Chapter 103: Amazing Words
Chen Yi was not encouraged by Helan Minzhi's inexplicable words, but Helan Minyue's earnest eyes made him "instinctively" swallow the rejection back. Men have a desire to show their feelings in front of women, especially in front of women who have a good impression of them, and even in front of women who have pride in them. They have the same idea of showing their aspects that they are proud of. Chen Yi just heard Helan Minyue's inspirational words, and he had the urge to talk to the brothers and sisters in front of him. But Chen Yi was still a little worried and dared not speak randomly. Even if he talked, he would have to organize his speech. Therefore, after Helan Minzhi's plea again, he still did not answer positively.
"Brother Changju, aren't you making things difficult for me? I'm not as old as I am, and I pay very little attention to farming. Apart from some theories I get on paper, there are not many practical things in it. If you ask me to tell me, am I a Zhao Kuo who talks on paper?"
It is difficult to say something to refuse, so I can only make excuses. Zhao Kuo, who talks about war on paper, has brought out all the words. In fact, when using the idiom "talking about war on paper", Chen Yi thought of another point. It is really a bit inappropriate to use this word on Zhao Kuo. According to historical records, paper was invented by Cai Lun, an eunuch in the Eastern Han Dynasty. During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, there were hundreds of years with the Eastern Han Dynasty. How could paper come from? Without paper, how could it be discussed on paper!
What surprised Chen Yi was that his little doubt was immediately caught by Helan Minzhi, "Brother Ziying, what is Zhao Kuo who talks about war on paper? Do you mean Zhao Kuo during the Battle of Changping? This is a very exquisite word for talking about war on paper, but I didn't hear the word "talking about war on paper" describe him?"
Chen Yi was speechless all of a sudden. He could not have thought that he and Helan Minzhi would go "together", and they all doubted the idiom... It was wrong, it seemed that something was wrong, and he was a little panicked!
"Yes, it's Zhao Kuo during the Battle of Changping. Have you...n't you heard this saying on paper?" Chen Yi looked at Helan Minzhi and was surprised. Could this idiom not appear in the Tang Dynasty. It was made up by later generations based on Zhao Kuo's expressions in the Tang Dynasty? Khan, it seems that we must carefully examine the quotations from classics in the future. Maybe the allusions quoted by later generations are not real and will be laughed at by others!
Helan Minzhi had a good doubt, and his suspicion was also reasonable. There was no paper during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. It was really inappropriate to describe Zhao Kuo as a paper talk. After understanding this, Chen Yi was a little disappointed. He was afraid that Helan Minzhi and Helan Minyue would ask questions with big eyes while flashing his big eyes and expressing his curiosity. He hurriedly pulled the topic away: "Brother Changju, I have read some books about agriculture before. When I was in Jiangnan, I also went to the fields and knew a little about farming. I also sighed about it, but I just complained without any illness. If Brother Changju and Minyue are interested today, I will just say a few words!" Just blow it around and deal with the brothers who were a little weird in front of me before talking about it!
We can't ask them any allusions of "talking about war on paper". What kind of stuffing is exposed is a big problem!
Chen Yi's hometown was in the countryside when he was a child. He had been in the land and planted fields since he was a child. He still had some understanding of crop planting. He was also interested in agricultural production in the Sui and Tang dynasties when he was reading history books, and had a lot of knowledge about the planting of various crops in the early Tang dynasties. He even accidentally read an article about agriculture in the Tang Dynasty. When he was surprised by the article that doubted the low level of cultivation in the Tang Dynasty and the ruling class did not pay attention to agriculture, which made the Jiangnan land abandoned for many years, he also looked up some relevant information for this and wanted to see if this article was right.
By chance, he had a certain degree of understanding of the cultivation level, agricultural development and grain harvest issues during the Tang Dynasty. Although this was just the opinion of a scholar, after checking some information, he also had certain insights in this regard!
Seeing Chen Yi say this, Helan Minzhi's interest was immediately attracted, and his interest in questioning the idiom "talking about war on paper" was also shifted. He immediately asked: "Brother Ziying, I know that you must have the insights you have guessed. Today I will tell you in detail to me and Minyue, so that we can see how novel the insights you guessed are..." He felt an uncontrollable excitement, knowing that Chen Yi would surprise him!
"Okay! Since Brother Changju has repeatedly asked, I will briefly talk about it. Please correct me if you are wrong!" Chen Yiqing cleared his throat and began to tell the story. He had just organized the language, so the argument at the beginning was very clear: "There are many ways to increase grain production: one is to open up land, increase the area of farming, encourage farming and sericulture, and encourage the people to farm. According to my understanding, this is already being promoted by the court. I believe that Brother Changju also knows it, and it is useless to say more!" In this regard, the ruling class of the Tang Dynasty had long been taking action. It seems that the emperor and their ministers had been doing it at the beginning of each era. There is no need to talk about this point when facing Helan Min's brother and sister, unless he faced Li Zhi or Wu Zetian, but he still raised his finger.
"The second is to change the farming method, improve the planting structure and methods, and promote better farming methods!" Chen Yi raised his second finger, "According to my understanding, meticulous farming is an important factor in obtaining good grain harvest. My permanent residence in Chang'an may not know that now, in the world of the Tang Dynasty, whether it is official fields or civil fields, the farming method adopted is rough farming and rough farming, and the management of fields after planting cannot keep up. Such a extensive planting method has obtained grain harvest is very pitiful. As far as I know, some places have adopted grain yields after intensive farming. Now, my Tang Dynasty's fields yield per mu is only three to five hundred kilograms, and the land may only be about a hundred kilograms. However, in some places, after intensive farming, the yield per mu can reach a thousand kilograms, which is several times the ordinary harvest we can see now..."
Speaking of this, Chen Yi stopped because he saw the two handsome and handsome faces in front of him changed from curiosity to surprise. Helan Minzhi and Helan Minyue both opened their mouths a little unimportantly, because they were afraid that they would be too surprised, Chen Yi just stopped.
In fact, Helan Minzhi and Helan Minyue were not aware of the yield per mu of the fields today, but they heard clearly the figures listed by Chen Yi just now. Compared with the two, the yield per mu of the intensive cultivation planting method that Chen Yi praised was several times that of the ordinary planting method, which was already surprising enough.
Helan Minzhi was a little suspicious of the authenticity of the data Chen Yi said. Because the same piece of land, if it were not for the weather or other reasons, the gap was so big that most people would not believe it. He was the same. He looked at Chen Yi in confusion, wanting to ask if this confident person was blowing something. However, Helan Minyue believed that she did not doubt the authenticity of Chen Yi's words at all, but she was curious about why this strange man knew about this. She hoped to listen to Chen Yi's continued story and convince her brother.
Although the brother and sister are in different moods, they all hope that Chen Yi will continue to talk about it!
Chapter completed!