Qin State, Treasury.

This is the treasury of the central Qin State and the gold and jade storage.

Outside the front door of the treasurer, countless large trucks carrying materials were parked. The number of these vehicles was lined up to the streets of Xianyang City outside the palace.

Because everyone knows that the things transported by these vehicles are Shaohao thousands of miles away, the treasurer's door is surrounded by many ministers. They all want to know what the new species Xu Fu brought back from Shaohao are and what they look like?

Soon, Li Yang and Fusu, accompanied by Ji Kai, came to the treasurer.

"I have seen Your Highness, I will defend the king!" Everyone bowed.

"You don't need to be polite. Come and see the good things that Shaohao has brought back!"

Fusu had no intention of being in a state of silence with the ministers. He looked at the vehicle full of Shaohao's supplies and his eyes were lit, both excited and curious.

"Quick, open it and take a look!"

As soon as Fusu arrived in front of the car, he couldn't wait to order.

Ji Kai immediately signaled the escort officer and quickly opened the sack in the car. Then, grains of golden things were exposed.

"What is this? It is actually several times bigger than Guli!"

When Fusu and everyone saw this large grain of food, their eyes lit up, with a look of surprise on their faces.

Ji Kai was also very curious, so he quickly reached out and grabbed it, looked carefully, and asked curiously: "Dean, is this food?"

When Li Yang saw these golden fruits, he naturally recognized them at a glance. Isn’t this corn?

Li Yang smiled and said, "Your Highness, this thing is called corn, which is planted in dry land and high mountains. Shaohaozhou has no valley chestnut, so it is used as its staple food, so it is naturally food."

"Grain? Such a large grain of food!"

Everyone was shocked when they heard this.

"Magic, it's so amazing! There are so many grains of food in this world!" Fusu was also amazed and couldn't believe it.

As the Minister of Revenue, who is in charge of money, grain and finance, Ji Qi's burden of three times increasing grain output this year is all over his body. Seeing this kind of grain now seems to see hope for him, and his excitement is beyond his words and his mouth can't be closed. He smiled and said, "If Daqin planted this product on a large scale, the grain output will definitely increase greatly!"

Fusu also nodded: "Yes, the Taifu said it can be planted in dry land and mountains, so that it will not be restricted by water conservancy. OK, it is really great, haha!"

Fusu applauded repeatedly, then turned his gaze to another car and urged: "Open everything for me!"

With a command, all the sacks of the vehicles were opened one by one.

Then, everyone saw another thing, such as a potato the size of an egg.

"Taifu, what is this?" Fusu picked up one and asked happily.

Li Yang saw it and smiled: "This is potato, which can also be used as a staple food."

"What? This...is also a staple food?"

Fusu and everyone exclaimed again, because this kind of thing is bigger than corn.

When Ji Kai heard this, he quickly put down the corn in his hand, ran over again, picked up a potato, his eyes shining, and turned around and asked, "Does this potato not need to be planted in paddy fields?"

Li Yang nodded: "It's also dry land planting."

"What is this?"

"sweet potato!"

“It’s also dry land planting?”

“That’s right!”

"This is……?

"Peanuts! Dry land planting!!"

“Dried peppers…”

“…………”

Looking at these many novel crops, everyone had to sigh deeply: "Xu Fu's contribution is very great!"

Li Yang was also very excited because the crops Xu Fu brought back this time were really rich in varieties, including corn, potatoes, sweet potatoes, peanuts, peppers, and dozens of them, including sunflowers, tomatoes, lima beans, pineapple, papaya, tobacco, etc.

Moreover, not only are there many varieties, but there are also many.

The escort officer who transported materials in Langya County has already counted the quantity, including 700 stones of corn kernels (1 stone in the Qin Dynasty, about 60 jin now, 700 stones, that is, 42,000 jin), 550 stones of potatoes (about 33,000 jin), 600 stones of sweet potatoes (about 36,000 jin), and dozens of other types, including peanuts, have a total of 500 stones (about 30,000 jin).

As long as so many crops are planted and cultivated for one or two years, they can start mass production on the land of Daqin, greatly increasing the diversification and yield of grain types.

Fusu said excitedly: "With so many crops suitable for dry land planting, increasing grain yields is no longer a problem."

Everyone nodded. It is no exaggeration to say that as long as these crops are popularized in Qin State, the problem of food and clothing in the Qin Dynasty will definitely be solved.

However, Ji Kaize was more concerned about the cultivation methods of these crops and asked: "Dean, how should these things be planted?"

Li Yang said: "In spring, corn planted two or three grains at a distance of one step on the ground, and it will sprout and grow seedlings, and then fertilize and remove insects. Potatoes can be produced between summer and autumn..."

This lecture lasted for most of the day, and Ji Xie was surprised and happy because he found that some varieties of these crops were not just one for a lifetime, but reproduction of five for a lifetime and ten for a lifetime.

