Daming kill

Chapter 120 Food Revolution
At noon on the day when Zhao Jin invited everyone to discuss the situation, 10 men and women from another universe gathered around a table for dinner in a room in Zhao Jinying. eating at the table.

The banquet was not rich, but there was wine and meat, not because Zhao Jin was reluctant, but because the supplies were getting tighter and tighter.

Zhao Jin raised his head, and after the toast, the atmosphere did not become active. Most of the people were still immersed in the pessimistic mood of the discussion situation just now, a little depressed and unable to lift up their spirits.

Only Shi Ming seemed to be in a good mood, sitting next to Li Ping and asking questions.

Shi Ming admired and was curious about Li Ping slaughtering the little leader of the rebel army (Tian Shuisheng) assigned to him by his superiors, but he seemed to have a lot of affection for Zhao Lanyue, and he hadn't seen them say a few words so far.

Li Ping really couldn't say much about Tian Shuisheng's matter, so he could only lightly describe the truth.

Li Ping summed up that if he had told the truth, Shi Ming might not believe it. After all, the image he gave to everyone seemed to have never been so sinister and vicious.

Sure enough, Shi Ming didn't seem to suspect anything, or he didn't think it was a big deal.He not only listened cheerfully, but also taught Li Ping a few tricks on how to resist.

The two murmured for a while, Shi Ming saw that the atmosphere on the table had been low, and laughed and scolded everyone:

"What is there to worry about! Soldiers come to block, water comes to cover up. What's more, didn't Li Zicheng fight to Beijing to become the emperor in the end! It means that he didn't make much trouble to the south, so we just retreated to the south again. At best, work harder, you are still far away from being in a desperate situation, so there is nothing to worry about!
Besides, I don't think this is necessarily a bad thing!

Wealth and wealth are in danger, what can we do in this city of Xiangyang?If we don't fight, we will never have a chance to get up, so we will always be small people.Then you have to be cautious all day long, maybe you will offend some important person one day, and if you say you are killed, you will be killed.

What does the experience of the Li Ping brothers show?As long as we dare to fight, we have the opportunity to become bigger and stronger, to be a master, and more likely to survive.We have knowledge beyond the hundreds of years here, are we afraid that we will not be able to play it?
Besides, we are not without good news.

Brothers and sisters, don't you think about how important it is that we are safe?

Yang Wenyue is dead, and his subordinates are basically dead. I heard that Mr. Du Qian died a long time ago.

what does this mean?
We are really safe now, and we no longer have to worry about identity issues. From now on, we will have the final say, and no one will be able to check. How happy this is!Anyway, I feel more at ease now.

Come on, brothers and sisters, let's have one!Let's celebrate that our identities are finally safe. "

Shi Ming's words successfully raised everyone's spirits a lot, and everyone was obviously more active, especially Li Shengcai, who was the most depressed guy just now, was the most contrasting.

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Now that he came to Xiangyang City, Li Ping was not in a hurry to go back, he decided to hang around for a few days before talking, and also to see how the wind changed.

Song Baolai thought of the sweet potatoes he planted in July, but he planted two acres of land!Someone has been left to take care of him according to the method he explained. Now he should be mature, and if he can do it, he has to get out of the field as soon as possible.

As for the large piece of late rice that has just matured and took a lot of effort to plant, he didn't dare to think too much about it. Those had been handed over to Zhao Jin a few months ago together with the land of the barracks.

Because of their different purposes, Li Ping temporarily stayed in the city, while Song Baolai went to his old nest outside the city.

In order not to distract the guards, Zhao Lanyue and Gao Lei had to stay in Xiangyang City for the time being, and they would be escorted back by the guards after Song Baolai finished handling the crops.

The next morning, Li Ping and Zhao Jin went to Zuo Menggeng's mansion to listen to the order.

After talking with Zhao Lanyue that time, Li Ping thought about it again, and finally went to Zuo Menggeng's place as a waiter on the grounds that the military training was already small, but Zuo Menggeng's attitude towards him seemed to be a little more distant.

