"Your Majesty, I have another proposal before answering this question."

Zhao Huan said: "Chen Qing, you said."

"Your Majesty wants to move 200,000 people to Tokyo. I think it's enough to move in directly, and there's no need to worry about no one farming on the Gyeonggi Road."

As soon as Chen Qi said this, Xu Churen couldn't help but ridicule him. He said with a sarcastic sarcastic sentence: "Word nonsense, food is the most important thing for the people. If 200,000 people are forcibly moved to Tokyo, the grain output will inevitably decline next year. If a famine occurs and a civil unrest is caused, who will be responsible!"

Tang Ke and He? They were also watching the joke, as if saying, Emperor, where did you come from to find an idiot, you dare to discuss political, national affairs and make a fool of yourself!

Zhao Huan became curious. He knew that although Chen Qing was not a talent for governing the world, he was definitely an expert in agriculture. Although he also studied Confucianism, he studied all kinds of schools of thought, and he was always in rural areas in various places for many years. He could be said to be a top talent.

Such a person will never talk nonsense.

Faced with Xu Churen's attack, Chen Yu was calm and said: "There are many droughts in the north, and the harvests of one quarter per year are much worse than those south of the Yangtze River. Zhou Shangshu should have statistics from previous years. In the Central Plains, one stone of wheat per mu is obtained. When Fan Gong's "Answering Hand-Out Notes" talks about the situation in Suzhou, the benefits of middle-aged harvests are obtained from two to three stones per mu. Not only that, there are many lakes in the south, the fishery is prosperous, and the Jiangling Prefecture Plain has a humid climate, which is suitable for planting various crops. I believe that the court should regard the areas of Poyang Lake and Dongting Lake as the key to the Song Dynasty's agriculture. If these two places are mined, let alone 200,000, even if Your Majesty wants to move another million people to the capital, the food will be sufficient."

"If the Song Dynasty agriculture is moved to the south, mulberry trees can be planted on the slope pond dike, fish can be raised in the pond, and water can irrigate the fields."

Zhao Huan then came to his senses and said in his heart: Damn, I am a time traveler in vain. The two lakes are familiar with the world. Poyang Lake and Dongting Lake are the key points in agriculture!

In fact, China's economy has tended to shift to the south since the Tang Dynasty. By the rise of the Song Dynasty, Hangzhou, Jiangling, Chengdu and other places, the southern economy began to bloom generally, and the south truly began to surpass the north was the intersection of the two Song dynasties, and the people of the Central Plains moved south.

Just say that the Southern Song Dynasty court had large-scale reclamation of Poyang Lake and Dongting Lake. Even if it was not for the northern part, the food in the whole country was completely sufficient.

Only when there is enough food can business be developed. Otherwise, people will not even be able to eat enough and the food supply cannot keep up, so they will not have the energy to develop business.

For example, in the Qin and Han dynasties, agricultural production was low, and an adult could only feed up to 1.5 people per day. Merchants did not engage in agricultural production and eliminated officials. Under this productivity, farmers could not leave the fields, otherwise everyone would starve to death, and the court would also have to curb the number of merchants, otherwise no one would farm and everyone would still starve to death.

But it was completely different in the Song Dynasty. All kinds of agricultural tools were released, and the cultivation and research and development of people in previous dynasties had changed from a barbarian land during the Zhou Dynasty to a more plump fish and rice land than the Central Plains.

Only after the food was abundant could commerce have a foundation, so dynasties like the Southern Song Dynasty were relatively peaceful, but they were rich.

Zhao Huan felt that the research and development of agricultural technology was not overnight, but the innovation in model could quickly achieve results.

For example, Chen Yi said that mulberry can be planted on the slope pond dike, fish can be raised in the pond, and water can irrigate the fields.

This is the prototype of the agricultural ecology in later generations. It can make full use of natural resources and greatly improve efficiency.

