Datang: at the Beginning, Eat Fruit

　　[-] mu may seem like a lot, but it is not. The yield per mu of Bai Diezi is too low.

　　And to spread it to the people, I don't know it will be the year of the monkey and the month of the horse.It's a pity that there are not enough seeds, otherwise Li Er would like to distribute the seeds to the officials.

　　Of the remaining land, [-] mu is planted with corn.

　　More than [-] catties of corn seeds, one catty of corn seeds can actually be planted on ten acres of land.

　　If the planting is scattered, it is not difficult to plant [-] mu of corn seeds with more than [-] catties.

　　The remaining land needs to be divided into half to grow sweet potatoes.

　　Because of the extra sweet potato vines that Lu Xiu gave him, he could plant more than other seeds.

　　Root planting and vine planting are the means of planting sweet potatoes.When the sweet potato grows new vines, you can even pick a part out and transplant it.

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　　So after the sweet potatoes germinate, one million acres can even be planted with sweet potatoes.

　　Of course, if you count the cotton and the Champa rice from Linyi, you can use all the land of [-] mu.

　　"Report to Your Majesty, the soil has been ploughed and can be planted at any time." Kang Ming said.

　　One million mu of land is not much, and a large number of cattle were obtained from the Turks, so the efficiency of farming is extremely fast.

　　"Well, instruct me to sow the seeds that I brought. Most of them are grain seeds given by the national teacher. They can produce several thousand catties per mu. You must send someone to take good care of them." Li Erdao.

　　"Yes, Your Majesty."

　　Knowing that the crops were planted with a yield of several thousand mu per mu, Kang Ming did not dare to neglect, and he was also very curious whether it could really yield several thousand catties per mu.

　　Fortunately, he was in charge of the one million acres of farmland of the Tang Dynasty, and he was able to watch their growth and harvest.

　　"Well, if I can serve them well, I will reward them heavily."

　　When more than one million acres are planted, the harvested grain can be sold to Baiguan as seeds, and then gradually spread.Four.

Chapter 286

　　Except for Li Er, the people in Anping County are the most lively.

　　The tens of thousands of people in the county basically have a few kilograms of sweet potatoes or potatoes.

　　Lu Xiu hires them to work, and usually pays them with seeds.

　　And the more than [-] acres of land planted in the last autumn harvest, after the harvest came up.All of them were sold to the people of Anping County as seeds at a cheap price of two cents a pound.

　　As a result, most of the people in Anping County have been able to grow one of several types of grain since the beginning of this spring.

　　As for Lu Xiu's tenant farmers, they were given several thousand catties of grain, and some people even sold them at a high price, earning more than ten thousand dollars.

　　Therefore, countless people want to be eager to produce thousands of kilograms of grain per mu, and for this reason, a pound of sweet potatoes has been fried for ten dollars a pound.

　　The people crowded Anping County. One was to buy extra seeds from the people, and the other was to see if they could see Lu Xiu and get a few pounds of seeds from Lu Xiu.

　　Especially because the road is clear, it is really convenient to travel.

　　The twenty miles between Anping County and Chang'an are not far away, and you can walk back and forth several times a day.

　　Many people in Anping County have benefited from the road construction.In the past ten days, the roads around Chang'an have been fully paved. The city gates in all directions and four directions of Chang'an City are all paved with granite, which is extremely flat.

　　It's a pity that apart from the first day of spring seeding, Lu Xiu mostly stayed on the island for the rest of the time, and it was very difficult for the people to see Lu Xiu.

　　The fact that Lu Zhuangnei has gone from being unguarded to now being heavily guarded is all because of Lu Xiu's growing influence.

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　　In addition to spring ploughing, what officials need to be busy with is a large area of ​​grassland purchased in the north.

　　With the arrival of spring, the originally barren northern grasslands now grow sprouts, pale green grasses, and finally grow back from the ground.

　　The Chengzhi Festival flying in the sky can feel the difference between flying over the prairie and over the sea.

　　"Zhijie, how many cattle and sheep did you buy? I remember you bought more than one million acres of pasture." Qin Qiong smiled.

　　However, he had limited money at the time and invested in two barbecue restaurants, so he only sold [-] cans, or more than [-] mu.

　　"Hey, don't mention it. Now cattle and sheep are expensive, twice as expensive as before, and I have only prepared a thousand cattle and sheep." Cheng Yaojin was helpless.

　　With the opening of the northern grasslands, most of the nobles in Chang'an City purchased their own grasslands.

　　Therefore, the supply of lambs and calves in Chang'an is in short supply.

　　There are a lot of people who breed cattle and sheep around Chang'an City, but how can they supply tens of millions of acres of pasture demand?

　　Even adding the Jiangnan area, which is several hundred miles around Yangzhou City, is still not enough, especially for cows. The price of ewes has risen by five layers in a short period of time.

　　Cows and ewes, capable of breeding.It doesn't need to be managed on the grass, and it can breed more than a dozen in a year. Who doesn't want to raise more.

　　The price of cattle and sheep is so expensive that it has even developed into a priceless market.

　　Hot pot restaurants and barbecue restaurants, lamb were once out of stock.

　　Including Li Er, although more than [-] cattle and sheep were collected from the Eastern Turks, but they ate some of them and rewarded some of them, and they only had tens of thousands of cattle to breed.  …

　　In the vast grasslands in the north, Li Er wanted to raise all cattle and sheep, so that Datang had no shortage of beef and mutton.

　　Not to mention tens of thousands of cattle and sheep there, it is not difficult to raise several million.

　　Originally, Li Er planned to protect the soldiers from the government to be responsible for breeding, and to play a defensive role by the way.

