Chapter five hundred and twentieth eight black land
It turned out that the Liao Kingdom was divided into two regions, one was a farming civilization and the other was a nomadic civilization. If the two civilizations were integrated together, the Liao Kingdom did a pretty good job.
Moreover, after careful analysis, Song Jiu came to a conclusion, that is, the fuzzy governance of the Liao Kingdom.
They subconsciously induce the people to settle down and farm, but never force them. This is the inherent reason for the success of the two civilizations of the Liao Kingdom.
Therefore, from Youyun to the area around the Liaodong area of Zhongjing Shangjing, most of them were farming civilizations, but not entirely farming civilizations. Youzhou was almost completely farming civilizations, and after reaching the mountain, some semi-cultivation and semi-pardon phenomena gradually began to appear.
The more you go to the north, the more you get, the heavier the semi-grass. However, after the Liao Kingdom defeated the Bohai Kingdom, it deliberately migrated the people of the Bohai Sea, which caused a gap in civilization. This is like the confrontation between the Song and Jin Dynasties in history. Due to the war, the Jianghuai River returned to the backward farming method of slash-and-burn farming.
Therefore, the civilizations of the Jurchen tribes became increasingly backward and closed, so the farming methods became backward as time went by. When farming could not maintain food and clothing, and because of the terrain and weather, they could not be nomadic on a large scale. Therefore, the Jurchen tribes also learned from the Shiwei people in the north, half farming, half peasant and half fishing.
And the crops are a little different.
It is still warm winter now, and the weather is relatively warm, so rice can even be grown in southern Youzhou, but the yield is a bit low.
When we reach the north, it is completely wheat, millet and beans.
Even when I got to the Jurchens, the proportion of wheat was not large, mainly beans and millet.
It was not until Song Jiu went to Liaodong that he intended to let Wu Xuanming introduce some excellent spring wheat seeds from the Liao Kingdom that more people gradually planted wheat.
But that's not OK.
Why was the price of wheat and rice in the Song Dynasty more than three times the price difference? Is the pasta so unpalatable?
It's really unpalatable.
The reason is the shelling technology. The shelling technology of wheat is not good, and there are many wheat brans in it. Therefore, rice in the Song Dynasty was much more expensive than wheat. If wheat is like this, let alone sorghum millet.
As for beans, there is no problem with this. Its history of food in China is even older, almost as old as sorghum. As for wheat and rice, they all appeared later. However, eating soybeans every day does not have to eat soybeans every day. Even eating sweet potatoes every day will make people feel nauseous.
However, Song Jiu has his own confidence.
That's rice.
Thanks to the fictional novels, he accidentally saw the history of Northeast rice, which was the cold-resistant rice seeds introduced from Japan, which opened up a new world of agriculture in Northeast China.
I went to Liaodong before. After returning to the Song Dynasty, Song Jiu saw it and heard it, and then conceived various governance situations in the Northeast in his mind.
Of course, in that case, just think about it and cannot say it out, otherwise it will make people feel ridiculous.
For example, on the issue of ethnicity, Song Jiu proposed to be mutually friendly, integrated, equal and respect.
The Han people were not arrogant, but they were not allowed to overtake Han people, and they were especially punished for the Tongzhi Hui Rebellion in history. Song Jiu also proposed to treat religion, national beliefs and customs, which could be influenced, but not insulted. In fact, the Han people were in a very miserable situation. They were massacred by aliens again and again... However, taking the overall situation into consideration, they could not substitute the history of Han people in another time and space into this time. However, Song Jiu proposed in the Secretariat. Even Zhao Heng publicly issued a public offering of dew grass to the world that the court could respect it, but there were several items: one was not allowed to rebel, two was not allowed to meat the people, three was not allowed to worship evil gods and ghosts, especially some barbarians and foreign tribes killed people and sacrificed ghosts, and four was that they could not preach aggressive doctrines, especially "holy wars" and other religions, and no matter what religion, they could not appear in the Song Dynasty.
Then, if the grass is exposed, if these four premises are not violated and the laws of the Song Dynasty, disputes arise due to discrimination against the other party, no matter what race, the discrimination is held accountable.
It is precisely because of this edict that the northwest was rapidly merging, which was almost comparable to the speed of the Northern Zhou Dynasty in the Southern and Northern Dynasties.
