Datang Nongsheng

Chapter 658 The Tasks of Freshmen Graduated from Agricultural College
The restructuring in Guanzhong has caused a great commotion. The current Tang Dynasty is no longer comparable to what it was a few years ago. Schools are located in every prefecture and county. More than [-]% of the people can read and write. It will form a heated discussion among the whole people. The most important thing is that after imitating the local industry in Jiuyuan County, it has become a norm for the whole people to discuss politics. This is what Jiuyuan County does. If ordinary people have good Suggestions and ideas can go directly to the Yamen to submit a letter of recommendation, or even directly chat with the county magistrate. Therefore, the officials who went to study in Jiuyuan County understand very well, and even hope that this situation will happen, because there are many good people in Jiuyuan County. Things are created by the common people.Then, these places took the lead in submitting applications to the imperial court for restructuring.

And for those places where enterprises cooperate to develop industries, it is even more urgent to follow up, because only if the people can have more energy to engage in industry and commerce, these enterprises and chambers of commerce can make more money, which is their interest. As for They felt that the matter of growing food should be left to a god like Sun Zhengming!
This winter, if Shannan Road opens up a few more counties of paddy fields, and then spreads high-yield rice seeds to the whole country, in the future, Datang will not have any worries about food.

Then, a great agricultural revolution broke out in winter, starting from those prefectures and counties that signed cooperation agreements with joint-stock enterprises, and suddenly swept across the entire Tang Dynasty. They all broke into a lot of cold sweat.

At this time, the military commanders also wisely did not mention anything about foreign conquests. You must know that if there is no war next year, they have not fought for more than five years. , I have been there for more than two years, and the official salaries of all the generals have not been promoted, but those civil servants are in this state, and the population of that county is constantly growing, and they are constantly upgrading. They have pink eye.

Then, the retirement system of generals and the issue of the Datang Military Academy were finally put on the agenda in the twelfth lunar month, when the land reform came to an end.

This is not a trivial matter. It was Xiao Yu who proposed the retirement system for generals, and it was Prince Li Chengqian who proposed the establishment of the Datang Military Academy. The treatment of these two people is naturally different.

Xiao Yu is about to be scolded to death by military generals. In terms of age, there is really no one older than him in the court except Yu Shinan and Li Jing who have retired to the second line. He actually clamored to let the generals retire, then you Is the oldest civil servant going to retire even more?

And Li Chengqian, under Hou Junji's praise, won the support of many military generals, because everyone has interests, and military generals, fighting desperately on the battlefield, are fighting for a wife and a son. The proposal of this military academy was proposed many years ago, but it has not been implemented. Everyone knows that this is a place to train reserve generals for the Tang Dynasty. Go in and study, so that you can take over your own class in the future!

At the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, martial arts prevailed, and the social status of military officers was no lower than that of civil servants. When there was a war, they could even be a head higher. This is a serious training for future power successors, proposed by the future successors of the Tang Dynasty The future military officers and generals trained, everyone knows, will be the military generals who will stand above the court in the future. Now that they are given a chance to occupy a position in advance, they will naturally agree with both hands and feet.

As for how to set the retirement age for military generals, and how to retire, there is simply a lot of quarreling in the class. No matter what, after this matter is settled, Xiao Yu, who made this suggestion, may have to start again. Phase up and down.

On the other hand, the Military Academy, with the court’s tax collection this year and sufficient funds, started to build it first. The location is Longshouyuan, the area to the left of Daming Palace. This is one of the rare clean areas near Chang’an. A place with few people is just right for a military academy with high confidentiality requirements.

Sun Xiangfu in Jiuyuan County was a bit behind on the news about Chang'an. He was drinking Laba porridge in the living room, and was reading with great interest the information on the agricultural reform in Guanzhong that had been fully implemented some time ago.

In just one Guanzhong, 500 million mu of farmland has been returned. Calculated across the country, at least more than 3000 million mu of land will be taken back by the imperial court. However, the speed of implementation nationwide will certainly not be as fast as Guanzhong. As for a quick solution, Sun Xiangfu estimates that it will take at least a year to implement it.

By next year, the arable land area of ​​Datang may drop to less than [-] million mu. This is also because a lot of new fields will be opened on the side of Anxi Daduhufu and Shannan Road.

Using less fields to solve the problem of feeding more people is the new pressure. Fortunately, the various preparations he made in the past few years are starting to work now. Under the leadership of officials from the Ministry of Agriculture, everyone The cultivation level of Tang people has improved a lot. Now, the area of ​​the fields they planted is less, even if everyone is asked to manage the fields more carefully, everyone can almost do it.

There are guests at home today, and there are quite a few of them.

The first batch of students from Shanyang Agricultural College have graduated. They understand the most scientific planting methods of various common crops, and have a more scientific understanding of plant growth. Even uncommon crops, they can take care of them Eighty-nine are inseparable, except for Sun Deshou who retained some people who are suitable to teach new students in the college and continue to expand the teaching of the agricultural college, the rest were all brought to Jiuyuan County by Wang Fu's son, Wang Qiao, a disciple of the agricultural school. , a total of nearly 300 people.