　　Coupled with a falcon fruit ability, ten thousand or twenty thousand government soldiers, can easily defend the defense line of thousands of miles on the grassland.

　　By the way, I arrange for the soldiers of the government to graze, and they can help breed hundreds of thousands of cattle and sheep.

　　In the past, the government's military system, which used to support itself and reduce financial revenue and expenditure, and the ambush system on the northern grasslands, obviously did not meet the current situation.

　　With the seeds of four kinds of high-yielding grains, Li Er believes that next year will not be bad.Coupled with the abundant treasury, it is not difficult to feed hundreds of thousands of soldiers.

　　"I'm worried too."

　　If he can't solve the problem of cattle and sheep demand, the grassland he sells is equivalent to nothing, and it may cause public anger in Chang'an.

　　For this reason, he made millions of dollars by selling grass some time ago.

　　"Your Majesty, why don't we go and ask the national teacher? Maybe he has a way to make up for the shortfall of hundreds of thousands of livestock." Fang Xuanling said.

　　"How can I trouble the National Teacher because of a trivial matter." Li Er shook his head and rejected Fang Xuanling's proposal.

　　Last time repairing the road troubled Lu Xiu, Lu Xiu specially gave him a dozen fruits, feeling that it was enough trouble for Lu Xiu. .

Chapter 287

　　"Your Majesty, the Tubo envoy Lu Dongzan once again asks to see you." Lu Kuan, the Ministry of Rites, reported.

　　"Oh? Didn't the Tubo envoys and the others go back?" Zhangsun Wuji's eyes suddenly lit up, "Your Majesty, this minister has an immature idea. I don't know if it is feasible."

　　"Wuji, if you have any idea, it's okay to say it."

　　Li Er admires his brother-in-law's "wonderful ideas".

　　"We don't have cattle and sheep in Chang'an, but...the Tibetans and Western Turks live on nomadic herding, and their cattle and sheep must be very abundant." Zhangsun Wuji smiled.

　　"I don't know if they can sell us a batch." Fang Xuanling nodded.

　　With Menmen Fruit, it is actually very convenient to buy from them.

　　"Your Majesty does not know, that Tubo envoy is obviously not a good thing, he is concerned about the papermaking and weaving skills of our Tang Dynasty. The envoys of the Western Turks are more direct and want all kinds of iron tools. So if we Exchange grain, iron ore for 25 cattle and sheep, the Western Turks will definitely be very happy." The Minister of Rites, Lu Kuan said.

　　The resources in the north are poor, there are no mineral resources such as iron ore, and there are no skilled blacksmiths. It is understandable to covet the weapons of the Tang Dynasty, and even the iron pot wants to bring a few back.

　　"Your Majesty, it is absolutely impossible. How can Tang's iron tools be sold to the Western Turks? Isn't it a problem to raise tigers." Li Jing shook his head.

　　"If the price is good, it's not impossible. I now have door fruit, a dozen cheetah fruit ability, six or seven eagle fruit ability. Even if I sell them iron, they are not opponents." Li Er said confidently. .

　　"But let it develop, there is nothing to do with each other in the north for a short time, but for a long time, it will definitely become a threat to the Tang Dynasty." Li Jing said.

　　"Hehe, how could I let them grow." Li Er sneered.

　　With the door fruit in his hand, his next goal is to take the Western Turks and control the incomparably vast land in the west of Hexi.

　　Although Hexi is not a fertile land, it can connect to the porch of the Western Regions.

　　The Western Regions are rich, and a piece of cloth can be sold at a high price in the Western Regions, so it was named the Silk Road.

　　As for the Tubo country, I didn't pay much attention to it.At the location of Gaochang Country, the terrain is high and it is estimated to be quite bitter and cold.

　　"Announce him for an audience." Li Er said.

　　"Yes, Your Majesty."

　　After being instructed by Li Er, the eunuch brought Lu Dongzan up.

　　Lu Dongzan was seeing Li Er for the second time at this time. The first time he hoped to sign a covenant with Datang, but he was let go by Li Er for a month or two.

　　"Lu Dongzan, the envoy of Tubo, pays a visit to His Majesty the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty." Lu Dongzan, who was only [-] years old, may be old because of the weather.Say he is thirty years old, it is estimated that some people will believe it.

　　"Exemption."

　　"Your Majesty the Tang Dynasty, can you give Lu Mou an accurate answer today?"

　　"The matter of marriage is not to be discussed. I will not be happy to let my princess marry the Tibetans who are in high mountains and bitter cold. As for the covenant, I have two conditions."

　　First, the high covenant fee.

　　But Li Er remembered how much he paid for the Weishui Alliance at the time to let the hundreds of thousands of Turkic troops retreat.

　　This time, when they signed a covenant with Tubo, they naturally asked them to pay with cattle and sheep. More than [-] cattle and sheep were nothing to them.

　　The second, of course, is to be a minister.To establish a country, Tubo must bow his head to the Tang Dynasty, and not be an alliance with each other.

　　But Li Er said two harsh conditions, which made Lu Dongzan's face turn pale.

　　How could Lu Dongzan dare to reply without authorization? If it was spread to Tibet, he would definitely be reviled by the Tibetans, which is different from being a traitor.

　　But if he doesn't agree to Li Er's conditions, Lu Dongzan doesn't understand how determined Li Er is.

　　If the Great Tang Dynasty wanted to send troops to attack their Tibetans, they would be completely unstoppable with the current strength of their Tibetans.

　　Perhaps at first they thought that they were thousands of miles away from the Tang Dynasty, and it was difficult for the Tang Dynasty to attack them because the Tibetans were easy to defend and difficult to attack.