Chapter six hundred and thirteenth [potatoes and bird droppings
Ying Quliang is indeed a monarch with great wisdom. Bai Dong understood as soon as he said that, "A man who has seen mountains and flowing waters does not indulge in dangerous paths." To put it bluntly, Ping Anlang wanted to let the hundreds of Chinese schools of thought see the so-called clever laws and regulations of the Greeks in advance. When China truly intersects with Greece, it will not be affected and cause great changes.
Aristotle is actually a window to the Western world, allowing Chinese people to have a glimpse of the infinite spring of the Aegean Sea in advance~
The window Bai Dong was about to open was not just Aristotle. Now the larger "panoramic skylight" is also ready. This time the Hangu Pass meeting will completely open it, which will shock all the princes in the world.
He personally released a strong iron-backed black falcon and looked at it towards Luoyi. Bai Dong suddenly smiled and looked at Ying Quliang: "Your Majesty, I'll make a bet with you. What is most excited about this Hangu meeting is not the lord and the ministers, nor the princes of various countries, but my father. Does the lord believe it or not?"
"I won't beat this bet. Yesterday I met Gongzishun, who returned from the "Sea Island". The thing he brought called "potatoes" really tasted good. As you said, it can be eaten by steaming, boiling, stir-frying, and used as grain and vegetables. This thing can really produce 300 kilograms per acre of land? This is no joke!"
Since the rise of Qin from the West, the establishment of the General Office of the World Banking Industry, the Hundred Schools of the Forum spreads knowledge, the Emperor of Zhou changed his name to the Holy Emperor, if there has been no major war in more than ten years, the consequence of this is the surge in population. Even if Bai Dong promotes the idea of meticulous work and the emergence of Quyuan Pear, Lao Qin began to encounter a food crisis after experiencing the rich days of grain filling in warehouses for ten years. Not to mention the rest of the countries, except for the unique prodigal sons of Chu, it is difficult for Lao Qin and Shandong countries to not worry about food.
For this reason, Ying Quliang specifically asked economist Du Zhi: "Old Qin is now producing more and more grain, but why is it starting to lack food? It is the business of the Grand Master's farmers. Equalizing grain to ensure the lives of the people is the business of you, the Grand Master. Do you want to punish you?"
Du Zhi was sweating when he heard this: "Your Majesty didn't know that the Qin State wanted to be strong, but the country was weak and the people were poor. So if there was a slight change, it was enough food; today, the Qin State wanted to dominate the country, and the army was strong, and the grain from the official station could protect the disaster for three consecutive years! So I suddenly felt that the lack of food was also the silver standard, taking the Western Regions, and controlling Persia. The trade routes, all the merchants in the world went to Persia. Apart from silk, porcelain, tea, the grain from China was also a commodity, and some Shandong merchants bought grain from Qin and entered Persia. In exchange for economic prosperity, our Chinese grain flowed into the West."
So Ying Quliang came to Bai Dong and asked, "Food is the foundation. What are you doing? Sell all the food you eat to the Persians and even further away Greece and Romans. Are you trying to understand foreign countries and starve the Chinese to death? No, I have to ask you for an explanation!"
"Your Majesty still doesn't understand what the real commodity economy is. You only saw that China's grain was sold to Persia, but why didn't Persian wool, goat milk, silver, black iron, and gold were exchanged for China? These things are useful to China, and they are also real hard currency for the Western world."
Bai Dong shook his head and tempted Ying Quliang: "The East China can conquer the Western Regions and control Persia. Can we continue to conquer Greece and Rome? After all, it is too far away. Our war horses will have to run for a whole month to reach. So this is unrealistic. Therefore, China can conquer the Western Regions, but it is best to control Persia. The best way to influence the Greeks and Romans west of the Mediterranean is to influence. When Westerners begin to be inseparable from the food of China, will they still be hostile to China? As for the problem of food, it is easy to solve. Gongzishun went to the continent of the Sea three years ago. Half a month ago, I received his message from the Flying Eagle. He should be able to return to China soon. He brought a novel crop from the continent of the Sea. If planted on a large scale, the food crisis in China will be easily solved. And I promise that Westerners will fall in love with this thing called 'potato' like lovers. They will be crazy about it. This thing can produce 300 kilograms per acre, and this is the lowest yield!"