"Master, when I came from Chang'an, I went to visit my father. He told me that Wang Mao of the Research Institute of the Ministry of Industry had developed a kind of plow with two wings, which can quickly open up hills into terraced fields. , I went to see it, and it is really easy to use, but now the common people are not willing to plant too much land, so this plow is probably useless.”

Sun Xiangfu has already seen the drawings of the so-called double-winged mountain plow. Speaking of which, he also gave a lot of suggestions to the Research Institute of the Ministry of Industry for the improvement of this plow. When Sun Xiangfu grew up, he wanted to open terraced fields. There are excavators and bulldozers directly.Therefore, he has never seen this kind of primitive plow for opening up terraced fields, but his level of geometry and physics is not comparable to that of people in this era. It is not difficult to improve the original Quyuan plow. so big.

It is only necessary to install two small planks on the wooden plow surface, which are fifteen centimeters long, six to seven centimeters wide, and four to five centimeters thick, in a triangular shape. It is about half a meter long and more than ten centimeters wide. It is connected with a small wooden board with a hinge, forming an oblique angle of more than 30 degrees. A crossbar is fixed on the scraper board to support the left and right movements of the scraper board, and it can drive cattle away. , The slope-shaped soil mountain is cut into flat ground, and after use, the entire beveled moldboard is removed, and the plow will not be damaged at all, and the land can still be cultivated.

"That's not to say, the people in some places don't want to plant so many fields, but the people in some places think that there are too few fields to plant. The reason for this situation is that the land in our country is naturally suitable for cultivation. , and the residence of the common people, the distribution is unreasonable.

For example, Yunnan now has a population of two to three million, and consumes more than 300 million shi of grain a year. However, there are mountains everywhere in them, and there are not so many places suitable for farming. The people need to rely on a lot of wild omnivores However, due to the many mountains and difficult roads, the cost of transporting grain from other places is also high. The cost of transportation will first push up the price by about double, and because of its scarcity, grain sellers want to earn More, so the price of food over there is twice as high as that in Chang'an.

This is because the Central Plains area produces a lot of grain, and merchants from all walks of life continue to transport it to them, so ah!This plow is very useful in Yunnan, and I want to allocate at least one-third of your graduates to Yunnan to support their farming business. "

"Going to Yunnan? Over there, it seems that there are no family businesses investing in development in the past!"

"This is where those aristocratic families are short-sighted. They only think that the next sports meeting will be held in Guangzhou City, so they flock to the southern coast. They don't know much about a wild place like Yunnan, but they don't know. In the land of Yunnan, there are treasures everywhere, not to mention those medicinal materials that are worth more than gold and silver, do you know the tea produced in Yunnan?"

"Tea?"

When the students brought by Wang Qiao heard this word, they immediately became interested, because when they were studying in the Agricultural College, they heard the teachers tell several methods of cultivating tea trees. After the herdsmen solved the problem of wintering cattle and sheep, the population in the north also increased year by year. In 150, it had already increased from the original one million to more than 600 million. Of course, this was only Shanyang. The population under the rule of Dingxiang, counting the population of Tai'an, Shangqi, Ulan, and the entire Xueyantuo Khanate, in China alone, at least [-] million people have a strong demand for tea.

Therefore, tea is very expensive and in short supply in the northern grasslands. It is a crop of super high economic value, and students from Shanyang know it.

After Sun Xiangfu arrived in Shannan Road, he quickly found Junshan, a local tea producing area.Under his promotion, Junshan Silver Needle has become a well-known local specialty, and the planting scope and output of tea trees are constantly increasing.

However, as far as the current situation is concerned, the entire world, including Datang, is producing tea and knows how to make it into various teas with unique tastes. Even if its current production is expanded ten times or a hundred times, it may not be able to satisfy the market. .

"That's right, it's tea. This thing is not only needed by our local herdsmen, but also in the Tubo Plateau, as well as in Western countries. The economic value it can create in the future is no less than any other economic crop. Therefore, we need it. Study its cultivation as early as possible, expand its production, and start the industry one step ahead of others."

Hearing this, Wang Qiao smiled and said, "Listening to what you said, we have a heavy task to go to Yunnan! We need to help them open terraced fields, teach them to grow food and medicine fields, and teach them to grow and pick tea." , making tea. I’m afraid no one else can do such a difficult task except me.”

Sun Xiangfu pointed at him and said with a smile, "You cunning, you are wrong to think so. I have great use for you graduates. In addition to sending a batch to Yunnan, there is another batch. I plan to send Go to the northeast, to the side of the Heishui Protectorate."

When all living beings heard the words, they were all surprised and said, "Is it a land of barbarians again?"

Sun Xiangfu nodded and said, "Well, the internal development of our Datang has entered a track. It only takes time to accumulate and it will become better and better. Now, it is time to promote the development of the surrounding remote areas. Only when all the ethnic minorities in the surrounding areas develop and live a good life can our entire country be more stable and prosperous."

(End of this chapter)