Chang'an City, Tai Chi Palace, Liang Yi Palace.
"Hahahaha!" Li Shimin laughed happily. The Bureau of Statistics, which was affiliated with the Audit Department, had just calculated the latest accounting figures. The resulting figures made Li Shimin want to laugh three times.
"My son has the qualifications to be a great emperor!" Li Shimin said excitedly, waving his hands.
Wei Zheng: "..."
Fang Xuanling: "..."
Changsun Wuji was naturally closed today as usual, and he knew the reason why he was closed, so he naturally didn't show up when he was supposed to.
Fang and Wei had no choice but to escape.
"Look, look, I don't know where this kid collected these high-yielding wheat seeds. Maybe they came from overseas, but no matter what, the yield is too high!" Li Shimin was a little excited.
"Since last winter, I heard that the warehouse outside Chang'an City has been continuously transporting wheat to several important grain-producing areas such as Guannai Road. I heard that these guys are all high-yield wheat seeds shipped from overseas. You know how much he promoted it.”
"But this year's figure is indeed God's destiny for me, Li Shimin, to make the Tang Dynasty prosperous and prosperous for thousands of years! My good son, my good son!" Li Shimin was filled with excitement.
He rarely loses his temper like this, but Fang and Wei can understand it, because it was not easy for Li Shimin after he ascended the throne. In the first year of Zhenguan, Jieli led his troops to break into the vicinity of Longyou Road. For this reason, His Majesty had to sign the Weishui Alliance with Jieli.
Just as His Majesty Dian himself said, that was not the humiliation of the Tang Dynasty, but it was the humiliation of Li Shimin. Because if he, Li Shimin, hadn't initiated the Xuanwu Sect incident, Jie Li would never have had that chance.
Subsequently, from the early years of Zhenguan to the fourth year of Zhenguan, the Tang Dynasty suffered from successive disasters, such as droughts, locust plagues, frosts and other disasters, which forced His Majesty to swallow locusts and write personal edicts of sin.
Even under such circumstances, the Tang Dynasty destroyed the Eastern Turks in the fourth year of Zhenguan! Starting from the year of Zhenguan, surrounding countries such as the Eastern Turks, Tuyuhun, Tubo, Gaochang, Western Turks, and Goguryeo took turns to cause trouble for the Tang Dynasty.
There is only one reason for all this, not enough food.
Food has always been Li Shimin's concern, and until His Highness the King of Qin stopped hiding his clumsiness, and perhaps obtained unprecedented technology from the country on the other side of the ocean, and received a large amount of food from Nanyang, His Majesty was not so happy.
Because the food comes from Nanyang, in His Majesty's view, Nanyang has not been completely controlled by the Tang Dynasty, and after all, it is not a long-term solution.
No one knows how many years Nanyang can supply food to the Tang Dynasty.
Although potatoes have been sown and promoted many times before, and His Majesty has even eaten them, His Majesty has never been so excited. They all know that His Majesty is waiting for the time when this food can be spread all over the world and truly become popular all over the world.
And this year, it all finally came to fruition.
According to data from the Bureau of Statistics, from last year to this year, the total number of high-yielding wheat seeds planted by His Highness to various parts of Datang was about 600,000, more than one-tenth of the farmers in Datang, and accounting for almost all high-yield farmers in Datang. The northern region of the land.
On average, each of the 600,000 households grows about 50 acres of wheat, totaling 30 million acres, and the average output is about 4.8 shi per mu!
You must know that before the Tang Dynasty, the average wheat yield per mu was only about 1.7 shi!
Almost tripled!
This means that the wheat harvested from these 30 million acres of land alone is 8.6 billion kilograms! About 8.6 million tons! According to the calculation that each common person in the Tang Dynasty was allocated 2 kilograms of grain per day, each common person would have about 365 kilograms of grain per year. The annual ration for these common people would only be 9.1 billion kilograms!
30 million acres of land could feed all the people in the Tang Dynasty, so wouldn’t the remaining land be a surplus? !
The problem is just wheat! The yield of potatoes is even more terrifying. The key point is that potatoes require less land. The total number of acres of potatoes planted in Datang this year is only 3.2 million acres, but the average yield per mu has reached 30 shi!
This is because a lot of the land is relatively barren land!
These potatoes alone are another 5.7 billion kilograms of grain! His Highness said that people can live just by eating these potatoes! These two items alone were enough to feed the people of the Tang Dynasty throughout the year, not to mention all the rice grown in the south, as well as the rice continuously shipped back from Linyi, Zhenxu, Tianzhu and other places!
I heard that mountain people in Yizhou, Nanzhao and other places have been recruiting them to plant rice in Linyi, Lusong and other places. Rice in those places can be harvested three times a year! There is no shortage of food!
In the future, there will be no shortage of food in the Tang Dynasty. Can Your Majesty be unhappy? !
And after one year of planting this year, these high-yielding seeds will be replanted next year. Potato seeds will be enough to spread all over the world. No one in the Tang Dynasty will starve to death anymore!
It is understandable that His Majesty is so out of sorts today.
How can the common people of the world eat one kilogram of grain in one day? Obviously, the price of food in the Tang Dynasty will not rise in the future. Of course, His Highness has said that it is impossible for this food to fall down.
Tang Chuliang has applied to the central bank to start a grain collection policy. The price of wheat in the Tang Dynasty will be stabilized at 100 cents per stone, and the price of corn will also be stabilized at 80 cents. Rice may It will be a little more expensive and is stable at 110 yuan per stone.
This is the subsidy price that Tang Grain Reserve collects on behalf of the treasury and gives to farmers this year.
People will definitely have a prosperous year this year! The average household in the Tang Dynasty had less than 5 people. If there were 5 people, one kilogram of grain per person per day would mean that the whole family would only have 1,800 kilograms of grain per year. About 30 shi of grain would be enough.
But the people's income is 240 shi of grain, so each household sells 200 shi of grain, which is 20 gu of money! When will the people of the Tang Dynasty be able to earn 20 guan from farming a year?
Not to mention that this does not include the income of another 50 acres.
"Xuanling." Li Shimin said happily.
"I'm here."
"This year's grain harvest has not started yet. Now let's get Tang Chuliang to start harvesting grain, and announce the agricultural subsidies to the whole world!"
"Similarly, grain production is also announced to the world! Remember, don't forget, just say it is all Li Ke's credit! Let the officials below publicize this, don't go through Datang Weekly."
"The other thing is to ask local officials to announce to the people in areas with less farmland that there is a lot of desolate and inhabited land in various places in the Tang Dynasty that needs to be cultivated. For those who are willing to move, the court will subsidize their travel expenses and a year's worth of food! "Li Shimin waved his hand.
I also have money now. Naturally, that’s generous!
Anyway, there is a lot of food harvested, and there is not enough food to eat this year. We will subsidize travel expenses and food for these people who are willing to immigrate! As long as you are willing to immigrate, everything is easy!
Let all the land in the world be planted!
