Villager of Daming

Chapter 1302: Prime Minister Resigns without Trouble

"Let's try it!" Zhu Yuanzhang picked up a piece of biscuit, took a small bite, and frowned: "It's really not very delicious. There is no oil in it, right?"

There was also a piece of biscuit in front of the head of the village, but he didn't touch it!

At this moment, he nodded: "Corn stalks are actually better. Normally, the corn cob should be used, that is, the core in the middle.

There are also rice husks, wheat bran, sweet potato vines, peanut shells, sorghum, soybeans, and cotton seeds left after oil is squeezed out...

Grind these things, compact them and bake them. If they are too loose and difficult to solidify, add some elm bark powder.

Guanyin soil is the white soil we use to make things and as a decolorizer. You can actually eat a little bit of it. It contains trace elements and is good for your body, but eating too much will kill you. "

After the village head finished speaking, he picked up the biscuit in front of him and began to bite it, chewing it slowly and using saliva to help it go down. It was too difficult to swallow.

Except for the very young children in Xiaqiu Village, everyone else picked up the biscuits and ate them, including the five or six-year-old children who were born in a good time and could eat them.

All the hardships that Xiaqiu Village has experienced in the past will be experienced by the children once a month, usually for three days.

It is not about letting children know sweetness through suffering, but about teaching them survival skills.

Take the children to the mountains, look for all kinds of edible things, pick wild vegetables and mushrooms, and get some dry branches to carry back home for firewood.

If an emergency really occurs in the future, the children who have learned it in childhood will at least know how to deal with it. If they are thrown into the mountains, they can survive.

Of course, people also learn swimming, and they are taught professionally. It would be unauthentic for people from Jiangnan to not know how to swim.

So the children in the palace followed along. Zhu Yuanzhang originally required the children to walk about one-third of the distance when they were on the road.

That's why the four brothers Zhu Chong, Zhu Gang, Zhu Di and Zhu Su were so tenacious when they were traveling with the team. None of them complained of being tired or cried and refused to go.

The ministers who were waiting to take the gifts home saw it and thought, "Okay, let's eat it too!" If you really can't swallow it, there's soup!

"It's really not delicious." Gegehaji expressed his opinion after finishing a biscuit.

"Is there such a method? If I had known, I would have fed it to the slaves to save food."

Qiqili looked upset because his slave was gone and replaced with money.

The imperial court bought slaves, let them find jobs according to their abilities, provided them with some job options, and slowly paid them back.

The slaves had become accustomed to being ruled, and they were not able to adapt well at first, but gradually they began to change jobs, and the number of former slave women who became pregnant increased.

Before, nutrition was inadequate and the pregnancy rate was low. After eating good food, the quality of both sperm and eggs has improved, and sanitary conditions have also improved.

According to Zhu Wentian's estimation, the proportion of boys in this group is high because of their anxiety.

When the pressure of survival increases, from a biological point of view, the male birth rate is high, there are fewer men, there is a need to fight, and there is anxiety about racial survival.

Of course, there is also the issue of pH. It is not the acidity or alkalinity of the food, but the pH and temperature of the secretions of the female reproductive organs.

Anyway, it's quite complicated. Zhu Wentian is currently unable to do it through test tube, it's too far away.

The ministers who had eaten the food substitute biscuits finally received gifts at the end of the banquet. The gifts were green vegetables that would not go bad if left overnight, so they did not need to take the food back today as it had already been delivered to their homes.

The ministers work very hard and they understand that the better the welfare, the higher the requirements and the greater the punishment for making mistakes.

Hu Weiyong was very "conscious" and wrote a letter to the government, asking to be transferred to another place. He wanted to go to the two lakes to take charge of mechanized farming and resign from his position as prime minister.

Zhu Yuanzhang did not express his opinion, but kept the question book and decided to make arrangements after the New Year, which was also a way to give Hu Weiyong face.

