Chapter 41 Phosphate Fertilizers Trigger the Abolition of the Death Penalty

Whether it's making chemical fertilizer or phosphate fertilizer, it's actually a chore. Like Chen Ying, who originally offered a salary of 30 yuan a day, but in the face of such a bad working environment, especially this sour smell, it is different from the general fecal smell, not only the nose suffers, but also the eyes are spicy, although the nitric acid used is not as strong as concentrated sulfuric acid, but once it gets on the skin, it will also burn the skin.

The salary of 30 wen a day is already a high salary in this era, of course, Chen Ying is not bad for money, so he has to increase the wages of the workers until it is increased by 100 wen per day, and no workers are willing to do this stinky work. However, since then, the cost of phosphate fertilizer has increased considerably.

Chen Ying roughly estimated that if 50 kilograms of phosphate fertilizer were applied to one mu, the yield would increase by about three stones. According to the current grain price in Chang'an, an extra 150 yuan can be charged per mu of land, but the input cost is 100 yuan, which is not counting seeds and is not cost-effective.

Of course, because Chang'an is not rich in phosphate rock, the ore needs to be transported from other places, processing and a lot of labor costs, and there is no way to reduce the price of phosphate fertilizer. If according to Datang's consistent money, which is equivalent to 4,258 yuan in later generations, 100 catties of phosphate fertilizer will be as high as 425 yuan, which is ridiculously high.

Because of the price, there is no way to promote it on a large scale.

Li Yuan patiently watched Chen Ying's phosphate fertilizer workshop, and learned about the price of this phosphate fertilizer in detail, in this case, everyone was silent.

After all, the price of phosphate fertilizer for the 100 Wen generation is too high for the people of Datang to bear. What's more, Chen Ying is making phosphate fertilizer on the spot and using it himself, and there is no link between dealers and transportation costs.

So here's the problem.

Because of the cost, I'm afraid that people can't use this thing. Even if it is very helpful to increase grain production, if a bag can be reduced to 10 yuan, or less, then it will no longer be difficult to promote.

Li Yuan sighed and said: "Phosphate fertilizer is a good thing, but unfortunately it is too expensive, and the income and investment are not very cost-effective. ”

Li Yuan This is a more euphemistic statement, in fact, it is not cost-effective, there is simply no room for operation, because if farmers want to get a bumper harvest, they must irrigate in time, weed, pest, loosen the soil, and fertilize, just this link of fertilizer will offset the economic benefits of increasing production and income, so who is willing to spend time and effort to use this phosphate fertilizer?

Although Xiao Yu was the seventh son of Emperor Xiao Yu of Liang Ming in the Southern Dynasty, but as the seventh son of Emperor Xiao Yu of the Southern Dynasty, after the death of the royal family, Xiao Yu's life in his youth was not rich, although he did not starve to death at home, but he also knew the suffering of the people, he knew that he was not the material to be the emperor, and he did not seek to be famous in history, so that the people could eat a bowl of full rice, and he would be satisfied with a few words of "dog official" if he was scolded a few words. His idol is Li Bing, Li Bing was a great water conservancy in the Warring States Period, he dug beach hazards in Yibin and Leshan, dredged waterways, and built irrigation and shipping projects such as Wenjing River (now Xihe River in Chongqing County), Baimu River (now Qionglai South River), Luoshui (now Shiting River), Mianshui (now Mianyuan River), as well as rope bridges and salt wells. He also built a five-foot road connecting the Central Plains, the Mingshan District Police Station in Ya'an City, Sichuan Province and Yunnan. The common people remembered his exploits and built temples to commemorate him, and many of the experiences of water control are still being used hundreds of years later for the benefit of future generations.

Even if the people have long forgotten who was called a lonely widow at the beginning, they still remember that Li Bing is a great official.

As an official, if you can do Li Bing's point, you have no regrets. He asked himself that he didn't have as powerful water control technology as Li Bing, so he had to work hard in the development of agriculture———— so that the common people could have full grain and meat, which was also a great feat!

However, the ideal is very plump, but the reality is very skinny. When he put his ideals into practice, he knew how big the resistance was, and there was no way to implement his decree at all, and he couldn't even get out of Hechi City, there were always so many people who disobeyed him, intentionally or unintentionally dragging him back! What's even worse is that he finally organized the people to reclaim some wasteland, and it didn't take long for the local gentry to go to the yamen with the title deed to make trouble, and the common people fought lawsuits with the gentry, and it was always the gentry who won, and they always had so many strong evidence and witnesses to prove that the reclaimed land was theirs! After being hit again and again,

Xiao Yu was a little depressed, now that his official has become the financial minister of the Tang Dynasty, Zuo Minshangshu and Zhongshu are among the servants, seeing that Chen Ying is doing so well in farming, his originally dead heart has come to life.

