Daming: I asked you to hang yourself, but I didn’t ask you to rebuild the Ming Dynasty

"Then get some rice husks or wheat bran, stir it in, and after mixing it evenly, put it into the nursery.

This step of fluffing must be done well!

These seedling fertilizers must be kept loose, otherwise they will generate heat and burn the sweet potatoes! "

Zhu Youjian personally demonstrated the steps of raising sweet potato seedlings.

No way, in this day and age, sweet potatoes are still an exotic product.

In the Central Plains, people who can grow sweet potatoes are not as common as three-legged toads!

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Chen Zhenlong, a native of Qingqiao Village, Changle County, Fuzhou, Fujian, was originally a scholar.

However, because he failed in the examination several times, he followed Fujian merchants to Luzon to do business.

At this time, the power of the Westerners in Luzon increased greatly, and the Nanyang Ming people were already at a disadvantage.

After sweet potatoes were brought to Southeast Asia by Westerners from the Americas, all Westerners reached a consensus - such a thing with a yield of tens of thousands of pounds per acre must not be obtained by the Ming Dynasty!

With the size of the Ming Dynasty, once they get such a high-yielding crop, it will be a devastating blow to them!

(Since ancient times, Western ghosts have not been good birds, and of course the Japanese ghosts have not been good either. According to rumors, there are 10 million people "subsidized" by them every year.)

Chen Zhenlong saw that sweet potatoes are so high-yielding and can withstand drought. They can be grown on any land regardless of whether the land is fertile or not, and they only need a small amount of plant ash fertilizer.

Remembering that the northern part of the Ming Dynasty was suffering from a drought crisis, he resolutely smuggled the object back to his country, risking his life if he found out that he would be killed by the Spaniards!

At that time, people from Ming Dynasty who returned to Ming Dynasty had to undergo examination.

It took Chen Zhenlong several years to understand that sweet potatoes can be successfully grown by cutting them from vines!

So, he twisted the sweet potato vines into hemp rope and tied it to the suitcase, avoiding the inspection of the Western Japanese.

In order to prevent the sweet potato vines from drying out, the luggage was thrown into the water several times during the seven-day voyage.

In May of the 21st year of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty (1593), Chen Zhenlong returned to Fujian with the sweet potatoes that created the "Qiankang Dynasty" and tried planting them on a small piece of cultivated land beside Shamao Pond near his residence.

When there was a severe drought in central Fujian that year, Chen Zhenlong immediately asked his son Chen Jinglun to write a letter to Jin Xuezeng, the governor of Fujian.

Claiming that this product could provide disaster relief, Jin Xuezeng immediately asked Chen Zhenlong to test its cultivation on a large scale. After its success that year, it was promoted on a large scale in Fujian in 1594.

The famine in Fujian was immediately alleviated.

Since then, Chen Zhenlong’s descendants have been committed to the promotion of sweet potatoes.

After several generations of efforts, it was not until the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty that the seeds were introduced to Zhejiang, Shandong, Taiwan and other places. This was the first family to promote sweet potatoes.

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There is Lin Huailan, a native of Meiyan Town, Wuchuan City, Zhanjiang, Guangdong Province.

He is a doctor who travels to Cochin (Vietnam) all year round to practice medicine.

At this time, Vietnam had also begun to plant sweet potatoes. However, monkeys have always had evil intentions, and their king ordered not to spread sweet potatoes and Ming Dynasty. Anyone who violates this will be killed!

Lin Huailan got half a sweet potato after practicing medicine, so he smuggled it back home and planted it in Dianbai County, Guangdong.

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In 1582, Chen Yi, a native of Humen Beizha, Dongguan County, Guangzhou Prefecture, Guangdong, planted 35 acres of sweet potatoes at his home after getting sweet potatoes from Jiaozhi.

In terms of the time of introduction, Chen Yi was the earliest, but in terms of promotion achievements, the Chen Zhenlong family was the biggest.

Of course, these three people deserve to be known as the "No. 1 imported sweet potatoes"!

They all risked their lives to bring them back to China, and they are all worthy of being remembered by future generations.

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Daming is so big!

Even though sweet potatoes have been introduced for half a century.

However, in this era where separation is a lifetime, it is so difficult to promote an exotic crop...

Although Xu Guangqi and other ministers of the DPRK and China have already begun to study planting methods, they have even tried planting in Tianjin, Beizhili and other places.

However, farmers have a saying that has been passed down to this day - "If you can't get a good wife, you won't be able to grow crops for a whole season!"

Food is the life of the people, and land is the root of the people.

In the southern land, due to climate reasons, the promotion of sweet potatoes is much faster - because they can be planted at any time.

And the northern land, which has two crops a year, three crops every two years, or even one crop a year, wants farmers to free up land to plant new crops that have not been verified by their own eyes...

How difficult is it?

Once they fail, what awaits them is no food and starvation to death!

Not to mention ancient times, even in the modern era of advanced high technology - the neighboring provinces of Hubei and Henan, people plant different things.

Xiangyang and Nanyang are adjacent to each other, and even in ancient times, they belonged to each other for a long time. However, the people in Xiangyang mostly cultivated cash crops, while the people in Nanyang - food, food, food!

Even fruits and vegetables are rarely grown...

(I live in Xiangyang. During the Spring Festival this year, I went to pick strawberries in the greenhouses of my group. The price was tens of yuan per pound. The ones sold in the market town were twenty dollars more expensive than if the locals picked them themselves. When my wife took her son to pick them, I chatted with the boss, and he said that the net income from one acre of land can exceed [-] yuan, and the cream strawberry can earn several thousand yuan more.

Back in my hometown in Nanyang, when I asked the villagers to plant more cash crops, the reply I got was - what if we lose money? I appreciate your kindness, but I can't count on it.

The old farmer who loves food more than his life is so cute, pitiful, and sad.

Because they can't afford the risk of failure!

This happened in 22!

Readers, can you believe it?

It is really difficult to promote new crops.

What’s more, it was during the Ming Dynasty...)

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Zhu Youjian was well aware of the difficulties of promoting sweet potatoes, so he deliberately inspected the land and nationalized all the land illegally occupied by the gentry.

Then select veteran farmers from among millions of refugees and hire them to grow sweet potatoes by providing them with food.

In order to stimulate the people's desire to plant, it is clearly stipulated that anyone who plants well can take away [-]% of the output as a reward when harvesting.

This employment agreement is quite generous!

Landless refugees can support their families as long as they work hard.

Even so, the old farmers were not so much willing to grow sweet potatoes as they were succumbing to Zhu Youjian's high reward!

In order to stimulate the people and let the old farmers take good care of these treasures, Zhu Youjian posted imperial notices everywhere:

The Emperor of Ming Dynasty made a three-chapter agreement with the people——

As long as the sweet potatoes are grown well, planted in large quantities, and managed carefully, in addition to the normal monthly payment of [-] kilograms of rice and wheat, there will also be an additional [-]% commission upon harvest!

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The old farmers looked at the emperor with excrement and urine that had reached the crooks of his arms, and their eyes were incomprehensible.

I have been growing crops all my life, but I have never heard that the yield per mu can reach [-] kilograms...

I'm afraid the emperor has been deceived!

Alas, it’s such a pity that such a good field cannot be planted in summer, but if you plant chestnuts, you can still harvest more food!

The emperor wants to waste such a good land...

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Zhu Youjian buried the sweet potatoes one by one in the feces of the nursery, and sprinkled wheat bran on the surface to keep them warm.

Thin bamboos were inserted on both sides, bent into a bow shape, and then covered with a large piece of oiled hemp paper.