Chapter 479 How to Make Cakes
Wang Anshi sat up straighter, opened his mouth slightly to refute Shen Long, but Shen Long raised his hand to stop him before he opened his mouth, and then asked, "Jiefu also knows that Risheng is now annexed, otherwise he wouldn't have proposed the tax exemption law for equal land, Then let's use the land equalization tax exemption law as an example to talk about it, if there is not enough land in the world, what should Jiefu do?"
"Clean up the land, clean up the hidden fields, divide the land into numbers according to fatness and thinness, and pay different taxes..." Wang Anshi replied, this is also the strategy adopted in his Fangtian equal tax law, and this method is not his first. Song Renzong During the past few years, Guo Zi and Sun Lin had adopted similar policies in Feixiang County, and Wang Anshi just continued to carry forward their practices.
From the history books that Shen Long handed over to him, Wang Anshi learned that Fang Tian’s average tax law was greatly opposed by Sima Guang and others, and was finally abolished, so he stopped halfway through talking, and this method has been proven to be ineffective. Well, Shen Long obviously knew about this matter, and his answer would definitely not satisfy him, so Wang Anshi asked, "Is there any other way?"
"Look, I said that Confucianism is only good at dividing cakes, but not making cakes. From this incident, it can be seen that even a great talent like Jiefu only confines his vision to the existing land." Shen Long Shaking his head, he closed the window again, and the previous map appeared on the curtain again. Shen Long pointed to the map and said, "There are many ways to solve the land shortage. First, why not reclaim new land? There are many lands in the Great Song Dynasty. There is still a lot of land for cultivation, and the two lakes have not been fully developed, and a large amount of land can still be developed."
"Looking further south, Jiaozhi has plenty of sunshine and fertile land, which can be cultivated three times a year; this place was originally my homeland in the Central Plains, but it was a pity that when the Song Dynasty was founded, it was canonized as the king of Jiaozhi County, and later Li Gongyun founded the Li Dynasty, which caused Jiaozhi County to become the king of the county. It is a pity that the Central Plains are divided! If the two lakes can be developed to turn the barren land into cultivated land, and then the homeland of Jiaozhi can be recovered, the Da Song Dynasty will not have to worry about the lack of land and food for decades. This is the skill of making cakes.” Shen Long said.
"Jiefu thinks it's easier to deal with people like Sima Guang and Wen Yanbo, or the savages from Lianghu and Jiaozhi?" Withholding land from Sima Guang and Wen Yanbo's mouths is probably more difficult than the latter, right?
"This..." Wang Anshi was silent for a moment, and then asked rhetorically, "Whether it is to develop the two lakes or to recover Jiaozhi, it must be supported by financial resources and troops. Now that the court does not have this money, what should we do?"
"Let's not talk about this beforehand, let me talk about the second method of making cakes!" Shen Long continued, "The life of the people is becoming more and more difficult, which can be analyzed from two aspects, one is the lack of land, and the other is the lack of land The output is low, the former can be solved by developing the two lakes and recovering Jiaozhi, and the latter can be solved by studying how to increase food production.”
"If one mu of land can grow the grain of the previous two mu of land, wouldn't that be equivalent to doubling the land in the Song Dynasty? This is also a way to make cakes, but you Confucians still don't do it, or occasionally Some people do this, but they don't attract your attention." Shen Long asked again, "Dare to ask Jiefu, what is the current per mu yield in Song Dynasty?"
"Fan Xiwen once played a book in the reign of Renzong saying, 'The minister knows Suzhou,
The land yields 34,000 hectares of tax, and the benefits of Zhongren can get two to three shi of rice per mu. I have seen it in Jiangning, and the local output is the same; the land in Suzhou and Jiangning is far more fertile than that in the north. The yield per mu of the entire Song Dynasty is probably less than three stones. "Wang Anshi thought for a while and replied.
After finishing speaking, he couldn't help but retort, "During the reign of Emperor Zhenzong of the Song Dynasty, I sent envoys to Champa to find Champa rice, first tried it in Fujian, and then took 30,000 dendrobium and spread it to various places. It is widely cultivated in the south of the Yangtze River."
"I remember that Zhenzong brought it up himself, right? But I haven't heard that the civil official wrote a letter about it, and I haven't heard that one was promoted because of it. This is enough to show that you Confucians still don't pay attention to these things; I think , if that official can introduce Champa Rice and plant it widely, no amount of rewards can be overstated for such a great effort." Shen Long laughed.
Wang Anshi and his son were speechless, and Shen Long asked again, "Do Jiefu and Yuanze know how many catties of grain can be produced by one mu of land in the future?"
Before the two of them could answer, Shen Long showed his big killer directly, and posted a picture of Zhang Yuan Daruid in the experimental field of Fengshou, "This piece of land, the yield per mu is converted into the Song Dynasty's catty, which is about two thousand catties!"
In the Song Dynasty, a catty was about 600 grams. Yuan Longping’s world-record yield per mu was just over 1,200 kilograms, which was exactly 2,000 catties in the Song Dynasty. One hundred catties, the output of this mu of land is nearly seven times worse.
"The yield per mu is two thousand catties!" Wang Anshi and his son immediately stood up from their chairs and rushed to the wall, staring at the picture of rice on the wall. hungry.
"After seeing the rice, let's take a look at the wheat." Shen Long released a picture of the Silicon Valley Fertilizer Wheat Experimental Base in Guangfu Dongjie Village, Yongnian County, Hebei Province, which created a production record. "The yield of wheat is lower than that of rice, but If it is planted well, one mu of land can yield more than 1,600 catties."
This record is 974 kilograms, which is about the same number as Song Jin converted to 600 grams per catty. Rice can only be grown in paddy fields in the south, but wheat can be cultivated in the north, and the meaning is different.
"This is eight thousand catties per mu!" The picture on the wall changed again, and the ground was covered with white lumpy rhizomes, piled up like a hill.
"What is this? There are tens of thousands of catties per mu!" Before Wang Anshi and his son exclaimed, Shen Long changed the picture again, only to see that the hill on the ground turned into red massive rhizomes this time. Bigger than the one just now.
"Daozhang, what kind of fairy is this?" Wang Anshi and his son were stunned by the stimulation, and the yield per mu was ten thousand catties? If this is placed in the Song Dynasty, it will definitely be regarded as a great auspicious auspiciousness.
"The one just now was called potato, but the one I'm looking at now is called sweet potato. Although sweet potato has a high yield per mu, it's not as delicious as rice, and it's not as filling as rice. At most, it's just a supplementary food, not a staple food, but potatoes can be a staple food. "Shen Long said indifferently, "I have the seeds you want, and I have other high-yield seeds here, but I'm afraid you won't be able to grow such a high yield. Increasing yield is not just a matter of seeds."
"I thank the Taoist priest on behalf of the people of the world." Wang Anshi lifted his robe, kneeled down solemnly, kowtowed to Shen Long, and Wang Yu quickly followed.
Shen Long bowed calmly, and then helped them up, "This is what I said to make cakes. Jiefu thought it was possible to do this according to the knowledge of Confucianism?"