Man Tanghong

Chapter 738 Rice

"Your Highness is right. I am willing to make some choices for Datang and stay in Chang'an City."

After subconsciously swallowing his saliva, An Xinggui said in a blunt tone.

Li Yuanji even said that "the generals from Liangzhou recognize him the most", and if he doesn't know what is good, then Li Yuanji should ask him if he wants to imitate Li Yi.

Li Yi was just killed by the imperial court, and Yi Ying's family members were also arrested and brought back to Chang'an.

Although the verdict has not been pronounced yet, anyone with a little brain knows that Li Yi's family members will not end well.

I believe that it won't be long before we can see Li Yi's wife, concubines, and daughters in the Jiaofang Division.

He didn't have Li Yi's ambition, so he naturally didn't want his wife and daughter to end up in the same way.

"Okay, very good, An Qing is indeed my Tang's humerus."

Li Yuanji nodded in satisfaction.

An Xinggui said that he didn't dare.

Afterwards, the two monarchs and ministers drank tea and talked gossip. They said that they hit each other very well, and laughed constantly. They didn't part with each other until the evening.

After An Xinggui left the palace, Li Yuanji immediately ordered the Sherenyuan to draft an imperial decree, and gave An Xinggui a big house, a separate courtyard, and a Zhuangzi outside the city for An Xinggui and his family to live in Chang'an. Take root and settle down.

After An Xinggui returned to the place where he was temporarily staying, he didn't dare to be idle, and immediately found his son An Yuanshou, and asked him to go back to Liangzhou to pick up his mother, brothers and sisters, and some members of the clan.

The virtuous monarchs and ministers understand that the problem in Liangzhou has been solved like a spring breeze.

Although the soldiers and horses in Liangzhou are still in the hands of An Shi, they have been transferred from the hands of An Xinggui, who is good at fighting, to the hands of An Xiuren, who is of average ability.

In addition, after An Xinggui's family members and some clansmen arrived in Chang'an City, they tactfully handed over many important official positions in Liangzhou.

Ever since, Xue Shou became the long history of the Governor's Mansion of the Longyou Dao, and Yu Zhining, Xu Shimo and others became the governors of the various states of the Longyou Dao.

Han Liang went to Daizhou, Yu Shinan went to Lanzhou, Chu Liang went to the newly recovered half of Yunzhou, Chu Suiliang was left behind and became a member of the history museum.

Ma Zhou also took over the many bachelors in the History Museum.

All in all, Li Shimin's party, Li Jiancheng's party, and a part of Li Yuan's party were all assigned to various places to act as governors and guard one side.

The court has also completely become the one-word hall of the Yongwang Party.

During this period, except for the positions of the four of Li Gang who remained unchanged, the positions of the others have more or less changed.

Wang Gui and Wei Zheng completely became the first and second in command of Yushitai, and completely became two evil wolves.

Under their impeachment, nearly 30 officials were punished in various sizes.

An Xinggui, Li Jing, Su Dingfang, Xie Shufang, Luo Shixin, Hou Junji and others began to show their prominence, began to take over some of the royal family, became representatives of the military, and spoke in court.

Ling Jing, Ma Zhou, Ren Gui and others also began to show their talents.

After Ren Gui was transferred back to Chang'an City, she immediately won the appreciation of Li Gang, asked him to be by her side, and acted as a deputy for herself.

Ling Jing followed behind Pei Ju, waiting to take over from Pei Ju.

That is to say, Xiao Yu and Chen Shuda are not too old, otherwise Ma Zhou and Cai Yungong would probably run behind them, waiting to take over from them.

All in all, after the local emperors of Li Yi and An Xinggui were executed and bowed their heads, no one in the court dared to do anything wrong, and they all accepted the arrangement of fate.

And this fate is Li Yuanji.

"Your Highness, are you sure that the rice here is grown twice a year and can be promoted?"

The weather in August was still hot and dry. Li Yuanji was wearing a very thin gauze and sat on the dental mat, listening to Ren Gui's questioning.

Excavating rice and promoting rice is the strategy that Li Yuanji came up with recently when he found that the courtiers seemed to be very idle.

He thought that the five-year plan formulated would be enough to keep all the officials busy, but after the plan was fully implemented, he found that the courtiers were not only not as busy as before, but even more leisurely than before.

So he decided to add another burden to the courtiers.

Discovering rice and promoting rice is definitely worth doing and must be done.

Historically, the Manchu Qing successfully fed tens of millions of people by relying on this national policy.

Kangxi also relied on this national policy to become a sage and wise king.

It can be said that it was this national policy established by Kangxi that laid a solid foundation for the Manchu Qing Dynasty, which made the Manchu Qing Dynasty prosperous for three generations, and also gave Qianlong the confidence to rebuild.

Otherwise, with Qianlong's approach, let alone the prosperity of Kangxi and Qianlong, it would be a problem whether he could maintain the Qing Dynasty.

Therefore, the work of discovering rice and promoting rice must be done, and it must be done well.

"You answer..."

Faced with Ren Gui's question, Li Yuanji did not answer in person, but signaled to Feng Zhidai, who was specially recruited, to answer.

He was born and grew up in Lingnan, so he must know the rice habits of Lingnan very well.

After cupping his hands, Feng Zhidai said with a wry smile: "Returning to Mr. Ren, it is indeed as His Highness said, the rice in Lingnan is indeed harvested twice a year, and the rice in Lin Yiguo can even be harvested three times a year..."

