Great Qin Shi Empress

Lin Qian persuaded again: "I know that the imperial court still has a lot of fields, but don't these fields all have planting plans for the next year or even several years in advance according to the needs of the country? Now it will be the end of the year in a few months. Why waste time? How about cultivating hybrid seeds in Jiujiang County first, and then make arrangements when those fields are vacated?"

Ying Zheng didn't really do anything to the people of Jiujiang County. It was just that he was stabbed in the back, and he had to follow his ass to deal with the aftermath after being stabbed in such a big way.

If it weren't for the fact that he couldn't just let it go, Ying Zheng would have kicked Li Si out early in the morning.

but……

What Lin Qian said is also reasonable, since the incident has already happened, it is better to make up for the fault directly under the original situation than to tear down the east wall to make up for the west wall.

As for the detailed rules, Ying Zheng simply brought it to the court for discussion.

The ministers only learned about the disaster in Jiujiang County after going to court, and many ministers were somewhat dissatisfied with Jiujiang County because of this.

Because in the eyes of most people, this disaster is completely a "man-made disaster".

However, in order to prevent the ministers from "stirring the flames" and then drawing out the anger in Ying Zheng's heart, Li Si directly set the tone for the whole thing from the very beginning——

"The local people don't read much, and they can't be compared with your colleagues who have read poetry and books. Even if they are a little ignorant, it is not unforgivable. Besides, the main problem now is not accountability." Li Si glanced at everyone with a smile, "We need to do something now. Yes, one is to calculate how much money is needed to send to the town of Jiujiang County for disaster relief, and which official should be sent to take charge of the disaster relief."

"Secondly, the children of farmers have developed hybrid seeds, which have greatly increased the yield per mu of rice and wheat. However, the cultivated seeds can only be planted and cannot be kept. Therefore, suitable places are needed for breeding."

"In view of the excellent geographical location of Jiujiang County, the local climate is pleasant, rice can be harvested twice to three times a year, and the potato harvest just happened this time, so it is initially decided to cultivate hybrid rice seeds in Jiujiang County."

After Li Si finished speaking, all the ministers stopped paying attention to the responsibility for the disaster in Jiujiang County.

Knowing the key points of these two matters proposed by Ying Zheng, the courtiers worked together and quickly finalized the relevant details of the two matters, which was approved by Ying Zheng.

Soon, the relevant personnel set off for Jiujiang County——

Because this disaster has spread widely, and this is the first disaster that happened after Yingzheng unified the world, a minister with a high enough status must go there to let the local people understand the seriousness of this incident.

Furthermore, officials who cultivate hybrid rice and hybrid wheat seeds must also have certain relevant experience——

Farm children can only do research, and are not proficient in other things.

So it was no surprise that Yingzheng finally chose Sun Neishi, one of the nine ministers, to be in charge of these two matters.

Ok……

Sun Neishi has a high position and weight, so he would not have been dispatched to Jiujiang County originally, but the problem is that the subordinates under his name, the professional counterparts Taicang Ling and Taicang Cheng, have been sent out, and now there is no one who can take them out. figure.

Sun Neishi had no choice but to bite the bullet and do it himself.

Fortunately, these two things are not difficult——

The county town of Jiujiang County happens to be on the previously opened train line. This time, the disaster relief money can be transported by train, which is convenient, fast and safe; and the cultivation of hybrid seeds also has the help of more professional farm children. He only needs to be in charge of the overall situation. .

Soon after, Sun Neishi left.

Damai is an unusual head of Guizhou in Jiujiang County. No matter in terms of appearance, height or family background, he is just one of the most unusual among all living beings.

If one characteristic must be excavated from him, there is only one "coward".

Since childhood, Barley has suffered a lot because of gallbladder.

but……

This problem may have been brought out of his mother's womb, so no matter how hard he tried, he couldn't correct it. In the end, he could only lie down and accept his fate.

But Damai never thought that one day he would save his family's rations because of his timidity.

That was in the early spring of this year. At that time, I did not know where the news came out, saying that someone had planted potatoes in all their fields last year, and made a lot of money after the potatoes were harvested. Now They built a new house.

Barley didn't pay attention at the time, it was just a story.

And because I have heard a lot of similar stories——

Mainly from newspapers.

So after listening to Barley, apart from being a little hot-eyed, he didn't have too many ideas, but continued to farm and live according to the habits of previous years.

But Damai didn't take this story to heart, but the others listened to it.

So Damai soon discovered that the neighbors and even all relatives and friends around his house seemed to plan to plant all his fields with potatoes.

