Datang Nongsheng

Chapter 656

Li Shimin has never had any new ideas in doing things. He can use the same routine many times. After the mu yield of the sixth season of the experimental field was reported, he immediately came up with the decree of rewards, and implemented the order of Sun Xiangfu's second son, Kang Jiuyuan County. At the same time, he greeted him and continued to plant rice according to the order. Next year, the first phase of rice planting will be completed, and the new prince training class will be sent to him.

The yield of eleven stones per mu was an astronomical figure in the past, but now, when seeing this yield, no one is surprised, because everyone has habitually trusted that Sun Xiangfu can grow higher yields No matter how high the yield of rice he grows, everyone thinks it is right. The court ministers may praise it in public, while ordinary people just smile lightly, and feel more at ease about their future. There is a lot of food, and the chances of them starving are also small.

The northern migrant workers who came to Shannan Road to catch up with the work arrived as scheduled. This year, they learned how to be good again. They wanted to bring some new rice seeds from Jiuyuan County back to plant. Sun Xiangfu approved it. Give them a few catties for free. Anyway, for Jiuyuan County, a few catties of rice are not worth much.

Although there are few irrigated fields in the north, there are still some. Although the people there are used to eating pasta, it is good to eat rice once in a while. Of course, the reason why they come to receive rice seeds is because of the The yield of rice seeds can be double that of the wheat they grow.

With the promotion of organic fertilizer production, intensive farming techniques, the popularization of new farm tools and cattle, and the promotion of quaternary planting management technology, the average yield per mu of single-season wheat planted by ordinary people in the north has finally broken through. Five stones have reached more than 600 catties. Due to the area of ​​fields in the north, there is no reform like Jiuyuan County. If the size of the fields in later generations is calculated, their mu yield should reach [-] catties. A limit before the reform of the chemical industry, of course, this is also related to Datang's choice to return a large area of ​​farmland to the fields.

Because these Ueda fields in the north are covered by winter snow for several months every year, they can get enough time to recuperate. If they only plant one season a year, even if they are not carefully managed, they can still produce so much output. .

During Wei Ting's three-year tenure in the Ministry of Agriculture, he made such a political achievement. Most of the existing middle and lower fields in the Tang Dynasty were returned to farmland. Therefore, in October, Guanzhong entered winter, and courtiers began to hide in the palace. When the China National Statistical Conference was held, the number of acres of land in the country he reported was greatly reduced, and he looked happy.

Now in the land of the Tang Dynasty, counting the more than 1000 million mu of military farmland developed by the Anxi Metropolitan Guard this year, it is only 2000 million mu, which is apportioned to the 200 million households in the new statistics, and each household is about 30 million. Mu, distributed to each person, about 800 mu. Of course, not all of the 1000 million people in Datang are farming. Tammo Road and the millions of people in the overseas islands basically do not Farming, scholars, industrialists, merchants, doctors, and many other occupational classes basically did not farm land, and excluding children who could not participate in labor, the real population of the Tang Dynasty who actually farmed was only about [-] million.

With 1000 million people, planting 2000 million mu of land, an average of more than 100 mu per person, obviously cannot be planted, but unfortunately, it was planted this year. There are several reasons for it.

First of all, those flower fields in Shanyang, those green storage fodder fields in Dingxiang, and oat fields basically don’t need many people. Dozens of households can take care of thousands or even tens of thousands of mu. After the horse is sown, when it grows up, just drive the lawn mower to harvest continuously.

Secondly, like Shuzhong and Guanzhong, many fields used as orchards do not need to be taken care of every year. Only when harvesting, organize a group of people to work.

In Lingnan Road, fruit farmers are all part-timers. They only need to go to wild fruit forests to pick fruits when the season comes. In these aspects, almost 3000 million mu has been reduced.

The remaining 9000 million mu, of which 3000 million mu were taken up by the military camps of various armies. Under the collective organization of the army with sophisticated farm tools and relatively high labor force, the efficiency of farming will be much higher than that of ordinary people, especially planting It only needs to plow the land at the initial stage of sowing, sow the seeds, and harvest grain crops such as wheat and broomcorn during the harvest period. It is actually very easy for more than 100 million troops to cultivate 3000 million mu of land.

