Hongwu Daming: Why hasn't my son rebelled?

Chapter 223 Potatoes, Sweet Potatoes and Corn

Although His Royal Highness King Liao left Yi Nai Ji, the army of the Ming Dynasty did not completely leave Yi Nai Ji. In order to prevent Bei Yuan from counterattacking, Aza Shili on Yi Nai Ji had no way to defend immediately.

Zhu Qi still asked Ma Yun to stay in Yinaiji with 1 people to help the city defense.

And Zhang Yu, who was transferred, returned to Liaoyang to control the overall situation and make suggestions for His Royal Highness Liao Wang.

Naturally, Azha Shili dared not have any objections to such an arrangement.

Not only did Azha Shili not have any plans for His Highness King Liao, he had any unhappy thoughts.

He was even grateful to Dade, who thought he only needed to deal with Naha.

But he didn't expect Wang Baobao to be so sure of winning Yinaiji. With the power of the whole country of Beiyuan, he gathered a crowd of [-] people to take down Yinaiji.

If it wasn't for His Royal Highness King Liao's reaction speed, if he came to support him as soon as possible, he might have been caught by Wang Baobao by now, and he would have died in battle in a different place, maybe.

As for the Ming army, they stayed to help defend Yinaiji together, and Aza Shili was naturally very welcome. He also knew that if he was not the father-in-law of His Highness King Liao, he might not have such treatment.

As for those tribes who followed Azashili, after seeing how powerful His Royal Highness King Liao is.

It's also dead set, just kidding, who dares to rebel?

His Royal Highness King Liao even defeated Wang Baobao, and only brought 5 people to fight against Beiyuan's 10 people.

Such a powerful general is really the reincarnation of the God of War.

And he is Aza Shili's son-in-law, if he rebelled, wouldn't His Royal Highness King Liao take away their ashes?
It can be said that King Liao, relying on his own strength, completely stabilized Azha Shili's position in the desert outside the Great Wall, and the situation controlled by Yi Naiji.

In the follow-up, we only need to continue to support Duoyan Sanwei to encroach on Naha's territory and help Aza lose his footing.

That would be an invincible situation for the Ming Dynasty. As long as Beiyuan didn't wipe out Azha Losili, then nine out of ten Liao lands would belong to Ming Dynasty.

However, the war in the Liao land naturally did not happen overnight.

In the next few years, I am afraid that I will have to play games here, and this is also what Aza Shili needs to focus on in the future.

Zhu Qi was still as usual, not very keen on things like war.

After all, in the early years of Hongwu, there were so many famous generals supporting the scene, and there was no need for him, a half-baked person, to care too much about unfamiliar things.

What needs him to do more is to farm and develop.

The first thing to solve is the problem of food.

The surrounding land in Liaodong where Zhu Qi is located is very suitable for cultivation. Although the climate in Liaodong is severe and cold, Wang Chuanqi brought back the three treasures of civilization, potatoes, corn and sweet potatoes from America.

These three things are very adaptable to the climate, and the land of Liaodong is especially suitable for growing corn.

And for the three crops of potatoes, corn and sweet potatoes.

It is also necessary to cultivate the seeds to select the optimal amount. Zhu Qi also knows about this kind of thing.

But how to do it, he is not very clear, and he can only let the farmers plant the seeds he got.

Then choose suitable crops based on experience, and leave the seeds to continue planting.

It has been a year since I got the seeds last year. In Liaoyang, a large piece of land has been returned to let those selected farmers come to plant the three treasures.

After all, this is an artifact to solve the problem of eating in the future, so Zhu Qi naturally attaches great importance to it. As for the number of seeds, he doesn't care much about it.

Because Wang Chuanqi's fifth voyage is estimated to be back soon.

But this time, when Wang Chuanqi came back, he brought not only the seeds of the three auspicious treasures, but also the seeds of peppers and tomatoes.

Zhu Qi also asked him to go outside to collect, and more importantly, he could bring back some people from the Native American tribe.

When it comes to the Ming Dynasty, it’s secondary to open everyone’s horizons. The main thing is to connect with them. If possible, you can have some original education and so on.

This is a very important thing for the Ming Dynasty, because if you want to expand overseas territories, education must come first.

Better management is possible only after assimilation in the cultural and linguistic spheres.

