Datang Nongsheng

Chapter 331 Planting Cauliflower
Li Shimin decided to hold a court meeting in the yamen of the Anbei Dadu Protectorate, and the content was naturally to agree on the specific arrangements for the four tribes of Shiwei, Mohe, Qi, and Khitan after they surrendered.

Of course, before the start of this court meeting, Li Shimin had already discussed some resolutions with several confidant ministers, and he would unswervingly follow the weak, annex, integrate, and digest...

The wording is inappropriate, let’s say it again, as always, follow the core political path of peaceful development, common prosperity, and the integration of neighboring ethnic minorities.

Based on this idea, Li Shimin solemnly declared that the territories of the Shiwei, Mohe, Yu, and Khitan tribes will be the indivisible and inherent territory of the Tang Dynasty from now on. Taxes for three years.

Mohefu, the leader of the Wei Department of Fengshi, was the king of Shangqi County, with a monthly salary of eight hundred guan.

Asulang, the leader of the Mohe tribe, was granted the title of Duke of Yi, with a monthly salary of six hundred guan.

Angie Dagor, the leader of the Confucian tribe, was appointed King of Liaoyang, with a monthly salary of [-] guan.

Mang Guer, the leader of the Khitan Tribe, was granted the title of Duke Luan, with a monthly salary of six hundred guan.

These titles and salaries are measured according to the population and territory they manage. For example, the Shiwei Department has 1 households, [-] people, and the largest land area. It is normal for a county king to receive a salary of [-] guan. .However, the Mohe tribe has only more than [-] households, a population of about [-], and less than one-third of Shiwei's land. To make Asulang a prince is already flattering him.

On the other hand, there are more than 12 households with a population of more than [-], and there are many contacts with many states and counties in Hebei Province. The Sinicization is relatively early. Li Shimin also specially gave Angela a Chinese name called Li Hanzhu, and sealed it. His younger brother, Juedu, was the governor of Huangshui.

Khitan is similar to Mohe, with 3 households and [-] to [-] people. Moreover, it occupies a location close to the sea, and its territory is smaller than that of Mohe, but its economic situation is much better than that of Mohe. The title of a duke of a country is simply a surprise, after all, their current habitat is less than the land of the two states of the Tang Dynasty.

For Li Shimin's reward, the leaders of the four ministries are very satisfied. From their point of view, they just accept their heads as a boss, and they can get a salary of several hundred yuan a month. Moreover, they also get the big backer of Datang. The following benefits continue, so why not do it!

However, after the rewards are over, the dry goods will come. They are not like Yinan, with more than 20 troops, nearly a million people, and thousands of miles of strategic depth in the southeast, northwest, and north.Li Shimin had nothing to do with him for a while.

This kind of active request for surrender was previously exemplified by the bone-begging servants of the Huihe tribe. Although the bone-begging servants did not bring the entire Huihe tribe to surrender to the Tang Dynasty at the time, they handed over all the power.

Therefore, it is impossible for Li Shimin to give the four ministries such a free and loose management system as the Yinan. Not only did he not allow the two tribes who were granted the title of county king to establish a relatively independent khanate, but he also asked the ministries to register the people and let the Tang Dynasty issue new ones. Datang household registration.

Secondly, although all the armies of the various ministries do not need to be handed over to the imperial court, the number and formation of the army must be disclosed to the imperial court, within the allowable range of the imperial court, and they must be subject to the imperial court's transfer at any time.

Then there are the leaders of the various tribes. In the future, they only have the right to manage the people of their tribes, but not the power of life and death.

Don't underestimate this article, this is the key. Once the people of these four tribes have the household registration of Datang, they are not the private property of the tribal leaders. If the emperor deprives these leaders of their power of life and death, it is almost an announcement The people have completely returned to the Tang Dynasty, because there are many people in the Tang Dynasty, that is, even serfs from aristocratic families are not as good as them.

Once these items are implemented, if there are good jobs here in Shanyang and they can earn more money, they can all go to Shanyang to find jobs to make a living, and even move their household registrations here. The leaders of the four departments did not interfere. right.

