After the First Emperor... Wang Jian stood up from the wheelchair tremblingly. With Wang Li's support, he picked the corn and dug out the sweet potatoes.
It was handed over to the attendants waiting beside the cauldron to clean it, and was also placed in the cauldron of boiling white water.
Then came Li Si, Feng Quji, Feng Jie and his son, Meng Wu, Meng Yi and his son...
One by one, the bosses made their debut, entering the farmland one after another, picking corn, digging potatoes, and digging sweet potatoes.
After the Sangong and Jiuqing were completed, they were followed by prominent figures from hundreds of families. Zou Feng was naturally among them. Zhao Si was surprised to find that Shusun Tong, a Confucian scholar who taught him etiquette, was also among them.
"That's weird, isn't Shu Sun Tong a doctor in the imperial examination?" Zhao Si was confused.
Although he did not have a close relationship with Shusun Tong, Zhao Si also knew about Shusuntong's position after chatting with him. This position was really not ranked among the big guys. He did not expect that Shusuntong could also be among them.
Hundreds of officials...hundreds of families...
After a series of symbolic harvests, it was the turn of the prepared soldiers to officially harvest.
Following the order from the First Emperor, the soldiers rushed into the plowing fields with farm tools like wild horses and began to harvest quickly.
The First Emperor stood here, with Zhao Si accompanying him. He was bored, his eyes were attracted by the big cauldron, and his stomach was empty at the moment. On this great harvest occasion, there must be a banquet for the ministers, but I don’t know if there will be other processes in the future. Zhao Si will be extremely looking forward to it. Open the banquet.
As for the yield per acre? Zhao Si didn't pay attention to this. He had been shocked a long time ago. He was already shocked. The expected output would not be much different from the actual output. When the First Emperor arranged the harvest and announced it to the world, he deliberately dispersed the harvest and budgeted to ensure that the data was accurate.
Compared with the yield per mu, Zhao Si is more looking forward to the next meal.
Logically speaking, for such a big happy event, if the banquet is not sumptuous, it would be too much. Oh yes, there is also a reward of one's own.
After the banquet, there will be discussions in the court, giving the officials and families a space to play, and flattering each other. Only then can it be considered a successful conclusion. As for Zhao Si's reward, I am afraid it won't be awarded today, and it will have to be done after the ministers discuss it. .
Zhao Si doesn't look forward to it because he is a modern person. Zhao Si has heard of even more exaggerated yields than this, and even modern people can enjoy the coolness under the rice...
But at present, all the civil and military officials, scholars, and even the First Emperor were all staring closely at the soldiers who were harvesting, and at the hundreds of acres of cultivated land.
The First Emperor's eyes were solemn and far-reaching.
Although he had made a lot of preparations and dispersed the harvest many times in advance to determine the expected yield, at this moment, the First Emperor's heart was still not so peaceful.
What is planted here is the hope of Great Qin!
The soldiers broke off corn after corn and dug out sweet potatoes one after another.
Three piles of crops have piled up into three hills in the blink of an eye.
And this is just the beginning!
Sweet potatoes, potatoes, and corn have not been harvested much yet.
The crowd started to get a little commotion. Everyone was not a fool. They had personally weighed the weights of these three crops. Although they could not estimate the specific quantities based on the harvested fields and visual inspections, they also knew that the yields per mu of these three crops were far from normal. See it.
As the soldiers harvested wildly, the three hills gradually turned into large mountains. A smile slowly appeared on the face of the First Emperor. The commotion among the people became more obvious, and Zhao Si was also a little commotion.
Because the aroma of boiled sweet potatoes wafted out from the cauldron, he was feeling hungry and uncomfortable.
Zhao Si's nose twitched slightly, and there were sounds of sobbing among the crowd. Looking around, many people shed tears.
"Good guys, everyone is an actor!" Fortunately, this era is relatively restrained, otherwise this would have sent away a few old men.
The harvesting took about an hour, snap, very fast! After all, there are more manpower.
Right now, three hills of grain are piled up.
Someone will move it and weigh it!
Of the three mountains, sweet potatoes are the largest, followed by potatoes, and corn is the smallest, but they are not far behind.
After all, there is no threshing, and there are corn cobs inside. The originally low-yielding corn has become worse because the corn cobs account for the volume and weight.
The weighing began, and this time a large number of Qin officials were in charge.
To learn and to measure!
There was another long wait. When Zhao Si's internal organs were crowded with hunger, Li Si took over the data compiled by the clerk and began to add them up.
"Your Majesty, the combined yield of corn per acre... totals 930 kilograms!" Li Si's fingers trembled and his voice was a little unsteady.
The crowd was instantly in an uproar... Nine hundred and thirty pounds!
The moment the specific number came out, someone fell to the ground.
Zhao Si noticed that even Zou Feng could not stand firmly and could not lift his hands several times to celebrate.
Shusun Tong, who had always been regarded by Zhao Si as as gentle as jade, actually raised his hands in the air and cheered.
Some people burst into tears and burst into tears. Some were acting, but some were real.
Zhao Si knew that the yield of 930 kilograms of corn per mu was very watery, because first of all it was not completely dried, and secondly the corn cobs were not removed. stone.
Li Si continued to calculate...
"Potatoes, one acre can yield...two thousand six hundred kilograms."
Li Si's voice was thin and weak at this moment, and he felt like he was short of breath. He opened his mouth very wide, but his voice was very small. This output was too big, so loud that it was unreal, and it was so loud that he was short of breath. Li Si even hesitated. He brought the calculated data to the First Emperor.