Zhu Wentian did not punish Hu Weiyong to death. Historical events had changed. Hu Weiyong did not kill Liu Ji and Liu Bowen. Hu Weiyong lived like a quail. He did not have the courage to fight at all! He could not do anything and could not find the slightest chance.

That is, the next year, there will be no more prime minister, or the position of chancellor, and only six ministries will remain.

The advantage is that power is concentrated, Zhu Yuanzhang consolidates his imperial power, and management is relatively flat.

The disadvantage was that Zhu Yuanzhang had more things to do, and there was one less department to help him share the work, and the number of departments with decentralized power was also reduced.

It doesn’t matter, we have Zhu Biao!
Xiaqiu Village has provided a complete set of plans. If you have any questions, you can ask the head of Xiaqiu Village. The head of the village does not fight for power.

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"Yichang, this year's heavy snow feels colder than usual! Is there any disaster?"

Many days have passed since the Minor Snow Festival when I last invited court officials to dinner. Now it is the Major Snow Festival, exactly half a month.

The 25th day of the 10th month in the lunar calendar is the 7th day of the 12th month in the Gregorian calendar. It is already December.

At this time, people in the Northeast, such as the Hunhe River, can go ice skating, and the temperature is around minus 30 degrees Celsius.

This solar term and Gregorian calendar time is the best, and people in Northeast China can go ice skating for three months.

It took exactly three months from November 26th or 27th when the ice formed and people could go up to the end of February when the ice layer changed from horizontal ice to vertical ice.

Further north, in Heilongjiang during Zhu Wentian's time, you can ski for three and a half months, for free, a gift from nature.

Environment determines habits, and habits transform skills.

It would cost a lot of money to let people in Sanya practice ice and snow sports!
We are selecting people from places with a population base of several hundred million who can adapt to ice and snow. How do people from other places compare?
Just like swimming, the Loess Plateau is definitely not suitable.

Zhu Yuanzhang doesn't care about ice and snow sports. He is only worried about ice and snow disasters. He asked whether there will be any this year.

"Don't worry, Your Majesty!" The head of the village was very confident and said that it was okay and this heavy snow was not a disaster.

What's more, the people of Yingtian Prefecture have now adapted to the winter temperatures as low as minus 20 degrees Celsius. It's enough to have a stove that can burn coal, and kangs are now popular.

"Borjigin Bajaravarmi came and stayed in the plain of the two lakes for several days.

Looking at the operating efficiency of our steam engine, we can... continue to watch slowly along the way.

What are you looking at? Analyzing whether we can defeat him? Logistics and supplies?"

Zhu Yuanzhang talked about another "little thing". The King of Liang of the Northern Yuan Dynasty who was guarding Yunnan finally arrived.

You walk and stop along the way, want to see everything, but what's the use of seeing it? Can you still go back?
In the plains of the two lakes, because of the small population, mechanized operations are carried out, and now the population has increased.

Previously, land taxes were used to force the people there to migrate, but later they were pardoned. After the people waited and watched for a while, they found that a lot of land had been made good by mechanized operations, so they could go back.

The people living in the Two Lakes Basin had a difficult time because they could fight naval battles and it was once the base of Zhu Yuanzhang's enemies, so they were forced to flee.

According to history, the people of the two lakes finally survived, the population increased, Huguang became prosperous, and the world was prosperous.

Then people from the two lakes filled Sichuan, and of course, Guangdong and Guangxi followed suit, just like the Shandong people in the northeast went to Guandong, all for survival!
But they are also different. The people from Hubei, Hunan and Guangdong moving to Sichuan was passive, while the people from Shandong going to the Northeast was "active".

"Solve this before the New Year's Eve? Don't put it off until next year. Settle everything that needs to be settled this year. Yeah! There's a conclusion!"

The village head also didn't know what history was. He suggested that the problem be resolved before the New Year so that everyone could have a good year.

(End of this chapter)