Reborn Regent of Ming Dynasty

Chapter 160 A Benchmark

It stands to reason that it was originally "Familiar in the south of the Yangtze River, the world is full."

It means that when the south of the Yangtze River is harvested, there will be enough food in the world, so there is no need to worry about it.

But the current situation has been changed to "Huguang cooked, the world is full."

It's not that the land in the south of the Yangtze River has become less or less fertile. [

In terms of the fertility of the land, there are more than a dozen chief ministers in the whole country, and no province is as good as Jiangnan.The land is fertile, the most important thing is that the rivers and ditches are densely covered with water networks.

This kind of geographical advantage is unmatched by other provinces. The dense water network means that irrigation is easy and the water conservancy is good. What is more important is that there are many rivers. When there are more rivers, there will be more silt. The pond mud dug from the bottom of the river and the chemical fertilizers of later generations It's not much worse than that.There is enough water and fertilizer, so it is strange that the yield is not high.

Furthermore, the troubles in the northern provinces in the past few years are nothing more than the cold and drought, and the overwintering wheat is dried up and frozen to death, resulting in a tragic ending of almost no harvest.

The weather in the south is not so cold, and there is still snow during the winter, and the crops are covered by snow, so it is impossible to reduce or fail the harvest.And the rain was plentiful, and the snow fell a lot, which killed the insects by the way.

It is normal for an acre of land in the north to be able to harvest one and a half stones, and more than two stones is high yield.

In the south of the Yangtze River, harvesting two stones per acre is considered useless. Normally, the average yield is three to four stones. The record for the highest yield seems to be more than six stones, to about eight stones.

That is, the yield of one mu of land is a thousand catties. This harvest is not surprising in later generations, but in later generations, modern industrial producers such as pesticides and fertilizers desperately sweep the land, and this is the only way to have a yield of more than a thousand catties.

These days, we put some mud on the pond, usually weed and weed, and there are two to three harvests a year. If we change to other places, how can this be possible?

Therefore, China's economic center began to move southward at the turn of the Tang and Song Dynasties, and until a thousand years later, the economic center was still in the south.

With the level of taxation in the Ming Dynasty, there is no problem at all in the Jiangnan area.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, for nearly 300 years, there were almost no records of peasant rebellions in Jiangnan, Southeast, Huguang, and Guangdong.

Until the end of the Ming Dynasty, Jiangnan was still the wealth center of the Ming Dynasty, and it provided very stable taxes to support the Ming Dynasty.

Qing was able to win the world because it won Jiangnan without any effort in the first year of Shunzhi. Except for a few places, Jiangnan was not poisoned by war. Therefore, Jiangnan was used to support the war expenses of the Qing court.

This land boundary was supposed to be a place with high grain production, but according to the words of Shaodong of the Kang family, not only did Jiangnan have no grain to supply to the north, on the contrary, they had to buy grain from other places.

"What's the reason? Could it be that the land in the south of the Yangtze River has turned into sand?"

Xue Guoguan trembled all over his body, almost wanting to kick the big grain merchants in front of him to death one by one.

This group of people will never be short of food in their hands, and now they are desperately complaining to him, but they will only offer a conditional price for a while.But now he has no choice.

After returning to the mansion in the afternoon, there was news from Tongzhou that there was really not much food to support Beijing, and at most [-] shi could only be transferred.

These grains are too little in a big city, not to mention a super big city like Beijing with a population of more than one million. [

I really didn't expect that even if the court was short of money, even the food began to be short.

"Of course the land in the south of the Yangtze River is still fertile, but, Mr. Ge Mingjian, it is true that the food in the south of the Yangtze River cannot be self-sufficient."