Chapter 108 Food
Hong Yu is a well-known farmer in local mountain villages in Fujian. The average yield per mu can occasionally reach the level of six stones. Seeing the fertile land bought by Wang Jinghui, the water conservancy facilities are complete, and there are many other helpers, so for him, the yield of seven stones is not a problem at all, unless he encounters a locust plague. However, Wang Jinghui said that cultivating new varieties of rice can reach the level of ten stones per mu, which is a crazy idea in his eyes, but the temptation of these hundred hectares of fertile land is fatal to Hong Yu. Now the most important thing for him is to achieve a yield of seven stones per mu and make a hundred acres of fertile land.
Since Hong Yu went to a private school, although he dropped out of school due to family problems and had no hope of writing a poem, there was no problem with writing his farming methods in plain language. Unlike other farmers here, farming is a good player in various places, but he can't even write his name. So Wang Jinghui asked him to be the leader here to manage this experimental field, and also wrote down his farming experience and methods, especially the growth conditions of double-season rice with different rice seeds must be clearly written so that the best matched rice seeds can be obtained in the end when promoting double-season rice.
Wang Jinghui comes here every month to inspect the planting of double-season rice, especially in September, when late rice begins to grout and solidify, he is more diligent. In Hong Yu's eyes, Wang Jinghui's method of planting different rice seeds without any choice to find the best late rice varieties is simply a waste. This is not Lingnan, Fujian, but Chuzhou. By September, the weather is not suitable for the growth of most rice varieties, and it may even produce terrible grains without harvest.
Scene. Although Wang Jinghui was a huge official in his eyes. But when he was sowing the late rice field, he mustered up the courage to run to the prefectural palace to meet Wang Jinghui. He told him his thoughts. The high-ranking official in front of him did not punish him, and he also rewarded 30 stagnant of money. He said: You are experts, you all have to worry about how you plant this field. I don’t care about how you farm, I’m looking for me to lack people and money, I just care about your yield and experience in farming!
After getting along many times, Hong Yu felt that this son-in-law of the Song Dynasty, the Grand Secretary, was not as good as an official?! He was almost willing to use himself and several other good farmers as Buddha statues to provide food, clothing and expenses. As long as farming matters have almost never been delayed, in order to avoid the worries of these good farmers, in addition to allowing their children to go to school for free, he also bought 30 acres of fertile land for them. Even if they were not required in the future, he could have enough land to raise them.
Living yourself. These silent and tangible cares made them more focused on the experimental field, and they were also free of scruples when talking to the prince-consort, and they would not make him angry. Later, Hong Yu, a good farmer from other places, knew from the discussions of people from outside that the prince-consort was a rare good official, and he managed Chuzhou so well and the people were rich. The prince-consort was born as the top scholar, so the people said that the Wenqu star in the sky came down to save the Song Dynasty.
Hong Yu also noticed that the prince-in-law's expression became nervous as the late rice fields gradually matured. At this time, the rice rice in Chuzhou had already been harvested, so the rice field not far from the outskirts of Chuzhou seemed particularly eye-catching. Many people came to ask what kind of rice this was, and how could it be planted with the second crop? These farmers would proudly tell passers-by: "This is the order of Lord Wang of the Military Affairs Office of Chuzhou. I will try to plant double-season rice here, and the harvest is high!"
However, Wang Jinghui was not so optimistic at this time. After all, he didn't know anything about this, so he could only rely on these farmers to help. He could not do anything except spending money in it, which made him very depressed: When did he become a venture capitalist in the future?!
On the edge of the rice fields, Wang Jinghui and other Chuzhou officials patiently listened to the explanation after the translation was translated through the "translation". Except for Tongzong Xue Xiangzhi who was listening carefully, the other officials began to doze there. Wang Jinghui glared at the officials who were a little drowsy. They all had cold sweats. However, Wang Jinghui had a lot of eyes for Xue Xiangzhi: Tongzong, who was ten years older than him, did have some vision. He knew that if the double-season rice was successfully planted in Chuzhou, almost half of the Song Dynasty could grow double-season rice. This was a great achievement! Having a vision is a target of winning!
"Hearing the explanations of Hong Yu and several other farming experts, Wang Jinghui already knew the results of this year's double-season rice experimental field: A miracle of rice yield per mu of the Song Dynasty will be born here. Almost all fertile fields can reach the level of six to seven shi. Hong Yu's pervert is confident that he can reach eight shi?!
"My funds have not been invested in in vain, and the price I paid has not been wasted. I have obtained seven or eight matching plans for the double-season rice and rice seeds with confidence. Although the implementation of intensive cultivation here and the masters can reach this level, if it is handed over to ordinary farmers to plant, the annual yield of five stones should not be a problem. The current level is only three stones to four stones. If according to a conservative estimate, forty percent of the cultivated land area of the Song Dynasty can plant double-season rice, how much more grain would be?!" Wang Jinghui secretly planned in his heart, and was happy: the day when the price of grain in the Song Dynasty was reduced by the Song Dynasty was not far away!
