A Millennium Aristocratic Family Starting from the Shang Dynasty

Chapter 514 God’s will is like a knife, Wang Che collapses

Daqian Shanglinyuan.

The wind blows the wheat waves, and the eyes are golden. A few months passed by, and a large number of people were already working on thousands of acres of land. With the help of fertilizers, the yields of these lands are better than last year.

It can even be said that the grain output of these lands has exceeded the historical maximum output of Daqian Mu.

Seeing the compiled data, Guo Cheng was extremely excited, and he excitedly came to the Changchun Palace with several disciples.

"Your Majesty, I am so happy, so happy!" Guo Cheng said excitedly.

"What's the happy news for Guo Qing?" Wang Che said with a smile.

Guo Cheng first saluted Wang Che seriously, and then said: "Your Majesty, in the Shanglinyuan experimental field, the land with the highest yield per mu has reached five stones. This is auspicious!"

"Five stones per acre?" Wang Che was also shocked. You must know that Daqian's agricultural technology has been constantly improving and the government encourages farming. The yield of one acre of Dagan's fields is only two stones of grain. Now the grain output has been directly doubled. If this can be promoted, Daqian will no longer have to worry about food.

"Yes, the yield per mu is five shi. There are many other fields with a yield of more than 4 shi per mu. Even the fields with the worst yields are more than two and a half shi." Guo Cheng said excitedly.

"Your Majesty, we have calculated the optimal ratio of fertilizer. As long as there is enough fertilizer, all the land in Daqian can produce a harvest of four or five stones!"

In the main hall, both the attendants and officials were very excited when they heard this and congratulated Wang Che one after another.

"Congratulations, Your Majesty, this is a gift from God!"

"Congratulations, Your Majesty, with this fertilizer, it will last for thousands of years!"

The hall was very lively for a while, but Wang Che calmed down instantly after hearing Guo Cheng's words.

‘As long as there is enough fertilizer! ’ Six simple words, some words extinguished half of the fire in Wang Che’s heart.

Gradually, everyone noticed something was wrong with Wang Che's expression, and the original congratulatory voice gradually became quieter. Next to him, Prime Minister Wei Ji stepped forward and said, "Your Majesty, do you have any questions?"

Wang Che sighed: "Everyone thinks this is a great good thing. It is indeed a good thing, but do you know how much fertilizer is needed?"

Everyone who was excited just now was stunned for a moment, and everyone realized the problem.

"There are tens of thousands of acres of grain fields in Dagan. Even if each acre of land requires one pound of fertilizer, it would require tens of thousands of pounds. How many giant kun can the imperial court catch in a year?"

"Last year, King Zhenhai captured thirty-one giant kuns and obtained 65,000 kilograms of giant kun bones."

"Even if King Zhenhai sends his entire navy to hunt giant kun, how many whale bones can be obtained in one year? It's just more than 100,000 kilograms, but how much land does Daqian have? It's a drop in the bucket!"

After hearing Wang Che's words, everyone's hearts suddenly became cold. There are hundreds of millions of acres of dry fields, and the amount of fertilizer required is a huge amount. Now it seems that the idea of ​​relying on catching giant kun to obtain fertilizer is basically in vain.

Seeing that the ministers in the hall were a little discouraged, Wang Che continued: "Although the giant kun skeleton is not enough to obtain enough fertilizer, other bones can also be used, and this giant kun is also full of treasures. As for fertilizer, let's find other ways!" Although the idea of ​​relying on hunting giant whales to obtain fertilizer and increase production failed, the hunting of giant kun has not stopped. The value that a giant kun can provide is extremely high. As for the kun bone fertilizer, it is just incidental.

Whether it is a huge amount of fish meat or fish oil, giant Kun skin, Kun whiskers, etc., even if it is calculated based on the lowest price of similar items in the market, such a giant Kun can bring hundreds of thousands of wealth.

Such a way to bring in money cannot be stopped by the imperial court.

Although Jukun bone meal is insufficient, it can still bring good harvests to many fields. The imperial court ordered the navy to search for struvite on the island, hoping to use struvite as fertilizer, but struvite was not that easy to find.

Although Daqian has been developing, the speed of development has obviously not kept pace with the increase in population. Since Wang Che came to the throne, the world has not been very peaceful. The southern barbarians have been in chaos, there has been severe drought in the north and floods in the south.

Fortunately, Dagan was powerful and had many virtuous ministers to assist it. The royal family also continuously sent personnel to patrol the world, thus maintaining the stability of Dagan. But after the imperial court turned its attention to the interior of Daqian, it paid much less attention to the grasslands in the north.

With the strategic contraction of the imperial grassland, all ethnic groups in the grassland have grown a lot. Over the years, with the Zhenbei Protectorate acting as an arbiter, the imperial court's power in the grassland has grown stronger.

After decades of rest and recuperation, the barbarian people on the grassland have long started to fight each other.

At first, these barbarians were worried that Daqian would send troops to intervene, but later the Zhenbei Protectorate did not intervene much, which also made the grassland tribes more and more courageous.

Almost every one or two years, we have to fight for pasture and population. Of course, there is also the shadow of the Zhenbei Protectorate in this.

The Zhenbei Protectorate took advantage of the conflicts among these grassland tribes to maintain a relatively balanced level of power among the grassland tribes.

On the surface, the grassland tribes have always been under control, but in fact, the strength of the grassland tribes has continued to increase after constant fighting. Although the balance and cultivation model can suppress the grassland for a while, it is impossible to truly control the grassland without great development of technology and productivity.

Since Wang Che came to the throne, he has been conscientiously maintaining the imperial court. Although it seems that the world is still stable and his career is at its peak, he feels a slight decline.

Even though he continued to send embroidered envoys and patrol censors to inspect the world, there were still illegal things happening in various places, and natural disasters began to occur frequently. The problem of fertilizer made him intuitively feel God's will.

Wang Che felt tired for the first time.

In the twenty-fourth year of Emperor Qian Yuan's reign, Wang Yun was seriously ill. He had been battling wind and waves overseas all year round, traveling across the world and oppressing Fusang King Zhenhai. Wang Che sent someone to take over the post of King Zhenhai, and then welcomed Wang Yun back to Luoyang.

At the turn of spring and summer in the 24th year of Emperor Qian Yuan's reign, King Zhenhai passed away. Wang Yun's death seemed to turn on a switch, and then the internal minister Wang Zong passed away. Another year, Wang Che became seriously ill.

In just two days, two important figures in the royal family passed away, and the emperor became seriously ill. This minimized the royal family's control over the court.

Fortunately, there are still talented people in the royal family who can replace him, and it will only take a while for him to recover. But for the first time, Wang Che felt that God's will was like a knife.

It's the kind of situation where you clearly know where the problem is, but even if you try your best, you can't stop it. You can only delay it, and you can only watch it fall slowly.

God's will is like a sword, and not everyone can go against it. In the autumn of the 25th year of Emperor Qianyuan's reign, Wang Che died in Changchun Palace.

(End of this chapter)