I, the patron saint of the frontier of the Tang Dynasty, was forced to rebel

Chapter 98 Seed War
The sweet potato test field in Lingzhou.

Qin Mu held the washed sweet potato, and his eyes couldn't help revealing the color of reminiscence.

Click!

"Your Majesty, no!"

Under everyone's amazed eyes, they watched Xian Wang bite on the sweet potato!

Sweet taste, crisp sound.

The taste is very good!

"Why, you didn't taste it when it was planted?"

Zhang Xu was so frightened that he was afraid that this thing was poisonous.

Fortunately, King Xian seems to be fine.

"Your Majesty, I haven't tried this thing yet, my lord."

"Hey, what's the big deal, am I fine?"

Qin Mu waved his hand, "To do research is to be able to withstand the pressure, to be able to suppress the fear in your heart, and to pursue the final result."

Throughout the dynasties, food means the development of life.

However, since the founding of the Tang Dynasty, disasters have occurred frequently, and food supply in many places is insufficient.

Years of hunger, people eat each other, and it is praised by the people!

Really, miserable!

The appearance of sweet potatoes has added a staple food, and it can be stored for a long time, which is not worse than rice.

Its importance lies in the fact that under any disaster, the famine can be quickly resolved and more people can survive.

With the current population of the Tang Dynasty, even in a bumper harvest year, sweet potatoes can completely replace part of the staple food and solve the difficult problem of planting.

Under all developments, solving the ration problem is the most important thing!
This is why so far, both at home and abroad, agriculture is the mainstay.

It is conceivable that if there is no such food, would a large number of fields be used for planting in various places, for fear that they will not be able to afford food at the end of the year?
Therefore, only by solving this problem can more barren land produce its due value.

Scholars, farmers, businessmen, if they don't solve the problem of food, everything is useless.

For this problem, Qin Mu thinks farther than anyone else, so he strongly supports it, sending a large number of people abroad to buy those foreign seeds, and he does not hesitate to spend huge sums of money to buy them overseas, and even secretly sends people overseas to infiltrate, just to obtain seeds.

Naturally, Zhang Xu couldn't think so far, and he didn't understand the situation overseas.

Only at this moment, he saw the demeanor and worry that a king should have from Qin Mu.

Pfft!
Immediately knelt down on the ground.

"The virtuous king is wise, the people all over the world are suffering from famine and war, but the virtuous king quelled the north by himself and solved the problem of staple food replacement.

"Well, I am also an ordinary person, and I also have to eat. I have been on the border for many years and know the suffering of the people."

Qin Mu helped Zhang Xu up, "You guys did a good job this time."

After visiting the experimenter, he turned around and gave an order.

There is a company called "Lingzhou Seed Industry Company" in the city.

Responsible for the cultivation of all grain seeds, so as to control the sale of seeds on the market, and at the same time responsible for the exposure of good seeds.

However, insiders know that this is a shocking plan!
Use seeds to control the survival of neighboring small countries!
Without seeds, food cannot come out, and with seeds, the production cannot keep up, so we can only buy them from Lingzhou!

This company will eventually become the place where the "rations" of the people of the world are sold!

Recalling the food crisis that the country encountered before rebirth, the domestic fine varieties were controlled by four groups.

During that time, Qin Mu wanted to kill those bastards even more!
In the end, it was a state-owned enterprise that used decades of struggle to solve the problem and used [-]% of the arable land to feed the people of the whole country!

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Not only in the control area, the news of sweet potatoes spread throughout the country in just a few days.

The whole Datang is boiling!

The yield of 120 jin of staple food per mu has exceeded everyone's perception.

It completely overturned everyone's highest estimate of food production.

People began to discuss, of course, many people didn't see the real thing, didn't understand the situation carefully, so naturally they didn't believe it.

However, from the new company in Lingzhou, the latest announcement was published in the newspapers that day.

Newspapers and periodicals are issued once a week, but a new copy was added in just two days, and it was distributed free of charge.

There is only one message on it, a picture of "Front View of Sweet Potato", and a detailed description.

On the back, it says that in order to solve the food crisis, Lingzhou has opened up the seed trade and purchased from everyone in the country. The price is [-]% of rice and other things, and the large quantity is discounted!

Moreover, it was stated later that in the area controlled by King Xian, everyone can go to the government to receive ten catties of seeds for free after three months!

This incident caused a huge reaction.

All the disbelieving people shut up at this moment.

things are real!
In Chang'an City, the pot has already exploded.

The news naturally reached the ears of the current emperor Li Tai.

Snapped!
Shocked, he angrily smashed the memorial on the table.

"What is he going to do! Control the people?"

"Your Majesty, now is not the time to be angry. We should think about how to deal with it. If prices in Chang'an and other places are still high, but food prices in other places are stable, this will cause people to go to other places to buy, and there will be big problems in the local area!"

"Then let them buy it"

As soon as the words were spoken, Li Tai immediately thought of something, and looked at Gao Shilian with glaring eyes.

"Your consciousness is drained!"

Gao Shilian nodded, his deep eyes were full of wisdom.

"If things go on like this, a large number of people in the capital and other places will flee, then the imperial city will really become a lonely family!"

"Qin Mu!"

Li Tai gritted his teeth, this was not the first time.

Since Qin Mu's truce, he has resorted to different ways to attract people, frantically attracting people, refugees, and even various families from the capital and other places to the twenty states under his control by offering good conditions.

"What is he going to do!"

"Obviously, isolate the court!"

Gao Shilian pointed it out, and everyone could understand this question.

It's just that Li Tai couldn't take it anymore, and Changsun Wuji's betrayal had already made him feel pressured.

And Lingzhou and other places are becoming more and more presumptuous, which makes the atmosphere of the court extremely tense.

"Teacher, Zhen." Li Tai sat slumped on the dragon chair, and there was no solution.

The changes are changing day by day, because of the earth-shattering changes that Qin Mu has undergone.

Even he can't understand, can't know the next move.

"Now, how much area can we control?"

Gao Shilian sighed in his heart, Li Tai is still too young, people who have never experienced war will not understand that war is not the only means, but a last resort.

Up to now, what the emperor cares about is how big is the area under his control?

Shouldn't you think about what to do next?

"Less than thirty states!"

"what!"

Li Tai was startled, and looked at Gao Shilian dumbfounded.

The two fell silent one after another!

Yoshihisa
"Alas! The Great Tang Dynasty has come to such a state."

"I, I feel ashamed!"

As a member of the royal family, Gao Shilian naturally understood what this sentence meant.

The downfall of a royal family, the abuse of future generations.

The most painful thing in the world is nothing more than this!

"Do you have a solution?"

"Your Majesty, I believe that since Lingzhou is open to purchase seeds, we can also buy them. Afterwards, we will plant them in large quantities to solve the problem. At the same time, all trading areas will be blocked, and the imperial court will control the grain transactions, so as to stabilize the market."

"Isn't this slapping the court in the face, making people laugh at the court's incompetence and buying food from a traitor?"

Li Tai was trembling with anger, but he was helpless.

Gao Shilian did not speak.

There is no way out in this matter.

(End of this chapter)