Damai was taken aback when he found out about this, and wanted to persuade the neighbors to give up the idea: "Didn't the sheriff remind us when he sent us the potatoes that they must not be planted on the same piece of land continuously? If you do this, something will happen. !"

He not only persuaded his neighbors, but also all his relatives and friends.

but……

It may be that the image of Da Mai's timidity is so deeply rooted in the hearts of the people that after listening to his persuasion, not only did everyone not take it to heart, but they laughed at Da Mai again for being as cowardly as a mouse, and he didn't even know how to pick up the money that fell on the ground.

Someone who had a good relationship with barley kindly reminded him: "I really said that when the court ordered potatoes, but didn't the official also say that the disease may increase, not that it will definitely get sick? I Let me tell you that the rumored man who made his fortune from potatoes earned so much money because he planted potatoes in his own field. But look, isn’t that man a good person?”

The other party also wanted to persuade Damai to plant potatoes in all the fields this year, but Damai was always uneasy and refused in the end.

But he worried about the potatoes getting sick, and the others didn't have the same worries.

Ever since, when Barley reacted, he found that all the land around his field had been planted with potatoes.

Damai instinctively realized that something was wrong, and hurried to the Sheriff's Office to report the incident.

but……

How can ordinary county magistrates manage things that even the sheriff can't manage?

The county magistrate couldn't persuade other people, so he could only ask Barley to make more precautionary preparations in the early stage.

Barley was timid, so he simply planted sweet potatoes and corn on the land originally planned to grow potatoes, but he didn't grow any potatoes at all.

After all, he'd heard that some of the diseases that the potato could get were contagious.

Then, before the harvest season came, the potato plants in the fields of many local people turned yellow, and as time went by, this situation became more and more serious, and in just a few months spread throughout the county.

And I heard that besides their county, this happened to the people in other counties as well.

Da Mai was frightened, and couldn't help worrying about the sweet potatoes and corn in his field.

While other people were panicking about the situation in the field, the barley was also waiting for the harvest season in fear.

Then he discovered that in the entire county, only his own field's harvest was unscathed.

Because he was the only one who didn't grow any potatoes.

Therefore, among the crying people, only Damai's life was not affected at all.

But that's not all.

After the disaster relief minister sent by the imperial court arrived in Jiujiang County, Damai was received by Sun Neishi because of his previous cowardly act, and because of this, he received praise and preferential treatment from the imperial court——

Although most of the fields in Jiujiang County failed to harvest, there are still some people who have not been greatly affected.

According to Ying Zheng, these people are the truly obedient people, so when arranging the task of cultivating seeds, they need to be given some preferential treatment.

And how this preferential treatment is given...

If you want the local people to help, it can't be free, right?After some discussions between the ministers of the DPRK and China, they finally finalized the method of leasing part of the people's land for disaster relief.

The specific implementation method is that the imperial court leases the fields of the local people at the market price for one year, and the specific amount of the lease is determined by the people themselves, and after cultivating the seeds, the owner of the field will also be hired first at [-] times the market price for help, and all the money will be distributed from the beginning into the hands of the people.

They can even get first refusal to hybrid seeds when the fields are harvested.

Of course, this is an arrangement for those people who insisted on continuing to grow potatoes in the field where a crop of potatoes had already been planted despite the court's reminder.

And for those people who earnestly obeyed the imperial court's instructions and obediently planted among several plots of land, the imperial court will also request for lease, and the price is the same as other people's, but if the other party is willing to help with breeding, the seeds will be harvested directly. Give the other party [-]% of the seeds as a reward.

As for whether the other party takes it for himself, sells it, or gives it away, the court will not care too much.

Many people are not really interested in these seeds --

After all, I heard that these seeds were researched by the children of farmers. Although they don't have all kinds of problems like potatoes and corn, and the yield sounds high, but...

I haven't heard that the children of the peasant family will study seeds?

Many people do not trust this seed.

But the barley letter.

He is timid, so after the unification of the world, he strictly followed the orders of the imperial court, and did not dare to make any mistakes.

What's more, the imperial court hasn't cheated them all these years, has it?

So Barley decided to lease half of the family's land to the government office without hesitation after calculating his own food storage and how much food he needed to grow to feed himself.

Even counting food storage?

The family couldn't understand Barley's decision at all, but they thought that it was because he gave up the cultivation of potatoes decisively that the whole family avoided this disaster, so they didn't say much.