However, because the Qinzhou family members had not reached the west side and Hezhou, they still had noble races (referring to the importance of personal origin and his race. In the Song Dynasty, there were two races who had admired the Han people and had borrowed races because they admired the Han people. One was the Japanese people, and the other was the Qinzhou family. The main reason was that there was no big conflict between the Qinzhou people and the Song Dynasty in history. Moreover, the proportion of Han people in their blood was relatively large, and most of them were Han people, so they were not very repulsive to the Han people).
The second is the crop in front of you, rice from Japan.
I thought of it at that time, but rice is different from wheat and millet. It is a high-yield crop. Song Jiu just thought about it and did not spread rice to Liaodong, fearing that the Liao Kingdom would become stronger.
It was not until last year after the Battle of Daling River that Song Jiu asked some maritime merchants to go to Japan and brought many high-quality rice seeds.
He also hired some experienced Hebei people to come. At the same time, because many soldiers from various villages were from peasants and they also farmed, they set up some experimental sites in various prefectures in Liaodong, and the Han people farmed and allowed the people of Liaodong to watch and learn.
After coming to the Song Dynasty for a long time, Song Jiu sometimes automatically forgot the high yields of his previous life.
The fertile black soil in Liaodong, coupled with advanced farming methods, almost all crops in the experimental sites are growing wildly, especially rice.
Song Jiu asked the minor officials to carefully measure the land and then ordered the harvest.
There were many people who came to watch, including Wang Shu, officials from Dongyang Prefecture, and more local people.
Since this kind of rice started to bear ears, many people have noticed it.
Everyone is curious about its output.
It is only a test field, with only 200 acres in Shenzhou, Shenzhen, but there are many people who harvest. Even the people who are watching the heat come to help. After the harvest on the first day, the drying on the second day, the rice is harvested on the third day.
Then the weight was weighed and it actually reached a high yield of nearly four and a half stones per acre.
"The northeast is settled," Wang Shu said.
This weight is not the standard weight. We must continue to dry the moisture and remove the weeds and dust. But no matter what, the yield of three stones and half is available. Of course, it is a test field, and the yield will inevitably decrease after promotion. However, like cotton, as it adapts to the local water and soil and further evolution, if officials actively teach everyone to choose seeds, the yield will slowly increase in the future.
Think about how much land there is in the Northeast. Most of it is black soil with fertile soil. Officials once estimated that if all the Northeast is developed, nearly three million hectares of excellent arable land can be obtained.
One acre of three stones, one hectare of three hundred stones, three hundred hectares of three hundred stones, and this output alone can support 50 million people and more than 8 million households. However, today there are only a few people in the Northeast, and there are only more than 300,000 households registered, but in fact there are only more than 500,000 households.
Food is the most important thing for people to eat, and they can eat enough. No matter which race they come from, who is willing to risk their lives to rebel?
Song Jiu nodded. The account cannot be calculated like this. Although it is black soil, it must be reclaimed to be considered black soil. However, this yield did not disappoint him. He also said: "We can notify all prefectures that this kind of rice must not be eaten as food, but must be kept all. When selecting seeds in the coming year, we will be soaked in concentrated salt water, and use its saturated rice as seeds, and distributed to all people in the northeast."
The clerk is preparing to write about dew grass.
Song Jiu suddenly added: "But if you want to exchange this kind of rice, you must let the people exchange five kilograms of beans or fifteen kilograms of millet."
"This is unnecessary, right?" Wang Shu said.
The imperial court spent a lot of money to pacify Liao and govern the north, but there was no need to care about the cost of rice seeds of 200,000 to 300,000 shi. Calculation is just Song Jiu's annual salary, which is great to use to win people's hearts.
"It's not expensive, it's not enough to cherish." Song Jiu said a meaningful sentence.
This is the human heart.
Wang Shu was both ridiculous and crying.
"This is good news. You must report it to Your Majesty."
"You can report, but you can't exaggerate it. Whether it can be successful will be done will be discussed after the actual promotion next year. But some merchants can make a statement and explain to the people of the Central Plains that the Northeast has a large land and a sparse population, light taxes and low taxes, and the yield of this kind of rice..."
That is immigration.
This is also necessary. First, the number of Han people in the Northeast was too small. If you don’t say anything that is not my race, your hearts will be different. However, most of them are Bohai people and Jurchens. They have established countries one after another, which always makes people feel a little worried. Second, the Northeast is too empty, which is not conducive to governance.
However, if you cannot immigrate forcibly, it will cause many public grievances. Therefore, this is a disguised encouragement policy that will allow poor people with dense populations in the north to come spontaneously, thereby reducing a large amount of unnecessary expenses and unnecessary public grievances.