For example, if one thing called sweet potato is taken, it is not buried or grown in the soil, but when it grows vine seedlings, it takes a piece of vine seedlings for planting. The vine seedlings that can grow in the future will be several meters long and can be cut into dozens of sections for planting. Then, this short vine seedling can produce several sweet potatoes in the future.

In other words, the sweet potatoes in front of you can turn into dozens or even hundreds of sweet potatoes in the future.

More importantly, after listening to Li Yang, these sweet potatoes can be planted in barren mountains and ridges, and there is nothing better than this.

At this time, everyone finally understood why Li Yang dared to say that he would triple the grain production this year. With these new grains brought by Shaohao, it is obvious that these 3,000 stones of crop seeds can soon be turned into 30,000 stones and 40,000 stones (nearly two million jin).

It can be imagined that once these crops brought by Shaohao became popular across the country, in addition to growing grains, people's families will plant acre of potatoes, sweet potatoes or corn in wastelands and vegetable fields, then food and clothing will no longer be a problem, and they can even live a prosperous life of three meals a day.

You should know that at this time, the Qin Dynasty generally had two meals a day, and only a few nobles could enjoy three meals a day.

During the Qin Dynasty, how much food was per capita?

In the Qin Dynasty, the yield per mu of grain was about five stones, about 200 kilograms of modern times.

After paying the tax, in fact, I left very little food in the end.

Li Kui's "Hanshu Food and Memorial Records" records that a family of five has a year of 90 shi of food and 18 shi of food per year. What does it mean? It means that a person's annual food is only 1,000 kilograms, which is still raw grain. After removing the shell, there is only no more than 800 kilograms left. Ordinary people are almost half hungry every day.

And if there are sweet potatoes and potatoes and corn supplements, then semi-hunger will become a past tense.

On that day, Li Yang asked Ji Kai to prepare for the preparations, and then distributed these new crops to various provinces and counties as soon as possible to plant them, so that each province and county can set up new crop breeding areas.

In these counties that are planned for new crop breeding areas, it is stipulated that in addition to fertile fields with sufficient water conservancy, new crops brought by Shaohao are planted in other dry fields and wastelands.

Of course, in order to ensure the enthusiasm of the people to plant these new crops and take them seriously, Li Yang also put forward several guiding opinions.

First, the new crops produced by the farmers this year are replaced by the imperial court with scoops. One stone of corn can replace ten stones of scoops, one stone of potatoes, and sweet potatoes can replace five stones of scoops. In other words, as long as one thousand kilograms of potatoes or sweet potatoes are planted, five thousand kilograms of scoops can be exchanged from the imperial court, which is almost several times more cost-effective than their cultivation of scoops.

This method is used to encourage everyone to plant these new crops, and at the same time, it can ensure that the new crops grown are not eaten, and all are used for large-scale popularization of planting nationwide next year.

Of course, it doesn't matter if they want to eat it. As long as you are willing to eat it, eating one pound of sweet potatoes is equivalent to eating five pounds of crust. It can be said that ordinary people are almost impossible to eat it in large quantities. Therefore, the new crops produced this year are enough for the popularization of planting nationwide next year.

Second, these new crops are included in the total grain output of each province and county according to the three-fold number of grain chestnuts.

What does it mean? This year, localities must ensure that grain production increases by three times. Where new crops are planted, one pound of potatoes can be used as three pounds of corn chestnuts, which is included in the achievements of grain production increase in local counties.

In other words, as long as these new crops are vigorously planted to ensure the harvest of these new crops, the government order issued by the court on triple grain output this year can be easily completed and obtained an "excellent" rating in the performance appraisal, which will greatly benefit promotion.

This method is equivalent to directly dispelling the recent complaints of local officials below.

As for whether these new crops brought by Shaohao are enough to be distributed to twenty provinces for cultivation?

Let’s put it this way, take corn as an example. One acre of land requires four kilograms of corn seeds. Then the 40,000 kilograms of corn kernels transported back this time can plant 10,000 acres of land.

There are 36,000 kilograms of sweet potatoes, about one million sweet potatoes. One sweet potato can grow several meters of vine seedlings. Take a small section of vine seedlings of twenty centimeters and a small section of vine seedlings. The planting area of ​​these sweet potatoes is even larger.

There are also the chili seeds in the dried pepper, which can be enough to be distributed to several tourists to save on planting.

What's more, all places originally had to ensure the cultivation of rice and chestnut rice, and new crops were only planted in wastelands and drylands with insufficient water conservancy, so it was distributed to twenty provinces and was completely sufficient for cultivation.

After receiving Li Yang's opinions on cultivating new crops, Ji Xie couldn't close his mouth.

He could already imagine that this year, the people's production tripled, the taxes were fully collected, and the treasury was full, so there was almost no problem.

As a Minister of Revenue who is in charge of state taxes, money and grain, how could he not be overjoyed if there is such good news?
Chapter completed!