Ming Dynasty: Teaching The Prince Dragon-Slaying Skills At The Beginning

Chapter 672: The Unstoppable Low Price Of Grain Hurts Farmers [Please Subscribe, Please Subscribe In

After Zhu Yuanzhang sat down again, everyone's thoughts returned to what Yan Changqing said just now, at least 1533 billion kilograms of potatoes are wasted a year.

When they thought that the Ming Dynasty wasted at least 1533 billion kilograms of potatoes every year, Prince Zhu Biao, Zhu Di, Zhu Fan, Zhu Di and other princes could not help but twitch at the corners of their mouths.

In the past dynasties, there was endless food to waste.

Even if the grain can fill the official warehouse, it is enough to be called a prosperous era that will be recorded in the history books.

If the food can even fill the people's warehouses, then there is no need to say that even an emperor like the Qin Emperor and the Han Wutang Sect will have the confidence to touch the opponent.

However, in the future, their Ming Dynasty’s potatoes will not only be able to fill the official and private warehouses, but there will even be at least one hundred and fifty thousand, one billion of them left to be wasted every year.

If this kind of thing really happens, then as Yan Changqing said, even if the sky is innocent and Houtu is not sad, they will not be able to get through the test in their own hearts.

Thinking of this, Prince Zhu Biao frowned and said:

"Today, there are 8,577,623 hectares and 68 acres of farmland in the world, of which official land accounts for more than 3.5 million hectares, civilian land accounts for about 4 million hectares, and the rest is owned by the royal family, clans, and vassals. The land occupied by the king and noble marquis.”

"If potatoes are not grown in all the official fields and the fields occupied by royal family members, feudal princes, and noble marquises, will the problem of food waste be solved?!!"

He has also read various year-end reports of Ming Dynasty, and naturally knows that Ming Dynasty's only second major policy last year, or the only major policy - inventory and accounting of the number of acres of land in the world

Among them, there is not much difference between the quantity of official land and private land.

If the official land is added to the number of acres of land occupied by royal family members, feudal princes, and noble marquises, then the amount is hundreds of thousands more than the amount of private land.

According to what Yan Changqing just said, a family of five consumes approximately 695 kilograms of potatoes a day.

Among them, humans, pigs, cattle and other livestock can consume about 345 kilograms a day, and the remaining 350 kilograms will be wasted.

This three hundred and fifty kilograms is exactly about half of the six hundred and fifty five kilograms.

The amount of land occupied by official fields, royal family members, vassal kings, and noble marquises is just slightly more than half of the total number of acres in the world.

17 In this way, if all the fields occupied by official fields, royal family members, vassals, and noble marquises were ordered not to grow potatoes, the total potato output could be reduced by half.

As a result, the daily potato consumption of a family of five will be reduced by half.

The final quantity of potatoes produced is just enough to meet the consumption needs of people and livestock without causing huge food waste.

Yan Changqing's eyes fell on Prince Zhu Biao, nodded slightly, shook his head and said:

"This method can solve the problem, but it does not completely solve the problem."

"Not to mention how many ordinary people are able to raise three pigs and three cows at home."

“Even if livestock can eat potatoes every day, can humans really eat potatoes every day?!!”

"Nowadays, potatoes are probably grown more or less in the Eastern Palace and the palaces of various vassal princes. Your highnesses have already been able to eat unlimited potatoes."

"But which of your Highnesses still suffers from acne every day after being fresh for a while?!!"

"There is nothing to eat during the disaster years. People eat potatoes every day to survive. This is no problem."

"But in normal times, who eats potatoes as their staple food every day?!!"

"And even if the common people can eat potatoes as their staple food every day, there is still one most important problem, and that is 'cheap grain hurts farmers', or 'too many potatoes hurts farmers'!!!"

"The main sources of income for ordinary people, especially farmers, are roughly from three channels."

"One is to sell excess grain for money."

“The second is to exchange money by doing small jobs or helping others.

"The third is to sell the cloth woven by the women in the family for money."

"Among these three income channels, the first is the main source of income for farmers."

"But when the common people all over the world are planting potatoes and no one is short of potatoes, who can the common people sell their potatoes to?!!"

"I'm afraid that by then, no one will be willing to accept even a hundred catties of beans in Japanese money."

"But if the people's potatoes cannot be sold and exchanged for money, then the people's main source of income will collapse."

"By then, what will people use to buy oil, salt, sauce, vinegar, and other daily necessities?!!"

"Are you going to get potatoes?!!"

At the end, Yan Changqing couldn't help but sigh.

