I'm really not the carpenter emperor

"The palace is only more interested in sweet potatoes. Whether this interest can be turned into a decision or not depends on the sincerity of your Chen family."

Speaking of this, Wang Zaijin smiled slightly and said no more.

Chen Jinglun's eyes rolled wildly, he got up and paced back and forth, after thinking for a while, he finally decided to tell the whole story, success or failure depends on it.

"One man plows the field, and the yield of sweet potatoes per mu can be more than [-] shi!"

Hearing this, Wang Zaijin's expression changed, and he became a little excited. After a while, he calmed down again, took a sip of tea, and asked quietly:

"Is this true?"

"My Chen family has promoted sweet potatoes in Fujian for more than ten years, how can it be fake?" Chen Jinglun subconsciously said.

Why did Wang Zaijin suddenly become a little excited, because he saw an opportunity to completely solve the famine in various places!

You know, the current yield of rice and wheat per mu is indeed not very impressive.

According to the third volume of "He Jian Zhi": "One man plows three to fifty mu of land, and the harvest of wheat per mu is more than one stone."

At this time, the rice yield per mu in the rice and wheat double-cropping fields in the south, such as Wujiang, Kunshan and other places, the rice harvested per mu should be two stones, then converted into later generations, the yield per mu is about [-] catties.

"Bu Nong Shu" also contains: "The field is extremely ripe, the rice is three stones, and the spring flowers are one and a half stones, but there are some. Dayun has a total of three stones for Changer."

The fields mentioned above are "three stones" for rice and "one and a half stones for spring flowers".

Then, the rice output of Changtian is about two stones per mu, Chunhua one stone per mu, and three stones per mu.

This is the south, and the current north, due to the impact of the Little Ice Age, the wasteland became vast, and the people had no land, so they were forced to flee everywhere, and the output was even less.

According to local chronicles, Chen Zhenlong from Fujian was not the only one who introduced sweet potatoes from Fanwai in the Ming Dynasty.

In addition to him, there are Lin Huailan from Wuchuan and Chen Yi from Dongguan. They were introduced from Annan, but they have always been local and regional and have not been able to achieve large-scale promotion.

Since the end of the Wanli period, the governors of Shaanxi, Henan, Beizhi, Shandong, Guangdong, Guangxi, Fujian, and Yunnan have begun to introduce sweet potatoes.

However, there is still a long way to go from introduction to popularization.

What Wang Zaijin needs to do is to persuade the emperor to pay more attention to sweet potatoes, and start trial planting in the form of imperial decrees, and then promote them in the two capitals and thirteen provinces of Ming Dynasty.

So where is the difficulty?

Since the sweet potato has appeared for a long time, but it has not been popularized so far, there must be a reason. Before it was distributed to the emperor, the king had a lot of hard work in Jin.

The promotion of sweet potatoes to solve the famine has blocked some people's way of making money, but the bigger reason is that most people at the bottom do not know the advantages of sweet potatoes at all.

The promotion of sweet potatoes is a detrimental practice for local officials when the local government has not received a clear government order.

Most local officials only planted it temporarily, and after alleviating the local famine problem, in order to avoid suspicion, they seldom planted it again.

After all, there are too few people who directly ordered the province-wide promotion like Jin Xuezeng.

Wang Zaijin understood that before seeing the real production of sweet potatoes and the emperor's decree, sweet potatoes could only be promoted on a small scale in a certain place, which could not meet the current demand for famine relief.

Wang Zaijin and Chen Jinglun talked for a long time to implement the national policy of sweet potatoes.

It is said that it is for the implementation of national policies, but both of them have the same heart as Ming Spiegel. They have their own interests, but they are just for the common goal.

In this world, how can there be so many people who are selfless and serve the country and the people.

……

A few days later, Wang Zaijin, in his capacity as a cabinet minister, submitted to Zhu Youxiao the "Showing the Promotion of Sweet Potatoes", which caused an uproar.

For a while, the Taoist official impeached the king in Jinzhong and ordered him to enter the cabinet, and the inscriptions that did not conform to the etiquette also flew to the Xinuang Pavilion like a snowflake.

In Xinuang Pavilion, the newly appointed steward of the Qianqing Palace, Chaofu, is sorting out the memorials for the emperor, picking out those "urgent matters".

He flipped through it, and found that the postings by the officials were still the same, either to criticize Yan Yan, or to impeach Xiong Tingbi and Wang Zaijin, there was really nothing to think about.

After a while, he took out a memorial from it, and said joyfully, "Your Majesty, the Master of Dongge, please promote sweet potatoes in Jinzuo."

Toga with big sleeves, jade belt and golden skirt, all the fine clothes have become a burden at this time.

It was the first time that Zhu Youxiao had such a bright smile on his lips. As soon as he took the memorial in his hand, the more he looked at it, the more he sighed.

