Faced with this pile of plant seeds, there are as many as four or five kinds that can be identified by Ye Chunqiu.

The most important of these are corn, sweet potatoes and potatoes.

All these three things come from South America. Twenty years ago, the Spaniards arrived in South America, and at this time, Portugal's tentacles extended to Malacca and other places.

Many American plants were taken to Europe, and at the same time, they gradually flowed to various places.

Although Ye Chunqiu could not understand the language of the Flang Ji people, from their identities and gestures, it can be roughly guessed that this should be the Malacca and India areas sent by the Portuguese to some plants transported from America. The purpose is that it is hard to explain...

Originally, Ye Chunqiu thought that these plants would probably take several years to get them, but unexpectedly, the surprises came so quickly and are now within reach!

Just talking about food, in terms of the three crops, corn, sweet potato and potato, they are simply magical tools of this era.

They all have one characteristic, that is, they are all high-yield, premature, and do not require intensive cultivation and low planting conditions.

This alone is enough to kill everything in seconds.

What does this mean?

Just talking about high yield, if one acre of land is the same, it can only collect 200 kilograms of grain in this era. If the sweet potatoes cultivated in later generations are cultivated, they can reach 8,000 kilograms per mu. Although Ye Chunqiu cannot achieve the yield level per mu in later generations, the yield per mu is more than 1,500 kilograms per mu, it is more than enough.

And this is not the key to the problem. The real key is that rice needs to be cultivated carefully, while sweet potatoes, corn and potatoes do not need careful care. If a person can plant thirty acres of land, then if it is sweet potatoes, corn and potatoes, it will be enough to take care of hundreds of acres.

This is not enough. They do not have high requirements for planting conditions. For example, growing rice often requires paddy fields and irrigation, but these three crops can even be planted directly on the mountain.

What does this mean? It means that many places where grain cannot be grown can also be grown. If a county has 300,000 mu of land, it can completely open up 600,000 mu of land. In addition, its output has doubled several times. If this alone can be promoted, it will be enough to increase the grain output of a county by five or even more than ten times. Not only that, their leaves and diameters can also be used as feed, which is completely a killer in the agricultural society.

These three crops were not really promoted in history until the late Ming and early Qing dynasties. To some extent, the demise of the Ming Dynasty came from the reduction of grain production. However, by the Qing Dynasty, the same land, the population of 100 million in the Ming Dynasty was difficult to support, but soon the population increased to four times in less than a hundred years.

Ye Chunqiu roughly speculated that the population of Ming Dynasty should be around 60 to 80 million. Once the sweet potato, sweet potato and corn are promoted, at least the general famine situation will be greatly improved, and the price of food will fall to the lowest level. In the same village, the population raised can be increased by more than several times.

Ye Chunqiu looked at these "fruits" that arrived here after countless storms and waves, and took a deep breath. This is the real treasure that can kill all directions. If it can be promoted quickly, it can solve the problem of food once and for all within the next few decades, that is, before the population growth in the future.

In fact, during the British Industrial Revolution, the nobles drove farmers from the land to the city, raised sheep in their own land, produced wool on a large scale, and accumulated primitive capital in the early stages. Logically speaking, famine had long occurred, and the reason why there was no famine was because of the appearance of potatoes.

According to the search of Guangzhu, Ye Chunqiu identified several other crops, which also surprised him.

It is the fruit of the rubber tree, that is, it can be used to cultivate saplings, which means... well... rubber is very useful in this era. It has excellent resilience, insulation, waterproofness and plasticity. After proper treatment, it also has oil resistance, acid resistance, alkali resistance, heat resistance, cold resistance, pressure resistance, wear resistance and other functions. For example, if the wheels of a carriage are replaced by rubber, the shock absorption performance will be greatly enhanced. The true "car" can appear. In various mechanical manufacturing, the sealing of rubber is also very useful. Of course... it can also be used as rain boots...

Ye Chunqiu looked at him one by one and roughly confirmed it, and said to Sun Qi: "Ask him, how many of these seeds are there?"

Sun Qi was making gestures with several Folang Ji people. The leading Folang Ji people took out a silver coin from the bag and kept gestured. Ye Chunqiu realized that they were afraid that Ye Chunqiu would regret it and refused to give money.

So Ye Chunqiu said to Sun Qi: "Give them the silver first. Well, I'm afraid it's very inconvenient to bring so much money. I'll give them a carriage. Put the silver into the carriage and they can take it away at any time. Anyway, I don't worry about them running away."

Ye Chunqiu paid the silver very quickly. In fact, even if these Folang Ji people asked for ten times the price, Ye Chunqiu would never frown. When these people saw a cart of silver, they immediately smiled happily and had no time to check it. Sure enough, they went to get a few bags of seeds. Ye Chunqiu opened the bag and found that potatoes and sweet potatoes had already sprouted. These crops were extremely tenacious.

Ye Chunqiu did not hesitate and ordered Sun Qi to greet him, but he asked someone to carry the seeds and go to the research institute.

On the contrary, Zhang Heling, who had been unable to talk, was left behind. Zhang Heling wanted to chase after him to see the lively, but after thinking about what Ye Chunqiu said to be beneficial to the country and the people, he lost interest. He shook his head, sat on the brightly decorated carriage and left bored.

There are smelting, agriculture, forestry, and machinery institutes under the research institute. The scale of this agricultural and forestry institute is very large, even including a large area of ​​land in the back garden of the research institute, which belongs to agriculture and forestry.

The person in charge of this place was a scholar named Yangmu, who was quite interested in these grains and grains.

When Yang Mu saw Ye Chunqiu coming hurriedly, he hurriedly stepped forward. Before he could greet him, Ye Chunqiu said, "Go and ask someone to help."

Poplar trees dare not neglect. Although the agriculture and forestry institutes are not as good as the machinery, metallurgy, and chemical institutes that are now valued, they actually live a very comfortable life. After all, they have a special greenhouse and cultivate some off-season flowers and fruits every now and then. But the big men in Beijing love to eat watermelons in winter and watch the flowers blooming in autumn. Generally, the agricultural and forestry institutes cultivate and tinker with various flowers. After the fruits are recorded, the excess will be sold at a high price. The silver obtained is considered an additional subsidy.

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