Eating potatoes only ensures that people will not starve.

But people can't just live by eating potatoes.

Food, clothing, housing and transportation are all basic necessities for people’s livelihood.

Even though the common people have solved their food problem through potatoes, they still still have clothing, housing and transportation!!!

Clothing, housing and transportation all cost money!!!

But potatoes, which will be widespread in the future, are the least valuable things.

Hearing this, King Qin Zhu Xi looked at Yan Changqing seriously and said:

“Since ‘there are too many potatoes and the peasants are poor’, then we issue an order prohibiting all ordinary people from growing potatoes!!!”

"An ordinary person can only use at most one-third or one-fourth of his land to grow potatoes!!!"

"Man-made intervention for the common people to forcefully control the amount of potatoes planted!!!"

"In this way, ordinary people can not only ensure the daily needs of themselves and their livestock by growing potatoes, but they can also grow other grains and sell them for money!!!"

Naturally, he understands the principle of cheap grain hurting farmers.

The reason why low grain prices hurt farmers is that there is too much grain, which leads to low grain prices and harms people's income.

In this case, he used the imperial court's administrative intervention to forcibly control the amount of potatoes planted and control the total potato output within a certain range.

In this way, ordinary people can not only meet their needs for two or three meals a day by growing potatoes, but they can also grow other grains in exchange for a certain amount of money to solve other life problems.

In this case, there should be no problem, right?!!

Yan Changqing's eyes also fell on Qin King Zhu Ping, and he nodded, then shook his head and said:

"His Royal Highness King Qin's solution is theoretically the correct solution, and even the best solution."

"But is the correct and best solution really sure to be implemented?!!"

Hearing this, whether it was Zhu Yuanzhang or the princes Zhu Biao, Zhu Di, Zhu Fan, Zhu Di and other princes, their brows wrinkled again.

If a wrong, bad solution cannot be implemented, then they can understand it.

But how could a correct, or even the best, solution not be implemented?!!

[Wait a minute, it seems that there is a correct and best solution, but it cannot be implemented!!!]

At this moment, Zhu Yuanzhang, as well as the princes Zhu Biao, Zhu Di, Zhu Fan, Zhu Di and other princes suddenly remembered that when Yan Changqing taught "Dragon Slaying Technique", he had mentioned the issue of women's childbearing age.

Medically speaking, it is best for a woman to delay her childbearing age until she is sixteen, or even after eighteen.

This can greatly reduce a woman's risk of giving birth.

However, this policy has not been implemented.

Late marriage and late childbearing were only slowly promoted among the royal family, noble marquises, and civil and military officials.

Because once late marriage and late childbearing are implemented among the people, the number of descendants of the people will be reduced, which is contrary to the current mainstream concept of having more children and more happiness.

Secondly, it will also cause the family to lose one or even several laborers.

Therefore, even if delaying marriage and delaying childbearing is a correct policy, it cannot be implemented due to the limitations of the current era.

[Is it possible that the solution proposed by the second brother/second brother/me/second brother is also a solution that is as correct as "late marriage and late childbearing", but cannot be implemented?!!]

Zhu Yuanzhang, as well as the princes Zhu Biao, Zhu Xi, Zhu Fan, Zhu Di and other princes all had the same thought in their hearts.

Looking at Zhu Yuanzhang, who looked puzzled, and the princes Zhu Biao, Zhu Di, Zhu Fan, Zhu Di and other princes, Yan Changqing opened his mouth to explain:

"As I said at the beginning, even if His Majesty and His Royal Highnesses, who are the Emperor and Prince, get potatoes with a yield of thirty dan per mu, the first thing they want to do is to plant the potatoes immediately. The more you plant, the better.”

“When your Majesty and your Royal Highnesses received thirty kilos of potatoes per mu at the beginning, they were unable to calm down or reason.

"Can those ordinary people be able to calm down and rationalize when they face potatoes with a yield of 30 shi per mu for the first time?!!"

"It can't be done."

"Don't say it's just the so-called imperial court order that prohibits it. Even if the imperial court says that all the fields are full of potatoes, anyone will be killed!!!"

"There will also be countless ordinary people who secretly risk being beheaded to plant potatoes in their fields."

"Over the past thousands of years, the number of times that ordinary people have been able to truly eat their full stomachs can be said to be very few."

"They have been hungry for too long and are scared to death!!!"

"As long as potatoes with a yield of thirty shi per acre are given to them, no one can stop them from planting potatoes all over their fields.'

"They will fight anyone who dares to stop them!!!"