In fact, this is almost the same as the bone beggar who handed over all the rights to the imperial court, but Li Shimin does not have so much manpower and financial resources to take care of the east, and let them manage their own place for the time being. The Southern Grassland still has a primitive and backward area, so the gains outweigh the losses if it is developed. Moreover, Li Shimin also wants to use the power of these four departments to restrain Goguryeo and gain more time to accumulate national power.

In addition, Li Shimin's rewards for the four people also have profound meanings. They have not been given the power of hereditary replacement, and they will be downgraded from one generation to the next. That is to say, the next generation of the county king is just a prince. Now that there are as many princes as dogs, they only need to be passed on to one generation, and they will disappear from everyone.

Many ministers congratulated the four newly rewarded upstarts, and directly discussed business with them in the court hall. These courtiers are all good people, and they realized that the emperor was more concerned with businessmen or officials. After getting more and more relaxed, they all began to think about their own business.

These northeast tribes do have some specialties that people in the Central Plains like, such as ginseng, deer antler, mink fur, tiger penis, and bear paws produced in Shiwei and Mohebu, all of which are high-priced commodities in the Central Plains.The rich pearls produced in the Khitan Department are even more popular with the noble ladies of the Tang Dynasty. They are in the seller's market, and as many as they are, they can be sold in Chang'an.In the Central Plains, especially in Chang'an, they can make huge profits every minute by mastering the special products in their hands.

In Sun Xiangfu's view, this is actually a kind of progress, and it is better than these officials who want to use their power to take advantage of it.

The other kind of progress is progress in the general direction. Now the things discussed in court are rarely the same as before. They are things that have already happened and have to be dealt with long ago. Instead, they are often discussed. It may happen soon, how to deal with it.

For example, planning, two-year planning, three-year planning, and five-year planning, Li Shimin is now open-mouthed, setting goals, and then accomplishing them is often better than just being what you are and just passing by.

After finishing the big plan on the east side, Sun Xiangfu can finally farm for a few days with peace of mind. As for Li Shimin, he still needs to talk to Yinan about the marriage between Yuchi Baolin and Dongzhu. For meals and banquets, the relationship is like a brother who worships. Sun Xiangfu is too relieved of his communication skills. I believe that if he is allowed to eat, drink and have fun with these guys for a while, he will be given the title of Tian Khan. Blow it on your head.

The Sun Mansion was occupied, so Sun Xiangfu had no choice but to let Zhou Chun live in two sets of houses in the sky for the disciples of the Nongmen to live in. Since there were only about twenty and a half children, Sun Xiangfu didn't have to hold any professional classrooms, just directly Just teach in the hall of the villa.

From the perspective of this era, these eleven or twelve-year-old children are already considered teenagers, and when they are about to take office, but in Sun Xiangfu's view, they still have very little knowledge, even though they have learned it for almost three years. Yes, but the level of education may not be comparable to that of elementary school graduates in later generations, and it is not a big deal.

Hearing that Sun Xiangfu was going to teach the peasants to grow new crops, Li Chengqian, Li Tai, Li Ke, Li Lizhi, and Hou Shuya also came to watch the excitement.

"Teacher, what you want to plant today is the cauliflower that can cure the queen mother's gas disease?"

Although Li Chengqian was sometimes annoyed that Empress Changsun was too strict with him, it was not because he didn't feel sorry for his mother. Back then in Prince Qin's mansion, Empress Changsun often suffered from illnesses. He still remembered hearing that Sun Xiangfu had planted There was a plan for this kind of crop, so he paid so much attention to it, and followed him to see what happened.

"Exactly, this kind of cauliflower grown in summer requires a lot of water and fertilizer to promote growth, and the yield will not be too high, but the growth cycle is very short, and it can mature in about [-] to [-] days at most. Plant some on the sloping land, these vegetables will be ripe before your Majesty returns to Chang'an, remember, not only the queen should eat more of this kind of vegetable, but you should also eat more of it."

Sun Xiangfu knows that heart and lung diseases are easy to inherit. Moreover, in history, the children born to Empress Changsun did not seem to live very long. It is estimated that they inherited some diseases and were somewhat congenitally deficient. Cauliflower has a characteristic, that is, it is very rich in vitamin C. It has anti-cancer and disease-preventing effects, and the average nutritional value is very high, which is one of the reasons why it is very popular in later generations. Empress Changsun and his descendants eat more, which is beneficial and harmless.

