Chapter 1395
Sweet potato is of great significance. During famine years, sweet potato is the lifeline. It's not that Ying Yi doesn't understand this truth.
In this era, sweet potatoes were introduced into Divine Province through Hongyi not long ago. Imperial Court didn't think about promoting it, but the so-called oranges born in Huainan are oranges, and those born in Huaibei are oranges. The sweet potato that has just taken root on the land of Divine Province is in the process of adapting to the environment, and it is far from reaching the subsequent yield.
Sweet potato lifeforce is vigorous and adaptable. It is more incomparable than orange and trifoliate, but it needs a process of adaptation after all.
In the original history, Manchu-Qing could feed hundreds of millions of people. It was not how powerful Manchu-Qing was, but a high-yield foreign crop. After an adaptation period in the late Ming Dynasty, it bloomed during the Manchu-Qing period. Out of their brilliance.
If Great Ming can survive this tribulation, Ying Yi has reason to believe that Great Ming can support more people.
This is the significance of a batch of foreign high-yielding crops such as sweet potatoes.
However, compared with traditional grains, the sweet potato has a higher yield after adapting to the environment, but it has no comparability.
If you eat too much sweet potatoes, people will become yellowish and thin. In terms of nutrition, they are far inferior to traditional grains.
The breeding of sweet potato is different from rice and wheat. It is bred through tuber sprouts.
The civilian Origin Item of the Origin Item branch under Ying Yi’s Origin Qi plan, and the transformation of the Origin Item for plant breeding, is Ying Yi’s support. Although it is not the time to sow wheat in the traditional sense, he can pass The transformation of Origin Item makes wheat shorten the growth period, and so on.
A breeding transformation Origin Item, one-time transformation breeding must have more wheat than sweet potatoes.
This is the main reason Ying Yi chose wheat.
apart from this, also a reason. That is, the wheat has been tried and tested, and the sweet potato has just put down roots. If Ying Yi requested that all six 100,000 mu of land be planted with sweet potatoes, commoners would probably not be so happy and would resist.
Although Zheng Yunzhi and Sun Xiucai have some confidence because of the many miracles brought by Ying Yi, there are still great difficulties.
Sun Xiucai said: "Lord, if you plant sweet potatoes, you only need to take seedling cuttings. If you plant wheat, there are not a few seeds needed for 6100,000 mu of land."
Zheng Yunzhi nodded and agreed.
Ying Yi nodded with a smile, planting sweet potatoes at this time is very simple. For example, in the sweet potato field outside Xiaowangzhuang, you only need to pick seedlings from them and cut them. It is convenient and can greatly reduce costs. But this is also a factor that was denied by Ying Yi.
He wants to transform the crops, starting from seeds is best. Sweet potatoes do not meet the requirements at this time.
He understands Sun Xiucai and Zheng Yunzhi's idea very well-that July is not the right time to plant sweet potatoes. But as long as it can be planted and survived, the stems and leaves are the food that will be full. Sweet potatoes have a higher survival rate than wheat, especially in the current climate.
As for the other worry, Ying Yi also understands.
Six 100,000 acres of land, all of which are planted with wheat. According to the convention, one acre of land counts as ten catties of seeds, and the seeds cost six million catties.
Six million catties! One hundred and twenty catties per stone is 50,000 stones.
This is not a small number.
"50,000 stone wheat, now can be sold for ten silver tael one stone. 500,000 silver tael." Zheng Yunzhi said resolutely.
Ying Yi said: "Silver is not a problem. Silver can't be eaten, what's the use of putting it there? Sir Father, scholar, as long as the seeds arrive, everything is not a problem."
paused , Said: "How many wheat seeds can we squeeze out by ourselves now?"
Sun Xiucai immediately said: "About 30,000 shi. The rest are other grains."
Now Ying Yi’s Food, also a lot. The 200,000 stones stored in Yexian at the time have now also been ten 50,000 stones. Killing Zuo Liangyu, Liu Zongmin, Hao Yaoqi, etc., plus Yuzhou's reserves and seizures, there are more than 100,000 shi.
But there is not much wheat in it, only 30,000 shi, and the rest are rice, beans, sorghum and other types of grain.
"Thirty thousand stones... there is still a 20,000 stone short." Ying Yi said: "Can Zheng Trading Company buy it within ten days?"
Zheng Yunzhi thought for a while: "The time is too short and it's a bit difficult. From Nanyang to the south, rice is mainly cultivated by the private sector. There is not much reserve in the area of wheat and Huguang."
Ying Yi frowned: "Can be purchased at a high price."
It's not that he has never thought about mixing some rice seeds, but if it is dry today, wheat is originally a dryland crop, but rice is not.
Although it can be modified, Ying Yi has not yet used the Plant Modification Origin Item, so I don’t know if it can transform rice into a crop that adapts to arid environment.
But he thought for a while: "Just in case, prepare another 20,000 rice seeds. Let's do it in two ways. The purchase of wheat seeds is one of them. If there are not enough, we have to replace them with rice seeds."
Sun Xiucai and Zheng Yunzhi are nodded.
Then Ying Yi said: "Sow seeds in early July, and there is less than half a month left before the present. First transport 30,000 shi wheat seeds to Crescent Valley, and the remaining 20,000 shi must be within ten days Be ready. If you can’t, use rice seeds instead. You must ensure that there are enough seeds for planting in early July."
Agriculture is the foundation of the country. Emphasizing farming is the focus of Leader's attention in any era. The land of the three counties occupied by Ying Yi is really a waste of time. The cultivation in July is the prerequisite for the prosperity of all industries.
Ying Yi's attention to this matter is no less than that of military operations against intruders. Even pay more attention to it.
"Those sitting tigers don't care about them for the time being." Then, talking about the landlords of the three counties, Ying Yi waved his hand and said: "When the time comes, they will naturally ask to come."
Nanyang has been ravaged by thieves. Although it is thousands of miles away, some landlords have survived. Those landlords have their own ways of life-saving because of bad years and natural and man-made disasters.
The most common method is to build a dock fortress to defend itself.
Landlords are often local landlords who occupy large tracts of land and accumulate a lot of food. They build docks, gather commoners, form servants and civilian groups, and even the thieves will not help them for a while.
The small stream thief can't beat them, and the big stream thief thinks it's not worthwhile.
In order to protect their own property, these landlords often dared to fight desperately when encountering thieves. In fact, they were more afraid of thieves than the official army. So many landlords have survived.
But many of these sitting tigers are not good things. With Qiwubao as the center, the best land has been swallowed by these sitting tigers. It is difficult for Ying Yi to get these lands back.
Zheng Yunzhi and Sun Xiucai are not dominant in fighting these landlords. Unless you send troops to attack, oil and salt will not enter.
But Ying Yi believes that the crops he has transformed must be the key to solving this problem.
So he is not in a hurry.
"Let's just plant our own land. They don't want to disturb." Ying Yi said: "If there is a mess, is my knife disadvantageous?"
Sun Xiucai And Zheng Yunzhi is slightly nodded.
At present, cultivating 6100,000 acres of land is the top priority. Fighting against the landlord should indeed be set aside for the time being.