Li Shimin

Chapter 338 Breeding Assignment
"Back to the king, it should be so!"

Li Chang nodded slowly and replied.

"Very good!"

Li Xuan was overjoyed.

In this era, only when you have food in your hands can you not panic in your heart.

Don't look at this period of time, the large paddy field in Lijiazhuang harvested 28 shi of rice, but it was only [-] catties of grain.

The ability to distribute to the farmers in Lijiazhuang is 140,000 catties of grain.

However, there are more than 600 households in Lijiazhuang.

Counting two catties of grain per person per day, nearly 44 catties of grain will be needed in a year.

Even if all the households' grain is exchanged to those aristocratic families, one stone of rice is exchanged for two stones of grain, which is only 28 catties of grain, and there is still a shortage of at least 160,000 catties of grain.

In the case of not eating meat like chicken, duck, hog and fish, these farmers need to buy at least 160,000 catties of grain from other grain merchants, so as not to be hungry.

Although Li Xuan knew that these farmers had made enough money following him during this period of time, it was more than enough to buy these grains.

But, in the final analysis, is it food or is it firmly controlled by those aristocratic families and food.Whether to sell it to you or not, and whether to raise the price, are all decided by others.

But now, with the recovery of the 1 shi of grain in Bingzhou, a full [-] million jin of grain was obtained.

Thinking about it, Li Xuan's face was full of joy.

"Housekeeper, do we need to build some granaries in the village to store these grains!"

Hearing this, Li Chang was startled.

"Your Majesty wants to transport all the food to Chang'an?"

"Well, but what's wrong?" Li Xuan asked.

"Back to your Majesty, it will take a lot of manpower and material resources to transport [-] shi of grain from Bingzhou to Chang'an City!" Li Chang said.

"It's okay!"

Li Xuan nodded and said: "If ten thousand shi cannot be transported back, we can first send back two thousand shi, or five thousand shi. The newly recovered rice in the village alone is far from enough for the farmers to eat!"

"The villain will arrange people to build a warehouse in the village!"

Li Chang said quickly.

"Ok!"

Li Xuan nodded, then remembered something, and continued to say to Li Chang: "When the warehouse is being built, I need to build another winery. I will go to draw the blueprints when I go back."

"Yes, Your Majesty!"

Li Chang nodded again and again.

As for the brewery, Li Chang didn't pay much attention to it.

In Li Chang's view, it was just a small workshop. Anyway, the king had already built so many workshops in Li's Village, and building one more would only take up a few acres of land.

Afterwards, seeing that Li Xuan didn't explain anything, Li Chang hurriedly resigned.

"San Lang is back!"

In the other courtyard, Cui Mi was overjoyed when he saw Li Xuan's return, and hurried up to greet him, "Congratulations to Sanlang for the bumper harvest this year, with four shi of grain per mu."

"Mi'er's words are a little distant. As the concubine of Jin Wang, those paddy fields belong to Mi'er!"

Li Xuan chuckled lightly, then said to Cui Mi teasingly.

In the past few days, after getting acquainted with each other, the two of them are no longer the polite address between the king and the princess, and they directly address each other by nicknames in private.

"San Lang is making fun of my concubine again."

Cui Mi scolded Li Xuan, but her eyes were still full of smiles, she knew that she didn't mean to be angry at all.

"Why would this king make fun of Mi Er? It's just that Mi Er is not well informed. Those paddy fields don't just yield four stones per mu." Li Xuan laughed.

"Don't worry, Saburo, together with the water fish in the paddy field, it will yield five stones per mu!"

Cui Mi looked proud. As the concubine of Jin, all the servants and servants of the village household will notify her whenever there is any news.

"And that's not all!"

Li Xuan chuckled and continued: "Mi'er may not know that the rice harvested from the fields is huge and plump, and now not only His Majesty, but also the dignitaries of the aristocratic families in the city are scrambling to get the rice from the farm for breeding. .There is one stone of rice in the village, and the dignitaries of the aristocratic family exchange two stones of rice."

