Chapter 904: Changes

The promotion of chemical fertilizer technology was more than just not bad.

Especially in the Qilu region, because of the Little Sage Virtuous Manor and the Confucian disciples, chemical fertilizer technology was promoted even faster.

In the Qilu region, several commanderies and counties were almost fully promoted.

The manufacture of chemical fertilizer either relied on machinery or relied on cultivators.

Ordinary low-level cultivators refining chemical fertilizer, not to mention that it was as difficult as alchemy, but they could not refine much in a day.

Of course, high-level cultivators were different.

Just like him now, in a day, he could refine more than ten thousand shi of chemical fertilizer.

However, the entire Qilu region had no less than one hundred million mu of fertile land, and even in the future, wasteland reclamation would appear in hundreds of millions of mu, or even one hundred million mu.

After all, the Jiuzhou region was too large, far larger than the area of the Earth in the previous life by a hundred times.

In terms of population, the Jiuzhou dynasty could not compare to the later Earth, so one could imagine that this cultivated land area could continue to expand.

It was just that the population could not keep up, coupled with production technology, especially agricultural technology, which basically still relied on cattle and horses.

Naturally, they could not develop more wasteland. Even if one person in later generations could cultivate hundreds of mu, or even a thousand mu of land, in this world, even ordinary mortals, although their bodies were stronger, could not cultivate hundreds or thousands of mu of land.

But the appearance of chemical fertilizer did indeed increase the per capita cultivated land area. After all, the appearance of chemical fertilizer made the grain output more.

The bottom-tier commoners naturally hoped that they could cultivate more land.

Before, there was no way. The harvest in the field was not high, so it needed intensive cultivation and careful care, but with the appearance of chemical fertilizer, it did not need to be completely intensive. Even if it was roughly cultivated, it could be more than before.

In this way, reclaiming wasteland, wouldn't they be able to get more grain?

So the bottom-tier commoners' enthusiasm became greater and greater. In these few years, just in the Qilu region, a great trend of wasteland reclamation had formed.

In just a few years, the cultivated area of the entire Qilu region had almost expanded by one or two times.

Of course, this also suffered the Confucian disciples and Mohist disciples in the Qilu region.

After all, the expansion of cultivated land meant that more chemical fertilizer was needed.

Whether it was relying on manual refining of chemical fertilizer or relying on machinery, it required people to implement it, so in these ten years, these Confucian disciples and Mohist disciples were acting crazily.

There was no way. Although it was very tiring, the gains were also greater.

First of all, why were Confucian disciples and Mohist disciples willing? It was simply to expand their influence.

Before, the influence of the Confucian school in the Qilu region was very large. Among the upper levels, especially among the nobles and powerful clans in the Qilu region, it was absolutely the most influential among the hundred schools of thought.

But this was only at the upper level, and at the bottom level, the Confucian school actually had not yet expanded its influence.

After all, at the beginning, the Confucian school also walked the upper level. It was just a pity that in the imperial court, the Confucian school was not recognized, so it had no choice but to start from the local landlords here, and then to the nobles, slowly forming.

So in the Qilu region, the Confucian school began to recruit a large number of disciples, all of whom were local small landlord powerful clans, and then to the nobles, thus slowly forming.

But the Confucian school also had high levels and new ideas. The Confucian school focused on the Dao of education and could not just be at the upper level.

The bottom level also needed to have a voice.

Moreover, the number of people at the bottom level was more. If they could be fully educated, then the luck of the Confucian school would skyrocket to what extent.

Furthermore, spreading influence to the bottom level was also beneficial to the Confucian school.

The Mohist school was the same, and the Mohist school walked the bottom level from the beginning. Most of the Mohist disciples were bottom-tier people.

So for this matter, the Mohist school was even more active, and being able to obtain luck was even more beneficial to the Mohist school.

After all, the current Mohist school could not even compare to the Confucian school.

As for the Confucian school, although it was not trusted or favored by the government, at least the government did not do anything to the Confucian school.

But the Mohist school was different. When the six states were not destroyed, it could be said that the seven states actually did not favor the Mohist school and even kept suppressing the Mohist school.

Who let the Mohist school have the strongest strength back then?

The key was that the Mohist school walked the bottom level, and the ability to incite was too strong. The imperial courts of the seven states were not fools.

Even if your Mohist school did not have the intention of rebellion, but you had that ability, then it would not work, so the Mohist school kept being suppressed.

Ultimately, the strength became weaker and weaker, and even the internal conflicts of the Mohist school, especially the conflicts of ideas, led to the Mohist school ultimately splitting into several factions, constantly fighting internally.

Externally there were strong enemies, and internally there were disputes.

One could imagine the result of the Mohist school.

Now Great Qin unified, the suppression of the Mohist school still existed.

It was just that because a part of the Mohist school surrendered to Great Qin, coupled with the current Mohist school, its strength was already less than one-tenth of its peak back then.

So Great Qin's suppression was not as harsh as before, so the remaining Mohist disciples also breathed a sigh of relief.

But because the strength of the Mohist school declined, its luck also kept flowing away, and many high-level members of the Mohist school were also very anxious.

If this continued, let alone comparing with the Daoist and Confucian schools which were also the three teachings, even other nine streams would not be able to compare.

Therefore, this time, that Zhang Liang of the Confucian school invited the Mohist school to the Qilu region to research equipment and help the bottom-tier commoners increase fertilizer.

After learning the detailed situation, the high-level members of the Mohist school went all out.

It was also because of this that in these few short years, the chemical fertilizer could be fully promoted in the Qilu region.

"So that's how it is."

When Su Fan and Zhang Liang met again, Su Fan listened to Zhang Liang detail the situation in these few years and also sighed long.

This guy was worthy of being the top-tier talent in history.

Although he did not join the Great Qin government, in the Qilu region of Great Qin, many government affairs, especially in terms of agriculture, were almost all implemented according to Zhang Liang's plan.

In the Qilu region, in terms of fertilizer and wasteland reclamation, it could be said that it walked to the forefront of the ninety-nine commanderies of the Great Qin world.

Those commandery governors and county officials were not fools either.

This kind of thing was a good thing for them. How could they not do it well? Wasteland reclamation meant reclaiming more farmland, and the promotion of fertilizer meant higher harvest in the fields, and their future tax revenue would be higher.

By then, what was sent to Xianyang City would be even more.

This was a great political achievement, a matter that could show one's face in the Zhangtai Palace. How could they not be active?

After doing it well for a few years, their positions could be raised again, and it was possible to enter Xianyang City.

As officials of Great Qin, the lifelong hope of these people was to enter Xianyang City.

So in the Qilu region, the Confucian school and the Mohist school, with the help of the government's power, were ultimately fully promoted.

And ultimately, the bottom-tier commoners were the ones who gained the most.

After all, the harvest in the fields was getting more and more, and their days were also getting better and better. ===== CHAPTER 905 =====