After listening to the report, Wang Jinghui stood next to the sea of rice, standing alone in a daze. Hong Yu next to him had a lot of contact with Wang Jinghui, so he boldly patted him. Wang Jinghui woke up from his meditation. He bowed deeply to the farmers, making the farmers at a loss. Wang Jinghui said in a stern manner: "Don't be afraid. After a few days, all the rice is harvested and weighed, I will fulfill my promise. If you are willing to stay here, the wages will continue to remain unchanged and the treatment will remain unchanged! I bow to you because you have used your intelligence to solve the job problems of the people of the Song Dynasty! As a prince consort, I can't kneel down for you! Your task has been completed now, but I still hope that you can continue to stay here and cultivate better rice seeds for the Song Dynasty. If you succeed, I will have a lot of rewards!"
Although all the farmers in the land did not understand the meaning of Wang Jinghui's words, they also knew that he was praising himself for doing a great thing for this country, and he also made a greater promise. This made all the farmers in the land kneel down to salute him, but they couldn't say a word for a long time. However, the officials present suddenly realized that although the son-in-law had invested a lot of money on this land, they had won greater results: they almost solved the problem of eating in the Song Dynasty in one fell swoop! If they reported to the imperial emperor, they would have taken the direct train to get promoted and make money! With such a profound vision, they deserve to be the celebrity in front of the emperor. They used to think that Wang Jinghui could be a direct bachelor of Baowen Pavilion at such a young age and become the youngest direct bachelor of the Song Dynasty. This is the real ability and real kung fu!
After all the officials understood this link, they congratulated and praised Wang Jinghui, only the magistrate Xue Xiangzhi smiled aside. Wang Jinghui naturally paid great attention to this No. 2 person in Chuzhou, and was also a senior official who specifically curbed his power. When he saw Xue Xiangzhi smiling at him, he also smiled at Xue Xiangzhi.
When Hebei was drought, the people flowed into the capital! Chen Jian, the assistant director, asked Chen Su, to lend the people to the Mishi, and the households were 2 stones, and followed them. Sima Guang wrote a memorial saying: The policy of the sage king, so that the people can be safe and happy in the land and work without being separated, is the key to gaining people. In the foolish opinion of the minister, it is better to choose a fair person as the Hebei supervisor to investigate disasters and hurt prefectures and counties. Those who are incompetent in the priests will change it, and then they can help the indigenous people. Once the residence is safe, the travelers will think of returning. If all the counties are the same, how can there be refugees? The emperor approved it. He ordered the Hebei Yunshu to restrain prefectures and counties and double the pensions.
This is a passage from the latest letter from King Ying Zhao Xu to Wang Jinghui. The one who follows is completely asking Wang Jinghui why he was unable to predict this drought?! His tone was so stern and unexpected. When Wang Jinghui saw his handwriting, he knew that it was mostly a handwritten edict from Emperor Yingzong Zhao Shu.
"The father-in-law really thinks he is a god who can divine the future?! Then I can't become a human-shaped meteorological bureau?!" Wang Jinghui thought with a wry smile with a wry smile. Although the father-in-law respects him very much and regards himself as the meteorological bureau. The blame for this mistake is all on him, but the reply to this explanation is still to be written. Now he thinks this is not fun: the rain and flood disaster in Kaifeng, Biandu has caused him to have an unreasonable loophole, but this loophole still needs to be filled, otherwise he will be finished.
In his reply, Wang Jinghui carefully made a "reasonable" explanation: since he was not in Hebei, he could not get a warning for "heavenly and man", so he could not calculate the drought in Hebei. There was no way, and he felt a little regretful, but the people of Biandu had created miracles in the rain and flood disaster. Even if history repeats itself, he still had to do this, otherwise he would be uneasy.
After writing the letter to Zhao Xu, Wang Jinghui carefully reviewed the content of the letter and felt that there was no flaw. He thought that his name "God" would be confirmed in the future, and he felt funny. However, the historical stage of the Song Dynasty was in constant disasters, and it was also a pity that the Song Dynasty ruled and ministers had survived years of disasters and did not cause a relatively large bloodshed. This is very rare in Chinese history.
Wang Jinghui thought that the Chinese government established a national emergency department after the SARS incident and advocated the establishment of a urban epidemic prevention system. Although the financial difficulties of the Song Dynasty were slow, it was always better than nothing. Just go to the final goal bit by bit. The Song Dynasty also had a food reserve emergency system, which mostly used to stabilize the price of grain and provide relief to the victims. However, in Wang Jinghui's eyes, the management of this system was very chaotic. At least in his Chuzhou, he saw many problems. Many local officials could move the reserves of the often-closed warehouses to use them.
Misappropriation of Chang's position was a common phenomenon in various parts of the Song Dynasty. It gave Wang Jinghui the feeling that although the Song Dynasty implemented the "strong, weak branches" policy, the local government still had great autonomy. For example, Li Shen and Wang Anshi, the earliest users of the Qingmiao Law, could reform under their own rule without obtaining approval from the central government. Li Shen and Wang Anshi implemented the Qingmiao Law, which was mainly based on Chang'an's position funds, and they were able to implement it. This was because they were lucky. They did not encounter devastating natural disasters during the implementation of the Qingmiao Law under their rule. Otherwise, if Chang'an was empty and encountered disasters, many people would die!
