After leaving Tianqi City, Yang Song decided to continue heading south. Of course, the rest of the people had no room and all followed Yang Song.

If Apocalypse City continues to move south, it will enter the southern plain of the peninsula, which was originally called the Southern Wasteland.

The climate of the southern plains is a subtropical monsoon climate, coupled with the vast flat land and abundant water resources, it is a natural rice growing area.

The rice here is harvested twice a year and is supplied to all parts of the Xia Kingdom. It is not an exaggeration to say that the southern plain is a granary of the Xia Kingdom.

As for the fact that this is a granary of the Xia Kingdom, that is because the Linhai Basin in Guanzhong and the outside of the Guan are both granaries of the Xia Kingdom, but the types of food supplied are somewhat different.

Due to geographical location, wheat is grown outside Guanzhong and some fruits and vegetables are grown in Guanzhong. It can be said that each place has its own characteristics.

It’s not that these three areas only grow these crops, but there are other crops as well, but the scale is relatively smaller.

Moreover, they have their own development according to the terrain, and many regional specialty products have been developed.

For example, there are tea fields on some high mountains, medicinal materials in the mountainous areas, fruit trees in the hilly areas, and grazing areas with abundant water and grass...

This time Yang Song decided to continue going south, just to see the paddy fields and pastures on the southern plain where Yuezhou is located.

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The area about fifty kilometers from the south of Tianma Pass to the south of Tianqi City belongs to Qizhou, and the state city of Qizhou is Tianqi City.

Yang Song and his party left Kaizhou and went to Yuezhou. Yuezhou basically covered the entire southern plain and was famous in the Xia Kingdom for its rice and pastures.

As soon as he crossed Mushou County in Qizhou and entered Yuezhou, Yang Song saw a boundless paddy field with sparkling waves reflecting the scorching sun in the sky.

At this time of year, the rice seeds have already been sown. Once the seedlings grow to about half a foot long, the busy rice transplanting season will begin. Therefore, the current paddy field is just a paddy field without a single rice seedling.

But precisely because of this, Yang Song could clearly see the criss-crossing ditches between the paddy fields. These ditches transported water resources from distant rivers to various paddy fields.

"It's really spectacular." Xun Yu looked at the vast paddy fields in front of him and sighed: "This is a land of fish and rice. I think it was still a wasteland back then."

"Yes, there were originally some primitive savages here." Yang Song nodded, recalling what happened back then, and said, "At that time, those savages also came to attack us."

As for the fate of these savages, Yang Songming didn't need to tell them, everyone knew that they simply disappeared from this land.

"Hey~" Yang Song shook his head for some reason when he saw everyone was calm in this peaceful paddy field.

"Why did your Majesty sigh?" Liu Ji was a little confused when he saw Yang Song's look. Logically speaking, the paddy fields in front of him were their great achievements, and they should be proud. Pride is the right thing. Why did Yang Song feel regretful instead?

Yang Song looked at the paddy fields with no crops in front of him and replied: "Unfortunately, I came at the wrong time. If I had come here in the golden autumn, I would have smelled the fragrance of rice flowers and seen the rice stalks nodding. They are as bare as they are now."

"What the Supreme Lord said is true." After everyone heard the reason why Yang Song felt sorry, they thought how wonderful it would be if all they saw in front of them were pieces of golden rice straw.

"Haha~" Xun Yu chuckled lightly and said: "Your Majesty, you don't have to be like this. If you don't see it now, why don't you just wait and see it again in two months? These paddy fields will not run away."

"Wen Ruo is right, we will definitely do it again when the rice is ripe." Although Yang Song said so, he didn't know how long he had left and whether he would have the chance to do it again.

Yang Song's trip to visit the huge Xia Kingdom cannot be completed in a month or two. Even if he waits for him to visit the entire Xia Kingdom, is there another place waiting for him to go?

What about once?

Yang Song and his party continued to move forward, continuing southward. Apart from towns and villages, all they saw along the way were large areas of paddy fields. This was the case for several days.

If he hadn't known that the direction he was going in had not changed, Yang Song would have thought that he had been walking in circles for several days. There were too many paddy fields here!

"Wen Ruo, so many paddy fields have supplied food for most of the summer." Yang Song knew that everything in front of him was Xun Yu's contribution.

Xun Yu nodded in agreement and replied: "Yes, this all depends on the policy of unifying grain prices formulated by the Supreme Being, so that the price of grain will not hurt farmers. Otherwise, I would not dare to develop such a large-scale development."

farmland."

Regarding unified grain prices, the imperial court purchased the output of the people at market prices and then shipped them to various places for sale. Of course, there were huge profits, so private businessmen were also allowed to participate, but they were strictly controlled.

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If businessmen want to hoard food, raise food prices, or even engage in corruption in local government and collusion between government and business, then these people must be prepared to have their families destroyed.

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The weather got hotter as we went south, and the terrain also tended to rise. It was only at this time that Yang Song and the others walked out of the paddy field area and came to the pasture area in southern Yuezhou.

The terrain here is more undulating compared to northern Yuezhou. It is probably because the cost of developing paddy fields is a bit high. Anyway, the water plants here are very abundant, so it was developed into pasture.

Therefore, after Yang Song and others entered this area, they saw horses, sheep, cattle... all kinds of livestock running in groups on this grassland.

The herdsmen, on the other hand, were riding big horses and waving long whips to drive their livestock and graze.

There is the Xia Kingdom's horse farm here, and most of the Xia Kingdom's war horses and steeds are produced here. Many livestock with economic value, such as cattle, sheep, and dairy cows, are also produced here.

It can be said that the pastures here provide most of the livestock power for the Xia Kingdom, and many large animal meat products also come from here.

Unlike poultry breeding such as chicken farms and duck farms, which can be carried out anywhere, the breeding of large livestock requires a certain area of ​​land.

Therefore, the grazing here is planned sustainably. Scientific grazing allows the water and soil here to be well maintained, so as to avoid destructive grazing.

Thinking about the development of pasture, Yang Song thought of the new continent in the south. He didn't know whether grazing and planting could be done on that continent.

"Your Majesty, how great it would be if the development of Xia Yuan Continent was also completed." Kailai Xunyu thought of going with Yang Song at this time.

Yang Song glanced at Xun Yu, turned around, and replied: "This is not what us old men should worry about. Xia Yuan Continent should be left to future generations to develop."

"That's what the Supreme Being said." Xun Yu came back to his senses and was a little surprised when he heard Yang Song actually responded to his soliloquy.

After walking through the southern pasture area of ​​Yuezhou, there is a rain forest further south, which is still in a preliminary state of development.

There is a certain degree of difficulty in developing the rainforest, because the extreme environment of the rainforest makes it difficult to move forward.

Even after so many years of hard work, they have only established some towns on the edge of the rainforest to collect specialties in the rainforest.

If you want to continue development, it will not be so easy.

And Yang Song remembers that the rainforest is called the lungs of the planet, so it is still very difficult to develop the resources in the rainforest without destroying it.
Chapter completed!