The First Emperor did not speak, his crown shook slightly, and he just nodded.
Li Si then turned around and looked at everyone.
"Potatoes...one acre yields 2,600 kilograms!"
The yield of 900 kilograms of corn was unbearable, and the yield of 2600 kilograms of potatoes was even more heavyweight. Wang Jian stood up tremblingly with his wheelchair. It was a medical miracle.
The crowd even lost their voice for a moment at this moment.
Everyone took a breath of cold air at this moment, and the global temperature rose by 0.2 degrees.
Some people are happy, but others are happy on the outside but sad on the inside.
In comparison, Meng Yi, who was the first to learn about the approximate output and saw the actual product with his own eyes, was more restrained, and the same was true for Zhao Gao.
He stood quietly next to Hu Hai, looking at Zhao Si who was standing in his position with a gentle smile on his face.
"Teacher! Two thousand catties! Two thousand catties!" Hu Hai's voice was full of excitement, and he even wanted to jump up.
"Cai!" Zhao Gao cheered to Hu Hai with a smile on his face.
The potato yield was 2,600 kilograms per acre, which was heavy enough, but it was far from over. Li Si thought he had been mentally prepared, but when he started to calculate, he found that he was very mentally prepared. Apparently not enough.
When that number easily exceeded the total potato output, Li Si realized that something was wrong. For this reason, he even thought that he was too old to recalculate.
When the numbers were added up one by one and the final result was calculated, Li Si's hand could no longer hold the pen.
It's not that he can't verify it mentally, but now, his mind is confused!
Yield per acre! Five thousand seven hundred pounds!
Five thousand seven hundred pounds!
This is a figure that is completely unimaginable. Li Si, as an extension of the will of the First Emperor after the unification of Qin and a model for the Legalists, he knew very well what this output meant.
Things that were once only fantasies will easily become reality.
Even from the perspective of Shang Jun's five skills of controlling the people, if a crop yields 5,700 kilograms per acre, it will probably last for hundreds of thousands of years, and the people of the world will be able to control it.
The affordability of the people will increase geometrically, which also means that greater policies and reforms can be implemented. The fault tolerance rate will also increase geometrically, which is of great significance and cannot be explained in a short time.
As a contemporary representative figure of Legalism, Li Si had a grand dream in his heart. He did not want to live in the shadow of that person all his life. He wanted to make Legalism reach its greatest glory in his own hands.
Li Si's fingers were clenched and turned blue and white. At this moment, his voice was so loud that he lost his voice!
"Sweet potatoes...one acre yields 5,700 kilograms!"
The sound fell, like a boulder falling from the sky, a thunderbolt from the blue, or like water pouring into a frying pan, with a momentary stagnation followed by infinite boiling.
The First Emperor raised his head slightly, although the yield per mu was not very different from the previously estimated yield per mu, even though the First Emperor was mentally prepared.
But when everything came to fruition, the First Emperor was still moved by it.
Above the sky, the scorching sun hangs high!
The portraits and tablets of ancestors from past generations flashed in my eyes!
"Destiny! In Qin!"
The First Emperor murmured slightly, as if speaking to himself, as well as to heaven, earth and all things.
"color!"
The First Emperor was the first to cheer!
After that, the officials were either wild, hysterical, or lost their minds, and the cheers resounded throughout the world.
"play music!"
Shusun Tong's face turned red, and the veins on his neck popped out. He directed the orchestra and commanded the momentum of thousands of troops.
"Behead three animals and sacrifice them to heaven and earth!"
Another person who was in charge of the sword chopped up the three animals and sacrificed them to heaven and earth, and then began to divide the meat for the people present.
Cutting meat with a knife is also a science.
Zhao Si couldn't understand it. In short, after it was assigned to him, it was just a small piece, and he didn't know which part it was.
Looking at the small pieces of meat in front of him, Zhao Si really lacked appetite. The pure white boiled meat made Zhao Si feel a bad premonition in his heart.
What happened next... was exactly as Zhao Si expected!
Everyone cooking in the big cauldron picked sweet potatoes, potatoes and corn with their own hands, which was the main meal.
In other words, for such a big occasion today, the banquet consisted of three small pieces of meat, plus a stick of boiled corn, a sweet potato, and a potato. And it's still old corn, so hard that it bites your teeth.
Fortunately...for today's banquet, there is no shortage of wine, buttermilk, rice milk, pastries, melons and fruits.
Zhao Si had been looking forward to the meal for a whole day, but it ended in such a hurry. Of course, for the civil and military officials and even the hundreds of scholars and "common people" who followed, it was an unprecedented grand occasion.
But people didn’t come here just to have a meal.
Until the sun set in the west and the banquet was over, Zhao Si, who had drunk a lot of wine, once again went into battle as the driver.
Next, it was time to return to the palace for discussion.
Then, reward according to merit!
Zhao Si shook his head in order to stay awake and avoid taking the First Emperor into a ditch due to drunk driving. He cheered up and drove towards the palace.
The output is Qin Jin, two Qin Jin is about the same as one modern Jin. Reply to why not stone? Because stone can only be used when it satisfies volume calculation and volume calculation at the same time. For example, it can both fill the stone container and calculate the weight. There are many variations, including volume and weight, but it is certain that stones are mostly used to measure grain units, and stones are rarely used as units to calculate and measure other items. There are no conversion formulas for these three types of new grains yet, and the space inside the container is so large that it cannot be measured with stones for the time being.
(End of chapter)