Li Ping could feel the resentment from Zuo Menggeng, but the matter had come to an end, so he had to come every four or five days to see if he could make a difference.

But every time he came, the problem remained, and Li Ping was a little angry and didn't take further actions, but he still insisted on showing up.

Only once, Zuo Menggeng nonchalantly mentioned that his wife liked Li Ping, which made Li Ping confused whether it was good or bad to follow his wife's route.

Every time he came, Li Ping came and left in a hurry, he would not stay in the city overnight, nor would he go to see Zhao Jin and others.He also left it to He Zhuzi to deliver soap, perfume, and lipstick to Mrs. Zuo Menggeng and Zhao Jin.

Now that the military situation is urgent, he has to show up to Shangguan more anyway.

Because they stayed in Zhao Jin's camp this time, so when they went back to wait for a mission, the two of course went together in an open and above board manner.

However, after seeing Zuo Menggeng, Zuo Menggeng took Zhao Jin away to inspect Jiangfang, but he didn't make any arrangements for Li Ping, as if he was a transparent person.

Because I don't know when they will come back, and I don't know if there will be arrangements after they come back.

Li Ping didn't leave, and it didn't matter if he didn't leave, so he had to stay in the yard by himself for a long time, wandering around boredly for a long time.

Waiting for a while is also a gesture!

Occasionally, there will be a few familiar generals who come to visit Zuo Menggeng to say hello to him. After a long time, there will always be some face. This has not changed for thousands of years in China.

Seeing noon, Zuo Menggeng and the others hadn't come back yet, and Li Ping didn't have to wait any longer, so he went back to Zhao Jinying in embarrassment.

Then he was taken aback by Song Baolai who he thought had already left.

"Sweet potato, the sweet potato is ripe, you need to go and have a look." Song Baolai said mysteriously amid Li Ping's eager interrogation.

When Li Ping heard this, he was also a little excited.

So they quickly left the city and went straight to the old camp in the south of the city.

Song Baolai did not take Li Ping directly to the field where the sweet potatoes were grown, but led him into a room not far from him.

The sweet potatoes had been dug out and piled up in this room, and guards were set up at the door of the room, and the surrounding area seemed to be cleared. Hu Zhongshan was waiting for him inside the room.

After all, Li Ping did not come to Xiangyang alone this time, so he brought a lot of guards, and Hu Zhongshan also followed.

And Zhao Jin's soldiers and horses all knew the relationship between Li Ping and Zhao Jin, and they would not interfere with Li Ping's reservation in this battalion.Moreover, they had never seen sweet potatoes before, and they didn't understand how miraculous those green seedlings were on the ground before harvesting, so they didn't have much curiosity.

After entering the room, Li Ping looked at the piles of sweet potatoes but didn't react. He asked Song Baolai strangely: "What's the point? I haven't seen this thing before. Isn't it good to collect so many ?”

Song Baolai rolled his eyes at Hu Zhongshan, and said to Li Ping, "You'd better listen to the old nonsense!"

So Hu Zhongshan, who was already a little impatient, immediately chattered excitedly.

Only then did Li Ping understand, why is Hu Zhongshan so excited?What is Song Baolai mysterious about?
It turned out that when they dug sweet potatoes yesterday, they dug more and more, which directly stretched Hu Zhongshan's nerves.This guy immediately "decisively" cleared the field.

Finally, after all the digging, they estimated that the output of one mu of land was almost two thousand catties. Hu Zhongshan immediately became more anxious and continued to "decisively" block the news.

It turned out that in this era, due to multiple factors such as the quality of seeds and the lack of chemical fertilizers, the yield per mu of grain was very low.

The yield of wheat per mu is only about 300 catties, and it can only be planted once a year; in the south, although two crops of rice can be grown, the annual yield per mu is only five or six hundred catties.

The low yield of grain was actually the main reason why China’s population did not grow explosively before the Qing Dynasty. The large population was mainly achieved by the vastness of the country, and the population had never exceeded [-] million. Zhan Luan's ability to resist is very poor.