When Feng Zhidai said this, he still had some meanings.

However, Ren Gui couldn't care less, he said in disbelief, "There is such a kind of rice that can be harvested twice or thrice a year? How is this possible?"

Feng Zhidai glanced at Li Yuanji with a wry smile, seeing that Li Yuanji had no intention of speaking, he suggested for Ren Gui: "Mr. Ren, Lin Yi's envoy will arrive in Chang'an in just over a month. If you don't believe me, Then you can confront them face to face.”

Ren Gui's hands trembled slightly.

Feng Zhidai dared to ask him to confront Lin Yiguo's envoys, which means that what Feng Zhidai said has a high probability of being true.

Two or even three crops of rice a year.

If hundreds of thousands of acres are planted, how much grain will be produced this year.

As long as it can be promoted in one or two channels, Datang will completely bid farewell to the crisis of food shortage.

As long as the crisis of food shortage that has been encountered in all dynasties can be solved, then these people will definitely be famous in history, and they will leave a strong mark.

The common people, and the common people of later generations will also be grateful to them, and offer them high.

In an instant, Ren Gui's eyes became eager.

Feng Zhidai felt that Ren Gui's earnest eyes were a bit scary, and couldn't help pouring cold water on Ren Gui, "Mr. Ren, although Lingnan and Linyi have two crops a year and three crops a year.

But whether this kind of rice can grow in other places, no one knows.

Even if it can grow in other places, it may not be able to achieve two or three crops a year.

So you still don't have high expectations. "

After saying this, Feng Zhidai realized that these words were a bit contrary to Li Yuanji, so he hurriedly bowed to Li Yuanji and said: "Your Highness also knows that oranges born in Huainan are oranges, and oranges born in Huaibei are oranges. Therefore, whether this matter will be successful or not, we still have to try it before making a decision."

Li Yuanji was not in a hurry to speak.

Ren Gui's eyes were still eager and said: "It doesn't get in the way, it doesn't get in the way, as long as Lingnan and Linyi are fully planted."

Feng Zhidai had a bad premonition in his heart, and his heart jumped wildly.

Lingnan is their family's private land, once the court targets them, what will happen to their family.

Linyi is a feudal vassal, why did Datang go to farm on other people's land? !
Of course, he already knew the answer to the last question, but he dared not say it.

Linyi is a feudal vassal, and it is not easy for Datang to go to other people's land to farm, but as long as the army is sent there, it will be fine to turn other people's land into his own.

He knew very well that Datang would not reason with Lin Yi on such a major matter related to food.

If Lin Yi is good enough, Datang can pinch his nose and enslave them. If Lin Yi is not good enough, Datang will definitely choose to clear the place, and then fill all parts of Lin Yi with his own people.

Anyway, Datang did not feel guilty at all when he did things like massacre cities and countries, or even wipe out an ethnic group, and even felt extremely honorable.

After all, as a hegemony, the most important thing is that I am happy. As for whether other people are happy, what does it have to do with me?
As an overlord, I still want to please you and take your feelings into account, so what kind of overlord am I? !

He doesn't care about Lin Yi's life or death, but he does care about Lingnan's survival.

He didn't want the private plot managed by Feng's family to be easily taken away by the court, so he poured cold water on Ren Gui again.

"Ren Gong, although Lingnan and Linyi are blessed by nature, they can grow rice twice a year and three times a year, but both Lingnan and Linyi are surrounded by poor mountains and rivers, and there are countless poisonous insects and miasma. People, and the Han people who have adapted to the local poisonous insects and miasma, other people have no way to survive in it.

Therefore, if the imperial court wanted to promote rice in Lingnan and plant rice in Linyi, it had to overcome the local poor mountains and bad waters, as well as poisonous insects and miasma. "

The reason why the Southwest has not been developed for a long time in history is not only because of the convergence of Baiyue in the local area, but also because there are countless poisonous insects and miasma in the local area, and the roads are difficult to walk, and survival is very difficult, so it cannot be overcome. Under the circumstances of these problems, there is no way to develop the Southwest.

Therefore, the Southwest was not slowly developed until the Southern Song Dynasty, and it was not fully developed until the Qing Dynasty.

Therefore, if Datang wants to grow rice in the southwest, it really has to solve these problems.

Although Feng Zhidai had selfish intentions, there was nothing wrong with what he said.

"Then let the local natives plant it for us. We only need to send people to collect the grain every half a year."

Ren Gui was not discouraged by Feng Zhidai's basin of cold water from farming in Lingnan and Linyi.

Since the people of Datang are not suitable for farming in Lingnan and Linyi, let the local people help with farming.

Feng Zhidai said with a bitter face: "The local natives are free and unrestrained, let alone let them farm the land, they may not be willing to let them go down the mountain."

Ren Gui waved his hand without hesitation and said, "It doesn't matter, as long as the knife rests on the neck, they are willing."

This is a bit irresponsible.

But Ren Gui obviously didn't feel any guilt.

I believe that after the other civil and military ministers of Datang confirm that Lingnan and Linyi can indeed help Datang grow a lot of food, they will also agree with Ren Gui's approach, and they will not feel any guilt.

In the eyes of Datang people, all things in nature are used to nourish people, and the division of people into nations is used to nourish Datang.

If there is any vassal who does not agree with this statement, then the soldiers and horses of Datang will let them agree.

After all, Datang is strong in soldiers and horses, but poor and insane. If the younger brother has money in his hands and doesn't know how to help the eldest brother, then he should fight!

(End of this chapter)