Rebirth of the Ming Dynasty: Sixth Generation of Glory, I don't want it

"There aren't many left, only about a hundred. Sister-in-law, remember to save the peach pits and send them back after you finish eating. I don't know if they will be as soft and delicious next time."

King Zhou spread his hands.

"Someone stole it? Can't we plant it if we have seeds?"

Zhu Di glared at King Zhou and joked.

"Don't mention it. We could have had 2,000 or 3,000, but the monkeys in Wenbeijiao ate all of them. As for the seeds, they have to be grafted again if we plant them again. We can't guarantee that they will be successful. Mr. Yu passed away a few years ago. No one is sure."

The King of Zhou was also helpless.

Wen Beijiao asked the group of alchemists in his mansion to choose a place in the botanical garden and conduct experiments on the death row prisoners.

There were not enough death row prisoners, and it was not easy to target children, so they captured a group of monkeys.

One day, the monkeys took advantage of the opportunity, ran out, and ate all the unripe peaches.

He was so heartbroken that he almost had a fit.

But Wen Beijiao was protecting those monkeys, and he couldn't even kick them a couple of times to vent his anger.

"Monkeys? There are monkeys?"

Zhu Jiabao immediately became interested.

"Yeah, yes, do you want to see it?"

Prince Zhou had met Zhu Jiabao several times and, like Zhu Di, called him by his nickname with a smile.

"miss you!"

"I want, too!"

"I also want!"

The second and third fat boys, and the fourth fat boy all raised their hands. They wanted to play in the botanical garden, not talk with adults in the pavilion.

"Somebody come!"

Seeing that Zhu Di had no objection, King Zhou shouted, and someone took the three little ones away.

"Mr. Yu is the one who grew these soft peaches?"

Zhu Di continued with the previous question.

"Yes. Mr. Yu and his two sons did the whole process, from choosing seeds to where to plant them, to grafting and pollination later on."

King Zhou sighed with regret.

"What a pity. Old?"

Zhu Di felt very sorry too. It would have been great if he could live a few more years. This was the flower he had specifically asked his brother to plant for Xu.

"Yes, it was Qishiqi who went. The one you met was the one you pardoned during the Jingnan Rebellion. Yu Zhenmu, whose original name was Yu Zhen, was a counselor to Yao Shan, the governor of Suzhou."

King Zhou reminded.

"do not remember!"

Zhu Di answered very straightforwardly.

At that time, he listened to Xu, Zhu Gaochi and Yao Guangxiao. He didn't care who was killed, after all, he didn't care much about them.

As for pardons, the list is so long and there are so many people, it’s hard to remember them all.

"I have an impression of this man and Yao Shan."

Xu nodded to indicate that she remembered.

After the Jingnan Rebellion, most of the domestic officials who supported Zhu Yunwen were concentrated in Jiangsu, Songjiang, and Zhejiang.

At that time, Yao Shan, the prefect of Suzhou, was entrusted with an important task by Zhu Yunwen to organize the troops from the five prefectures of Su, Song, Chang, Zhen, Jia and Xing to serve the king.

Before the troops from these five places were assembled, Zhu Di had already entered the capital.

Huang Zicheng fled with his four sons and went to Yao Shan, where he continued to recruit troops to support the king.

Later, Huang Zicheng also asked Yao Shan to sail and raise an army.

Yao Shan thought he was not good at attacking and refused.

After Huang Zicheng left, Yao Shan led his troops to defend the city to the death.

But in reality, Huang Zicheng went to the sea to pretend to raise an army and escape, and Yao Shan, who stayed behind, was really stupid and took the people he supported to fight to the death with the soldiers from Suzhou.

A captain under Yao Shan discovered something was wrong, tied up Yao Shan, opened the city gate and surrendered, and the farce ended.

Zhu Di had no intention of killing people indiscriminately, but Yao Shan refused to obey until his death.

In the end, he died in the same batch as Huang Zicheng, and his son was also exiled to the frontier.

The rest of his advisers were imprisoned and awaiting further action.