"In this case, the so-called 'man-made intervention on the people to forcibly control the cultivation of potatoes' is just empty talk, and no people will be willing to abide by it."

"How can a policy that no ordinary people are willing to abide by and go against the wishes of all ordinary people be truly implemented?!!"

“So the final result is still common people all over the world, everyone is planting potatoes in their own fields, resulting in the phenomenon of ‘low price of grain hurting farmers’.

"Only the common people have been growing potatoes for several years and eating enough for several years. They have realized that with potatoes in hand, they will not go hungry again."

"At the same time, I found that all the potatoes I planted could only fill their stomachs at most."

"But after being unable to solve their other problems of 'clothing, housing and transportation', they will, as His Highness the King of Qin said, only plant potatoes on some of their own acres to ensure that they will not starve." "

"Then he will grow other grains on other acres, and then sell other grains in exchange for money, thereby solving his other problems of clothing, housing and transportation.'

"What the imperial court has to do is to help the people in the past few years before they calm down and solve the food crisis of 'low grain prices hurting farmers' caused by the proliferation of potato planting!!!"

High-yielding grains like potatoes and sweet potatoes are not meant to be promoted by the imperial court, and then everything will be fine, and then they will directly benefit hundreds of millions of people.

We must consider the subsequent impact of promoting the cultivation of high-yielding grains such as potatoes and sweet potatoes.

The most serious subsequent impact is the proliferation of potato planting!!!

Don't doubt this

era, or in any era of feudal agricultural society, the people's desire for off-farm food and a full stomach.

Because in the past thousands of years, when the people were really able to barely have enough to eat, it was probably during those prosperous times recorded in history books.

But over thousands of years, how many prosperous times have been recorded in history books, and how long were they?!!

So think about how those ordinary people who have been hungry for thousands of years and have not been able to eat even a few times will react when they get high-yielding grains such as potatoes and sweet potatoes with a yield of thirty kilograms per mu.

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That must be a matter of reckless cultivation and crazy cultivation of such high-yielding grains!!!

This is something that no one can persuade and no one can stop!!!

So the final result must be that the world is full of potatoes.

And it’s the kind that weighs trillions of kilograms!!!

Under such circumstances, if the court does not take precautions in advance and make preparations for the common people.

Then when potato planting becomes rampant, people will really have no choice but to cry over the potatoes that they can't finish eating or sell.

And I guess it will take me three to five years of continuous crying before I realize that I don’t need to plant so many potatoes.

However, in this process, the price that the people have to pay is too huge and too painful!!!

I don’t know how many people will have their families destroyed because of this!!!

This is the serious subsequent impact of handing over high-yielding grains such as potatoes and sweet potatoes to the imperial court for promotion.

However, most people cannot see or imagine such subsequent effects.

I just think that after the common people have high-yielding foods such as potatoes and sweet potatoes, they will no longer be hungry.

Then when the flood of potato cultivation caused a food crisis that caused low grain prices and hurt farmers, everyone was dumbfounded.

Of course, if it is not handed over to the imperial court for promotion, but the people are allowed to propagate, promote and plant it on their own.

On the contrary, there will not be such a serious food crisis as low grain prices hurt farmers and potato cultivation is rampant.

Because if the cultivation spreads from the people in one place to the outside world, it will take at least ten years, or even dozens of years, to spread to the whole world and people can grow potatoes.

year time.

In the past ten to several decades, the people who took the lead in planting potatoes in the first three to five years will inevitably encounter the phenomenon of planting too many potatoes, resulting in low grain prices and hurting farmers.

However, although the low price of grain hurts farmers, since potatoes have not been planted yet, they are everywhere in the world, so even if more potatoes are planted, they can still be sold.

At most, the price is kept low, so that no one wants it.

And the people who took the lead in planting potatoes will naturally not plant so many potatoes after suffering losses.

After potatoes spread and are planted everywhere in the world, most people will have suffered a loss, and naturally they will not plant too many potatoes.

In fact, this is to transform the food crisis that was originally a one-time outbreak, involving tens of millions of people across the country, into an acceptable one after another.

This is a small-scale, small-scale food crisis that hurts farmers.

However, there is a disadvantage to this.

That is to say, many people who could have survived and did not need to starve to death will starve to death!!!

Because if the imperial court takes the initiative to promote it, then at most three to five years, everyone will have potatoes to eat. After three to five years, maybe no one will starve to death.

However, if it is propagated and cultivated independently by the people, it will take at least more than ten years, and at most, it will even take decades.

And in ten to several decades, how many people will starve to death in other places where potatoes are not grown?!!

It was possible that they would not have to starve to death.

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