In the Xianyang Pavilion, in a field, Chi Lian looked at the hoe Ying Zhan had given her, and her face turned red.
First, it was because of shame, and second, it was because of anger!
The embarrassing thing was that when Ying Zhan brought her here, Chi Lian realized that she was thinking too much.
She was angry because she realized that Ying Zhan had once again fooled her!
"What are you daydreaming about?
Hurry up and work, or do you not know how to do farm work?”
In the field, Ying Zhan was also holding a hoe. As he was hoeing the ground, he looked at the helpless Chi Liandao with a mocking expression.
"Didn't you just say that you know everything?”
Hearing Ying Zhan's mocking words, black lines were about to appear on Chi Lian's forehead. She wished she could give Ying Zhan a hoe.
Was that what she meant when she said she knew everything?
Whether it was when she was a Korean princess or when she was a Quicksand Assassin, she had never come into contact with farming.
How could he do it?
Not to mention the strict hierarchy in this era, where nobles never did rough work, even in the peaceful era of the future, there were many people who had never been in contact with farming and could not even distinguish between leeks and wheat seedlings.
On the other hand, Chi Lian's beautiful eyes sparkled with curiosity as she looked at Yingzhan, who was skillfully holding the hoe and loosening the soil and weeding."Yingzhan, you have the surname of the imperial family and were given the special title of Marquis of Xianyang by the emperor. You must have been born with noble blood. Why are you so familiar with the rough work of commoners like farming?”
Ying Zhan wiped the sweat off his forehead and laughed."You're wrong. Although my surname is Ying, I'm already from a relatively remote branch of the clan.
If one really counted, he was just a commoner.
"My family has a few thousand acres of land that my father and grandfather have given us in exchange for their lives. Because my four fathers have all died for Great Qin, there are only me, my grandfather, and a hundred servants in the family.
When I was busy farming, the servants at home were too busy to handle it, so my grandfather brought me to help out in the fields.
I was originally a commoner who farmed in Xianyang, so I was naturally skilled in farm work.”
"My grandfather lost a leg in the Battle of Changping. Although it was inconvenient for him to work, his fighting style was extremely solid.
At that time, my grandfather told me that there were only two ways for us Qin people to live.
One was to serve the country and exchange military merits for a salary and title.
The other way was to work hard to farm and provide for themselves. At the same time, they could pay more food to Great Qin in exchange for a Noble title and contribute to Great Qin.
"From that moment on, I understood that as a citizen of Qin, my fate was bound to Great Qin.
Great Qin was powerful, so Qin people could live a stable and dignified life. With Great Qin's protection, Qin people would not be like the people of the six countries who had to wander about.
Food was the most important thing for people to live in this world. Food was the most important thing for the people, and agriculture was the most important thing for the country!
Whether they were nobles or commoners, they all had to live on food.
If no one grew grain, even the nobles would starve to death.”
"The current world is unified by Great Qin. Regardless of whether it's the old citizens of the six countries or the people of Old Qin, they are all citizens of Great Qin!
However, there were still many people in the world who did not have enough to eat.
If they did not have enough to eat, they would feel dissatisfied and think that Great Qin was not good.
Therefore, not only do I not think that I shouldn't farm with my identity, but I also think that I should first understand the matter of farming and plant more food to produce more food.
It could fill everyone in the world.
Whether it was the Qin people, or the Han people, Zhao people, Chu people…
When everyone had clothes to wear, food to eat, meat to eat every few days, and even the children at home could read and write.
They would no longer remember Korea, Zhao, and Chu, which had made them unable to eat their fill. They would only know about Great Qin!
They only treated themselves as Qin people!
"As such, the glory of Great Qin will be unprecedented!
The Great Qin Empire would last even longer!”
Ying Zhan calmly told Chi Lian about why he was so familiar with farming and his ambition.
His ambition to win the battle wasn't to aim too high, to lead hundreds of thousands of troops and sweep the world.
Instead, it was a simple matter of making everyone in Great Qin eat their fill!
He had said so much to Chi Lian not because he would become a bootlicker when he saw a beauty, but because his ambition would be realized faster with Chi Lian's support.
Because Chi Lian was the princess of the former Han, she held a lot of weight in the hearts of the Han people.
Especially in the hearts of Zhang Liang and the other scholars who considered themselves as the loyal soldiers of Korea.
If Chi Lian could support Ying Zhan, he would have a chance to obtain the hearts of Zhang Liang and the other Koreans.
This way, they would be able to get rid of some hidden dangers for Great Qin without bloodshed and obtain some talents and people's hearts!
This way, they would be able to save on internal friction and allow Great Qin to open up to the outside world, leading Great Qin on a completely different path.
To lay a more solid foundation for future generations!
In the fields, after Chi Lian heard Ying Zhan's words, her beautiful eyes became filled with complicated emotions. In the end, it turned into deep admiration!
Even though she was the princess of the Han Dynasty, Chi Lian still felt some resistance towards Great Qin.
However, Chi Lian could not help but admire his ambition to win the war and let the people of the world have their fill. He wanted to make the old people of the six countries melt away their estrangement and integrate into the Qin people.
Although Chi Lian didn't know much about farming, she knew the reality."It's too difficult to let everyone in the world eat their fill…"
"Yeah, it's too difficult!"
This sentence was not from Ying Zhan, but from the ridge behind him.
The First Emperor, who was dressed in black casual clothes, looked at Ying Zhan with a gratified and emotional expression."The ambition and benevolence of the Marquis of Xianyang is admirable.
However, it was extremely difficult to feed everyone in the world.
For example, the yield of corn in fertile fields could reach three stones, but in barren fields, it was usually only one stone.
On the other hand, the amount of food consumed by a person in a year was about five dan. If a soldier went on a campaign, it would cost more than three dan a month, and more than thirty dan a year!
There were more than 20 million people in the world, but the number of cultivated fields had not increased.
In addition to the floods, droughts, and locust plagues, the reduction in food production caused by them was so severe that even in years when there was no war, there was still a shortage of food. Every year, people would starve to death.”
Although the First Emperor did not engage in farming, as an emperor, it was impossible for him not to understand the situation of farming and the per mu yield of the world's fields.
His words were also the truth.
Not to mention the Qin Dynasty, where productivity was not very developed, even in the later generations, the so-called strong Han, prosperous Tang, rich Song, and Ming dynasties, there were countless cases of people starving to death in the history books. There were even many records of people eating people!
Ying Zhan wasn't surprised to see his old friend, Wang Ben. He nodded in response to the words of the First Emperor, who was known as Wang Ben, and said,"What Marquis Tongwu said is true.
But what if there was a crop in this world that could reach 50 dan per mu?”
Ying Zhan's words were earth-shattering and shook the First Emperor's heart!
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