"Okay, okay!"

Zhu Youxiao took this memorial very seriously.

This "Playing Sweet Potato Promotion Shu" is easy to understand. Presumably, Wang Zaijin also conducted a detailed survey of the place before he went to Shangshu.

Wang Zaijin combined the planting experience Chen Jinglun shared with him with his farming experience in Gyeonggi and other places, and came to the conclusion that sweet potatoes are easy to grow, and the yield per mu is higher than that of rice and wheat.

Shu Zhongyun: "The promotion of sweet potatoes is a necessary national policy of this dynasty."

Zhu Youxiao also knew that at this time, sweet potatoes had been widely planted in South China, and gradually spread to the north.

Not only must the promotion of sweet potatoes be promoted, potatoes will also be promoted in the future. We must first fill our stomachs before we can discuss the issue of increasing revenue and reducing expenditure.

There are some things that can't be troubled by the bottom.

Historically, due to the impact of wars in the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties, although sweet potatoes entered the Ming Dynasty earlier, the cultivation technology has been slow to spread.

It was not until the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty that sweet potato cultivation techniques became popular, which happened to be a mistake for the Tartars.

In fact, having said that, the Tartars have picked up fewer leaks?

Wang Zaijin said in the memorial that the cultivated area per mu is not only related to the texture of the land itself, but also depends on the crops cultivated.

Sweet potatoes have strong adaptability and can be cultivated in mountainous areas where rice and wheat cannot be grown. They can also be used for recultivation of wasteland, turning large areas of previously uncultivable land into arable land.

In addition, sweet potatoes also have the advantages of drought tolerance, strong disease resistance, strong insect resistance, and high yield. They can be planted in spring and summer in a year.

In this regard, Chen Zhenlong's promotion in Fujian has given him sufficient experience in the trial planting of sweet potatoes in Gyeonggi and other places in the future.

Calculated based on the production in Fujian in the past, the yield per mu of spring potatoes was [-] shi, and the yield of summer potatoes was generally between [-] and [-] shi.

The sum of spring and summer, even in the least case, has forty stones.

To put it simply, the annual output of sweet potatoes has increased dozens of times compared to rice and wheat, which is "more than one stone per mu".

A field that used to feed one person can feed dozens of people if sweet potatoes are planted.

Zhu Youxiao closed the memorial, only to feel that the vision suddenly opened up.

This king was in Jin Dynasty, and he explained everything clearly in his memorials, but he didn't say a word about where to try planting in Gyeonggi.

After thinking about it, Zhu Youxiao leaned back on the seat, and said with a long sigh of relief:

"It was told to Wang Zaijin that there are five Huangzhuangs in Tongzhou, and I will give them all to him to try to grow sweet potatoes. If the spring potatoes are produced enough, they will be promoted to Huangzhuangs in all parts of Gyeonggi before the summer potatoes, and they will be planted together!"

"For this matter, tell Wang Zaijin to serve dim sum!"

"By the way, isn't Xu Guangqi also good at it? Send a Tiqi to find him and ask him to assist Wang Zaijin in his trial planting."

After Wang Chaofu left, Zhu Youxiao got up and moved around in the Nuan Pavilion, and asked the little eunuch beside him:

"I have ordered Tong Zhongkui and Chen Ce to return from Liaodong. Where are they now?"

Chapter 70 Liaoyang Military Discussion

A few days after Lixia, the cabinet received the imperial letter from the emperor.

On this day, it was time to speak on Jingyan Day. Sun Chengzong waited in Maoqin Hall with all the lecturers, and he had not seen the emperor for a long time.

However, a eunuch in charge of ceremonies came running from the direction of Qianqing Palace, and under the astonished gaze of all the great sages and lecturers, he loudly proclaimed the emperor's edict:

"I've been feeling dizzy in my daily life. I've stopped speaking for a while, and the resumption date is undecided. Let the gentlemen know."

Zhu Youxiao wanted to "drop out of school" for a simple and rude reason, just two words - "discomfort".

On the face of it, Sun Chengzong and others had to show loyalty to the emperor who was "often feeling dizzy", and asked how the dragon was doing.

As soon as the eunuch left, Sun Chengzong and other Japanese officials gathered together.

They all knew that it would be useless to persuade the emperor at this time, and the best way was to inform the cabinet scholars and ask them to come up with an idea.

Moreover, the cabinet was notified in time, and even if it was true that the lectures were suspended on the feast day, it had nothing to do with them talking about officials these days.

Not long after, the cabinet scholars gathered in the signing room, discussing non-stop.

Liu Yixiu seemed a little angry.

"At the end of last year, the emperor said that the weather was extremely cold, and the banquet was postponed to this year. It has only been a few months since the beginning of spring, and he said that he was feeling dizzy..."