After thinking about this, Wang Jinghui wrote a memorial: Establish the National Emergency Response Center for the Song Dynasty. This center will specifically manage various official warehouses for the relief of disaster victims in the disaster year, and further refine the functions of the official warehouses in various places, and do whatever they are used to do. Although Wang Jinghui thought that it would be impossible to complete the task of preventing officials of this era from misappropriating the grain and funds of the official warehouse at will, at least the grain and money used to provide relief to the disaster victims should be set up separately. No matter how much it is misappropriated, you cannot pay attention to the food and money for the relief of disaster victims.
It is not so easy to pass the memorials of the government. This will make the central government better monitor local areas, and officials from all over the country will also call this law "inconvenient" - this will cut off the financial path of many officials. For this reason, Wang Jinghui still implemented his old policy - wrote the memorials very thick. All the reasons are clearly written, and no matter how they are implemented, they will be written in detail. Even if he is not in Kaifeng, Biandu, he will personally explain the holy emperor, and he will use detailed memorials to make all possible misfortunes.
The armed forces were not leaked in the opposition, so as to ensure that the memorial could convince the old guys at one time and be approved. Of course, this was necessary to write letters to those major officials. The current three officials are not Cai Xiang, but Han Jiang from the Han family in Hebei. He had never had contact with Han Jiang, but he still gritted his teeth and wrote letters to Han Jiang, the "Careful Sword". After all, Han Jiang, who is the "Careful Sword", is within his power. The key to whether this matter can be passed lies with him.
After Wang Jinghui prepared various text materials, he did not eagerly submit them upwards. Instead, he waited for five days - the late rice in the experimental field was ripe, and then he handed the late rice ears and these memorials to the waiting fast horse to Kaifeng, Biandu. Of course, letters to all the important ministers were probably received by this time.
"Master, the minister of the son-in-law's memorial should be vigorously promoted!" Sima Guang said loudly in the Funing Hall in a neat official uniform. This was in the Funing Hall. Yingzong Zhao Shu once again urgently summoned several ministers to discuss matters. The important officials who attended the meeting had begun to get used to this kind of "Funing Hall" matter, especially after the Privy Council obtained the "hotline" in Chuzhou, at most three days, Yingzong Zhao Shu would definitely recruit them to the Funing Hall. All the officials knew that the son-in-law in Chuzhou was "remote control" again.
After receiving Wang Jinghui's reply to the explanation of the "weather forecast", Emperor Yingzong Zhao Shu pondered for a while before nodding and putting this aside. What he was most concerned about was the two bundles of rice ears with full grains. In another letter, Wang Jinghui said that these two bundles of rice ears were double-season rice planted in the same paddy field this year, and the yield per mu reached a terrifying eight stones - the perverted Hong Yu really did it. However, in order to achieve the highest yield of double-season rice, Hong Yu abandoned the quality of rice and adopted the rice with strong cold resistance in the rice planted in the second season. This rice is cold-resistant and cold-resistant, but the rice grains grown are mostly black, yellow and red. Although it cannot catch up with other rice and the quality of rice is high, the dining tables of people from poor families will not refuse.
After seeing the explanation of these two bundles of rice ears, Emperor Yingzong Zhao Shu immediately sent someone to find officials familiar with crop production to learn more about the planting level and current cultivation status of double-season rice in the Song Dynasty. Double-season rice also existed in the Song Dynasty at this time, but most of them were regenerated rice. This kind of rice was also found in Chuzhou and Wuweijun, but the yield was very low. It was found that after early rice harvest, new buds grew on the rice stubble. The one presented by the prince here was obviously continuous cropped double-season rice, and the two-season rice planting methods were all in Lingnan.
In areas with warm climates, there are very few distributions. Chuzhou can actually use continuous cropping double-season rice, which surprised these invited "experts" a lot: continuous cropping double-season rice and recycled rice have an essential difference. The biggest difference is that in terms of yield, the yield of recycled rice cannot exceed two stones. Even the best yield per mu of continuous cropping double-season rice will not exceed three stones. Wang Jinghui's double-season rice can actually be close to four stones. Such yields have indeed set a new record.
Emperor Yingzong Zhao Shu waved his hand to retreat the "experts", and the words from Wang Jinghui's memorial echoed in his mind: "The entire Song Dynasty territory south of the Huaihe River Basin can be sown in double-season rice. Although I use fertile fields to achieve such a high yield, looking at two-thirds of the farmland in the Song Dynasty, after the implementation of double-season rice planting, the annual yield per mu will reach four or five stones in normal years, far higher than the yield per mu of three stones. The dining table of our Song people will never be threatened by famine again!"
After this passage was recognized by those "experts", Yingzong Zhao Shu couldn't help but feel excited, but what excited him the most was Sima Guang's words: "If the prince consort said it could become a reality, then the people of our Song Dynasty would never have any famine. If the court could handle it well, the people would imitate the Yellow Turban incident because of the famine!"
Chapter completed!