Chongzhen: I am the king of prosperous times

Chapter 297 Xu Guangqi's Gift
After Emperor Chongzhen explained his thoughts in detail, Wang Qia and Wang Zaijin understood that this is the combined version of military and civilian settlements.

It’s just that what the Son of Heaven said was the concept of direct military settlements, and it was applied to the resettlement of Liao people and refugees. However, the proportion of the grain paid for the garrison and the actual self-sufficiency grain left was a little looser.

In addition, regarding the matter of farming in Jingdong, Jizhou Town, various health offices, including the local government, do not have corresponding jurisdiction. Only the Jiliao Governor's Mansion has corresponding jurisdiction, which also put an end to bad situations. and avoid buck-passing things.

"Your Majesty's idea, I think it is feasible."

Wang Qia nodded and said: "Previously, the success of Jingdong farming was not very obvious, it was due to mutual evasion, but it can be effectively resolved by going to the Governor's Mansion of Jiliao.

And referring to the guards, those civilian offices were set up only to better organize the Liao people and refugees to engage in production, but they did not assign corresponding officials.

When those wastelands are actually reclaimed and the Liao people and refugees are settled, they can be gradually handed over to the local government. Only in this way can this problem be truly solved. "

Compared with the clear jurisdiction of later generations, the situation under the Ming Dynasty became different.

The prefectures, prefectures, guards, military towns, important towns, etc. were all set up side by side. In the early Ming Dynasty, the powerful five-army governor's mansion was actually in charge of a part, and there was no corresponding confusion.

However, after the Fifth Army Commander's Mansion was emptied, various problems were exposed, and the most serious point was the destruction of Ming's military system.

Originally, the Ming army was drawn from various guards, that is, military households passed down from generation to generation, but as time went by, some systems were also destroyed, which led to the withdrawal of guards, which gradually became unreliable and could only move closer to the recruitment system. .

In the eyes of Emperor Chongzhen, the rotten Ming Dynasty at this stage is like a mess. If you want to solve the problems of Daming, you must sort out the mess and rebuild a new system.

But how easy is this matter?
A major event involving the national economy and the people's livelihood will involve all aspects, one problem here, one problem there, blindly forcing it down will make Daming more and more chaotic.

So this is why Emperor Chongzhen chose the basic disk.

Just try it out.

Delineate a region, try it out, and sum up experience. After it matures, you can expand the scope and continue this process until it is extended to the entire Ming Dynasty.

"Since you have no objections, let the Military Aircraft Department complete the corresponding regulations and issue an order to the Governor's Mansion of Jiliao." Emperor Chongzhen nodded and said: "I hope that this system can make the Jingdong Tuntian side produce more grain. , even if it’s beans for horses.”

"Your Majesty, if you provide the horses with what they need, I know something, and maybe you can produce more." Wang Zaijin frowned when he heard this, and said to Emperor Chongzhen.

"Oh?"

Emperor Chongzhen heard the words and said, "Tell me, Wang Qing, what exactly is it?"

"Speaking of which, this thing was advocated by Mr. Xu Ge earlier, and he even wrote a special memorial." Wang Zaijin said, "This thing is called sweet potato. It tastes sweet, but it is poisonous..."

"..."

Emperor Chongzhen was stunned when he heard what Wang Zaijin said. Wait, did Xu Guangqi do this?

Yup!

The "Nongzheng Quanshu" compiled by Xu Guangqi involves sweet potatoes.

How could I forget about this!
"Han Zanzhou, go, pass on my oral order to order Xu Qing to come and see me immediately!" Emperor Chongzhen, who suppressed the excitement, stretched out his hand to Han Zanzhou.

"Here!"

As a traditional farming nation, flower growers living in the land of China have a deep interest in edible crops.

In the Qing Dynasty, imported products such as sweet potatoes were widely planted. In fact, as early as the late Ming Dynasty, they had already begun to be tried in some small lands near the sea.

It's just that it takes a long, long time to cultivate plants suitable for planting in China and study the habits of imported plants.

This also made the fine seeds cultivated with painstaking efforts eventually become the wedding dress of the Qing Dynasty to consolidate the ruling foundation of the Qing Dynasty.

Emperor Chongzhen's reaction made Wang Zaijin and Wang Qia a little suspicious. They didn't understand why the emperor paid so much attention to sweet potatoes.
"You two, the sweet potatoes that Xu Qing discovered earlier can actually be eaten directly."

Emperor Chongzhen looked at Wang Zaijin and the others with a smile on his face, and said: "I read an ancient book earlier, which records that when the eunuchs of the Three Treasures went to the West, they passed through an island country, and I saw them eat this food, and the output was extremely amazing. The yield per mu is dozens of stones, but it is called sweet potato in the local area, and it tastes sweet.

I was thinking that what can be eaten in a small western country, it must be edible in Ming Dynasty, but the situation in the two places is different.

If you want to plant it in Daming, you need to breed good varieties that are suitable for Daming. The poisonous death occurred before, presumably because you didn't cultivate the most suitable good varieties for Daming.

Or just don’t know how to eat sweet potatoes, and if you see a person eating poisoned to death by mistake, it will be spread by word of mouth, so that people who know sweet potatoes will stay away from them. "

In order to be able to call the high-yield crop of sweet potato, cultivate suitable fine varieties in advance in Daming, and give corresponding affirmation to sweet potato, in preparation for the subsequent large-scale promotion of planting, Emperor Chongzhen could only lead the matter to Zheng He.

"In the sweet potato book written by Mr. Xu Ge, he also mentioned sweet potato, which has an amazing yield per mu and tastes sweet." Wang Zaijin frowned slightly when he heard this, and said: "If your Majesty said sweet potatoes, it is not the same as Xu Ge's." If the sweet potato mentioned in the old article is the same thing, it must be a good variety of sweet potato planted earlier, which is not completely suitable for Daming planting."

"Your Majesty, if this is true, can we plant it on a small scale in Jingdong first?" Wang Qia opened his eyes slightly, and said to Emperor Chongzhen: "Now I rule all over the Ming Dynasty, and disasters occur frequently. If It is definitely a good thing for Guochao to have another crop with a very high yield."

Not only is it good.

Adding a crop, in the famine year, even Guanyin soil can be eaten, eating sweet potatoes that have not been seen before, it is nothing to those victims.

Moreover, the planting cycle of sweet potatoes is relatively short, and the stems and leaves are also edible.

Listening to what Wang Zaijin and Wang Qia said, Emperor Chongzhen kept smiling, but he had various thoughts in his heart. If suitable sweet potatoes can be cultivated, they can be planted on a large scale in Huangzhuang first.

As long as there are more of them on the market, there is no need for an order from the imperial court, and the people in the nearby areas will gradually accept it.

However, Yan Yingyuan, who was sent to the southeast area, was in vain this time.

Forget it, let’s run in vain, if you can find the sweet potato early, Yan Yingyuan’s trip is not in vain, it’s okay to gather the three men who resisted the Qing Dynasty together.

I hope that Yan Yingyuan can fully record what he saw and heard during his trip to the southeast this time. This will be of certain reference value for the subsequent rectification of the southeast affairs.

(End of this chapter)