But Song Baolai even said that this time it was not planted well. In fact, the summer potatoes should be able to produce more than 2000 catties per mu, and the spring potatoes can produce more than 4000 catties per mu. It is normal to produce 6000 catties a year. Are you scared?

Li Ping knows that the strategic significance of sweet potatoes comes more from historical knowledge. He himself does not understand farming, and he is naturally not very sensitive to the data per mu of later generations and the data per mu of the Ming Dynasty, so he is not clear about many specific data. of.

At the beginning, he told Song Baolai that this thing was a fetish, and it was more from a macro perspective, and there was no specific data to support it.

When Hu Zhongshan told the specific yield comparison, Song Baolai, who had never taken farming seriously, was naturally shocked.

Before, they didn't pay much attention to farming, because time and space did not allow them to devote too much energy. This is also the main reason why they happily handed over the few late rice they had planted to Zhao Jin, which led to Song Baolai understood the true meaning of "divine object" very belatedly.

But no matter what, Song Baolai, the head of logistics, has never inquired about the current crop yield, which is too unbelievable, but it did happen.

Frightened, Hu Zhongshan instinctively realized that the news of this high-yielding crop should be blocked, and it became very easy to convince Song Baolai, so this guy was so "decisive".

After listening to the explanation, Li Ping was naturally also very happy. Such a 10-fold high yield made him truly feel the tremendous changes that the astonishing leap in grain production in the late Ming and early Qing would bring to social production and life.

He also roughly understood why the population of the Qing Dynasty easily exceeded [-] million, and it quickly reached such an incredible explosion of [-] to [-] million.

In the past six months or so, Li Ping has known that a large number of important crops such as corn, peanuts, potatoes, peppers and tomatoes have come to China. It became popular in a large area.

For example, corn has been widely planted in North China, pepper is still more of an ornamental plant and only a small part of it is eaten in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River, and so on.

The Qing Dynasty was really lucky. It was established when the Little Ice Age that led to the demise of the Ming Dynasty was far from over. It was by no means how good its rule was, but more importantly, it was related to these important high-yield and high-energy crops that were introduced to China at the end of the Ming Dynasty. (Most of them originated in the Americas, and began to spread to China with the great geographical discovery of the Europeans.) The gradual popularization has an inseparable relationship.

And the reason why the Ming Dynasty was able to survive such severe natural disasters for so long in the last years was also because these crops were popularized to a certain extent, otherwise they would definitely perish earlier.

Sometimes, Li Ping also wondered, if these crops had been introduced to China earlier and had been widely spread earlier, wouldn’t there be nothing wrong with the Qing Dynasty?
But history has no ifs.

However, when Li Ping thought about it carefully for a while, he unexpectedly explained to Song Baolai: These sweet potatoes were sent to Zhao Jin, Shi Ming and Wang Chengwu along with the potato vines, and he wanted to tell them the meaning of it. It is best to keep it secret for a period of time if it can be kept secret first, and it will not be necessary in the future.When they are stable again, they can be seeded in an upright manner.

Seeing Hu Zhongshan's bewildered and unwilling expression, Li Ping explained: "It is no secret that sweet potatoes have been grown in large quantities in Fujian and Guangdong now. Our sweet potatoes also come from businessmen who come and go here. It doesn't make much sense, and it's hard to keep it for a long time. Don't you have to use a lot of it after planting it! Excessive secrecy will make your various relationships passive, and you will be easily suspected by the superiors. The main thing to consider is Li Zicheng. It might end here, and it wouldn't be a good thing to let him go."

However, for Hu Zhongshan, Li Ping still praised him a few words. He praised his "decisiveness". In fact, what Li Ping cared more about was the self-consciousness that Hu Zhongshan had formed, which was more important than anything else.

After thinking about it again, when Li Ping was going to bring some sweet potatoes and potato vines back to the city to talk to Zhao Jin, Zhao Jin's soldiers came to him in a hurry.

It turned out that Zuo Liangyu, the commander-in-chief, recruited all the generals to listen to the order, and Li Ping was among them.

(End of this chapter)