Of course, Zhao Huan, a historical idiot, didn't know that Chen Xian was a famous agriculturalist in the history of the Song Dynasty. He even spent his life writing a book called "Agriculture Book", which was a theory of agricultural ecosystems based on his years of field experience and his own understanding.

Xu Churen stood up and said, "Your Majesty, I think the south is vast and it takes time to reclaim new land. It will definitely not be completed within a year."

Chen Qing said again: "Your Majesty, I am not talented. I have a map of agricultural in the south of the Yangtze River. I have been traveling all over the Yangtze River for many years and I am willing to offer it to Your Majesty."

Zhao Huan was immediately overjoyed, and Chen Qi said, "Your Majesty wait, I will go and get it."

Soon, Chen Qing came back and had a dark scroll in his hand, which was presented to Zhao Huan. Zhao Huan was so excited that God helped me!

He was excited to open Chen Yan's agricultural map and glanced at it. It was very similar to the outline of the southern Chinese map he saw on the Internet in his previous life. There were many detailed slogans on it, including rivers, hills, and crops suitable for planting.

Birds fly by the sky where the sun sets, and the setting sun comes in from outside, and the backyard of the Academy of Sciences is quiet.

Zhao Huan ordered people to hang this map, and his eyes were glowing. In ancient times, maps were very valuable, not to mention that this map introduced the natural climate in the Jiangnan area in detail.

This is simply a strategic map of the national treasure level of the Song Dynasty!

Even Xu Churen was stunned. He didn't expect that Chen Ying had such a thing!

Everyone was silent for a while, and only saw the emperor walking around in front of the map excitedly, and didn't know what was thinking, but it seemed that he was conceiving a big and earth-shaking thing.

"Xu Churen, Zhou Dynasty, tell me, is it feasible if we do cultivation in the south?"

Xu Churen and Zhou Dynasty looked at each other. As the Minister of Revenue and the Three Sessions, the Zhou Dynasty naturally knew the current annual taxes of the Song Dynasty. The agricultural tax in the Central Plains was indeed decreasing year by year, and the agricultural tax in the south was steadily increasing.

Dazai of the Zhengshitang naturally knew that the increase in farmland reclamation in the country over the years has indeed been in the south, but Xu Churen is a native of the Central Plains after all, and the forces in the north naturally disdain the south and even intend to suppress the south.

For example, Tang Ke, the assistant minister, was from Jiangnan. The assistant minister, and the minister, and the minister, have never been dealt with. The court promoted the minister, to the position of deputy prime minister in order to curb the prime minister.

To a certain extent, Xu Churen of the Political Affairs Hall was a northern force and Tang Ke was a southern force.

If the south was regarded as the place for the production of grain in the Song Dynasty, wouldn’t the southerners have to look up to the sky in the court in the future?

Before Xu Churen could speak, Tang Ke had already stepped out and said, "Your Majesty, I think it is feasible."

Qin Hui, who is also a southerner, also came out and said: "I will discuss it!"

Other ministers also said: "I will discuss it!"

Seeing this, Xu Churen couldn't say anything else and hurriedly said, "I'm going to discuss it!"

Zhao Huan said: "Okay, the Zhengshi Hall finds a person to come out alone, set up the Agricultural Department, and use Chen Yan Agricultural Department envoy, Xu Churen, you will choose another person as the Deputy Envoy of the Agricultural Department to assist Chen Yan in presiding over the southern agricultural reclamation."

"I obey the order!"

After returning from the Academy of Sciences, Zhao Huan felt that the current situation was becoming more and more interesting. He naturally knew that although the new policy was not promoted in Jiangnan, many landlords in Jiangnan were paying attention to the trends of the court all the time, and some landlords were even secretly recruiting soldiers.

This time, the imperial court set up a farm department to specifically take action against Jiangnan, and there will inevitably be disputes over interests here.

Let the disputes over interests emerge. It only takes me one year at most to clear the power of the Central Plains landlords, and then I start to move Jiangnan!
Chapter completed!