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Chapter 77 Emperor Taihe's Praise
"Okay! Then I will write it down, but my handwriting is not good." Duke Lu agreed reluctantly.

"As long as you can understand it yourself." Can you use a military general as a clerk? Looking at Duke Lu like this, it is hard to imagine that he is both civil and military.

"Then please help me get some pen and ink," said Duke Lu.

"We have the kind of pens and ink you use here, but it's a bit troublesome to grind the ink here. I'll get you a soft brush."

Wang Yue took the initiative to bring them a soft brush and a large notebook. If the notebook was small, only a few words could be written on one page!
Wang Yue walked towards the grain area in front, and Emperor Taihe and Duke Lu followed behind. At first glance, they saw a lot of rice, each grain was crystal clear and seemed to be glowing under the light.

"The rice here is very good. The tribute rice we have is inferior to it." said Duke Lu.

Wang Yue laughed and said, "Of course! We have dozens of kinds of grains and beans here, you can take a look first."

The two men were neither farmers nor grain merchants, and had never seen so many varieties of grain at one time.

The two of them looked at the containers one by one and were dazzled. The variety of goods was too great!

Each type of food must be labeled. Although the two did not know simplified Chinese characters, they were able to basically tell the difference by guessing and comparing with the actual objects.

"This is millet, this is black rice, how come there is red rice? We don't seem to have it there. Here we also have red beans, black beans, mung beans, soybeans, white kidney beans, coix seeds..."

Duke Lu recognized them one by one, including white fungus and black fungus in the front, and some other ones he didn't recognize.

"Miss Xiaoyue, please introduce some of your food to me! You have so many varieties of food, many of which I have never seen before."

This is true. In ancient times, due to geographical reasons, transportation was not well developed. Even if you were rich and powerful, you could only eat the local food if you didn't look for it deliberately. If you did look for it deliberately, the manpower and material resources you put in would be enormous.

"There are so many kinds of grains in front of you, but we actually only eat a few of them in our daily life. Rice is the main food in the south, and noodles are the main food in the north. We don't eat much of other things in our daily life." Wang Yue introduced.

"Girl, when you say daily life, do you mean ordinary people or those rich people?"

You have to ask clearly about this. You should know that in Yan Dynasty, the best rice costs thirty coins per pound, while coarse grains cost six or seven coins per pound. Of course, ordinary people eat coarse grains on a daily basis, and those who can eat coarse grains are already wealthy.

"We have solved the problem of food and clothing here a long time ago, so the staple food is almost the same for the rich and the poor. The difference mainly lies in the side dishes," said Wang Yue.

"If you all have enough to eat, where are the poor people?" Duke Lu didn't understand.

Emperor Taihe never expected that Duke Lu would ask such a naive question.

"If we use food and clothing to measure wealth, then we can say that. But there are always people in this world who fall into poverty for various reasons," said Wang Yue.

"Girl, how did your country do it? All the people in the country eat rice and flour, and yet they can still solve the problem of food and clothing?" This is a world-class super-big problem.

"Of course it's the yield! Do you know our rice yield?" Wang Yue asked them.

"Five hundred catties per mu." Emperor Taihe said, because he knew that in their Yan Dynasty, the best rice yield per mu was only more than three hundred catties, which was beyond the reach of most people.

"How much can there be?" This question touched upon Duke Lu's blind spot in knowledge. He only knew that the peasants were very poor and could not eat enough, so he said that just now, thinking that being able to eat enough basically meant being out of poverty.

"We can produce 2,000 kilograms of rice per mu. Of course, this is laboratory data. Ordinary people can produce 1,500 to 1,600 kilograms per mu, so we can solve the problem of food and clothing. You know, our country has a population of more than one billion."

"How many people do you have?" Emperor Taihe asked. The yield of more than 1,000 kilograms per mu did not surprise him, but the population of more than 1 billion was a number he had never thought of.

Duke Lu's eyes are full of mosquito coils. The annual grain and fodder cost should be less than 100 million, right?
"More than one billion people, 1.4 billion to be precise." "Your country is amazing!" Emperor Taihe meant this compliment sincerely. He had heard before that the country had solved the problem of food and clothing and thought that the population of his own country was about the same. If Yan Dynasty wants to solve the problem of food and clothing, maybe it just needs to work harder!

I heard that the problem of feeding and clothing 1.4 billion people is simply the difficulty of hell! No rebuttal accepted.

"Write this down, this rice seed is what we in Da Yan need." Emperor Taihe ordered.

"Let's talk about wheat. I actually think this crop is better than rice. It doesn't need as much water as rice does. It can be grown in paddy fields or dry land. Most importantly, its yield is not less than that of rice."

"This wheat is good, we'll take it," said Emperor Taihe.

"And this corn is also a dryland crop, with an acreage yield..."

"That's good, write it down."

"this is……"

"record!"

The two of them became more and more excited as they talked, and in a short while they had decided on several kinds of crops.

During this period, Emperor Taihe took the notebook that Duke Lu had written and asked him, "Do you recognize what you wrote?"

Duke Lu was silent, and Wang Yue said, "I'll find you something good."

Wang Yue took a new mobile phone from the shelf, turned on the camera function, and taught Duke Lu how to use it. He only needed to take pictures of the things he wanted to remember with the phone.

This is easy, you just need your hands. It is much easier than writing with a pen.

Duke Lu's handwriting wasn't very good to begin with, but it was readable. Today, he wasn't used to being asked to write with his hands, so his writing sounded a little apologetic.

Seeing Wang Yue take out something new, Emperor Taihe was very interested and asked, "What is this?"

"cell phone!"

"What is this for?"

“It’s our communication tool here.”

"Can you be more specific?"

"It means that two people are holding mobile phones and can be connected thousands of miles apart as long as there is a signal. They can hear each other's voice and see each other's appearance."

“Is this communication fast?”

"Very quickly. If the signal is strong, it will be connected in a few breaths."

“Can you sell it to us?”

This speed of communication is something that no one in power can refuse. Whatever happens at the border, it can be transmitted to the capital in a few breaths. How fast is this?
If possible, Emperor Taihe would like to immediately arrange for several important border locations and several important economic centers.

"It's useless even if we sell it to you because you don't have signal towers and communication satellites. The mobile phone can only be used as a camera," said Wang Yue.