Daming: Mixed in Dangzhi County, Beiping

"What about the train tracks?"

Seizing this opportunity, Zhu Di seemed to want to ask all his doubts.

"It is not enough to win over the gentry and merchants with benefits. If the gentry has evil intentions, they will naturally not listen to you. And those poor people who cannot afford to eat are also very courageous and will not have any fear at all. !”

"If they are interested in thieves, they only need to steal one at night, and even if the guards search them one by one, they won't be able to find it!"

"A high reward!"

Guo An's face turned stern, "Your Majesty, if they dare to steal one, then they will offer a reward for the thief at the price of ten.

As long as someone reports it, they will be rewarded.

If someone sees it and refuses to report it, the whole family will be implicated!
If you can't find it, just send out the army and search from house to house!
A railroad track is so heavy that they can't run very far!

So, it depends on whether they dare? "

"That's okay!"

Zhu Di thought for a moment and nodded slightly.

Zhu Gaochi on the side looked as usual.

On the contrary, Guo Shen and Bao Zhao, who had been listening with their ears pricked up, changed their expressions slightly.

However, Zhu Di and Guo An had no intention of hiding these things from these people.

In the distance, sweet potato fields and potato fields have been covered with new soil.

Wooden bucket carts shuttle along the field ridges between the fields and Zhuangzi.

Soon, hills were piled up on the village.

"Your Majesty, the potatoes are about three stones."

"Sweet potato... sweet potato is about fifteen thousand stones!"

"Fifteen thousand stones?"

Zhu Di's eyes widened.

On the side, Zhu Gaochi, Guo Shen, Bao Zhao and others were even more stunned.

"So many?"

"Your Majesty, I have estimated that ten pounds of sweet potatoes can grow an acre of sweet potato seedlings.

The last nine acres of sweet potatoes yielded about 11,700 kilograms of sweet potatoes. This time, there are 1,170 acres of sweet potatoes planted, and each acre yields 13 kilos of sweet potatoes, which is almost 15,000 kilograms of sweet potatoes. Two hundred and ten stones!

Your Majesty, please forgive me. There were so many sweet potatoes harvested this time that Wei Chen and others did not have time to weigh them one by one! "

Although Guo Bingyong reported the report with a face full of fear, the look in his eyes was full of joy.

Fifteen thousand two hundred kilograms of sweet potatoes. Who would have thought that when these sweet potatoes came into their hands more than a year ago, they weighed only a few dozen kilograms.

In less than two years, they had grown 15,200 kilograms of sweet potatoes from dozens of kilograms!

"Okay!"

Zhu Di was immediately overjoyed and said, "The gentlemen of the Guo family did not disappoint me. I will definitely reward you heavily for this great achievement.

If these five thousand kilograms of sweet potatoes are cultivated again, wouldn’t it be possible to harvest them again next time..."

With that said, Zhu Di stopped and looked at Guo An aside.

It seems like he can't figure it out.

Guo An said directly: "Your Majesty, it should be two million stones!"

"Two million stones?"

Hearing this, Zhu Di and Zhu Gaochi were all excited.

Guo Shen, Bao Zhao, Guo Bingyong, Guo Zhi and others were even more stunned.

Two million stones of sweet potatoes, how much do you get?
"If this is the case, why should I, the Ming Dynasty, worry about the lack of food?"

Guo An added: "Your Majesty, these 15,000 shi of sweet potatoes can at least cultivate 150,000 acres of sweet potato seedlings. Weichen's 20,000 acres of experimental fields can no longer be planted."

"Can't plant anymore?"

Hearing this, Zhu Di and Zhu Gaochi couldn't help but be stunned.

"Yes!"

Guo An nodded slightly, "Your Majesty, the 150,000 acres of sweet potato seedlings can be promoted throughout the Ming Dynasty.

However, Wei Chen is worried that people in other places will not know how to cultivate and plant these sweet potato seedlings.

If not, Your Majesty will promote it near the capital first?
Or, send some more to Beiping Mansion? Let the gentry in Beiping Prefecture cultivate them first? "

"However, these sweet potatoes were cultivated by the imperial court with great efforts and are extremely precious.

It’s just that you can’t give it away easily, otherwise Weichen is worried that someone will not cherish it and will eat almost nothing if he takes it back!
The gentry in Beiping Prefecture want to get these sweet potato seedlings, so they should buy them with money!

Moreover, the price cannot be lowered..."

Hearing this, Zhu Di, Zhu Gaochi and others couldn't help but look up at Guo An.

In the entire Ming Dynasty, the person who wants to eat sweet potatoes the most is you, right?

However, when he thought that there were so many sweet potatoes, Zhu Di was in a good mood and didn't care too much about it.

"Guo Qing, how many sweet potatoes do you want from the Prince of Shunde County?"

Guo An said directly: "Reporting to Your Majesty, I want a thousand stones!"

"Ok?"

Zhu Di's eyes suddenly widened, "Why do you want so much?"