"The emperor's recent signs are not good, and he never has a regular visit to the court."

Hearing what he said, all Yu's cabinet ministers looked this way, and Ci Fu Han Kuang gave Liu Yixiu a stare.

The latter realized that he had made a slip of the tongue, so he snorted coldly and said no more.

Although he gave Han Kuang face on the face, his heart was still full of complaints. If the little emperor's inertia was allowed to go unchecked, sooner or later, he would become the second emperor of Shenzong.

Gu Bingqian and Wang Zaijin naturally knew a thing or two about the decision to suspend the lecture on the Sutra feast. They both worked for the emperor, so it is inconvenient to say more.

After discussing with the remaining members of the cabinet, Donglin finally handed over the decision-making power to the Chief Assistant Ye Xianggao.

You are the Chief Assistant, and the emperor's speech on the banquet day cannot be discarded. You can make a decision.

Ye Xianggao had regretted being the chief assistant for a long time, and now he was pushed by Donglin colleagues to be the decision maker, so there was nothing he could do.

He got up and wrote a memorial tremblingly.

Not long after, an eunuch replied to the Xinuang Pavilion with the cabinet's resolution on Zhu Youxiao's suspension of the Sutra lecture.

As soon as he arrived outside the pavilion, he saw Wang Chaofu, the steward of the Qianqing Palace, come out to welcome him.

"What's going on, the emperor is feeling dizzy and uncomfortable, and is resting, what's the matter that must be played now?"

The little eunuch also scolded those cabinet ministers who had nothing to do and were not happy, and then said:

"This is played by the old master..."

Hearing it was Ye Xianggao's memorial, Wang Chaofu also knew that he couldn't stop it. He rolled his eyes, but he didn't receive it, but got out of his way and said:

"Then submit it quickly!"

The little eunuch didn't know the reason why Wang Chaofu did this, he just put the memorabilia into the Xinuang Pavilion nervously, seeing the emperor leaning on the chair and squinting his eyes.

He bowed and saluted, handed over the book, and said:

"Graduate scholar Ye Xianggao played: Lixia stopped speaking, the emperor is in Yan leisurely wandering in Henan, especially should diligently sing the records of ancestors, read and chant classics, so as not to be idle."

Zhu Youxiao didn't seem to notice, and asked again: "Who wrote this book?"

"Cabinet Grand Scholar Ye Xianggao." The little eunuch's hand trembled inadvertently.

Zhu Youxiao glanced at him lightly, without any intention of flipping through it, and said lightly, "I see."

Under Wang Chaofu's eyes, the little eunuch respectfully presented the notebook to the imperial case, and withdrew as if he had received an amnesty.

After he left, Zhu Youxiao glanced at the notebook on the imperial case and snorted coldly.

Now the Sichuan and Zhejiang soldiers who aided Liao have been recalled to Gyeonggi by their own edict and are stationed in Tongzhou.

The three leaders, Qin Bangping, Tong Zhongkui, and Chen Ce, should have arrived in the capital today.

……

In the spring of the first year of the Apocalypse, Nurhachi led tens of thousands of Jin troops to invade.

You Shigong, the commander in chief of Puhe, and He Shixian, the deputy commander in chief of Liaodong, died in battle one after another. Puhe and Shenyang fell one after another, and tens of thousands of Liao people were forced to become slaves of the Jurchens.

But later, Nurhachi, who took Shenyang lightly, suddenly turned around and left again.

At first, even Xiong Tingbi didn't understand what was going on. Later, when the Ming army retreated to recover Shenyang, the news came out.

It turned out that it was Mao Wenlong who led his troops to attack Jiannu's lair. There were not many slaves, so they had to retreat.

At present, Xiong Tingbi is the governor of Liaodong, and the newly appointed governor is Hong Chengchou.

The two can't talk about any friendship, but they can maintain similar opinions on the war strategy against Jiannu.

Even if there are disagreements, Hong Chengchou can basically do not restrain or restrain Xiong Tingbi, so that Xiong Tingbi can come and go freely.

Of course, he also made it clear.

If you, Xiong Tingbi, made your own claims and did something wrong, which caused the situation in Liaodong to overthrow, I, Hong Chengchou, still have to impeach you and defend myself.

When Hong Chengchou left the customs and was the governor of Liaodong, he always had to lead a group of troops and supplies. This group of troops was transferred from Xuanfu Town by the imperial court, and they had some combat effectiveness.

The general who led this group of troops was named Xue Laiyin. He was an unknown person in history, but he did have real skills.

Looking at the history of the late Ming Dynasty, there are not a few people like Xue Laiyin.

In the 46th year of Wanli, Xue Laiyin was stationed in Xuanfu and served as a guerrilla general before Liaodong had a large army.