Li Shimin returned to Danbi and said: "You all know that the Marquis Hao is clearing up wasteland, and you also know that he is responsible for the food and drink of tens of thousands of people until the land he opens up becomes productive. But he still saves these lives. After the food was brought out, you can all imagine how much pressure he had to bear. Although he only has fifteen thousand dan, his heart is commendable!"
"deliver an imperial order.............."
"Your Majesty, the Marquis of Hao is outside asking for an audience. He says he has urgent matters to ask for an audience with!"
Before Li Shimin could finish speaking, he heard the news of Ji Song's arrival. Li Shimin was overjoyed and said: "You're here just in time, please hurry up!"
"promise!"
Ji Song walked into the hall and immediately felt at least a few eyes turned towards him, but this was not the time to think about these things. If something happened to the food while out, it would not be a trivial matter.
"The good time has come just in time, I'm talking about your donation of food!" Li Shimin said happily.
Ji Song had no intention of quarreling here and there, but said: "Your Majesty, please immediately send someone to the coast of Qingzhou to collect food. The situation is urgent and there must be no delay!"
"What? There's still food?" Li Shimin said in surprise.
Fang Xuanling, Du Ruhui and others were also surprised. The food had just been delivered, but why did it appear again in the blink of an eye? Did Ji Song know magic?
"Tell me, where did the food come from? You have to explain this matter clearly. I know that you don't have much food anymore."
Ji Song was anxious and said directly: "Your Majesty knows that I have been responsible for the perfume trade, so he knows many businessmen from outside the territory, including a businessman named Khatib.
In order to get more perfume and knowing that I was short of food, he transported ten thousand shi of rice from a small country in the South China Sea, which solved my urgent need. "
"I observed the weather last year and noticed something unusual, but I was not sure. Your Majesty knew that I had to feed tens of thousands of people, so I couldn't be careless, so I took precautions."
Ji Song paused and continued: "So, I asked Khatib to continue transporting grain to the Tang Dynasty. As long as he delivers it, I will settle the payment in perfume, which can be regarded as everyone getting what they need."
"How many?" Du Ruhui said anxiously, this was what he cared about.
"Three hundred thousand stones!"
"What? Three hundred thousand stones? How is this possible?"
Li Shimin stood up directly, came to the opposite side of Ji Song and said solemnly: "Good Marquis, may you be responsible for what you said?"
He couldn't help but not pay attention to it. He saved 300,000 shi of food, enough to feed 300,000 people for more than a year! If we had this batch of food, what would we have to worry about?
"Everything I said is true, I don't dare to deceive you!" Ji Song promised
Li Shimin nodded and could not deny Ji Song's guarantee. Ever since he woke up from his sleep that day, Ji Song seemed to have returned to his original self, as if nothing had happened, but today he felt as if he was anxious about something. .
This thought only existed for a moment, and then he threw it away. Now he was just curious about how the food was transported. He was surprised that the food was delivered thousands of miles away.
Aren't there constant storms and waves on the sea, and ships are often destroyed and people are killed? When will it be used to transport food?
Before Li Shimin could ask, Fang Xuanling asked: "Good Marquis, it's not that I want to question you, but transporting grain by sea is unheard of!"
Ji Song smiled bitterly and said: "I'm afraid you are not the only one who has this question, but the entire Tang Dynasty basically thinks so too!"
Li Shimin asked first: "Is there any hidden secret behind this?"
"There's no hidden secret, it's just everyone's fixed mindset and they don't think about it in any direction!"
Seeing the confused looks, Ji Song was a little impatient, but he still patiently explained!
"As far as I know, there are many merchants from the Tang Dynasty who came across the sea from thousands of miles away. They came to the Tang Dynasty in big ships and traveled thousands of miles through the wind and waves. Doesn't this mean that there are actually not as many things as we imagined on the sea? Is that scary?!”
"There are three difficulties in sailing across the sea: direction identification, safe waterways, supplies at sea, and disease. As long as these problems are solved, sailing on the long sea will become possible!"
Without waiting to ask, Ji Song continued: "In the pre-Qin period, Xu Fu traveled eastward, and in the late Han Dynasty, Dong Wu traveled to Ryukyu. Recently, the Sui Dynasty raided Goguryeo from the sea, which shows that sea navigation is not so terrible!
What's more, if you sail along the coastline, there won't be much danger. "
Ji Song's remarks silenced everyone, thinking back to the fact that the reason why he knew about the dangers of sailing was because he heard others tell him?
"Where is the food now?" Li Shimin couldn't care about navigation for the time being. What he cared about now was food.
"Based on the time of the letter, we should have almost arrived at the Qingzhou Sea at this time. Please ask your Majesty to send someone to respond immediately. There must be no accidents with the food!"
After hearing this, Li Shimin was silent for a moment, then suddenly raised his head and said, "Ji Song still has matters to attend to, so he can't leave. Which of you will go?"
"I am willing to go!"
.....................
"Zhang Liang!"
"I'm here!"
Li Shimin was satisfied with Zhang Liang. He suffered a lot in order not to betray himself and almost lost his life.
And Zhang Liang had some experience in navigation, so it would be more appropriate for him to go, so he said: "You will immediately command a thousand cavalry, one man and three horses, and go to Qingzhou and Bohai Sea to pick up the grain transport fleet. There must be no mistake!"
"My lord, take the order!"
Zhang Liang took the Tiger Trooper Talisman and immediately went out to prepare.
"Jisong!"
"I'm here!"
Li Shimin thought for a moment and said, "What's the progress on land reclamation at this time?"
"Reporting to your majesty, in the first year of Zhenguan, I received a total of 96,668 acres of land. The required irrigation canals were also in place in one step.
This year, due to the rapid warming of the weather, Chen began to continue land reclamation in the middle of the first month. Now it has nearly 50,000 acres, and water canal work was also carried out at the same time.
Therefore, there are now nearly 150,000 acres of land, and there are still nearly three months until September. I am confident that we can open another 100,000 acres of land, totaling 250,000 acres of farmland that can be cultivated at any time. "
As soon as Ji Song finished speaking, the entire hall fell silent.
No one expected that Ji Song could accomplish such a big thing quietly right under their noses.
Two hundred and fifty thousand acres of land! Even if the harvest is not good in the first year, we can still harvest at least tens of thousands of shi of food. As long as we get through this year, the situation next year will be great.
And this is just one county in Guanzhong. If Ji Song's method is copied to other counties, God, how much food will it be?
"Okay, okay! Ji Song, I'm telling you now, just do it, if anyone dares to stop you. Just go ahead and tell me, I want to see who doesn't want to live anymore.
I now appoint you as the general manager of land management in Jingji Road. All land reclamation and farming matters will be under your control at Sinong Temple. If there is an emergency, you can act arbitrarily. "
Li Shimin was completely surprised by Ji Song's generosity at this time. One county had 200,000 acres of more farmland. What an achievement.
He knew how difficult it was to open up wasteland, otherwise there wouldn't have been so many people trying to open up wasteland for so many years.
Because the gains outweigh the losses, without strong organizational capabilities, strong financial resources, and a good environment, there is no way to open up wasteland.
Moreover, the output of the land gained from land reclamation in the past few years was not much. Ordinary people could not fill their stomachs full on weekdays, so how could they still think about reclaiming land?
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