big dry son-in-law

Chapter 935: Culture is the killer weapon

At this moment, everyone understood.

Potatoes are suitable for planting in the north, where the yield is higher.

Sweet potatoes are suitable for growing in the south, but the yield cannot truly double until they are detoxified.

But if it is not detoxified, the yield may be similar to that of potatoes grown in the south.

Gongsun Wuji couldn't help but said: "How do you know this?"

"Read more, listen more and ask more questions. Sea trade is so popular now, and there are more and more foreigners doing it. If you talk to them more, you will know better, right?
These potatoes, sweet potatoes, are originally imported. Isn’t it difficult to ask for advice? "Qin Mo said.

"Jing Yun is right, everyone hurry up and get these back. These are the future of Daqian!" Li Yuan was very excited.

Qin Mo selected some sweet potatoes that were small or damaged by hoes. After asking his servants to wash them, he brought a large iron bucket and put the sweet potatoes down to bake.

Although it's not red, the white potatoes are pretty good too.

In the future, we must cultivate red sweet potatoes, which are delicious when roasted. They warm your hands when you hold them in winter, and warm your stomach when you eat them.

"Let's have a vegetarian meal tonight."

Qin Mo had people cut the sweet potatoes, made sweet potato porridge, brought the roasted sweet potatoes up, and divided one piece into each person.

I also made the white potato version of shredded sweet potato. Although it is not as watery as the red sweet potato and tastes a bit dry, it is not bad.

Immediately, I pinched some green sweet potato leaves and fried a few dishes.

Everyone drank the porridge, which was sweet and delicious.

Even if you eat the sweet potato alone, you will feel a little choked, but even if you have a big appetite, you will feel full after eating two sweet potatoes, and you will burp constantly.

"These sweet potatoes are delicious, sweet, and glutinous. They can indeed be used as food!" Li Yuan finished the bowl of porridge with a chirp, and felt warm in his stomach. "Comfortable!"

"When the promotion is launched in the future, there will be more food, and there will be endless sweet potatoes and sweet potato leaves. It will be good to feed the pigs. It is easier for pigs to gain weight." Qin Mo said.

"If people don't have enough to eat, it would be too extravagant to give it to pigs!" Gongsun Wuji snorted.

"I said, Uncle Guo, is there something wrong with your ears? I said that when there is more food in the future, it must be after people are full!"

Qin Mo said unhappily, "Anyway, sweet potatoes will be planted here in Lingnan first, and then they will be promoted on a large scale after being detoxified.

Now that the potatoes and sweet potatoes have been dug up, we need to do a good job of breeding them. We will change the land for planting and try to save enough potato seedlings this year. Next year, we will promote them in large quantities. "

"Yes, Governor!" Li Jiange and others responded one after another.

After a busy day, Qin Mo was a little tired. After taking a shower in the manor, Li Yuan asked him to go for a walk, "Jingyun, when can the cassava be harvested?"

He was thinking about cassava.

"It's not that fast. Cassava is relatively easy to grow and you don't have to worry about it after planting. It's just that the growth cycle is a bit longer and it takes almost ten months to harvest.

However, the yield of cassava is very high, no worse than that of sweet potatoes. The yield of three to five thousand kilograms per mu is not a problem! Qin Mo said conservatively.

"That's pretty good. Plant cassava at the beginning of the year and harvest at the end of the year." Li Yuan said with satisfaction: "Plant sweet potatoes, potatoes, rice, and vegetables.

As long as there is no severe drought, epidemic or flood, it will definitely be a good harvest year.

Calculated this way, a family with a hundred acres of land could harvest over [-] kilograms of grain a year if they were not lazy.

There is endless food to eat, especially now that Lingnan is vast and sparsely populated. The excess land in the village is used for collective work, storage, or trading. Within two or three years, the village will gradually become rich. "

"That's right. Moreover, people with household registration in the city don't have land. This is a good policy that can really be implemented on the people." Qin and Mo happened to pass by the tobacco planting area, stopped, and said, "Old man, I To put it bluntly, if Da Gan wanted to be in power for thousands of years, he would never rely on nobles or lords, but on thousands of people in the world.

Although I, Qin Mo, am naive and reckless, I understand that the common people ask for very little, just a home where they can sleep and live peacefully, and a land where they can grow food and raise their children.

The people of Daqian have always been the kindest people. As long as they can survive, they will accept everything.

But it is also the most terrifying when they are desperate.

They dare to fight against all oppression, not to mention imperial power, they can poke holes even in the sky.

As long as the people live a good life, it will be difficult to cause chaos.

Before returning to Beijing, my father asked me what I should do if I wanted to conquer the country.

I thought about it for a long time but couldn't think of a way.

But now, I have some ideas. "

Li Yuan listened quietly. He had seen all the changes in Daqian in the past few years.

Has Da Gan changed?
Nothing has changed, Da Gan is still the same Da Gan.

But the thinking of the common people has changed, you know, they have become more polite and richer.

You say they are fine, and they seem to be less afraid of those nobles than before.

“My father told me that if the barbarians are involved in the work, the work will be done, and if the work is done in the barbarians, the work will be done. This sentence still makes sense.

The ancient holy emperors fought back and forth, that is, they fought in the Central Plains. The Ji family saints traveled all over the country, but never left the Central Plains.

How could you have imagined that this world could be so huge?
However, their ideas have been passed down for thousands of years and have influenced generations of people.

Shu, Jiangnan and Lingnan were all barbaric lands thousands of years ago.

What now?
Isn’t it the place held by Eternity? "

Qin Mo sat on the ridge of the field, handed Li Yuan a cigarette, lit it, and said: "So, thought and cultural identity are the biggest magic weapons of Daqian.

Killing and war are just means to make the enemy fearful.

Therefore, I think the key is the great integration of nationalities. We should use our strongest culture to assimilate them. Using barbarians to control barbarians is just a temporary means.

In order to please us, these people will inevitably show iron-blooded methods. Over time, they will inevitably become resentful, and they will not dissipate for decades or hundreds of years!
Let them speak gan words, write gan characters, wear gan clothes, use gan coins, and marry gan people, and within 50 years, everyone will be the same kind of person. "

"Is it filled with immigrants?" Li Yuan asked.

"Immigration is only one of the means. Over time, problems will still arise. Whether it is culture or habits, it will naturally lead to rejection."

Qin Mo said: "I will take Wozhou as an example. They have always learned from us, so now that they have returned to Daqian, they are not much different from us.

Women in Wozhou are proud to be married, and they are proud to speak Da Gan dialect.

Because we brought culture and advancement.

After allowing them to recognize their ancestors, they recognized from the bottom of their hearts that they were Dagan people. Within 50 years, no one would remember their original appearance! "

Li Yuan asked: "Have you ever thought about a problem, that is, the pride of Dagan people, it is okay to marry someone, but if you marry someone else, you will definitely be looked down upon.

Even today, the gap between the north and the south still exists. What can you do to eliminate it? "

(End of this chapter)