Mythical Version of the Three Kingdoms

When Zhu Helai and Ban Kim were worried about Weisudeva I's personal conquest, and Altay and others were preparing for Weisudevas I's personal conquest, Chen Xi was conducting field investigations.

"Although the rainy and dry seasons here are terrible, I have to admit that this place is really suitable for farming." Chen Xi wore a big hat and walked under the sun. It was the dry season at this time, and the temperature outside was quite terrible.

Of course, the coverage rate of forests and shrubs in the Ganges River Basin is very high these days, 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, so Chen Xi was able to hold on while wearing a big hat.

As for the accompanying guards and immortals who practice Qi Chenggang, it is not a problem to say that the cold and heat will not invade, let alone forty degrees, even if it is two hundred degrees, as long as the humidity is not high, these guards can act as usual, and there will be no harm 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, rubbed it, and said, "It's a bit sandy. If you really want to talk about good land, you have to look at Liaodong."

In the evaluation of the people of the Han Dynasty, the quality of the black soil in Liaodong is the best. A veteran like Zhao Zhen who has traveled all over the country and kept his eyes open everywhere naturally thinks so.

"Indeed, the black land in the Northeast is really good." Kang Yu, who came to serve as Chen Xi's guard, nodded and said, "Although it's a bit colder there, but for that land, I finally chose to go there to build a fief. But it's really cold in winter."

"Yes, yes, it's too cold in winter. If it wasn't for the good land, I would definitely find another place." Xia Zhu nodded and said, he and Kang Yu had successfully obtained a family background and completed the class transition. With the development order, the fiefdom is seriously established, and there are still villages under his hands.

"Speaking of which, you also have a ninth-level title, have you figured out where the fiefdom is?" Chen Xi didn't refute, and turned to look at Zhao Zhen.

Although it was embarrassing for Zhao Zhen to be found stealing and drinking before, but Zhao Zhen relied on his previous achievements in luring the enemy with Yu Jin and winning the main battlefield of Boluoyega, plus his previous achievements, it was basically enough. The enemy and Xiandeng both made triple meritorious deeds, and they were all desperate.

It's just that the reward hasn't come down at this time, but Chen Xi's question is not out of line.

"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. I will look for it then." Zhao Zhen didn't hide it, telling the truth.

"What about you?" Chen Xi looked at the other people. The group of people were chattering, 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 not able to withstand the cold. , abandoned this plan and chose Central Asia.

In fact, these people’s choices are very rational. Because of the fertilizer, most of the places in the Central Plains that can be harvested twice a year can’t be planted twice a year. However, the places that normally harvest once a year, considering the soil quality, need to be rotated. On the contrary, it is not as good as in the Northeast. Although the time for farming in a year is short, there is no need to fallow at all, and there is one crop every year.

Therefore, from the perspective of pure farming, there is actually no difference between the Northeast and the Qingxuyanyuji grain-producing areas these days. 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 Xueshen Yicao, people can’t be frozen to death, and my baby can still have a snowball fight outside for a day, is this a disaster? This is considered a disaster. Twenty years ago, it snowed, and I was the only one left in the family, so what is it!

Therefore, for these people, the warmth and coldness are actually in their hearts, not outside. If they can fight against the outside world, they don't care. Therefore, after confirming that the north of Liaoxi 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 get construction resources in the Shaofu with their titles and land reclamation orders. At worst, they can build the heating pipes during construction.

From Chen Xi's point of view, the veterans of the ninth rank who went to Central Asia consolidated the foundation of the country in Central Asia, and the veterans of the ninth rank who went to the Northeast were immigrants. Both belong to the merits of the future and the benefits of the present, so some Chen Xi is willing to support the basic facilities.

That is to say, Chen Xi will support the basic brick and tile houses, peripheral walls, underground pipes, and roads of the village. Of course, if he wants houses and pipes, which are really terrible things, Chen Xi will compare them to the Central Plains to ensure that no villagers will be killed. The possibility of pitfalls, after all, Chen Xi has determined the best ratio through the construction of the major families.

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

After all, even for future generations, road construction is still a big problem in the face of the cold in the Northeast. It is better to use composite soil for reality.

However, even so, these benefits are enough to satisfy the veterans who received the wasteland reclamation order. Of course, the major families actually have some criticisms about this. After all, their feudal kingdom Chen Xi did not provide support for infrastructure. Chen Xi just sneered at this. How many benefits do you get?

"Indeed, from the perspective of farming, the question you have considered is correct." Chen Xi nodded and said.

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

Taking the agricultural book "The Book of Fansheng" 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 afford crops at the age of two, you will rest at the age of one", which means that if you plant food for two years, it will not flourish Yes, it needs a year of fallow.

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. Therefore, from the perspective of ancient farming, if the difficulty of reclamation is not considered, there are even certain advantages. Of course, it is really due to the essence of heaven and earth , human beings are strong and strong, otherwise the difficulty of reclamation is enough to make people desperate.