Because, the army farms only plant one season a year, and they have about a month in spring to cultivate, and in autumn they have about a month to harvest, fertilizer and so on. All right.

In the end, the remaining 6000 million mu is the area that the people really need to cultivate all year round. More than 2000% of them are planted with grain. Moreover, only the paddy fields in Guanzhong and Heshannan Road counties are real. Entering the intensive cultivation mode, of course, there are some high economic value crops, which also belong to the intensive cultivation mode. The total number of these fields is less than 4000 million mu. That is to say, Datang still has more than [-] million mu of top-quality crops The fields are still in the hands of the common people, and they are being cultivated shallowly and extensively.

When Sun Xiangfu saw this data, he would naturally sigh a lot. On average, every commoner who specializes in farming has to cultivate more than [-] or [-] mu of land, even if they want to intensively cultivate it, they can't do it!It is estimated that these fields, and many more, are being cultivated in rotation.

That is, half is cultivated and half is rested.

A family of people has at least [-] mu of Yongye farmland, and there are many private fields that are rewarded by military service or some ancestral land. Usually, the farmland that a family needs to plant can reach tens of mu. They are cultivating But when they come, they will choose to only cultivate half of the fields and let the other half of the fields accumulate fertility.

"Your Majesty, after returning the middle and lower fields, a lot of labor can be saved. Among the 2000 million mu of land, excluding military fields and some other cash crops, about 5000 million mu are used for growing food. All of them will be realized this year. Among them, there are 2000 million mu of high-yielding fields in the north of the Yellow River, which can produce about 3000 million grains this year. In Guanzhong and the Central Plains, there are 5000 million mu of fields that can be planted in two seasons, and this year's grain production is about 1000 million. 5000 million shi, a small part of the south of the Yangtze River, Lingnan and Jiaozhi counties, there are more than 5000 million mu of land that can be planted with three seasons of grain. Calculated by the per capita annual consumption of eight shi, the food consumed by the local people throughout the year is about 3000 million shi, the grain consumed by cattle, horses, livestock, poultry, and fish farming is about 7000 million shi, and the consumption of wine making is about [-] million shi, which is sold to foreign countries. About [-] million shi, and by the end of the year, Changping warehouses in various places have added a grain balance, about [-] million shi." Wei Ting reported on the statistics of the Ministry of Agriculture at the court.

There is a very interesting place here, that is, in Guanzhong and the Central Plains, there are 3000 million acres of land for grain, and two seasons are planted every year, but the output is only 5000 million stones. Of this output, only the sixth in Shannan Road The nearly ten million mu of paddy fields in Datian County contributed nearly 7000 million shi of production, and the millions of mu of wheat fields in Guanzhong also contributed at least [-] million shi of production. That is to say, these state roads in the Central Plains, There are still tens of thousands of acres of grain fields. In the two seasons, they only contributed less than [-] million shi. On average, the output is still hovering around [-] shi. It is almost the same as the output before the agricultural technology did not advance. These fields have lowered the overall average level, and are even far inferior to those in Lingnan and Jiaozhi, the newly emerging Champa rice fields.

With the fertilization and cultivation techniques that have been basically popularized in the Tang Dynasty, as well as the new farm tools used, in a year with sufficient cattle and good weather, it may not be that there is no production, but that the field rotation is serious, and the people are not willing to There are not actually that many grain fields.

Of course, the ministers in the DPRK did not notice the abnormality of these data. They felt that the 2000 million mu of land in the Northland could produce 3000 million shi of grain in one season, and the 5000 million mu of land in the Central Plains could produce [-] million shi of grain in two seasons. , very reasonable, and did not exclude the super high yield of Shannan Dao Yuantian and the high yield of Guanzhong wheat field.

On the dragon chair, Li Shimin said majestically, "I remember that there was a surplus of food in the past two years. How much is the actual storage in each place now?"

