MTL - Farming Space: The Lucky and Lovely Lady Come to Farm-Chapter 988 The Queen doesn't know how to count

Chapter 988 The Queen is illiterate

Gu Fei thought about it when Xiao Yu asked her to supervise the country.

 Since she is now the rule maker, why doesn't she do something when she has the opportunity to make the world a better place?

 Everyone wants to live in a better world.

 Gu Fei doesn’t need to cross the river by feeling the stones. In a previous life, China was able to rise from a state of poverty to a world power in just a few decades. This was not only due to the demographic dividend, but also the benefits brought by policies.

 Even though many policies cannot be implemented at a technical level, the general direction is the same, which is to make the majority of people in this country live a good life.

 A lot of things can be done just by changing them.

At this time, Wang Shangshu of the Ministry of Rites thought about what the two people said, and finally couldn't help it, and said: "I think that if fertility is excessively rewarded, it will not be a good thing in the long run."

“The amount of cultivated land is almost constant. If the population increases and there is no more output, how can we feed the increased population?”

Gu Fei said slowly: "First, the policies and laws of the imperial court are not static and will be adjusted according to the current situation."

"Second, sweet potato, a drought-tolerant crop brought back from overseas, can be promoted in the north. Sweet potato can be grown for two seasons, and the output can reach several thousand kilograms per mu of land per year. As long as sweet potato cultivation can be promoted, it can solve the basic problem of food and clothing for the people. question."

Since sweet potatoes were introduced to the Central Plains, they have been the main crop in the north for a long time.

In a previous life, after the founding of the People's Republic of China, even in the 1970s, sweet potatoes were the staple food of most people in many barren places.

Most courtiers don’t know what sweet potato is.

 Sweet potatoes are sweet potatoes. The introduction of sweet potatoes was when Gu Erlang went to sea two years ago. Remembering his sister's words to bring more local crop seeds back to China, he brought sweet potato vines and several bags full of sweet potatoes.

 There are also several varieties of chili peppers.

As soon as these words came out, the civil and military officials in the whole court were in a commotion.

“How many kilograms of kilograms are produced per acre? How can there be such a thing in the world?”

“Is the queen not able to count how many kilograms there are? Does the queen know how much an acre of land can produce now?”

"That is, even the best paddy fields in the south of the Yangtze River can produce three to four hundred kilograms of grain per acre, and the yield per mu is several thousand kilograms. I am afraid I am talking in my sleep."

“Women have long hair but short knowledge!”

Gu Fei didn't say anything and let them talk.

Taishi Su stroked his beard and said nothing.

 Xiao Yu had already communicated with him about promoting the cultivation of sweet potatoes.

 When the courtiers started to make a fuss, Taishi Su said, "I have something to say."

 The court became quiet.

Prime Minister Su said slowly: "It is imperative to promote sweet potato cultivation."

"Two years ago, the Marquis of Changping sent people to plant dozens of acres of sweet potatoes in the north. Now they have harvested four seasons, and the average yield per mu has reached four thousand kilograms. If you don't believe it, now is the sweet potato harvest season, so you can send people to Xiqin County Observe on the spot.”

As soon as Taishi Su said it, everyone had to believe it.

Taishi Su's character and status are displayed here. Everyone will question the queen, but not Taishi Su.

The ministers who were still talking plausibly just now and thought Gu Fei was a fool fell silent.

Xiao Yu made the final decision, "The Queen's suggestions just now, except for disarmament, which still need to be discussed, I think the rest are very good. Do you have any objections, dear sirs?"

The ministers thought for a moment that remarriage of widows, incentives for childbearing, promotion of sweet potato cultivation, and raising taxes on overseas trade were not big things. If implemented, they would have some effect, so they remained silent.

 (End of this chapter)