There were not many things to print. Chu Zhen quickly went upstairs and saw them looking at several packages of things. Lin Daiyu was sitting on the sofa and made it clear that these were potatoes and sweet potatoes.
"The seeds I ordered have finally arrived."
Chu Zhen smiled.
"the arrival?"
Li Qingzhao was quite curious and pointed at the potatoes, "Can't you buy them in the store?"
Chu Langjun can buy many magical things, but seemingly ordinary things cannot be bought.
"The seeds we have here are specially produced... specially bred. They can only be planted once. Once planted, they can only be eaten and cannot be saved."
"ah…"
After hearing this, Li Qingzhao and others felt it was incredible that the grain they bought could only be planted once.
Zhu Yuanzhang asked: "How much rice can you harvest from this acre of land?"
"About a thousand pounds."
"one thousand……"
Even Lin Daiyu, who has no experience in farming, was surprised by this number.
"One thousand kilograms of rice per mu..."
Li Shimin calculated in his mind, with a wonderful expression on his face: "As far as I know, one mu of paddy field can only produce three hundred catties a year. If it can produce one thousand catties per mu..."
I don’t know how many people can survive!
"impossible."
Chu Zhen interrupted King Qin's fantasy, "Our high grain yield is due to chemical fertilizers and pesticides. You can't make them. You can only use retting technology. Did the Tang Dynasty have retting technology?"
Li Shimin looked embarrassed. He didn't know much about Nongsang.
Li Qingzhao also looked over.
Chu Zhen smiled and said: "Retting is also very simple. I will print another copy for you and send it back. It is a modern retting technology."
"Thank you Mr. Chu!"
Li Shimin saluted and thanked him. Zhu Yuanzhang glanced at him and did not remind him. Anyway, it was good enough.
Chu Zhen took out a few books from the box and gave them to them. "This is the planting method they gave me when I bought seeds. I asked for a few more books and you will take them back with you."
Li Shimin took it and regretted that it was already September and he couldn't plant it anymore, but Chu Zhen laughed and said that it would be no problem to plant potatoes in September in Chang'an, and he was pleasantly surprised.
"You can still plant potatoes in September and October, and you can also plant them in March and April... No wonder you said potatoes can feed millions of people."
Zhu Yuanzhang knew very well when it was time to go to the fields to work.
Chu Zhen said with a smile: "Fertilizer is the foundation of agriculture. There is an island in the sea with 100 million tons of guano. Don't underestimate this guano. If thousands of tons of guano can be transported back a year, food production will skyrocket. "
"...I will send a ship out to sea!"
Zhu Yuanzhang said through gritted teeth.
Go out to sea and dig out guano!
"There are many such islands on the Chinese coast. Birds have inhabited them for millions of years, leaving a lot of fertilizer. The Japanese later also grabbed them. I will open a map for you later."
Li Shimin remembered what Chu Zhen said, but he had no choice but to go back with these things.
After seeing him off, Chu Zhen sat back in front of the computer, displayed the satellite map, and asked Zhu Yuanzhang: "What's going on with my true king of the country?"
"It's the True Lord of the Ming Dynasty who protects the country." Lin Daiyu said with a smile. Chu Zhen looked at her and she turned her head.
Li Qingzhao still sat next to her.
Zhu Yuanzhang briefly explained the matter and said proudly: "I am not the King of Qin, so there is no need to hide it."
In the feudal dynasty, the emperor kept his word, especially the founding emperor.
"I didn't expect you to impose a sea ban so easily."
Chu Zhen smiled.
He remembered that several emperors after the Ming Dynasty wanted to open the sea, but there were many obstacles. It was just an order from Zhu Yuanzhang.
"You have already mentioned the many benefits of opening the sea. Am I a stubborn person?"
Zhu Yuanzhang looked at the Ryukyu Island on the satellite map and said: "These days, there are not many memorials opposing the opening of the sea, and they only mention the issue of maritime disasters. Instead, they are the memorials that you mentioned about the integration of government and gentry into paying grain and admonishing. Flying like snowflakes."