Xiao Yu's eyes flashed with a glimmer of light, and he looked at Chen Ying and said, "Chen Yuma, can this phosphate fertilizer reduce costs and promote the world?" ”

"It's hard to ...... Hard! Chen Ying shook his head and said: "You have also seen, I am making it myself, using it myself, and the cost price is still a hundred yuan a bag...... But ......"

Li Yuan was originally disappointed for a while, and Chen Ying invented a method that could increase grain production, but it could not be used. It's like a chicken rib, it's tasteless to eat, and it's a pity to throw it away.

But hearing Chen Ying say this, Li Yuan also said excitedly: "But what? ”

Chen Yingdao: "In fact, it is not difficult to manufacture this phosphate fertilizer, the difficulty is that the labor cost is too high, you have also seen, when making this phosphate fertilizer, it is too smelly, and no one wants to do this work, for this reason, I have to raise the salary to 100 wen a day!" ”

"What a hundred wen a day?"

There was an uproar. The Kaiyuan Tongbao of the Tang Dynasty was really too high, as high as a nine-grade official, a year's worth of Yulu, which was only a little more than thirty-two times. In other words, the average day is worth 100 yuan. The current cadre at the stock level is almost the Jiupin official of the Tang Dynasty, so the question is, how much can a stock-level cadre earn a day now? Do migrant workers who move bricks earn more than stock-level cadres? The answer is yes.

The Tang Dynasty not only had nine-grade officials, but also many small officials who did not enter the stream, such as three classes and six rooms, they were all of no grade, but they held real power, and the oil and water were still quite sufficient, but they were far from getting the nine-grade treatment of 100 wen a day.

When Xiao Yu heard this, he knew in his heart, and he tried to ask: "If there is no expenditure of 100 wen a day, can phosphate fertilizer be reduced?" ”

"It can definitely be lowered!" Chen Yingdao: "Originally, there were 160 craftsmen here, and they took 2,880 yuan in wages, if you don't count their wages, the price of phosphate fertilizer can be reduced to 20 or 30 yuan per bag!" ”

Xiao Yu silently calculated an account in his heart, if the investment of one mu is twenty or thirty yuan, the output will be increased by one hundred and fifty yuan, so that a farmer can increase his income by at least six yuan a year, and it is estimated that the farmers will be crazy about it.

Thinking of this, Xiao Yu asked again: "Chen Yuma, is it difficult to make this phosphate fertilizer, can any kind of person do it?" ”

Chen Ying nodded and said: "This is definitely not difficult, that is, pour nitric acid into the water tank, then pour the phosphate rock powder into nitric acid, then stir, and dry it." ”

Xiao Yu nodded, and muttered: "One hundred and sixty people, half a year can increase the output of three thousand acres of land by more than 9,000 stones, if it is one year, it will definitely be able to produce enough phosphate fertilizer for six thousand acres of fertile land, and one thousand six hundred people can increase the output of 60,000 acres of fertile land by 180,000 stones, if it is 16,000 people, it can increase the output by 1.8 million stones. ”

Chen Ying pouted, this kind of arithmetic is only at the level of primary school students in later generations, and it is not difficult at all, but considering that in this era, the popularity of arithmetic is too low, and it is very rare for Xiao Yu to be able to mentally calculate to this point. Chen Ying exclaimed: "Xiao Xiangguo's calculation is correct, but there will be some deviations in it, which is roughly the same. ”

Xiao Yu turned to Li Yuan and bowed to Li Yuan and said: "Your Majesty, the old minister asks for an order, for the livelihood of the people in the world, please give your Majesty an order, but in all states and counties, except for the heinous crimes, the rest of the death row prisoners can be exempted from capital crimes, and they will be punished with hard labor, so that Chen Fuma can make phosphate fertilizer for the benefit of all people, and Ze will be born to the common people." ”

Death row prisoners are exempted from death and punished with hard labor. It is used to produce phosphate fertilizer, which is the method that Xiao Shiwen thought of in a very short time.

Li Jiancheng thought for a while and said, "Father, son-in-law seconded!" ”

Pei Lin looked at Li Yuan, and saw that Li Yuan's eyebrows and eyes were flashing, obviously moved. He bowed down and said, "The old minister seconded the proposal." ”

"The minister seconded the proposal!"

"Seconded"

…… The ministers present seconded the voice.

Chen Ying was dumbfounded, he really didn't expect that Datang would actually propose a bill to abolish the death penalty at this time. However, Chen Ying is in favor of this, in history, because of the rebellion between Dou Jiande and Liu Heimin, more than 100,000 people died in Hebei alone, some of these hundreds of thousands died on the battlefield, some were slaughtered by the rebels, and some were beheaded because of the settlement of accounts after the autumn.

If this is the case, the population of Datang will definitely increase a lot, after all, people's heads are not leeks, and they will not grow again if they are cut off. As long as these sins are imprisoned in the hands of Chen Ying, although they have lost their freedom, they can live.