Li Xuan said with a smile, "Based on this calculation, the yield per mu is eight stones!"

"Eight stones?"

Cui Mi was startled for a moment, and then looked at Li Xuan with surprise on his face: "Your Majesty said that the rice in the village is all high-quality breeding?"

When Cui Mi was in the Cui family, he had heard about breeding.

Fertile land is easy to find, but breeding is hard to find.

After harvesting the grain, many people will first put aside the grain that has grown well, or the grain with full grains, as the next year's grain.

Good grain seeds are like good genes, and the grain grown under the same conditions will grow fuller and bigger.

It's just that it's really hard to find high-quality grains. Many aristocratic families can't find enough dupe grains in a year, so they can only grow with ordinary grains.

Thinking about it, Cui Mi's expression changed for a moment, and he said quickly: "Sanlang, I have something to ask."

"Ok?"

Li Xuan was taken aback, he had never seen Cui Mi look like this before.

"Are you homesick? If you are lonely, I will send someone to call Cui Hongmo to accompany you to relieve boredom. If you are homesick, I will accompany you back to Qinghe when the autumn harvest is completely over!"

"Saburo misunderstood!"

A touch of emotion flashed in Cui Mi's eyes, and she said hastily at the same time.

I was afraid that Li Xuan would send someone to call her fifth brother all the way back from Chang'an City.

Thinking how many days she has been in Lijiazhuang, that fifth brother has already been here five times.

Thinking of the sad expression on the fifth brother's face, Cui Mi wanted to laugh.

"Why is that?"

Li Xuan asked.

"Going back to the king is for breeding." Cui Mi said hastily.

"High-quality breeding is hard to find. Since those aristocratic families will rush to exchange for this kind of seedlings. The Cui family must also urgently need this kind of seedlings. Therefore, I also want to ask the king to keep some for the Cui family."

"How many acres of land does the Cui family have?"

Li Xuan asked.

"This?"

Cui Mi was taken aback for a moment, and after thinking for a moment, Cui Huan said: "There should be tens of thousands of acres of fertile land."

"How many acres?"

Li Xuan was stunned, and then said: "Ten thousand mu of land needs four hundred grain seeds, even if all the rice in the village is exchanged for the Cui family, it is far from enough."

"Sanlang, the Cui family has a lot of fertile land, but they are all occupied by various branches. Your Majesty only needs to leave four hundred shi!" Cui Mi said cautiously.

"can!"

Li Xuan nodded, "Then the Cui family needs to exchange eight hundred stones of new food!"

"Don't worry, Saburo, this kind of breeding can make a lot of money even if it costs [-] shi of new grain!" Cui Mi said hastily.

"Well, I will inform Cui Hongmo to exchange for new food tomorrow!" Li Xuan said.

"Thank you Saburo!"

Cui Mi's face was full of joy.

"It's just a little effort, if Mi Er wants to thank me, you can learn new skills with me at night!"

Li Xuan chuckled.

"It's broad daylight, Saburo don't want to talk nonsense!" Cui Mi blushed.

"Let's talk about it tonight!"

Li Xuan laughed loudly, then walked upstairs.

In his previous life, Li Xuan was also a drunkard.

Therefore, in the second year of coming here, I have already explored the method of brewing wine.

However, suffering from the scarcity of food, he only brewed such a small bottle of alcohol for emergencies.

Now, millions of catties of grain will be recovered immediately, and he can do whatever he wants.

When he came to the study, he took out a lot of blueprints according to his memory, and Li Xuan sat in front of the desk and began to revise and revise.

With so much food and reinforced concrete, his previous ideas can be improved even more.

at the same time.

Qin Qiong, Duan Zhixuan, Zhang Liang and others also entered Lijiazhuang and came to the square under the leadership of Jin Wang's personal guards.

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(End of this chapter)