A thousand-year-old family begins with one fighting against ten thousand.

Liu Bang eagerly pulled Wei Ping along, and overjoyed, his aged and ailing body was filled with strength once again.

"Quickly, summon the Three Dukes, Nine Ministers, and officials under the Minister of Agriculture to bring the tools for harvesting wheat and weighing equipment to the Marquis of Yan's residence."

As Liu Bang ran, he shouted to the eunuch beside him.

The eunuch next to him was already in tears. He also came from a poor family. Six of his seven brothers and sisters had died. He chose to enter the palace because he could not survive.

If the claim that the seed yields four bushels per mu is true, then how worthless were his deceased parents and siblings!

Die in the darkness before dawn!

How many people will survive because of this seed!

The eunuch's eyes were blurred with tears, and he accidentally fell to the ground, breaking his head and bleeding profusely.

He didn't care at all, got up and kept running forward to notify the relevant people, and then they went to see the high-quality seed that yielded four shi per mu!

"Your Majesty, shoes, shoes."

Wei Ping grabbed Liu Bang and disrespectfully pressed him down onto the soft couch, reminding Liu Bang to put on his shoes.

How dare you! Disrespectful to the emperor! (Funny face)

The attendant beside him stepped forward to help Liu Bang put on his shoes, and the two of them came together to Liu Bang's imperial carriage.

Liu Bang stepped onto the imperial carriage and extended his hand to Wei Ping.

"Time is of the essence, hurry up!"

Wei Ping had no choice but to go up and ride with Liu Bang.

On the way, Wei Ping explained to Liu Bang what the "substitute field method" was.

The specific method involves creating three "ditches" and three "ridges" on one acre of land. The positions of the ditches and ridges are rotated annually for crop rotation.

This has two advantages.

1. Drought resistance and moisture retention: Sowing seeds in furrows allows seedlings to receive more water and reduces wind damage.

2. Restoring soil fertility: The annual rotation of ridges and furrows allows the land to rest and effectively restores soil fertility.

Liu Bang rose to become emperor from the bottom up, having worked in the fields for decades.

Of course, I know whether what Wei Ping said makes sense or not.

Whether doing this would increase production by one shi (a unit of dry measure) is unknown, but it would certainly increase production.

However, this also increased the amount of heavy physical labor for ordinary people.

The people were already struggling to get enough to eat; if they were to have ridges and ditches built, it would be even harder for them to cope with the increased food supply.

Liu Bang told Wei Ping about this concern, and Wei Ping took out two more bamboo tubes.

The document contains drawings and descriptions of two agricultural tools.

The double-plow: an advanced plow requiring the cooperation of two oxen and three people, capable of efficiently creating furrows and ridges, which is precisely the most labor-intensive part of the alternating field method. With it, the efficiency of land reclamation is greatly improved, and the physical exertion is relatively reduced.

Seeder: A type of planter that can complete ditching, sowing, and covering with soil in one go, greatly saving manpower and time.

"These two things are good, but the cost is something that ordinary people can hardly afford."

"We must rely on the Han dynasty's system of registering households and equalizing the people, with villages as the unit, to jointly support a few seed drills and plows, and then let everyone use them together."

"Okay, okay."

Liu Bang looked excitedly at the bamboo slips in his hand, as if he could see the prosperous Han Dynasty where everyone could have enough to eat.

Wei Ping could only sense the excitement in Liu Bang's tone; he could see the calm and collected true nature beneath Liu Bang's excited eyes.

He knew that Liu Bang was thinking about how to deal with him.

Liu Bang did not believe that Wei Ping would deceive him on such an important matter.

Once the news gets out, the people, whose expectations have been raised to the max, will tear him apart.

Back then, even if he had exterminated Wei Ping's entire clan, everyone would have applauded.

Therefore, this must be true.

This seed must be announced; then Wei Ping will have an invincible status.

Nobody can touch him.

Even rebellion is seen as a divine mandate.

"After me, the Wei family has been researching superior breeds for generations."

"Your Majesty, I hope that after confirming the truth of the matter, the Grand Minister of Agriculture can be promoted to the rank of one of the Three Dukes."

"For generations to come, even through every dynasty, the descendants of the Wei family will be able to hold such official positions forever."

Wei Ping shared his thoughts with Liu Bang.

Researching superior varieties is not something that can be accomplished overnight. Even the hybrid rice and hybrid wheat of later generations are based on various modern knowledge systems.

It is a culmination of the development of industries such as fertilizers, pesticides, breeding, genes, and microscopes.

Without these, the two elderly people could still make great breakthroughs, but they certainly wouldn't have reached the level of modern technology.

Therefore, Wei Ping planned to have his descendants continuously research and gradually increase the yield per mu.

He believed that such a Shennong family would definitely obtain a huge amount of fortune in an era when food was the most important thing for people.

Throughout history?

Liu Bang grasped the key words in Wei Ping's words.

"How many more years does Your Majesty believe the Han Dynasty can last?"

Wei Ping's words made the charioteer in front wish he were deaf. How could a mere charioteer possibly understand such a thing?

Liu Bang thought about it. Qin Shi Huang's Qin Dynasty lasted for two generations, and his Han Dynasty learned from the lessons of the Qin Dynasty's demise.

It should be able to be passed down for several generations.

"100?"

Liu Bang said, lacking confidence.

The Han Dynasty was the second unified dynasty. The first unified dynasty was established by a great man like the First Emperor. From the time the Qin Dynasty unified the world to the time he captured Xianyang, it was only fourteen years.

The Qin Dynasty collapsed just three years after the death of the First Emperor.

There was simply no experience to draw upon.

So even an emperor like Liu Bang only hoped that the dynasty could last a few generations longer than the Qin Dynasty.

"The Han Dynasty will surely last for more than two hundred years."

Wei Ping affirmed.

"But the Han Dynasty will eventually be overthrown. How will the new dynasty treat the Liu family then?"

"After the First Emperor unified the country, the royal families of the six kingdoms lived like servants in Xianyang."

Ultimately, the Qin Dynasty was destroyed by the feudal lords, primarily the nobles of the six former states.

"After the Qin Dynasty was destroyed, His Majesty treated them like pigs, and Xiang Yu even directly raised his sword to kill them."

"Learn from the past, for the future is a lesson for the future."

"A family like that can't last long."

"But how long does Your Majesty think the Wei family, which cultivates superior offspring in this era, can last?"

How will the new dynasty treat the Wei family?

Liu Bang thought for a moment, "I'm afraid it will last much longer than the Liu family's."

"As long as there are people eating food, we must remember the merits of your Wei family."

"Even if we lose power temporarily, as long as we achieve new results, we can quickly regain momentum without any obstacles."

"As for the new dynasty, it will lavishly reward the Wei family to demonstrate its divine mandate and legitimacy."

"That's right."

"So my destiny is probably to be enshrined in a temple along with Shennong."

Wei Ping said with a smile.

Liu Bang was finally relieved. He understood Wei Ping's meaning: the Wei family would not perish with the Liu family's Han dynasty.

He doesn't care either.

If the Liu family is truly destined to perish, it is fate, and how could the Wei family, without Wei Ping, possibly stop it?

He takes it all in stride.

A family that wanted to establish a dynasty that would last for generations, and a dynasty that wanted to survive longer.

These are not contradictory; in fact, they can complement each other.

With Wei Ping around, the Han Dynasty was able to maintain stability for decades.

After they talked things out, the two returned to the harmonious state they had been in after Biden.

At this moment, the Marquis of Yan's residence also arrived.