I am Da Song

Chapter 209 The solution to the scourge of the northern nomads

Before Minister Ji Yang Shi continued, Zhao Huan interrupted and asked a topic that the ministers were not very interested in.

"Has the third envoy calculated the approximate yield per mu in each area? How much grain can be produced in total with these 4000 million mu of fertile land?"

This data has little impact on the court's finances and the military's combat power.

But it is a data that most truly affects the productivity of the entire country.

Regardless of the superstructure, agricultural productivity determines the degree of social development.

Only when agricultural productivity is highly developed can sufficient population be liberated from the fields to develop industries.

The urban economy of Song Dynasty is undoubtedly very developed, especially Tokyo. Walking in this city in person, you can hardly feel that this is a classical city in the traditional impression.

Almost all the unexpected inventions that the traveler can think of can be found in this city.Such as coking, coal washing, reeling cars, water-turning spinning wheels, crystal lenses, rod-piston bellows, rice cultivation, fertilizer production, and even trademarks and advertisements, and they are all over the streets and alleys of Tokyo. Fang brothel.

From the perspective of urban commodity economy, Tokyo already has a perfect and excellent operation mode.

But the biggest problem with being stuck between agricultural civilization and industrial civilization is that there is no strong industrial production behind all of this.

All of this prosperity does not have a solid and strong backing, or it does not provide the fertile soil for this prosperity.

It's just that one country supports one city, and the luxury goods brought in from all over the country at any cost maintain this short-lived prosperity.In order to satisfy the insatiable corruption of the literati in the capital.

Whether it is the Tokyo city in front of you, or the entire Song Dynasty, if you want to break through the current shackles and break through to an unprecedented level of civilization.must develop a strong industry.

God gave Zhao Huan time travel, he was naturally not willing to just fight and kill.

Otherwise, he doesn't need to reform, and he doesn't need to make painstaking efforts to compete with the scholar-officials. As long as he lies in the inner palace and spends his time like Cao Rui, handing over the army to Yue Fei, he will win the Kingdom of Jin sooner or later.

But since we have come to this era, we must always pursue a little bit of grandeur, and inject a different atmosphere into this era.

He doesn't know how to invent and create, and he doesn't know how to write books. The only thing he can do is to push the country's civilization level to a higher level and completely widen the gap with the surrounding countries.Let future generations close their eyes and beat all the surrounding countries.

Just like Mobei.

It seems that since the Central Plains Dynasty, the Hulu in the north has been a serious problem for the Central Plains Dynasty.

Generations of heroes in the Central Plains have thought about how to resist the invasion of the Hulu, as if this is an incurable death.

If he traveled to the Qin and Han Dynasties, it would be really hard for Zhao Huan. He had to be careful, cultivate the national spirit, implement the national martial arts, build an elite army, and then cooperate with diplomacy and restraint to solve the problem. (Just like Zhang Rui, Emperor of Great Meng Shenwu).

This is determined by the attributes of both agricultural civilization and nomadic civilization.As long as the agricultural civilization cannot cross the 400mm iso-precipitation line and stabilize its power in the northern grasslands, the conflict between agricultural civilization and nomadic civilization will be an irresolvable dead end.

But after traveling to the Great Song Dynasty, all this is not so complicated at all.All problems can be solved easily with one method.

That is to push civilization one step forward.

Nomadic civilization is the sworn enemy of agricultural civilization?

Rong Di is so strong that he will trouble northern Xinjiang?
Then try with industrial civilization?
When the nomadic iron cavalry went south, they encountered a powerful industrial empire.

That scene was simply... so tragic that I couldn't bear to look directly at it.

When industrial civilization appeared, the so-called Mobei and the so-called northern nomads were no longer worthy of talking about "strong soldiers and brave generals are stronger than China".

Being good at singing and dancing is their national characteristic.

Don't compare your military strength with the powerful mobilization ability of the industrial empire, let alone try to attack the advanced firearms front of the industrial empire with bows, swords and guns.

Because Zhao Huan has this plan, his focus is slightly different from that of the ministers, and he cares more about the overall grain production.

Yang Shi frowned slightly, thought for a moment, and replied seriously: "Officials, my Great Song Dynasty has a vast territory and thousands of miles of territory, and the grain production varies greatly from place to place. For example, in Shaanxi, Yongxing Army, Qinfeng Road and other places, the grain production is slightly lower. , the yield per mu is only about two stones."

"And in the Chengdu area, it is said that the maximum grain output can reach seven or eight stones."

"The most admired official in my dynasty through the ages, Fan Wenzheng, when he knew Suzhou, he once detailed in "Answers to Shouzhao Tiao Chen Ten Things" that the land of one state in Suzhou was [-] hectares of taxpayers. .For the benefit of Zhongren, you can get two to three stones of rice per mu. This is polished rice, and in any area of ​​the Song Dynasty, two stones of rice are basically converted into one stone of rice.”

"This means that in our dynasty granary, the yield in the Suhu area is about four to six stones per mu."

Zhao Huan listened very seriously. For example, the slightly lower yield per mu in areas such as Shaanxi and Qinfeng Road is not a technical problem, but entirely due to insufficient precipitation.However, the higher yield per mu in the south is not because of precipitation, but because of temperature.

The famous Zhancheng rice has been introduced to the Central Plains as early as the founding of the Song Dynasty.Moreover, in the southern states, successive supervisory officials have tried their best to promote it, and it has become very popular in the Song Dynasty.

This kind of rice can be cropped three times a year, and it only takes more than [-] days from planting to harvesting. It is an excellent variety to increase the yield per mu.

Therefore, in the Song Dynasty, the yield per mu of land in the south was generally higher than that in the north.If intensive cultivation is done and the level of agricultural production is improved, the amazing situation in Chengdu will also appear, where one mu of land can produce eight stones.

Zhao Huan did some calculations and said, "In Suzhou alone, 400 hectares of land can produce about 2000 million to [-] million shi of grain?"

"It's far more than that." Ji Xiang Yang Shi corrected: "The amount of [-] hectares of land was reported by Mr. Fan Wenzheng, and it is the number of taxpayers. There are still a large number of lands that are not taxed by literati and bureaucrats, as well as hidden fields. "

"The land around Suzhou is the first batch of surveys completed in this eradication. According to our statistics, the fertile land in Suzhou is 5 hectares, and the grain production is at least 100 million shi, and as high as 3000 million shi. "

3000 million stone.

The monthly rations of the soldiers of the imperial army in the Song Dynasty were [-] shi, and the rations of the Xiang army were two shi. During the Jingkang period, the rations of the imperial army fell all the way to eight or nine dou monthly rations.

This shows that a strong man's monthly ration is more than two stones, and women, children and the elderly can't go hungry for eight or nine buckets a month.

The average monthly grain consumption of men, women and children in the Song Dynasty was between one stone and two stones.

The 3000 million shi of grain is enough to feed nearly 3000 million people for a month.The total population of Song Dynasty is only [-] million.

No wonder it is said that Suhu is familiar and the world is full.

Zhao Huan said: "Although the amount of grain produced cannot be determined, the range can always be calculated. The minimum is 20 billion shi, and the high may reach 40-[-] million. Is my calculation correct?"

"indeed so."

"According to the fact that the people in my dynasty consume one stone of food per month, 12 million people consume only [-] billion stones a year. All data are taken as the lower limit, and there should be at least [-] million stones left. Where does all this food go?"

(End of this chapter)