By the way, this is also the reason 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 currently the only magic tool that allows places such as Jizhou, Qingzhou, Yanzhou, Xuzhou, and Yuzhou to achieve two crops a year, even if one crop of corn and one crop of winter wheat can be grown twice a year. Cooking is very fatal to the attraction of farmers.

What's more important is that after the Lei Jitai is installed, there is no need to rotate crops. Even if the average nitrogen fertilizer content brought by lightning strikes is not high, but as the grain production itself is low this year, the nitrogen fertilizer brought by lightning strikes is even more than enough. Planting two crops of ordinary The food problem is not big, and the output is lower at most.

Therefore, where there is Leijitai, there are currently two choices, plant two relatively common varieties, one crop of winter wheat, one crop of corn, the total of the two may be more than seven stones, or plant a crop of high-yield super improved varieties, The super corn newly researched by Cookie has an yield of six stones per mu.

In fact, this thing has been researched before cookies, but all high yields need to consider soil fertility. The reason why it was not released before is that it takes two years to plant a crop. It is better to develop cookies. High-yielding four-stone corn.

This thing is just within the limit of soil fertility. After planting one crop a year, it doesn't matter if you plant some soybeans or something in the rest of the year. You can continue to plant it in the second year.

In fact, when Cookie made public the improved varieties, some yielded more than four stones per mu and five stones. It was not that the improved varieties of Cookies had really reached this level, but that the land was good and the land was rich in nutrients, so it could be so high. output.

According to Cookie's estimate, the normal level of arable land is close to four stones. Although it is far more than before, the upper limit of land strength is there, and fishing cannot be exhausted.

As for the higher yield, it is actually meaningless. No matter how high it is, without fertilizer, it is really a waste of money.

Therefore, the fine varieties with a yield of six stones per mu were only cultivated in a few fertile large farms before, and after the Lei Jitai, it has the meaning of spreading.

But so far, most people would rather spend some time than plant two crops. Seven stones are more than six stones. They still know this simple math problem.

Although logically speaking, Chen Xi hopes that the common people will grow good seeds 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 deliberately promote this kind of thing. Some things are just spoken no point.

"From the perspective of farming?" Wen You asked a little puzzled. He was planning to build 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 as the Central Plains solves the fertilizer problem later, 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.

"It can't be helped. The Northeast takes the best seeds and plants them once a year. Without rotation, it can produce six stones per mu per year. On the Ganges River, the soil quality is actually far inferior to that in the Northeast, but they Planting three times a year and never fallow, even if there are only more than two stones at a time, there will be at least seven or eight stones a year, nothing compares to it." Zhao Zhen said casually.

In fact, what Zhao Zhen said was already a conservative situation. The Ganges also has upper and lower fields. The year is divided into dry season, rainy season, and cool season. In fact, the climate of the river is distinct, at least the time for farming is clear.

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

But to be honest, the rice yield in the dry season is the lowest, and there are more than two stones. In fact, the rainy season and the cool season are not much different from the Central Plains decades ago. Of course, this is not a technique of intensive cultivation. , anyhow, is also a large alluvial plain.

By the way, the five major grain-producing lands 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 take this place." Chen Xi sighed a bit, "If we were here, the average annual yield per mu could be increased to twelve shi, do you understand what that means? ?”

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

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

Compared with simple answers like food, it is more realistic to say that it is the off-work rate. Chen Xi has achieved 7% off-work population in the Central Plains, that is, every fifteen people can support one person who does not work. It is a very outrageous data.

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

However, this year is a feudal era, and it is enough to only consider the issue of food. If everything else is given up, according to the current grain output ratio, Chen Xi can always maintain such a large-scale military force.

If he did this, the country would definitely be miserable in the end, but no matter what, Chen Xi could indeed maintain it forever. Anyway, the grain output could reach this level.

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

Of course, the 3%, how should I put it, can be considered to be about 7% who come to work from time to time, and sometimes go to work for 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 does not appear in the center, but has always been respected.

To put it bluntly, Sun Qian is really a super giant among the giants. 1.5% of the people are arranged by Sun Qian. Of course, these people are also divided into Jian Yong, Yuan Shu, Liu Zhang and others. What cannot be denied is that the manpower in Sun Gan's hands is actually directly targeting the entire military group of the Han Empire.

Although Sun Gan has everything in his hands, the old, the weak, the sick, and the disabled, even if it is a mob, Sun Gan can gather hundreds of thousands of strong men who can build mountains and 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 daily necessities. These days, you need 14 people to work to support a idler who does nothing. More importantly, this Eleven out of 14 had to go to farm.

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

But the outrageous thing about Nangui is that their congenital out-of-work population is 7%, because the two castes of Brahmins and Kshatriyas do not work, Chen Xi refuses to accept it!