"Your Majesty, since the third year of Zhenguan, our internal grain production in the Tang Dynasty has been surplus every year. Up to this year, it has accumulated to about 5000 million shi. After the autumn harvest, it has all been replaced with new grain and stored in Changping warehouses in various places."

"Only 5000 million shi? Not enough to feed the people of the whole country for a year?" Li Shimin frowned upon hearing this.

In fact, this data, he had already had a rough idea in his mind. If it was before, he would definitely feel that Datang is already very rich, and the storage of more than 2 million shi is enough, but after he communicated with Sun Xiangfu, his thoughts It has changed. According to Sun Xiangfu's tone, a country must store enough food for at least two or three years to be considered stable, because there may be a sudden nationwide catastrophe, and it will last for a year or two. If there are enough grain reserves, the country may face a crisis of collapse.

Seeing Li Shimin's expression, Wei Ting hurriedly explained, "Your Majesty, that's not how the accounts are calculated. We only calculated the grain produced in the whole country and the surplus grain in the Changping warehouse, but not the people's own surplus grain. Don’t lose eight shi of grain. Our country invests [-] million shi of grain in livestock, poultry, and breeding every year. These grains are not consumed in vain. They are all transformed into meat for people to eat, or to reserve Woke up.

According to statistics from local officials of the Ministry of Agriculture, people in most parts of the country have food reserves for half a year or even more than a year at home. If you add all kinds of poultry, livestock and meat reserves, even if they do not grow The land, the food on hand, can also survive a year.

In addition, not counting overseas, only counting local pastures, the number of cattle and sheep that can be slaughtered for meat is more than 5000 million, and the number of fattened pigs that can be slaughtered at any time exceeds 3000 million. The number of chickens and ducks is even more incalculable, at least 20 billion As for the above, fish is even more difficult to calculate. According to the current situation, as long as there is no severe drought and the fish ponds are dried up, it can always be supplied to the common people.

There are also other aspects of ingredients that cannot be counted. For example, food factories in various places, canned fruits and nuts produced every year have a large amount of reserves on the market. We only counted the main food reserves of rice and noodles.

Therefore, although there are only more than 2 million shi of grain in the Changping warehouse, but in the face of a real crisis, in terms of food, there is no problem in our domestic support for more than two years.Counting the reserves of overseas pastures, marine fisheries and other edible crops, it will take longer. "

The reproduction and growth of fish is many times faster than that of humans. After a large number of artificial lakes were opened up in Guanzhong and Beidi to store water, the scale of its breeding has also increased. Moreover, fish farming can not take up human rations, because, Datang There are enough fields for planting fish and grass green storage fodder, and the common people are willing to plant them, because with a lawn mower, it is relatively easy for a family to plant three to five hundred acres.

What Wei Ting said, combined, is Datang's national strength. After hearing what he said, Li Shimin's back could not help but stand up. These family properties were all saved after he came to power.

Of course, he couldn't directly announce in the hall, who I want to fight next year, after all, the Tang Dynasty is a country of etiquette, but he looked in the direction of Hou Junji and his group of generals with a little deep meaning.

The understanding Hou Junji hadn't opened his mouth yet, but Prince Li Chengqian got up from the seat on his left and said, "Father, I have accumulated these reserves for several years in the Tang Dynasty. However, I can't be proud and complacent. From the aspect of farming structure, Erchen saw many deficiencies. First of all, the labor burden of farmers and common people is still too heavy. Erchen suggested that the number of Yongye farms should be redefined, and more young and strong laborers should be moved to the farmland. Indigenous, reform the farming model, and raise the national power reserve of our Datang to a new height."

Hearing this, Li Shimin frowned slightly and said, "How about it?"

Li Chengqian replied, "Move more young and strong people from Tammo Road to the mainland to make up for the shortage of labor, gradually divide the regions, abolish the Yongyetian system, and promote intensive farming reforms, so that the people of the whole country are like the Shannan Road. It is advisable to plant [-] to [-] mu of land."

(End of this chapter)