After confirming that Sun Xiangfu wanted to grow cauliflower, Li Chengqian was overjoyed and said, "That's really great. You should grow it a little more. It's better to have enough for a year. I'll take it back to Chang'an and let the queen eat it every day, so that she won't have to eat it every day." going to be sick."

Sun Xiangfu shook his head and smiled, "This cauliflower is not like food, it can be stored for a year. This year, your mother may only eat the round I planted."

Cauliflower cultivation is difficult. Given the planting conditions of this period, Sun Xiangfu can only guarantee survival by doing it himself, because it has a narrow range of adaptability to temperature. The high temperature in summer and heavy rainfall during flowering may cause the cauliflower to fail. .

Moreover, its follow-up breeding is difficult, because it belongs to the often self-pollinating crops of the Brassicaceae, and the phenomenon of self-fertilization decline will be extremely serious.In the place of origin, it relies on group heterozygosity to maintain stability, but in the place of introduction, it takes a lot of manpower to create this kind of heterozygosity. Moreover, the theory is very complicated, and it is not something these little guys like Nongmen can understand now. .

In later generations, from the introduction in the [-]th century to the next page in the [-]th century, it was an expensive vegetable that could only be eaten in western restaurants.After the founding of the People's Republic of my country, the agricultural scientists of our country, through long-term efforts, improved the variety, greatly increased the scope and yield of its planting, and finally popularized it to the whole people.

The results of this research are of great significance, and won the second prize of the National Science and Technology Progress Award. The domestic common people who have eaten cauliflower will have a much lower chance of getting sick. In this era, the effect is very obvious.

Sun Xiangfu basically learned the theoretical knowledge of improving cauliflower varieties when he was in college, but the current level of science and technology cannot satisfy him to do improvement experiments, so this kind of vegetable is doomed. Rare vegetables that are not high are similar to the situation in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Hearing what Sun Xiangfu said, Li Chengqian was a little unhappy, and said, "Teacher, you are so powerful, you must be able to find a way so that my mother can eat cauliflower every day!"

Sun Xiangfu smiled and said, "I'm afraid I'll have to wait for many years. You see, I'm busy with work now. I even teach them how to grow vegetables. I'm afraid that the seeds will go bad, so I forcefully squeeze out a little time. But this vegetable , If you are in Chang'an, if you find a group of people to learn how to plant, it will be no problem to plant it a little bit, and eat it for a few months a year, anyway, I will let those Hu merchants bring new seeds every year."

In later generations, four varieties of this vegetable have been cultivated: extremely early maturity, early maturity, medium maturity, and late maturity. The vegetable market can be bought almost anytime throughout the year, but in this era, if you want to adjust the maturity period, you can We can only take it slowly, especially the spring and autumn seeds, which are almost completely different from the original seeds. If you rashly use the summer seeds to plant in the spring or autumn, the result will definitely be no harvest.

However, in view of the maturity period of cauliflower in the place of origin, Sun Xiangfu knows that there is no problem if the summer seeds diverge a little bit. After all, the maturity period of summer seeds is only 34 days. With the temperature and weather in Guanzhong, two or three crops should be planted. It won't be a waste of harvest, and it's no problem to feed a small number of people from May to June to August and September.

"I'm going to beg my father now, let him not let you take care of those messy things, farm the land with peace of mind, it's okay, write more songs, arrange some plays..."

As he spoke, Li Chengqian exposed his true thoughts. Sun Xiangfu shook his head and smiled when he heard the words, "Governing the country and farming are both equally important. There is no stable country, and our stable farming can be done today." Now that you are all here, don't be idle, and help with the field! I believe that if the empress knows that you planted these cauliflowers for her, she will be happier when she eats them."

Sun Xiangfu's words played a big role. Li Chengqian, Li Tai, including Li Lizhi, all grabbed the tools that were brought to the lakeside by a few disciples of the Nongmen, and prepared to do a big job.

Seeing this picture, Sun Xiangfu smiled helplessly. They really are a bunch of kids, they just wish to do something right away when they think of it.Whole fields can be done without cattle or plows. The land for growing cauliflower needs deep plowing, crushing, and heavy fertilization. Moreover, drainage ditches need to be built, because it is neither drought-tolerant nor flood-tolerant. A very troublesome crop.

(End of this chapter)