Not only Damai's family, but even the neighbors, relatives and friends subconsciously followed his decision after Damai made his choice——

It doesn't feel good to be hungry, so it's better to be safe with barley.

then!

Only four months later, Damai's family was stunned when they saw the fruitful rice in their field.

He looked at the rice in the field in disbelief, whose ears almost bent the stems: "Is this really rice, not the seeds of other grains?"

This is very different from the rice in his impression.

No need for the court to say more, the local novelist (reporter) immediately took photos of the hybrid rice, and directly published it in the newspaper, spreading to every corner of Daqin.

Even though the newspaper also published the disadvantage that the seeds could not be saved, they were still enthusiastically sought after by people all over the country after knowing that the price of rice seeds was not expensive: the newspaper that published the report received all the letters from readers that month. more than ten times.

After all, the crop failed due to the continuous planting of potatoes. There is no planting restriction at all, and the yield has also been greatly increased. The rice that perfectly suits the taste of Qin people is naturally sought after by countless people.

Barley is guarding the rice seeds that he has been assigned, and he can't stop smiling from ear to ear.

However, that was four months later.

For Yingzheng and Lin Qian today, the most important things are the construction of border cities and the cooperation with countries in the Western Regions in planting cotton and opening factories.

Not long after what happened in Jiujiang County, news spread from Xiao He and Xiao——

The city where the Dinglings and Huns lived together was finally built, and the local people moved to the city without hesitation after getting used to the sedentary life of planting pastures by themselves.

Today, nearly 2 people have lived in that city.

Although the number of people is not much compared to the cities in the Central Plains, this number is particularly noticeable as long as you think that the people living in this city are all original nomads.

Ying Zheng was overjoyed, and directly issued an imperial decree to praise the two.

Not only was the plan to build the city on the grassland extremely smooth, but even Lu Zhi and Zhang Fu's trip to the Western Regions was not difficult.

What's more, the countries in the Western Regions' cooperation with Lu Zhi and Zhang Fu is simply more active and enthusiastic than those grassland nomads who were defeated by Meng Tian and Li Xin——

After all, even the Loulan envoy invited them to be guests as soon as they arrived in the Western Regions.

Although Zhang Fu and Lu Zhi did not go there out of respect for the country of Qiuci, this is enough to show that the attitudes of these countries towards Qin have changed.

After Zhang Fu, Lu Zhi and the king of Qiuci successfully reached a cooperation agreement, the king of Loulan immediately invited them. They sent people to convey their cooperation intentions, and even implicitly or explicitly conveyed their desire to become a vassal state of Qin to the two.

Zhang Fu and Lu Zhi: "..."

Although, are the attitudes of these countries too eager?

However, the countries in the Western Regions who knew the current situation of Qin State did not think so.

Since the two came to the Western Regions to discuss cooperation on behalf of Qin, there was no reason to refuse, so they wrote directly to the country to report this fact.

Is there any reason to refuse such a happy event?

When Ying Zheng received the letter from the Western Regions, it happened to be New Year's Eve, and he excitedly said on the spot that in order to celebrate the good news, he would directly pardon the light criminals in prison.

I thought this was enough to make people happy, but I didn't expect that the servants would soon come in and report, saying that Meng Yi and Zhao Tuo, who were sent to dig salt fields along the coast, jointly signed a letter, and specially sent someone to Xianyang on New Year's Eve.

Ying Zheng let people enter the palace.

Everyone looked at it, only to find that the visitor didn't just have a letter in his hand, but a huge wooden box?

Ying Zheng ordered the wooden box to be brought back. When he opened it, he saw a letter. After taking it out, he found a glass jar containing white granular crystals.

He glanced at it briefly, then opened the envelope directly.

But after reading the contents of the letter, Ying Zheng immediately happily said three good words.

Lin Qian and the others looked curiously.

Ying Zheng smiled and explained: "Meng Yi and others searched for a long time, and finally found a place in Kuaiji County that is suitable for digging a salt field. Now not only a salt field has been dug there, but even sea salt has been exposed."

As he spoke, he took out the glass jar, and the snow-white salt grains contained in the transparent glass instantly caught everyone's attention.

"Is this really sea salt?"

Someone spoke in disbelief.

The person who was sent to deliver the letter immediately replied: "Of course it's sea salt, and it's not just this jar of sea salt. I also obeyed orders and brought back a whole box of sea salt, which was placed outside the gate of the hall, and all of them are of this quality." .”

Everyone subconsciously turned their heads to look outside the hall.

Ying Zheng laughed out loud immediately: "Why don't you order someone to carry him into the hall?!"