Even Zhu Gaochi, Guo Shen, Bao Zhao and others on the side looked at Guo An in surprise.

Guo An smiled helplessly, "Reporting to Your Majesty, the Weichen family has a great cause!

Wei Chen wants to leave some for the experimental field, some for the old farmers in Jiangjun Mountain, and some for the old house. The Liu family also needs to send some, and Guozhou also needs to send some..."

With that said, Guo An hurriedly looked at Zhu Di.

"Your Majesty, after Wei Chen's calculation, one thousand stones is a bit too little. Please give Wei Chen some more!"

"A thousand koku of sweet potatoes is still too little?"

Zhu Di was not polite at all, "If your family had to go so many times, wouldn't those princes and the powerful officials all have pink eye?"

Guo An chuckled, "That humble minister will have at least a thousand dan sweet potatoes!"

Zhu Di glanced at Guo An and nodded slightly.

"Can!"

"Thank you, Your Majesty!"

Guo An quickly thanked him.

Zhu Di added: "But Guo Bingyong, Guo Zhi, Guo Changchen, and Guo Shanyuan need to take the apprentices in the village to teach the gentry or dignitaries who buy sweet potatoes how to raise seedlings and how to plant them!"

"Your Majesty's orders, ministers and others must obey them!"

Guo An responded quickly.

As for Guo Bingyong, Guo Zhi, Guo Changchen and Guo Shanyuan, they nodded repeatedly.

Although running may be a bit harder, it has many benefits for them.

Zhu Di asked again: "How can these sweet potatoes be sold to the powerful gentry?"

Guo An thought for a while and said: "Your Majesty, sweet potatoes are an auspicious food for the Ming Dynasty and cannot be sold too expensive. Otherwise, it will be difficult to promote them to the people in the future.

However, if it is sold too cheaply, the humble ministers are worried, and the gentry and powerful people will not cherish it too much. "

"This matter is a trouble!"

There was also a hint of embarrassment in Zhu Di's eyes.

On the side, Zhu Gaochi thought for a while and then said: "Dad, teacher, why don't we let those gentry and dignitaries who got the sweet potatoes pay back with the harvested sweet potatoes!"

"Oh?"

Zhu Di looked at Zhu Gaochi, "Tell me more carefully?"

Zhu Gaochi said: "Dad, if anyone wants sweet potatoes, we can give them to them for free first.

However, when the sweet potatoes mature, they need to take out a certain amount of sweet potatoes from the sweet potatoes they harvested and hand them over to the court.

In this way, the court could give these sweet potatoes directly to other gentry or local people.

If this cycle continues, within a few years, sweet potatoes will be popular in our Ming Dynasty without any effort from the court! "

"it is good!"

Zhu Di's eyes lit up and he asked directly: "If that's the case, how much should they take out?"

Zhu Gaochi frowned and thought for a moment, then said: "Dad, it seems that ten kilograms of these sweet potatoes can grow an acre of sweet potatoes, which means that ten kilograms of sweet potatoes can harvest one thousand three hundred kilograms of sweet potatoes.

However, some places have different fields with different fertility and different yields.

In this way, they were asked to hand over four hundred kilograms for ten kilograms. Although it was a little less, they did not dare to ignore the sweet potatoes.

The imperial court will not take advantage of them..."

"Give them ten kilograms of sweet potatoes, and after harvesting, they hand over four hundred kilograms..."

The more Zhu Di thought about it, the more satisfied he became. "Then inform the officials and gentry. Anyone who wants to get these sweet potatoes needs to follow this method!"

"Yes, Dad!"

Zhu Gaochi suddenly looked happy.

"Your Majesty, Holy Might!"

Guo An also said quickly.

"His Majesty!"

Suddenly, Bao Zhao stood up and saluted Zhu Di.

"Bao Qing, what is this?"

Zhu Di was stunned.

Bao Zhao said slowly: "Your Majesty, I want two hundred kilograms of sweet potatoes!"

"Can!"

Zhu Di nodded directly.

"Thank you, Your Majesty!"

Bao Zhao quickly said with gratitude on his face.

Don't look at the skin all over Bao Zhao's body, which is all dark now, and he looks like an old farmer.

However, he served as an official in the Ming Dynasty for many years, and finally became the Minister of the Ministry of Personnel.

His hometown in Luzhou, Shanxi is now also a big family.

There is a lot of land at home.

Moreover, if you grow wheat in Shanxi, you won’t be able to harvest much in a year.

If these sweet potatoes can be planted, it will be a great blessing for both their family and the people of Shanxi.

……

Day two.

All the officials in the court received a message.

The sweet potato harvest in the Jiangjun Mountain experimental field has been great and can be promoted throughout the Ming Dynasty.

This time, the prince suggested that because your majesty is kind, Fanshu should first promote it to the powerful officials and gentry of the Ming Dynasty.

Of course, they all know that these good things cannot be given to those mud-legged people first.

