Datang Nongsheng

Chapter 609 Popular Entertainment Items in Shangyuan Festival
Sun Xiangfu planted a relatively new seed in Jiuyuan County. Li Chengqian wanted to plant it throughout the Tang Dynasty, because it would allow him more time to entertain and be lazy. The original intention of the matter was that simple, but in Li Shimin Don't see it that way.

After listening to Li Chengqian's proposal, he originally planned to go to Lingnan in May, but now it has been brought forward to February. At that time, he will set off directly from Shannan Road and see off the expedition fleet in Lingnan.

Moreover, he also canceled all the sergeant operations that he originally planned to carry out in the west after the beginning of spring, because, under the opposition of everyone, he also realized the importance of a solid foundation. Before driving out, it is really not appropriate to go to war over there.

There is no shortage of food in the Tang Dynasty now, and there is even a lot of surplus, but the lack of food in the country does not mean that there is no shortage of food in the border. When the food produced in Qiuci and other places is to be supplied to Persia, the supply of the army can only be supported by the five nearby families in Qicheng, and these families are now on the side of the anti-war faction.

Of course, they are more willing to sell food at a high price to countries such as the Oguz Kingdom and the Khazar Khanate, which are only three or four thousand miles away from them, rather than selling it to the imperial court at a low price for military food.

After all, in the consensus reached by the imperial court with them, they were allowed to sell grain to the ancient kingdom of Oz and the Khazar Khanate to fight against the Byzantine Empire.

Therefore, after receiving the new news from the West, Li Shimin struggled for a long time, and finally, he threw the intelligence paper into the wastebasket.

The remaining people of Wang Hao started to move. At present, they are active in South India. When King Jieri's army began to wage a unified war in the south, they took advantage of the war to develop and strengthen themselves, and organized a team of more than 5 soldiers. Don't underestimate the 5 people's motley army. They have quasi-Tang army equipment before the Tang army's equipment is fully updated. They will never lose to the regular army of Tianzhu, and they have relatively sufficient supplies of food and medicine. , can definitely launch a fatal attack on King Jieri's army or the South Indian coalition forces.

According to the plan Wang Hao made before, if the Tang army sends troops, they will help the weak side, raid, kill the strong side, and then work together with the Tang army to eliminate the weak places, so that the Tang army can easily rule the entire Indian region, and Organize all the young and strong in this area, divide them into multiple lines, and wipe them out in one fell swoop. Pyu, Jialou Lubo and other countries will include all the land in the southwest of the Tang Dynasty in the territory, and wrap the Tubo Plateau in the territory. .

Persia, which has obtained food and grass resources, drags down the Arabs. This strategic plan can hardly be disrupted by anyone.It is so simple that the Tang army only needs to participate in one battle, and they can gain land with a radius of nearly 2000 miles and a population of more than [-] million. Li Shimin couldn't help but be tempted.

With this piece of land and such a large population as the foundation, Datang only needs to provide food or a certain amount of ordnance, and then it can use the people here to continuously push forward to Central Asia, and swallow the weak Persia first. , and then brought millions of multinational coalition forces to destroy the Arab Empire and the Byzantine Empire and unify the entire Eurasian continent.

Just one battle can unify the entire Eurasian continent within 20 years, and it does not need to consume the lives of many local soldiers in the Tang Dynasty. This huge temptation will of course make Li Shimin speculative.

However, such a seemingly reliable plan was dissuaded by the officials headed by ministers such as Xiao Yu, Fang Xuanling and Changsun Wuji, but it was completely abandoned, because Li Shimin clearly realized that all of this was just Based on Wang Hao's conception.

Wang Hao is not a god, he can't predict everything, and the risk of Datang trying to send troops out is really too great. With the current situation, it is impossible to realize the timely supply of food and grass thousands of miles away Go, once it fails, there is a risk of annihilation of the entire army and the loss of elites. After all, Tianzhu, a country with a population of tens of millions, is not so easy to destroy. If Datang wants to win the first battle, it must dispatch a large army.

Therefore, Li Shimin gave Changsun Chong a military order. After the snow melted, more than 30 troops in the territory of the Anxi Metropolitan Guard would all farm on the spot. The requirement for the first year was to open up more than 1000 million mu of land. Reserve food for 40 troops for more than a year. He feels that under the circumstances of Wang Hao and Nabo's troops making trouble, King Jieri will not complete the unification war within two years. As long as King Jieri has not been unified, then, Wang Hao's strategy can be implemented after he is ready.

Sun Xiangfu didn't know that Li Shimin was coming, so he asked Sun Dali to allocate more than 1000 mu of land for himself on the fifth embankment, and began to bring Sun Xiaomei and a group of farm children to plant new grapes, because the Jinghu area The temperature is starting to rise, which is more suitable for planting.

Usually it takes two to three years for newly planted grapes to bear fruit, and the production period can reach 20 years or even longer. In later generations, some rural families self-planted grapes, which can be eaten for two generations. Moreover, a grapevine , can grow into a large piece and bear a lot of fruit. How to ensure its lush growth and the fruitful and sweet grapes it produces mainly depend on fat.

Sun Xiangfu made three kinds of fertilizers that can increase sweetness by using soil methods. Among them, the chrysanthemum bean cake fertilizer is the most, and there are also a lot of organic fertilizers as the base. He also specially used animal viscera and feathers to leach a lot of phosphorus and potassium fertilizers. There are many counties.

More than a dozen agricultural students, with a group of officials from the Ministry of Agriculture, and people from Minxue who wanted to learn how to grow grapes, took about a week to get all the dozens of grape seeds that Sun Erli brought back from the Western Regions. Planted it.

