Chapter 46 This is the answer given to Your Majesty by farmers all over the world!
Zhu Yuanzhang's face darkened.
He tightly clasped his hands behind his back to prevent his emotions from going crazy, but the eyes he looked at Xia Zhibai were getting colder and colder, as if he was looking at a corpse or a dead person, "What else? ?”
“If you have anything else to say, just say it all.”
“We’ve heard enough for today!”
"We also want to hear what other outrageous things you can say, and how many unexpected things you can say."
"I'll let you say it!"
Xia Zhibai's heart He sighed softly, knowing that Zhu Yuanzhang didn't listen.
Zhu Yuanzhang did not believe it at all, and was unwilling to believe it. The world was on the eve of change. He only wanted to believe what he had seen and experienced. His words were completely pale under Zhu Yuanzhang's strong self-awareness. Powerless.
Xia Zhibai cupped his hands, "Since Your Majesty wants to hear it, then the common people will tell Your Majesty."
"It's just that your Majesty's words are already pale and powerless. Your Majesty is not willing to listen at all, let alone take it to heart, let alone pay attention to it. Then the common people will speak with facts."
"Don't you, Your Majesty, believe that there is such a thing as a thousand kilograms of grain per acre in the world?"
"Then I will prove it to Your Majesty now."
"There is such a thing in the world!"
" And there’s more than one kind!”
After saying that, Xia Zhibai strode to the bullock cart and lifted up the straw mat covering it, revealing a vibrant 'green plant' underneath.
Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Biao were shocked.
They also quickly looked towards the bullock cart.
Just seeing the green plants above, there was a hint of disappointment in my eyes.
No food.
Just a tangle of weeds.
"This is what you call a thousand kilograms of grain per mu. Isn't this just a bunch of weeds?" Zhu Yuanzhang said disdainfully. He had really worked in farming and knew the condition of the crops and the yield of the crops. .
It is impossible to produce a thousand catties per mu.
Although he knew that what Xia Zhibai was talking about was probably the part buried in the soil, but how much food could such a small plant, only as high as the knee, produce?
Xia Zhibai said nothing.
He jumped on the bullock cart and uprooted one of the plants in front of Zhu Yuanzhang. Zhu Yuanzhang watched intently, wanting to see what Xia Zhibai was doing.
If you want to deceive him about crops.
Xia Zhibai made the wrong decision.
He knows far more than Xia Zhibai, and even knows more clearly and profoundly than all the ministers in the court. He has truly worked in the world.
Wow!
Pull out the ivy and bring out the mud.
A lot of yellow things were uprooted.
There are many under one plant.
Under the light of candlelight, it looks like pieces of gold.
Shining.
Xia Zhibai threw the 'potato' in front of Zhu Yuanzhang. Zhu Yuanzhang's eyelids twitched and he looked over solemnly, still in disbelief. After looking at it carefully for a few times, he stepped forward and knotted the potato. I took the plant full of fruits into my hands and looked at it carefully.
Bang bang bang.
Xia Zhibai's hand did not stop.
A lot of ‘fruits’ have been pulled out in succession.
Every tree is fruitful.
Xia Zhibai stood on the bullock cart and said in a deep voice: "The thing in front of your Majesty is called potato. It is a natural product of foreign countries."
"It's just like the decree issued by your Majesty before. It is strictly prohibited to transport foreign goods, especially gold, silver, copper coins, gunpowder, weapons and other items from the dynasty. Food crops such as this are also strictly prohibited from being distributed by foreign countries."
"High-yielding crops like potatoes. , According to the Hu people I accidentally met at that time, "There are many more, such as sweet potatoes, corn, etc."
"But the Hu people only brought one potato. But I paid a lot of money to buy it, and after several years of careful cultivation, it finally has a good result. Your Majesty can send someone to calculate it.”
"The weight of potatoes grown on land the size of an oxcart, and the yield of one acre, can weigh a thousand catties!"
Zhu Yuanzhang lowered his head, full of shock.
He couldn't hear Xia Zhibai's words at all now, all he could see were the yellow potatoes.
He grabbed the potato in his hand, held it hard, and quickly picked up the plants on the ground. He compared them carefully and made sure that Xia Zhibai was not fooling himself, cheating, and transferring some other things to him. Insert it on top.
It grows from a real plant.
After inspecting several plants in succession, Zhu Yuanzhang's expression completely changed. When he looked at Xia Zhibai, his eyes showed panic and miscalculation for the first time.
Zhu Biao also had a face full of disbelief. He looked at Xia Zhibai and said in a daze: "Is there really such a high-yielding grain in the world?"
"How is this possible?"
He still couldn't believe what he was seeing.
If he hadn’t seen it with his own eyes, and actually saw a cart full of oxen, he wouldn’t have believed it anyway.
He finally understood why Xia Zhibai brought an ox cart here. He was afraid that his father and son would not believe it, so he directly brought the potatoes and mud. He moved half a foot of soil from Kaifeng Mansion.
Just to prove that I didn't lie.
Xia Zhibai jumped off the carriage, shook his head and said: "These potatoes were not so productive originally."
"It's just that under the careful cultivation of farmers in other places from generation to generation, they gradually became more productive. It has become more productive, just like the rice in the Central Plains. It was originally a foxtail grass that could be seen everywhere, but under the cultivation of generations of ancestors, it turned into rice step by step, and its yield became more and more productive. ”
"If your Majesty doesn't believe it."
"I actually won't take out the potatoes."
"What I want to take out more is the high-yielding rice cultivated by China itself."
"Although the yield per mu is not up to 1,000 kilograms, Such a terrifying yield can still be increased by 10 to 20% compared to the yield in most places today. However, Your Majesty only gave me one month, and the rice has just been planted, so the final yield cannot be seen. ."
"That's why I chose to bring the early-ripening potatoes."
"My move is just to tell His Majesty that since the Qin Dynasty, China has been pursuing the path of centralization. It’s just that centralization of power is not just to satisfy the monarch’s desires, but also to concentrate the power of the whole country to do great things.”
"The Great Wall of Qin, the Silk Road of Han, the Grand Canal of Sui and Tang Dynasties, etc."
"They are all products of centralization."
"The world has benefited a lot from them. "
"You now have the world, you have everything, and you want everything. You want too much, but you give back too little to the world. You try to trap the world, but You can trap people in the world, but you cannot trap the hearts of all people in the world. "You have been to Huangjue Temple and you should have heard this sentence."
"If you open the net as wide as possible, your merits will be immeasurable."
"Your Majesty has made great achievements, but you have always misjudged one thing. You are not the creator of history, you are only the executor of history. "
"Every time comes, heaven and earth work together, and heroes are not free."
"The person who really affects the world is not you, Zhu Yuanzhang, but the old farmers who work hard in the rice fields. The businessmen who travel in official circles are the officials who actively speak out in court and have great plans for the world. They are the students who are still studying hard under the lonely lamp. "
"This world belongs to them."
"It's not just about the world."
Xia Zhibai went to the back of the oxcart and took out a seedling from it.
Lush green and full of vitality.
He went to Zhu Yuanzhang, handed the seedling into Zhu Yuanzhang's hands, and said with a smile: "These are some old farmers in Kaifeng Prefecture. Under the advice of the grassroots, they have tried for several years and cultivated A potentially high-yielding rice seedling.”
“I will give it to Your Majesty now.”
"This is also the answer given to Your Majesty by farmers all over the world."
(End of this chapter)