And those indigenous chiefs definitely don't have a big picture. It is very simple to establish a country and integrate tribes there.

As for subsequent conflicts, there is no need for Da Ming to do the dirty work himself.

The local tribes who received the education and rule of the Ming Dynasty can all help, and this is not something that can be accomplished overnight.

For the transformation of the Americas, it will take decades or even hundreds of years. Of course, this is what future generations need to persist.

However, as a pioneer, Zhu Qi still hopes to help Daming make this good start.

In order to avoid that in the future, when the West launched the era of great exploration, it would take the lead in occupying the treasure land of geomantic omen in the Americas, which would not be good news for the Ming Dynasty.

And there is still nearly half a century before the opening of the Western Age of Discovery.

In terms of time, it was completely in time, but when Zhu Qi returned to Liaoyang, the first thing to do was not to care about agricultural development, but to see how the minerals in Haizhou were suitable for mining.

He quickly arrived in Haizhou in a carriage, not very far from Liaohai, and in Haizhou, many local miners had already gathered there.

This piece of coal was discovered by them, and these miners had never mined coal before.

However, iron ore, copper ore and other minerals have also been mined, and after His Royal Highness King Liao told them in detail about the characteristics of coal, they have been looking for it near this area, which is called coal.

Of course, they don't know what coal is used for, and they have never burned it before. After all, ordinary people have always used charcoal for heating.

However, according to what His Royal Highness Liao Wang said, this coal is still very important, so they naturally dare not neglect it.

After receiving the task, he has been searching for so-called coal near Haizhou day and night for the past few days.

Although Haizhou is not big, it is not that simple to find the exact location of the mine.

After all, it is inevitable that ordinary people will make mistakes, and it is the best choice for these miners who are familiar with the mining process to look for coal according to their characteristics.

After searching for two or three months, they actually found coal for them.

But no one thinks how powerful he is, but thinks His Royal Highness King Liao is so powerful that he can predict things that no one has seen before.

His Royal Highness King Liao knew that he could point out the specific location, isn't this a god?

So when Zhu Qi appeared in Haizhou to inspect the coal mines, the workers who were exploring the mines looked at His Highness King Liao with worship in their eyes, as if they saw a god coming.

Zhu Qi is also quite strange, although other commoners always look at him with admiration, the expressions these miners look at him are definitely not respect, but fanaticism.

Sure enough, one commoner took the lead and knelt down, and the other commoners also knelt down immediately.

One must know that Zhu Qi is not yet the emperor, and there is no rule that the common people must kneel when they see the prince. These common people kneel to Zhu Qi, that really means that His Royal Highness Liao is really great from the bottom of their hearts.

Zhu Qi hurriedly asked everyone to stand up, and one of the people said excitedly:

"Your Highness is really a man of God. He actually knows that there are minerals here, but what is the so-called coal mine for His Highness King Liao?"

I didn't expect these workers to be quite inquisitive before, so they said with a smile:

"Steelmaking."

This coal mine is of course used for steelmaking.

But the so-called steel in the Ming Dynasty is absolutely different from what Zhu Qi said.

The steel Zhu Qi mentioned is the material of modern steel, and its hardness is definitely not comparable to that of the Ming Dynasty.

However, in order to produce such steel, in addition to the very complicated refining process, the most important technical difficulty is temperature.

The temperature must be controlled within an appropriate range, and the burning raw materials of the modern Ming Dynasty have no way to raise the temperature required for quenching steel.

What is necessary to increase the temperature is the combustion efficiency of the fuel, which must be high, and coal is the material with the highest combustion efficiency that can be thought of at the moment.

It is also a necessary thing for steelmaking. Isn't coal the blood of the modern chemical industry?
And with coal, you can even try to develop real explosives.

But that thing is too complicated and dangerous, but if it can be made, it will definitely be very powerful.

Those craftsmen naturally didn't know how to make steel, but Zhu Qi already had a complete set of steelmaking methods here.

Even the steelmaking furnace for the earthen stove has been developed, and the only thing missing is the coal.

And those craftsmen have already started to build a new type of steelmaking furnace in Haizhou.

This steelmaking furnace is actually not very complicated. It looks like a modern flat-floor factory. The most distinctive feature is a large chimney, which is about 10 meters high.

And this chimney is also an important factor to increase the temperature.

Many local people are also very surprised to see this strange building, and they don't know what this building is for.

