After rebirth, I became a national teacher

"By then, there is no guarantee that there won't be officials, yamen runners or village heads who will arbitrarily impose taxes on the people for not planting sweet potatoes. If this continues, they will become like the Wei Dynasty, arbitrarily making up excuses to collect exorbitant taxes privately."

Yan Qingzhi was ashamed when he heard this:

"It is my humble servant who has not considered this matter carefully."

Zhuo Yuxiu, the Minister of Industry, suggested:

"God, why don't you change the tax increase to publicly punishing the householder with ten sticks?"

"This action won't cause any serious injury, but it is extremely humiliating. The head of the family naturally can't stand it. Even if it means avoiding being beaten, he has to plant the sweet potatoes obediently."

Chen Qingzhu thought what she said made sense, so he accepted her suggestion.

Rong Niang suggested:

"Mother, for the prefectures and counties that haven't yet distributed the land, can we just require each household to plant one acre of sweet potatoes as a condition for allocating land?"

"can."

Everyone discussed some other details and finally drafted the charter.

On Dongfan Island, the Japanese pirates forced slaves to grow sweet potatoes, which were used not only to feed the slaves but also to feed livestock, so the quantity was enough to use as seeds for the twelve prefectures.

However, transporting such a large amount of sweet potatoes to various prefectures quickly without damaging them along the way was also a huge challenge.

In order to save time and to ensure that the sweet potatoes would not be damaged and unable to sprout, Chen Qingzhu decided to spend a few more days to personally deliver the sweet potato seeds to various places.

Thus, within just six or seven days, many people in every county under his rule witnessed the miracle with their own eyes.

First, the drum for complaining about grievances outside the county or prefectural government office would be beaten automatically for a while. When enough people gathered in front of the government office, piles of sweet potatoes like small mountains would appear out of thin air in the courtyard in front of the county or prefectural government office, filling up the entire courtyard and even piled up on the street outside the government office.

Then, a huge white cloth fell from the sky, with a few lines of eye-catching characters written on it:

"The Lord of Deliverance has ordered that the potato seeds be distributed to the people in each village and planted widely."

Such miracles frightened the officials and common people in all counties and cities to their knees, and they talked about them with great relish afterwards.

When the villagers were summoned to the county government to receive sweet potato seeds, they heard the people in the county government talk about the miracle of the sweet potatoes being delivered out of thin air.

The people who received the grain seeds returned to their respective villages and spread the news.

This undoubtedly makes sweet potatoes shrouded in a layer of mystery because of the miracles of the God of Du'e, making them easier to accept.

Moreover, the people also truly felt that the one who now ruled this land was indeed a god with boundless magical powers.

When the Minister of Agriculture was guiding the sweet potato planting in various villages and talked about how the God of Du'e descended from the sky and killed all the Japanese pirates who had tortured and enslaved them, the people felt grateful to the God of Du'e and their faith in him became more devout.

From then on, no matter what the rebels said, they could not shake the people's loyalty to the God.

After delivering the sweet potato seeds, Chen Qingzhu took Rong Niang to the sea and swept the remaining Liuli Islands, the west coast of Japan and other places where Japanese pirates gathered from south to north.

During this period, countless captured civilians were rescued, and dozens of storage talismans were filled with various treasures and goods. Every stop was fruitful.

At this time, the Jinyiwei sent by Emperor Yong'an were divided into several groups. After experiencing various twists and turns such as storms, pirate looting, and getting lost, the team that went to the Japanese mainland successfully found several Japanese pirate forces.

They visited one by one from north to south, and finally after visiting the fourth Japanese pirate manor, they ran into Chen Qingzhu who was fighting against the Japanese pirates.

To be precise, this Jinyiwei team had just arrived at the manor not long ago, and before they had time to persuade the Japanese pirate leader, Chen Qingzhu brought Rong Niang here.

After observing for a while, Chen Qingzhu said:

"Mrs. Rong, go and hold the pirate leader hostage."

Rong Niang took the order with great interest: