Chapter 4182: I'm not convinced by Chen Xi

When Zhu Helai and Banjim were worried about the personal expedition of Vesudeva I, and Altay and others were preparing for the expedition of Vesudeva I, Chen Xi was conducting an inspection on the spot.

"Although the rainy and dry seasons here are terrible, I have to admit that this place is really suitable for farming." Chen Xi was walking under the sun with a big hat on. At this time, it was in the dry season, and the temperature outside was quite terrible.

Of course, the coverage rate of forests and shrubs in the Ganges River Basin is very high this year, and there is no urban heat island effect. Although it is in the dry season, the temperature is close to 40 degrees, and it will not be exaggerated to 50 degrees in the urban areas of later generations. Therefore, Chen Xi can hold on even with a big hat on.

As for those guards and immortals who have trained Qi to become astral, it is not a problem to say that the cold and heat will not invade, let alone forty degrees, even if it is 200 degrees, as long as the humidity is not high, these guards can move as usual, and there will be no problems at all. any impact.

"Comparatively speaking, the soil quality here is actually not as good as our Yanzhou area." Zhao Zhen grabbed a handful of soil and rubbed it, "It's a bit sandy. If you really want to say good land, you have to look at Liaodong."

In the evaluation of the people of the Han family, the quality of the black land in Liaodong is the best. Zhao Zhen, a veteran who has traveled all over the world and has opened his eyes, naturally thinks so.

"Indeed, the black land in the northeast is really good." Kang Rong, who came to guard Chen Xi in turn, nodded and said, "Although it's a bit cold over there, but for that land, I finally chose to go there to make a fief. But it's really cold in winter."

"Yes, yes, it's too cold in winter. If it weren't for the real good, I would definitely look for another place." Xia Zhu nodded and said, he and Kang Yan were the ones who had successfully acquired a background and completed the class transition. Holding the development order, he seriously established the fief, and he still has the kind of village under his hand.

"Speaking of which, you are also a ninth-level title, have you thought about where the fief is?" Chen Xi did not refute, but turned to Zhao Zhen.

Although Zhao Zhen was caught stealing and drinking before, it was embarrassing, but Zhao Zhen relied on his previous achievements to lure the enemy with Yu Jin and win the main battle of Balayaga, plus his previous credits, basically enough, after all, the lure is enough. Di and Xian Deng are both triple meritorious deeds, and they are all fighting for their lives.

It's just that the reward has not yet come down at this time, but Chen Xi's question is not out of the ordinary.

"I also plan to go to the Northeast. The land there is really good, and I heard that there are actually places that are not too cold, so I'll just look for it." Zhao Zhen didn't hide it, and told the truth.

"What about you?" Chen Xi looked at the other people. This group of people talked a lot, but they were basically sure that if they could reach the ninth-level title, they would most likely go to the Northeast, except for a few soldiers who were really intolerant of cold. , abandoned this plan and chose Central Asia.

In fact, these people's choices are very rational. Because of the fertilizer, most places in the Central Plains that can grow twice a year cannot plant twice a year, while the normal places with one crop a year, considering the soil quality, need to rotate tillage. On the contrary, it is not as good as the Northeast. Although the time for farming is short in one year, there is no need to fallow at all, and the crops are grown every year.

Therefore, from the perspective of pure farming, there is actually no difference between the Northeast and Qingxu, Yanyu, Hebei and other grain-producing areas. The only problem is the cold, but this is not a problem for veterans who have experienced turbulent times. .

What Li Ermu said back then, what happened to Xue Shen Yi Cao, and it won't freeze to death, my baby can still play a snowball fight outside for a day, is this a disaster? This is a disaster. Twenty years ago, a snowstorm left me alone in the family. What is that!

Therefore, for these people, the cold and warmth are actually in the heart, not the outside. If they can fight against the outside world, they don't care. Therefore, after confirming that the north of western Liaoning can be used for enfeoffment, many veterans are actually quite happy to go there.

After all, if they are in a group, they can actually receive construction resources in the Shaofu with the title and the wasteland reclamation order. The big deal is that the heating pipes will be built during the construction.

From Chen Xi's point of view, the ninth-ranked veterans who went to Central Asia are to consolidate the country's foundation in Central Asia, while the ninth-ranked veterans who went to Northeast China are immigrants, and they all belong to the future. For basic facilities, Chen Xi is willing to support it.

That is to say, Chen Xi will support the basic brick houses, peripheral walls, underground pipelines, and roads of the village. Of course, if he wants the really terrible things such as houses and pipelines, Chen Xi will compare it to the Central Plains. The possibility of a pit, after all, through the construction of major families, Chen Xi has determined the best ratio.

But underground palaces and walls of the nature of city defense are not within the scope of Chen Xi's construction. Chen Xi will also repair roads, but what Chen Xi can provide here is only a three-heap road.

After all, even in later generations, in the face of the cold in the northeast, road construction is also a big problem.

However, even so, these benefits are enough to satisfy the veterans who have obtained the land reclamation order. Of course, the major families actually have some criticisms about this. After all, their vassal Chen Xi did not provide support for infrastructure. Chen Xi just sneered. Are you getting less benefits?

"Indeed, from the perspective of farming, your consideration is correct." Chen Xi nodded and said.

In terms of the current social environment, if only farming is considered, the Northeast even has an advantage over most of the Central Plains. After all, in most places in the Central Plains, when there is no Leijitai, it is cultivated once a year and fallow every two years.

Taking the agricultural book "Fanshengzhishu" in the late Western Han Dynasty as the record of farming and mulberry farming in the Han Dynasty, it clearly records that "if you can't grow crops at the age of two, you will rest at the age of one", which means that if you grow grain for two years, it will not flourish. It needs to be fallow for a year.

The black land in the northeast is more fertile, so there is no need to consider this issue at all, and there is no need for fallow farming at all, so from the perspective of ancient farming, if the difficulty of reclamation is not considered, there are even certain advantages. , Humans are strong and strong, otherwise the difficulty of reclamation is enough to make people desperate.

By the way, this is also why after Lei Jitai appeared, it only spread from the north to Rinan County in half a year, because this thing is a real artifact.

This is the only artifact that can make Jizhou, Qingzhou, Yanzhou, Xuzhou, Yuzhou and other places where the temperature is more suitable to achieve two crops a year, even if it is a crop of corn and a crop of winter wheat, it can be grown twice a year. The attraction of ripeness to farmers is very fatal.

What's more important is that after the Lei Jitai is installed, there is no need to rotate tillage. Even if the average nitrogen fertilizer content caused by the lightning strike is not high, the grain yield itself is low this year, and the nitrogen fertilizer brought by the lightning strike is even more than enough to plant two common crops. The food problem is not big, and the yield is lower at most.

Therefore, there are two kinds of choices in places where there is a thunderstorm. At present, there are two options. Plant two kinds of relatively common varieties, one crop of winter wheat and one crop of corn, the two may add up to more than seven stones, or one crop of high-yielding super varieties. The super corn researched by Cookie Xin produces six stones per mu.

In fact, this thing has been researched long before cookies, but all high yields need to consider soil strength. The reason why it was not released before is that it will take two years to plant a stubble, so it is better to develop a cookie. of high-yielding four-stone corn.

This thing is just within the limit of the earth's strength. After planting one crop a year, it doesn't matter whether it is successful or not, and it can continue to be planted in the second year.

In fact, when the improved varieties of cookies were released, there were more than four and five stones per mu. It was not that the improved varieties of cookies really reached this level, but that the soil was good and the soil was rich in nutrients, so it was so high. output.

According to Cookie's estimation, the normal level of arable land is close to four stones. Although it is far more than it used to be, the upper limit of soil strength is there, and it is impossible to exhaust the pond for fishing.

As for higher yields, it doesn't really make sense. No matter how high it is, if there is no fertilizer, it is really exhausted.

Therefore, the good seeds that can yield six stones per mu were only cultivated in a few large fertile farms before, but after Leijitai came into existence, it has the meaning of spreading.

However, as of now, most people would rather spend some time and are willing to plant two crops. Seven stones are more than six stones. They still know how to do this simple math problem.

Although logically speaking, Chen Xi hopes that the people will plant a good seed with a yield of six stones per mu, which is more in line with the social environment in terms of efficiency, but Chen Xi will not promote this kind of thing. no point.

"From the point of view of farming?" Wen You asked in confusion. He was planning to establish a place in Central Asia. Is there anything else to say here?