When Xu arrived in the capital, in order to avoid killing innocent people, he carefully read the files of all the people in prison.

The reason why she had an impression of Yu Zhenmu was quite simple:

At the end of the Yuan Dynasty, although he was well-known for his literary talent, in order to avoid becoming an official in the Yuan Dynasty, he simply stayed indoors and refused to take office.

He waited until he was forty years old, when the late emperor established the dynasty. In the first year of the Hongwu reign, he became one of the first ministers of the Hongwu dynasty.

This man was simply unlucky. Not long after he took office, his father passed away. Later, his mother passed away. He was also implicated by his relatives for committing crimes. According to the rules, the court could not use him.

Yao Shan had high hopes for him and invited him back to teach his son, so he got on Yao Shan's boat.

Moreover, in the year of the Jingnan Campaign, Yu Zhenmu was already a 70-year-old man.

Why kill him!

Therefore, Xu could be pardoned after seducing Yu Zhenmu.

I didn't expect it to be here.

"Yu Zhenmu also knows how to grow peaches?"

After hearing what Xu said, Zhu Di still felt a bit confused.

He could not imagine that a teacher in a prefect's mansion had any connection with growing peaches.

"I didn't know at first. I just moved to the capital, and you asked me to plant some peaches for your sister-in-law. So I got a piece of land in the garden to plant peaches. As the saying goes, peaches and plums are inseparable, and I thought that since they were all planted, I planted plums, apricots, and pears. When I wanted to ask someone who knew about grafting to take care of it, the people in the garden said that there was a book in the market during my father's time, "The Book of Planting Trees", written by a man named Yu Zhenmu, which recorded many methods of grafting peach and plum trees. Of course, I went directly to find the author of the book."

It was only after King Zhou found the person that he realized that Yu Zhenmu had a connection with the royal family.

After inviting people to the botanical garden, he discovered that he had unearthed a treasure.

Yu Zhenmu not only knows how to plant fruit trees, but also knows how to do grafting.

He knows all the methods of cultivating crops such as grains, mulberry, hemp, vegetables, fruits, flowers and trees.

More than 80% of the improvements in this botanical garden were made by Yu Zhenmu.

Now Yu Zhenmu’s two sons are also in the botanical garden.

It can be said that he has inherited 80% of Yu Zhenmu's true skills.

"Then give his eldest son a higher rank. The second son a lower rank, or give him some reward."

Zhu Di turned and glanced at Zhu Gaochi.

"I can see it."

The King of Zhou was very satisfied.

"Dad, why don't we set up a Sino-Agricultural Division to take charge of agriculture. Let's also spread the news that Uncle Wu said plants can talk."

Zhu Gaochi took the opportunity to make a proposal.

The country claims that agriculture is its basic industry, but there is not even a department that properly manages agriculture.

The Ministry of Revenue and the Ministry of Rites can both take charge and not take charge.

The councillors, prefects, county magistrates, and officials of the military commissions all have the duty to supervise and manage agriculture, but no one of them is specifically responsible for this.

Occasionally, a special official was sent to persuade farmers to do their job, but he was just a special official and would return to his original duties after finishing his work.

He had wanted to say it a long time ago.

With such a powerful tool like his fifth uncle, rice seeds have been improved for several generations, barley and wheat have also made progress, and the renewal of sweet potatoes is even more rapid.

However, the increase in per-acre grain yield is far from what we expected.

If we take the increase in population and cultivated land into account, the situation is almost stagnant.

He asked the reason, which was a question of promotion and popularization.

No one is making a big effort to promote these new seeds or new things, and the common people are basically unwilling to plant them.

No matter how loudly he yelled at people in the capital, he couldn't hold back, and the people below him kept blaming each other.

"You take care of it. I have no objection."

Zhu Di doesn't care.

[Small science: The Book of Planting Trees is an agricultural book, completed in the 1379th year of Hongwu (), compiled by Yu Zhenmu. In history, Yu Zhenmu and Yao Shan raised troops to defend the emperor, but were arrested and taken to Beijing in the th year of Jianwen, where they died of a sudden illness at the age of .]