According to Sun Xiangfu's vision, after three years, there will be a thousand-acre vineyard here. Among dozens of grapes, there will always be several grapes with satisfactory yield and taste. At that time, some population optimization will be done. Almost enough.

Three days before the Shangyuan Festival, Zhao Long left Jiuyuan County with Zhao He and others and a group of sailor captains. They were going to do the last adaptive training with the new ships produced by the shipyard. These new ships had not been subjected to waves They dare not let it sail away.

And Sun Xiangfu also took all the officials of the Ministry of Agriculture and the little princes to the No. [-] paddy field, and began to prepare for this year's spring plowing.

"Everyone has seen the depth of the plow, and the rhythm of the plow breaking the soil..."

Even though Sun Xiangfu drew the whole process of the field into a colorful atlas for the common people to learn from, the common people still want to see how other experts do the field, including the people in Jinan County. Tens of thousands of people came to the No. [-] paddy field to watch Sun Xiangfu complete the field and listen to him talk about the process of fertilizing, soaking seeds, and sowing in the future. The folks were given a class on folk studies on the spot.

In just a day or so, Sun Xiangfu's voice was almost hoarse. The peasants had never read a book since they were young, so naturally they didn't have much mental activity. Their lack of comprehension was flawed. I wanted to let them figure out the reasons for various processes. , I have to explain to them repeatedly, and the seeds distributed to them this year will be new rice species that have undergone a round of population optimization. If they really plant them well, the yield will definitely increase a lot. However, the average yield of two hundred thousand mu of paddy fields is increased by about one shi. That is more than 200 million shi, which is distributed to each household. It is twenty or thirty shi millet, which is enough to feed a family for a year. up.

During the two-day whole field teaching, Sun Xiangfu explained to the common people how to soak seeds and fertilize. As for the subsequent planting and field management links, the people in the No. [-], [-] and [-] fields have already had mature experience. , everyone can come and learn from them, as long as one household teaches two or three households, the people in Jiuyuan and Jinan counties can basically learn all of them. After all, the aborigines here have a certain foundation in rice planting techniques of.

After two days of teaching, Sun Xiangfu returned to Jiuyuan County to spend the Shangyuan Festival with his family. First, he plowed the land, let it dry, and started to soak the seeds after the Shangyuan Festival. Before the rice seedlings were transplanted , The field needs to be re-fertilized, and the fertility of each round of planting must be increased to meet the fertility needs of the new rice.

In Chang'an City, on the night of the Yuan Dynasty, the city is brightly lit. Even the newly planted landscape trees are covered with lanterns by the patrols of the Public Security Department. Several of the busiest commercial squares in the city have also built various shapes and sizes. , Exquisitely made lighthouses, since paper mills began to flood the market with a large amount of colored paper, these lanterns have become more and more beautiful.

The capital will always be the city with the most wealthy people in this era. Therefore, the high-end equipment production line of the Research Institute of the Ministry of Industry has never stopped. Tonight, at least twenty or thirty hot air balloons have been launched into the sky for those who are willing to pay a high price to watch the night scene in the sky The rich and powerful, including the emperor Li Shimin and the overlord Li Yuan, this project is already the most popular entertainment project in Chang'an.

In front of the gate of the East Palace, a large hot air balloon that can accommodate eight people slowly lifted into the sky. Its itinerary was to fly from the East Palace to the beautiful square of Qinglongfang, which was equivalent to crossing half of Chang'an City. God, the reason why Chang Sun Xiang had to arrange in advance was that it took a lot of effort just to prepare a rope that could cross Chang'an City.

In addition to the fixed hot air balloon that will take off in the East Palace, ready to pull Li Chengqian back, there will be another high enough sky lantern on the hill of Xiuli Square. Twist the rope reel and slowly drag the hot air balloon in front of the East Palace Gate to fly. Basically, as many hot air balloons are flying over Chang'an, there must be more than double the fixed hot air balloon points serving them. Among them, for To prevent rope entanglement or collision, each flying hot air balloon needs to be reported, and the route and altitude adjustment plan should be done in advance.

Zan Xiruo and Qin Ling naturally don't understand these things, they only know that Datang has mastered this kind of thing that can fly in the sky, although there are only a few dozen, but the entire 'flight attendant' and There are no less than 5000 ground crews. Unless the fuel tank of the hot air balloon explodes, it is difficult to hurt the guests in the gondola.

In order to ensure safety, the Research Institute of the Ministry of Industry also conducted three experiments, directly igniting the airbag of the hot air balloon in the air, only relying on the fixed points at both ends, and relying on the ropes to rescue the hanging basket. In the end, the safety of the people in the hanging basket was guaranteed. Only then did he dare to serve the powerful and wealthy groups in Chang'an.

As long as you are a normal person in this era, when you take this kind of thing to the sky for the first time, you will not be soft-footed. Li Chengqian's special hot air balloon has two 'flight attendants' who are responsible for controlling fuel and doing observation and communication. , there is also a Ouchi bodyguard with high martial arts skills. They all carry a large bag on their backs, which is said to be called a "parachute". There is a [-]% chance of landing safely. At least, in the dozens of high-altitude drop tests so far, there have only been some cases of excessive landing and minor injuries, but no fatal cases. Or they are too nervous and have not controlled it as required.

The manpower prepared on Li Chengqian's hot air balloon is naturally proficient at landing at high altitudes, so he is very at ease on the hot air balloon, just glance at the two plateau reds of Zan Xiruo and Qin Ling from time to time The pale face that couldn't be concealed, secretly amused, Li Chengqian's advantage was simply too great to talk about state affairs with them in such an environment where they couldn't use their brains to think normally.

(End of this chapter)