Datang: What's wrong with my fief being a billion points larger?

Chapter 65 Development Begins to Radiate to the Surroundings
After Feng Ang left, Xie Shufang came to Li Yuanji and watched Feng Ang leave on the boat.

"Your Majesty, has Feng Ang made his decision?"

Li Yuanji looked for a while, then turned around and spoke.

"Well, that's the case for now, but you still have to pay attention to the army's affairs. As for the supplies Mingda brought, especially the oxen, distribute them immediately. Use the curved plow to renovate the land, and then start spring ploughing.

The rice here can be harvested twice a year. Except for Leizhou, it can also be harvested in Guangzhou Prefecture in Mingda and Jiaozhou.

In addition, you call Zhijun and Dahao here. We just need to slowly cultivate the land here. Then the other places in Leizhou, as well as Yazhou, Wan'anzhou, Zhenzhou and Danzhou, should also start to develop.

Especially in the four states of Yazhou, although there is little arable land, rice can be grown there and three crops can be harvested a year. Even two crops in a row is not bad. As long as it is developed, it can be a grain land. It must be put on the agenda as soon as possible. "

Li Yuanji has been thinking about those places in Yazhou for a long time. In addition to the rice planting cycle, there are good things there that he has been thinking about.

Xie Shufang was shocked when he heard Li Yuanji's words. He thought that having two harvests a year was already outrageous, but there were three harvests a year?

At this moment, Xie Shufang's breathing became rapid. That was rice, rice, cooked rice, rice that tasted better than corn. It could be harvested twice or three times a year. Just think about the arable land in the Tang Dynasty. There was only one harvest a year. If all these places were developed to grow food, wouldn't they no longer have to worry about food in a few years?

Xie Shufang immediately looked at Li Yuanji.

"Your Majesty, please let me go to Yazhou. Don't let Feng Zhixuan go. I will ensure that I develop Yazhou and other places, open up a large amount of new arable land, and make it your granary!"

Li Yuanji looked at the excited Xie Shufang and was at a loss whether to laugh or cry.

"Uncle Fang, don't get excited. If I tell you that there is a bigger granary outside, will you be so excited that you fly up?

Let Zhi Xun go to Yazhou. Feng Ang's people originally lived there, so it would be convenient for him to act there. You just need to do your job here.

As the development here is getting better and better, the enemies lurking in the dark will definitely be unable to resist. If you really want to do something, you can send people to Luozhou to preside over the development of Luozhou. You also have another task, which is to find a suitable place on the coast and build some salt ponds.

At present, with only this one salt field, it takes about 20 days to produce a batch of salt, which is still too slow. In the future, this salt will definitely be in short supply. If we build more salt fields, we can seize the opportunity in time when it comes."

After hearing this, Xie Shufang had to give up the idea of ​​going to Yazhou, but then he became excited again. Sending people to Luozhou to start development seems to be a good idea? And building a salt field are also important things.

Especially when Li Yuanji mentioned that there was a larger granary, Xie Shufang immediately became interested.

"Your Majesty, please rest assured that I will do the job, there will be no problem. By the way, Your Majesty, where is the larger granary?
Your Majesty, please tell me. I will lead the troops to conquer that place. Since it is such a large piece of granary land, it would be a pity if we don’t occupy it. Such a place should become Your Majesty’s fiefdom.”

Xie Shufang didn't think about the territory of the Tang Dynasty at all, because he knew that there was no such place as Li Yuanji mentioned in the Tang Dynasty. Since it did not belong to the Tang Dynasty, in his opinion, since it was so difficult here, if he took over this place, why would he worry about food in the future?
As long as there is food, wouldn't it be easy to develop Lingnan? With food, we can feed more people and absorb refugees from the Tang Dynasty. With more people, we can open up the land, and then it will flourish. Li Yuanji looked at Xie Shufang's excitement and smiled.

"We'll consider that place later. We can't afford it right now, and it's too far away. We'll consider it after this place develops a bit."

The granary that Li Yuanji mentioned is India, which is now called Tianzhu. There is more than just grain there.

Xie Shufang had no choice but to go down and carry out Li Yuanji's arrangements.

Watching Xie Shufang's departing figure, Li Yuanji also smiled. Now Xie Shufang seemed to have liberated his nature a little. He was not as serious as when he was in Chang'an, and he didn't look as steady either.

Li Yuanji continued to walk forward. At this time, he looked at his 125 contribution points and fell into deep thought. He frowned for a long time, and finally gritted his teeth and looked at one of the items. What Li Yuanji was going to exchange was the oxen, seeds and breeding manual.

A small ox costs twenty contribution points, and the breeding manual requires thirty contribution points. He plans to start exchanging them now. At least the calf will grow up earlier. If it is not needed this year, it can be used next year. As for not enough, he can only increase it gradually later. Nowadays, reclaiming arable land and planting cannot be separated from oxen. He can't exchange human lives for arable land.

As for the breeding manual, he had to exchange it only because it contained methods to deal with problems such as cow illness, etc. He did not want to engage in breeding and end up killing his cows, as that would really heartbreak him.

Not long after Li Yuanji returned, Ning Chun and Feng Zhixun arrived one after another.

"See you, Your Majesty."

Li Yuanji didn't look up, just looked at the current city planning map, and after a while he looked at the two of them.

"Okay, there aren't so many rules here. Now that things are on track, we just need to finish these things. The spring ploughing has also been arranged. We now have 30 oxen, which we will use for the time being.

Next, it's time to start developing other places. Dahao, after you go down, let the three cities of Shenchuan, Tiepa and Xuwen start to move, but pay attention to the scale. We are still in spring plowing, and before the autumn harvest, the grain expenditure must be controlled well.

The most important thing for these three places now is to plant grain on the arable land. If there is no grain or not enough grain, we can take it from here.

In addition to this, we must reclaim arable land. The work of reclaiming arable land cannot stop. The more arable land we have, the more grain we can grow in the next year, and the better the harvest will be. We cannot be careless about this matter.

Other things can be put on hold for now, these two things are the most important right now, you have to arrange them well."

Ning Chun agreed immediately after hearing this. These places are indeed good, but nowadays there is little arable land, few people, and a shortage of various tools. It is really difficult to reclaim arable land. Now that they have tools, it is much better than before.

"Yes, Your Majesty. I can save your trouble. I will go and arrange for this matter to be carried out as soon as possible so as not to delay this year's planting."

(End of this chapter)