"Yes, at present, there is no difference between the Northeast and the Central Plains, but after the Central Plains solves the fertilizer problem, the grain output will depend more on the climate, and the yield per mu in the Northeast will not be able to catch up." Chen Xi explained with a smile.

"There's no way to do this. The best seeds in the northeast are planted once a year. If you don't rotate tillage, you will produce six stones per mu each year. On the Ganges side, the soil quality is actually far worse than the northeast in all aspects, but they Plant three times a year, and don’t fallow, even if there are only two stones at a time, at least seven or eight stones a year, no matter how you compare it, it’s not comparable.” Zhao Zhen said casually.

In fact, what Zhao Zhen said is already conservative. The Ganges also has upper fields and lower fields. A year is divided into dry season, rainy season, and cool season. The dry season has the lowest yield, and the rainy and cool seasons have the highest yield. Unlike the Mediterranean climate in Rome, the constant In fact, the river has a distinct climate, and at least the farming time is clear.

Of course, it is normal for the local people not to farm, so there is no way to say that.

But really, the yield of rice in the dry season is the lowest, and there are more than two stones. The rainy season and the cool season are actually not much different from those in the Central Plains a few decades ago. Of course, this is not a technique of intensive cultivation. , it is also a large alluvial plain.

By the way, the five major grain-producing areas in the Central Plains are actually alluvial plains. Unfortunately, there are some differences in climate, which makes it impossible to catch up with the Ganges in terms of yield per mu.

"Yeah, that's why we want to win this side." Chen Xi sighed a little, "Instead of us here, we can increase the average annual output per mu to twelve stone, do you understand what this means? ?"

Zhao Zhen and the others looked at each other in dismay. Apart from more food and a more stable country, what else could this mean?

Chen Xi laughed when he saw this. Why did he say this to these people? These words should have been the things he communicated in detail with Zhuge Liang, Li You, and Lu Su in Chang'an.

Compared with simple answers such as food, it is actually more realistic. In fact, it is the out-of-production rate. Chen Xi has achieved 7% of the out-of-production population in the Central Plains, that is, every fifteen people can support one non-working person. is a very outrageous statistic.

In other words, if Chen Xi is willing, regardless of domestic construction, industry, education, etc., he can pull out 5 million main force, and it can be maintained for a long time. Of course, if he does, everything else has to be stagnant to make way for agricultural production.

However, this year is the feudal era, so it is enough to only consider the issue of food. If all other things are given up, according to the current proportion of grain output, Chen Xi can always maintain such a large-scale army. Of course, the premise is not to mention the grievances of the people and the morale of the army, etc.

If you do this, the country must be in a state of misery in the end, but no matter what, Chen Xi can really keep it going. Anyway, the grain output can reach this level.

But in fact Chen Xi did not. Chen Xi used about 1% of the population as a standing army, 1.5% of the population as half soldiers and half others, and then about 1.5% as the construction corps under Sun Gan, and the remaining 3%, basically all. industrial population.

Of course, the 3%, how to say it, can be considered as about 7% who come to work sometimes and sometimes other ordinary people. They are not pure workers. Only the top 2.5% are the real full-time population, which is why Sun Gan Basically not in the center, but it has always been respected.

To put it bluntly, Sun Gan is really a super giant among the giants. 1.5% of the people rely on Sun Gan to arrange their jobs. Of course, these people also share a part for Jian Yong, Yuan Shu, Liu Zhang and others. It is undeniable that the manpower in Sun Gan's hands is actually directly targeting the entire military group of the Han Empire.

Although Sun Gan had the old, the weak, the sick, and everything in his hands, even if it was a mob, Sun Gan could gather hundreds of thousands of strong men who built bridges all day long.

However, this is the limit of Chen Xi, or the limit of the Central Plains before industrialization. After all, people need all kinds of living materials. These days, you need 14 people to work to support an idler who does nothing. More importantly, this 11 out of 14 people have to go to farm.

It can be said that the inevitable point of feudal society is that agriculture and land bind a large number of people, and everything is based on food output.

But what makes Nangui outrageous is that their congenital full-time population is 7%, because the two castes of Brahmin and Kshatriya do not work, Chen Xi is not satisfied!