As a matter of fact, as early as last year, when Liu Che asked people to compile the "New Agricultural Book" for the popularization and popularization of winter wheat, they had already made technical preparations in this regard.

However, the time was not yet ripe.

Winter wheat can become a staple food, because of the development of mill technology in later generations, so that people can use animal power or water power to grind wheat into flour, and then make noodles, buns, steamed buns and other foods.

However, at that time, there was not even a shadow of the hydro-powered mill.

The only result of forcibly promoting winter wheat is that the common people are complaining.

The peasants in the Han Dynasty, especially the homesteaders at the bottom, are very strong!

provoked them, and the emperor scolded them correctly!

For example, in history, the little pig was once scolded for being a bloody dog, and he couldn't have a seizure!

But now the watermill has appeared, and it has been vigorously promoted by Liu Che.

At present, Liu Che flows through the many rivers of Shanglin Yuan, like a pile, and a large-scale paving of waterwheels is used to extract river water and irrigate the land in Shanglin Yuan.

Up to now, Shaofu has laid more than 300 large and small water wheels in Shanglin Garden, irrigating nearly 10,000 hectares of land.

The farmland irrigated by the waterwheel and the farmland without the waterwheel irrigation, the grain production is almost one heaven and one underground.

Especially for many farmlands where the fertility of the land has been exhausted and the land has begun to salinize, the implementation of measures such as irrigation of waterwheels + fertilizer for people and livestock and digging river mud has suddenly turned these lands that had been reduced to lower fields into upper fields again, and watched the millet seedlings thrive in the fields. The peasants who rented the land in the forest garden couldn't stop smiling.

For Liu Che. Now that the waterwheel has been laid, then. It is undoubtedly a waste of resources to only use it to carry water.

Therefore, next to some waterwheels near Huangzhuang, Liu Che had people make a few simple water-powered mills, with the help of water, to grind wheat into flour.

This technology is not high-tech.

The scientists of the Mo family did it in just three days.

Now, in the treasury of Shaofu. Hundreds of pounds of freshly ground flour have been piled up.

Hundreds of cooks in the Shaofu Kitchen Order Yamen are following Liu Che's orders, studying day and night how to turn flour into noodles, buns, steamed buns and even dumplings.

For the time being, it will take some time to explore.

But it did not hinder Liu Che's determination to promote winter wheat planting.

After all, wheat is a crop with a brighter future than corn.

The yield of corn, the limit of the age of an agrarian society, is almost reached.

And wheat has a lot of potential!

The same acre of land. Even nowadays, wheat yields are higher than corn!

What's more, wheat has a lower water requirement than corn.

Relatively, of course. Wheat needs more scientific planting planning and care.

It is almost impossible for a family of five to take care of 100 acres of land, just like growing corn.

This is also after the Western Han Dynasty. No one in China has ever mentioned the reason for the 'one husband and five people ruling all fields' model.

It's just, relative to the current situation. Want to promote winter wheat, for Liu Che and the Han regime. All are a huge challenge.

The first problem in front of Liu Che is that the common people refuse to accept wheat as a staple food.

In this era, grain was graded.

The first class is sorghum rice, which only nobles and officials can often eat, and ordinary people can only eat a little during festivals.

The second class is corn, which is the staple food of the people.

The third class is wheat, and those who are willing to eat wheat rice are only the poorest peasants in Guanzhong.

Others, as long as they can live their lives, are not willing to eat wheat rice.

The third category is soybeans.

Soybeans are generally used as feed in this era......

In such a social atmosphere, basically no people would be willing to grow wheat on a large scale.

At present, the land where wheat is grown in Guanzhong is basically those fields and saline-alkali land.

It's probably a kind of mentality similar to waste utilization.

After returning to the palace, Liu Che held a meeting to promote winter wheat planting.

The participants in the meeting were basically officials from the Inner Dynasty and Liu Che's henchmen.

This meeting is basically also a meeting of assigned tasks.

Because Liu Che has a plan in his heart and how to promote the winter wheat planting area.

Therefore, at the beginning of the meeting, Liu Che said open-mindedly: "The hustle and bustle of the world is for profit, and the hustle and bustle of the world is for profit, although this remark is a little biased, but I think it is quite desirable!" ”

"To promote winter wheat planting, we must use this word to carry it out!"

At the beginning, Liu Che set the tone for the promotion of winter wheat with a tough attitude.

Because he knows very well, not to mention the common people, even the courtiers below, I am afraid that they will not understand his attitude of insisting on promoting winter wheat.

Because, the current Han family is not the Han family that is tired of the world and has a difficult livelihood by piglets.

In the current Han Dynasty, the class contradictions are still very relaxed, and the land issue is not prominent.

It is a fact to say that the world is singing and dancing and everyone lives and works in peace and contentment, but it is a fact that the people's lives can generally go on, and the bankrupt peasants do not occupy the mainstream of society.

Therefore, in such a situation, the emperor suddenly wanted to promote the wheat that had always been regarded as a miscellaneous grain, but was used by the general public to fill their stomachs during the green and yellow season, and the courtiers would feel unbelievable and even whimsical.

But Liu Che's words blocked the words of the courtiers' advice in his throat with a stick.

With this attitude, he explained to the ministers: Winter wheat, I have made up my mind.

The ministers attending the meeting were basically either servants, Shangshu, and Langzhong of the Inner Dynasty, or Liu Che's confidants, such as Yizong, Yan Yi and others.

Everyone's discipline has been sharpened in the officialdom in the past six months, and there has been a lot less.

Naturally, he will not come out like a stunned young man.

Even those who oppose it feel that they should listen to the Son of Heaven's thinking first.

Liu Che didn't give them a chance to think, and said directly: "I have decided, starting this year, the grain protection price will be included in wheat, and the price of wheat per stone will be on par with corn!" ”

After a pause, Liu Che added: "Shaofu has a division, and it is not allowed to refuse to buy wheat under any excuse or reason, let alone reduce prices, take commissions, etc., I will order the Lantai Imperial History to supervise!" ”

At this time, Liu Che had to be grateful to his grandfather and father for leaving him a solid family foundation.

The tens of billions of money accumulated in the treasury of the Shaofu Mansion are enough for Liu Che to continue to squander it like this for several years.

And the full circulation of the new five-baht coin, coupled with the defeat of Liu Bi, the king of Wu, also made Liu Che grasp the power of finance.

Therefore, Liu Che does not need to worry at all, there is not enough money for this kind of problem.

In his personal small coffers, there will be a steady stream of huge amounts of money coming in every year.

As long as he doesn't learn from the little pig, build palaces, inspect the whole country, scatter wealth, and ask immortals, he estimates that this money can at least support him to complete the entire social and military reform.

Compared with Chongzhen, who was forced to death by money, Liu Che is undoubtedly much luckier! (To be continued......)