Destiny Only Han

Chapter 872 Liu Ying: Get rid of the moth (míng téng) and its thieves, harmless to me...

"Huh? The scenery here seems to be a bit wrong!"

After Liu Bang finished speaking, his brows were furrowed.

"What? Let me be healthy..." Liu Ying poked her head out, pressed on Lu Yu who was near the car window, and looked at the glass for a while.

At this time, the steam train has already driven out of the scope of Bianliang City, and the bustling is no longer there. Both sides of the railway are full of endless wheat fields and scattered here and there.

Liu Ying scratched her head: "What's wrong?"

Liu Bang turned his head full of sarcasm: "It's really your great grandson, if he is here, he will definitely smack you!"

Is this old man crazy... Liu Ying was a little puzzled: "Why, why?"

Liu Bang pointed out the window and asked: "Look at the appearance of the wheat seedlings, is it the same as what you saw in Guanzhong? As your favorite grandson, you can't even see this, your eldest father This old farmer still doesn’t smoke you?”

After he finished speaking, he clasped his arms triumphantly.

Liu Ying was stunned for a moment, and a look of grievance gradually appeared on her face: "You can't blame me if you can't see clearly! I have always been pseudo-myopic..."

"What is myopia?" Liu Bang frowned.

"It's the eye disease that corresponds to your presbyopia..." Liu Ying explained weakly: "You can't see things that are close up. I'm just the opposite, I can't see things that are far away..."

Lu Zhi looked nervous: "Then, can it be cured? Well, I mean your pseudo-myopia!"

Liu Bang was silent, his face full of frustration.

In fact, he had already been mentally prepared. After all, he and Liu Ying fell into the water at the same time. Lu Zhi would go to rescue Liu Ying without thinking about it and ignore him...

But don't be rude!

So, his expression towards Liu Ying became more and more vicious, like a child whose favorite toy was robbed by others...

Liu Le nudged Zhang Buyi, who was wiping his face, with his elbow, and Doudouyan signaled him to go and see Liu Bang.

The show is about to begin...

But Liu Ying said she was used to it, so she just looked at Lu Zhi and shook her head: "It can't be cured, it's because the lighting was not good when I was young, and then I didn't get used to reading books..."

"When I was young? The lighting is not good? Use your eyes to read?" Lu Zhi quickly found the key word, turned to Lu Yu who was pushed aside by Liu Ying, and said, "Did you hear that? Don't let Liu Yan read at night, just sleep , Get up in the morning and go to morning reading!"

Liu Ying: "..."

However, he couldn't even speak against Sawyer... Lu Yu froze for a moment, then nodded vigorously: "Got it!"

You son of a bitch, you have today too... Liu Bang was immediately happy.

Liu Ying was silent for a while, and grabbed the dedicated phone in the car: "Stop."

After a while, the steam train stopped in the open field, and teams of soldiers with muskets, knives and shields on their backs patrolled to avoid vicious incidents like Bo Langsha.

Liu Ying got off the carriage and followed Liu Bang to the wheat field beside the railway.

This time, without Liu Bang's reminder, he immediately understood what Liu Bang said before.

The wheat field in front of him was an endless sea of ​​green, but compared to the wheat fields he had seen in Guanzhong and before, the color was a bit lighter.

In other words, the wheat seedlings elsewhere are dark green in color, while the wheat field here is a little yellowish and looks a little elongated.

The most important thing is that the tillering [niè] of wheat seedlings is less.

Tillers refer to the branches that occur below the ground or near the ground in grasses and other plants.

To put it simply, fewer tillers mean less ears of wheat, which means lower yield per mu!
Liu Ying turned her head, looked at Wang Ling who followed him out of the train and asked, "Why?"

Wang Ling thought for a while, and said seriously: "The Central Plains area north of the Huaihe River has had less rain and snow since last winter, and it has been a bit dry. It is also hotter than previous years, and the soil moisture is not good. Naturally, wheat is like this."

"However, I have already ordered all localities to make amends, and allocated funds to repair the canals. I want to wait until the irrigation canals are repaired, the weather will be a little more normal, and after there is rainfall, there will be no problem with the summer grain harvest in the Central Plains and even the counties in Hebei..."

"Well, the reduction in production will definitely reduce production, but it will not be a failure."

Liu Ying was silent, wondering if this was a precursor to the coming ice age.

But it's hard to say, Mother Earth is a moody psychopath, maybe it's just a simple climate anomaly...

Liu Ying nodded and said: "Fortunately, I pointed out the game of futures, so that the losses of farmers can be controlled within an acceptable range. Moreover, we have a large area of ​​overseas colonies with three crops a year. Domestic food is really The reduction in production is nothing more than we spend more money to transport food back from overseas..."

"It's normal that it doesn't rain here, but their tropical and subtropical climate has plenty of rain!"

Wang Ling frowned slightly: "Futures? What does this have to do with farmers' losses? I don't understand."

Liu Ying asked: "When Prime Minister Zuo was in Bianliang, didn't he go out on the streets?"

