Fast travel to start koi luck

Chapter 284 The Prosperous Age 44
Anyone with a discerning eye can see that the Queen's decree is to prevent officials from being corrupted. You said that you spent 5 taels on road construction, so how much money was spent on labor and how much money was spent on materials, these must be clearly recorded. Making money from it will be hard.

At Yi's decree, the ministers who originally thought it was a fat job were deterred, but the newcomer Lentouqing no longer had such concerns, and the road repair job was quickly claimed by the new Jinshi.

The common people are full of praise for this yellow list and Yizhizhi. After all, they have never seen that the court has dealt with any case before and it will be announced to the common people. Also, every time an official commits a crime and ransacks their home, they only say that it will be returned to the state treasury. Who knows what?

But now, they know that the empress said that the money was used to build roads for the common people, and some of the money was used as military pay. It’s good to use it as military pay. Their family has a son who serves as a soldier in the northwest. Unfortunately, the military pay has never been paid. It's all over, sometimes even a cotton coat can't be worn in winter, the empress has done a great job!

Someone was responsible for the road construction, and Ning Yue picked another clan member to be the supervisor, who was specially in charge of the supervision. Prime Minister Wen once asked: "Empress, are you not afraid that the supervisor will seek personal gain for you?"

"That's just right, the Ministry of Households will be able to pay less salary again. The imperial decree of this palace is not for nothing."

Prime Minister Wen: ...very good and powerful!It was he who was worrying too much, and actually wanted to worry about the empress!

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A month passed in the blink of an eye, and the road construction hadn't yielded any results yet, but Jiang Jing proposed a major matter related to people's livelihood, "I want to report to the empress, the corn seeds you asked me to plant yesterday were harvested. Half an acre of land yielded 440 kilograms of grain."

Full of uproar!

Half an acre of land harvested 440 two catties. Wouldn’t the harvest of that one mu of land cost 880 four catties? Even if the grain is newly harvested, after drying it and removing some water, the yield per mu should reach [-] catties, right? ?
If this new crop can be grown across the country, will the people of the Great Xia Dynasty still have to worry about not being able to eat?

Ning Yue was very happy. She didn't know whether the corn seeds in her space were self-fertilized or hybrid, but after each harvest, she used those seeds to replant, and the corn that grew out became more grainy and fuller, and the yield also increased. Increase, when she took out these things at the beginning, she was worried that the outside world might not be able to produce food, but she did not expect to succeed in planting them.

Although the yield per mu is only 800 jin, which is incomparable with the modern hybrid varieties that can easily produce more than 2000 jin per mu, but in ancient times, the grain yield of more than 800 jin per mu was enough to shock the world.

Prime Minister Wen: "Your Majesty's words are serious? What do you mean by following the Queen's order?"

"Is this false? Zhuang Zishang is preparing to harvest corn today. If Prime Minister Wen does not believe it, he can go with his father and weigh it on the spot.

The empress had ordered her family to look for high-yield crops in order to solve the problem of food and clothing for the people. When the child went out, he happened to meet a caravan with all the crops called corn. Because it was a new crop, the child sent I bought all the seeds, but I didn't expect that the yield of this grain would be so high. "

This is half true, half false, before the spring planting, the girl suddenly sent a letter and a key to the family, and the house mentioned in the letter was still a dowry for the daughter, so he took the man there personally, Then nearly [-] catties of grain seeds were found in the warehouse.

The letter stated the method of planting corn, so Jiang Jing's claim that the empress ordered it to be planted was not a lie.

Of course, he also hopes that there will be more high-yielding crops in the Great Xia Dynasty, so that the people can have enough food to have surplus food, so that they don't have to worry about food and grass when they are fighting at the border.

Prime Minister Wen couldn't help but glanced at the high position, she was obviously only a woman, she was not majestic or domineering, she just sat upright on the dragon chair, and always had a faint smile on her face , Grace and dignity are the most suitable descriptions for her, but what she does and thinks surpasses many men.

However, the yield of corn has not yet been verified, so he swallowed many words directly.

Looking at Lord Zhen Guo again, "I wonder how many of these new crops have been planted in the Zhuangzi of Lord Zhen Guo this year?"

Jiang Jing: "A total of more than 4000 mu."

Prime Minister Wen quickly calculated in his mind, if there is really such a high yield as Duke Zhen said, then the harvest of the [-] mu of land alone would be enough to plant a quarter of the arable land in the capital.

Wen Cheng said on the spot that after the next court, he would go to Jiang's Zhuangzi to see the harvest of corn.

Other officials also echoed, expressing that they would also follow, so today's morning court ended early, and then a large number of officials followed Jiang Jing out of the city either on horseback or in carts.

The people in the city felt that it was strange, and many people went out of the city with the convoy to watch the excitement. Then, nearly a thousand Hulala people rushed to Jiangjiazhuangzi to watch the tenants breaking corn there.

Jiang Jing simply measured out an acre of land, and sent more than 20 people into the field to break the sticks. After the one acre of land was harvested, they rubbed out the corn kernels and weighed them together. More than 20 catties were added, and the crowd of onlookers boiled all of a sudden!
With a yield of [-] catties of grain per mu, if a family grows a few mu of this so-called corn, they will not have to worry about food for a year!

The people were ready to move immediately, Jiang Jing simply waved his hand, and hired these people to go into the field to break corn, and the servants of the Jiang family who couldn't do it would teach them how to do it.

The Jiang family’s 870-mu field of corn took seven days to harvest. Prime Minister Wen watched from beginning to end, and then weighed all the grain. The average yield of the [-]-mu land was as high as [-] seven catties !

As the Jiang family's corn was all harvested, news spread that the empress was looking for high-yield crops for the people, and for a while, the empress' reputation rose to a higher level!

All the restaurants and teahouses were discussing this matter for a while.

"Have you heard? I have a relative who works as a shopkeeper in the Duke's Mansion. It is said that the empress has long ordered that she will distribute this batch of corn to the common people for free, just to let the common people have enough to eat as soon as possible." ah!"

"Really, can such a good thing be given away for free? Then I will get some, no matter what, my family has more than ten acres of land!"

"Who doesn't have land? My family has not yet separated. There are more than 58 people with a total of [-] mu of land. If we can plant all of this corn, we will not have to worry about not having enough food."

"Since the Empress Empress has presided over the government, she has actually done practical things for our people. The plow that the thief is light and easy to use was built by the Empress. Then dozens of corrupt officials were caught and millions of taels of silver were confiscated. In addition to distributing money to the border, it was all used to build roads for us.

The road at my house has been repaired for more than ten miles. In previous years, people from each family served as corvees to build river embankments and dig ditches. This year, it’s better. Each person who builds roads pays [-] yuan a day, and they even take care of a meal at noon. Take good care of food and food, people in our village are rushing to do it!
This time, we found another [-] to [-] catties of grain per mu. The Empress is really a living Bodhisattva who saves the suffering! "

(End of this chapter)