Not to mention that those mud-legged people couldn't compete, but even if they did, those mud-legged people wouldn't have that much land.

"After successfully cultivating ten kilograms of sweet potatoes, no matter how much you harvest, you will have to give four hundred kilograms of sweet potatoes to the court?"

"It turns out that this is the plan of His Majesty and His Royal Highness."

“However, these sweet potatoes are all given to me for free, and one acre of sweet potatoes yields 1,300 kilograms!

Ten pounds of sweet potatoes can be planted on an acre..."

"After all, as long as there are no natural disasters, we can still make a lot of money?"

"It's natural!"

The more he talked, the more excited the powerful officials became.

"It's just that if this is the case, we won't be able to taste it!"

"This……"

All the dignitaries fell silent.

What are they looking forward to most? Don’t you just want to reminisce about the sweet potatoes you ate at the experimental field with His Majesty last time?
Now, they've been waiting for it for so long, and they can get it, and it's free.

However, now I can only stare and cannot eat?
"No! No matter what, as long as we bring the sweet potatoes back, we must try one first."

"That's right, ten pounds can be used to plant an acre, and we can only eat one or two, and it won't delay too much!"

"Yes, yes, just take a bite!"

"Hahaha……"

All the dignitaries were immediately overjoyed.

Similarly, the ideas of those officials and gentry are similar to those of these powerful people.

Anyway, each of them will get a lot of sweet potatoes, and tasting just one or two won't delay anything important.

Immediately, everyone cheered up and started to register, and then sent their family members to the Jiangjun Mountain experimental field to pull sweet potatoes.

As for the tomatoes and potatoes, they can't touch them yet.

Soon, in less than a month, all the sweet potatoes piled in the hills in the experimental field were cleared away.

Simultaneously.

Guo An also sent people to deliver sweet potatoes to his hometown in Shunde Prefecture and Guozhou. He also sent people who knew how to breed and grow sweet potatoes.

As for Jiangjun Mountain?
Just shout, and the farmers on Jiangjun Mountain will run down after an hour.

Then, one person went back with ten pounds of sweet potatoes.

……

"Dad, the statistics have been completed!"

Zhu Gaochi walked into the literary building with a thick account book and reported to Zhu Di with a happy face.

"Sweet potatoes harvested a total of 15,260 dan, gave the teacher one thousand dan, and left another 2,000 dan for Shanglinyuan.

The remaining 12,260 stones have been taken away by various vassal kings, dignitaries, officials, and gentry.

Once they have planted and harvested, they need to hand over 490,000 shi of sweet potatoes to the court! "

"Four hundred and ninety thousand stones!"

Zhu Di's eyes flashed with joy and he was very satisfied.

"Very good. These 490,000 shi of sweet potatoes, if each family grows one acre of sweet potatoes, can be distributed to at least 49 million households. But how many households do we have in the Ming Dynasty?
In this way, our Ming Dynasty will finally no longer have to lack food!"

"Yes!"

Zhu Gaochi also nodded with a happy face. Now there are only more than 1,400 households in the Ming Dynasty.

Four hundred and ninety thousand koku of sweet potatoes is enough to share.

Simultaneously.

The entire Ming Dynasty was filled with joy.

Everyone praised Zhu Di and Zhu Gaochi.

And Guo Bingyong, Guo Zhi, Guo Changchen, Guo Shanyuan, as well as a group of disciples in Zhuangzi, also became the favorites in the eyes of the vassal kings, dignitaries, officials and gentry, and they were invited everywhere.

The families behind those disciples have constant visitors all day long.

All of them were smiling from ear to ear.

The sweet potato thing is gradually stabilizing.

Zhu Di also began to prepare for the Northern Expedition.

“The Tatar city was built under the supervision of Duke Wei, who had sufficient prestige among the Tatars.

This time, the general of the Northern Expedition was Wei Guogong. "

Li Jinglong said hurriedly: "Your Majesty, there are just a few Tatars. I can tame them in a few days!"

"Does Mr. Cao Guo train dogs?"

Xu Huizu looked disdainful.

Li Jinglong stared and retorted: "Now, aren't those Tatars in the Tatar City like my loyal dogs of the Ming Dynasty?"

Xu Huizu said: "Huh, there is a city behind it. If we let them mount war horses and hold long swords and bows and arrows, they will all turn into a pack of evil wolves!"

"Under the nose of my Ming army, do they dare to try to change themselves?"

"Hmph, Mr. Cao Guo is so arrogant..."

"Wei Guogong..."

"Okay, okay!"

Above, Zhu Di waved his hand impatiently, "It's just a piece of brick, there's nothing to be afraid of. Those Tatars are easy to handle.

The last time we captured Jiaozhi, Cao Guogong was the general.

This time, when we attack Oala, we should make Wei Guogong the general, so you two don’t have to fight for it! "

"Your Majesty, Holy Might!"

Xu Huizu glanced at Li Jinglong proudly.

As for Li Jinglong, his face was full of helplessness.

...(End of chapter)