Wang Ling shook his head with a look on his face that you don't know, "I am busy with government affairs and have no time to go out..."

After all, government affairs always have to be taken care of.

Liu Ying went out to go shopping and eat, so the mountains of memorials sent from Guanzhong naturally had to be dealt with by Wang Ling first, and then sent to Shang Shuling for review by the officials before being handed over to Liu Ying There, confirm that it is correct and stamp it down...

So Liu Ying laughed awkwardly and explained: "The so-called futures is a trading method that spans time. By signing a contract, the buyer and the seller agree to deliver the specified amount of spot goods according to the specified time, price and other trading conditions."

"When I said that farmers are not damaged, I mean that farmers can list their own grain for sale in advance, and after the grain is harvested, they can trade at the original listing price."

"To put it simply, when the wheat is sold, if the market price is 120 renminbi, the farmer will make an extra profit of [-] renminbi from selling the wheat, but the futures market will lose [-] renminbi. One plus and one minus will lock in the price of [-] renminbi. If the market price of wheat is [-] renminbi, the farmers will lose [-] renminbi when they sell the wheat, but the futures market will make [-] renminbi, and they will still lock in the expected price of [-] renminbi!"

"Farmers, never lose money!"

Surprised, Wang Ling cupped his hands and said, "Your Majesty is indeed wise and wise!"

Now I can't listen to the word wisdom, it always feels like I'm scolding... Liu Ying squeezed out a ritual smile on her face.

Liu Bang bent down and grabbed a handful of soil, rubbed it in his hands for a while, then nodded slightly: "Looking at the moisture level of the soil, it was indeed just watered not long ago, but it can't be ruled out that it was because of the rain before."

Liu Ying shook her head: "What's the use of the light rain before? To put it bluntly, it's not as much as I peed..."

Liu Bang was immediately amused by him, and stared at him and said, "Come on, give me a pee? Don't you pour the whole land to see if Naigong doesn't break your leg!"

This old man has no sense of humor... Liu Ying changed the subject: "That is to say, since winter, there has been less rain and snow in the Central Plains?"

Wang Ling thought for a while: "This... I am not sure."

"But His Majesty knows that the minister's fief, Anguo County, is in Hebei, and there hasn't been a decent snowfall since last winter, and the surrounding counties are almost like this."

Liu Ying nodded in agreement.

The Anguo County mentioned by Wang Ling is roughly the later Anguo City, Hebei Province. It is a county-level city managed by Baoding City. It is located in the hinterland of the North China Plain. How did it snow.

And Liu Ying is now located in the east of Bianliang. The wheat seedlings here are not growing well, and the soil moisture is not good, which means that there has not been much rain or snow in the past.

For the current state of Han, the reduction in grain production will not shake the foundation of the country.

But there is one disaster that will have a very serious impact.

Locust plague!

Snow in winter not only replenishes water to the soil, but also freezes the insect eggs in the soil.

Drought will cause the water level of rivers and lakes to drop, and tidal flats will become the best spawning grounds for locusts!

By the time the locusts cover the sky and cover the sky, it will be too late!

Liu Ying was silent for a while, looked at Liu Bang and said, "Let's go, let's get in the car and arrive at Taishan Palace as soon as possible."

He looked at Wang Ling and said: "Send a telegram to let the prime ministers of Yan, Zhao, Zhongshan, Dai, Liang, Qi, and Lu countries come to the Taishan Palace to meet them, and at the same time let the county magistrates of Hebei and Henan also come together." !"

Seeing Liu Ying's serious face, Wang Ling cupped his hands and saluted, and trotted all the way to the telegraph room of Royal One.

Liu Bang was a little surprised.

To be honest, he has never seen such an expression of his own little boy. Even when he was defeated in Pengcheng and fled back in a hurry, Liu Ying still looked like a mountain collapsed in front of him without changing his face, as if he was a big winner. And return...

Today, it's just that it doesn't rain.

Not so much, right?

But he was too emperor after all, and he didn't have as much information as Liu Ying, so he didn't blindly comfort Liu Ying, but smiled and boarded the carriage.

There is always a time when the lid needs to be lifted.

He, don't worry.

The steam train went all the way east, turned at Chen Ping's hometown, that is, Huzhou County, turned north, and drove into the Changqing Railway that directly leads to the sea, that is, Qing County (Qingdao).

And Liu Ying's brows were slowly furrowed.

Where the steam train passed by, there were green wheat fields as far as the eye could see, but it was the same as the wheat fields seen in the east of Bianliang City that day.

The color is light and sparse.

However, in the endless wheat fields, there are still some active figures that make Liu Ying feel at ease.

Steam Excavator.

This is the machine used to dig ditches.

With this kind of big guy who is more than a hundred times stronger than manpower, even if it does not rain during this period of time, at least the crops in the farmland will not die of drought!

After all, the Central Plains at this time was not over-exploited, and the water resources, especially the groundwater, were sufficient. Basically, the water layer could be seen after digging three to five meters.

However, this will not help the locust plague that may break out.

So Liu Ying became uneasy again.

(End of this chapter)