Li Qingzhao couldn't help but said: "It has been a long time since officials, gentlemen, and officials did not pay for their food. Powerful officials and rich surnames occupy unlimited land. Mergers and counterfeiting are customary. There is no way to prohibit them."
The ancient people were really not fools. From the emperor to the local officials, everyone knew about the issue of land annexation, so there were Wang Anshi's square field equalization tax law and Zhang Juzheng's whipping law.
Chu Zhen said: "We have a word here called the Matthew effect."
All three people looked at him, and Li Qingzhao said: "This word sounds a bit strange."
"...Matthew is a word from a Western scripture."
Chu Zhen explained: "The specific meaning is that the rich will become richer and poorer, and the poor will become poorer. Generally speaking, the land in the world will always be occupied by the emperor's relatives, officials, gentry and landlords, unless Land becomes worthless.”
"How can land be worthless?" Lin Daiyu rarely asked curiously. Her Lin family also bought a lot of land.
"We don't charge agricultural taxes, and we even have subsidies. The country will give you money when you farm."
"..."
Zhu Yuanzhang's face was full of disbelief.
“No one and nothing can stop land annexation.”
Chu Zhen continued: "What the country can do is to collect taxes from people who own land and levy more taxes from the wealthy, so that poor people will not be forced to rebel because of exorbitant taxes and miscellaneous taxes."
“Taxation is the foundation of a country, and we cannot pay too much attention to the matter of the money bag.”
Chu Zhen looked at Emperor Hongwu and said, "The specific measure is to firmly control taxation in the hands of the imperial court. Don't give random rewards such as salt quota, mining tax, tax exemption rights, etc., and replace them with money and grain, so as to avoid not being able to collect taxes and leading to war shortages." Military pay.”
When Zhu Yuanzhang heard Yan Yin, he knew that this guy was talking about his policies again, and couldn't help but retort: "I raise millions of soldiers without wasting a grain of rice for the people!"
"The guard station system, right? It was fine in the early Ming Dynasty. Unfortunately, in the middle period, the guard station fields became the private land of officers. Military households fled in large numbers, and they could only rely on recruiting soldiers to fight the war."
"this--"
Zhu Yuanzhang was speechless for a moment. How could he have imagined that a hundred years later, the guard system he was so proud of would become like this?
Chu Zhen said: "A ruler is long and an inch is short. You want to give everyone a fixed occupation and let them inherit the father's legacy. If you don't want to fight, force him to go to the battlefield. If you don't want to study medicine, arrange for him to become an imperial physician. , it’s okay for a while, but it’s impossible to last forever.”
These words were another direct attack on the household registration system established by Zhu Yuanzhang. His face sank and he immediately retorted:
"Why is the military household so bad? Many people have taken the initiative to request to join the military household, and I have no choice but to issue an order to ban it!"
"That's because military households can still divide their fields. Once the fields are divided and annexation begins, military households will start to flee."
Chu Zhen glanced at Zhu Yuanzhang to confirm that he could still bear it, and then said: "Let me ask you, are the son, grandson, and great-grandson of the imperial physician all imperial physicians?"
"A son inherits his father's legacy."
Zhu Yuanzhang sat there with a bad look on his face: "I have asked them to specialize in medical skills for generations, can they get worse and worse?"
"..."
Chu Zhen could only say: "Emperor Jiajing of the Ming Dynasty was almost strangled to death by a palace maid——"
"What?!"
Zhu Yuanzhang was shocked.
Every time he heard about the deeds of those descendants of the Ming Dynasty, he would always be shocked.
Li Qingzhao touched his neck, and the emperor was almost strangled to death?
"Listen to me first. Emperor Jiajing was almost strangled to death. None of the imperial doctors dared to save him. However, a newly promoted imperial doctor dared to save him and saved him with only two doses of medicine."
"..."
If possible, Zhu Yuanzhang did not want to hear what these Ming Dynasty emperors did in later generations.