However, this memorial was written by Song Jiu himself.
The above deliberately downplayed the contribution of Japanese rice seeds, but on the contrary, it mentioned that Japanese rice seeds were also introduced from China to improve the past.
Mainly Japan.
In the Song Dynasty, Japan still respected China very much, but respected rather than respect. One reason was that Liu Rengui had defeated the Japanese army for a long time, and the other reason was that the Song Dynasty was weak, so few envoys came to see each other, and most of them were traveling to China.
However, as the Song Dynasty destroyed the Liao Kingdom and unified the north, the actual control area even exceeded that of the Tang Dynasty. After all, the Tang Dynasty only controlled the southern part of Liao, and did not control the Huntongjiang area, or it was a ban. As the Song Dynasty destroyed the Liao Kingdom, the north of the Olanggai and the Ghas in the north sent envoys to show their conscience this year. The Olanggai was in the Xiaohai (Baikal) area, and the Ghas was further away, and north of the west of the Ghas, and they were almost approaching the central Siberian Plateau.
Therefore, this kind of honesty is just an illusion.
At this time, is the country capable of governing where?
However, the Song Dynasty began to have a little more prosperous Tang Dynasty.
It can only be said that it is a little bit, but it is not as good as the prosperous Tang Dynasty. At least Hehuang is in the hands of the Tubo people, not to mention the Qinghai Lake area west of Chiling and the Silk Road in the south, nor the Hexi Corridor, as well as Dali and Jiaozhi, and even Pyongyang is occupied by the Goryeo people, and is even advancing towards the northeast step by step.
In short, the introverted and pragmatic spirit of guarding the inside and the outside still occupied the mainstream thoughts of the Song Dynasty.
But it must be different from the original Song Dynasty.
So a large-scale messenger arrived.
He even learned some news from Haike's mouth and asked the Song Dynasty to send international students to the academy to study material science.
Zhao Heng actually agreed.
The news quickly made Song Jiu hear it, and immediately wrote a memorial, saying only one hypothesis and one question.
With the development of objectology, ships have also begun to improve. If there is a hypothesis, what would it be if a large number of Japanese people came from the sea and invaded the coastal areas of Jingdong, Jiangsu and Zhejiang?
It's impossible not to say it.
Japan is still very poor today.
In fact, the Song Dynasty could dump too many commodities in the past, such as cotton products, porcelain, pottery, medicinal materials, glazed, silk, pen, ink, paper and ink... but the result was not what everyone imagined, and a huge trade deficit was created.
For no reason, there were many commodities that could be sold in the Song Dynasty. However, the money and silk transactions from Japan were nothing more than some precious wood and some gold and silver. It turned out that Japan also had Japanese swords and Japanese fans. However, the quality of the folding fans of the Song Dynasty was still above Japan, and their weapons were sharper. What else could be done except wood, gold and silver, and a small number of slaves? This deficit between the rich and the poor easily led to the assumption of Song Jiu.
Speaking of matter-based science, Song Jiu could not remember all the physics and chemistry knowledge with fragmented memory. Moreover, the two were different. He proposed that, from the theoretical improvement and the physical appearance, it required a lot of manpower, material resources and financial resources to study it. However, the imitation speed was very fast, and it was very difficult to appear in physical objects, but how many difficulties could it be learned later?
As long as Japan learns on a large scale, many advanced things will be copied by them in less than a few years.
There is almost no defense in the coastal areas, and the country only has a few troops. A large number of impeachment soldiers must be stationed in the north. Otherwise, there will be Goryeo in the east, Shiwei tribes in the north, and various tribes in the desert in the west, which will easily trigger their invasion.
The northwest also needs to garrison troops, Bashu, Hunan, Guangdong and Guangxi also need to garrison troops, and the capital must be protected.
That would draw out a large number of troops to station on the long coastline.
This provides conditions for invasion.
Furthermore, when we blend together in the sea, even Goryeo doesn't want to defeat them, let alone Japan on the other side of the sea.
Once the Song Jiu hypothesis really occurs, the Song Dynasty's seaside area will face a major disaster, and there are many busy big cities by the sea, such as Mizhou, Suzhou, Hangzhou, Mingzhou, Quanzhou, and Fuzhou, which are all first-class cities and tax centers in the Song Dynasty.
Then a major disaster in the Song Dynasty also came.
Chapter completed!