Han Dynasty invested 240 billion yuan in Liangzhou, directly destroying the imperial court countless times."

"The reason why it costs so much is that most of it is spent on transporting food."

At that time, all the military rations eaten by the army had to be drawn from the interior.

Grain is transported from inland to Luoyang, and the loss varies according to the distance of each place. However, when the grain is transported from Luoyang to Guanzhong, and then from Guanzhong to Liangzhou, the loss rate is very touching.

Maybe the local government collected a hundred shi of grain, and after such a wave of transshipment, there were only ten shi of grain left when they arrived in Liangzhou. This is still based on the premise that officials are very clean.

As long as the officials work hard, if 5.00% of the six grains can reach the front line, they are considered lucky.

Since the Han Dynasty, in the process of using troops against Liangzhou to pacify the Qiang people, the military rations consumed are really astronomical.

They consume 100 million shi of military food on the front line, and the court may have to purchase tens of millions of shi of food to prepare.

As a result, the Qiang people were not completely wiped out, but they bankrupted the finances of the Han Dynasty, so that some people openly said, why don't we throw Liangzhou away?

(Some officials think this way: Anyway, the imperial court has already thrown away some counties in Bingzhou, so it seems that it is not impossible to throw Liangzhou away now?
Moreover, this can further weaken the people of Kansai. )
"But now, Guanzhong has an extra 500 million shi of grain, which is enough to make Guanzhong self-sufficient, and even 300 million shi of it can be used as military rations to accumulate."

"At that time, even if it is transferred to Liangzhou, there will be only 100 million shi left, which will be enough to supply tens of thousands of central troops for half a year."

The most elite central army, fighting for half a year, what kind of Qiang people can't be killed?How dare that tribe refuse to accept it?

"I dare say that with the 500 million shi army rations, the situation in Liangzhou will improve this year, and the local tyrants will restrain themselves."

"And next year, this amount may become 1000 million shi. At that time, we can directly send [-] troops to fight in Liangzhou for a year! Whoever refuses to accept it will directly exterminate the clan!"

"At that time, the Qiang rebellion that has plagued the imperial court for hundreds of years will be completely put down in our hands."

Having said that, He Jin showed a happy smile.

"Sister, Your Majesty, what do you think?"

He Hou nodded, then looked at Liu Bian, Liu Bian thought for a while, and said, "Uncle's plan is very good, but will the Qiang people, tyrants, and rebels in Liangzhou attack in advance and directly destroy What about the fertile fields that have been lost?"

"Haha, I'm really not afraid of this."

"Mr. Zixing, with only tens of thousands of people, thousands of good men with five internal organs, plus 200 million yuan, he turned 200 million mu of wasteland into 500 million mu of fertile land within half a year, and [-] million shi food."

"If you want to destroy 200 million mu of grain, the Qiang people have to mobilize at least tens of thousands of people, and most of these farms are located in the hinterland of Guanzhong, and they can't leave once they come."

"Even if they really succeeded in destroying these fertile fields, Mr. Zixing can go to Guanzhong again and re-farm the fields. It will only cost [-] million yuan, tens of thousands of people, and thousands of five-organ environment heroes."

However, the Qiang people, Liangzhou tyrants and rebels paid at least tens of thousands of cavalry.

With tens of thousands of strong men reduced in one breath, how many times can the Qiang people, Liangzhou tyrants, and card thieves withstand losses of this scale?
Going to extermination in victory?Going to perish?
……

In a certain large farm in Guanzhong, Zhuge Liang finished his scolding battle with Sima Yi and was on his way home.

Since that day, Sima Yi had to fight with Zhuge Liang almost every day. Zhuge Liang won eight out of ten times, and the remaining two times were tied.

But today, the moment Zhuge Liang opened the door, he realized something was wrong, and then he found that there was a thick letter on the desk.

On the top of the envelope is written the name of the younger brother himself, and on the bottom is the word Crouching Dragon.

With Zhuge Liang's intelligence, he thought of dozens of possibilities in an instant.

First: This is Chu Xuan writing to him again, the purpose is unknown.

Second: This is someone pretending to be Chu Xuan's name and writing to him, with the purpose of using him to increase the authenticity of the letter and achieve a certain purpose.

Third: This is someone who used Zhuge Liang's relationship with Chu Xuan's brother in the romance to frame Zhuge Liang and try to force Chu Xuan to show up.

fourth:……

After a while, Zhuge Liang called his father and grandfather and asked them to watch outside. He opened the envelope himself and read the contents of the letter.

"This is indeed written by a senior brother, and only a senior brother has such an unexpected, unconstrained yet feasible idea."

"Oh, what did Mr. Wolong say in the letter?"

"Brother mentioned two things in the letter. The first thing is called turning Taoism into productive forces. He also said that Taoism is the primary productive force. We must skillfully combine Taoism and production."

"Brother said that if Taoism is used in production, it is enough to easily increase the current productivity by more than ten times and a hundred times, and the improvement of productivity will promote the change of production relations. By then, the prosperous age may really come."

"Senior brother said that it is a great waste to use the method to fight. It is equivalent to holding gold in your hand and not casting it into currency flowers, but making it into a shovel to plow the ground. It is a great waste."

"Once Taoism is applied in production and life, it can directly increase productivity by an era, and let the whole big man enter the era of Taoism revolution. At that time, it may be possible for any Taoist to cooperate with the productivity produced by a hundred ordinary people. It is equivalent to the power of a county or even the total productivity of a county today."

"Brother also gave an example in the letter. For example, the most widely known Guanzhong farm recently. If Taoism is applied to it, the weather can be detected in advance, the weather can be changed, and the climate can be changed on a large scale to make it conducive to production. You can also use Taoism to kill insects, Taoism to kill weeds..."

"Senior brother said that whether it is changing the weather on a large scale, or weeding with Taoist methods, it is not difficult to do it. The key is to change your mind..."

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