The significance of sweet potatoes was too great.
Even if it had flaws, even if it could not completely replace food.
Great Qin's current tax was 30% of the total, and with the other miscellaneous taxes, it was about 50% of the total.
According to the average annual output of a family of 20,000, they had to pay 10,000 yuan in taxes. The remaining 10,000 catties of grain was actually a little difficult for the people to eat all year round.
Therefore, in this era, most people only ate two meals a day, one in the morning and one in the evening. They had to cook lunch. There was no concept of three meals a day.
Even so, the food and drink consumption of a family in a year was enough to save up to 100 to 200 catties of food.
According to the distribution system of one man and one hundred mu.
What if he allocated ten mu to grow sweet potatoes?
Based on the yield of two thousand catties per mu, ten mu of land could produce twenty thousand catties of sweet potatoes.
Zhao Che said that sweet potatoes couldn't be eaten all year round.
However, sweet potatoes and grains could be combined.
At the very least, they could save half of the food.
In this way, an ordinary family could only save one or two hundred grains a year.
With sweet potatoes, an ordinary family could even save a few thousand catties of food.
If there were no natural disasters for two or three years, ordinary families could also have the ability to resist natural disasters.
It would not be to the extent that Dian 'er and his daughter's family would be destroyed because of a famine.
The commoners had a better life, and the pressure on their lives was lower. This was only the advantage that sweet potatoes brought on the surface.
And there was more behind it.
After all, this was an era where agriculture was the foundation.
Having food was equivalent to having everything.
With food, one might not be able to conquer the world, but without food, it was difficult to live.
To make a simple analogy.
Zhao Che had once come across a very interesting topic in his previous life.
What would happen if Qin Shihuang was given a world map?
Would Great Qin's cavalry be able to pierce through the world?
Zhao Che had also fantasized about this question, but he had never come to a conclusion.
Only after arriving at Great Qin did Zhao Che understand that it was impossible.
Never underestimate the wisdom of the ancients.
In fact, during this period, some famous Taoist scholars had already proposed the theory of the round earth.
Zou Yan, a famous scholar of the Warring States Period, also proposed the Great Nine Regions Theory.
The main content was that the Central Plains was just a small Nine Provinces.
There were actually nine continents in the world, and the Central Plains was only one of them.
Moreover, this statement was almost a theorem from the Warring States Period to the Qin and Han Dynasties.
Everyone, from the emperor to the soldiers, believed that there was a Great Nine Provinces in the world.
But so what?
It was impossible for Brother Zheng not to know about the Great Nine Provinces.
It was not that the ancients did not have the wisdom to imagine the vastness of the world.
It was really just that the heart was willing but the strength was insufficient!
Brother Zheng compared himself to the three emperors, how could he not want to conquer the Great Nine Provinces?
However, Great Qin's logistics could not keep up!
No matter how powerful Great Qin's Cavalry were, they could not go to war on an empty stomach.
Putting aside logistics and talking about war, he was just being a hooligan.
However, Brother Zheng's ambitions were limited by Great Qin's logistics.
In fact, looking at Brother Zheng's arrangements, it could be seen that Brother Zheng really had the intention to continue expanding.
To the north, there were 300,000 troops stationed in Longxi Prefecture at the Xiongnu border.
To the south, there were 600,000 troops stationed at the Bai Yue border.
If it was just to defend the city, 100,000 troops would be enough.
And South Vietnam had more than two hundred thousand troops.
The Ancestral Dragon directly transferred almost the entire country's military strength. Would you believe it if he said that he had no intentions towards the Xiongnu and South Yue?
In history, the Xiongnu Northern Army had returned to Great Qin under Wang Li's leadership, so the Xiongnu had taken this opportunity to develop.
As for South Yue?
The South Vietnamese army did not return to help.
Later, South Vietnam became Great Qin's territory.
Zhao Tuo became the local emperor in South Yue. During the Han and Tang Dynasties, he was officially included in the territory of the Xia.
Brother Zheng had wanted to expand for a long time.
That was why he was so excited about the sweet potato.
"If this item is presented to the King of Qin, it is enough to make him a marquis!”Brother Zheng looked at Zhao Che and said.
Zhao Che pursed his lips.
Old Zhao was right. Sweet potatoes were really a great killing weapon in ancient times. If they were offered to any emperor, they would be enough to be conferred the title of Marquis and Minister.
but
"The First Emperor won't live for many years, and after he dies, Great Qin will fall into chaos. If I offer the sweet potato to the First Emperor, it will spread throughout Great Qin, and I won't have any advantage at all.”
Zhao Che considered Old Zhao's suggestion.
However, it was a fact that the world was in chaos after Brother Zheng's death.
So what if he was conferred the title of Marquis?
If he offered the sweet potato to Qin Shihuang, the sweet potato would definitely spread throughout the world in a short period of time.
At that time, the world would be in chaos, and every dukedom would have the sweet potato, this great killing weapon.
It was just like how Zhao Che possessed a nuclear bomb. After he gave it to Qin Shihuang, Qin Shihuang spread it to the entire army. Although Zhao Che was granted the title of Marquis and Minister, his own ultimate weapon became everyone's ultimate weapon.
At that time, Zhao Che would have no advantage.
Besides, sweet potatoes didn't have technical barriers like nuclear bombs.
If this thing was stolen, even a sweet potato seedling could survive.
Therefore, Zhao Che had always been militarized.
Brother Zheng rolled his eyes at Zhao Che's words.
Can't this kid say something nice?
"Then why didn't you tell the First Emperor not to eat pills? You don't want to live forever?"
Zhao Che was stunned.
"Forget it."
"I told him, but the First Emperor didn't listen to me. He might even kill me!"
Brother Zheng had been seeking immortality for more than twenty years. In Zhao Che's eyes, this was almost an obsession.
At this moment, you're telling him that there's no hope of immortality and that the pill is poisonous?
Zhao Che felt that he was not that lucky.
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