Now that the coal has been explored, all that remains is to mine the coal and send it to the steelmaking furnace.

As for the strength and quality of the tempered steel, it can only depend on the craftsmanship of the craftsmen.

As for what Zhu Qi could do, he had already done everything. After inspecting the situation in Haizhou, Zhu Qi returned to Liaoyang and went directly to the large farmland behind Liaoyang.

These are the experimental fields set up by His Royal Highness Liao Wang.

What is grown is, of course, corn potatoes and sweet potatoes.

As for these three things, I originally thought that it would take a long time to refine and improve before they could be like the modern ones, but Zhu Qi didn't know if they were the benefits of the traversers.

Just after a wave of seeds has been produced, it is already quite good.

Not only the taste but also the yield, are not much worse than those corn potatoes and sweet potatoes that Zhu Qi knows.

Of course, it is unrealistic to think of a high yield like now. As for the resistance to lodging and pests, it is not very clear.

But at least the yields of these crops are much higher than they are now.

There are not too high requirements for the land, and it is very easy to feed itself, with high yield and easy production. The common people just need such food.

If you add resistance to pests and diseases and lodging, you can directly enter the period of population explosion.

But so far Zhu Qi has been experimenting there alone.

This matter has not been reported to Zhu Yuanzhang.

Seeing that the production and planting of corn, potatoes and sweet potatoes had achieved quite a lot, Zhu Qi naturally didn't dare to hide it by himself, so he quickly wrote a note and sent it up.

And it took only two or three days to tell Zhu Yuanzhang the great news when it was sent to Yingtian Mansion.

Then promote it across the country to improve the lives of ordinary people.

It can also be regarded as one of the few good things done for Daming by his own entrepreneur.

This is what Zhu Qi thought in his heart, and the notes he wrote were sent to Yingtian Mansion soon. At this time, the court was still discussing that His Royal Highness Liao Wang had made great achievements, but the rewards given were too many.

Especially expanding the number of his personal guards, this is not the beginning anyway! Many courtiers are still persuading Zhu Yuanzhang to take back Chen Ming or something.

And at this time, I heard His Royal Highness Liao Wang wrote an excerpt, and the ministers who had persuaded Zhu Yuanzhang before were a little nervous now.

Could it be that His Royal Highness Liao Wang heard the news, and then wrote a book and came to falsely accuse them.

Damn it, it must be Jin Yiwei!

Therefore, these people judge the belly of a gentleman with the heart of a villain.

Zhu Qike never wanted to control the ministers who impeached him. To Zhu Qike, what they did had nothing to do with him.

Besides, as the king of the game, I have no contact with these great gods, so naturally I don't pay much attention to them.

The notebook written by Zhu Qi is of course related to corn, potatoes, and sweet potatoes, and following the notebook, there are samples of corn, potatoes, and sweet potatoes that have already been planted.

These things are naturally very delicious, and after Zhu Yuanzhang received Zhu Qi's letter, after reading the whole article, especially about the production of corn, potatoes and sweet potatoes, Zhu Yuanzhang was also quite shocked.

He is also a farmer and is very experienced in farming.

It is natural to know that the current food production is completely inferior to the three treasures of civilization, let alone the requirements for land.

Those are taller than each other, and it's okay for the common people to share the fertile land.

But if it is allocated to barren land, there will be a famine, and corn, potatoes, and sweet potatoes can produce a lot of yield even on barren land.

Not only that, planting these three things is also very beneficial to the fertility of the field and so on.

And Zhu Yuanzhang naturally knew the great usefulness of these three crops for the first time.

Isn't the most important thing in a country is agricultural output?

Only when the population increases and the food supply keeps up, can the country be stable.

Zhu Yuanzhang naturally knew the importance of food. Throughout the dynasties, he emphasized agriculture and suppressed business because he was worried that food production would not increase and cause famine. Naturally, the people who suffered were ordinary people.

And the emperor, as the ruler, would also be said to be cruel, and cruelty caused the anger of the heavens to descend, and so on.

Those ministers were still discussing the faults of His Highness Liao Wang in the court hall, but Zhu Yuanzhang threw out this book directly.

Those ministers were stunned when they first saw the output. Is this true?

If true, this is another great achievement.

No, this is going to be recorded in the history books!
(End of this chapter)