In the pre-Qin period, the area of one acre was about one-tenth of that of later generations. It was calculated based on the yield of potatoes per mu in later generations. The yield of these crops with strong adaptability to land was nothing.
Prince Shun made a contribution. He was a pirate in the Aegean Sea for several months and was sent by Bai Dong to discover the new continent of America three years ago. However, his preparations were more sufficient than Columbus and his conditions were superior. He led a fleet of up to 2,000 people across the Strait of Gibraltar and resisted America through the Atlantic Ocean. Bai Dong gave him the task not to expand his territory. Instead, he wanted to bring back high-yield crops such as potatoes, tomatoes, sweet potatoes, and corn from America during his first voyage. This thing is also a must-have for northerners to eat, but also a seasoning that can be left in the future in the Chu State, Bashu and other places. In the south, where the climate is humid and rheumatoid, peppers are the supreme magical object for longevity and fitness!
Of course, there are also famous struvites in South America. The struvites accumulated on the long coastline are now calculated in tens of thousands of tons. They are the result of the excrement of countless birds, and they don’t have any money to pull for free!
Even in the era of great sailing in history, this has changed Europe's number one organic biochemical fertilizer in one fell swoop! These are all treasures! Farmers will be so excited that they tremble all over when they see the American bird droppings brought by Gongzishun. In fact, Xu Zi from the farmer had already fainted three times excitedly after seeing the American bird droppings brought by Gongzishun. After waking up for the last time, he lay happily on the pile of bird droppings and rolled on the pile of bird droppings, and then got up and hugged Gongzishun deeply. Gongzishun was vomited in disgust.
With these bird droppings, Bai Dong was confident that he could make the potatoes yield per mu on the experimental field he set out. With the strong ground power of this era, it could even surpass the output of later generations!
In the excited Bai Dong's eyes, Ying Quliang saw potatoes and pieces of bird droppings, so he chose to believe Ping'anlang this time. I believe that as Bai Dong said, these potatoes, corn, tomatoes and bird droppings are definitely ten thousand times more precious than gold. Under Bai Dong's encouragement, he was now thinking that bird droppings were trembling like Xu Zi, a farmer, and he was almost like Xu Zi to pierce the struvite stones.
"So you don't have to worry about how much economic benefits the Shandong countries will get from Persia and the West. The West is so big, the continent on the sea is so big, and the world is so big, and the princes of various countries don't want to see it? In the future, the conflicts between the countries in the East are just small internal conflicts, and as long as they are not stupid, they will understand that the interests of the West and the sea are what they are pursuing at this stage, but without the help of Qin, they will never be able to reach the Western world and the continent on the sea!"
Now the new continent that Gongzishun "discovered" is only the safest and convenient passage through Persia, which is actually controlled by Qin, and through the Strait of Gibraltar through the Mediterranean Sea, is the safest and convenient passage. After Qin completely opens up the Mediterranean channel, even the supplies along the way are held in the palm of Qin, and these vassal states do not bow their heads. Unless someone is not afraid of death and wants to cross the Pacific Ocean with wind and waves without supplies to discover the west coast of America, it is simply impossible to complete in this era.
"Are you sure that the princes in the world will let Lao Qin become the overlord?"
"I am sure, and I am 100% sure! The Emperor of Zhou will be happy to announce that Qin will become the overlord again, and Qin will also let the vassal states see the huge benefits from the far west and the continents on the sea. Just rely on potatoes and bird droppings, don't be afraid that they will not bow their heads!"
Bai Dong chuckled and clenched his fists. Ying Quliang looked at him deeply, nodded vigorously, and clenched his fists! He patted Bai Dong's shoulder hard, then stretched out his thumb and said, "Ping Anlang, now I understand that you are not bragging? How can you take fifty years to make Old Qin defeat the world? It's done in less than twenty years!"
Chapter completed!